West Godavari bags six of top ren ranks in CEEP

Hyderabad, May 20: About 1,84,932 candidates (about 84.41 per cent) qualified for the Common Entrance Examination for admission into Polytechnics (CEEP 2011) the results of which were released by minister for higher and technical education C Damodara Rajanarasimha on Thursday.

A Anirudh of Ranga Reddy district bagged the first rank with 116 out of 120 marks, Sravya Puvvala bagged the second with 115 marks and Gadde Devendra Kumar bagged the third place with 114 marks. Out of the top ten ranks, students from West Godavari bagged six ranks.

Hike in diet allowance for minority students

Hyderabad, May 20: Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has agreed to sanction diet and maintenance allowances to all eligible minority students on par with BC Welfare, Social Welfare and Tribal Welfare students.

The additional financial commitment for this is around Rs 19 crore.

He agreed to extend funds for enhanced support to economic assistance programmes for minorities at a review meeting with the Minister for Minorities Welfare Mohd Ahmadullah and other officials.

–Agencies

ECET for diploma holders and graduates

Hyderabad, May 20: The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad is conducting ECET- 2011 for diploma holders and B Sc graduates in mathematics for lateral entry admission into engineering and pharmacy courses on May 20 from 10 am to 1 pm in 43 test centres in the State. As many as 25,134 students have registered for the test.

Students who did not receive the hall-tickets can download duplicate hall-tickets from the university website www.injuh.ac.in/ecet/hallticket

Skill Centres

Adding value to education

Hyderabad, May 20: Education must attend to all facets of human life. Among the principles of education we need to include the concept that education is an initiation into a life of spirit and a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Every spirit is endowed with values. Only an education that can nourish inbuilt virtues can impart true intelligence.

Awareness of existence, belongingness to the whole creation and commitment to human values in life will help broaden our vision and deepen our roots.

93 per cent candidates turn up for ICET

Vishakapatnam, May 19: Integrated Common Entrance Test (ICET-2011) for admission into MBA and MCA courses in all universities across Andhra Pradesh was conducted successfully by Andhra University, Visakhapatnam on behalf of the Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education, Hyderabad.

Convener of ICET-2011 GSN Raju said 93.4 per cent of 1,50,800 applicants appeared for the test at 276 test centres in 25 regional centres of the state. For the first time, ICET conducted the test at Amalapuram of East Godavari and Siddipeta in Medak districts.

HC refuses to stay notification to declare Jamia minority institution

New Delhi, May 19: In a relief for Jamia Millia Islamia University, the Delhi High Court Wednesday refused to stay a notification of National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI) granting it the status of a minority institution.

“We will not stay the notification of the NCMEI,” a division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna said. The court, which was hearing a bunch of PILs on the issue, meanwhile, asked the Centre to clarify its stand as to whether it was in favour of the grant of minority status to the varisity or not.

Goutam Buddha University marks Buddha Purnima

Greater Noida, May 17: The Gautam Buddha University here Tuesday marked Buddha Poornima with a seminar focussing on Buddhism in India.

The seminar, held in the main hall of the university’s Jyotiba Phule Meditation Centre, attracted a number of scholars, university teachers and students.

Vice Chancellor S.R. Lakha said that the university’s ‘collective efforts shall create a hallmark in higher education, training and research’.

He highlighted the establishment and functioning of the School of Buddhist Studies and Civilisation in the 2012-13 academic session.

Skill Centres for professional course students

Hyderabad, May 16: The department of higher education is starting 25 Skill Development Centres (SDCs), one in each district, in the new academic year to impart specialised skills to students of professional colleges to enhance their employability.

Officials of the department conveyed this to chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy at a meeting held here on Sunday to review the new initiatives and programmes of the department.

He lauded the department for launching Jawahar Knowledge Centres in almost all degree colleges in the state.

Need to make education child-centric

Hyderabad, May 16: The present scenario is quite alarming as the true sense of education is getting extinct and the most of the educational institutions are working like factories to produce results and top rankers rather than scholars who acquire knowledge.

As academicians we know that purpose of education is the all round personality of child.

But present day education is neither imparting the true knowledge of life to be an independent self to face the world boldly nor improving the talents of a child by which one achieve laurels in the field one is interested.

ICSE Class X and ISC Class XII results tomorrow

New Delhi, May 16: The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) is expected to release the results of its Class X (ICSE) and Class XII (ISC) exams at 3pm on Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Indiatimes will provide the results through SMS, using its 58888 service, and also through a special website (www.cisce.timesofindia.com). The CISCE is a private, non-governmental board of school education. The exams were conducted from February 28 to March 26, 2011.

Delhi HC reserves verdict on prohibiting schools from fee hike

New Delhi, May 14:The Delhi High Court today reserved its verdict on a PIL alleging that despite CAG’s indictment of 25 private schools for accounting malpractices including faking losses, the city government has allowed them
to hike tuition fee.

A division bench of Justices A K Sikri and Siddharth Mridul reserved the order after counsel for the petitioner, city government and the counsel for private schools completed their arguments.

Over a lakh applicants for Jamia’s 7,000 seats

New Delhi, May 12: The Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has sold 114,244 forms for the varsity’s approximately 7,000 seats with courses like management and engineering the most sought-after, a varsity official said Thursday.

“The figure of sold forms is till May 9 and the seats are spread over 231 professional and non-professional courses in 36 departments and 17 centres of excellence and research,” a Jamia official said.

“It is an overwhelming response as the last date of receiving completed application forms in many courses is over,” the official said.

