PGDM in International Business at IITTM Bhubaneswar
August 19th, 2007 Author : Chitta Baral
Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan’s ad on its own AIEEE admission
5 comments August 19th, 2007 Author : Chitta Baral
Extended Merit List for Medical, Pharmacy, MBA, Architecture Candidates in Orissa JEE web page
Extended Merit List for Medical, Pharmacy, MBA, Architecture Candidates is in the bootom of the Orissa JEE web page just after it says "Important Announcement." (Thanks to Prasun for pointing it out.)
9 comments August 19th, 2007 Author : Chitta Baral
New Central Schools (Kendriya Vidyalayas) in Orissa
Update: See updated list at http://kvsrobbs.org/DirectorKVs.html.
In 2007-08 fifty one (serial 95-145 in the list 2000-01 to 2007-08) new central schools have been created, out of these five are in Orissa. They are in:
- 100 Bouda
- 108 Gajapati
- 125 Malkangiri
- 127 Nabrangpur
- 132 Rayagada
This takes the total number of central schools in Orissa to 34. In addition there is some news that new central schools are also being made in Jajpur and Bhadrakh. They have not made it to the list yet. Assuming this is true, and looking at the district wise list of central schools, the districts in Orissa that do not yet have central schools are:
- Deogarh
- Kandhamala
- Kendrapada
- Nayagarh
- Nuapada
- Sonepur
Looking at the list of central schools in Orissa, it seems that the schools are more geographically distributed than most other states.
August 18th, 2007 Author : Chitta Baral
Campus recruitment at Utkal University
Following are excerpts from a New Indian Express report.
As many as 11 companies, half of them from IT sector, visited the varsity over the past six months and picked up a number of students.
A considerable number of postgraduates were also chosen by multinationals from diverse sectors through off campus placement exercises. The department of Finance and Control achieved a record of sorts by scoring 100 percent result on this front. The department has 30 seats.
This is in sharp contrast to a period not so long back when departments scored a nought. Even students of humanities have secured employment. They include students from Sociology, Rural Development and Anthropology departments. CAPART, for instance, an autonomous body engaged in sustainable development of rural areas, recruited six students from these departments. A matching number was also recruited by Pradan, another leading New Delhi-based NGO.
And it has promised to visit the varsity in September to hold its second phase of recruitment drive. Legal recruitment firm Juriscape India has also evinced keen interest to visit the campus shortly. It would be targeting students of Law, English and Journalism departments. The recruited ones would be absorbed as content writers, legal aid assistants and researchers.
Offers have also come in for students of the department of Fisheries Science. Companies like IFB-Agro Industries and Bay Seafood, both Kolkata-based firms, would be holding recruitment drives in the coming months.
Tech firms like Infosys, TCS, Wipro BPO, HSBC, Genpact Mindtree, Subex Azure, Mindfire Solutions and Exillant have already conducted several rounds of placement drives. …
1 comment August 18th, 2007 Author : Chitta Baral
Mentoring by IIM Lucknow students: Other marquee institutions should do the same
An Indian Express article mentions the surprising result of several IIM Lucknow students mentoring +2 students of a local college. I hope more such mentoring happens. Is anyone from XIM reading this?
August 18th, 2007 Author : Chitta Baral
Registering for Orissa JEE next round of counseling and Orissa AIEEE counseling
(Update on June 17 2008: For guidance on what you can get with your Orissa JEE rank in 2008, please see https://www.orissalinks.com/archives/1185 I do not have more information than that.)
From http://www.jeeorissa.com/newsfiles/news_21.html
Follow instructions in the page http://www.jeeorissa.com/newsfiles/news_21.html
59 comments August 18th, 2007 Author : Chitta Baral
Ad with information on next round of Orissa JEE and AIEEE counseling
This is from Tathya.in. See also the news in the Orissa JEE site.
10 comments August 17th, 2007 Author : Chitta Baral
Ministry of Steel creates chair professorships in metallurgy in NIT Rourkela and several other institutes
Following are excerpts on this from the PIB that mainly talks about the establishment of a new steel center at IIT Kharagpur.
