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Under The RTE Act Can Appeal Against Non-Performance Of Teacher Or Even Bad Infrastructure Of School
By akansha, Section Education
Posted on Tue Aug 31, 2010 at 01:59:05 AM EST
 In a move that could significantly alter the quality of education, students and parents will now be entitled to appeal against the non-performance of a teacher or even bad infrastructure of the school if they feel it's not conducive to learning. The provision of the Right to Education (RTE) Act will ensure the accountability of teachers to their profession, said education experts.
"The state government is the in the process of setting up a State Commission for the Pro tection of Child Rights (SCPCR) as per the provisions in the RTE.
It will start taking cognisance of the complaints from October," said director of state council for educational research and training (SCERT) Bhaskar Salunkhe. "It is basically a pro vision for students and parents to file their grievances since it is the right of the children to have a conducive environment for education," he said.
Salunkhe said students and parents can appeal about issues of infrastructure such as cleanliness of toilets or better classrooms or even about quality of teaching. "It will be the responsibility of teachers to teach students till they understand the concepts fully," he said. "Schools will have to set up school manage ment committees of which par ents will be an integral part. Par ents and students can raise the issues at this level and if not re solved, can go to the SCPCR," said Salunkhe.
Source: The Indian Express By Siddharth Kelkar Now, complain if schools not up to the mark
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Government Has Sanctioned 15 New Management Institutes In Maharashtra
By akansha, Section Education
Posted on Mon Aug 30, 2010 at 02:25:21 AM EST
Mumbai is set to get another medical college, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has said. Supported by public-private partnership, the college would come up in western suburbs.
Mr. Chavan made the announcement at the inauguration of Rajasthani Sammelan's Durgadevi Institute of Management Studies in suburban Malad on Sunday. Minister for Higher and Technical Education, Rajesh Tope and Mumbai University Vice-Chancellor Dr Rajan Welukar were present on the occasion.
Mr. Chavan said the state government has proposed introduction of two new bills Private University Bill and Maharashtra Technical University Bill.
Universities in the state are loaded with affiliated colleges thereby affecting the quality of higher education, Mr. Chavan said. It has become essential to bifurcate these universities and a committee will be set-up in this regard, he added.
The state government has sanctioned 15 new management institutes in Maharashtra, Tope said, adding the "initiative has been undertaken to curb the dearth of management institutes in the state." "Accreditation will be made compulsory for all affiliated colleges and the government is proposing a law to be drafted in this regard. As per this proposed law grants will only be allocated to these accredited institutions," Tope said.
Mr. Chavan highlighted the importance of incubation centres in state universities. "They should be introduced in every university on the lines of renowned educational institutions like IITs, Harvard and Stanford," he said.
Source: The Hindu Mumbai to get new medical college
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IGNOU & I2IT Launch Centre Of Excellence For Advanced Education And Research
By akansha, Section Education
Posted on Mon Aug 30, 2010 at 12:26:46 AM EST
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Vice-Chancellor Prof. V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai, on Sunday i.e. August 29, 2010, announced the launch of Center of Excellence for Advance Education and Research in association with International Institute of Information Technology (I2IT) Pune. The centre will be started at I2IT campus at Pune.
Prof. K. Subramanian, Director, Advanced Centre for Informatics and Innovative Learning (ACIIL), IGNOU, said that the collaboration will create a platform for the students aspiring to study at I2IT. Further, he said that the joint venture is the right step to stimulate developing India to become a developed nation.
IGNOU-I2IT Centre of Excellence for Advanced Education and Research offers full-time, face-to-face Postgraduate (PG) and Research programmes in Advanced Scientific/Technology, and Management areas. The institution will be a center of excellent for imparting high-end skills and certification for teachers in various engineering colleges, management schools, and institutes in India.
The collaboration is the need of the 21st Century. The University sources said that the coalition with I2IT will pave the way in assuring and delivering high quality professional/technical education in India.
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Source: highereducationinindia.com GNOU & I2IT Launch Centre of Excellence for Advanced Education and Research
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Students Can Take Own Time To Write Exams
By akansha, Section Education
Posted on Thu Aug 26, 2010 at 01:28:28 AM EST
School students from Std I to VIII will not be under pressure to finish writing their tests in time. They will now be allowed flexibility of time for writing in the new continuous and comprehensive evaluation pattern, which will not have any stipulated test hours. This means a written test of 50 marks will not have to be finished by students in two hours.
