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Gaja Capital invests 20 million dollar in Kangaroo Kids

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Akash
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Gaja Capital, a private equity firm that focuses on mid-market deals, has invested about 20 million dollars (Rs 130 crore) in Mumbai-based Kangaroo Kids Education Ltd. Founded in 1993, Kangaroo Kids is one of the country’s largest preschool and K12 school chains.

The deal is the fourth investment made by Mumbai-based Gaja Capital from its latest fund—the $240 million Gaja Capital III. The PE firm made the final close of its third fund at $240 million in March last year after marking the first close in October 2014.

Gaja Capital primarily focuses on the consumption segment, with an emphasis on the education, financial services, consumer and healthcare sectors. In education, Gaja Capital’s portfolio includes EuroKids, CL Educate, TeamLease Services and SportzVillage.

Gaja Capital had made the final close of its third fund at $240 million in March last year after making the first close in October 2014.

Jharkhand CM assures tablets in all schools from coming academic session

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Akash
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Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Raghubar Das said that every school of the state will get tabs during 2017-18 fiscal year. The step will help the teachers and students to be up to date with the changing times. He also said that the gas connections for schools were also underlined in the upcoming fiscal year.

The chief minister was present at ‘Bal Samagam’, a programme to showcase the hidden talents of student where he unveiled a children’s magazine ‘Pankh’ and also inaugurated online computer education in 240 schools. At the event, he said that the teachers would now be exempted from doing government work.

Das also revealed that the state government has recruited nearly 18,000 teachers recently. He also assured that the teachers would be trained as per the national and international standards to provide quality education at school level. Moreover, bio-metric systems were also installed in schools to ensure the regular attendance of teachers.

School Education and Literacy Secretary Aradhana Patnaik was also present at the occasion. She said that this was the third successful year of ‘Bal Samagam’. She also said that the prime aim of this event was to identify hidden talents of students.

India’s first sign language dictionary to be launched soon

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Akash
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In a bid to bring uniformity in sign languages, the government is soon going to launch country’s first-of-its-kind sign language dictionary.  The sign language is used by hearing and speech impaired people to communicate with others.

Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC) is developing the dictionary. So far, ISLRTC has compiled 6,032 Hindi and English words and their corresponding graphic representation of the signs which are used in daily life. The dictionary is being developed in both print and video format.

“A comprehensive Indian Sign Language Dictionary is the need of the hour to facilitate communication between the hearing and speech impaired and create a basic database for further policy making,” Union Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot said.

At the inauguration of “Empowering Deaf through Indian Sign Language”, a two-day national conference, the minister said, “Presently, the sign languages in a diverse country like India vary from region to region. Because of this, people from a region face difficulty in communicating with those in the other region”.

This dictionary will help bridge the communication gap, Gehlot said.

According to Awanish K Awasthi, joint secretary, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, the dictionary will help around 50 lakh hearing impaired and 20 lakh speech impaired people in the country to get an uniform language.

“It will contain graphic representations of popular signs used by the hearing impaired and will also include regional variations. Apart from that, it will have legal, technical and medical terms,” Awasthi said.

NTS to conduct majority of CBSE entrance tests from 2018

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Akash
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From 2018, National Testing Service (NTS) is expected to conduct majority of tests conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).

The agency is waiting for the Cabinet’s nod after which it will start with the National Entrance Examination from January 2018 for admission to engineering courses of technical institutions across the country.

According to some media reports, entrance tests for courses in higher education and other professional tests conducted by the CBSE will come under the NTS fold making it the country’s largest exam conducting body.

CBSE, apart from class X and XII board exams, conducts five other tests which include Joint Engineering Entrance (JEE), National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET), UGC’s National Eligibility Test (twice a year), Central Teacher Eligibility Test (twice a year) and the entrance test for Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas.

Around 27 lakh candidates appear for the board exams whereas around 40 lakh aspirants appear for the professional tests conducted by the CBSE.

An official said, “The focus is on scientific professional online standardized examination and not the numbers. The ministry wants to declutter CBSE and the Indian Institutes of Technology so that they can focus on their key areas. The ministry wants CBSE to focus on the quality of school education, curriculum and set standards”.

CBSE will play an important role in the making of NTS. According to officials, the board will act as the resource centre for NTS and the testing agency will also “pick up large number of people who have been involved in conducting various examinations”.

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Delhi, capital of fake universities and colleges?

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Akash
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With 66 fake colleges and seven fake universities, Delhi seems to be fast emerging as the capital of dubious colleges away from its recognition as a cosmopolitan city, especially after some reports have indicated the national capital city has highest number of such cases for any state in India.

The list of fake educational institutes includes colleges/universities offering engineering and other technical courses without the regulator’s permission. There are 279 such technical institutes in the country.

The educational institutes included in fake list don’t have the authority to grant degrees. Education certificates issued by such colleges are nothing but a piece of paper.

In its annual review, the UGC and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) last month put out a list of such fake institutes on their websites. The two regulators have also warned students ahead of the new academic session to avoid taking admissions in these institutions.

“We send the list of unapproved and unregulated technical institutions to concerned state authorities for taking appropriate action against such institutions,” an official said.

Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharasthra also have a sizable number of fake technical institutes. AICTE, the technical education regulator, has also issued notices to these schools for not taking its approval.

“Public notices are also published in newspapers cautioning the students not to take admission in such unapproved institutions,” the official said.

