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IIIT-H New Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Get a Flying StartThe International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad’s center for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship get on to a good start. The center is part of IIIT-H initiatives to combine research and encourage innovation and entrepreneurship with highest quality education. The center was set up to imbibe creative, strategic, managerial and transformation thinking amongst students SETU software systems became the first company to be incubated & housed inhouse in IIIT-H, with the base technology offered from the CEO, Prasad Pingali’s PhD work at the institute’s LTRC lab. The co-founder of this company is Prof. Vasudeva Varma, who is also the chief scientist in the company. SETU Software system is a product & services company operating in the area of Indian Language search & information extraction. As part of their academic partnership within 2 months of setting up the innovation center, SUN Microsystems extended support to the Institute by giving servers and software platforms. The Institute received financial support to projects from Governmental scheme DSIR’s TePP and DIT’s initiates for entrepreneurship development. IIIT-H celebrated its foundation day with a series of lectures and talks by leading academicians, business leaders in its campus. The programmes were held on September 1 and 2, 2008. During the 2 day program, Rajeeva Ratna Shah, Former Member-Secretary, Planning Commission, Govt. of India, Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA and Narendra Ahuja, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. This was followed by a panel discussion by K C Reddy, Chairman, A P State Council of Higher Education and Gautam Barua, Director, IIT Guwahati spoke on academic and industry related subjects. In his address commemorating 10 years of IIIT-H Rajeev Sangal, Director, IIIT-H said that it was the only institute which is uniquely structured, in the country allowing undergraduate students to participate in the ongoing research. The institute has been able to design special undergraduate programme structured along with a postgraduate programme that enable students have the flexibility in selecting courses and undertaking projects. The afternoon session focused on the subject of “Transforming Apex Institutions to Meet New Challenges.” The Speakers were M Anandakrishnan, Chairman, BOG, IIT Kanpur & Former Vice-Chancellor, Anna University, M S Ananth, Director, IIT Madras. This was followed by a Panel Discussion by M S Ananth, Director, IIT Madras, S G Dhande, Director, IIT Kanpur, P Rama Rao, Former Vice-Chancellor, University of Hyderabad. Today, the institute attracts top attention in campus recruitments by the corporate world. With the B.Tech (Hons) and MS students getting placed in all the top research companies with an average salary of Rs. 7.20 lakh per annum. IIIT-H good research environment for students, demonstrates such high level of placement opportunity. The highest salary offered was Rs. 12 lakh per annum. The institute’s research exchange programme with leading research groups in the world helped students to gain deeper understanding of research initiatives and spend quality time at the participatory university abroad. The aim of the institute was to reach 100 Ph.D admissions per year by 2012 and thus placing it along with leading research institutes in the world. This year IIIT-H admitted around 125 research students taking the total number to 307 with 84 Ph.D students and 223 MS students. To facilitate development of inter-disciplinary research as well as a seamless flow of knowledge, the Institute does not have departments. It has research centers instead. Faculty is attached to the centers and labs for conducting research. It participates in the conduct of academic programmes which belong to the whole Institute and are not owned by any department. Help in the form of tuning business plans, exposure to industry, networking by organizing bar camps and product development workshops, is also undertaken. A very proactive effort is on to identify socially relevant & high impact projects which require IT intervention. More : indiaprwire.com
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Chennai: A venture of the Indian Institute Technology, Madras, or IIT-M, is training villagers for employment in retail, business process outsourcing and security services, in an attempt to bridge the urban-rural divide.
“If you take any industry, companies are always looking for people. Considering that majority of the population lives in rural India, we realized that they can be trained and brought to the same level as those in urban centres—and employed,” says Richa Pandey Mishra, founder and chief executive officer of eJeevika HR Pvt. Ltd, a start-up incubated by IIT-M. “This would help corporates battle labour shortage effectively.”
EJeevika’s business model is simple: it identifies entrepreneurs through village council heads, non-profits and self-help groups and offers them a franchise.
The entrepreneur invests some Rs50,000 on a couple of personal computers, a broadband Internet connection and power back-up.
The franchisees then identify potential candidates who are then trained by eJeevika according to the requirements of its clients.
For now, eJeevika has developed training modules for security services, retail and business process outsourcing and would develop modules for other sectors depending on client requirements.
