Ranking the Finest in Indian Private Engineering Education

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April 17, 2017

Ravi Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd

The meaning of education is steadily acquiring a new definition with each passing year, creating a huge scope to learn, unlearn, and educate in new fashion. Finding out the most suitable institute or college as per one’s academic prowess and financial means most often proves a Herculean task, especially in engineering stream.

Considering the complications of zeroing-in on the most suitable option, we decided to devote our Digital Learning magazine’s latest issue to “State-wise Ranking of Private Engineering Institutes and Colleges -2017”, conducted by a perception-based methodology by a jury involving experts.

We’ve tried to highlight how various engineering institutes and colleges are fairing in different areas to enhance quality of education. Hence, in a novel bid which involved the service providers inviting service seekers to rank their performance on an open platform, we have brought out this ranking issue.

The objective is to serve all those linked to an engineering college, i.e., parents, teachers, educators and the college management, decipher the average to the top-class private engineering institutes and colleges in India.

In addition, our cover story – “Annual Resource Guide: Sourcing Educational Prerequisites” – is a step towards furthering Digital Learning magazine’s legacy providing better insights, enabling consumers to take an informed decision. We hope it would provide a better insight to the education stakeholders.

As readers know that our World Education Summits have been an endeavour to recognise and honour outstanding achievers time and again, we recently organised “elets 8th World Education Summit Bahrain 2017”, highlighting the significance of innovations and entrepreneurial spirit in the education space of the island nation and the MENA region.

Inaugurated by H E Dr Majid Bin Ali Al-Nuaimi, Minister of Education, Kingdom of Bahrain, on March 8, the summit witnessed a grand congregation of leading speakers and hundreds of delegates from as many as 12 countries from across the world. They deliberated on crucial issues and shared their unique experiences in the education space.

With a bouquet of ranking, special stories, and interviews, we hope the latest issue would offer new insights of the education world. Looking forward to receiving our readers’ valuable feedback.

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Uttar Pradesh government asked private schools to submit fee structure within 15 days

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April 14, 2017

The newly formed government of Uttar Pradesh (UP) has asked all the private schools to submit details of the fees charged from students within 15 days. The schools are also asked to submit payments made to teachers and other infrastructure details within the same period.

Along with this, the schools also have to submit details of all the allowances charged from students except the fee and also the information regarding any commercial activity taking place on school campuses.

District inspector of schools (DIoS), Umesh Tripathi, has circulated a letter in this regard to school managements during a meeting of school principals and private school representatives of private schools held at his office, reported Hindustan Times.

Representatives from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) were also present on the occasion who questioned the heavy fees and other allowances being charged by the schools.

In order to resolve the issue, the school representatives present at the meeting have suggested categorising the schools according to their infrastructure and learning levels, and fee structures should be decided according to that.

India, Australia to train 4 lakh trainers, assessors

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Akash

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April 14, 2017

Australia and India will work together to build capacity of four lakh trainers and assessors over the next few years, Australian Minister for Education and Training, Simon Birmingham said on Tuesday.

While speaking at the fourth Australia-India Skill Conference, 2017, Bimingham said, “We believe we can help because you recognise and acknowledge our experience in a very successful vocational education system.” The conference was held in conjunction with the visit of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to India, reported Business Standard.

Birmingham said that Australia will help India to achieve its target in training adding programme would also look at scaling up the number of apprentices in India.

Rajeev Pratap Rudy, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, said, “For very long, in India, education did not carry the skills along. Skills never got the focus that it should have.” He said India need to train 400 million people in organised and unorganised sector.

Rudy said: “The young trained junior commissioned officers who have long trained in many technical aspects of Indian armed forces… generally they retire young after 20 years of service.

“So, we have partnered with Indian armed forces… we have established mechanism where these youngsters, who are to retire, within six months of their retirement they are put to certain courses where they can be trained as assessors or entrepreneurs or trainers,” he said.

“I think this programme is going very successfully now and we have launched several batches of such youngsters,” he added.

The two ministers also launched a joint initiative between the Government of Australia and the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), “International Trainers and Assessors Training Courses”.

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has organised the conference in partnership with the Department of Education and Training, Government of Australia, under the ambit of the Australia-India Education Council recently.

CL Educate acquires Pearson’s ETEN and AKMS

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Akash

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April 14, 2017

CL Educate has acquired Pearson group’s ETEN and Accendere Knowledge Management Services (AKMS). CL Educate, an education and knowledge services provider, has recently launched its IPO to get listed on the stock exchanges.

ETEN is the test preparation business division of Pearson’s IndiaCan Education Pvt Ltd. It provides tech-based satellite coaching for chartered accountant programme and civil services.

AKMS is a knowledge management company, specialising in areas such as incubating research programmes for universities.

After ETEN buyout, CL Educate is expected to expand its network up to 192 centres out of which five will high-tech broadcast studios. The centres will help them to reach around 93,000 students. According to a release, the ETEN deal involves a staggered payment of Rs6 crore over 30 months and 4% revenue share for the next three years, reported Livemint.

“ETEN adds a large knowledge-based test-prep segment of CA and strengthens civil services for CL Educate in test preparation business,” CL Educate vice chairman and managing director Gautam Puri said.

In 2015, CL Educate had purchased 51% stake in the company with a call option for the remaining shareholding to be exercised on or after 1 April 2017.

MHRD to scrap Marks moderation Policy

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April 14, 2017

Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) is planning to scrap moderation of marks in board exams.