Even as the state government's new evaluation pattern comes into force this year, the State Council of Education and Research Training (SCERT) is preparing a teachers' manual for the evaluation system.
The guide to this system enlists a host of changes that teachers will have to implement in the classroom. Several principals from across divisions are meeting in the SCERT head office in Pune to frame the guidelines under the Right to Education Act.The formative and summative assessment will be implemented using the eight tools enlisted in the resolution passed by the government.
A principal, who is part of the resource team, said, "Some of the points are being adopted from the CBSE pattern. But our system is a bit different from theirs. The CCE pattern states that students should be given enough time to write their test papers and they should not be under stress of finishing it on time. Also, now there will not be any 100-mark paper for students up to class VIII; so, they do not have to sit and write an exam for three hours. The 50-mark paper under the summative assessment after term-end will have open-ended questions and will not test students on their memory."
The manual for teachers also details about the reports cards that have to be made by them. The report cards of students will have lots of inputs on the students understanding of the subject and their performance in class.
Students are expected to be getting grades up to C1 and C2. And if they get grades in D and E, students should be given remedial training.
Source: DNA By Yogita Rao Students can take own time to write exams
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UoP Computer Course For Blind,Cover Basics Of Peripherals, Hardware, Operating Systems And Utilities
By akansha, Section Education
Posted on Thu Aug 26, 2010 at 01:20:06 AM EST
The second batch of part-time certificate course in basic computing and assistive technology learning of the University of Pune (UoP) for the visually challenged students has started. Despite some hiccups such as theft of computers and other gadgets the first batch comprising nine students completed the course successfully.
The course was started in January and the students received a course completion certificate last month. Ten students had taken admission to the second batch. The six-month course is run by the Advanced Technology Blind Students' Learning Centre, department of education and extension of the UoP.
It covers basic knowledge of computer peripherals, hardware and operating systems, desktop and office utilities, software applications, Internet operating, knowledge of computer-aided assistive devices and others.
Course coordinator Dhananjay Bhole said computer-aided assistive technology has revolutionised the life of the visually challenged. "They can operate computers effectively by using computer screen readers. The visually challenged students in India have poor performance in formal education in colleges and universities. The main reason behind this is lack of awareness among students and academicians about the potential use of assistive technology in education," he said.
The course will also be beneficial to parents of visually challenged students, teachers and people working for the welfare of the visually challenged. Details are available at http://www.unipune.ac.in/atbslc.A file photo of a software programme being developed by the UoP for the visually impaired.
Source: DNA By Gitesh Shelke UoP's computer course for blind begins
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State Govt Moots Country's First Vocational Varsity
By sakshi sinha, Section Education
Posted on Wed Aug 25, 2010 at 01:31:32 AM EST
The Maharashtra government is considering a move to set up the first of its kind vocational university in the country, said minister for higher and technical education Rajesh Tope here on Tuesday.
Through such university, the government will promote establishment of colleges, which will offer degrees in a range of vocational trades, he said.
"The move will ensure an apt social status for students passing out with degrees in vocational studies besides facilitating vertical mobility for those passing Stds XI and XII with vocational subjects," said Tope. "As of now, such students have no option but to join conventional arts, science or commerce streams after Std XII," he said.
The minister was in the city to attend a recruitment fair for the successful as well as failed higher secondary certificate (HSC) students from vocational stream. The fair was organised by the Pune district vocational education office at the Abasaheb Garware college.
Later, Tope also attended a ceremony for distribution of certificates to 42 students from the Symbiosis Community College's Theur branch on their completion of a sixmonth course in functional english speaking, at the Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning (SCDL). Director of vocational education S G Dewadkar and Symbiosis founder head S B Mujumdar were present.
Source: Times Of India State govt moots country's first vocational varsity
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Nasscom Puts Curbs On Campus Recruitments, Before Completion Of Final Semester
By akansha, Section Education
Posted on Fri Aug 20, 2010 at 01:36:33 AM EST
The National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) has categorically asked all its members to refrain from recruiting engineering students below the eighth semester. This is being done to curtail the mad rush among companies to recruit students before completion of their final semester.
