Number of Indian students to rise remarkably in varsities: Canadian Consulate General

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March 11, 2017

With nearly 50,000 Indian students studying in various universities of Canada, the number is expected to grow remarkably every year, said Jennifer Daubeny, Consul General for South India.

Daubeny was recently in the Mangaluru to participate in a meeting organised by Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI). She said, the number of students coming to study in Canada is expected to increase significantly from this year onwards. “Most of the young graduates land in Canada for PG and certificate courses. They prefer educational institutions across country. It is because the education there (Canada) is affordable and of high quality,” Jennifer told to a leading newspaper.

In order to support students in the admission process, many Canadian educational institutions have set up their offices in India. Only in Bengaluru, six universities have set up their offices to engage actively with the Indian students. “We are also witnessing a new trend that students are moving to Canada for under graduate courses,” she said.

Interestingly, not only Indian students are going to Canada but Canadian students are also coming to India for higher studies, she said, citing Manipal University, which has signed several MoUs with Canadian educational institutions.

When it comes to working visas, more and more IT professionals are moving to Canada with their families. “Indians are the second largest immigrants in Canada after China,” she added.

Delhi University’s course voted best in QS World Ranking

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March 10, 2017

Delhi University’s development studies programme has been ranked 16 in the latest QS World University Rankings.

The seventh edition of Quacquarelli Symonds’s (QS) analysis was released on March 8. In this edition of QS world ranking, world’s best universities are listed for the study of 46 different subjects based on the subject-specific university performance.

The University of Delhi has better its rank by two places in development studies which now provides India’s top four universities – one more than last year. Indian School of Mines (ISM) improving its category has moved to 24th for engineering – mineral and mining from 51-100 category. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur has made its debut in the engineering – mineral and mining ranking with 35th position.

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) ranked 49 for electrical engineering. From last year’s 22, the number of Indian institutions providing top-50 programmes has increased to 28, which is one of Indian higher education’s major highlights this year.

India also increases its overall share of places. Last year, its 22 universities were ranked 117 times, taking 1.27% of all available places whereas, this year, its 28 universities are ranked 151 times, representing 1.32% of overall places.

QS have also released their QS World University Rankings by Faculty after assessing university performance across five broad groups of subjects: arts and humanities, engineering and technology, life sciences and medicine, natural sciences, and social sciences and management.

In the faculty based rankings IIT Delhi is placed at the 71 in the engineering and technology faculty area followed by IIT Bombay at 78 in the same faculty area.

Architecture, planning colleges likely to come under urban development ministry

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March 10, 2017

Government is planning to bring all architecture engineering colleges including all Schools of Planning & Architecture (SPAs) under the Union urban development ministry. Currently all architecture institutes such as Mumbai’s JJ School of Architecture and Ahmedabad’s CEPT University are under the purview of the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).

“The panel felt the urban development ministry, which deals with urban affair issues is better equipped to cater to the needs of architecture education since bulk of planned building activity and main employment space of practising architects and planners is in urban areas,“ said a government source.

The council of secretaries headed by cabinet secretary PK Sinha last month recommended that these institutes should be brought under the Union urban development ministry. The step will ensure better synergy between what is taught in the institutes and how they are getting translated on the ground.

Any building activity in urban areas is regulated through various building bye-laws which are standardised by the urban development ministry.

The recommendations by committee are under reallocation of Architects Act, 1972 from MHRD to the urban development ministry. The Act provides for registration of architects, standards of education, recognition of qualifications and standards of practice to be complied with by practising architects.

“The proposal will now go to the cabinet for final approval,” a HRD ministry official said.

“The 52 member council is mandated to regulate not only architectural education but its practice throughout India, besides maintaining the register of architects,” an SPA official said.

Bengaluru colleges offering skill courses that job market demands

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March 10, 2017

In order to fulfill the shortage of skilled graduates in the job market, Bengaluru’s colleges are going to offer new skill oriented disciplines. In a first, Jain University (JU) will offer B.Tech courses specialization in Data Science and Internet of Things (IoT). The two areas are disrupting the way businesses, governments and consumers interact with the world.

“By 2019, it is estimated that there will be 1.5 million jobs in data science and IoT. Only a few institutes offer such a course, because of which there’s a huge skill gap,” said SA Hariprasad, director, JU school of engineering and technology.

A survey conducted by a Bengaluru based university revealed that colleges in the city are turning to new discipline arose due to skill gap that exists among the students of all disciplines including engineering, science and commerce graduates. Understanding the need, institutions like National Law School of India University and Mount Carmel College started master’s programme in public policy and master’s in nanoscience and technology to bridge the skill gap.

