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MHRD joins hands with LinkedIn to facilitate student placement

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Akash
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The Ministry of Human Resource Development has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with leading global professional networking website LinkedIn in an effort to open new employment avenues for Indian students.

The agreement allows all Indian colleges affiliated with All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to adopt LinkedIn’s ‘Placements’, a unique product that helps young professionals apply to jobs at top companies, a company statement said.

“We’re excited to work with the HRD ministry and AICTE to help students get greater access to the ‘Placements’ product. Our objective with ‘Placements’ is to help the country’s best talent get access to job opportunities, regardless of their location. We hope to bring students closer to their dream jobs through this platform,” said Akshay Kothari, Country Manager and Head of Product, LinkedIn India.

The ‘Placements’ project was initiated by LinkedIn in November 2015 to provide a level-playing field to students regardless of the location of their colleges. It allows students to take an online assessment test, which gives them access to vacancies in 35 top companies in India.

Within eight weeks of its launch, ‘Placements’ received 1.2 million job applications and more than 200,000 student registrations.

Jaipur gets new College Commissioner

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transferIn a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the Rajasthan government has transferred 62 IAS officers across the state, with major changes made in the education department in particular and Ashutosh A. T. Pendnekar made the new College Commissioner of Jaipur.

Anoop Khinchi, the Commissioner of College Education, has been moved to Rajasthan Finance Corporation as Managing Director. He has been replaced by Ashutosh A. T. Pendnekar as the new College Commissioner of Jaipur. Pendnekar was earlier Director, Department of Tourism, Jaipur.

Jagdish Chand Purohit, Director of Primary Education department at Bikaner has been made the Director of Monitoring, Programme Implementation Department.

IAS Shikhar Agarwal from Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) has been shifted to Water Resource department. He will handle the Jaipur light house project of JDA till further orders.

Vaibhav Galeria has been appointed the JDA commissioner in place of Agarwal. Nihalchand Goyal, known as Metro Man of Rajasthan, has been shifted to tourism department along with forest, environment and mining department. The government is hopeful that with Goyal’s expertise, many new changes will be introduced in the toursim department which will help it grow.

Sarvana Kumar, CEO of Jaipur Smart City Limited (JSCL), has been shunted as member secretary, Rajasthan State Commission for Protection of Child Rights. Sandesh Nayak will now head JSCL.

IFS (Indian Forest Service) officer Akansha Chodhary has been given the responsibility of Jaipur City Transport Services Limited. She was earlier heading the Jaipur zoo.

Many new changes in the Jaipur city transport is expected of Choudhary. The Vasundhra Raje government has also shunted collectors of 10 districts. Three IRS and one IFS officer have also been changed.

MHRD launches 32 educational channels

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Akash
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Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge), Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge) and Parliamentary Affairs Prakash Javadekar and Union Minister of State for Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge) and New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) Piyush Goyal at ''Sampark'' conclave in New Delhi on June 2, 2014. (Photo: IANS)

The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has launched 32 educational channels under the Swayam Prabha scheme to help students learn key concepts through videos, picture descriptions, diagrams, and lectures prepared by experts.

“The channels are being provided on Doordarshan and Dish and we are still trying to negotiate with other (DTH) providers. They are asking for Rs 5 crore per year for every channel which is not feasible,” a senior MHRD official said.

Of the 32 channels, three are devoted to IIT aspirants. The contents of these channels are prepared by IIT professors and other subject experts

Besides the educational channels, a toll-free helpline number has also been provided for the students to clear their doubts anytime.

The initiative aims to hone the skills of students pursuing higher education across the country. “Although more than three crore youths are pursuing higher education, the standard of education is not uniform, raising the issue of quality access to knowledge. Youth in the backward pockets of India need a fair deal in accessing high-quality knowledge to confidently enter the job market,” the official added.

The ministry also plans to spread awareness about the channels through social media.

Microsoft launches education gaming program

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Akash
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Software giant Microsoft has launched Minecraft — an education gaming software targeted at school children — to make learning more interesting.

Minecraft’s education edition, which is now ready to hit the market in both Windows 10 and macOS versions, includes classroom tools and a way to roll out accounts to every student in a class, a media report quoted the company as saying.

The new version of the software is different from the older one in a way that it will help teachers locate students with the help of a map embedded in the software. New tools in the software will also reduce work pressure of teachers.

Microsoft would charge $5 per user as yearly subscription for the innovative gaming software, which the IT giant has been developing since January last year after successfully purchasing the mod working.

The success of the software depends solely on how well educators engage with it. Teachers need to create instructive worlds and lesson plans for the education software to be beneficial for students.

Indian-origin researcher wins German green award

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Akash
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Shamik Chowdhury, a 29-year-old Indian-origin researcher, recently won the German Green Talent award for adopting innovative ideas to promote sustainable development, resource efficiency, cleaner production and eco-innovation.

Shamik, who is pursuing his PhD in environmental engineering from the National University of Singapore, was among 25 scholars who won the award for their innovative green ideas.

Chowdhury’s research was based on green synthesis of 2D graphene nanosheets and their self-assembly into advanced 3D macrostructures for sustainable urban development. The objective of his research was to make a city life more sustainable through green technologies that will be based on renewable feedstock.

