Indian students has shown an exceptional performance in by clean sweeping in all categories during Asia’s Biggest Robotics Competition held at The Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia.
The IRC Internationals – Asia’s Biggest Robotics Competition was held on 16th June, 2019 in Moscow, Russia. The competition witnessed participation of around 50 teams comprising of over 180+ students from Indian and Russian schools including Springdales Pusa Road, Venkateshwar Global School, Scottish High International School, Vorobyeva Gora, English International School of Moscow, and Computer Academy Rubicon participating in the event. The teams competed in three different levels – Junior, Middle and Senior split according to the students’ ages.
Indian teams showed an extraordinary performance during the competition by emerging as the winners in all the three categories. Though other teams did make a valiant front and put up a good show but it was a total washout by the Indian teams.
With “Bot-Olympics” as a theme this year, IRC League’s vision has been to encourage children to come up with agile, audacious and resolute robots which can compete in the true Olympian sense. The purpose is to inspire and motivate the youth to design and build robots which can withstand the trials and tribulations of the elite competition.
Tarun Bhalla, Founder & CEO of Avishkaar, reiterates, “This was an amazing experience for us as this is the first time we’ve hosted IRC Internationals in Europe. We’ve been to United States, Maldives, Singapore, China, and UAE but every journey teaches you something new. It has been incredible here in Russia and we look forward to bringing the IRC League to newer shores.”
B S Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology is a 4-Star rated (QS World University Rankings) varsity with over 35 years of Academic Excellence. The institute got the status of Deemed to be University in 2009 under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act, 1956, Government of India. It is the only university in India to have 16 + 04 (20) NBA accredited programmes under Tier-1 of the prestigious Washington Accord. It is also only Institute in India to have a Foreign National as its vice chancellor with more than 100 full-time foreign associates for academic upliftment.
Abdul Qadir A. Rahman Buhari, Pro Chancellor, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & TechnologyDr Sahol Hamid Bin Abu Bakar, Vice Chancellor, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology
In 1984, B S Abdur Rahman Crescent University (BSACU) was established as Crescent Engineering College – A Muslim Minority Institution, approved by the All India Council for Technical Education and affiliated to Anna University. The institute is promoted by the All India Islamic Foundation (AIIF), it has dedicated itself to the cause of knowledge and empowerment, with special focus on technical education for the educationally, socially and economically backward communities.
The Institute is guided by eminent personalities from various walks of life such as education, research, industry, business and administration. Abdul Qadir A Rahman Buhari is the Pro Chancellor of the university.
Placement and Training cell conducts training activities for the students mainly focusing on Career planning, Personality Development Industry- Institute Interaction, in plant training, Industrial visits, Campus placements, Entrepreneurship Development. The training course has online self learning design with the fusion of physical refresher training during the semester. The domain topics are chosen based on the current corporate BSACIST – Empowering Youth through Value-based Education demands and has industry recognition. With the contemporary learning modules and industry specific training, Crescent was able to attract top notch companies visiting to offer up to 28 lacs package to our students.
The Institute spans across 60 acres of sprawling, serene and evergreen campus, located in the Seethakathi Estate, vandalur, Chennai on the G S T Road (Chennai-Trichy National highway Nh-45), adjacent to the Arignar Anna Zoological Park. More than 7,000 students study in this co-educational institution. Ample open spaces with several 100 year old banyan trees add to the beauty of the campus and motivate students to outdoor learning. The vast campus has a well-planned network comprising blocks of various Departments, reading halls, classrooms, laboratories, a hi- tech auditorium, a computerised library, and several playgrounds. Also, the campus houses residential buildings for faculty members and other staff, apart from separate hostels for men and women students. The Campus has a health Centre, a Bank & ATM, Bookshop, and connects up with the Chennai City through a network of over 60 buses operated by the University. The entire campus is Wi-Fi enabled and has 24 hour power back up.
The Institute has 389 highly qualified and experienced faculties. It has been the ardent policy of the Institute to have 100% faculty with PhD. Now, 138 of them possess a doctoral degree and the rest of them are pursuing research for doctoral degree. The Institute has the Authors Forum with over 185 teachers involved in writing books for the students at different levels.
