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AICTE decided a common admission test for management courses
NEW DELHI, December 5, 2011: With a view to reduce the physical, mental and
financial stress on students by writing multiple entrance examination for management
courses, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) had decided to hold a national level
Common Management Admissions Test (CMAT) 2012 for all management programmes from 2012-13.
The Common Management Admission Test (CMAT)-2012 for all courses
approved by the AICTE will be conducted online in 61 cities from February 20 to 28, 2012 and scores awarded will be used for admission in
management programs both at degree and diploma level, all over India for
year 2012-13. The respective secretaries of the States dealing with technical
education and Vice Chancellors of the universities have been requested
to advise the competent authority for admissions in their respective
States and jurisdiction to use the merit list of CMAT-2012 for allotment
of students in the AICTE approved management institutions for academic
year 2012-13. The institutions and State governments are required to
register online free of charge for opting to CMAT-2012 scores for admissions for academic year 2012-13. The minority institutions shall
effect admissions as per the provision available for such categories.
The admission test will be based on Quantitative Techniques & Data
Interpretation, logical reasoning, language comprehension and general
awareness-each paper comprising 25 questions and 100 marks and negative marking for wrong answers.
Taiwan pledges 10,000 Mandarin teachers for India
Taiwan, November 24, 2011: Taiwan will send 10,000 Mandarin teachers to India over the next five
years to help meet the enormous demand for learning Chinese there, Deputy Education Minister Lin Tsong-ming said November 23, 2011.
Lin made the remarks after returning from India, where he attended the
Higher Education Summit 2011, held Nov. 11 in Delhi. It was the first
time that Taiwan has been invited to attend the annual education fair.
During his visit, Lin said, he met with Gautam H. Bambawale, joint secretary of the East Asia Division under the Indian Ministry of
External Affairs, to discuss plans on teaching Mandarin in Indian high
schools and the possibility of educational exchanges between Taiwan and India.
“High schools in India, which are beginning to teach Mandarin as a
second foreign language, are in need of 10,000 Chinese teachers,” Lin
said. “We have asked departments of Chinese Literature and other relevant departments at our universities to offer Mandarin teaching
courses to help fulfill this large demand. We encourage unemployed qualified teachers to participate in training for these positions.”
Source: Taiwan Today < http://taiwantoday.tw >
HLL ties up with IGNOU for healthcare education
Thiruvananthapuram, November 13, 2011: Foraying into healthcare education,
mini- ratna public sector undertaking and leading condom manufacturer HLL Lifecare
Ltd has tied up with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
to commence two courses in clinical engineering and management, a statement said Saturday.
In a press release issued here, HLL said it decided to enter the education sector at a time when country is short of qualified
professionals in the healthcare management sector.
The company has floated a new wing named HLL Academy to launch the two
courses: Post Graduate Diploma Course in Clinical Engineering and Management
(PGDCEM) and Post Diploma Course in Clinical Engineering and Management
(PDCEM). The courses will begin from January 2012. The programmes, having two semesters of six months each, will be held in
distance education mode with contact classes. The curriculum has been
designed to fulfil the requirements of healthcare institutions, procurement service agencies and equipment manufacturers.
US universities' fair on November 6
HYDERABAD, November 4, 2011: The United States India Educational Foundation (USIEF), in collaboration with the Institute of
International Education , will be organising an US universities' fair at the Taj Krishna Hotel on November 6, 2011. As many as 22 US universities will participate in the event, which is
primarily being held to encourage more Indian students to travel to the US for educational purposes. The participating universities will offer
detailed information about their various undergraduate and graduate academic programmes during the day-long fair. Speaking to TOI about the event, to be organised in the city for the first time, Adam J Grotsky, executive director of USIEF said, "We want to
bridge the gap between the US and India through education and the fair is only the first step towards that goal. We hope to see more students
from Andhra Pradesh take up courses in the US that will best fit their
academic and professional needs in future."
