Education and Career

Kolkata, September 21: Global testing and assessment service provider Prometric, which was responsible for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009 – the entrance examination for Indian Institutes of Management and other leading management institutions – Tuesday assured a hassle-free test this year.

CAT 2009 became a disaster after technical glitches and server crashes at several centres across the country.

Prometric said it will upgrade the physical and technical infrastructure of all test centres.

New Delhi, September 21: The online registration for CPT October 2010 examination has been started and will close on October 5, 2010.

The Candidates, seeking career in CA, can get registered at the Institute of Charted Accountants of India (ICAI) for the CPT exam 2010.

The Registration for is available at ICAI Exam’s official website: http://cptonline.icai.org/.

Students are advised to kindly visit the aforesaid website to get registered soon for the CPT October 2010 exam, scheduled for October 23-24, 2010.

New Delhi, September 21: Delhi’s high-profile Sanskriti School attended primarily by children of central government bureaucrats could soon have clones in state capitals across the country.

According to a Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) proposal, states will give the land free, and the Centre will provide financial assistance to set up the schools.

In return for the land, a percentage of seats will be kept for children of state government officers. The bulk of the seats will remain reserved for children of central government officers.

Hyderabad, September 20: A B.Tech graduate involved in a fake certificate racket was arrested by the SR Nagar police on Sunday. On a tip-off, police laid a trap and caught 22-year-old N Ramesh, a native of Guntur, near his hostel at Yousufguda.

Gulbarga, September 19: The desire to get a 2.5 lakh pound prize resulted in a loss of Rs17.5 lakh for an engineering graduate in Gulbarga City.

Gulbarga SP Padmanayan told Express here on Saturday that Sumay, daughter of Mustak Ahmed, who is an engineering graduate, received an SMS about a month back on her cell claiming that her mobile has won a prize of 2.5 lakh pounds and she was advised to contact the organisers of the lottery on e-mail.

When she contacted the organisers they advised her send some amount of processing charges to receive the prize money.

New Delhi, September 19: Those who prefer to use Hindi over other languages can rejoice. The government has requested Indian and international IT giants to prioritise developing software that will facilitate its use on computers as easily as English.

Minister of State for Home Ajay Maken made this request to the representatives of IT giants Microsoft Corporation, International Business Machines (IBM) and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in a meeting convened Thursday, said a home ministry release Friday.

Varanasi, September 17: Four students of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi have been arrested, one year after they assaulted and stripped a physically challenged youth and forced him to perform obscene acts that were even filmed by them, police said Friday.

The arrests came after the affected student, a native of Bihar, threatened to commit suicide if no action was taken against the four.

Hyderabad, September 15: The State government has permitted the Director of Government Examinations and Commissioner and Director of School Education to incorporate mother’s name in addition to the father’s name in the Register of Admissions and Withdrawals of school students.

Hyderabad, September 15 (Siasat News): The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has launched the RBI Young Scholars Award Scheme to create awareness among young scholars about the Indian banking sector and RBI. Under the Scheme, the RBI will select 125 scholars through a countrywide competitive examination and award a scholarship.

Selection test will focus on the role of RBI in the banks situated in India. The candidates can write the exam in English as well as in all major regional languages.

New Delhi, September 14:Students at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will now have the freedom to choose the date and venue of their term-end examination with the introduction of ‘On-Demand-Examinations’.

The examination system covers more than 12 courses and will be conducted once a week on Friday at the selected regional centres in Delhi, Chennai, Jammu, Hyderabad among others. Results will be declared within 60 days.

The registration form is to be submitted online along with the payment of examination fee.

————-IANS

Chennai, September 11: Good news for those aspiring to work in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector! Now any one seeking a job in a BPO can apply dialling a toll-free number to key in their resumes from their mobile phone.

The aspirants can also record their voice on the toll-free number — once this is done, the mobile number gets registered into the system.

Bangalore, September 07: Reserving 25 percent of seats for children of poor families in private schools would be mandatory and its violation would be punishable, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Monday.

“We will not budge an inch from this mandatory provision in the Right to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act 2009, as we want to give opportunity to all poor children to study in private schools,” Sibal told reporters here.

New Delhi, September 03: Delhi University students today cast their votes to elect a new union in a poll which will decide the fate of 41 candidates.

Tight security arrangements have been put in place and Electronic Voting Machines were used for the polling.

“As many as 943 EVMs have been pressed into service.

There are 111 centres for the college elections and 130 for DUSU,” said Chief Electoral Officer Gurmeet Singh.

