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Mission10X plan to partner all engineering colleges in India

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Wipro's Mission10X has planned to partner all engineering colleges across India with the aim of promoting systemic changes to current teaching-learning paradigms in engineering education, a top company official said.

The Mission10X programme involves a layered set of capability building workshops to help faculty members nurture the talent pool across the country, Wipro Technologies Vice President, Talent Transformation, D Selvan said.

'Currently, we have partnered with about 50 engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharastra and Orissa,' he added.

He said that his company vision was to partner with all engineering colleges in all the states. 'Our vision is to cover all engineering colleges in India by the year 2010,' he added.

Explaining the process of Mission10X programme, he said the Mission10X faculty enablement workshops would be conducted in phases across India, covering over 1,500 engineering colleges.

'Various seminars would be conducted in the campus, which will focus on facilitating the faculty to unleash their full potential and insight into inter active teaching methodology and teaching aids,' he added.

He said faculties would be imparted three sets of training methodologies by the core team of Mission10X,comprising senior academicians, who would also be responsible for streamlining the processess to ensure quality of the sessions.

'After the training, the faculty members will be provided international certification by Wipro,' he added. 

 

University of Hyderabad signs MoU with Altair

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With a view to encourage innovation in Grid computing technologies through academic exchanges, the University of Hyderabad has entered into an agreement with Altair Engineering India. 

The Memorandum of Understanding follows the collaborative endeavour of the Computer and Information Science Department with Altair in intergration of high performance computing profile with Portable Batch System and on certain aspects of Grid portals.

Such a collaborative success of Altair Engineering with any University on Grid technologies is first of its kind in Asia Pacific, according to Altair Engineering India (AEI) MD Pavan Kumar who signed the MoU with University of Hyderabad Registrar Parabrahmaiah.

AEI, a global software and services company is focussed on grid computing solutions for commercial and academic research, data analysis and visualisation, Pavan Kumar said adding that it is a subsidiary of US-based Altair Engineering Incorporation.

The MoU will enable research and development collabrations and utilisation of commercial grade technology portal solutions in areas of computer-aided engineering, life sciences, 3D animation and for rendering high quality film animation, he said.

AEI intends to offer participation to mutually selected students from the post-graduate (M-Tech) and Ph.D programmes through student internship in the project areas such as application integration framework of PBS gridworks, he said.

AEI would come up with curriculum for conducting certification programmes on various aspects of grid technology for other Universities in Andhra Pradesh and India, he added. 
 

First Dr Manmohan Singh Scholarships named at St John

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Three outstanding Indian students will begin study for their doctoral degrees at St John's College, Cambridge this September as winners of the first Dr Manmohan Singh Scholarships.

The scholarship programme, announced in New Delhi last November, has been set up in honour of the Indian Prime Minister who is a graduate and Honorary Fellow of St John's College, having gained a First in Economics there in the late 50s.

It will enable academically outstanding Indian students to study for PhD and MPhil degrees in subjects like Science and Technology, Economics and Social Sciences. The scholarships are fully funded and include academic fees, international airfare, a monthly stipend to cover living expenses and a UK Visa.

Niladri Banerjee, 24, is reaching the end of his master's programme at IIT Kanpur. After his PhD he would like to remain in academia. 'I always dreamt of being able to go to Cambridge. Probably because I heard that Isaac Newton studied there. The desire was very persistent, so much so, that it can safely be called a childhood dream,' says Niladri, who grew up in Kolkata.

Manasa Patnam, 23, who was a teaching/research fellow at the Lahore University of Management Science (LUMS), is studying to be an economist and would like to focus her work on health and development issues. 'I have been to the UK while studying for my MSc degree at the University of Oxford. I made many friends of diverse nationalities there,' says Manasa who went to school in Delhi.

Nitu Duggal, 31, who is pursuing an MPhil in Educational Research at the University of Cambridge, has spent 10 years working with underprivileged children in a Delhi Administration school. 'It is a very rich experience working in an international community. Cambridge with its natural beauty and historical importance is a wonderful place to study,' says Nitu.

Professor Christopher Dobson, Master of St John's College, said: 'We value the College's strong association with India. This scholarship is our way to honour Dr Manmohan Singh for his pioneering role in the economic transformation of his country; one of the greatest achievements of any of our alumni.'

'We are confident that this scholarship programme will bring lasting benefits to future generations of Indian students.'

Another example of the strong and growing partnership between Cambridge and India, the Dr Manmohan Singh Scholarships are sponsored by Rolls Royce India, the BP Foundation and the Tata Group, and are managed by the British Council.

The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alison Richard, will be making a return visit to the cities of New Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata and Mumbai next January. She will build on the success of the two-week visit in January this year, strengthening and celebrating bonds with alumni, higher education and business partners.

The Cambridge India Partnership website contains information on the wide range of academic, commercial and social links between the University and the Subcontinent.


 

Info Edge to buy 40% in education content developer Applect

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Info Edge India, which owns naukri.com, jeevansaathi.com and shiksha.com, will buy 40% stake in New Delhi-based education content developer Applect Learning Systems for INR 6.5 crore.

