Education

Aiming to provide `international' education, the company is assessing locations like Kolkata, Guwahati, Siliguri, Burdwan, Durgapur, Asansol and Kharagpur in Eastern region of India to set-up schools on franchisee model.

Exploring franchising options in the region, Edify Education has already established two `Edify Kids' schools at Salt Lake and Nagerbazar in Kolkata for academic year 2010-11.

Edify Education, promoted by DRS Group, commenced its operations in 2010 - 11 academic year by setting-up 3 schools in Ranipet (Tamil Nadu), Nagpur and Amaravati (Maharashtra).

Source: Sify.com Edify to set up schools in WB, NE

In times of cut-throat competition for seats, every mark slashed will cost students dearly. One who scores 90% in aggregate might end up with just 70% on his marksheet. The school authorities believe it will be a stronger deterrent than corporal punishment.

In fact, from the next session, St James' is introducing 'discipline' as a subject in the curriculum -- perhaps a first in the city. The thumb rule: behave like a brat and get docked, behave well and get grace marks.

Offences have been placed under two categories. A major offence will be punished with the deduction of 15-20% marks from the aggregate and for minor offences, a student will lose 5-10% marks.

Stealing, misbehaving with teachers, cheating in examinations, bullying other kids frequently, using abusive language inside the classroom and damaging school property will also be treated as major offences. The harshest punishment will be denial of promotion to the next class.Minor offences, that include bunking classes, lying to teachers, habitually coming late to school, irregular attendance and not bringing books according to the time table. Habitual offenders will get 'compound

Admissions are done on the basis of Common Admission Test (CAT) or depending on chosen specializations, alternative tests in lieu of the CAT as specified in the table given below, followed by an interview to be held in late March/early April 2011. Applicant is required to have taken the appropriate test(s) no earlier than January 24, 2009, and the test score(s) should be valid on January 24, 2011.

Date of Exam
CAT Date - October 27, 2010 till November 24, 2010 (Candidates with the following qualification are exempted for appearing CAT: an applicant who is a graduate of any one of the two-year full-time Postgraduate (PG) programmes of any one of the Indian Institutes of Management with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of no less than 6.00/9.00 (or its equivalent), or a degree-holder of the PGDBM Programme of IIM Calcutta with a CGPA of no less than 6.5/9.00 does not need to take any Admission Test. Applicant has to pay the application fee, and meet the application deadline. After submission of application forms, the selection procedure followed for such a candidate will be the same to that of all other candidates).

Test Centers
N/A

Fee
See the prospectus

How to Apply
Interested candidates can download the application form from the IIM Calcutta's official website: http://www.iimcal.ac.in/programs/FPM/. One can obtain the same in person from the Fellow Programme Office, IIM Calcutta, Diamond Harbour Road, Kolkata 700104. The duly filled forms must be submitted along with a crossed DD of Rs 300 payable to Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, in a bank of Kolkata. SC/ST/OBC applicant need not pay the application fee. They have to send an attested photocopy of his/her SC/ST/OBC certificate. For each area of specialization applied for, two letters of recommendation in the prescribed format are required. Blank forms for recommendation letters, and instructions on how to return them, are contained in the application forms. For further details one can visit the institute's official website: http://www.iimcal.ac.in/.

Note: Candidates applying for two areas of specialization are required to submit two separate application forms. However, a single payment of the application fee of Rs 300 will be sufficient for each applicant, as long as they submit the two application forms at the same time.

Last Date of submitting Application Form
January 24, 2011

Contact address:
IIM Calcutta
KolkataWest Bengal

"We are talking to the health ministry. The IIT-K proposal will be presented before the Cabinet for the approval of an amendment to the IIT statute. It could take 2-3 months," said Pratima Dikshit, director of technical education, Union HRD ministry.

"We are waiting for the permission from the central government. Union HRD Minister, Kapil Sibal, is very keen on this. Now, it will go to the Union Cabinet for its approval," said AK Majumdar, deputy director of IIT-K.

The existing IIT Act that governs the Indian Institutes of Technology does not allow the institutes to branch out into other streams. "The Act has to be amended by Parliament, which we hope, will be done at the earliest," said Majumdar.

Source: Business-standard By Goutam Ghosh IIT-Kharagpur hopes to get Cabinet nod for medical school

The Aviva Great Wall of Education, presented by The Telegraph, will be built at City Centre (Salt Lake) from September 1 to 5.

