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Microsoft to Run IT Based training institutes in Jharkhand

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IT giant Microsoft has shown its interest in running IT based training institutes in Jharkhand. These institutes will provide training to students of the state in various technologies developed by Microsoft and in other essential IT softwares.

Further, the company would also be providing technological help in the area of pulses cultivation. It will help in better crop production of pulses and in better use of resources.

The decision for training institutes and for other technological help was taken in a meeting between Chief Minister Raghubar Das and Microsoft official Sanjay Gupta held on September 13 in Ranchi. Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Mr Das asked the company to present a detailed report in this regard.

During the meeting, Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma, Development Commissioner Amit Khare, CM’s Principal Secretary Sanjay Kumar, Education Secretary Aradhana Patnaik, CM’s secretary Sunil Kumar Burnwal and several other officials were also present along with Chief Minister Raghubar Das and Microsoft official .

Studenting Era: One stop service to help students in making better career choices

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raja_dasguptaDigital Learning introduces the first of its kind, a student online services portal, “Studenting Era” (studentingera.com) that will help the students in making better career choices. In an exclusive interaction with Raja Dasgupta, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Studenting Era Pvt. Ltd told Elets News Network (ENN) that the genesis of creating “Studenting Era” was to provide students with a one stop service portal.

Inspiration & Aspiration
We started envisaging a dream to parent the students towards success. This led to a thought where we decided to build a gateway for students so that they have access to diverged opportunities and possibilities. Hence we started dreaming to meet every need of a student from education to career planning, from entrepreneurship orientation to employability, from healthcare to daily utilities, from aspirational hobbies to entertainment. This gave the antecedence to “Studenting Era”.   

While we will continue to strengthen these service verticals, our market research & development team are constantly exploring emerging trends and service areas, so that we can offer today’s trend-oriented students with the emerging opportunities & services much before they become fashionable.   

We are very confident to create this ecosystem where studenting becomes a part of our process and help us to adapt to a pedagogy where learning, reading, researching, exploring and digitizing harmonizes to our daily life.

The mission of “Studenting Era” is to create an environment, which will enable students to get access to information, services and opportunities that will enable them to enhance their career goals and objectives. The website is developed in a way to regularly evolve with the most diverged services which are relevant and aspirational for students, thus parenting them to success.

To avail various career related services such as Career Counselling and Profiling, Global Collaborative Learning, Entrepreneurship Development and Mentorship etc, students need to register @ www.studentingera.com, which will help them with a host of opportunities and possibilities through an annual membership.

A) After registration, students will instantly get gratified with Seventeen free certified trainings, One retail voucher and One medical consultation.

  • Online Global Certificate course on Confidence Series, Meeting Etiquette, Interview Skills, Stress Management, Corporate Etiquette, Non Verbal Communication, Art of Speaking
  • Online course on CAT, SBI PO, Employability Quotient Test
  • Online Certificate course on Ethical Hacking, Programming on C+, Phython, Big Data
  • Refresher Program on Quantitative Aptitude, C Programming, SQL Programming
  • One free Online Doctor Consultation
  • Value Retail Voucher from Togofogo.com

B) Registered students will also be entitled for an annual membership to Studenting Era and be able to avail of the following services:

Career Counselling and Profiling Services – Under these services, students will be able to search mentors, who could understand their strengths, analyze the market trends and create a roadmap to enhance his/her career in this age of diverged opportunities. Studenting Era creates this platform to extend the opportunities for career guidance and profile creation through some progressive organizations and consultants, thus ensuring students’ success.

Global Collaborative Learning – Collaboration is the way to go forward and is the only way to grow. Every student has been exercising this aspect in their learning, while preparing for examinations, working on the laboratory or doing projects. “Studenting Era” has already adopted this successful methodology by bringing in Learning opportunities on IT, Soft Skills and domain skills through the leading Universities and Institutions across the globe. Another very important feature of this vertical is ‘Sharing’, seniors of same course and pass-out or toppers will be encouraged to share their class notes with the entire student fraternity and help them gain in their journey of studentship, thus remaining a “hero” as always.