PES University was another first to launch an MSc in applied economics, which will treat economics as science. Centre for Developmental Studies at the university, steered by economist RS Deshpande, is setting up a laboratory same as the science laboratories where students will apply concepts and observe the results. “For example, students will create an imaginary country, prepare a budget and debate it. It’s different from the MSc economics offered at the Madras School of Economics and Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research,“ said Deshpande, a former director of the Institute for Social and Economic Change.

Other than science and engineering disciplines, arts discipline has also seen adoption of new course as Christ University started a graduate course (BA) in western classical music along with psychology and English studies. The course is claimed only such course in the country.

IIT Kharagpur introduces “Study Away Programme”

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March 10, 2017

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kharagpur has introduced “Study Away Programme (SAP)” to enable its students to study in topmost universities and technological institutes of the world for a session. Students can avail the opportunity during their graduation/post graduation time in the institute.

According to a leading news agency, “Semester Away Programme” of IIT Kharagpur is entirely different from student exchange programmes offered by various higher educational institutes in the country, including the.

P.K. Das, Dean, Post-Graduate Programme, said, “The university, a student choose to go to for his ‘Semester Away Programme’ does not necessarily have to be the ones with whom IIT Kharagpur has Memorandum of Understanding with. Once the students choose an institute, the students will be able to go and study there, said Mr. Das. The time period of this SAP programme can be one semester or a maximum of two semesters”.

“Here a student will be able to choose an institution in India or abroad and the courses offered by them. They would choose the courses, take the approval of the faculty and apply. The university does not necessarily have to be the ones we have MoUs with,” added Das.

Only the students having no academic backlog or pending disciplinary cases will be allowed to go in this programme. IIT Kharagpur has also fixed the application criteria for SAP, according to which third year B.Tech and second year M.Tech students with Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 7 or above will only be able to apply for SAP.

Educational innovations across the globe

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March 9, 2017

Committed to drive innovations and leadership in the education space, the WES-Bahrain 2017 special issue of Digital Learning magazine acknowledges and recognises outstanding achievers from world over. Following an independent and elaborate procedure, a team of experts evaluated and identified top entrepreneurs in education sector, innovators in the areas of teaching pedgogy, superior administrative and management practices, vocational education & training and assistive technologies in education, among others.

Edupreneur Award
Amit is a suave young entrepreneur and is determinedly committed to a journey which weaves ecological sensitivity in every aspect of its business and organisation.
His first initiative was setting up of a not for- profit organisation namely “Sidhartha Educational and Welfare Society” (SEWS). SEWS

was primarily focused on elementary education and did everything to reach out to the lives of those who were deprived of any education system in the country.

Project Sharda, his another initiative acknowledges growing international commitment and consensus on women empowerment to make the communities and societies better.

Edupreneur Award
Arjumand Zaidi is a veteran social worker, a geographer, an environmentalist and an eminent educationist with a vision to empower the ecnomically weaker people of our society in terms of education, health, hygiene and make them well aware about important social issues like conservation of environment and forests, Human Rights Education Etc. She is the founding director of St Xavier’s Convent School, Gomtinagar and an NGO – Holy Vision International to serve the society.

Edupreneur Award
Joseph K Thomas ventured into establishing a K-12 school with the objective of providing high-quality education to students and grooming them to become responsible citizens at Mount Litera Zee School at Mysore. His vision behind establishing the school was; nurturing global citizenship in young people, enriching teaching and learning, foster team building, innovation and critical thinking.

Edupreneur Award
A double gold medalist of Delhi University, Dr Bakhshi has to his credit to eleven books as author/co-author and many as editor.
He has been recipient of several awards and academic honours along with “Capital Foundation National Award” for distinctive and outstanding contribution to education by former President of India Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. He has also chaired many government and public educational authorities in India.

Introducing Innovations in Teaching Pedagogy
AGU has developed platforms using latest leading softwares combining them all to call it an E-Learning Campus. E-Learning Campus involves multiple projects to ensure better learning outcomes. Some of them are:
UNIO: A cutting Edge Award winning classroom technology that makes the entire teaching learning process PAPERLESS.
DXR: It is a web-based patient’s simulation software that acts as a virtual hospital environment ecosystem.

Edupreneur Award
Dr Vimal Rarh is one of the pioneers in implementing e-learning at higher education for University of Delhi and national level. She has already been conferred with many awrds like the Special Award for the category “Digital Content in Education” at International conference cum exhibition “ World Didac 2014, award for outsatnding contribution in the field of e-learning at the “Global Education Summit” held on 21-22 october 2016. Recently she was conferred with “Delhi Ratan” state level award for her contributions in the field of education.