No more engineering colleges: States to AICTE
MUMBAI, November 1, 2011: Two decades ago, just a percentage of aspiring Indian engineers
found a seat in a tech school. Now, supply seems to have outstripped demand, with lakhs of engineering seats in Indian colleges going
abegging. State governments now want the country's regulatory body to reject fresh
proposals for starting any more engineering colleges. "We have received letters from the Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil
Nadu, Haryana and Chhattisgarh governments telling us not to clear proposals for engineering institutes," said S S Mantha, chairman,
All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the umbrella body for
professional education in the country. Maharashtra, too, said sources, is firming up its pitch to AICTE after
waking up to the fact that the number of vacant seats in engineering colleges has risen dramatically over the last three years. AICTE records show that India produced 4.01 lakh engineers in 2003-04,
of which 35% were computer engineers. In 2004-05, 1,355 engineering colleges admitted 4.6 lakh
students, of which 31% were computer engineers. The number of graduates rose to 5.2 lakh in 2005-06. In five
years, the capacity in technology colleges has more than trebled.India is now home to 3,393 engineering colleges that have 14.85 lakhs
seats available. Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh have about 70% tech institutes. When admissions closed
this year, AICTE estimated that nearly two lakh seats were unfilled.
International conference on Quality in Higher Education
PATNA, October 21, 2011: A two-day international conference on 'Quality in Higher
Education: Challenges and Opportunity in India', organized jointly by the state HRD department and Institute of Public Enterprises (IPE), Hyderabad, for preparing a
road map for higher education. in Bihar commenced here with state HRD minister P K Shahi appealing to the academics to
find out solutions to meet the challenges of higher education in the state.
He stressed on improving the academic environment and imparting quality higher education of international standard in the universities in Bihar.
The 64-year-old practice of governor being the chancellor of universities had to be reassessed, he said. "Efforts are on to develop 50 colleges in the state as centres of
excellence," Shahi said, adding that migration of Bihari students to
other states for higher education can be checked by improving the higher education scene in the state.
India, US to have more educational partnerships
WASHINGTON, October 15, 2011: India and the United States have agreed to broaden their
knowledge partnership in pursuit of six key goals, including strategic
institutional partnerships and exploring models for 'educational institutions for the 21st Century'.
The goals were outlined in a US-India Joint Statement by Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton and India's Minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal
issued at the end of a day-long "historic" US-India Higher Education summit co-chaired by them.
To pursue the agreed goals, India announced its intention to set up an
India-US higher education platform as the two sides agreed to strengthen
educator enrichment and exchange programmes to promote development of
human resources while also enhancing broader interaction between the two countries. Source: The Economic Times
Shiv Nadar Foundation to run 25 schools across India
New Delhi, September 14, 2011 (IANS): Shiv Nadar, one of India's better known
information technology entrepreneurs and noted philanthropist, Wednesday
announced that his foundation will run 25 schools in India by 2020, starting with two on the outskirts of the national capital.
"I have always believed that good education is a gift that has the power
to transform and drive change that lasts beyond the lifetime of an individual," Nadar told a press conference here announcing his
foundation's new initiative. "The Shiv Nadar Foundation has been impacting lives in the field of
education for over 15 years through its various initiatives. At the Shiv
Nadar School, our vision is to create lifelong learners who would grow into contributing citizens of tomorrow."
The founder and chairman of the HCL group said the schools, the first of
which will be launched in Delhi's suburban Gurgaon in Haryana and Noida
in Uttar Pradesh, will have a strong focus on music, arts, crafts as
well, and theatre will complement the focus on academic excellence. Nadar has pledged to give away 10 percent of his wealth towards
philanthropic causes. Selection, training, certification and professional and personal growth
of teachers will receive continued attention at the Shiv Nadar School, said those associated with the foundation.
The school chain is being built on 5 to 6 acre campus each and will have
a football and cricket ground, basketball and squash courts, indoor multipurpose hall for sports and
drama, dining cafeteria for lunch, technology equipped classrooms and campus. A strong back-end organisation with systems and processes would support
continuous faculty development and every faculty at the school will undergo mandatory 80-100 hours of training.
Admissions for the 2012-13 academic sessions will commence in Sept. 2011.
