The first seat allotment result for NEET 2019 is likely to be announced by the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) today i.e. July 1, 2019. The allotment list will be made available on the official website.
Students who are allotted a seat in the first round of NEET counselling 2019 are required to report to the allotted college/institute from July 1 to July 6 to complete admission the admission processes.
Candidates who have given willingness for free exit/entry optio during the first round of NEET Counselling 2019 may or may not join the allotted college and participate in subsequent rounds without being penalised. Free exit allows students to not join a college without paying any penalty.
The below mentioned documents will be required at the time of reporting at the allotted institute to complete admission formalities:
Admit Cards of Exam issued by NTA
Result/ Rank letter issued by NTA
Class 10th Certificate/ Date of Birth Certificate (if Metric Certificate does not bear the same)
Class 10+2 Certificate
Class 10+2 Marks Sheet
Eight (8) Passport size photograph same as affixed on the application form
Provisional allotment letter generated on-line
Proof of identity (Aadhaar/ PAN/ Driving Licence/ Passport)
Students not allotted a seat in the first round of counselling can participate in second round of counselling. However, students who are allotted a seat in the first round and have given willingness for up-gradation of seat can also participate in the second round.
Showing the improvements in higher education sector of the country, IIT Indore has been ranked among Top 100 in the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings 2019. The rankings were announced at Guildford, UK, on June 26, 2019 (Thursday).
In an official statement, IIT Indore highlights how it continues to carve its own niche as the solitary Indian representative among the top club of well-known international institutions.
Notably, the institute, which was established in 2009, has bagged the place among top 70 institutes in the world, by securing the 68th rank.
Commenting on the latest development, Director of IIT Indore, Prof Pradeep Mathur said, “It’s aggressive policy of identifying the very best faculty members from top institutions around the world and making appointments after one of the most demanding selection procedures, continues to propel IIT Indore on a steep upward trajectory and clearly as the Top Indian Young institute”.
“Emphasis on quality research by its PhD scholars and its rigorous evaluation at all stages goes a long way to produce outstanding research in all areas of Science and Engineering. The latest ranking in the Young University category is not at all surprising as IIT Indore has already been ranked as being the Top IIT amongst all universities in the world,” he further added.
Prof Mathur further asserted that IIT Indore is delighted to create a model of excellence which can be adopted by other young institutes as well. He wished that other Indian institutes too attain high rank in Young University Rankings in future.
For the uninitiated, the Young University Ranking aims to bring the best universities under 50 years old into spotlight. It evaluates the institutes under five broad parameters with specific weightage; Teaching: 30%; Citations: 30%; Research: 30%; International: 7.5%; and Industry: 2.5%.
NATA 2019 Admit Card: The admit card for National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) has been released for July 2019 examination. Candidates can download the admit card from the official website by submitting their application number and password.
The NATA July 2019 exam is scheduled to be conducted on July 7, 2019. It is going to be part online and part offline.
Notably, Council of Architecture (COA) is the exam conducting body of NATA since 2006. The exam is held for students aspiring to take admission into five year Bachelor of Architecture (B Arch) degree course at all recognised institutes across country.
Look for the link that reads, NATA Test 07-July–2019
Click on it, you be will be redirected to new page.
Enter the required details, application no & password.
The admit card will be displayed in a new tab.
Download the admit card. Take a print out for future reference.
Notably, the NATA exam has been held twice this year. The first exam was conducted in April 14, 2019. Candidates are allowed to appear in either of the exams, as per their preference. In case, the student chooses to appear in both the exams, the best score out of the two will be taken into consideration for admission to B Arch course.
The NATA Exam consists of two parts. Part-1 is MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions), which needs to be answered online by the candidates. Second Part is to be completed on A4 size drawing sheets.
There would be 60 questions in Part A from Mathematics (20) and General Aptitude (40). Each question will carry 2 marks. There is no negative marking.
On the other hand, in part B, the students will be required to attempt two questions within 120 minutes. Both the answers will be examined by more than one examiner on independent basis. The marks will be given by taking out the average of the total marks allotted by the examiners.
Rajasthan Government has appointed Dr Samit Sharma as the new Commissioner of Labour Department and Managing Director of Rajasthan Skill and Livelihoods Development Corporation.
Dr Sharma was serving as the Mission Director, National Health Mission, Government of Rajasthan, before being appointed in his current role.
Dr Sharma also served as the Commissioner, Industry, Corporate Social Responsibility Department and Principal Secretary, Industries Department, Government of Rajasthan.