The directive, which was passed last year, is likely to have better effect this year with colleges witnessing a spurt in recruitment process. Nasscom is the premier trade body and the chamber of commerce of the IT industry in India.
"This circular was passed among Nasscom members last year, but due to the economic slowdown, colleges did not see too many placements.
However, with the scenario improving, there is a rush among companies to recruit before the final semester, but we have asked them not to," said former chairman of Nasscom and CII national chairman for IT and ITES, Ganesh Natarajan.
The idea was mooted to retain students' interest in academics and also promote research mindset among them. Going by the directives, city-based engineering colleges have decided to conduct campus interviews of engineering students only in the last semester of the four-year course.
The companies and Nasscom, according to college authorities, have written e-mails to the colleges in this regard. Hence, this year onwards, there will be no bulk hiring of students by companies.
Source: dnaindia.com By Gitesh Shelke & Nilanjana Ghosh Choudhury Nasscom puts curbs on campus recruitments
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Now, A Module To Help Engineering Grads Prepare For Campus Interviews
By sakshi sinha, Section Education
Posted on Thu Aug 19, 2010 at 12:20:36 AM EST
The Computer Society of India (CSI) has developed a 24-hour module for the final year engineering students that will help them prepare for industrial training. The objective of the module is to brush up students in course fundamentals taught for four years, so that at the time of placement interviews, they are ready with the basic knowledge of their job.
The module will be implemented at the Cummins College of Engineering and either at the D Y Patil College in Pimpri or another engineering college in the vicinity on pilot basis this year. Meanwhile, the University Board of Studies will introduce the module in all colleges in the following year. According to the CSI, once implemented, the module will enhance the percentage of placements in the colleges.
Shekhar Sahastrabuddhe, vice-president, Pune chapter of CSI, said, "We conducted a survey among industry people and realised that the freshers, recruited through campus interviews, are mostly weak in their fundamentals. They often tend to forget some of the fundamentals that have been taught over the four years of their degree course. But these are useful for professional practice. Hence, the module."
The module has been designed after considering inputs from the industry on what students lack and what should they know when they join the industry. The module will be conducted only for final year students during the final phase of the academic year.
Sahastrabuddhe said, "Campus placements usually begin by end of December or latest by January. We plan to introduce this module in December so that their knowledge is brushed up just before they take on their job."
According to Sahastrabuddhe, the course will enhance placement percentage to 80 to 85 per cent from the current 70 per cent placement that takes place on an average. "When we spoke to the industry stakeholders, they told us that the students usually show good academic results, but that's not enough to recruit them. If they are equipped with the fundamentals, the industry will be more than willing to take such students on board. Once the fundamentals are brushed up, there are more chances of recruitment."
Source: Times Of India By Swati Shinde Now, a module to help engg grads prepare for campus interviews
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Std XI Classes Begin Today , SSC, HSC Repeaters' Exam From Sept 27
By akansha, Section Education
Posted on Wed Aug 18, 2010 at 11:58:09 PM EST
In all, 5,907 seats have remained vacant at the end of the Std XI centralised admission process (CAP), which formally concluded on Tuesday with the allotment of the allowed-to-keepterm (ATKT) seats.
The classes are to commence from Wednesday, a little over two months since the secondary school certificate (SSC, Std X) results were declared by the state education board.
This year, the delay in completion of the admission process was mainly on account of the controversy generated by the state governments `best 5' policy that allowed SSC students' aggregate score to be calculated on the basis of the best five scores out of the total six subjects.
While the policy was aimed at normalising marks of SSC students and their counterparts from the non-SSC boards like ICSE and CBSE, it led a section of ICSE students to challenge the policy in the court. The matter went up to the Supreme Court, which ruled that the best 5 policy benefit be extended also to the ICSE students.
The legal row consumed almost two months even as students waited to make that all important shift from life in schools to a new beginning at colleges. "It is good that junior colleges are finally beginning classes from tomorrow," said Kunal Bhandari, who bagged a commerce seat at the Symbiosis college of arts and commerce.