Entrepreneurship Development Program – As we move forward towards a progressive economy, there is a need for vigorous innovation and out-of-the-box thinking. The world requires transformational business along with influx of first generation entrepreneurs. Under this program of the website, students will be encouraged to aspire to be leaders of businesses. This program will take the students through a three phases of learning cycle. The students will be exposed to state-of-the-art online training, followed by online mentorship through eminent thought leaders and finally get introduced to the incubation process.

Project and Employability Program – This is a very crucial part of studentship. Under this program, the website aims to provide a new age online project evaluation guidance. Under this, a platform will also be created for students enterprises to collaborate for employment and internship.

Student Lifestyle Value Additions – Studenting is a part of everyone’s life and Studenting Era will try to provide all kinds of support and services which are essential for students. This section is initiated with the services such as online doctor support, telemedicine and student loans.

Digital Student Portals: Unique feature for you to consider it.
Access Anywhere Anytime
Online Human – to – Human Collaboration
Digital Archives of Academic Material and Student Data
Online Communities of counsellors, educators, learners and students

Digital Student Portals and Digital Learning is different – better – and is far more beneficial than what we as students are used to.

Happy Studenting!

Tata Metaliks’ skill development centre in West Bengal

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To set up a skill development centre in West Bengal’s Paschim Midnapore district, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between Tata Metaliks Ltd (TML), a foundry grade pig iron and ductile iron pipes manufacturer, and the Paschim Banga Society for Skill Development (PBSSD).

The MoU was signed in presence of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and state’s Industry and Finance Minister Amit Mitra.

The skill development centre will train 1,000-1,200 youth annually through a reputed National Skill Development Corporation-approved training partner in vocational courses, an official communiqué said.

The initial focus will be on plumbing, electrician, carpentry, beauty & wellness, hospitality and security courses, it added.

Assam Govt schools to be tobacco-free zones

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The state government secondary schools in Assam are all set to be declared tobacco-free zones.

There are 4,316 government secondary schools in Assam. Of these all secondary schools in the districts of Lakhimpur, Baksa, Tinsukia, Udalguri, Sonitpur, Golaghat, Goalpara and Bongaigaon have been reported to be Tobacco-free Educational Institutions (TFEI), as per the submissions made by school inspectors to the secondary education department.

Secretary for Secondary Education R C Jain said educational institutes must be tobacco-free to ensure an atmosphere for imparting quality education and as such this has been accorded priority to this endeavour.

Jain said sustained efforts are leading to positive results.

Jain had launched the mission by issuing instructions on April 26 to all school inspectors and these included a set of questions for the school principals.

The principals have now started sending declarations that their institutes are tobacco-free, which are now being forwarded to the RMSA office.

The objective is to make schools tobacco-free in the state is being pursued by Healis Seksaria Institute for Public Health, education department and Dr B Barooah Cancer Institute, in association with Tata Trusts.

As many as 78 secondary schools in Bongaigaon, 189 in Baksa, 79 in Udalguri, 197 in Sonitpur and 120 in Goalpara have also been declared tobacco-free zones.

Jain said other districts are also working to achieve this goal.

Google’s Rajan Anandan invests in education startup

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US -based education start-up Stoodnt has raised an undisclosed amount of investment from Rajan Anandan, the vice-president, Google, South-East Asia and India.

Stating that the college admission market is highly fragmented, low-tech and fraught with fraud, biased advice and quality issues in international markets, co-founder Ajay Singh said, “The focus of our platform is to provide insights, online help and college admission expert guidance by leveraging data, technology and people.”

“We provide solutions that make life easier for students and parents during the college admission process, and helps them make the best decision and get the best outcome.

“We are delighted to have someone like Rajan be associated with this opportunity to make a difference in the future of millions of aspiring students,” Singh added.

Anandan primarily invests in early-stage technology companies in sectors like the internet, mobile and software. The funds will be used to enhance the user experience, for product development and to expand the user and brand base.

Helping millions of students to fulfil their aspiration of studying abroad, Stoodnt, the global online platform, helps in ensuring the admission process convenient, productive, and objective. It has a rigorous process for onboarding and training college admission counsellors, and tools built in to monitor service quality.

Launched in 2016 by Ajay Singh and Yuri Punj, the Harvard Business School alumni, and Sena Palanisami, a software entrepreneur, Stoodnt recently commenced its operations in India, which is its first international market.

