CBSE to Conduct Teachers Training Programme on Geospatial Technology

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August 24, 2013

CBSE has introduced “Geospatial Technology” as single vocational elective in class XI and XII in collaboration with leading Geospatial Solutions Company Rolta India Limited on pilot basis in July 2010.

Now CBSE is planning to expand the reach of the course across the country from the session 2013-14. In this context Board has decided to organize the Teachers Training program. 29th-31st Aug, 2013 from 10:00 am – 5pm at MDVM (PARLE) school, Neemrana, Alwar, Rajasthan. Schools can nominate and register teachers to attend the workshop.

Demand for Geospatial Practices has skyrocketed over the past few years. Indian Geospatial Market is on the edge of remarkable growth. By linking geographic data with demographic information and business intelligence, organisations are finding new uses for Geospatial Practices. This needs huge trained Geospatial manpower requirements of Geospatial industries (both private and public).
This course offers an opportunity for the students to understand the basics of geospatial technology dealing with mapping and applications. Students obtain insight into geospatial database concepts, creating and implementing databases, GIS theory, supported by extensive practical exercises, spatial analysis (network and surface operations) and developing Geospatial Practices skills. The present curriculum would help a large number of youth to acquire skills for further studies and to enter the world of professional work for their decent livelihoods and for economic growth of the country.

“Geospatial Technology” is offered as single vocational elective in class XI and XII. The students can opt it as an elective with any other combination of subjects at senior secondary level or as an additional sixth subject as per the scheme of studies of the Board. The text books and practical manuals have been prepared and published by CBSE with the support received from the experts from Rolta and other organisations.

UGC to Re-conduct NET Exam

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August 24, 2013

UGC is going to conduct the UGC-NET again for Junior Research Fellowship and eligibility for Lectureship at Delhi on 8th September, 2013 (Sunday) only for those candidates of Delhi who could not appear in the UGC-NET held on 30th June, 2013. In addition, for the subject ‘German’ (subject code 44) NET will be conducted again for all the registered candidates at Delhi Centre only.

The list of roll numbers of all such candidates who have not appeared in UGC-NET held on 30th June 2013 at Delhi centre will be available on UGC website and the official website of Kirori mail College in from 1st September, 2013 onwards. The Roll Number and Admit Card of the candidate will remain the same. However, candidates, if they so desire, may also download the Admit Card again from UGC website. It may be noted that the issue of admit card to all such candidates will be purely provisional and will be subject to fulfillment of eligibility conditions as per UGC-NET Notification. Candidates may check their Venue of Test/seating arrangement from the official website of Kirori Mal College, Delhi for Delhi centre only and note it in their printout of online Admission Card before the Test.

IIMB offering three-day executive programme in luxury business

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August 23, 2013

Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore will organise a three-day executive education program in luxury business. The programme is titled ‘Strategic Management of Luxury Business: Managing Luxury Products and Services – from Concept to Consumer’ will commence on September 9, 2013. It includes three days of classroom workshops, exposure to various case studies and work-based assessment. IIM-B faculty and senior industry practitioners will deliver the course.

The course intends to examine the major future trends that will shape the evolution of the luxury business, especially with the revival of haute couture in India where the desire to make grand statements is high. From consumer buyer behavior of luxury to managing portfolio of luxury brands and from globalisation of luxury business to managing channels – direct, JVs, or franchise, the programme will cover various aspects of luxury business.

It aims to attract entrepreneurs and CEOs of new luxury businesses, GMs/ profit centre managers of international luxury businesses, designers looking to create luxury brands, managers of luxury franchise businesses, suppliers of products/ services to international luxury businesses, marketing managers of luxury brands, and advertising agency executives of luxury brands.

Wipro Kicks off ‘AppLife Contest 2013’ for Engineering Students

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August 23, 2013

Wipro Ltd has announced the official launch of the ‘Wipro App Life Contest 2013’, a 6-month long collaborative event for engineering and science graduates in India to develop their ‘dream app’. The Wipro AppLife Contest launched in 2012, is a unique crowdsourcing-cum-engagement initiative for students to showcase their creativity and expertise in developing mobile applications for consumers and enterprises. Online registrations opened on July 11, 2013 and will continue till December 20, 2013.

The ‘Wipro AppLife Contest’ is aimed at igniting the imagination of students and making them early starters in the mobile application development space. Young tech-enthusiasts will be given the opportunity to show off their app-vision, using futuristic technologies like iOS, Android, HTML 5 and other open source platforms; building, designing and testing bespoke apps geared at smartphones and tablets, while receiving constant guidance and support from Wipro mentors. The contest will be hosted on Wipro’s ‘Campus Arena’ portal, a social learning network aimed at fostering long-term engagements between campuses and the company.

