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Top B-schools to challenge new AICTE rule

New Delhi: Several top private business schools in India have decided to petition high courts and the government against a contentious new rule by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the nation's apex regulating body for technical education. The institutes that will fie the petition include Xavier Labor Research Institute (XLRI) in Jamshedpur, Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), the Management Development Institute and S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) in Mumbai among others. These institutes had met on Monday to finalize the strategy for opposition of the new rule. The private b-schools are opposed against a notification by the AICTE that had been received on December 28, 2010 that prevented private b-schools from conducting their own admission tests for the postgraduate diplomas in management. The private b-schools have alleged that the implementation of the new rule could dwindle the quality of management education in Indi...

AICTE asks institutions to validate plans

Chennai : The regional office of the All India Council for Technical Education ( AICTE ) has requested all institutions in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry to validate with its office if their proposals for increasing, or variation in, the intake or introduction of additional courses during 2009-10 are safe. The step has been taken by AICTE in view of the fire that broke out at its office in Shastri Bhavan on October 17 this year in which some proposals were burnt. Institutions have therefore been asked to verify whether their proposals are safe, along with the proof of submission. Soruce: http://indiaedunews.net/Tamil_Nadu/AICTE_asks_institutions_to_validate_plans_6735/

Mass Communication in India

What is Mass Communication? The dictionary suggests that Mass Communication is a collective term used to describe the academic study of various means of communication by which individuals and entities relay information to large segments of the population all at once through mass media. And mass media is that particular medium through which the information is communicated to a large section of the audience. In a nutshell, Mass Communication is the study of mass media and mass media includes all types of medium used to convey the information to the audience. Examples of mass media include newspapers, magazines, cinema films, radio, television, etc. The graduates of Mass Communication programs work in a variety of fields in news media and publishing, public relations and research institutes. Mass Communication in India The recent past has seen India awaken to the call of media and this fact has led to major developments in the Mass Communication study-sectors across India, which in turn ...

UPSC against transparency in selection process

New Delhi: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), the conducting body of Civil Services examination in India, has opposed transparency in the Civil Services selection process saying that it would increase the probability of dummy candidates appearing for the examination.The Delhi High Court had earlier directed the UPSC to reveal the cut-off marks obtained by candidates in the preliminary test of the Civil Services examination.It also dismissed the UPSC's apprehension that by disclosing the working of the scaling methodology for the preliminary examination, merit can be compromised and candidates with less merit would be selected. It said: "We are of the view that the apprehension of UPSC is not well founded."The UPSC has also challenged this order with the Supreme Court saying that the availability of raw marks and scaled marks would reduce the Civil Services examination to a play field of strategies developed by coaching institutes.A lot of freedom has been given ...

India, Bahrain to sign healthcare agreement

Dubai: India and Bahrain are set to sign a bilateral agreement for the development of small and medium healthcare enterprises in that Gulf nation. Minister of State for External Affairs E. Ahamed, who was on a two-day visit to Bahrain, said that a memorandum of understanding (MoU) would be signed between the two countries when India's Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss visits Bahrain. "Anbumani Ramadoss may visit Bahrain soon to sign the MoU," Ahamed told reporters in Manama. "The Mou will establish guidelines for recruiting doctors and nurses from India to Bahrain and encourage Bahrain's health ministry to benefit from India's surgical facilities of international standard," he added. According to Ahamed, under the terms of the proposed agreement, imports of drugs, pharmaceutical products and medical equipment from India to Bahrain will also see an increase. As for cooperation in other economic fronts, the minister said that both Bahraini and Indian busin...

India faces a drought of teachers

Education is supposed to be the first step in nation-building. But India simply doesn't have enough teachers. The country already faces a shortage of 8 lakh teachers in primary and middle schools. And the situation is going to get even worse. About 10% of teachers at this stage are above 55 years of age. With 6.5% teachers expected to retire or leave the profession each year, some 35 lakh teachers will be left at the primary and middle level by 2011 — a colossal shortfall of almost 25 lakh teachers. That’s the worrying conclusion that emerges after looking at latest figures available from the District Information System for Education. If you consider the total number of children aged 5-14, who should be studying in Classes I-VIII, there were about 24 crore children in this age group in 2006. The recommended pupil-teacher ratio for primary classes is one teacher for 40 students — though in advanced countries, like the US or the UK, and even in China, this ratio is already below 30. ...

Private institutes: Need of Indian education system

More than 10 million students in India are getting higher education from private institutions or universities. Private institutions compensate for the failure of the education system. It is high time that it is given the status of an industry.. FOUR YEARS ago, I appeared for the engineering competitive examinations but couldn’t score a rank good enough to get admission in a government institution. My dreams of being an engineer were on the verge of being shattered but a private institution came to my rescue. It was not just my case but according to the latest survey conducted by Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), there are 17,500 colleges and 230 universities providing higher education to 11million students. But the biggest irony is that out of this large number more than 10 million students are getting higher education from private institutions or universities. The figure itself clearly proves, who is playing a bigger role in imparting higher edu...