Along with an IAS officer, Dr Sharma is also a renowned doctor who is known for his significant contribution towards the generic medicine initiative in the State of Rajasthan. His efforts facilitated the significant boost in the usage of low-cost drugs that leads to reduction in healthcare expenses.
Along with Dr Sharma, The Rajasthan Government has transferred a total of 10 IAS officers across the State.
Colleges are focusing more on academic development nowadays. There is a need to have holistic development, mental health being at the helm of the same. Many colleges are seeing the need and trying to provide facilities for this but the dearth of professionals poses a significant challenge.
Youth has to face significant stress, anxiety and depression while on campuses and their mental health has a direct relation to their academic outcomes. India has the highest youth suicides globally. It is imperative to have policies and facilities that promote better mental health and well-being of students.
To address the above, RoundGlass College Wellbeing partnered with campuses across the country bringing global best practices and breakthrough technology to support student well-being. The programme creates awareness on campuses sensitising youth to relevant mental health issues, reducing stigma and breaking barriers help seeking behavior.
Dr Dhaval Mody, Lead, RoundGlass College Wellbeing
According to Dr Dhaval Mody, Lead, RoundGlass College Wellbeing, “Maharashtra leads the education movement and Dr Dhaval Mody Lead, RoundGlass College Wellbeing reforms in the country, especially when it came to inclusion and managing children with special needs. The number of higher education institutes and private universities are increasing in India. The number of foreign students attending these colleges is also on the rise. The scenario comes with its challenges both for colleges and youth.”
We build communities on campuses that provide safe zone for students to talk about mental health and a platform to reach out for support in times of need. The online solution also provides a habit formation platform enabling students to take charge of their well-being by forming healthy habits and overcoming those they face difficulties with. The idea is to bring a cultural shift towards approach for mental health and well-being and make youth more proactive to it.
RoundGlass College Wellbeing participated in HEHR conclave during the Panel Discussion on Redefining Higher Education through New Age Innovation.
In today’s world, where everyone has a smartphone, a School- home App can be a great tool for every educational institution. Research shows that school-home communication is greatly increased through personalised positive communication between teachers and parents. When a message from school conveys good news, the relationship between home and school improves.
Connecting Matters has been developed to empower this relationship. It is a one-stop solution to enable teachers and parents to access information, maintain records and manage communication without putting in a lot of time and effort.
With the job of the Teachers beoming more and more demanding everyday, schools are feeling the need to take appropriate counter- measures. This is where Connecting Matters has stepped in. “We did a thorough testing of this product and we’re pleasantly surprised to see the response-time and modern technology used. It has a smart and useful interface with great user experience,” say Vishal Jagtap and Sonal Toshniwal, Co-founders, BitCode Technologies, Pune.
As the pun in the name hints, Connecting Matters is a communication app, that saves time and energy of the teachers, and helps schools cut down on their communication expenses. The app has several smart functions like attendance entry, homework entry, school time table, digitised school diary, consent forms for various activities and sending important updates to all parents in one go.
Teachers can track attendance, share school newsletters, grades of various tests, timetables, syllabus and dates of upcoming exams, quizzes and other important updates. Teachers can send circulars to parents in bulk, or selectively. Additionally, they can schedule messages, undertake an administrative audit of the messages as well as manage subscribers list through the App.
With Connecting Matters, parents can stay up to date with their child’s school work and schedule, check notifications and give their consent or feedback on various issues. Connecting Matters gives parents the much-needed assurance of their child’s safety by giving them access to their child’s attendance record daily.
Describing about the genesis behind Connecting Matters, Anjani Kumar Shukla, Founder & Managing Director, Connecting Matters App, said, “I have observed that parents are always concerned about their child’s life at school. Being a parent myself, I know that parents are anxious about their child’s safety, security, interactions with the teachers and their overall experience at the school. This Connecting Matters: Facilitating School-Parent Partnerships made me wonder if there can be a platform specially designed for parents and the school that can give the parents a complete insight of the children’s life at school. This is how ‘Connecting Matters’ was born. From providing updates like Test scores to annual result, from Live Bus Tracking to event updates, Connecting Matters promises the parents a peace-of-mind they always deserved.”
With both parents getting busier by the day, even they are feeling the need of technology intervention, that ensures child’s safety and communication that informs them well in advance. Parents want to be involved in the child’s school work and actively participate in the progress of the child at all times.
Smart schools are understanding the need of technology and are making a beehive to adapt it. Besides improving communication adapting to new technology also helps schools build thought- leadership in the fraternity. “We work with schools and help them build their credibility. Connecting Matters is a must have for all schools who are catering to well connected, but busy parents. The features it offers at this price point are just amazing. It surely helps the schoolstay connected with the parents,” says Akshay Kulkarni, Director, Till it clicks studio Pvt ltd.