The Empowered committee also cleared a proposal to create a post of Chair professor in the Department of Metallurgy in IIT, Kharagpur, Benaras Hindu University and NITS at Rourkela, Durgapur and Jamshedpur and other institutes, where study of Metallurgical Engineering is pursued at a salary at par with the individual institute’s norm. These institutions will also provide scholarships to five undergraduate students in each of them to pursue studies in areas related to iron and steel. The undergraduate scholarships will carry a monthly stipend of Rs.4000 per month during the entire period of the course.
August 17th, 2007 Author : Chitta Baral
NIPM (National Institute of Intellectual Property Management) in Nagpur
The PIB mentions minister Kamal Nath laying its foundation. The details of the PIB is as follows:
Continue Reading 3 comments August 17th, 2007 Author : Chitta Baral
India produces 40 PhDs in Computer Science/yr to US’s 1400/yr and China’s 3000/yr
Dr. R. K. Ghosh pointed us to a Forbes article by the Editor in Chief of JACM. Following is an excerpt from it.
The U.S. produces about 1,400 Ph.D.s in computer science annually and China about 3,000. By stark comparison, India’s annual computer science Ph.D. production languishes at roughly 40. That number is about the same as that for Israel, a nation with roughly 5% of India’s population size.
While India needs all the new IITs, IIITs and Central Universities that the PM announced during his Aug 15 speech, one wonders where from these institutions will get Ph.Ds for their faculty. The government and the IT industry must brainstorm together and come up with a strategy to tackle this. Following are some initial un-coordinated half-baked thoughts.
- Start motivating good students from an early age about the value of research. This can be done through science magnet schools.
- In IITs and IISc and may be a few other selected institutions have a track similar to MD/PH.D tracks in US medical schools. Students in this track would pursue a B.Tech-P.hD program (no need for MS) and would be given a generous stipends.
- To allow more time for IIT/IISc faculty to pursue research and guide Ph.D students these institutions (especially their CS depts.) should take in more M.Tech students and let them do most of the teaching.
- Government should open special graduate centers in IT/Computer Science (may be as branches of exisiting IITs) that only focus on research. For example, the IIT Kharagpur center in Bhubaneswar may house a faculty of 5-10 CS professors and offer *only* a Ph.D program in computer science. Such centers may have affiliated faculty (who have Ph.Ds) from nearby engineering colleges. Such centers should be slowly opened in every metropolitan area with 15+ engineering colleges. (The IIITs could have served this purpose but it seems most IIITs are focusing on undergraduate education. Exceptions are IIIT Hyderabad, which has a good research program; IIIT Bangalore which only offers M.Tech and Ph.D and the nascent IIIT Bhubaneswar which will also only have M.Tech and Ph.D program, at least in the beginning. )
- Government needs to offer better salary and perks to professors so that more students are attracted to a career in academia.
82 comments August 17th, 2007 Author : Chitta Baral
Tathya.in has more information on the next round of Orissa JEE and AIEEE counseling
Tathya.in has more information on next round Orissa JEE and AIEEE counseling. We will have the details when they become available.
13 comments August 17th, 2007 Author : Chitta Baral
Analyzing the educational aspect of the PM’s independence day speech and its implication to Orissa
The PM’s independence day speech will be remembered for a long time for its groundbreaking educational steps. Here, we analyze them vis-a-vis Orissa.
- K-12
- "We will support 6,000 new high quality schools — one in every block of the country" [Orissa has 314 blocks. Currently the central govt has three kinds of schools: Kendriya Vidyalayas, Navodaya Vidyalayas and Ekalabya Vidyalayas. My guess is these will be Navodaya Vidyalayas. Until now, Navodaya Vidyalayas were being made one per district. Extending it to one per block will do wonders.]
- Higher education
- "We will also ensure that adequate numbers of colleges are set up across the country, especially in districts where enrollment levels are low. We will help States set up colleges in 370 such districts." [Orissa has 30 districts. As per the NSSO study of 2004-2005, Table 3.14.1 shows that in the 15-19 age group 29% people in Orissa are attending school/college and in the 20-24 age group this number for Orissa is 6.1%. (Both numbers are lowest among all but the small states/UTs of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu and Lakshadweep.) For the Scheduled Tribe population these numbers are 17.1% for the 15-19 age group and 4.1% for the 20-24 age group.]