The awards, which were held for eighth time, are given away by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Pearson in talks to sell Tutorvista?

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Akash
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Global education and publishing firm Pearson is apparently in talks to sell its online education company TutorVista, a media report quoted two sources aware of the development as saying.

A senior executive with another publishing firm said that an investment bank representing Pearson had approached him with an offer to sell a division of TutorVista, without specifying which unit was up for sale.

“(TutorVista’s) revenues are down significantly and it is being sold at a fraction of what it was sold to Pearson,” the executive said.

According to another source, similar offer was made to the founder of an education technology company.

Pearson India refused to comment on the report.

K Ganesh and Meena Ganesh started TutorVista in 2005. The company is one of the pioneers in the education space. TutorVista provides various online educational services like online tutoring, test preparation services, help with homework and supplemental tutoring. Besides this, it also provides expert assistance before tests and exams.

“The value of business was five different businesses added together,” said Ganesh. “Some of the businesses are relevant in terms of long term business and some of them are of less interest to them. The direct to consumer business in the US, which is a small portion of TutorVista, maybe on sale,” he added.

India moves up 21 places in WEF’s Gender Gap Report

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Akash
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DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 23JAN11 - The WEF logo is seen on a window at the congress center during preparations for the upcoming Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2011. Copyright by World Economic Forum swiss-image.ch/Photo by Jolanda Flubacher

Improving its position by 21 places, India has now been ranked 87th in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2016. The country was ranked 108th in the 2015 report.

The improvement in ranking is largely driven by major improvements in the education sector that has closed the gender gap entirely in primary and secondary education, according to the report.

This jump has helped India overtake China, which is ranked 99th out of 144 countries. Iceland tops the latest rankings followed by Finland, Norway and Sweden.

The report measures gender gap as progress towards parity between men and women in four areas – educational attainment, health and survival, economic opportunity and political empowerment.

A troubling finding of the report is that the prospects of global workplace gender parity slipped further, which means economic parity between the genders may take 170 years to close.

India has made considerable strides on education attainment by moving up from 125th rank in 2015 to 113th in 2016. India has also improved its position on economic participation and opportunity.

The most significant improvement by India is in the ranking on primary and secondary education. In 2015, India was ranked 119th on enrollment in primary education and 118th on secondary education. But in the 2016 report it moved up spectacularly to rank 1 on both sub-indices.

IIT Kharagpur to conduct research on oral healthcare

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Akash
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IIT Kharagpur has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) and Guru Nanak Institute of Dental Sciences and Research (GNIDSR) to conduct a joint research in oral healthcare.

“Millions of people, especially from the economically underprivileged sections of our society, today suffer from oral and dental diseases, particularly from oral pre-cancer and cancer,” a media report quoted Sardar Taranjit Singh, Managing Director, JIS Educational Group that runs GNIDSR.

“But no breakthrough has yet been achieved towards treatment and management of these malignant diseases resulting in the loss of millions of lives,” Singh added.

Giving an overview of the research, SK Bhattacharya, Deputy Director IIT-Kharagpur, said, “It was necessary to take cancer gnomonic and image analysis to the next level and in the future we are planning to conduct advanced research in stem cells.”

Ajoy Roy, Director, IIEST Shibpur, said, “Dental caries and periodontal diseases are the most common oral pathoses for tooth loss making an individual orally and facially crippled. Biomaterial, bio-sensors and tissue engineering research will be of immense help to manage dental caries and to fabricate cost effective artificial prosthesis and implants.”

Shivaji University conducts workshop on Digital India

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Akash
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The Shivaji University in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, recently conducted a one-day workshop with an aim to spread awareness about Digital India among the youth.

The workshop was a joint effort by the university, National Service Scheme and Central government’s e-administration Department and Electronic and Information Technology Department.

“The Central government is working hard on digitisation in schools and colleges. They are working out on it well so far,” said Akilur Rahman from the National e-administration Department.

“Technology has proved to be beneficial in health, defence, education, and environment departments. Technological progress in each department is quite visible. Across the world, there are countries that have adopted digitisation and it has worked out well for them. The Indian government is walking on the same line which proves to be beneficial for us,” he added.

“Youths can spread the word about Digital India and can educate others in this initiative too. Such workshops are quite useful for spreading awareness about technology that nobody can ignore these days,” said VN Shinde, acting registrar, Shivaji University.

IITs to have 5% more seats from next academic session

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Akash
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Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will increase their total number of seats by 5 per cent, raising the number of student intake from 10,572 in the current academic session to 11,100 the next year.

Joint Admission Board (JAB), the highest decision-making body of JEE Advanced, took the decision in a recent meeting attended by Chairpersons of all the 23 IITs spread across India.

Although the student community has welcomed the decision, many institutes may not be able to immediately increase their student intake with the current infrastructure.

The country’s premier engineering colleges had decided recently to admit 10 per cent more foreign students over and above the total student strength.

“We are in no position to admit extra students despite the government wanting each IIT to increase intake”, a media report quoted a senior IIT Kharagpur official as saying. “Even if we build accommodation, classrooms and other infrastructure from government funding, it takes many years to build world-class laboratories which offer state-of-the-art facilities”, the official added.

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