The Francis Xavier Engineering College (FXEC) was established with the vision to empower budding engineers in technical and entrepreneurial training and to contribute to the socio-economic augmentation of the nation, say Dr S Cletus Babu, Founder Chairman, SCAD Group of Institutions, and Dr Amali Cletus, Vice Chairperson, SCAD Group of Institutions, in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN).
How is Francis Xavier Engineering College (FXEC) supporting its students to contribute towards socio-economic augmentation through quality education?
Dr S Cletus Babu, Founder Chairman, SCAD Group of Institutions, and Dr Amali Cletus, Vice Chairperson, SCAD Group of Institutions
FXEC was founded in the year 2000 with the motive to support socio-economic augmentation. The institute has been following a high-end teaching practice since its inception to impart quality engineering education and help students understand the nuances of engineering and technology. The state-of-the-art infrastructure and facilities along with innovative approaches help every student to pursue the courses with an exemplary attainment level. The college is accredited to National Board of Accreditation (Washington Accord) for providing outcome-based education at par with the global standards.
What factors have been taken care by the college in preparing a curriculum in line with the industry demands?
In this ever changing environment where technology rules, mastering hard and soft skills is pivotal to meet the challenges of everyday life. The college follows the best-in-class teaching practice in imparting curriculum to make its students industry ready. The theoretical teaching blended with practical application is the hallmark of FXEC. The well-defined objectives of departments with collaborative work and commitment help every student of this institution march towards the vision. FXEC, acknowledging importance of providing education in
line with the industry demands, has made a futuristic shift in imparting the required skills in an exemplary way. It has helped the institute to be awarded with Gold Category, by AICTE–CII Survey of Industry linked Institute 2018. The college has also signed MOU with 50 MNC’s like HCL, Sutherland, ICT Academy, EMC2, CDAC, Trimetric, IBM, Texas Instruments, Solutions, CADD Centre etc.
How does Francis Xavier Engineering College ensure the holistic development of students with emphasis on extracurricular activities along with academics?
The teacher-learner approach makes all the difference in this esteemed institution. The teaching fraternity is dynamic enough to motivate the students to participate in all curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities with the spirit of involvement to enable higher retention of the course content, thus making every Programme Educational Objective gets fulfilled. Passion & human potential are turned into hard skills through hands on practice. Sports and games are given due importance too.
Please describe the initiatives undertaken by the college to enhance the skills of its faculty members?
Acknowledging that the members of the faculty are the real resource providers, the college gives the staff a whole gamut of opportunities to go ahead of the learning curve to get mastered in their relevant field and make every ward under them look beyond their horizon. Regular Faculty Development programmes, Periodic National/International Conferences and Seminars are organized. FXEC makes its contribution in Research work by publishing articles in SCI/Scopus indexed journals – 35 papers were published during 2018-2019.
What is the vision and mission of the college?
Our Vision is to provide education in Engineering with excellence and ethics and to reach the unreached.
Our Mission is to create innovative and vibrant young leaders and entrepreneurs in Engineering and Technologyfor building India as a super knowledge power and blossom into a University of excellence recognized globally.
The National Testing Agency is conducting the UGC NET June 2019 examination from today i.e. June 20, 2019 (Thursday). Beginning today, the computer-based exam will be concluded on June 26, 2019 (Wednesday).
According to the official data shared by NTA, a total of 9.42 lakh candidates will appear for the UGC NTA examination, which is being conducted across 237 cities in 615 centres.
The exam will be conducted for 81 subjects. Notably, this is the second time that UGC NET exam will be held in computer-based mode.
NTA has made several arrangements in order to curb cheating in the examination. There would be live CCTV surveillance in all the exam centres and it will be managed by an NTA run Control Room. The agency has appointed 15 Regional Coordinators, 162 City Coordinators and 280 Observers for the same.
Plus 3,800 jammers have been installed in each shift to curb malpractices in the computer-based examination.
Notably, NTA will be conducting UGC NET exam in two shifts. The timing of first shift is from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm whereas second shift exam will conducted from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm.
There would be two papers in the NTA NET examination. Paper one will have 50 questions focusing primarily on teaching and research aptitude, general awareness and knowledge etc.
Paper two will have 100 subject-specific questions. In both paper 1 and 2, each question will carry 2 marks. Candidates will be allotted 3 hours to complete both the papers.