Villagers who wish to be trained register with eJeevika’s website after which the company conducts an online interview in the presence of its client. Once the client gives a go-ahead sign, the candidate pays a fee and undergoes online training. Mishra says the fee is “nominal,” without elaborating. The candidate then has to clear online tests, interviews and a final face-to-face interview with the client. The entire process takes around a month, said Mishra.
The firm has successfully piloted its model in Cuddalore and Tiruvallur districts of Tamil Nadu, she said. EJeevika trained and placed some 100 candidates with the help of a network of 20 franchisees in a few retailers and security services firms. Mishra declined to name clients citing business confidentiality.
“This is what we need at the moment. There is a shortage of labour supply. There are talks about inclusive growth and here is a good example of inclusiveness,” said Rajesh Sukumaran, investment manager for Singapore-based angel investment fund Mercatus Capital’s India operations.
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Prem Chandra Purwar has been appointed officiating director of the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L), an official said here Monday.His appointment, following a human resource development ministry directive, came after Devi Singh’s five-year term as IIM-L director ended Aug 24.
The IIM-L board of governors had then constituted a committee of two deans to run the institute, the official added.
Purwar’s teaching areas include consumer behaviour and marketing research.
In December 2007, the ministry had invited applications for the post of IIM-L director and five short-listed candidates including Devi Singh were interviewed May 2.
Singh, seeking an extension of his term, was leading the race. However, the final decision on the permanent appointment remains pending.
More : thaindian.com
With government firming up plans to open 16 new Central universities, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Monday demanded setting up such a varsity in his constituency Latur.
Deshmukh met HRD Minister Arjun Singh to make a case for Latur for hosting a central university and also pitched for either an IIT or an IIM for Aurangabad in Marathwada region of the state.
The Chief Minister also met Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia to press for the demands for setting up elite institutions in the state.
Deshmukh pointed out to both Singh and Ahluwalia that students from Latur have been consistently emerging toppers in the Class 10 and Class 12 examinations and the region deserved to be home to such institutions.
The chief minister also met AICC General Secretary Margaret Alva who is incharge of party affairs in Maharashtra.
More : economictimes.indiatimes.com
The number of girl students at undergraduate level at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D) has increased significantly by over 65 percent this year.
S.R. Kale, Dean, Undergraduate Studies at IIT Delhi said, “In 2007, out of 550 students at the institute, 50 were girls constituting 9 percent of the strength. However, this year, 83 out of the total 626 students are girls, which is about 13 percent. This is a significant increase".
The increase is in contrast to the fact that less number of girl students opt for engineering education. On the contrary, girls perform better than boys in science in the higher secondary examinations.
The popular streams among the girl candidates are Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Bio-Chemical Engineering.
Girls are also more focused in the classrooms as compared to their male counterparts. In 2007, girls bagged 3 of the 14 silver medals for undergraduate studies at the institute.
More : indiaedunews.net
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Calcutta launched a one-year residential post-graduate programme for executives in ‘visionary leadership in manufacturing’ in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kanpur and IIT-Madras Sunday here.The programme has been designed by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) - a governmental agency of Japan that provides technical cooperation to other developing countries.
“We want Indian students to apply Japanese technology in the manufacturing industry and make their presence felt among world leaders. Under this programme, we are confident that the manufacturing industry will undergo complete transformation in another five years,” JICA chief advisor Shoji Shiba told reporters on the IIM-Calcutta campus here.
Director of IIM-Calcutta Shekhar Chaudhury said the course was designed in the Indian context to deal with Indian customers.
“The manufacturing industry in India has been languishing for the past 20 years. This is a unique course that blends conceptual knowledge with skill-based training,” Chaudhury said.
“After completing the course, the annual income of a candidate will increase from Rs.500,000 to Rs.1500,000,” he added.
JICA will provide all equipment required for the course. During the course, students will be taken to various firms in Japan to get a practical knowledge of the technology and its application.
More : thaindian.com
NEW DELHI: Planning Commission deputy chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia has rejected President Pratibha Patil’s proposal for an all-women IIT at Amravati, but this may not be the last word on the matter. As sources point out, the world over there are all-women education institutions imparting higher education, including technical and management courses.
Patil’s proposal, that was approved by both the HRD ministry and the PMO, had gone to the Plan panel for its in-principle approval. The PMO had told the Planning Commission that the proposal for an all-women IIT was independent of the six new IITs that have already started. It was argued that such an institution in a backward region like Amravati would send the right message and could act as a catalyst for women’s education in the area.