Delhi boys discover
Asteroid
NEW DELHI, August 30, 2011: Vaibhav Sapra and Sharanjeet Singh of Bal Bharati Public School,
Pitampura, have discovered a Main Belt Asteroid, ensuring for themselves
a name in history. Conducted by non-government organisation Science Popularisation
Association of Communicators and Educators (SPACE) in collaboration with
the United States-based International Astronomical Search Collaboration,
the All-India Asteroid Search Campaign-2011 concluded in August, 2011. It
involved school and college students from across the country working
with a special software to discover asteroids. The students, divided
into groups of two each, collaborated and analysed their data for
asteroid hunting. It was a difficult and challenging task for Vaibhav
and Sharanjeet, both Science students, to jointly detect the asteroid from a series of pictures of the sky.
According to Sharanjeet, the three-month-long campaign involved software
training, studying and spotting moving objects on the highly-advanced
Astrometrica software. “We had to assume the shape of the asteroid. For
each image, there was a graph which we had to jointly analyse and prepare a report.”
Once the report was completed, the duo despatched it to renowned astrophysicist and head of International Astronomical Search
Collaboration Miller Patrick. Since there is an official confirmation of discovering
“2011QM14,” the name of the new asteroid, both Vaibhav and Sharanjeet will now have to
wait till its orbit is completely known. “It will take three to six
years, and then we will be allowed to give it a name. We have not decided the name yet,” Sharanjeet said.
Tamil Nadu to follow uniform school system this year
Chennai, August 10, 2011: Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa today announced that the
government would implement the uniform education system, Samacheer
Kalvi, in the state immediately. The announcement follows a Supreme Court decision today asking the state government to implement the system
within 10 days.
The state government had approached the Supreme Court challenging a
Madras High Court order quashing an amendment it proposed to implement
the system, formulated by the earlier Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)
government, in the current academic year. The government sought one more year's time to implement the Uniform
System of School Education (Amendment) Act. A bench of the Supreme Court with three judges, Justices J M
Panchal, Deepak Verma and B S Chauhan, rejected the state government's plea to
postpone implementation of the system, and asked it to implement the Act immediately.
India, Australia launch education council
New Delhi: August 3, 2011: India and Australia on Monday announced the launch of an education
council to strengthen exchanges between the two nations. "Last April, we decided to start the India-Australia education council,
which we start on Monday," HRD minister Kapil Sibal said after meeting
Australian tertiary education minister Chris Evans in New Delhi. Sibal announced the start of the India-Australia education council at a
press conference here.
A meeting of vice-chancellors from nearly 30 universities from the two
countries was also held in New Delhi on Sunday. "We are looking forward
to expand the relations and increase people to people, and institution to institution contact," Evans said.
The university-level collaboration would include degree recognition,
credit transfer, and collaboration in post-graduate and research
programmes. Asked about the issue of safety of Indian students in Australia, Evans
said special steps have been taken for that.
Indian students bag three gold, two silver medals in IPhO
Mumbai, July 19, 2011 (PTI): Five Indian students bagged three gold medals and two silver medals at
the 42nd International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) which concluded on Monday in Bangkok.
About 400 students from 84 countries participated in the IPhO including
five students from India, who secured medals, Dr Vijay Singh, National
coordinator of the Science Olympiad said here. “There is no official ranking of nations. However in terms of medals
tally India stood at the fifth position among 84 nations. Our students
were competing with the best students from other countries and in-spite of the stiff competition, we did well,” he said.
Sumegha Garg from Bhatinda, who won the gold medal, topped the girls
category in IPhO and stood 11th among 393 students who won medals. Other
two gold medal winners are Shubham Mehta from Kota, Rajasthan and Burle
Sai Kiran from Hyderabad. Another student, I Prudhvi Tej from Dwaraka Tirumala in Andhra Pradesh
missed the gold medal by a slender margin of 1.1 marks, Singh said. Incidentally,
Prudhvi stood first in the IIT-JEE exam. Nisheeth Lahoti from Jaipur, Rajasthan also secured a silver medal.
Sumegha was a topper among girls in IIT-JEE while Mehta secured second
rank and Kiran got fourth rank in the IIT joint entrance exam. Lahoti
had stood ninth, Singh said. All the five meritorious students were trained for over a month at the
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), he said.
IIIT-A to organise an international seminar
ALLAHABAD, July 04, 2011: The Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad
(IIIT-A) will organise an international seminar on 'Education, Innovation and Society' on July 10 at the India International Center,New Delhi.