Best Hospitality & Hotel Management Institute in India Indian institute of Hotel Management provides varied, exciting, interesting and different career options to prospective and promising enthusiasts. Continuous and constant growth, steady diversification in the industry, presents ample opportunities for higher growth and development. The students enjoy the atmosphere of learning with the state of the art infrastructure coupled with faculties rich in knowledge and foreign visit.

Introducing Innovations in Teaching Pedagogy
Manipal University tries to leverage technology in a big way. The students and faculty are encouraged to take on-line courses like MOOCs to enhance their domain knowledge.
Education at the university is fully geared up in terms of its preparedness to impart the right type of skills and knowledge. The University has set up an Entrepreneurship Cell wherein many students and faculty learn about innovation, incubation, technology transfer, patenting and IPR.

Innovative Interventions in Pre-School Teaching & Learning
Brain Gym’s Positive Active Clear Energetic (PACE) exercises to ‘Activate the Learning’. PACE is a learning readiness sequence of exercises that prepare a child to receive learning and help their differing capabilities to better integrate with the classroom dynamics.
Parent counselling (Targeted interventions) ‘Excelerate’ Reading Programme, a systematic pre-school reading programme developed in-house comprising a set of 3 booklets act as first readers.

Impelling Innovation in Science, English and Maths Education
Nehru World School uses experiential learning pedagogy in order to achieve this vision. Through Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education children get opportunities to engage authentically with learning.
Project work helps children collaborate and work on simulations of real life problems and situations. That creates interest and relevance.
Children engage in peer learning, discussion and collaboration.

Editor’s Choice for Academic Excellence
The school advocates continuous and comprehensive evaluation with an emphasis on holistic development of learners.
CIPS commits itself to providing a stress-free learning environment that will develop competent, confident and enterprising citizens who will promote harmony and peace.
CIPS defines appropriate approaches of academic activities to accustom students about the activities of international arena.

Global Collaborative Learning Environment
Activities right from the kindergarten section are designed to develop the skills of communication, critical thinking, confidence and collaboration. Students are encouraged to participate and excel in external exams of international standards like the International Olympiads, Microsoft exam etc. Latest technology is used to bring the world into the classroom and virtual field trips, Skype sessions and online competitions and connecting classroom project by the British Council are woven into the student’s schedule. The classroom teaching – learning process is ably supported by providing outdoor visits and educational tours and camps which broaden the students’ perspective of the world outside.

Innovative Interventions in Pre- School Teaching & Learning
At GIIS, the Global Montessori Plus programme (GMP) opens up the possibilities for each individual child to learn and develop at the pace which is right for each individual child. that make a significant beneficial difference in the learning process are: Multi-faceted learning through Multiple Intelligences; ‘i-Care’ Programme focused approach to create environmental consciousness; Excelerate’ Programme – An accelerated programme for literacy; Play and learn to encourage creativity; Value-based learning inculcating universal values and ethics.

Introducing Innovations in Teaching Pedagogy
The key facets of evolution of learning eco system at Golden Bells can be definitely classified at Multiple Intelligence (MI) based curriculum and the teaching pedagogy adopted through experiential learning. Students are taught in the most adaptive and unorganized way through the implementation of the MI profiling.

Introducing Innovations in Teaching Pedagogy
At DALIMSS, digitalized education through smart books creates the ambience to impart the skills. To motivate the passive learners, a learning chain is followed that involves the hierarchy of fellow students, subject teachers, principal and the management. Interest and participation has increased manifold. That becomes quite apparent in various competition and activities.

Introducing Innovations in Teaching Pedagogy
Edify school tries to develop a positive learning environment to inculcate discipline and leadership qualities among children. The school has an excellent infrastructure and equipped with Audio- Visual — Science and computer Lab, smart classrooms in all sections and temperature controlled classrooms. The school also provides specialized career counseling to its students and through “Students Exchange Programme”, the students get International exposure as well.

Innovation in Vocational Education and Technology World’s First “Speak and Learn” feature for learners to “Talk” to the app and practice English and other skills that have moved the classroom into the hands of the potential learners. “SkillFone” is completely multilingual with world language translation and voice support (Including Arabic)
Supports more than 100 skill courses Recently incorporated augmented reality and virtual reality innovations.

Innovative School Administrative and Management Systems
Learning Wings Education System (LWES) schools were the first to create human-friendly technological school support programs. First schools to work on Linux and use open offices. Schools are managed by set standard policies, the administration is shared and is layered between various areas of work. School decisions are taken by committees having representation from all, teachers, parents and administration. Heads of the schools supported by the staff with an aim of making learning joyous and fruitful.