While rejecting the idea, the panel said setting up an all-women IIT would result in demands for similar NITs and IIMs and was, therefore, not worth it. In fact, the Plan panel’s letter clearly states that the decision to reject the President’s idea has the approval of Ahluwalia.
According to sources, the matter has not ended yet and another attempt could be made to convince the Planning Commission. As a senior official said, it is rare that a proposal from the President is shot down summarily as the Planning Commission has done. He also said, “What is wrong if there is a demand for an all-women IIM or NIT. The world over there are technical universities for women.”
In fact, after Pepsico chief Indra Nooyi’s success a private education group has decided to start an all-women management school in India.
More : timesofindia.indiatimes.com
With the CAT - MBA entrance exam for the IIMs slated to go online from 2009, TestFunda.com promises to make the preparation for every CAT aspirant Easy, Effective and Personalised.
The newly launched site www.TestFunda.com has managed to get over 15,000 registered users within a span of one month. Its fun interface with interactive content forms an instant connect with the CAT aspirants and takes the stress out of one of the most competitive and nerve-racking tests in the world. TestFunda.com provides complete CAT preparation with 2000 pages of CAT based content covering every topic relevant to CAT. It provides 28 full length mock tests, detailed personalized reports and comprehensive feedback. Some of these tests are personalized tests which are specially designed for the test-takers to help them work on their weak areas. TestFunda.com also provides an integrated Ask-a-Doubt facility to the CAT aspirants.
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Ankur Gattani, the IIT Bombay, IIM Calcutta graduate, who opted out of his campus placements to start his own venture, launched his start-up, Lifeinlines.com, in beta at IIT Bombay yesterday. With another IIT-B graduate, Maninder, on his team now, the two ex-members of the students’ entrepreneurship cell on the campus, got their faculty advisor to launch the site by a voice call recorded and played on their site.
Just four months after his convocation from IIM Calcutta, where he opted out of the placement process, Ankur has put together a team with Maninder Gulati, a senior from IIT Bombay who quit his job at ITC, to join Lifeinlines.com, also Nirjhareswar Bannerjee and Nilesh Pancholi, both accomplished technology people rather senior to him, but willing to bet on the shared dream. Lifeinlines has gone through multiple reviews and been commended by international forums for its warmth and emotional touch, and now has a set of users that have formed an intimate relationship with the site.
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A week after its formal launch, IIT-Hyderabad is still grappling with basic issues. The new institute has no permanent faculty, no research laboratory and insufficient accommodation.
Though classes started on August 20, the process to recruit permanent faculty has not started yet. Moreover, filling up of the first batch of faculty positions will be completed in the next three months.
Faculty from IIT-Madras are teaching the 116 students who have joined the new institute. “The faculty travel back and forth, teaching at both IITs so that there will be no faculty shortage at the mentor institute.
Though this is inconvenient there is no other way as the recruitment could not be done before the academic year,” a source said. Some faculty members said that due to the Union government’s insistence that the six new IITs should start from 2008, many things including recruitment of faculty and setting up of permanent campus could not be done.
The notification for vacant faculty posts is likely to be issued in a week’s time. The first group is likely to take charge by October end.
Even lodging facilities on the campus are not sufficient; many faculty are staying in private accommodation near the campus. Besides, the student hostels for the second year students are yet to be identified and the maintenance work has to start before December 2008. The campus is not ready for academic activities also with research laboratories to be set up soon. For a research laboratory or industrial infrastructure complex, IIT-Hyderabad authorities have requested the state government to allot another building as there is no suitable building in the Ordnance Factory.
When contacted, coordinator for IIT-Hyderabad and co-chair of IITMadras , C V R Murthy, said work is going on as per the schedule. “Every IIT has begun on a temporary campus with shortcomings. Many things are in process with applications being forwarded to the central government and defence ministry. It is only a matter of time before the IIT becomes a fullfledged institute,” Murthy said.
More : timesofindia.indiatimes.com
The IITs have decided to open model answers to their entrance test questions to independent scrutiny within days of next year’s Joint Entrance Exam, allowing the public to point out errors that may have slipped through undetected.
IIT Delhi director Surendra Prasad said the institutes had decided to reveal the model answers “promptly” after the 2009 exam, instead of withholding them for months.