Jamia Millia Islamia’s new quota norms

New Delhi, May 12: Getting its rules in line with the new status, Jamia Millia Islamia has issued fresh norms of reservation that allow 50 per cent seats to be kept aside for Muslim students, while the remaining are open for students belonging to the general category. The new reservation rules will be applicable from the 2011-12 academic session.

This follows an amendment in Statute 39 of the Jamia Millia Islamia Act, 1988 in pursuance of the February, 22 order of the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI) that granted this Central university a minority status.

UPSC Civil Services Exam 2010 Final Result Declared (Full list)

New Delhi, May 12: Based on the results of the written part of Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2010, held by the Union Public Service Commission in October-November, 2010 and the interviews for Personality Test held in March-April, 2011, the following is the list, in order of merit, of candidates who have been recommended for appointment to –

(i) Indian Administrative Service;

(ii) Indian Foreign Service;

(iii) Indian Police Service; and

Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission 2011

Applications are invited for the unified single window admission for first year B. E. / B. Tech. Degree Programme 2011 to the University Departments of Anna Universities, Government and Government Aided Engineering Colleges and for the seats surrendered by the Self – Financing Engineering Colleges.

Free vocational courses by Siasat daily and MDF

Hyderabad, May 11: Siasat daily and MDF are jointly conducting free vocational and computer courses during summer vacations, in which training will be provided for computer hardware, networking, DTP, AutoCAD, computer accounting packages, MS office, DCA, PGDCA and spoken English.

Medical courses include lab technician and x-ray, physiotherapy. Beauty parlour, mehendi designing, tailoring, fashion designing and other 7 vocational courses are offered for ladies.

No helmets, no classes for MP students

Bhopal, May 11: Students riding their two-wheelers to colleges in Madhya Pradesh will now be denied entry if they are not wearing helmets, the state’s education minister said Tuesday.

“We have issued circulars to all colleges in state to insure every student who rides a two-wheeler wears a helmet,” Education Minister Laxmikant Sharma told reporters here.

The rule will be applicable to all colleges, government and private engineering institutes, polytechnics and other educational institutions in the state.

–IANS–

SC refuses to stay reconduct of AIEEE

New Delhi, May 10: The AIEEE test will be held on Wednesday as scheduled with the Supreme Court on Tuesday refusing to stay government’s decision to hold the examination again for candidates who could not appear in the May 1 test due to question paper leak.

A bench of justices DK Jain and HL Dattu declined to interfere with the Delhi High Court order which had refused to grant stay on the May 2 government notification announcing re-conduct of AIEEE (All India Engineering Entrance Examination) by the CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education).

Flurry of New Courses at MANUU

Hyderabad, May 10: Maulana Azad National Urdu University the only university offering courses at higher level through Urdu medium has started three new courses at PG Level & Two new research programmes. University is introducing Master in Computer Application (MCA), M.Sc. (Maths) & M.Com. beside M.Phil & Ph.D. in Persian & Business management. Three new certificate courses namely “Amoozish Urdu, Proficiency in Persian & Unani Pharmacy are being introduced from the new academic year.

Aligarh Muslim University to reopen May 13

Aligarh, May 10: The Aligarh Muslim University, which shut down April 30 following violence among students, has decided to reopen on May 13 and also open the hostel for its final year students, an official said Monday.

It will open hostel facilities to final year B. Tech and all final year students of other faculties from May 13. Earlier, the university had notified May 16 as the date of reopening in a phased manner. The examination of all these courses will commence from May 18.

CBSE mulling over online route to medical, engineering institutions

Lucknow, May 09: Taking lessons from the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) 2011 paper leak, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is seriously mulling over an online route to admissions in medical and engineering institutions.

Verifying this here on Monday, CBSE chairman, Vinit Joshi, said, “Online tests and admissions are a way of life in the developed world. In fact this year, we conducted the AIEEE exam online as well though on a pilot basis. The experience has been satisfying and appears to be promising.”

14,000 school teachers recruitment

New Delhi, May 09: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said Sunday 14,000 new posts of school teachers have been created in a bid to ensure proper implementation of the Right to Education Act in the national capital.

“This will also go a long way in enhancing job opportunities,” she told a public rally in west Delhi’s Tri Nagar area.

“A number of new universities have also been commissioned and a separate Women’s Technical University would be commissioned soon,” added the chief minister.

New PG courses at Urdu varsity

Hyderabad, April 07: The Moulana Azad Nat ional Urdu University (MANUU) has started three new courses at the post-graduate level and two new research programmes, namely MCA, MSc(Maths) and MCom besides MPhil and PhD in Persian and business management.

Three new certificate courses in Amoozish Urdu, proficiency in Persian and Unani pharmacy have also been introduced.

JNTU-H to hold ECET on May 20

Hyderabad, April 07: The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad is conducting ECET- 2011 for diploma holders and B.Sc graduates in mathematics for lateral entry admission into engineering and pharmacy courses on May 20 from 10 am to 1 pm in 43 test centres in the state. In a statement, Avula Damodaram, convener, ECET said that as many as 25,134 students have registered for the test. The hall-tickets have been dispatched through post on Friday. Students who did not receive the hall-tickets can download duplicate hall-tickets from the university website www.injuh.ac.

Delhi University admission process to begin June 15

New Delhi, May 06: With no application forms, the admission process in Delhi University (DU) this year will begin June 15 with the announcement of the first cut-off list, an official of the Dean Student Welfare (DSW) office said.

“This year there will be no application forms which students earlier used to submit to colleges of their choice, nor any common admission form. The colleges will straightaway declare the first cut off list and the aspirants can take admission thereafter,” the official said.