IIT, NIT profs involved in AICTE scam: CBI
CBI investigators have found that professors of top engineering colleges, including the Indian Institutes of Technology and the National Institutes of Technology, were prima facie involved in illegal approvals for private engineering colleges across India.
After an 11-month probe into the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) scam that began with the arrest of its chairman Prof. R. A. Yadav in New Delhi, the CBI has registered 42 cases against engineering colleges for “illegally” obtaining AICTE’s permission without having even basic infrastructure and facilities.
In one case, the agency found that the same building was shown to AICTE’s expert committees three times to obtain approvals for three different engineering colleges.
In Uttar Pradesh, a committee submitted its inspection report in favour of Rajendra Singh Institute in Aligarh last year despite the fact that the site was farmland.
“We found that there was nothing at the site. We’ve booked several persons, including a professor from IIT Delhi, who submitted the wrong inspection report for allowing the said institute to start an engineering college,” a CBI source said. Since July last, the CBI has investigated more than 200 complaints and found that 42 engineering colleges were illegally granted approvals. The agency has filed chargesheets in two cases pertaining to colleges in Gujarat and Rajasthan, and is expected to complete investigations in the other 40 cases by the end of 2010.
An agency official said: “More than 100 persons have been accused in these cases currently being investigated by 17 CBI branches across India.”
It was found that AICTE officials from top to bottom seem to have formed a cartel. Some expert committees, the official said, did not even visit the sites before submitting reports, while in many cases it was found that the experts deliberately visited the same site again and again and issued certificates for starting two to three engineering colleges at the same place.
“Since there are more than 8,000 engineering colleges in India and we’ve been forwarding fresh complaints to the HRD (Human Resource Development) Ministry for further action. The ministry, after its probe into these cases, would be referring back only those cases to us in which criminal intent of officials are prima facie found. In the rest of the cases, however, it will initiate disciplinary actions on its own,” the official said.
Source Link: http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india/IIT-NIT-profs-involved-in-AICTE-scam-CBI/Article1-540345.aspx
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
The science of success
The science of success
Director of IIT-M, M.S. Ananth on his love for academia, the setting up of the Research Park and his future plans for the university
The view from M.S. Ananth's fifth floor office window has to be one of the most beautiful in the city — a sprawling expanse of lush green treetops for as far as you can see below a clear blue sky. It's enough to make you gasp when you first see it, but Ananth's reaction is slightly different.
“We found out that a lot of these trees are invasive — there is 70 acres of Prosopisalone,” says the director of IIT-Madras ruefully, looking at the 630-acre campus. “Did you know that South Africa has launched a multi-million dollar project just to get rid of Prosopistrees?”
Of course, IIT-M can't afford anything of that sort, so they're working out alternative strategies — like selecting the spots with these rogue trees for future development. That's just one of the many responsibilities, big and small, this unassuming man has shouldered with grace and a certain philosophical pragmatism during his tenure as director (since 2001).
“You know, I haven't had too many major surprises in this job,” he says in his no-fuss way. “Conflicts arise, but it's important to recognise that you're no more ‘righteous' than the other party in an argument. I try my best to have my way. But if I don't, I know that in some larger perspective what happened is for the best. That acceptance is important.”
Influenced by the Gita
If all that sounds very philosophical and Zen, it is — Ananth is deeply influenced by the famous lines from the Bhagavad Gita: Karmanye Vaadhika-raste, Maa Phaleshu Kadachana…, perhaps a reflection of the time he spent attending discourses as a child. “It may sound facetious, but I've believed in it for a long, long time,” he says.
Academia is another thing this Ph.D. in chemical engineering has believed in for a long time. “I think I made up my mind in the sixth standard,” he laughs. “My maternal grandfather was a professor of English; other men I met were in the civil services, and he was the only one who never seemed to have a boss — so that was my major criterion!”
And he never saw a reason to change his mind while growing up, though if he'd had his way, he tells me, he'd be a doctorate in something else. “My interest initially was in history, of all things,” he recalls with a smile. “My father chose chemical engineering for me.”
He has no regrets — his love for history today finds expression in his interest in scientific history, particularly in the biographies of great scientists. Besides, he's a firm believer that your discipline of study shouldn't confine you. That is the basis of his grand ambition for the university — a radical, experimental restructuring of science and engineering departments — that unfortunately hasn't happened yet.
“This ambition has been unfulfilled for nine years because I can't get a consensus,” he says.
But another grand plan has finally come to fruition after nine years of pushing by Ananth and other professors — the Research Park that has recently become functional at IIT-M (30 companies have already signed up), the first of its kind in India. “The whole idea is the generation of a large number of ideas by the meeting of unlike minds — of industrialists, professors, and students,” he says. “All that's required is one idea that clicks. That's the basis of innovation.”
He experienced this ‘meeting of unlike minds' as a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida, with innovation occurring due to the meeting of people from different cultures. “I had a lovely time —the American graduate school is an enviable place,” he says. “I'm fighting to try and recreate that atmosphere here — to have 25 per cent post-graduate students and 10 to 15 per cent of faculty from abroad.”
