HYDERABAD: Interviews for admission into M.Sc International Management in the University of West of England will be conducted at British Library on October 29 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Contact UWE representative B.Radhakishan Rao of Education Abroad on 98480-61291 for more details.
New Delhi: Job prospects for professionals and managers have brightened as more than half of the companies in the country have begun hiring, a global survey has said.
According to a quarterly survey by global recruitment firm Antal International, the percentage of companies in India hiring professionals and managers has rebounded to 51% currently, after a dramatic fall to 29% at the beginning of 2009.
“As a result job prospects for professionals and managers in India are now better than global average,” the survey said.
Engineering admissions last date extended to September 14
HYDERABAD: The last date for reporting to the colleges for engineering and pharmacy admissions has been extended to September 14 while the second phase would begin two days after that.
APSCHE chairman K.C. Reddy said that the earlier given date of September 11 has been extended to September 14 to give additional time to students. The second phase would be held from September 16 to 23 and more than 11,000 seats would be offered for admission. He said 3,720 seats from 15 new colleges would be added while 2,940 seats have been increased in the existing colleges in various streams.
Prof. Reddy said the council has so far received 539 complaints of which four were purely personal seeking change of seat for family reasons. The remaining complaints were looked into and none of them is found to be genuine where software or allotment process can be questioned. Among the 535 complaints, 29 were cases of rankers below 40,000 not securing seats. Another 473 were above 40,000 ranks and failed to get a seat. All these candidates gave only a few options and thus lost a chance to get admission. On complaints of excess fee collection by college managements, Prof. Reddy said students need to pay only Rs. 5,500 special fee apart from the tuition fee. He asked the students to lodge complaint with the APSCHE if colleges collect excess fee under any pretext.
Meanwhile, students started reporting at the colleges despite the short time given to them. In majority colleges 70 per cent of students reported and by Friday the number is likely to increase. “We are expecting nearly 90 per cent admissions by Friday,” said Rajeshwar Reddy, General Secretary of A.P. Private Engineering Colleges Managements Association.
| Only 40,000 posts available as against the notified 52,000 |
Permission sought to appoint teachers in place of ‘Vidya volunteers’
The DSC-2008 recruitment examination was held in May this year after a gap of four years to fill over 50,000 teacher posts, including those of school assistants, Secondary Grade Teachers (SGT), physical education, language pundit posts, etc. at one go. It was an important decision of late Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy to improve standards in government schools by filling vacant teacher posts, especially in subject teacher posts in SUCCESS schools with CBSE stream of syllabus.
The results of the examination were announced on June 30 and district-wise merit lists of candidates despatched recently. One was a combined merit list for B.Ed. and D.Ed. candidates and another list with 30 per cent reservation for D.Ed. candidates in SGT posts.
But the appointment process ran into hurdles on two counts. After completion of the long-pending transfer of teachers, School Education Department officials realised that there were only 40,000 posts available as against the notified vacancies of 52,000 – the entire shortfall being in respect of SGT posts.
The department had sent a proposal to the government seeking permission to appointment them in place of ‘Vidya volunteers’ and was confident of securing YSR’s approval. After his sudden demise, the file is now awaiting clearance of Chief Minister K. Rosaiah.
Once it is cleared, education department would have to issue necessary guidelines to begin the ‘appointment counselling’ as per the merit list and it is only matter of time before the uncertainly is resolved, officials said.
High Court order
Meanwhile, the High Court issued interim orders on Tuesday suspending the Government Order on giving 30 per cent reservation for D.Ed. candidates in SGT posts but said the appointment process could be continued setting aside the reservation clause. The officials said that they were awaiting the full copy of court order.
Painting competitions for schoolchildren
Hyderabad: The District Educational Officer has asked all the headmasters of government and residential schools to conduct essay writing, poetry and painting competitions for high school students at school level as a tribute to late Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy on Friday.
The competitions would be conducted in three sessions from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a topic “The services of Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to the State of Andhra Pradesh”.
Two best entries in essay writing and poetry in each language (i.e, English, Telugu, Urdu) and 14 entries in painting should be sent to the District Educational Officer, Hyderabad district, by Saturday, said a press release.
Date extended for renewal of post-matric scholarships
HYDERABAD: The government has extended the last date for online application and submission of post-matric scholarships (renewal) by students belonging to the minority community to September 15.
The government had set the earlier deadline as August 31 but extended it following requests from students and parents. However, there is no change in the last date for online application and submission for post-matric scholarships (fresh) and they should be submitted by September 30, a release by the AP State Minorities Finance Corporation said.