The company has already paid INR 1 crore for the stake and will disburse the rest over the next 18-24 months, after Applect achieves some pre-determined milestones. Info Edge has tapped into its reserves, which stand at about INR 300 crore, for the stake buy.

Applect Learning is a subsidiary of IMS Learning Resources, which provides coaching for higher education entrance exams. It provides content development services with a focus on education in the K-12 segment.

Applect would utilise the funds to launch an education portal for the K-12 section, which may be a subscription-funded portal for K-12 curriculum.

Ambarish Raghuvanshi, chief financial officer, Info Edge India said, 'Out interest in Applect is because of their soon-to-be launched education site. While they will continue to provide content for Canadian schools, we are excited about the site, which would be India specific.'

This is Info Edge's second investment after education portal studyplaces.com, which is focused on the post-school segment. Applect's portal would target school going students.

Raghuvanshi said, 'We are looking at a couple of classified advertising categories such as education, real estate, matrimony, auto and financial products distributing portals,' he said.

 

Centre assigns over INR 10,000 crore outlay for infrastructure development in elite institutions

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In an effort to implement OBC reservation quickly, Centre approved an outlay of over INR 10,000 crore for infrastructure of elite higher educational institutions, envisaging a capacity expansion by 54%.

A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave its in-principle approval to the outlay of INr 10,328.20 crore for infrastructure development of Central universities and management and technical institutions.

The decision was aimed at accommodating the additional intake of OBC students, as per the 27% reservation, 'without affecting the intake of open competition candidates,' Finance Minister P Chidambaram said after the meeting.

Of the total outlay, an amount of INR 4,107.91 crore would be of recurring nature and INR 6,220.29 crore would be non-recurring expenditure.

The implementation of the recommendations of the Oversight Committee, headed by M Veerappa Moily and the Empowered Committee, would benefit students in Central universities and management and technical institutions.

 

Advancing Workforce Development key to India’s success: Kauffman Foundation Report

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Despite low science and engineering student graduation rates, and widely varying education quality, India rapidly is becoming a global R&D hub, with a momentum and on a scale akin to what it accomplished in information technology services.

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation released a study that shows that India's private sector has overcome its education system's deficiencies by adapting and perfecting the best practices of Western companies and integrating them through innovative workforce training and development programmes.

The study asks whether it is time for the United States to learn from the experiences of its former disciple, India.

According to How the Disciple Became the Guru (http://www.kauffman.org/item.cfm?item=1118), conducted by Duke University's global engineering and entrepreneurship project team, Indian senior corporate executives have implemented company-wide workforce development initiatives that have dramatically improved productivity and performance. They have, in essence, developed a surrogate education system by helping to create, for a variety of industries, skilled labor pools capable of handling very complex work.

The study has broad implications for the United States, long the world's workforce development guru. 'To maintain its global competitive edge, the United States should perhaps learn from India,' said Robert Litan, vice president of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation. 'America needs to couple its education system–among the best in the world–with an investment in upgrading workforce skills. In a global economy, this approach is critical to remaining innovative and competitive over the long term.'

The paper details the best practices of 24 companies in emerging sectors in India that have managed to grow rapidly despite skills shortfalls and talent shortages. These companies have created comprehensive and integrated systems of talent development and management that combine recruitment, training and development, performance management and employee-engagement initiatives. Indian competencies in technology have helped them not only to develop systems by which to deliver online learning, but also to conduct skills forecasting; track and analyse recruitment and attrition data; conduct online performance reviews; communicate with employees; and share knowledge. Indian companies are also finding innovative ways to collaborate with educational institutions to develop necessary talent pools for the country.

'Because they are investing in, cultivating and empowering their employees, Indian companies can hire bright but largely inexperienced talent and train them to be world-class engineers and scientists,' said Vivek Wadhwa, executive-in-residence for the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University and fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, and the study's lead author. 'India is proving what a nation can achieve when it invests in upgrading the skills of its workforce.'

The Harvard International Review will spotlight the report in its October 2008 journal and has posted a synopsis of the study at http://www.harvardir.org/articles/1752/.

IITs too could go in for a fee hike

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After Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the country's top notch technology schools, the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) may also see an increase in tution fee, the Rajya Sabha was informed.

When asked whether the IITs had also proposed to increase their fee on the lines of IIMs, Minister of Human Resource Development Arjun singh replied in the affirmative.

He said that 'the Standing Committee of IIT Council (SCIC) has recommended an increase in tution fee for BTech and M Tech courses.'

The Board of Governors (BOG) of six IIMs located at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Indore and Kozhikode had earlier decided to increase the fees of the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) from the next academic year 2008-2010.

Singh, however, did not say what is the quntum of fee hike at IITs being considered or when a decision would be taken.

To a separate question, Minister of State for Human Resource Development Daggubati Purandareswari said there was no proposal before the government as of now to set up an independent Regulatory Authority for Higher Education.

'This (setting up of a regulatory body) requires wide consultations with various ministeries and departments involved. No consensus has been reached as yet (on the issue),' she said, adding the regulator would not be set up unless a consensus was reached.

The National Board of Accredition under the AICTE and National Assessment and Accredition Council of the UGC review course curriculum and facilities at institutes before giving accredition, she said.

