Medical education may get addressed under NCHER

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January 24, 2006

The Prime Minister's Office has asked the HRD ministry to bring it under the purview of the proposed National Council for Higher Education and Research (NCHER). At present, the medical and agriculture education is excluded from the NCHER Bill. Inclusion of medical education in NCHER will mean that health ministry's proposal to set up a regulatory authority for medical education is likely to be shelved.

A reason for inclusion of medical education in the proposed NCHER is that the National Accreditation Regulatory Authority For Higher Educational Institutions Bill, 2010 provides for accreditation of higher educational institutions, including medical colleges. One of the other proposed HRD Bills, Prohibition of Unfair Practices Bill, accounts for malpractices in medical colleges. On May 3, 2010 both the Bills were introduced in the LS by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal. Sibal is planning to go on a retreat with experts like former NCERT director Krishna Kumar, Devesh Kapur of Pennsylvania University, educationist Vinod Raina, Pratap Bhanu Mehta of Centre for Policy Research, historian KN Pannikar and others for further consultations on NCHER.

Gulf schools affiliated to SSLC perform well

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January 24, 2006

The Middle East schools affiliated to the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) Board of Kerala have performed well in Class 10 exams with 97.52 pass percentage. M.A. Baby, Education Minister, mentioned that the total pass percentage stood at 90.72 %.

The Gulf schools that registered 100 % result include The Model School (Abu Dhabi), The Indian School (Fujairah), Gulf Model School (Dubai), New Indian Model School (Dubai), MES Indian School (Doha), The New Indian Model School and The English School (Umm Al Quwain).

India favoured over Europe and US, by African students

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January 23, 2006

There are reportedly over 1,500 African students in the country on government funded programmes alone. Quality education, working parents in India, scholarships, and friendly people are what attract them to the Indian education system. ICCR awards 1,804 such scholarships to international students every year as an initiative to foster and strengthen cultural relations and mutual understanding between India and other nations.

The flagship Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme brings dozens of Africans to India each year, and over 10,000 students are attending private institutes across the country.

Computer course for students by Bharathidasan University

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January 19, 2006

Bharathidasan University in Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu has planned to extend its one year certificate course in computer to school students in India under their 'School-University-Industry Tie-ups Scheme' (SUITS), that was introduced in August last year.

M. Ponnavaikko, Vice Chancellor of the university, mentioned at the ceremony to mark the graduation of the first batch of SUITS students that everyone including the school teachers, parents and students had appreciated the programme. Ponnavaikko reported that support was provided through computer literacy, in the development of skills and aptitude in little children. He concluded that SUITS has a computer-oriented curriculum that aims at developing the aptitude of students for information technology and entrepreneurial skills.

More funds for education scheme in India

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January 19, 2006

The government of India will increase the budgetary support for the flagship education scheme Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) in the ensuing Budget.

Without divulging the actual increase in support, the Planning Commission had asked for a significant hike in the budgetary allocation for the scheme. Also, the Human Resource Development Ministry is toying with the idea of setting up village education commissions at the panchayat level. A decision is to be taken in that regard.

Microsoft to integrate ICT into African schools

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January 18, 2006

Worried by the slow speed of Information Communications Technology (ICT) penetration into African schools, the Software giant, Microsoft has launched its blueprint for implementing Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in African Schools.

The ICT blueprint for Schools, Vanguard Computers &e-Business gathered, is expected to address issues critical to developing countries including the application of ICT to accelerate the fight against poverty and improve the delivery of education. The blueprint will focus on the nine essential components- Leadership; Policy; Research; Access; Innovative Solutions; Curriculum; Teacher Training; Communities and Partners and Support. Before now, African students, especially, Nigeria lag behind its Western counterparts in the applications of basic IT tools and knowledge. Unless IT education is integrated into African educational system, the quest for global competitiveness may not be achieved.

Indian President presents blueprint for virtual university

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January 18, 2006

President of India A P J Abdul Kalam has proposed an ambitious blueprint for a tele-education revolution in the country with Rashtrapati Bhavan as the nodal hub of the project to link all major universities across India.

Speaking on the occasion of the 150th post centenary celebrations of the Calcutta University, Kalam announced the birth of the first virtual university at his New Delhi residence that aimed to network even small teaching centres in rural India. In his view this virtual university grid has the capability to trigger academic excellence and National development at an unparallel scale by expanding education to the remotest corner of the country.The idea is to have a three-pronged approach for viable distance education – creating connectivity, quality content generation and product development. UGC and EDUSAT, ISRO's dedicated education satellite, were being convinced to provide connectivity while broadband and wireless connectivity would also be needed for the purpose.

IIT JEE given by 4.7 lakh students

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January 18, 2006

Around 4.7 lakh students on April11, 2010, appeared in the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination for admission to prestigious 15 IITs, ISM Dhanbad and IT-BHU. The number of candidates has increased to 4.72 lakh this year against four lakh candidates last year, mentioned Prof T S Natarajan, Organising Chairman, JEE 2010. The students qualifying the test will be eligible for admission into B.Tech programmes in these institutes offering over 10,000 seats.

About 90,000 candidates from National Capital Region have registered for the test. The results will be announced on May 26. For the current year the IITs have decided to conduct on-line counselling for general category students this year. This will give relief to students who earlier used to go to different counselling centres for securing a seat for themselves.

EAMCET candidates to receive exam alerts on mobile

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January 18, 2006

Engineering, Agricultural and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET) aspirants for the current year are to this year would be able to receive details of the examination such as venue for examination center and its phone numbers and results on their mobile phones through text messages. EAMCET-2010 Chairman D.N. Reddy and Convener N.V. Ramana Rao mentioned that the mobile numbers of the candidates or their guardians were being collected through forms so that they could be texted the vital information about exams. However, the information would also be available through other sources.

It was also emphasized that students should plan to come early to the exam hall as those coming even a minute later than the scheduled time would not be allowed. The seating process would commence 45 minutes before the examination. It would also be compulsory for the students to submit their OMR sheets or else criminal cases would be booked against them.

Sam Pitroda speaks on next ICT wave in India

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January 16, 2006

While sharing his views on impact of ICT on Indian society and the next phase of ICT revolution, through a video link from Chicago, Sam Pitroda delivered a keynote at the recent conference Microsoft Tech.Ed developer, held in Bengaluru. He described that the ICT revolution in India is about to enter into its second phase that would be based on broadband, data, applications, processes and new infrastructure. This would change the nature of education, health, government services, public delivery systems available in India.

Reflecting on the developments that have taken place in past 20 years, he gave his insights about the growth in phone connections from two million in 1980s to 550 million today. The focus then was on accessibility, connectivity, digital technology, rural communications, indigenous development, Indian models and the need to promote young talent. He elaborated that in the next two decades information is to play a critical role in restructuring a lot of development in India. He also called Information as the fourth pillar (Judiciary, Legislature and Executive being the other three) that needs a lot more attention.

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