The decision was taken earlier this month after an IIT Bombay professor complained to 2008 JEE organisers of a math paper evaluation error that possibly robbed thousands of students of crucial marks.
“The IIT Joint Admission Board (JAB) has decided that we will display the model answers soon after the exam next year. Yes, we were late this year (in revealing answers) but we are learning each year,” Prasad said.
The JAB is the top policy making body of the JEE.
The Telegraph had yesterday revealed a complaint from professor Kapil Dattatraya Joshi pointing out how the IITs had incorrectly evaluated a four-mark multiple-choice math question.
Although the exam was on April 13, the model answers were made public only on August 1. By then, the final merit list had been announced, selected students had chosen their streams, classes were about to commence — and Joshi’s complaint, made on seeing the model answers, was dismissed as “too late”.
“We are yet to finalise exactly how soon after the JEE we will disclose the model answers. Details still need to be worked out but we have decided to do it promptly (after the exam),” Prasad said.
The IITs, in agreeing to the benefits of disclosing answers to questions once entrance tests are over, are ironically following the example of examination systems that once looked up to the JEE as a model.
Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan already make model answers public, 24 hours after the entrance tests — called Common Entrance Tests — to their state engineering colleges. Karnataka also allows students to challenge their scores.
By contrast, 2008 was the first year that the IITs disclosed their model answers.
“The IITs certainly need to do some soul-searching,” said former IIT Delhi director D.P. Kothari.
In its efforts to collaborate with premier international universities for research and development, IIT Bombay is planning to associate with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US.
“IIT Bombay is looking at some kind of association with MIT. But talks are still at a nascent stage. However, what is encouraging is that the MIT alumni in India are very excited about the possible interaction of their institute with IIT Bombay,” said professor Pradipta Banerji, dean of alumni and international relations at IIT Bombay.
In recent times, IIT Bombay signed a number of memorandum of understandings (MoUs) with international universities for facilitating faculty and student exchange as well as joint research projects. The list includes Monash University, Rice University, University of Southampton and University of Cambridge, to name a few.
“For some time now, our focus has been to associate with top-level universities. We have been trying to leverage research work with some of them so that it helps our institute in achieving the goal of acquiring world class status,” said Banerji
Emphasising that signing MoUs or joint venture agreements was only the first step, Banerji said, “Currently, we are focusing to ensure that we are able to successfully operationalise the commitments we have made so far.”
For instance, he said, while work on the Institute of Science and Technology in Africa had begun three years ago, the classes at the institute started this year. “Three parallel programmes have started, which are relevant for that region, and include material sciences; petroleum engineering and water resources engineering,” he said.
More : dnaindia.com
Highlighting the use of technological intervention for development in interior Maharashtra, IIT Bombay (IIT-B) has created a master plan for the Rahata block (Ahmednagar district) comprising 58 villages and two towns.
“A number of districts in interior Maharashtra do not have access to facilities like water and electricity, though they may have natural resources that can be exploited. We’ve created a plan for a bunch of villages. We are calling it a model block,” said IIT-B dean of research & development Krithi Ramamritham.
The project is being funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST). “The DST approached us to prepare a detailed project report to develop a model block. We conducted a survey during 2006-07 and have submitted our report whereby we want to take technology to the people. The DST is looking forward to implementing it at Rahata, in collaboration with the Rajiv Gandhi Commission for Science & Technology and IIT-B,” said K Narayanan, professor of Economics at IIT-B and the principal investigator in the project.
Narayanan said depending on the project’s success, the DST plans to replicate it in other blocks, each comprising at least 50-60 villages, across the country. He said it was one of the first such efforts to plan for a “model” block, with a focus on providing technological and institutional support to generate employment and create assets at the grassroot level.
The report says since agriculture is the primary occupation in the block, information technology (IT) should be used for providing climate and weather forecasts, market prices and expert consultation. “The block has institutions like Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Babhaleshwar, which can train farmers in the use of IT,” the report said.
A significant recommendation is a change in crop pattern and enhancement of income though high-yield crops.
More : dnaindia.com
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today publicly assured IIT Guwahati director Gautam Barua that he would personally discuss with cabinet colleagues the institutes’ demand for exemption from faculty quotas.
This is the first time that the Prime Minister, who is a Rajya Sabha MP from Assam, has hinted that he was open to a debate on the implementation of faculty quotas at premier educational institutions like the IITs.