In a world that is ever evolving and adapting, that values modern problems and solutions rather than following traditional methods, careers too are becoming more than plain vanilla – and so are the perspectives of students, parents and employers, making it a deadly mix ready for the new world, writes Akshay Chaturvedi, CEO & Founder, Leverage Edu, for Elets news Network (ENN).
Robert Frost wrote “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” back in 1916. The world has shifted from Black and White TV to Colour TV, from cable network to Netflixand Amazon Prime, from dial-in internet to Wi-Fi and 4G, from having security guards outside houses to Smart Home systems.
Akshay Chaturvedi, CEO & Founder, Leverage Edu
To meet with the demands of this fast paced world, many colleges are now offering programs and professional courses that stray away from the traditionally structured courses and recruiters are looking for professionals who can meet these demands of the modern subject who seeks better and improved lifestyle. Courses are specifically being designed to cater to these new blooming industries that have taken shape due to the advancements in technology – and other changes in the way society functions (think, all on-demand apps around the world – be it transport, grocery, getting things done, or taking your pet out for a walk!).
Here is a list of some unconventional courses and career prospects :
Flavour Chemistry:
With globalisation making the world a global village, there is an influx of diversity like never before, with people constantly on the lookout for new experiences, one such experience is that of food and trying different cuisines and flavours. Flavour chemistry is the artistic blend of different approved extracts and chemicals in order to achieve a desired flavour profile for a specific beverage or food product and to come up with new flavours and ways to improve the taste of already existing flavours. Work involves using the subtle use of aromas, tastes and aesthetics to add that factor of oomph to everyday food. This work involves mimicking or enhancing flavours of cooked foods by adding amino acids, fats and sugars to the processed food. The field is also closely related to chemistry as it involves mixing different ingredients in order to create and improvise flavours. Those who have pursued chemistry in their senior secondary are eligible for this course.
A List of colleges that offer this course:
Indian Institute of Hospitality & Management, Mumbai: They offers the subject of flavour chemistry under its MSc in Food Science program.
University of Reading, Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences: This University offers an undergraduate program which helps the student gain an in-depth knowledge about the science of food.
Podcast Production:
A Podcast developer helps execute the vision behind the podcast, alongside helping develop the podcast along with the entire crew. The podcast developer is involved in the entire completion of the project – design, strategising, background mix, advertisement inlets, analytics around listeners, creating new content ideas basis feedback loops, and more.
A few roles that the producer undertakes include:
Creative Vision – wherein the producers help the person with the storytelling of the podcast and helps maintain the core idea behind the project, they also take creative decisions like who will tell the story and help maintain the overall concept.
Overseeing the Production – The producer with her/his experience has enough insight to oversee the production and help deliver the results in the most cohesive way possible. If the concept is more complex it is easy to stray from the core of the topic but that’s where the producer steps in and helps maintain the idea behind the concept.
Coordinate the Interviews (if that’s the format) – The producer also helps coordinate the interviews with the guest and helps identifying each person’s role in the overall picture of the podcast making sure content is “worthwhile and effective”.
Editing & Post-Production –Includes work like editing the podcast so as to ensure quality content and that the podcast is able to deliver the intended message.
The following online resources (both paid and free) provide courses in Podcast Production:
Music Radio Creative: They offer an online course in podcast production.
Udemy, Inc: They offer a course in Professional Podcast production, editing and blueprint. The course is well-structured and helps by providing a step by step guide from recording to publishing and everything in the middle like editing, uploading etc.
Food Stylist:
In a world where food blogging is the rage, food bloggers require food stylists to make their food look “insta-worthy” and aesthetic enough to generate awe among the users and force them to stop everything and stare the picture. Yes, it’s all too real. If food excites you and so does design and aesthetics, this is the best career option out there! This job opportunity is gaining ground given social media buzz has such a stronghold and helps build prospective buyers and fans.
Some of the schools offering this course include:
The French Culinary Institute: This 6 month program based in New York is led by Lisa Schoen, a Food Network food stylist.
Classes taught by Jacqueline Buckner: Led by expert stylist the course is a private lesson that gives the person an insight into the craft with the professional helping the student build a 3 photograph portfolio and following up with the student for 3 months regarding marketing.