“The Wipro AppLife contest germinated from the need to equip future engineers with the knowledge and right skill set in application development, and prepare them for the next wave of technology adoption”, said Rajeev Kumar, Global Head – Fresher Hiring, Wipro. “We had an overwhelming number of students participate in the first year and going by the entries received so far, we are confident of seeing an equally competitive number this year. We aim to make the AppLife contest a one-of-its kind initiative by providing students effective mentoring strategies, tools and framework to design the perfect mobile app.”

The year 2012 saw over 2000 students register for the contest. The 6–month long contest involved over 30 hours of training by mentors from Wipro’s mobility training academy and 45 collective hours of coding by the students. A total of 25 apps were conceptualized and developed at the end of the contest, and some of the apps created were considered for real-time application development among customers. In a shared first place, Saranath KJ from Velammel College of Engineering and Parathasarathy Nagarajan of AIHT were crowned as the Wipro AppLife Coders for 2012, for developing apps in the areas of Google maps and Memory booster. Mayank Diwakar from BSMIT and Prashant Jain from GLA University, whose apps were centered around gaming and ticket reservations came in a close second and third place.

The contest is open to all final and pre-final year students of Wipro accredited engineering colleges and all offered candidates across India.

GDA Announces All-India Android Mobile App Design Competition for School Students

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August 22, 2013

Global Discovery Academy (GDA), a chain of K-12 schools is organising all-India android mobile app design competition for school students in the age group of 10-13 years. Students from schools across India have been invited to participate in the competition wherein they will have to create a mobile phone application that will serve a social cause. The competition has been designed to challenge and help developing the thought process of the students by exploring and generating their own unique concepts. Participants will be competing in creating problem solving applications in one of the given areas of social concern like Environment, Education, Health and Nutrition, Poverty and Civic facilities.

The only criterion for participation is basic knowledge of computers and Internet applications. GDA will provide the requisite training on mobile phone programming. Students are required to form a team of 2 or 3 members each in order to register themselves as per the competition format. Registrations shall remain open till 01st September 2013, Sunday. There are no cost prerequisites to enroll.

The competition will take place in 3 stages:
Round 1: The participant will give a broad outline of the application with regards to the relevant social cause it has been designed for. The explanation shall address the apps functionality, its end user engagement, design etc. No programming will be done at this stage.

Round 2: The first prototype of the mobile app proposed in Round 1 will be submitted.

Round 3: Selected finalists will get the opportunity to present the app idea and prototype during finale a special event being planned in New Delhi, basis which the winners will be announced. An esteemed panel of judges will be judging the respective entries based on creativity, effectiveness of the app, and ease of use.

Speaking about the competition, Vipul Redey, Chief Product Officer, GDA said, “In the initial phase we have already received a very enthusiastic response from several schools across New Delhi, Punjab, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh and look forward to a similar response in the coming days. This competition has been designed keeping in mind GDA’s philosophy of encouraging students to realise their unique talent. At GDA, we believe in leveraging technology as a tool to take traditional teaching to new heights. These new methodologies and this technology will encourage children to ideate, explore and learn through practical experiences rather than rote-learning”.

He further added “Every student is like a fingerprint – Unique – and hence we at GDA study the dominant strengths of each student (Diagnosis), chalk out a development trajectory for them (Intervention), and continuously check in on their progress on that trajectory (Monitoring)”.

RUSA Proposes to put a cap on Number of affiliated Colleges to improve quality

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August 19, 2013

The Rashtriya Uchattar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) proposes to put a ceiling of maximum number of colleges to be affiliated to any university at two hundred. The proposal has been submitted following several State Universities having a large number of colleges affiliated to a single university. For example Osmania University has 901 colleges affiliated to it while 811 colleges are attached Pune to University. Rashtrusant Tukadoji Maharaj University Nagpur has 800 colleges with it and Rajasthan as well as Mumbai University have 735 and 711 colleges attached to them. The average number of affiliated colleges per university is 300. This phenomenon negatively affects the academic quality of the University. It is imperative that States create more universities so that affiliation does not result in large number of colleges being tied academically to one university.

The one lakh crore rupees scheme when implemented will lead to setting up and upgradation of new colleges and universities. The scheme may also facilitate increased number of students from secondary to higher education.

The Rashtriya Uchchatar Flagship Abhiyan is a new centrally sponsored flagship umbrella scheme aimed at providing strategic funding to State higher and technical institutions. States will develop comprehensive state higher education plans that utilise an interconnected strategy to address issues of expansion, equity and excellence together. Central funding will be linked to academic, administrative and financial reforms of state higher education.