- "We will set up thirty new Central Universities. Every state that does not have a central university will now have one." [Orissa does not have one so it should get one. But considering that there are 23 other existing central universities, making it a total of 53 central universities, Orissa should get two.]
- "we are setting up five new Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research" [The five IISERs are at Pune, Kolkata, Mohali, Bhopal, and Trivendrum. A NISER is being set up in Bhubaneswar.]
- "eight new Indian Institutes of Technology" [Three of these IITs are announced to be in Bihar, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. Orissa should get one of the other five IITs.]
- "seven new Indian Institutes of Management" [Announcements have been made with respect to Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Shillong. If Orissa gets a new IIT then its chance of getting a new IIM this round is much less. Orissa should try though.]
- "twenty new Indian Institutes of Information Technology." [There will be one in each main states, including Orissa, which does not have one. Existing ones are at Allahabad, Amethi, Jabalpur, and Gwalior and a new one is being established at Kanchipuram. ]
- Vocational Education
- "We will soon launch a Mission on Vocational Education and Skill Development, through which we will open 1600 new industrial training institutes (ITIs) and polytechnics, 10,000 new vocational schools and 50,000 new Skill Development Centres."
- "We will ensure that annually, over 100 lakh students get vocational training – which is a four-fold increase from today’s level."
- More scholarships
- "We should seek not just functional literacy, but good quality education – education that is affordable, accessible, equitable – and available to every boy and girl who seeks to study. For the needy we will provide more scholarships."
5 comments August 16th, 2007 Author : Chitta Baral
Sambada school of media and culture: entrance exam on the 18th
August 16th, 2007 Author : Chitta Baral
PM’s Independence day speech: 30 new central universities, 8 new IITs, 7 new IIMs
Following are the relevant excerpts from the Prime Minister’s independence day speech(TOI) (Hindu)(PIB)
Towards this end, our Government has decided to invest in setting up good quality schools across the country. We will support 6,000 new high quality schools — one in every block of the country. Each such school will set standards of excellence for other schools in the area.
As our primary education programmes achieve a degree of success, there is growing demand for secondary schools and colleges. We are committed to universalizing secondary education. An extensive programme for this is being finalized.
We will also ensure that adequate numbers of colleges are set up across the country, especially in districts where enrolment levels are low. We will help States set up colleges in 370 such districts.
The University system, which has been relatively neglected in recent years, is now the focus of our reform and development agenda. We will set up thirty new Central Universities. Every state that does not have a central university will now have one.
In order to promote science and professional education, we are setting up five new Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, eight new Indian Institutes of Technology, seven new Indian Institutes of Management, and twenty new Indian Institutes of Information Technology. These will generate new educational opportunities for our youth. I am sure that, working together, we can ensure that at least a fifth of our children go to college as compared to one-tenth now.
The vast majority of our youth seek skilled employment after schooling. Last year I spoke the need for a Vocational Education Mission. Such a Mission is ready to be launched. We will soon launch a Mission on Vocational Education and Skill Development, through which we will open 1600 new industrial training institutes (ITIs) and polytechnics, 10,000 new vocational schools and 50,000 new Skill Development Centres.
We will ensure that annually, over 100 lakh students get vocational training – which is a four-fold increase from today’s level. We will seek the active help of the private sector in this initiative so that they not only assist in the training but also lend a hand in providing employment opportunities.
We should seek not just functional literacy, but good quality education – education that is affordable, accessible, equitable – and available to every boy and girl who seeks to study. For the needy we will provide more scholarships.
I wish to see a revolution in the field of modern education in the next few years. It is my fervent desire that India becomes a fully educated, modern, progressive nation. From this historic Red Fort, I would like this message to go to every corner of India – we will make India a nation of educated people, of skilled people, of creative people.
This is the first time eight new IITs have been formally and officially mentioned. Three of these were previously announced to be in Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar. So it would be a shame if Orissa does not get one of the remaining five.
1 comment August 15th, 2007 Author : Chitta Baral