It said there was no truth in reports that the website of APSMFC was closed down and students could submit their online applications without any difficulty. The students and college managements should ensure that the applications forms for both fresh and renewal categories reach the office of Executive Director, APSMFC of respective districts on or before the given last dates.
It’s now official. There will be no Class X board examination in CBSE schools in 2011. While there will be a board exam for Class X in 2010, grading system, based on continuous and comprehensive evaluation by schools, will kick in this year itself.
Students in schools with classes only till X will have to take an “on-line/off-line/on demand” assessment test for seeking admission in Class XI in another school. Students of schools with classes till XII need not take the assessment test. It will be optional for students of schools with classes till XII to decide if they want to take the on-demand assessment test. This test will be held more than once a year and students can repeat it to improve grades.
A top Australian official began a tour of India to publicize fresh measures to protect foreign students, after a string of violent incidents against Indians that has threatened to dent Australia’s multibillion dollar international-education industry.
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said new legislation, if passed, would force fly-by-night educational institutions to register with the Australian government. New vocational-education providers that don’t meet national registration standards within the next year will be “put of out of business,” she warned.
Getty ImagesMembers of the National Arya Student Association hold placards and banners while shouting slogans against the Australian government during a protest in New Delhi on June 3, 2009. An attack on an Indian student in Australia that day added to a rising number of reported assaults on Indian students who number over 93,000 in Australia, in addition to over 200,000 students of Indian descent.
The effort to set more stringent regulations follows an explosion of smaller schools that cater to international students. “We’ve seen a lot of growth in the number of providers, and the nature of regulation needs to keep pace,” Ms. Gillard said.
The deputy prime minister’s visit comes in the wake of well-publicized attacks on Indian students in Australia. Police in Victoria state — where many of the incidents have taken place — said 1,447 people of Indian origin were victims of crimes such as robberies and assaults in the year ended June 30, 2008, an increase from 1,082 in the previous year. Australian officials have said a breakdown of how many of the assaults were racially motivated wasn’t available. They have also noted a sharp rise in Indian student enrollment in recent years.
Revenue from education is Victoria’s biggest export earner. The tertiary education industry is now Australia’s third-largest export earner behind coal and iron ore, generating 15.5 billion Australian dollars (US$13.04 billion) in 2008, according to government figures. Indian students represent about 18% of the 542,000 foreigners studying in Australia, second only to those from China, according to data from the Australian Council for Private Education and Training.
Ties with China have been upset by the detention of four employees, including one Australian national, working for the Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto PLC, though there is no indication that is affecting Chinese students’ interest in studying in Australia.
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Most Indian students are recruited to private Australian universities by agents based in India. The proposed new legislation would attempt to regulate marketing to overseas students to make sure students receive “accurate information about educational institutions and the living situation,” Ms. Gillard said.
Australian vocational institutions have been a big draw for Indian students, said Pawan Agarwal, a researcher with the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, a think tank. Most students have been seeking a path into the international job market rather than a quality education, he says.
“Obviously the kind of press the recent incidents have generated has damaged at least that part of the student market from India,” he said. Ms. Gillard said her visit also offered an opportunity to reach out to Indian government officials and underscore Australia’s view of India as a “special friend … with a shared agenda in the region.”
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| List Of Intermediate Colleges In Hyderabad 2009
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Hyderabad: The last date for payment of fee is up to September 14 for students appearing for first year Intermediate examination in March 2010. The last date of payment of fee with a fine of Rs. 100 is up to September 24.
The cost of examination application form is Rs. 10. The examination fee for general courses is Rs. 210 and for vocational courses Rs. 310.
The fee for bridge course vocational is Rs. 60; fee for first year practical for vocational back log candidates is Rs. 100 while for bridge course exam fee for mathematics for BI.P.C first year students is Rs. 60, Candidates who fail to pay the fee even with late fee should apply for tatkal scheme which will be announced in November, a BIE press release said.
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Ranga Reddy district is inviting applications for Class 6 for 2010-11 academic year. Last date for applying is September 15 and entrance will be conducted on February 2, 2010. Applications are available free of cost with all DEOs, MEOs and at the school at Gopanpally. For application forms, log on to ‘ www.navodaya.nic.in’.