Canadian varsities come calling Indian Undergraduates

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August 19, 2013

A group of nine Canadian universities will be on a two-week visit to India from August 19 to 31 to woo the Indian undergraduates.

The visiting universities include University of British Columbia, Carleton University, Concordia University, Guelph University, McGill University, Queens University, Ryerson University, University of Toronto and York University.

Apart from low living expenses and flexible visa requirements, Canada offers low tuition fees as compared to other foreign education hubs across the world.

The delegates from these varsities will meet Class XI and XII students of select schools across five cities including Mumbai, New Delhi, Dehradun, Hyderabad and Bangalore. They will hold information sessions on opportunities provided by Canada as a premier destination for higher education.

The delegation is being organised by the Canadian Higher Education Committee, under the aegis of the Council of International Schools.

According to the Canadian High Commission, the number of Indian students studying in Canada on 2012 was 28,929 compared to 12,112 in 2011.

(Source: IANS)

MHRD launches National Repository of Open Education Resources

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August 16, 2013

New Delhi: The HRD Minister Dr M M Pallam Raju recently launched the National Repository of Open Education Resources (NROER). Addressing the Conference on ICT for School Education in New Delhi, he said that the school education has in the recent times witnessed immense growth. Having promised our children the right to education, leveraging technology is important to expand school system.

The National Repository is a collaborative platform which proposes to bring together the best of digital resources for different subjects domains, across different stages of the school system and in different languages.

The Minister of State for HRD, Dr Shashi Tharoor said that Ministry of Human Resource Development is continuously working towards inclusiveness of Education. In order to make education inclusive, the use of ICT would be quite beneficial. Although technology may not replace the teacher yet it will make teaching more attractive.

The Secretary for Higher Education Mr Ashok Thakur said that ICT initiative is not only promoting school but teachers as well as students also. He said that at present we are connecting 400 Universities and 20,000 Colleges through ICT highways.

The Secretary for School Education and Literacy Mr Rajarshi Bhattacharya said that ICT which is developed by NCERT will improve teaching quality at school level.

Over 200 delegates from the Government, NGOs and the private sector participated in the two-day Conference organised by MHRD and NCERT. The National Conference brought together a variety of stakeholders- policy leaders, practitioners, researchers, implementation agencies and developers of content to examine the policy in the light of their insights and impressions, identifying gaps in the system and suggesting a roadmap for implementing the policy.

The Conference aimed to evolve a roadmap for using ICT into schools and help teachers and children make best use of the opportunities that ICTs provide. Based on National Curriculum Framework, the ICT Curriculum for teachers and students intends to provide a holistic introduction to ICT in education.

Mumbai University to launch virtual classroom

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August 16, 2013

Mumbai University will start an automated virtual classroom from the coming weekend. The inauguration event to be held on August 17 at the University’s Kalina campus will be live-streamed across affiliated colleges through the facility.

The system is supposed to be modelled on the virtual classroom at Harvard University. The room with 58 seats will also be connected to an auditorium with a capacity of over 300.

All the facilities on the internet will be made available under the NME-ICT (National Mission Education through Information and Communication Technology) of the ministry of human resources development, and the A-VIEW virtual learning tool designed by Amrita University.

The facility will lead to maximum utilisation of limited resources and solve the problem of shortage of qualified teachers. It will also make interactive learning possible. Furthermore, students and teachers of the University colleges in remote places will now be able to attend important conferences or meetings that will be conducted at the university and transmitted in their classrooms.

The University will initially use the classroom to live-stream special lectures by eminent resource persons, workshops and conferences, but it hopes to bring about a huge change in academic activities at the university and its affiliated colleges in the long run. The session videos will also be available on the University’s site for students who wish to view it later.

Nearly 420 out of 700 colleges affiliated to Mumbai University have already enrolled for the digital system, A-VIEW.

Cyber & Information Securities introduced as a subject at UG and PG levels

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August 16, 2013

The University Grant Commission (UGC) and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) have asked Universities and Technical Institutions to introduce Cyber Security and Information Security as a subject at the Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate levels. This was stated by Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Dr Shashi Tharoor in Lok Sabha recently.

He said that based on the recommendations of the Task Force on the National Security System constituted on the direction of the Cabinet Committee on Security, the UGC has requested the Vice Chancellors of all the Universities to ensure that Cyber Security/ Information Security is introduced as a subject in the universities and technical institutions at the under-graduate and post-graduate levels. AICTE has intimated that following the recommendations of the the Task Force, it has made provisions in the Approval Handbook that out of the two divisions allotted at the Post-Graduate and Post-Diploma levels, one shall be on Cyber Security or in Cyber Security related courses in the Computer/ IT branches of Engineering/Technology.

The Courses on this vital field have been started in 34 institutions at 15 States and one Union Territory.

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