The move comes after a request to remove the marks moderation policy, made by the Central board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to MHRD in December last year. The policy always led to inflation of marks in board exam results and also in raising the cut-offs in college admissions in the country.

According to the marks moderation policy, students are awarded 15% extra marks in the subjects that have the difficult question papers in board exams. It is very important for all the boards in the country to scrap the marks moderation policy as in case of not doing so by other boards, CBSE students will be at a disadvantage during UG college admissions, reported NDTV.

A senior MHRD official said, “The ministry has called a meeting of all state education secretaries and chairmen of the state boards on April 24 and the issue is likely to be taken up there. The recommendations by the CBSE will be taken into account and we will see if a consensus can be arrived at with the states.”

After receiving complaints about the difficulty level of questions in various subjects, the CBSE has formed an expert panel to examine the question paper and to decide the grace marks that should be awarded to each student. This had resulted in the inflation of students who scored more than 95% in board exams between 2008 and 2014.

High percentage of marks in 12th board exams, many Delhi University colleges have to set high cut off marks, 100% in some cases during UG admission.

Mobile Science Labs launched by Odisha government

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April 14, 2017

In order to make available the applied science to the doorstep of every student, Odisha government has launched mobile science laboratory scheme for five backward blocks of southern Odisha.

Flagging off the mobile school and community science laboratories, Chief Secretary, A P Padhi said, “This initiative has been started by the state government in collaboration with TCS foundation and Tata Trusts.”

The initiative aims at creating an environment of learning excellence in south Odisha through multi-stake holder engagement including community, school, teachers and students, he told NDTV.

According to Regional Manager of Tata Trust, Jitendra Nayak, the nobile laboratories will cover Muniguda, Bissamcuttack, Thuamul Rampur, Lanjigarh and Kothgarh blocks of Odisha. The vehicles are multi-purpose mobile labs and would cover all primary and secondary schools in aforementioned blocks.

25,000 students of 250 elementary and secondary schools would get learning experiences through these laboratories. The vehicles are equipped with different application models and charts as per the curricular needs of the schools, he said.

They mobile labs will also be installed with audio-visual apparatus like TV, projector, audio amplifier, solar power back-ups etc. It will help students in learning concepts of Science and Mathematics through audio-visual communication and simulation experiments.

GPS trackers on mobile labs will provide real time data on movement of the vehicles. To make the initiative, outcome oriented, the State government has tagged NGOs, teachers and community members, Nayak added.

Now, medical colleges in Tamil Nadu to have 150 additional seats

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Akash

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April 13, 2017

From the coming academic session 2017-18, the government medical colleges of Tamil Nadu will at least have 150 additional seats as the Medical Council of India (MCI) has cleared decks for a college in Pudukottai.

According to Health Secretary, J Radhakrishnan, the Union Health Ministry is expected to communicate with state health department before MBBS counselling begins. Until now, there were 2,750 MBBS seats in 21 medical colleges, including four in Chennai. In 2016, counselling was held for 2,318 seats as 15% of seats were given up for the national quota.

In Mullur village of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, foundation for a college sanctioned in August 2015 was laid in March 2016. The college is expected to be set up in 127-acre plot at the village.

Cabinet approves setting up of petroleum institute at Visakhapatnam

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April 13, 2017

The Union Cabinet on has approved setting up of an Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy (IIPE) at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. At the time of Telangana’s formation, the same was committed by the then Central Government with estimate budget of over Rs 655 crore.

The Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved setting IIPE as ‘an Institute of National Importance’ through an Act of Parliament. “The Institute will have the governance structure as well as legal mandate to grant degrees in a manner similar to that enjoyed by IITs,” an official statement said.

With a separate Act, The institute will be imparted the “Centre of Excellence” status to the institute in petroleum and energy studies. The Cabinet has approved Rs 655.46 crore as capital expenditure to set up IIPE and Rs 200 crore will be contributed as institute’s Endowment Fund.

This will be in addition to a contribution of Rs200 crore from oil companies towards the Endowment Fund.

For setting up IIPE at Sabbavaram Mandal in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh, the state government has allocated 200 acres of land, free of cost. From academic session 2016-17, IIPE is running from a temporary campus at the Andhra University. Currently, two undergraduate programmes in petroleum engineering and chemical engineering with capacity of 50 students each are being conducted from the temporary campus.

IIT-Kharagpur will mentor the institute. The institute is being set up with an objective to bridge the quantitative and qualitative gap in the supply of skilled manpower in the petroleum sector. IIPE will also promote research activities needed for the growth of the sector.

“The academic and research activities of IIPE will derive strength from the institute’s proximity to sector-related activities such as KG-Basin, Visakhapatnam refinery and the planned petrochemical complex at Kakinada,” the statement added.

CBSE issues show cause notice to over 2000 schools on failure to share information

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April 13, 2017

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued a show cause notice to over 2,000 schools for not sharing certain information to public.

The schools affiliated to the CBSE across the country have to mandatorily make available the details like number of water taps, Wi-Fi facilities with speed details, complete breakup of monthly fees of each class, admission results, reserve funds and balance sheets to public.

All schools were asked to upload all the details on their respective websites and also fill the same on the board’s website through the link given on it by October last year.

“Over 2,000 schools have failed to comply with the mandatory disclosure order. The identified schools have been sent show cause notices. They will be given one last chance failing which they will have to pay a fine of Rs. 50,000 each,” a senior board official said.

CBSE has also warned schools to follow the prescribed norms regarding the fee structure.

“The fees should be commensurate with the facilities provided by the school and any violations will be dealt with seriously,” the official added.

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