Kakinada: Rayalaseema University Vice-Chancellor J.V. Prabhakar Rao met JNTU-K Vice-Chancellor Allam Appa Rao here on Monday and discussed latest developments in the field of higher education. Prof. Prabhakar Rao gave his advice on selection of faculty for the MBA to be launched by JNTU-K’s School of Management Studies (SMS) and other academic matters.
The SMS is launching MBA course on August 26, for which Prof. Prabhakar Rao has been asked to lend his expertise in management education.
Prof. Prabhakar Rao was Director of the Department of Commerce and Management Studies in the College of Arts and Commerce of Andhra Pradesh.
Pat for Appa Rao
Quiz contest
The P.R. Government College, Kakinada is conducting a quiz competition on Hindi language and literature (10 a.m to 11 a.m) and another competition in translating English to Hindi and Hindi to English (11 a.m to 12 noon) on September 1 in connection with Hindi Divas to be celebrated on September 3.
The competitions will be conducted at LCD hall on the college premises.
All 1st and 2nd year degree year students of East and West Godavari districts, whose second language is Hindi can participate in the competition.
The participants should produce their identities for the purpose.
HYDERABAD: Qualified candidates of ICET -2009 who have taken admissions by exercising options, should report to their respective colleges by August 21, according to a press release issued by the ICET convener. Candidates who are not interested in taking the allotted seats can collect their original certificates from the Help Line Centres without any cancellation fee, it said. So far, 29,621 out of 29,808 MBA seats and 16,529 out of 29,739 MCA seats have been filled. The remaining seats and the seats of newly permitted MBA, MCA colleges will be filled in second phase of counselling, which is to be held in the second week of September, it added. This year, 75,549 out of 1,88,837 candidates have qualified the ICET.
HYDERABAD: The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH) has announced new courses, launch of new centres and large-scale revision of syllabus on the eve of its first Foundation Day.
“New syllabus for undergraduate and post-graduate courses was revised in accordance with Washington Accord, a global treaty on recognition of engineering courses, from present academic year,” said D.N. Reddy, Vice-Chancellor, here on Thursday. The varsity is celebrating its first Foundation Day on Friday.
Five-year integrated programme in CSE, ECE, EEE, CE and MED disciplines are commencing from the current (2009-10) academic year. Students will get B.Tech degree after four years and can choose between M.Tech or MBA degrees in final year. Admission will be through EAMCET.
M. Tech programmes
Three M.Tech programmes with specialisations of bioinformatics, VLSI and embedded systems and infrastructure engineering and an MBA in international business are being introduced. Twin M.Sc (engineering) and M.Tech programmes are being offered in collaboration with Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden. System and Signal Processing, Telecommunication Systems and Software Engineering branches will be on offer and students will have to study two semesters in Sweden.
Five centres of excellence to conduct research on aging, alternative energy options, e-learning solutions, computer aided designing and engineering and VLSI and embedded systems are to be opened.
“JNTUH is the first technological university in the State to get 12-B status from the UGC following which a fund of Rs. 19 crore was granted to start new centres and courses,” said Prof. Reddy. The Foundation Day ceremony will have a galaxy of eminent personalities as guests including Dr. Prahlad of the Defence Research and Development Organisation.v
IIT teachers connected with administrative jobs will now resign from their administrative posts with immediate effect as a mark of protest against the new pay scale approved by the cabinet on August 7. Faculties at IIT-K, IIT-Rand IIT-C have already taken resolution to this effect, the other IITs will soon join them, Prof Kanchan Chow-dhury, president, IIT-K Teachers’ Association, also an office bearer of All India IIT Faculty Federation, said after a federation meeting on Wednesday.
IIT and IIM teachers are already on a warpath with the Centre over the 6th Pay Commission, which according to them has snip-ped the annual increments recommended for these teachers and shuffled existing hierarchies. Chowdhury said that the IIT teachers would also go on mass casual leave on Friday and existing IITs would stop maintaining the new IITs with immediate effect. Faculty at Roorkee would also take four days earned leave after the mass casual leave.
Chowdhury said that the IIT teachers would eventually go for ‘long-term non-cooperation’ with administration. IIT and IIM teachers do the administrative jobs as well. As a result, deputy director, dean, all head of departments, professors-in charge, wardens, deputy wardens and purchase hea-ds would also resign. “We are teachers. That’s our core area. We will no longer get engaged in non-core areas, that is administrative jobs. We want the directors tell the HRD ministry that under these circumstance it’s impossible to run the institutes,” he said.
