Education and Career

Hyderabad, April 7: According to Director General, Centre for Good Governance Road number 25, Jubilee Hills application are invited from eligible candidates for recruitment into the said department from Software developers (freshers) who are capable of developing J2EE, Java struts/spring with framework.

Educational qualification MCA or BE/ Btech with CSE/IT and ECE subject is required. The candidate should have passed the examination in 2009-10 with more than 65 percent of marks.

Hyderabad, April 06: The premier Indian School of Business (ISB) here has registered a 22 percent increase in placement offers this year while the average salary for its graduates has gone up 10-20 percent, its dean said Wednesday.

The business school, ranked among the top 20 in the world, also witnessed a 35 percent growth in international offers.

A total of 310 companies made 661 offers to 552 students who participated in the lateral hiring process that began in January this year. The class of 2011 had 569 students.

Chandigarh, April 06: The Punjab government is planning to fill within two months all the vacant posts of college principals by promotion and direct recruitment.

Presiding over the meeting of Principals of all government colleges in the state here, Education Minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan today said the Punjab Government is committed to improving the education standard in government colleges.

He said that seniority list of lecturers is being finalised and within two months eligible lecturers would be promoted as Principals.

Dehradun, April 06: A total of 31 students were caught cheating in the 10th and 12th class exams organised by the Uttarakhand state education board this year, officials said today.

Nearly two lakh students took the exams for 10th and 12th classes which ended yesterday, they said.

—-PTi

Hyderabad, April 6: ICET 2011 coaching will begin from April 15 by Siasat daily for admissions into MBA and MCA courses. These classes will be held at Abid Ali Khan eye hospital from morning 7 to10.

Coaching will be given by expert teachers like Mr. D Subramaniam and Mr. Islam Uddin Ansari. Registration fee will be 800 only. Interested students can register their names at Siasat daily between 2 to 6 pm bringing along with them one photo and degree hall ticket.

For more details contact Syed Hameed Uddin on phone number 9246196958.

Siasat news

New Delhi, April 05: Teach blind students for an hour a week for one year – this was the order of the Delhi High Court Tuesday to two Delhi University final year students of Ramjas College in exchange for quashing a police complaint against them for being involved in a group clash two years ago.

Justice Hima Kohli in her order said: “One year service to visually challenged students in Delhi University campus. Teach them for one hour in a week, but you have to do this for full one year.”

New Delhi, April 04: Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Friday rejected the proposal by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) for a grievance redressal mechanism for the implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act.

The NCPCR, which monitors the implementation of the RTE Act, has been calling for such a mechanism to tackle the large variety of complaints coming in from all over the country.

Agartala/Aizawl, April 04: Tripura and Mizoram — the two northeastern states once ravaged by terrorism — have successfully become front-runners in India’s literacy movement.

According to provisional data for the 2011 census, literacy level is 91.58 percent in Mizoram and 87.75 percent in Tripura. They are only behind Kerala (93.91 percent), which continues to occupy the top position in the literacy chart. The national literacy rate is 74.04 percent.

In Mizoram, the second most literate state in the country, literacy rate has gone up from 88.49 percent to 91.58 percent.

Hyderabad, April 4: Arabic is the language of the Quran, the last Prophet (pbuh) and the Paradise. Devotion to God and love of Prophet (pbuh) oblige that every Muslim should know Arabic. These views were expressed by various intellectuals while addressing the inaugural function of Arabic language teaching programme being jointly conducted by Siasat daily and department of Arabic, Osmania University on Sunday.

Hyderabad, April 4: NTR Trust will provide free employment training to youth. Informing this Mr. Metaparti Venkat, CEO of the NTR Trust said that the Trust has decided to provide three months vocational training to youth who have discontinued their studies and were unemployed. He said free boarding and lodging facilities would be provided to youth who will undergo training.

He further said that the training programmes would commence from April 10 and the Trust would also make efforts to get employment for the trained youth.

New Delhi, April 02: Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Saturday said the government was aiming to get at least seven million students, largely from the underprivileged sections, enrolled in distance education programme to make education inclusive.

In a message at the convocation function of the Indira Gandhi National Open University, Sibal said that distant education can help in achieving the gross enrollment ratio of 30 percent by 2020.

Hyderabad, April 01: Andhra Pradesh government today postponed the Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine Common Entrance Test (EAMCET), scheduled to be held on May 8 to May 22.

“The Election Commission made the announcement regarding bypolls to Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency and Pulivendula assembly seat on May 8. After considering all aspects, we decided to postpone the EAMCET from May 8 to 22,” a top government official told reporters here.