Use of Assistive Technologies in Education
Copyrobo is the first full-service, consumer-oriented copyright service company applicable to clients throughout the world. Works on both Android and iOS platforms, as well as the web, as the first mobile timestamp application
Integrates with many popular services for ease of use, including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
Introduces the Ownership Signature, a customizable ownership signature that is protected by the timestamp together with the original file.

CBSE’s “Exam Locator” app to help students in locating board exam centres

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March 8, 2017

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With the board exams just around the corner, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has come up with a mobile application to help students in locating their examination centre.

The app, named “Exam Locator”, facilitates students to find exam centres on the basis of their roll numbers.

CBSE board examinations for class 10^th and 12^th will begin from March 9 and the app will avoid the last minute rush of students to locate their exam centres. The app will have information on about 4000 CBSE Board exam centers.

“A student can easily find the address, images and geolocation of the designated exam centre on the map and get to know how to reach there,” a senior official of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) said.

How to use app?

After downloading and installing the app, students can register through their mobile number. After registration, students will receive a One Time Password (OTP) for confirmation.
The OTP will be used for the login
After login, students will be required to enter their class 10 or class 12 roll numbers to access the information
The app will display the student’s information and the address and image of the exam centre on the screen.
Students can use the mobile application’s map feature to find the route from their current location

Education gains in Delhi revealed the economic survey

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March 8, 2017

Over the last year, the education expenditure in Delhi has increased, revealed Economic Survey of Delhi, 2016-17. The state is at the top position in terms of expenditure on education during 2015-16.

The total expenditure (plan and non-plan) on education by state government was more than double from Rs 4,799 crore in 2011-12 to Rs 10,690 crore in 2016-17. The expenditure includes sports, art and culture.

Education sector was the “Top Priority” sector as it got 23% of share allocation in the state budget of 2016-17. The survey also revealed that the education expenditure to the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) of Delhi was the highest at 1.72% in 2015-16.

According to the survey, literacy rate of Delhi is around 86%, which is higher than national level of 74% as per the 2011 Census. The male literacy rate in the state was 90.9% and female literacy rate was 80.8%.

The number of schools also increased from 5,073 in 2010-11 to 5,796 in 2015-16. There are 1,222 government and government-aided schools in Delhi, which is 21% of total schools in the city and these schools account for 37.86% of total student enrolment in the state.

India to extend its research programmes to foreign students

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March 8, 2017

India soon will extend its PhD Scholarship programmes on Digital Technologies in Indian Universities to 100 students from foreign countries. These Indian universities will include Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc). The National Knowledge Network (NKN) of the country will connect itself with East Asia, South Asia, Middle East Asia and other regions of the world.

Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology has made these announcements at the inauguration of 10^th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV)-2017. ICEGOV-2017, a three day conference is collaboration between the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, the United Nations University, and UNESCO.

NKN will also be connected with the Portuguese Knowledge Network, FCCN. NKN is the network that connects around 1600 Indian universities and research centres on Gigabit network. The Indin knowledge network is already connected to TIEN 4 and GEANT of Europe and Internet2 of US. Such connections help the Indian researchers to work closely with their counterparts in other regions.

Prasad also launched Open Forge – Government of India’s platform for open collaborative software development of e Governance applications based on open data and open standards. At the conference, he also unveiled the Digital India Global Roadmap, an action plan connecting the focus areas of Digital India with sustainable development goals of UNDP.

Fostering Quality education to drive excellence

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March 8, 2017

Even as Bahrain marches ahead in time, the resolve to drive its growth hinges fi rmly on enhancing quality of education to achieve the best human values. As the education scenario in the Arab Kingdom is changing fast, the growth trajectory is marked by a swathe of revolutionary measures, says Rashi Aditi Ghosh of Elets News Network (ENN).

Bahrain’s economic development strategies are built around six sectors of which education and training is one. The educational system in the Kingdom of Bahrain follows nine years of basic education, which includes both the primary and intermediate stages, and three years of secondary education that is divided into various tracks.

The Kingdom has made the nine-year-long basic education compulsory for children between ages 6 and 14 years. All children must be enrolled either in the government schools or the private ones.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) attaches great importance to the development of all educational stages in sync with a carefully studied plan and programmed projects.

The following is a brief description of the various stages of education in Bahrain:

BASIC EDUCATION – Basic education is divided into two stages as follows:

Primary Stage: This stage represents the first formal school ladder in Bahrain and accommodates students of age group 6 – 11. It lasts for six years and is divided into two cycles. The first one includes the first three grades of primary education during which the class-teacher system is applied, whereby a single teacher teaches most of the subjects, except English language, design and technology, music education, and physical education.