Addressing students and faculty at IIT Guwahati today, the Prime Minister said he had taken note of “the point that Gautam Barua has made with regard to the reservation issue”.
“I (will) take that with me and bring it to the notice of my cabinet colleagues,” he said.
The Prime Minister’s assurance came after a meeting with Barua earlier in the day, when the director expressed concern over the impact on the quality of faculty if reservations are implemented for teachers, sources said.
The government had introduced 22.5 per cent reservation in jobs for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes following amendments to the Constitution in 1951.
Based on the recommendations of the controversial Mandal Commission report, the quota was extended by 27 per cent in the early nineties to cover the Other Backward Classes.
The Telegraph, on December 6, 2007, revealed that the IITs were not following the government’s reservation policy, claiming exemption that they were never granted.
Responding to a Right to Information query, the IITs admitted they had not received any exemption order from the HRD minister, which, officials said, was essential for not implementing reservations.
The IITs initially cited an office memorandum (No 9/2/73, dated 23/6/1975), claiming exemption. The office memorandum, issued by the department of personnel and training, allows for exemptions in scientific and technical institutions but clearly mentions that the orders of the HRD minister concerned are required.
An almost identical office memorandum dated 13/5/1994, was also cited by the IITs. But once again, the office memorandum made it clear that the minister’s order was needed.
On neither occasion was this exemption obtained from the HRD minister at the time.
Based on The Telegraph report, the Standing Committee of the IIT Council (SCIC) — the highest recommendatory body for the IITs — in February suggested that faculty quotas must be implemented.
Following the SCIC recommendation, the HRD ministry issued a fresh notification to the IITs, ordering them to implement reservations for teaching staff.
The IITs have, however, opposed the HRD ministry order, and at the SCIC meeting on July 3, formally sought exemption from the government’s job quota policy.
More : telegraphindia.com
The IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) are opposed to reservation in the recruitment of faculty members and sought to be exempted as they were institutes of national importance.
IIT-Guwahati director Prof Gautam Barua told reporters here today that the IITs for the last 36 years had no reservation in recruitment of faculty members.
However, recently officials from the Centre had informed the IITs that reservation for teacher recruitment would have to be implemented as they were not included in the 1972 government order exempting reservation for scientists and researchers in nationally important institutions of the Department of Space, Atomic Energy and Defence, Barua said.
The IITs were de facto also included in the list of exempted institutes, he said.
Besides verbally opposing the reservation move, he said, the directors of all the IITs recently at a meeting decided to write to the government and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to include them in the 1972 order.
More : business-standard.com
Another summer has come and gone bringing with it a fresh group of students eager to be impressed. These students are ready to find out exactly what IIT has to offer. While making ranks on some of the Princeton Review’s “Room for Improvement” lists and achieving a whopping 96th on U.S. News’ Top National Universities of 2008, IIT leaves something to be desired.
Fortunately for the student body, last year things began to change. Many Voices, One Vision allowed students to submit their opinions on issues that will be considered in the new strategic plan, the Residence Hall Association (RHA) developed a “food committee” to be the liaison between the students and Sodexo, and forums like ChangeIIT gave students a place to discuss their qualms with this institution, just to name a few.
With all these positive responses to the outcries of the students, I’m still left unsatisfied. Why, you ask? Because I’m not seeing many changes. There is an endless list of changes that need to be made at IIT, and they’re just not happening. However, if change is happening, I, as a member of the student body, don’t know about it. In either case, it’s bad.
So what can we, as members of the IIT Community, do to solve this? Get involved! If you experience a problem with IIT, don’t just stop and complain about it, do something. Find possible solutions to the problem, do a little research, talk to fellow students, and present your findings to the appropriate personnel in order to catalyze change.
Contrary to popular belief, there are faculty members and organizations that want to help you, but they’re busy. If you approach any of these members with your research done and a serious attitude to fix the problem, I bet they’ll actually listen. If you’re unsure who to approach or what to do next, go to the Student Government Association (SGA) meetings. I’m sure these elected members of the IIT student body will be more than willing to assist, especially if you’re trying to make a change.
In summary, if you have a problem with IIT, do something about it. Initiate the change that will positively affect you as well as the rest of the IIT community. Nevertheless, don’t limit yourself to only fixing issues that arise. Try creating something useful just for the hell of it. If we all start pouring our efforts into action instead of apathy, I guarantee IIT will exceed our expectations.