First ‘hybrid’ courses; now, a ‘hybrid’ school

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'Hybrid' courses, which offer a blend of online and face-to-face instruction, have become increasingly popular in schools and colleges nationwide. Now, a new high school in Hawaii has taken the same concept and applied it to an entire school.

 
The University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) SEED Academy is a new public 'bricks and clicks' high school that offers a blended curriculum of core, Advanced Placement, and world language courses taken online, as well as hands-on electives in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) taught on-campus at Oahu's Kapolei High School.

An innovative alternative to the traditional school experience, the academy is currently enrolling students tuition-free for the 2008-09 school year, which begins August 11.

The combined online and face-to-face curriculum gives students the benefits of a flexible schedule, while maintaining a high-quality education, school officials said. Courses are taught by experienced teachers who provide small-group instruction and individualised feedback to help students master course material. Students also will benefit from ongoing interaction with their teachers and peers via online and on-campus lessons and face-to-face lab and field activities.

'Our innovative 'bricks and clicks' programme offers Hawaii high school students the best of both worlds–the flexibility to take core courses online, and the opportunity to take project-based, hands-on STEM enrichment classes on-campus at Kapolei High School,' said Elizabeth Blake, president of Ainoa Inc., a local Hawaiian company that delivers online educational content to secondary-school students. 'Our programme is designed to help each student reach his or her highest academic and personal enrichment goals.'

The school is a joint project of UHM, Kapolei High School, Ainoa Inc., and is a non-profit organisation that provides resources and opportunities to foster student interest in STEM careers.

Graduates of UHM SEED Academy will receive a Kapolei High School diploma. Students at the school also will have access to extracurricular activities, including participation in Kapolei High School sports teams if they live within the Kapolei school district.

 

Delhi govt to get copyright to publish NCERT books

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The scarcity of NCERT textbooks in the capital could soon become a thing of the past as the Delhi government is set to get copyrights for publishing and distributing the books in the capital.

“We have already given the copy rights to seven states to publish and distribute our books. The Delhi government has approached for the same purpose and they would be given the rights,” NCERT spokesperson B C Patro said.

Now the government would publish the books at its press and distribute them through its own channels.

Earlier the NCERT has given the copy rights to Jharkhand, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, Sikim, Uttrakhand and Bihar.

The step assumes significance in view of the short supply of NCERT books in the market. To help the students get the books, the NCERT has also put the books in its website.

Asked whether the states can bring any change in the NCERT books, he said, “the concerned state can do so with permission of the council”. 

IIPM ranked No. 1 B-school in India- Zee Business Survey

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Extenuating its spirited campaign 'Dare To Think Beyond the IIMs', the Indian Institute of Planning & Management (IIPM) surpassed the performance of all the IIMs to be rated as the No 1 business school in India for the extensive 'Global Exposure' it provides to its students, followed by IIM (A) and IIM (B) at rank 2 and rank 3 respectively. The ranking was conducted by 'Zee Business Best B School Survey', a first of its kind on Indian television in association with leading international research firm Synovate. IIPM also achieved Rank 7 (ahead of 2 IIMs) as the Best B School overall, Rank 8 for Best Industry Interface, Rank 9 for Best Placements (ahead of 1 of the IIMs) and Rank 9 for Best Course Content.

IIPM's rank as the No 1 in the B School with best global exposure category only justifies its unique and biggest such initiative it undertakes for its students not just in India but anywhere in the world! As part of its Global Outreach Program (GOP), professors from top Ivy League universities like Harvard, Yale, Wharton, Stanford, London School of Economics, Oxford etc visit IIPM to conduct joint workshops with IIPM faculty for Indian corporate fraternity and teach IIPM students. World renowned gurus like Philip Kotler, Zig Zigler, Stephen Covey have also taken exclusive sessions with IIPM students in India.

while IIPM believes that it is by far the best B School in the country that is constantly setting new benchmarks in management education, the time is not far when IIPM will surpass all the IIMs in all the rankings. Under the aegis of IIPM's Global Opportunities & Threat Analysis (GOTA) programme, all of IIPM's more than 3000 students visit Europe or America or other developed nations for 2-3 weeks to get first hand international exposure of how the best in the world work. They visited hundreds of world organisations like The World Bank, ILO, United Nations, WTO, big corporations like Nestle, Honda, IBM, BMW, FIAT, Citigroup, and universities like IMD and many more in the recent past.

Students from top international universities also visit IIPM to undertake a specialisation semester. This is the Global Students Exchange Program (GSEP). In 2007-08 twelve international institutions from France, Italy, Russia, Denmark, Austria and Germany sent their students to study a module/ trimester at IIPM.

IIPM's international placements this year have been only second to IIMs. While IIMs placed 249 of its students abroad this year, IIPM placed 165 followed by ISB with 111. The next best international placement figure by any other B School did not touch even 35!

Professor Arindam Chaudhuri, the honorary Dean of IIPM said, 'while IIPM believes that it is by far the best B School in the country that is constantly setting new benchmarks in management education, the time is not far when IIPM will surpass all the IIMs in all the rankings.'

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