Giving this information, IIIT-A director MD Tiwari said globalization and technological developments has thrown up
challenges and opportunities for Indian institutions of higher education. "Globally, innovation has been recognised as a key enabler
for sustained economic development, strengthening social development and
social cohesion. Hence we have to innovate," he said. This subject requires multi-disciplinary domain experts on one platform to present
their perspectives and initiate discussions among the stakeholders on
how to design, develop, implement and evolve interlink age so that the
society benefits from the transfer of knowledge creation by academic
institutions and its transfer to end user. The theme of this seminar is to deliberate on interlinkage of education,
innovation and society to accelerate Indias integration with the growing
global and knowledge based economy.
The deliberations of the seminar
will include presentations and discussions by experts and participants.
The seminar will be particularly helpful to the change environment in
government organisations, academia and industry, the administrators of
academic institutions, research and development and centres of innovations.
The seminar will be held in four sessions. First session will focus on
overview of interlinkage between education, innovation and society through presentations by experts followed by a panel discussion and
identification of issues that we need to address.
Admissions 2011, DU launches Web chat
NEW DELHI, June 3, 2011 (IANS): Continuing with its efforts to provide assistance to anxious
students, Delhi University will be assisting admission seekers with web chat facility for an hour on select days, an official said.
Offered by the Dean, Students Welfare, the link to the web chat would be
available on the varsity's website -- www.du.ac.in. The chat session
would be organised between 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on June 3, 6, 8 and 10.
"There will be a real time interactive question-answer session where
students will be able to ask questions related to admissions in various
undergraduate courses," said a varsity official. "The information will be provided by the experts in the field. Different
experts will be available at different time schedules," added the official.
Apart from the chat facility, the varsity Monday launched its own page
on Facebook for direct interaction with students. Further, two telephone helplines each in south and north campuses and a
community radio would also be working towards calming the strained nerves of the students.
India to hire 10,000 teachers from Taiwan
TAIPEI, May 10, 2011: India plans to recruit up to 10,000 teachers from Taiwan to
meet growing demand for Chinese language classes, Taiwan's education ministry said Tuesday.
Kapil Sibal, India's minister of human resources, made the proposal during a meeting with Taiwan's education minister Wu Ching-ji in India
last week, an education official said. Sibal said there was a strong demand for Chinese teachers as about
10,000 Indian high schools currently offer Chinese classes, or plan to
do so, the official added. Taipei will set up a taskforce to train India-bound teachers and hold
more talks with New Delhi by the end of this year on the teaching
programme, she said. India's Education Ministry could not be immediately reached for comment.
Like most countries, India officially recognises Beijing over Taipei but
maintains trade ties with the island. Chinese language classes are becoming increasingly popular as China's
political and economic clout grows. Chinese is also the official language in Taiwan, which split from China
in 1949 after a civil war. Taiwan has previously supplied Chinese language teachers to France, the
United Sates and Vietnam, according to the education ministry.
Varsities bill a threat to education system
Bangalore, April 26, 2011: A meeting, organised by the All India Save Education Committee
(AISEC) in the city on Monday, discussed the Innovative Universities and Foreign Universities Bill.
Eminent speakers, including Prof UR Ananthamurthy (former VC of Mahatma
Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala ), MS Thimmappa and Prof MV Nadkarni, spoke about the
bill, which was passed by the Karntaka legislature without any discussion and approvals from academicians and educationists.
The bill proposes to create two systems - unitary and affiliation, under
one university. Under this, two separate pro vice-chancellors would be
appointed and the duties of a vice-chancellor would be divided among them.
The approved legislation proposes to give unfettered rights to the university and its faculty to start new and innovative courses, tie up
with foreign varsities and issue diploma certificates. This move, according to academicians,
isn't viable and seems to raise questions. Most academicians spoke at length about the perils ahead if the bill
became a law, citing valid reasons. "The Innovative Universities and Foreign Universities Bill is a threat
to our higher education and must definitely not be passed," MS
Thimmappa, said. "Commercialisation of education must be stopped at any cost. The present
initiatives of the government aren't very poor-friendly and are actually
against the ideals of the Constitution," Prof UR Ananthamurthy said.
The speakers spoke in one voice against the bill, which they said, posed a
threat to the present education system in the country and state.