The second cycle includes the upper three grades, which too follows the subject-teacher system, whereby each subject is taught by a teacher who has specialised in a specific discipline and obtained educational academic qualifications.

Intermediate Stage: The intermediate stage is considered to be the third cycle and the last one in basic education, which accommodates students of age group 12-14, and lasts for three years. A successful completion of the sixth grade of primary cycle or its equivalent from the literacy education system is a prerequisite to join this stage. The subject-teacher is applied in this stage, whereby each subject is taught by a teacher who has specialised in a specific discipline and obtained educational academic qualifications.

Secondary Stage: This stage is considered to be complementary to basic education and a new phase for the student for preparing him or her to enter universities and higher institutions or directly enter the labour market. It accommodates students of age group 15-17; the duration of study is three years, which is divided into six semesters (three levels).

PRIVATE EDUCATION IN BAHRAIN
The Directorate of Private education with the coordination of the other directorates at the MoE are assisting all the private educational institutes with technical support and assistance such as finding teachers to be appointed; providing free Arabic language, Islamic education, Bahrain history and geography textbooks; and assigning specialists to supervise the teachers of those subject-matters.

Types of private educational institutes in Bahrain: Nurseries: These institutions are under the supervision and control of the Ministry of Social Development. They are run by the women societies and charitable organisations, and individual institutions.

Kindergarten: There are a variety of kindergartens in Bahrain. They are run by the women societies, charitable organisations, individual institutions and others are attached to private schools as an educational level within their systems.

Private Schools: Private schools in Bahrain are of two types:
♦ National Private Schools: These institutions are established and run by Bahraini citizens. These schools have various educational levels, starting from kindergarten, primary, intermediate and secondary. They offer bilingual programs, i.e., subjects are taught in Arabic and English.
♦ Foreign Private Schools: These schools have various educational levels, starting from kindergarten, primary, intermediate and secondary. Arabic language is taught in all foreign schools that accept Arab students in addition to Islamic education for all Muslim students.
♦ Foreign Community Schools: They are established and financed by foreign communities in the State of Bahrain for the purpose of educating their children only.
♦ Educational Institutes and Centres: These institutions are different because of the variation of the programmes they offer. Some of them follow the commercial establishments and others follow individual Bahraini citizens. They offer training programs in foreign languages, computer, electronic typing, and various skills in communication, management and commerce etc.
Each private educational institute has its own customised curricula, study plans, courses and textbooks. These curriculas are submitted to the Ministry of Education (MoE) for approval.

THE FUTURE STRUCTURE OF EDUCATION IN BAHRAIN
Bahrain is moving towards implementing the new education system or the future structure of education, which is more flexible as the student can obtain one of the provided tracks at the secondary level, namely, Unified Track or Vocational Track. The students who will select the Unified Track would obtain one of the following divisions: Science, Literary and Commercial.

The students who will select the Vocational Education Track either to obtain Technical stream – divided into applied or technical vocational – or to obtain the apprenticeship programme. The new structure will give all graduates the opportunity to continue their further study or to join the labour market, specially the technical school graduate as they face difficulty if they want to obtain higher certificate.

Bahrain has one of the most developed education systems in the Gulf, and has recently made strong advances in the use of information technology in schools. King Hamad bin Khalifa Al Khalifa has introduced a new project called King Hamad Schools of Future. This project aims to connect all schools within the kingdom with the internet and introduce the idea of education everywhere.

The Bahrain education system is going under huge reform initiatives seeking to develop the education system at all levels. The focus areas of these initiatives include:

♦ Strengthening the teaching profession through improved recruitment, training and employment conditions.

♦ Improving secondary vocational education aiming to bring these programmes closer to the needs of the private sector.

♦ Establishment of the Bahrain Polytechnic which will offer industry oriented courses in alignment with the applied sciences, enabling students to obtain professional qualifications to degree level with an emphasis on the development of practical skills directly applicable to the job market.

♦ Creating an Independent Quality Assurance Authority which will be responsible for conducting inspections of schools, secondary vocational institutions and universities, higher education units, and for running school level examinations.

The MoE has also recently launched the school improvement programme which has been designed to lift the performance of all Bahrainis schools and to improve future career outcomes for students through a number of projects that would affect the whole process of the learning and teaching.

These initiatives constitute the first part of what will be a long journey of reforms. They were selected as they were aligned with the national strategic plan in order to improve the quality of learning in Bahrain’s education and forming the foundations for future reforms.

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