Schools and citizens can donate books at the site to be built into a wall and then distributed among children who can't afford to buy them.

The first time Calcutta got to hear about the event was at The Telegraph School Awards for Excellence on Saturday, a fitting platform for the announcement of an initiative to support the pursuit of education against all odds.

Barry O'Brien, the convener of the awards, announced the Aviva Great Wall of Education and appealed to schools to donate books for the cause. "The Telegraph Education Foundation supports the endeavour," said O' Brien.

The book donation drive for underprivileged children was launched by Aviva India in Delhi on November 11, 2009, national education day, and a wall with over 1,23,000 books was built.

Source: The Telegraph By CHANDREYEE CHATTERJEE Build A Great Wall of Books

BESU officials have already approached the state government for the allotment 20 acres of land to set up the park. A workshop was organised today by the civil engineering department in association with Queen's University, Belfast, UK and Institute of Environment Management and Studies, Jamshedpur on `capacity building for technological solution and training to improve groundwater resources management in arsenic affected areas of Eastern India'.

While addressing the workshop, Mr KJ Nath, chairman of the state arsenic task force, said that the university has undertaken various research activities to remove arsenic from groundwater, but the technology has to reach the market.

Mr Nath stressed on the need to commercialise the research outputs of the faculties.

However, Prof. Ajay Ray, Vice Chancellor of BESU said that for teachers, who are involved in research activities on top of teaching, it is not possible to take up their research outputs to the market.

Source: The Statesman BESU to set up science & technology entrepreneurship park

"To meet the worldwide thrust on eco-friendly technologies, IIM-C has introduced a new course titled 'green manufacturing' for its Post Graduate Programme for Executives for Visionary Leadership in Manufacturing (PGPEX-VLM) starting 2010-11," IIM-C Director Shekhar Chaudhuri said here Wednesday.

PGPEX-VLM is a one-year programme jointly conducted by IIM-C, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Kanpur and IIT-Madras to impart skill-based training to potential middle-level managers in the manufacturing industry.

"The 'green manufacturing' course will cover all dimensions of green manufacturing and technologies starting from green supply chain management, green marketing etc, non-conventional energy sources, concept of 3R (reuse, recycle, reproduce) and the principle of energy and resource conservancy," said Chaudhuri while addressing the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BNCCI).

Experts from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) would also conduct sessions on the green manufacturing course.

Briefing reporters after the meeting, Minister of State for information Soumendranath Bera said: "decisions have been taken on some crucial issues".

Elaborating, he said the government has approved the setting up of three medical colleges, one each in North 24 Parganas, Malda and Murshidabad. Initially, 33 teachers would be appointed for these colleges.

Alongside, a new institute for the study of post-graduate paediatric science would be set up in the city by merging the B.C. Roy Memorial Institute with the existing child hospital also named after the former Chief Minister of the State. The late B.C. Roy, a reputed physician, is widely regarded as the architect of modern Bengal.

Mr. Bera said the meeting approved the creation of 4000 new posts. Of this, 3345 would be that of teachers in the secondary and higher-secondary levels where 400 secondary schools are proposed to be upgraded to higher-secondary status.

Source: The Hindu New medical colleges for Bengal

Speaking at the launch of the GNIIT programme for engineers, NIIT President-Global Individual Learning Solutions G Raghavan said that it was specifically designed for engineering students, with emphasis on their curriculum and career aspirations.

Justifying the launch of the programme, NIIT sources quoted NASSCOM's latest projections that said the IT industry's headcount addition is expected to double this year to touch 2,00,000 new employees.

NASSCOM also said the IT BPO market is expected to grow by 13-15 per cent and the overall domestic market by 15-17 per cent.

The three-year GNIIT for engineers programme was designed to be pursued alongside graduation. The criteria for enrollment to the programme is admission to an engineering college for a BE or BTech.

"The HRD Minister (Kapil Sibal) has said Rs.2,31,000 crore will be required for implementing RTE in the next three years for appointment of teachers, setting up schools and building of infrastructure. I said the money will be provided," he said at a seminar in the city.

Sibal recently said here there are many issues in the implementation of the RTE law. "We are meeting the principals and all the stakeholders on August 14 to find out the problems and discuss the way out," Sibal said.