For the uninitiated, UGC NET is conducted to determine the eligibility of Indian nationals for the Assistant Professor or Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) or both in Indian Universities and Colleges.
Three Indian Universities – IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and IISc Bangalore have found their places among the top 200 in the QS World University Rankings 2020.
IIT-Bombay is placed at 152nd position, an improvement of 10 places from its previous year’s 162nd position. IIT Delhi is at 182nd rank whereas Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore has garnered the 184th rank.
Apart from this, other Indian institutes in the Global top 500 in QS 2020 are: IIT Madras at 271, IIT Kharagpur at 281, IIT Kanpur at 291, IIT Roorkee at 383, University of Delhi at 474 and IIT Guwahati at 491.
OP Jindal Global University (JGU), based in Haryana, is the new Indian University to grab its spot in the ranking bracket of 751-800. Four Indian Universities have been placed in the ranking bracket of 801-1000 — Banaras Hindu University, University of Mumbai, University of Calcutta and Savitribai Phule Pune University.
If we talk about the overall global listing, the top three Universities are from the United States.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is placed at number one with an overall score of 100, Stanford University at number 2 with an overall score of 98.4 whereas Harvard University bagged the number 3 position with an overall score of 97.4.
To be listed on QS World University Rankings 2020, the universities are ranked on certain parameters. They are: academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty student ratio, citation per faculty, international faculty and international students.
“Economy and education are very closely interconnected. It is impossible for any country to be developed without allocating highest possible expenditure for development of education and human resource,” Dr Ganesh Rao, Director, MITCON Institute of Management, Pune.
He was among the key speakers at 11th Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave who shared their thoughts to improve the higher education sector of India. He suggested various measures that may help the country’s youth and economy to grow simultaneously.
He emphasised on nurturing the students without confused minds saying, “Unemployable, globalised curriculum and globalised context are among the key buzzwords among the education fraternity nowadays. It is creating doubts in the minds of young students.”
Questioning the media’s role in improving the education ecosystem across the country, Dr Rao said, “With a population of around 140 crore of which 50 crore — a bit less than half of the population belongs to the age group of 5-24. We have got 900 universities; 40,000 colleges; nine lakh faculty members; and 3.5 crore students out of 140 crore. Nowadays, it is very common in media publications and news papers to create panic about Indian education sector.”
Suggesting the measures for improving the current scenario, Dr Rao suggested that the educators can play major role in that. He said, “It has been done by publishing the stories like: Engineering colleges are closing down!!! Is there a problem and others? It is very important for us as educationist to come together and reveal the truth that there is no such crisis, only a mismatch. This mismatch has to be tuned right without being panic.”
He also defines that what exactly are the changes required for education sector. Emphasising that not the basic education rather we need to change the practices, he said, “Another very common thing we hear nowadays is that the education system needs to be changed. It is important to note here that we need not to change the education basics rather we just need to change education practices and adopt latest technologies. We need to inculcate confidence among the youth so that they don’t get stressed due to ridiculous stories.”
With effect from academic session 2019-20, completing an undergraduate course in Delhi University colleges will be a bit heavier on the students’ pockets.
As per the reports, many colleges under the varsity have revised their annual fee structure thereby making a hike ranging from Rs 2000 to Rs 8000.
The information regarding the change in fee structure was provided in the new bulletin published by the University on its official website.
Notably, most of the colleges have given “insufficient funds” as the primary reason behind the revision in the fee plan while many others have termed it a ‘routine revision’.
The fee structure of Gargi College has witnessed a hike of Rs 2,500 to Rs 3,000 for most of the courses. However, for BA (Hons) Business Economics, the course fee has gone up by over Rs 14,000. Last year, it was Rs 26,875 but now it is Rs 41,220.
On the other hand, the average fee hike in colleges like: Aryabhatta College, Delhi Collegefor Arts and Commerce, Bhaskaracharya College for Applied Sciences, Deshbandhu College, Hindu College, Miranda House, Indraprastha College for Women Motilal Nehru College and Ramjas College, is between Rs 1,500 and Rs 3,500.
For instance, at Hindu College, the fee structure for most courses including BA (Hons) in English has been revised from Rs 14,790 to Rs 17,310. On other hand, the fee of several courses offered by Ramjas College has witnessed an upward movement from Rs 10,395 to Rs 13,495.