Artificial intelligence (AI) programmer:
Ever wondered how your phone is able to recognise your face? Or how do search engines know exactly what you’re looking for? Or how Siri recognises your voice? These are some of the basic advances made by AI programmers and you can be a part of that world. The world is constantly moving towards a more futuristic reality, one that is heavily centred around AI being at the back of just about everything. An AI programmer helps develop the operating software that helps in the functioning of AI programs and applications. They work closely with engineers, across robotics’ (at times) and technical aspects. Work also involves testing data and analysing the capability of changing and adaption. In certain projects, they program the technology in a way that enables robots to interact with each other or robots to interact with humans. Apart from that, there is also work on voice and facial recognition, video games, interactive applications and military weapons.
The following colleges offer programs around this course:
Eastern Michigan University: The Eastern Michigan University offers AI programming under their Computer and Information Sciences, General (Robotics and Artificial Intelligence) course as well as Information Technology Management course.
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology: Computer and Information Sciences, General (Robotics and Artificial Intelligence) is the course offered by South Dakota School for those aspiring to a career in AI programming.
Harvard University: Computer and Information Sciences, General and Information Technology Management are two programs under which students at Harvard can study the AI Programming course.
But more than any of the above, what’s important is that students and parents are now open to non conventional paths, and have understood the importance of diverse exposure which brings out the best in students over time. In my own experience, at LeverageEdu, I see students realising their dreams in the field of Astrophysics, Criminal Psychology, Physical Therapy, Religious Studies, Masters in Architecture, Masters in Transport Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Life Sciences, Masters in Music, Masters in Photography, Healthcare Management, Microbiology, etc etc – and it is fulfilling for us as educationists to see this change!
There are countless opportunities awaiting every student of today, and they don’t have to emulate those undertaken by their parents or family. It’s time for students to chart out a path of infinite prospects that are tailor made to make their USP stand out, and suits ‘their skills’. It’s a path that will help them make a difference and stay abreast with the changing demands of the ever evolving world. It’s time to be the one who takes “the road less taken.” (Views expressed are a personal opinion.)
The registration process for UPSEE Counselling 2019 is scheduled to commence today, i.e. 26 June 2019 (Wednesday). The final date for registering and submitting the registration fees is July 2, 2019 (Tuesday).
Candidates who will register successfully and pay the fees for UPSEE 2019 Counselling will be eligible to go for the document verification process, set to begin from tomorrow, June 26, 2019. The verification process will end on July 3, 2019, a day after the registration ends.
Besides, the process of online choice locking will be held from June 29 (Saturday) to July 4 (Thursday), 2019. The result for seat allotment will be made public on July 4, 2019.
After the announcement of results, candidates will be given the option of Freeze/Float from July 4 (Thursday) to July 7 (Sunday), 2019. To confirm the seats, candidates will have to pay the fees in the same period duration.
Thereafter, candidates who freeze their option and pay fee for seat confirmation online would be required to report to the institute on any day between July 5 (Friday) and July 29 (Monday), 2019.
Notably, the registration for second round of UPSEE counselling 2019 will kick start on July 8 (Monday), 2019.
The counselling fee for UPSEE 2019 is Rs 1,000, which is non-refundable. The seat confirmation fee for General and OBC category candidates is Rs. 20,000 and for SC and ST category candidates is Rs. 12,000.
The academic session for students taking admissions through UPSEE 2019 will commence from July 27, 2019.
Notably, the UPSEE 2019 result was released early this month on June 3, 2019.
All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur, and Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR) Lucknow, have joined hands to work in the field of toxicology research.
Both the institutes have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in which they agreed to diagnose people’s health problems in Rajasthan with toxicology research.
Under the agreement, the Jodhpur institute will be providing research problems related to public health to IITR. The Lucknow-based institute will then start working towards finding the solutions to the problems.
Reportedly, IITR, in exchange, will provide the access of its bioinformatics lab, high-end equipment, and expert scientists to faculty and students of AIIMS for conducting research and training.
Apart from this, the institute will also provide their assistance in solving prevailing health-related problems in Rajasthan like, fluorosis, silicosis, micronutrient deficiency diseases and study of heavy metals toxicity.
According to an official, IITR labs are capable of detecting any element which is mentioned in the current periodic table, up to a level of Part Per Trillion (PPT).
The MoU between the two institutes was signed by Dr Sanjeev Misra, director, AIIMS, Jodhpur, and Dr Alok Dhawan, director, IITR, Lucknow, in the presence of IITR’s dean (research) Dr Praveen Sharma and Dr Kuldeep Singh, dean (academics) of AIIMS, Jodhpur.
Another team from AIIMS (Jodhpur) also undertook a visit to oversee lab and other facilities available with IITR.