IIM faculty will also take a resolution in this regard, Prof Anindya Sen, former dean, IIM-C, said. “Enou-gh is enough. We have suffered for long. It is high time we stand together and make our voices heard,” he said.
| Cracking the CAT demands clear focus, regular practice and good understanding of one’s strengths and weaknesses. |
TAKE NO CHANCES: Having a strategy in place holds the key to cracking the CAT.
The notification for CAT (Common Admission Test)-2009 is likely to be released this month and the aspirants for the seven IIMs and 40 other top management schools, which follow the CAT format, will have about four months before the examination.
CAT, which is regarded as the mother of all management entrance tests, is considered to be the most difficult management entrance test in the world. But why is it considered to be the most difficult examination, when most of the questions asked in CAT in the last 10 years are of 10th standard level?
“CAT is not about rocket science. It tends to be difficult because of three main factors: The competition is intense (it is expected that over three lakh students will be competing for the 2,000 plus IIM seats in the CAT-2009), uncertainty over the question pattern is another factor and time management is the third factor that makes CAT the most difficult one,” says Director of TIME J.V. Murty.
He also adds that it is not a test of one’s intelligence or memory, “Anybody can crack CAT with clear focus, regular practice and good understanding of one’s strengths and weaknesses. The format also does not call for remembrance of thousands of formulae,” he says.
How to crack CAT?
The format has three sections: Quantitative aptitude (consisting of mathematics and data sufficiency), English (verbal ability, English usage and reading comprehension) and data interpretation and logical ability.
The number of questions per section could vary and this has been one of the surprise elements in the CAT format.
In CAT-2008 the quantitative aptitude and the data interpretation section had 25 questions each and the English section had 40. Whereas, in CAT-2007, the questions were evenly spread across the sections with 25 questions per section.
The paper is set for 360 marks and it has to be answered in two-and-ahalf hours.
Apart from securing the minimum overall score for receiving a call from any of the IIMs, one has to clear the cut-off marks in each of the section.
Do’s to crack it
Strong Fundamentals: The idea is simple- extensive reading is required for thorough knowledge of all topics, good reading speed, quick mental calculations and familiarity with all types of questions.
Practice is the key: Reading should be undertaken chapter wise and it has to be supplemented with regular mock tests and practice tests.
Be cool and confident: Lookout for questions in your strength areas and manage your time. Scan all questions. Do not worry about what you do not know and what will be the cut-offs.
Smart strategy: The effective strategy would be to plan your test and test your plan before implementation. It is also advisable to work with a mentor.
Computer based test
The biggest surprise for CAT-2009 aspirants would be the new format of CBT. From this year, CAT would no longer be a written test and it would be a computer based test.
Mr. Murty says that the CBT format is not an online test, it is only a computer based test and it does not prescribe for any change in the preparation methodology. There is no offline version of the test and it can be taken only at the designated 25 centres spread across the nation. The test will be conducted during a window period of 10 days starting in the last week of November.
The final dates will be notified through an advertisement.
According to an earlier IIM release, the centres will be under both electronic surveillance and manual invigilation. IIM has also mentioned about bio-metric means of identifying a candidate like finger prints or iris scan, the details of which are awaited.
Each candidate will be provided with a writing pad with numbered pages for calculations and rough work. The writing pad with all pages intact must be left at the desk, after the test. Rough work cannot be done on any other paper or sheet.
More papers
Since, the CBT- CAT will be conducted during a ten-day period; the most likely scenario is that students in each slot will get a different paper, which means more number of CAT papers.
The format of the test will remain more or less the same as that of the earlier paper and pencil tests.
,b>Click for answers
The only difference is that the candidate would read the question(s) on the computer terminal and would click on the answer on the screen instead of darkening the ovals on an OMR sheet.
The IIMs are expected to standardise the tests to ensure that all the tests are of the same difficulty level. In addition to this they might also normalise scores to iron out any differences in the difficulty level.
So there will be no difference between one test and another.
Career Launcher has announced a Student Welfare Fortnight from August 8 to 21. Students who have currently not enrolled with the institute will also get the opportunity to participate in the free online mock CAT examination at any of the Career Launch centres across India.
This concept was initiated after the institute received numerous calls seeking expert guidance and tips for cracking the examination.
The CAT’09 online test series package contains five invigilated online Mock CATs and would offer an opportunity to attend two seminars conducted by experts from Career Launcher.
While one seminar would focus on how to increase CAT scores, the other one would deal with the ‘Nine Mantras’ to crack CAT’09.
For further details, visit www.careerlauncher.com
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