EAMCET is hugely popular in the state with lakhs of people taking the test.

-PTI

Hyderabad, March 31: According to Dr. S A Shukoor Director CEDM, Centre for Educational development for Minority communities under the aegis of Andhra Pradesh Minority Welfare Department, is conducting free coaching for minority candidates (Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Parsi) who want to appear in ICET-2011.

Coaching classes will be held from 19-4-2011 to 13-5-2011 at Nizam college Basheer Bagh, Hyderabad.

Hyderabad, March 31: As per the orders of Andhra Pradesh High Court and State Administrative Tribunal, provisional selection of 25 candidates has been made for SGT (Urdu) posts under DSC 1997 presided by Collector and District Magistrate.

According to the notification issued by the District Educational Officer (DEO) Hyderabad all the selected candidates are requested to approach office of the DEO Hyderabad on March 31 at 11 am for counseling along with their original certificates and hall tickets.

Hall ticket numbers of provisionally selected SGT (Urdu) candidates are as under:

Hyderabad, March 30: The Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) has decided to conduct a re-examination for 24 students whose answer scripts were damaged in an accident at Jangaon in Warangal on March 20. The re-examination will be held on April 9.

According to the BIE officials, a postal van which was carrying the answer scripts met with an accident near Jangaon in Warangal in the wee hours of March 20.

New Delhi, March 30: The Board of Governors of the Medical Council of India (MCI) has proposed major changes in the undergraduate curriculum and training programme that would create an “Indian Medical Graduate,” who will have necessary competence to assume his or her role as a healthcare provider.

Chandigarh, March 29: Haryana government has released over Rs 51 crore to provide school uniforms to the students upto elementary level for the academic year 2011-12.

“School Management Committees (SMCs) have been constituted in all elementary level schools in the state to decide about providing school uniforms to the students of their respective school,” Haryana Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal said in a statement here.

Hyderabad, March 29: Eamcet 2011 crash course was launched by Mr. Amir Ali Khan News editor Siasat daily. The course is jointly conducted by Siasat daily and Sir Newton degree and junior college.

Phulbani (Orissa), March 28: About 280 students of a residential girls high school left the hostel premises today protesting against the alleged mismanagement, irregularities and misbehaviour by their teachers, officials said.

The girls told reporters here, that the school’s physical education teacher along with the head mistress of the school misbehaved with a section of students repeatedly during last month over some trivial matters.

Aligarh, March 27: The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Sunday observed the 113th death anniversary of its founder, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan.

A Quran Khwani (recitation) was organised in the university mosque after morning prayers and Vice Chancellor Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis and Registrar V.K. Abdul Jaleel paid their tributes by laying flowers on Syed’s grave situated in the mosque premises.

Other university officials, teachers and students also participated in the solemn ceremony.

New Delhi, March 27: School of Gender and Development Studies of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) recently announced various new courses. These include, Certificate/ Diploma in Gender and Nutritional Security, Certificate/ Diploma in Gender and Labour and Certificate/ Diploma in Gender in Cinema.

Coimbatore, March 25: A job fair of Solvers India will be held at Hindusthan College of Arts and Science on March 26 and 27.

Nearly 35 companies will be present to recruit for 5,000 vacancies.

Those interested can contact Solvers India on 98942-17311.

–Agencies

Jodhpur, March 24: The Board of Technical Education, Rajasthan has announced that the Rajasthan Pre Engineering Test (RPET) – 2011 will be conducted on May 19, 2011.

The test is conducted for admission to the first year of undergraduate programmes leading to Bachelor’s degree in different disciplines of Engineering (B.Tech./B.E.) in various government aided and private unaided technical institution of Rajasthan for the academic session 2011-2012.

NEW DELHI, March 24: Tougher entry criteria, limits on work entitlements and the closure of the post-study route are among the latest changes to the UK student visa system announced on Tuesday.

UK Border Agency regional director Chris Dix on Wednesday said students going to the UK for a degree will no longer be allowed a two-year timeline to look for job opportunities after their course ends. This is one of the major changes to the UK immigration policy. The Tier-I (post-study work) route will be closed from April 2012.

New Delhi, March 24: Tri-Valley University is only one of many dubious and unaccredited universities in the US that are duping foreign students — especially Indians — reported a leading US journal on higher education. The report was based on an investigation carried out after the TVU scam in January, involving Indian students who were trapped in the US, following the university getting implicated in immigration fraud charges.