More : technews.iit.edu
IIM-Lucknow, one of the premier business institutes of the country, is still in the dark about who will take over the B-school’s reins after the present director Dr Devi Singh’s tenure ends on Sunday. In a meeting conducted at the campus on Saturday, the director confirmed handing over the charge to two of the deans - Prof Sukumar Nandi, dean, planning and development; and Prof Yogesh Agarwal, dean, academic affairs - on Sunday.
It’s been nine months since the search for new director was set rolling by the search committee specifically appointed for the purpose. Infact, sources say Dr Singh was on the top of the short-listed candidates, for a second term. However, nothing concrete has emerged out of the process yet. A source who didn’t wish to be identified, says: “It’s an embarrassing situation both for the government and the institute of such repute. You talk of global standards and this is the pace at which things work.”
Headed by Nripendra Mishra, chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, the selection committee includes JJ Irani, chairman of the board of governors, and R P Aggarwal, secretary, higher education.
According to a letter sent to the board chairman, interviews were conducted on 2nd May and the file was sent to the department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on 14th. It was sent back again on 28th July following certain clarifications which were sought by the DoPT. However, professors at the campus are annoyed over the slow pace of the developments. It takes time to plan a course of action, specially at this level, they feel.
More : economictimes.indiatimes.com
The IITS, which faced problems filling SC/ST seats this year (2008-09), decided on Sunday to further lower the cut-off for them in next year’s admissions, to make way for as many candidates as possible.
The decision was made keeping in view that next year, the six new IITs and the older ones will increase seats in lieu with expansion. This year, the seven old IITs expanded by 13 per cent, accommodating nine per cent OBC quota. The six new IITs — at Gandhinagar, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad and in Punjab and Rajasthan, each with 120 seats — implemented 27 per cent quota from this year.
But 66 seats meant for SCs and STs in the six new IITs were left vacant, as there were not enough eligible candidates. As the new IITs expressed inability to start preparatory courses for SC/ST candidates, citing infrastructure and faculty problems, the Joint Admission Board of 2008 decided to leave the 19 SC and 47 ST seats vacant this year. These seats would be filled afresh as part of IIT Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), 2009.
About 3.11 lakh candidates appeared for JEE 2008 While the cut-off for the last general category student admitted in IITs was 180 marks out of a total of 489, the cut-off for the last of the SC/ST students was 104.
The Joint Admission Board, which met in IIT-Kharagpur on Sunday to finalise the entrance policy for next year, decided to increase the cut-off waiver for SC/STs and the physically disabled from the present 40 per cent to 50 per cent. This is to ensure more SC/ST students make it through the process, Prof D. Acharya, director IIT-Kharagpur, and Prof Gautam Barua, director IIT Guwahati, told HT.
According to IIT directors, the exact number of seats to be added for the next academic session would be decided later as they have to work out the ability to expand infrastructure on campuses. The IIT-JEE 2009 will be held on April 12, 2009, for which the exam pattern remains almost the same.
More : hindustantimes.com
So long, we have heard about Indian management gurus strategising for international companies. Now, IIT Bombay is evolving management mantras to woo more foreign entries for its business plan (B-Plan) competition ‘Eureka!’.
For the tenth edition, IIT-B has upped the stakes for Eureka! A total prize money up to Rs 25 lakh is up for grabs. Like the Massachussetts Institute of Technology’s ‘MIT 100 k b-plan,’ touted as world’s largest B-Plan, IIT-B is pitching Eureka! as the largest B-Plan competition in Asia.
This time round, the institute has roped in Intel as its resource partner, which would be sending the first three finalists to the B-Plan competition of UC Berkeley, another prestigious Business Plan competition, as official entries.
More : economictimes.indiatimes.com
In an effort to reach out to the faculty staff in engineering colleges across the country to acquaint them with its high quality courses and innovative teaching skills, the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) has tied up with Mission 10x, an initiative launched by IT company Wipro.
This Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will facilitate IIT-B and Mission 10x in mutually beneficial areas for a period of three years. Mission 10x will be involved in creating teaching methodology while IIT-B will deal with content delivery.