Minister of State for Human Resource Development Mahendra Nath Pandey in his reply in the Rajya Sabha has said, the ministry had written to state governments to investigate the matter and register police complaints against fake universities.

States have also been asked to initiate proceedings against those involved in defrauding and cheating students “by misrepresenting themselves as ‘universities’ awarding degrees with their name”, Pandey told the Rajya Sabha.

The details of fake universities and fake technical institutes are available on the websites of UGC and AICTE.

New software to boost higher education scenario in Bihar

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Akash
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In order to boost the higher education in Bihar, the state higher education department has decided to introduce University Management System (UMS) in all universities and constituent colleges.

K Senthil Kumar, additional secretary, higher education department-cum-project director said, “The department has developed a new software which will link all universities and colleges together and facilitate conduct of academic activities as per the academic calendar of the universities”.

While addressing a meeting of registrars, principals and nodal officers of the state varsities, Kumar said that all universities and constituent colleges would come under the integrated system. “With the help of new technology, universities and colleges would be provided more facilities like online admission, WiFi, course management, publication of results, academic calendar and financial management. The new software will be named — Edu Grid-Bihar,” he said.

In a bid to streamline higher education scenario in the state, the new software is developed after several brainstorming sessions with technical experts, Kumar revealed. “The new system would be introduced in the ensuing academic session in July,” he said. A power point presentation on various advantages of the new technology was also given by State Education Director-IT, Arjun Kumar.

Ranjit Kumar Verma, former pro-vice chancellor, Patna University who played a crucial role in development of the new software, said the UMS will ensure transparency in universities. He said, the new software will be university-teacher-student centric and provide a single window service to students. “The focus will be on e-governance in universities and colleges. Each university and college will have a user-friendly website which could display time table of each department too,” he added.

During meeting, stress was also given on the need to get NAAC accreditation for all universities and colleges in the state to avail UGC grants under Rashtriya Ucchttar Shikhsa Abhiyan (RUSA) scheme.

BHIM, county’s first indigenous superpower drone by IIT Kharagpur

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Akash
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IIT Kharagpur has designed the country’s first indigenous superpower drone, BHIM. The unmanned aerial device’s uniqueness lies in state-of-the-art protection shield, superior imagery and hitherto unknown abilities, say its creators. The drone will be a metre in length.

BHIM can also create a Wi-Fi zone within a nearly 1 km radius when it flies overhead. With a battery backup of seven hours, the drone can be very useful in creating seamless communication network while flying into a disaster affected area or a war-zone. It will help the security forces, rescue personnel and even the common man during such situations.

BHIM is designed especially for emergency situations as its special ability lies in maintaining long duration flights and dropping emergency supplies accurately. It can also be used for rescue operations in remote areas and can conduct integrity checks for boundary walls and find out breaches if any.

The vision-based guidance with built-in intelligence makes the drone identify that either an area is crowded or not, it will then fly away and land at a safer place.

“Such advanced built-in intelligence is not available in drones now. The design is completely in-house. The controlling and guiding algorithms of the drone have been developed in our lab,” said Sudip Mishra, a faculty member of the computer science and engineering department.

Now, BSE Institute Ltd to offer specialised programs in finance and financial markets

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Akash
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Bombay Stock Exchange Institute Ltd (BIL), the leader in financial education, is soon going to offer specialised programs in finance and financial markets. The institute has signed an MoU with Techno India University of Kolkatta in this regard.

The programmes, to be offered jointly, will include high end programs in financial markets and Fintech as well as BSE Institute’s flagship concurrent program Global Financial Markets Professional (GFMP) Programme.

During the programme, the students will be provided knowledge about cash, derivatives, technical analysis, financial modeling, mutual funds, banking operations and whole range of specialized topics. The course consists of 4 semesters followed by 1 semester of industrial practice.

Speaking on the occasion Managing Director and CEO of BSE Institute, Ambarish Datta said,”This MOU will give us an opportunity to reach out to bright students in West Bengal as well as states in North Eastern India. I am confident that we will be able to work together to create a pipeline of skilled professionals for the BFSI Industry.”

BIL offers a wide range of programmes in financial markets, banking and finance and business journalism. From one-day workshops to full-time post graduate programmes, the courses at BIL offer students a great learning experience.

AMU and University of Sharjah sign MoU for academic cooperation

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Akash
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Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for academic cooperation. Through the MoU, both the universities will exchange knowledge, academic programmes, research and other activities.

The MoU was signed by AMU Vice Chancellor, Lt General Zameer Uddin Shah and Chancellor of University of Sharjah, Professor Hamid Al Naimy. The formal agreement between the two universities will lead the way for international academic cooperation in terms of exchange of faculty members, research scholars and students.

The MoU, besides having joint educational programs at undergraduate, postgraduate, doctorate and post-doctorate levels will also pave the for the two universities in joint research activities and meetings concerning education and research.

According to a official communiqué, the two universities will also exchange educational materials, research, publications, scientific information, residency training programmes, fellowships, entrepreneurship and business and technology incubators under the MoU.

AMU Vice Chancellor, General Shah said that the MoU shall facilitate networking and support collaboration between the two parties’ educational programes, research centres, institutes and affiliated hospitals associated with each party.

He added that for each project of collaboration, both parties shall discuss and agree on the objectives, implementation and any financial arrangements related to the project.

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