India has exam system, not education system
BANGALORE/MUMBAI, April 14, 2011: In the thick of the entrance exam season, a furious
dispatch to the Prime Minister from his own scientific adviser has termed such tests as one big menace.
Strongly recommending an immediate halt to the system of sitting for a
pile of exams, C N R Rao, who heads the Scientific Advisory Council
to the Prime Minister (SACPM), said in a letter sent last week that the
American method of holding one national exam before joining university is the way.
Putting it bluntly, Rao told the PM that India is said to "have an
examination system but not an education system... When will young people
stop taking exams and do something worthwhile?" Referring to the exam overdrive, Rao briefed Manmohan Singh on the various
flavours of examinations that dot a student's life: "It is important to
relook the entire examination system including the system of final examinations, entrance examinations, qualifying examinations, selection
examinations, and so on. Now one hears of a proposal to have a qualifying or accreditation examination for medical graduates and
post-graduates."
Common syllabus for mathematics, science soon
NEW DELHI, April 5, 2011: From the 2011-2012 academic session, senior secondary
students across 19 boards, including the Central Board of Secondary
Education (CBSE), will have core syllabuses for science and mathematics.
The common syllabuses were developed in collaboration with the National
Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and the Council of
Boards of School Education in India (COBSE) and will be first offered to Class XI students from 2011 in physics, chemistry,
biology and mathematics. The first board examinations for courses with
the common syllabuses will be conducted in 2013.
While, the CBSE has already intimated its affiliated schools and has
uploaded the complete syllabuses in its official website, other boards
are also informing their schools and students on the changes. According
to COBSE officials, of the 32 education boards operating in India, which
include two national boards — CBSE and Council for the Indian School
Certificate Examinations (CISCE) — 19 have confirmed the introduction of
the common syllabus from 2011, while other state boards from states like
Andhra Pradesh are going to introduce it from 2012.
Lower fees, work permit lured students from India to Sham University US
HYDERABAD, February 3, 2011 (PTI): Lower fee structure and work permit from the first day lured
many students from India to opt for the California-based TVU , which was
shut down by US ICE , say educational consultants. The university was shut down on charges of a massive immigration scam by
the ICE recently leaving the Indian students to face the prospect of
deportation from the US. Ninety-five per cent of the students at TVU,
dubbed a "sham university" by US immigration officials, were reported to
be Indian, most of them from Andhra Pradesh.
According to IAEC Consultants, a city-based overseas educational
consultants, the university was chosen by most of the Indian students
because of its fee structure, which is lesser when compared to other
universities. "TVU's fee structure is very less when compared to other universities in
USA which charge in the range of USD 15,000 to USD 20,000 per annum.
Also the university basically offers on-line courses which allow the
students to stay at a place other than the location," IAEC Managing Director, Madhukar Reddy, told PTI.
Incidentally, IAEC Consultancy has been named as Tri-valley's
representatives for South Asia region in the varsity's website. However, Reddy denied any links with the university and said IAEC
Consultancy has not sent even a single student to the institution. "As per (media) reports, as many as 1500 students (in the university)
are from India. The US government will never issue visas in such large scale to one single university," he said.
Virtual education fair hosts world's top universities
NEW DELHI, January 20, 2011: Eighteen top Australian universities, including five listed
among the world's top 100, are taking part in a virtual education fair.Hosted by IDP Education, the country's top university placement forum
for higher education in the US and Australia, the event was inaugurated Monday.
Students are chatting live with selected university representatives to
know about study modules and placements queries. A round-the-clock window for offline queries is augmenting the online initiative with more
inputs, the statement added.
The fair would help students in applying for fee waivers and scholarships if shortlisted by the registered universities.
The regional director of IDP for South Asia Harmeet Pental said: "The virtual fair was a step to guide students to the right
options for higher studies. "We have conceptualized this fair with a very uncomplicated approach to
serve a large group. The IDP offline support will be for formalities
like application submission, offer acceptance, visa counselling and
tuition fee payment." IDP Education has more than 70 counselling centres in 24 countries. It
is jointly owned by 38 Australian universities.
In 2010, IDP commenced counselling for US. IDP is now the largest
service provider with over 80 US universities. Currently, India
has 15 counselling centres in 13 cities of India guiding thousands of students
and their families through their university search. The fair ends Jan 28. |
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