According to the new bulletin, the fee of courses offered at Ramanujan College and Institute of Home Economics (W) has been increased by Rs 8,000 from last year. Admission to courses such as BSc (Hons) in Home Science and Microbiology used to cost Rs 19,675 but now it has been revised to Rs 28,890. Further, at Janki Devi Memorial College (W) and Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women (W) the revision in course fees varies between R 4,000 and Rs 5,000.
NEET 2019 Counselling: The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on behalf of Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) will begin the NEET 2019 Counselling from today.
Candidates who qualified the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2019 are eligible to appear for the NEET 2019 Counselling to be conducted in online mode.
The registration process for NEET counselling will be held from June 19 to 24, 2019. On June 25, the candidates will be able to lock their choices for the first round while the seat allotment process will take place on June 26. The result of the first round of seat allotment will be released on June 27, 2019.
NEET Counselling 2019 will be conducted for the admission to 15% All India Quota candidates seats of the total intake from all the government and private colleges and deemed universities (except for colleges of Jammu and Kashmir). For the rest 85% State quota seats, the counselling will be conducted by the respective State authorities.
For the 15% of All India Quota seats, NEET counselling 2019 will be conducted in two rounds while for the Central & Deemed Universities and ESIC colleges will be conducted in three rounds. After final allotment of seats, candidates will be provided a seat allotment letter which will be required for the admission process ahead.
To qualify in the NEET UG exam, candidates are required to secure a minimum of 50th percentile (45th percentile for General-PwD candidates and 40th percentile for SC/ST/OBC candidates).
NEST 2019 Results | The National Entrance Screening Test (NEST) 2019 result has been released today, i.e. June 18, 2019 (Tuesday). Earlier, it was scheduled to be declared on June 17 but due to some technical issues it was delayed.
The official notice reads, “Due to some technical reasons the result could not be published on 17.06.2019. Inconvenience is regretted. NEST 2019 result will be out on 18.06.2019 (before 5 pm).”
Candidates who appeared for the examination can check the results by visiting the official NEST portal nestexam.in.
NEST Result 2019: Follow steps below to check
Step 1: Visit the NEST’s official website nestexam.in
Step 2: Click on the link that reads NEST Result 2019.
Step 3: Enter the required details.
Step 4: The results will be showcased on the screen.
Step 5: Take the printout for future reference.
Notably, the National Entrance Screening Test (NEST) 2019 was conducted at multiple centres pan India on June 1, 2019 (Saturday) over two separate sessions.
For the uninitiated, NEST is a mandatory online entrance test for students aspiring to take admission to the 5-year Integrated MSc Program offered by National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) Bhubaneswar and University of Mumbai – Department of Atomic Energy Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (UM-DAE CEBS) Mumbai.
The University of Delhi (DU) has extended the application date for admission to undergraduate courses for academic session 2019-20. With this latest development, students will now be able to apply for the admission till June 22, 2019.
This decision from Delhi University has come after a High Court order which directed the varsity to do the same. Notably, High Court passed the order after hearing pleas against the varsity for effecting change in eligibility criteria just a day before the registrations were to commence.
Observing the case, the court commented that the changes in eligibility criteria have to be made in accordance with law – “which would require a minimum of six months of public notice to the public at large”.
Following the order, varsity extended the date and is now set to release the admission brochure with revised eligibility criteria and other relevant information on its official website. It is highly expected that the brochure will be updated on the website by 5: 00 PM today, i.e. June 17, 2019 (Monday).
Now that the last date of submitting application has been extended, the varsity has also postponed the date for release of first cut off list. It is now expected to be out on June 20, 2019 (Thursday).
Considering the exceptional Class 12th exam results this year, the cut off is expected to be high. In CBSE alone, 94,299 students have scored more than 90 per cent marks. Out of this 17,693 students have scored above 95 per cent marks.
In 2018, Lady Shri Ram College recorded the highest cut off for an undergraduate course, which was 98.75% for B.A. Programme course.
Among the B.Sc. courses, the highest cut off was for B.Sc. Physics (H) at Hindu College at 98% whereas for B.Sc. Computer Science (H) the cut highest cut off was 98%, set by SGTB Khalsa College.