Hyderabad, August 30: The Prof. G. Ram Reddy Centre for Distance Education, Osmania University, has invited applications for admission to Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A) and Post Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics from candidates without entrance test across the country.

Hyderabad, August 30: Counseling for engineering aspirant students began on Sunday with the verification of certificates at 61 helpline centres set up across the state.

According to sources, the certificates of special category students like physically handicapped, NCC, Children of Armed Personnel and Sports would be verified on Sunday and Monday.

The verification of certificates of general category students would begin on August 31. The optional subjects of candidates would be verified from September 2.

West Bengal, August 30: Nearly 1.4 crore backward Muslims in West Bengal would be issued OBC certificates under a reservation policy for poor people of the community after the state Cabinet approves the decision on September 22. This will be in keeping with Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s promise in February this year that the step will be taken before year-end.

Agartala, August 24: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is on a mission to reach out to farmers in remote and far-flung areas with the latest global information on farming and agriculture, a senior university official said here Monday.

“IGNOU is trying to reach people in remote areas with the latest global information in agricultural research and development,” IGNOU’s School of Agriculture (SOA) senior professor B.S. Hansra told reporters.

Agartala, August 23: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is on a mission to reach out to farmers in remote and far-flung areas with the latest global information on farming and agriculture, a senior university official said here Monday.

“IGNOU is trying to reach people in remote areas with the latest global information in agricultural research and development,” IGNOU’s School of Agriculture (SOA) senior professor B.S. Hansra told reporters.

Hyderabad, August 23: The online counseling for ICET-2010 qualified minority candidates for admission into MBA and MCA courses of Muslim, Christian, Sikh and Linguistic minority colleges will start from tomorrow (August 23).

The counseling for 65 MBA and MCA minority colleges that are part of Single Window-II will be held simultaneously in Hyderabad, Kadapa, Vijayawada and Nellore. Counselling in Hyderabad will be held at AP Veterinary Association hall, Shantinagar.

Hyderabad, August 23: The state government will make a announcement on Monday regarding the web-based counseling for Engineering, Agriculture and Medicine Common Entrance Test-2010 (EAMCET-2010), stated Technical Education Commissioner K Lakshminarayana.

Speaking to media persons on Sunday, Mr Lakshminarayan said the government has decided to conduct counseling for EAMCET candidates from August 29.

The government will announce the dates for verification of certificates and option for students and other related issues in the web-based counseling on Monday, he stated.

New Delhi, August 22: A certificate course in PC Hardware and Networking was launched in association with HCL Infosystems Ltd at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).

“It is a state-of-the-art industry ready course created jointly by IGNOU and HCL. This programme is to be offered in Instructor Led Teaching (ILT) mode,” IGNOU chief public relations officer Ravi Mohan said.

The programme will be delivered in separate batches at Computer Division, IGNOU Main Campus as well as HCL Career Development Centre in Noida with the first batch commencing from Sep 15, he said.

Haryana, August 22: Computer education has been made compulsory by the Haryana government in all its colleges from this year.

Minister of State for Agriculture and Cooperatives Sukhbir Singh Kataria said in a statement that modern computer labs are being set up in every government college in the state.

A government spokesman said that as per the decision, students of B.A., B.Com, M.Com and BBA will also have to acquire knowledge of computers for attaining a degree.

Haryana has over 650 colleges and eight universities, including an all-women university near Sonipat.

—Agencies

New Delhi, August 22: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Sunday launched a certificate course in PC Hardware and Networking in association with HCL Infosystems Ltd, an official said.

“It is a state-of-the-art industry ready course created jointly by IGNOU and HCL. This programme is to be offered in Instructor Led Teaching (ILT) mode,” IGNOU chief public relations officer Ravi Mohan said.

New Delhi, August 16: Jamia Milia Islamia has appointed Prof S M Rashid, an expert in the field of remote-sensing, as its new Pro Vice-Chancellor.

Rashid, who is a Professor at the Department of Geography at the prestigious university and has been associated with the institution for 50 years both as a student and teacher, took charge on Friday, Jamia said in a statement.

Rashid, who has held other administrative positions in the university, was serving as the Dean of Faculty of Natural Sciences before taking up the new assignment.

Mumbai, August 16: The state government is readyto implement the fee hike policy formulated a month ago. After a new government resolution (GR) was passed on July 15 and a subsequent court hearing, the authorities had announced that it would be implemented from August 15.

From Monday, school managements will be unable to introduce a random fee hike, without the approval of the school management committees or parent-teacher associations. Also, schools will now be compelled to set up a website with vital information, such as their balance sheet.