It's been a year since the examinations were conducted, in August 2009, for the degree course in Journalism and Mass Communication CU offers, but the results for MA (Part I and II) are yet to be published. And then, journalists are expected to meet deadlines.

Prof. Tapati Basu, head of the department, claimed the delay is due to a dearth of teachers. Three posts of lecturers have been lying vacant for the past five years while Prof. SN Bera, a gamekeeper turned poacher, as it were, given the inherent conflict between an independent Press and the propensity of governments to control it, is currently on leave handling more onerous responsibilities as West Bengal's minister of state for information and cultural affairs. A selection committee was formed two years back to appoint a lecturer, but nobody "suitable" was found, said Prof. Basu who runs the department on her own with the help of guest lecturers.

  Whilst that may not amount to much in the departmental league tables, the Journalism and Mass Communication department has, over the past few years, certainly acquired a well-deserved reputation of being at the very top of the university when it comes to inordinately delayed results over the past few years. Some efforts were apparently made to hurry up the evaluation procedure, but these too have come to naught. For example, the assessment procedure for the academic year ending 2010 was revised by CU for the Journalism and Mass Communication department. The "double evaluation" system was done away with and the notion of "review" was introduced. Thus, answer scripts of Part I examinees were evaluated just once. But the results are still late by a whole year.

Source: The Statesman Journalism?, Calcutta University Is In No Hurry!

The top 600 students in the examinations to be organised by the Primary Education Development Board (PEDB) will receive a scholarship of Rs 1,200 per annum at the state level and Rs 600 per annum at the district level. The students will have to pay a minimum of Rs15 to appear for the 400-mark terminal examinations, which include subjects like English, Mathematics, History, Geography, Science and vernacular subject, the results of which will be declared in two months.

English will be compulsory for all students although the other papers can be answered either in Bengali or Hindi.

"We are even thinking of introducing Urdu as the writing medium", said PEDB secretary Ratan Laskar.

The unique concept has been largely accepted as the number of students appearing for the examinations has drastically increased from 20,000 in the first year (1992) to a walloping 350,000 in 2010. The examination is held in the morning before school hours and before the beginning of the new session.

Earlier, these used to be held in February but due to session changes, this year they will be held from November 22 to 26. There are around 3,000 centres in West Bengal where these examinations are held, based on the same syllabus provided by primary schools.

Source: The Indian Express Primary board exam: Top 600 to get scholarships

The new medical colleges will be opened in Malda, Murshidabad and North 24 Parganas. Besides opening these new medical colleges, 695 seats at the undergraduate level are also being added to the existing ones.

Dr Mishra also informed the House that the medical practitioners who are not Indian citizens but have registered their names with the West Bengal Medical Council will lose their registration to practise.

"We have decided to set up three medical colleges with intake capacity of 100 each at Kamarhati in North 24 Parganas, Malda and Berhampore in Murshidabad. We will also increase 695 seats at the undergraduate level in the existing medical colleges," Dr Mishra said.

At present, 11 medical colleges in the state have intake capacity of 1,355 in total at the MBBS level.

Source: The Asian Age 3 new medical colleges to come up in state

The university, set up by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan, had been experiencing unrest for long as the students were on an indefinite agitation to protest the hike.

University spokesperson Amitabha Chowdhury said, "We have decided to cut down the students' fees by 50 percent after discussing it with the students' representatives".

"The admission fees will also be reduced for the internal students (who are already studying in the university). However, the external students will have to pay their fees on the basis of newly implemented rate. The students have also expressed their satisfaction over the authorities' decision and we are expecting that normalcy will be restored soon," he added

Terming it a "victory for the students", student leader, Anupam Hazra said the authorities have also assured to reconsider the tuition fees for the external students during next month.

"If the authorities do not think for the external students, then we would launch a greater movement," he warned.

The varsity faced the students' ire after it decided to hike fees in June this year. The students' unions called indefinite shut down in phases to protest the move.

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West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT), Kolkata, West Bengal, has announced the various undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) course final semester examination results on July 27, 2010. Results are published in the University's official website: <a href="http://www.wbut.net/">http://www.wbut.net/</a>

Candidates can check the following undergraduate UG & PG course final semester examination results 2010 by logging in the aforementioned website. Moreover, the Grade Cards will be dispatched on and from August 9, 2010 after 14.00 hrs.