The company recently appointed Ramdas Sunder, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, with over 20-year experience in engineering, consulting and management roles with companies such as Pitney Bowes, Freescale Semiconductor and McKinsey Consulting, as its Managing Director of India and South Asia.

DishTV to beam 32 HRD Ministry edu channels

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DishTV would beam 32 new educational channels that have been launched by the Human Resource Development Ministry.

In a statement, the Direct-to-Home operator said the Essel group firm has made all educational channels by the Ministry of Human Resource Development available to all DishTV subscribers.

The latest addition of the channels has pushed the total count of channels on its platform to more than 585.

“We support the government’s initiative of driving education through TV sets, and are delighted that these educational channels from The Ministry of Human Resource Development are available to all DishTV subscribers,” said DishTV Chief Executive Officer Arun Kumar Kapoor.

It may be noted that these channels will offer high quality educational content to all subscribers designed by central universities such as Jamia Millia Islamia, Punjabi University, IGNOU, Kashmir University and other leading educational institutions.

Besides, the service will also offer telecast of live classroom lectures from top-notch institutions including IITs.

Cabinet okays setting up Higher Education Financing Agency

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In a move to give a major push for creation of high quality infrastructure in premier educational institutions, the Union Cabinet has approved the establishment of a Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA).

“The HEFA would be jointly promoted by the identified promoter and the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) with an authorised capital of Rs 2,000 crore,” an official statement said.

“The Government equity would be Rs 1,000 crore,” the statement added following the meeting of the union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The HEFA would be formed as a SPV within a PSU Bank or Government-owned-NBFC (Promoter).

“It would leverage the equity to raise up to Rs 20,000 crore for funding projects for infrastructure and development of world class Labs in IITs/IIMs/NITs and such other institutions,” the statement added.

The HEFA would also mobilise CSR funds from PSUs or corporates, which would in turn be released for promoting research and innovation in these institutions on grant basis.

All the centrally funded higher educational institutions would be eligible for joining as members of the HEFA.

For joining as members, the institution should agree to escrow a specific amount from their internal accruals to HEFA for a period of 10 years.

Don’t disturb students admitted by quota ordinance: SC to Gujarat

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The apex court has directed the Gujarat government not to disturb the admissions already granted in educational institutions under the ordinance providing a quota for the economically backward among the unreserved category including the agitating Patel community, which has been quashed by the high court.

Making it more clear, the he Supreme Court told the state government that since Gujarat High Court has quashed the notification pertaining to the implementation of the ordinance, no further action can be taken for implementing the quota policy aimed at providing 10% seats in educational institutions and services to economically weaker sections from the general category, during the pendency of the matter before it.

A bench, comprising Chief Justice TS Thakur, Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud, admitted the appeal filed by the Gujarat government against the August 4 order of the high court quashing the May 1 ordinance providing 10% quota, terming it as “inappropriate and unconstitutional”.

The bench, which sought the response of the parties which had contested the ordinance, said the matter would be first listed before a three-judge bench, and if required, that bench can refer it to a larger bench of five-judges.

“Pending further order, we direct that the admissions made prior to the judgement of the high court will not be disturbed during the pendency of the matter here.

“Since the high court has quashed the notification, we make it clear that no further action would be taken towards implementation of the said notification,” the bench said after a brief hearing last week.

Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Gujarat government, submitted that the ordinance was effectively challenged with regard to medical colleges and the state has decided not to give effect to the implementation of the ordinance for admissions in medical colleges.

The Attorney General said the 10% quota policy would have been beneficial in engineering colleges as even now 5,000 seats are vacant.

The apex court had on September 2 agreed to advance the date of hearing on Gujarat’s plea challenging quashing of its ordinance on the ground that counselling for MBBS admission would end soon.

Non-academic work given to teachers is unconstitutional: SC

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The Supreme Court in a significant order has said the 32 teachers, working as private secretaries to lawmakers in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, should be relieved of their current responsibilities.

The order came as the apex court rejected a plea by the teachers to allow them to continue to be in their present position till the end of the current academic year, as their transfers would adversely affect their children’s education and the employment of their spouses.

In a directive, Justice Dipak Misra and Justice C. Nagappan asked two state governments to issue their posting orders within a week and thereafter gave the 32 teachers three-week time to join their new postings in schools.

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