Source: Times Of India Std XI classes begin today
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Scholarship Exams Easier, Results Will Get Within 30 Days
By sakshi sinha, Section Education
Posted on Tue Aug 17, 2010 at 03:36:58 AM EST
Students appearing for scholarship exams in the state can heave a sigh of relief. They will get results within 30 days of the completion of the evaluation process, which will be more transparent.
The Maharashtra State Council of Examination (MSCE) has revamped the middle school (Std IV) and high school (Std VII) scholarship examination pattern, vide a government resolution (GR) was issued by the state government on August 13.
Source: dnaindia.com By Puja Pednekar Scholarship exams easier
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Govt Ends Scholarship Scheme For Poor Students
By akansha, Section Education
Posted on Fri Aug 13, 2010 at 12:16:34 AM EST
The Government has decided to the put an end to the national means-cum-merit scholarship scheme that was intended to offer financial support to 1 lakh gifted children, whose parents' annual income was below Rs 1.5 lakh. The reason behind such a decision is the fall in bank interest rate. As per sources, the fundof Rs1000 crore for the scholarship scheme, which had been designed on the lines of the American model of scholarships, has now been wound up.
According to the scheme, the money from the scholarship fund had been provided quarter-annually to full-time students of Class 9 from government, government-aided or local body schools. The students received the scholarship till the time they passed out of school, after Class 12. To avail the scholarship of Rs 6000 per year, students were required to appear for 2 exams involving multiple-choice questions, a scholastic aptitude test as well as a mental aptitude test.
In the year 2008, it was announced by the Finance Minister that a corpus fund of Rs 750 crore would be created in the State Bank of India. The principle yield of this fund was to be utilized for funding the scholarships under the scheme. According to the ministry plans, the idea for setting up the fund was to add Rs. 750 crore to the corpus fund for three consecutive financial years and increase the amount to Rs 3000 crore. However, this had been unsuccessful, as only Rs.250 crore had been added to the fund in 2009, making the total amount to Rs 1000 crore.
When the corpus fund had been initially created, the rate of interest that had been decided for the fixed deposits was 9.5%. However, the rate of interest had been brought down by the Bank to 5 % per annum in July last year. This has led to the finance ministry winding up the corpus fund. In addition, the Centre for Civil Society had conducted an analysis of the fund and had found that the pass percentage of students had been very poor, which was resulting in a limited number of beneficiaries of the scholarship. Now that the corpus fund has been wound up, talented students from the economically weaker backgrounds would have to depend on the amount that will be allocated to the scholarships scheme during annual budgets.
Source: highereducationinindia.com Govt Ends Scholarship Scheme for Poor Students
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YCMOU Offers BA, MBA Seats For Cops
By akansha, Section Education
Posted on Thu Aug 12, 2010 at 02:38:07 AM EST
The Nashik-based Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) will begin a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree course in public administration and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) programme for police personnel in the state from October this year.
YCMOU has already received the nod from the Maharashtra director-general of police (DGP) for starting the courses, which would have a combination of distance learning and classroom teaching. Personnel below the rank of assistant sub-inspectors (ASI) would be admitted to the BA course and those above that rank to the MBA programme.
"This is a first-of-its-kind course to be launched anywhere. Candidates for the BA programme would be selected from the final batches of the police training centres, while those for MBA would be selected from the Police Academy in Nashik," said vice chancellor of YCMOU, R Krishnakumar.
The BA programme would be a three-year course in public administration and the university expects to enroll 15,000 candidates for it. The MBA would be a two-year programme in public policy and management and the expected intake is 5,000. "The courses will enhance their administrative ability. This could also be a yardstick for their growth,'' said Krishnakumar.
Source: dnaindia.com By Nilanjana Ghosh Choudhury YCMOU offers BA, MBA seats for cops
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Answersheets Of SSC Students To Go Online
By sakshi sinha, Section Education
Posted on Wed Aug 11, 2010 at 02:42:55 AM EST
A month after massive success in the online admission system for junior colleges, the school education department has now drafted an ambitious proposal to provide online answersheets to all the 16 lakh and odd SSC students, with a move to ensure a complete transparency in the entire evaluation process.
"We are in the process of developing a software in consultation with the information technology department. It has been proposed to make answersheets available to the students on payment basis. Entire transaction will be online. Our aim is to make the evaluation process accountable as well as transparent," a senior official told TOI on Tuesday.