IIT-B’s Centre for Distance Engineering Education Programme (CDEEP) has been conducting live transmission of its engineering courses in India and abroad through various technologies including EDUSAT that enables web-based interaction between its participants and IIT-B faculty.
The CDEEP has also coordinated with IIT-B’s course creation efforts for the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) which has also been made available on the popular video sharing website YouTube. CDEEP started transmitting IIT-B’s courses free of cost to more than 50 colleges through Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) EDUSAT from January 2008 onwards.
Some of the activities to be carried out under this joint venture are creation of educational material, establishing a joint centre of excellence to carry out joint research activity in the field of education and transmission of educational material through EDUSAT.
Mission 10x was launched in September last year to ‘nurture talent pool’ across the engineering faculty in the country. It covers 17 engineering colleges in Maharashtra, apart from engineering colleges in four other states in the country.
Professor K Moudgalya, Head of CDEEP said, “The education system in India is in a terrible state. Education institutes, the government, private and public industry all have a stake in improving it in whatever way they can. It is an exciting opportunity for IIT-B to collaborate with Mission10x which is working towards enhancing engineering faculty capability across the country through innovative teaching and learning paradigms.”
The initiative aims to cover 10,000 faculty by 2010 and extend its services to other states as well. “We need to avail more of our distance learning programmes and tying up with Wipro help us achieve that,” said Professor Moudgalya.
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Mission10X, a non-profit trust launched by Wipro Ltd, announced here today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) with the objective of creating a broad understanding that can foster closer collaboration between Mission10X and IIT-B. Some of the activities to be jointly undertaken under the MoU are creation of educational material, establishing of a joint centre of excellence to carry out joint research activity in education, and transmission of educational material created by Mission10x through EDUSAT. The MoU is for a period of 3 years. Adressing a press conference, Wipro Technologies Senior
Dow Chemicals has withdrawn its sponsorship of a chemical engineering conference at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, after students and teachers urged the institute to sever ties with the company. Methane leaked from a plant of Union Carbide, now owned by Dow, on a December 1984 night in Bhopal, killing thousands. The IIT is learnt to have communicated its apprehensions to the company in the wake of a campus signature campaign against Dows entry into the institute. More : telegraphindia.com
Research Partnerships Eighteen researchers from McGill University, Canada, are visiting India as part of the McGill Scientific Mission 2006, whose goal is to pave the .way for future scien¬tific partnerships wi¬th leading universi¬ties and institutions in Delhi and Bangalore. The delegation is capitalising on Indias current eco¬nomic and knowledge boom to estab¬lish a greater pres¬ence and strengthen its ties with the country. Foun¬ded in 1821, McGill is ranked as one of the top 25 universities in the world by The Times Higher Educ¬ation Supplement.
The AICTE has as an interim measure, permtted the employment of teachers up to the age of 70 in institutions that have its approval. It has also permitted the relaxation in cadre ratio for specialized subjects like bio-technology, computer science and engineering, information technology, and electronics and communication engineering. It has sanctioned 211 new institutions for this academic year ,creating 23,651 additional seats in various disciplines across the country. The relaxation in the faculty age comes in the wake of bridging the gap between shortage of faculty and the increase of seats in various institution
The AICTE has as an interim measure, permtted the employment of teachers up to the age of 70 in institutions that have its approval. It has also permitted the relaxation in cadre ratio for specialized subjects like bio-technology, computer science and engineering, information technology, and electronics and communication engineering. It has sanctioned 211 new institutions for this academic year ,creating 23,651 additional seats in various disciplines across the country. The relaxation in the faculty age comes in the wake of bridging the gap between shortage of faculty and the increase of seats in various institution
Liverpool scholarships University of Liverpool, faculty of engineering postgraduate international scholarship for September 2007 entry is for international students who pay tuition fees at full international rates (£11300 for 2007-2008). All eligible international students will automatically receive a University of Liverpool international advancement award worth £1000.The faculty of engineering international PGT scholarship offers a further £1000 to each high calibre international student who registers for full time studies leading towards the award of an MSc (English) or MRes in the Faculty of Engineering. Requirements: A good first class honours degree/ equivalent overseas qualification in a relevant subject area, engineering or scientific subjects,
Mumbai: Ankit Gupta, a computer engineer from IIT Bombay, is the newest member of a consultancy firm as a Business Analyst. After four years of computer programming slogging, Gupta for a "management and resolution of problems for the nature of the future scope of custody". Gupta is not alone. Of the 1100 students, IIT-B from this year, only 40 have joined the computer Hollywood majors like Infosys, Wipro and TCS, while about 15% of graduates in computer science from non-technical areas . Of course, the engineer, the race director for his money. Cut short the Engineering MBA route, several IIT
US-based Nuance Communications on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IIT Madras's TeNet Group, a coalition of faculty from the electrical engineering and computer science and engineering departments of the institute, for a strategic relationship to develop innovative applications based on Nuance's technology. According to the agreement, Nuance and TeNet would jointly develop applications relevant to the Indian market to adopt speech-based applications in e-commerce, remote healthcare and e-governance. Both of them would setup and foster in-campus pilot projects with the aim to help incubate start-ups and would refine, scale and commercialise these solutions. Nuance would also establish
Singapore Undergraduate Scholarship This scholarship covers tuition fees and all compulsory fees, a one off settling in allowance of S$200, accommodation allowance and an annual living allowance of S$6,000. It is tenable for studies in the School of Computing, Faculty of engineering and the faculty of science, excluding pharmacy, for a minimum period of candidature for the respective undergraduate course at National University of Singapore (NUS). It includes oneway air passage from home country to Singapore at the beginning of the course of study, and oneway air passage from Singapore to home country at the end of the course of study.
