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Walk-in Examinations at IGNOU

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), with nearly two million students pursuing education in over 35 countries across the globe announced walk-in-examination for their students.

The new examination system is aimed to grant liberty to the students to decide the dates of exams as per their own suitability and convenience. Students can walk in to examination instead of waiting for the six-monthly term end examination. into any identified test centres of the university. leaving behind stress, tension or fear. The new model is expected to increase performance of the students as they can now take examination, when they are ready with their preparations. To reduce incidents of malpractices, each student will get a different set of question papers and examinations will be conducted with camera surveillance.

Registration of students, allotment of the dates and the issue of hall ticket to the examinees for the walk-in examination  would be done online. 

Walk-in Examinations at IGNOU

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), with nearly two million students pursuing education in over 35 countries across the globe announced walk-in-examination for their students.

The new examination system is aimed to grant liberty to the students to decide the dates of exams as per their own
suitability and convenience. Students can walk in to examination instead of waiting for the six-monthly term end examination. into any identified test centres of the university. leaving behind stress, tension or fear. The new model is expected to increase performance of the students as they can now take examination, when they are ready with their preparations. To reduce incidents of malpractices, each student will get a different set of question papers and examinations will be conducted with camera surveillance.

Registration of students, allotment of the dates and the issue of hall ticket to the examinees for the walk-in examination  would be done online. 

Siemens ties with Anna University

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services.

Anna University will utilize Siemens PLM Software's industry-leading technology to establish a PLM Center of Excellence that will bring state of the art technical education in the field of PLM to students in the state of Tamil Nadu. It will incorporate tools into the curricula to help students develop a wide range of skills in digital product development, digital lifecycle management and digital manufacturing.

TIFR lauch Hyderabad campus

The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) to lauch a new campus in Hyderabad spead across 200 acres, to celebrate its founder Homi Bhabha's birth centennary.

The new campus spans more than 200 acres, seven-times the current campus area. Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh were the two states vying for the new campus, with the latter proving a better choice due to its proximity to Hyderabad city.

The Hyderabad campus will start new research programmes with new laboratories and reach out to many more research students. While current academic programmes like those in the basic sciences will be continued, new courses are also on the cards.

IGNOU celebrates foundation day

IGNOU Vice Chancellor Prof V N Rajasekharan Pillai also kicked-off the on-line admission service on the occassion, alongwith a release of a booklets to celebrate the past accolades of the institution.

The appreciation programme on sustainable science launched at the occassion designed in collaboration with the M S Swaminathan Research Foundationin is open to graduates from any discipline.

Prof. Swaminathan, delivered the foundation day lecture  at the function and said the vision of course was to build the capacity of the policy makers and other stake holders about the principle of sustainable development and help those in agriculture to launch an era of ever-green revolution to enhance productivity without inflicting ecological harm.

India No1 in foregin studuents census in US

The Open Doors report published by the Institute of International Education with support from the US Department of State's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs revealed that for the seventh consecutive year, Indian constituted the highest number of foreign students pursuing higher education in the US, surpassing China.

Indian students in the US have increased by 13 per cent in 2007-08 to reach 94,563, states the report. The total number of foreign students pursuing studies and research activities in the US reached an all time high of 6,23,805 in 2007-08 session.

Europe now online at Europeana

Europeana, a new European Union online library project will gives digital access to entire Europe's history, art, literature, cinema and music whether held by library, archive or museum and as image, text, sound or film.

The project set to rival Google and aims to create a one-stop-shop to access history, art, literature, cinema and music from across the continent. Items have been collected from 1,000 museums, national libraries, galleries and archives. These will be sourced from institutions across the EU's member states.

The site has 3 million items now and officials hope to get 10 million items on it by 2010. Even that is just a start, as only one percent of the historic works, documents and cultural artifacts across Europe have so far been digitized.

 

Computer literacy a must in Karnataka

IT education programmes devised by SRM Learning Tree Pvt Ltd. (SRMLT) was launched in Bangalore by Chief Minister Mr  B S Yeddyurappa.

The IT education programmes propose to ensure a workforce of skilled employees who are tuned into the demands of the industry. The courses will cover technology, project development, communication and personality. 

He enlisted the state's priorities in the education sector with central government grant of  Rs 950 crore for the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and pledged to pursuing enhance the technical education scene in the state,  by announcing nine ITIs to be established at the taluka level.

IITs to go beyond engineering

XIth five-year committee for higher education is working with these centres of excellence to expand the disciplines of study beyond engineering. The IITs are being seen to play a wider role in delivering quality education in medicine, history, policy development amongst other science, technology and development courses.

The committee, headed by educationist Yash Pal dream to transform the centres of excellence on the model of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) or Caltech (California Institute of Technology).

The institutes although currently burdened with 54% expansion to accommodate OBC students and mentoring new IITs, welcome the move if carried out in a a planned and regulated manner supported by good faculty for each discipline.

 


World’s Largest Online Children’s library on iPhone

The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) which is the world's largest collection of children's literature now available free at Apple's iPhone.

The application allows users to take advantage of the advanced capabilities of the iPhone and iPod Touch user interface to read a selection of books from the ICDL's master collection, which today represents thousands of children's stories from 60 countries. The children's books can be read in their native language and in English.

The ICDL iPhone application syncs via Wi-Fi or the user's cellular network and downloads the latest featured children's books directly to the device, giving children and parents access to content offline

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