The proposal assumes significant importance since Pune information commissioner Vijay Kuvalekar and his Nagpur counterpart Vilas Patil, in different orders had asked the SSC board to allow inspection of answersheets to two students, who have filed an application under the right to information act. Though the SSC board permitted inspection of answersheets to the two students, simultaneously, the SSC board knocked the doors of the Bombay high court, saying, as a policy, it will not be possible to allow the students to inspect their answersheets. "We have taken note of the observations of the RTI commissioners. We felt that it will be appropriate if the answersheets were made available online to the students, on payment basis. In that event, the scheme will be self sufficient and there will be no additional burden on the state exchequer," he said.
Source: Times Of India By Prafulla Marpakwar Answersheets of SSC students to go online?
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Learn-And-Earn Scheme Launched For Class X, XII Dropouts
By sakshi sinha, Section Education
Posted on Tue Aug 10, 2010 at 01:43:56 AM EST
A unique learn and earn scheme, which enables class X and XII drop-outs pursue engineering diploma studies while simultaneously undertaking a four-year on-job practical training for monthly stipends between Rs 5,000 and Rs 6,500, was launched by state minister for higher and technical education Rajesh Tope here on Monday.
The scheme is the outcome of an institute-industry partnership model involving the Nashik-based Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU), the city-based Yashaswi Institute of Technology (YIT) and Tata Autocomp Systems Limited.
While the YCMOU has drawn up the syllabus for the academic part of the scheme, Tata Autocomp has absorbed close to 1,800 of the total 2,230 class X and XII drop-outs selected from across the state through special recruitment camps, for on-job practical training. The YIT will be the facilitator for the recruitment of student-apprentices.
"We are pursuing, with the Maharashtra State Board for Technical Education (MSBTE),the matter of issuing a proper engineering diploma certificate, at par with the one issued by the polytechnics,to the student-apprentices at the end of their four-year learning-cum-training session," Tope declared at the function.
The scheme has been approved by the Maharashtra government as part of it's overall effort towards contributing to the Prime Minister's ambitious national skill development mission that has targeted raising a mammoth 50 crore technically skilled manpower by 2022.
Tope said, "The mission entails rolling out 5 crore technically skilled manpower across the country every year till 2022. Maharashtra will have to generate 20 lakh skilled manpower every year and all this requires a massive industry-institute partnership effort."
Source: Times Of India Learn-and-earn scheme launched for class X, XII dropouts
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ITI Adds 163 More Seats To Counter Shortage Of Industrial Workers
By akansha, Section Education
Posted on Tue Aug 10, 2010 at 01:07:54 AM EST
Even as industries in and around the city are grappling with acute shortage of skilled as well as unskilled labour, the Industrial Training Institute (ITI), Aundh, has added a total of 163 seats more across some of its courses from this academic year. Seventy per cent of these seats are reserved for minority communities.
The additional seats have been introduced in courses for machinists, grinders, tool and dye-makers, welders, diesel mechanics, fitters, electronics mechanics, photographers and desktop publishers. "According to a survey by the Confederation of Indian Industry, there is a shortage of 1.6 million workers in India. We have increased the number of seats keeping in mind the demands of the industry. We have received around 8,000 applications for 1,294 seats," said ITI principal Rajendra Ghume.
The institute has also entered into several public-private partner ships (PPP) to address the labour scarcity problem. "Nearly 170 Pune-based industries have entered into partnerships with ITI," Ghume said.
Anant Sardeshmukh, executive director-general, Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries & Agriculture, said, "There is a mismatch between the number of people needed and the number produced by various institutes. We are hoping that the PPP experiment will yield results." Pimpri-Chinchwad Small Industries Association president Suresh Mhetre welcomed the move to increase seats. "The scenario may improve if all 460 ITIs in the state increase the number of seats." "The auto industry in Pune, which needs both skilled and unskilled labour, absorbs a major chunk of the workforce. However, the layoffs owing to the recent economic downturn and the exodus of labourers from Maharashtra after migrants were targeted has created a void which we are finding difficult to fill," said Mhetre.
Source: The Indian Express By Pupul Chatterjee ITI adds more seats to counter shortage of industrial workers
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