Screws have been tightened on self-financing private engineering and management institutes with a government-appointed watchdog deciding to abolish as many as 38,000 seats across the country this year. The All India Council for Technical Education wielded the broom as part of its efforts to weed out institutes that have been mushrooming without the necessary faculty or other resources. As many as 25,335 seats have been taken off engineering colleges found lacking in facilities, an official release said. The intake of students in post-graduate business management courses will be reduced by 3,016 students this year. In computer applications, the seats have
Engineering education Indians proudly claim to have the largest pool of engineers in the country. This is the resource that forms the backbone of Indias rapidly growing IT industry. Indeed, the Indian techie is almost a clichéd figure, parodied in legend and cartoons for their smarts. But the much-heralded engineers working in Silicon Valley are, for the most part, students of the more prestigious Indian engineering colleges. Many of the so-called engineers come from institutions with poor faculty, shortfalls in computers, shoddy laboratories and shockingly, no access to the Internet. More : dnaindia.com
The All India Council for Technical Education is thinking in terms of letting engineering colleges in each region to form clusters. One of the colleges could then be designated as a nodal institution. The cluster colleges could invest money and send expert faculty to the nodal centre to train fresh teachers. Such an effort would address the problems of infrastructure and teacher shortage in engineering colleges, says AICTE Chairman Prof. Damodar Acharya. Explaining the AICTE's thinking, Prof. Acharya, told The Hindu here on Friday that the Council was aware of the situation where the number of colleges had grown and
The senior faculty at the IITs is toying with suggestions to attract and retain quality faculty. With 54 per cent expansion in existing IITs coupled with six new IITs taking off from this year, the faculty crunch is perhaps the biggest challenge for the institutes. IIT Bombay faculty affairs dean Devang Khakhar says the existing and new IITs would need about 3,000 faculty members in the next five years. Firstly, like all the other US universities, IIT faculty could get an annual compensation payable for 10 months. The remaining two months could be utilised for research work and industry-sponsored projects.
With 38,000 fewer seats, the competition for engineering, MBA, MCA and pharmacy courses is going to be stiffer this year. The All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), which regulates professional institutes, has decided to reduce student intake in colleges, which do not have adequate faculty members. Out of the total 38,101 seats slashed this year, 25,335 are in engineering, 8,229 in MCA (Masters in Computer Applications), 3,016 in MBA (Masters in Business Administration) and PG diploma in business management (PGDBM) and 1,521 in pharmacy courses. The all-India student intake for engineering (in AICTE-approved institutes) is going to be 4,52,260 this
Excelsoft ties up with Wolters Kluwer Education Excelsoft Technologies, a leading e-learning solutions provider, with development centres in Mysore and Hyderabad, has signed a five-year agreement with the Europe-based Wolters Kluwer Education (WKe), a division of Wolters Kluwer, the biggest information services and publishing company in Europe. WKe is the leading provider of primary, secondary, and vocational educational material, content and services in seven European countries. The agreement covers the use of Ex-celsoft's e-learning Application Framework across all WKe publishing houses.
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