But as much as he loved college life in the U.S., Ananth knew that he wanted to return to India from very early on. “The first time I came back for a vacation, the moment I set foot here again, I knew,” he says simply. “The sense of belonging was here, not there. I've gone subsequently to the U.S. as a visiting professor — first to Princeton, then to Boulder, Colorado — and that feeling hasn't changed.”
His passion for academia has obviously been passed on to both his children — his son is a Ph.D. in theoretical physics, his daughter in theoretical chemistry. His son has even followed in his footsteps and returned from the U.S. to teach at IISER in Pune. And the entire family, especially his late wife Jayashree, has always shared his love for the campus they have lived on since 1972, when he first joined as an assistant professor.
“Jayashree was very involved with the campus — she came up with pocket guides on the animals and birds here, she worked to keep the campus clean, with the Tech Kids crèche and the Atma charity wing,” he recalls fondly.
“As far as we were concerned, living on this campus was always a great boon.”
Source Link: http://beta.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article398862.ece
Director of IIT-M, M.S. Ananth on his love for academia, the setting up of the Research Park and his future plans for the university
The view from M.S. Ananth's fifth floor office window has to be one of the most beautiful in the city — a sprawling expanse of lush green treetops for as far as you can see below a clear blue sky. It's enough to make you gasp when you first see it, but Ananth's reaction is slightly different.
“We found out that a lot of these trees are invasive — there is 70 acres of Prosopisalone,” says the director of IIT-Madras ruefully, looking at the 630-acre campus. “Did you know that South Africa has launched a multi-million dollar project just to get rid of Prosopistrees?”
Of course, IIT-M can't afford anything of that sort, so they're working out alternative strategies — like selecting the spots with these rogue trees for future development. That's just one of the many responsibilities, big and small, this unassuming man has shouldered with grace and a certain philosophical pragmatism during his tenure as director (since 2001).
“You know, I haven't had too many major surprises in this job,” he says in his no-fuss way. “Conflicts arise, but it's important to recognise that you're no more ‘righteous' than the other party in an argument. I try my best to have my way. But if I don't, I know that in some larger perspective what happened is for the best. That acceptance is important.”
Influenced by the Gita
If all that sounds very philosophical and Zen, it is — Ananth is deeply influenced by the famous lines from the Bhagavad Gita: Karmanye Vaadhika-raste, Maa Phaleshu Kadachana…, perhaps a reflection of the time he spent attending discourses as a child. “It may sound facetious, but I've believed in it for a long, long time,” he says.
Academia is another thing this Ph.D. in chemical engineering has believed in for a long time. “I think I made up my mind in the sixth standard,” he laughs. “My maternal grandfather was a professor of English; other men I met were in the civil services, and he was the only one who never seemed to have a boss — so that was my major criterion!”
And he never saw a reason to change his mind while growing up, though if he'd had his way, he tells me, he'd be a doctorate in something else. “My interest initially was in history, of all things,” he recalls with a smile. “My father chose chemical engineering for me.”
He has no regrets — his love for history today finds expression in his interest in scientific history, particularly in the biographies of great scientists. Besides, he's a firm believer that your discipline of study shouldn't confine you. That is the basis of his grand ambition for the university — a radical, experimental restructuring of science and engineering departments — that unfortunately hasn't happened yet.
“This ambition has been unfulfilled for nine years because I can't get a consensus,” he says.
But another grand plan has finally come to fruition after nine years of pushing by Ananth and other professors — the Research Park that has recently become functional at IIT-M (30 companies have already signed up), the first of its kind in India. “The whole idea is the generation of a large number of ideas by the meeting of unlike minds — of industrialists, professors, and students,” he says. “All that's required is one idea that clicks. That's the basis of innovation.”
He experienced this ‘meeting of unlike minds' as a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida, with innovation occurring due to the meeting of people from different cultures. “I had a lovely time —the American graduate school is an enviable place,” he says. “I'm fighting to try and recreate that atmosphere here — to have 25 per cent post-graduate students and 10 to 15 per cent of faculty from abroad.”
But as much as he loved college life in the U.S., Ananth knew that he wanted to return to India from very early on. “The first time I came back for a vacation, the moment I set foot here again, I knew,” he says simply. “The sense of belonging was here, not there. I've gone subsequently to the U.S. as a visiting professor — first to Princeton, then to Boulder, Colorado — and that feeling hasn't changed.”
His passion for academia has obviously been passed on to both his children — his son is a Ph.D. in theoretical physics, his daughter in theoretical chemistry. His son has even followed in his footsteps and returned from the U.S. to teach at IISER in Pune. And the entire family, especially his late wife Jayashree, has always shared his love for the campus they have lived on since 1972, when he first joined as an assistant professor.
“Jayashree was very involved with the campus — she came up with pocket guides on the animals and birds here, she worked to keep the campus clean, with the Tech Kids crèche and the Atma charity wing,” he recalls fondly.
“As far as we were concerned, living on this campus was always a great boon.”
Source Link: http://beta.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article398862.ece
Log on to IIT courses, aicte tells engineering colleges
Log on to IIT courses, aicte tells engineering colleges
The institutes will be able to access these courses free of cost
Engineering institutes in the country will now be able to access course materials designed by the Indian Institutes of Technology free of cost.
The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is planning to make it mandatory for engineering institutes in the country to use basic sciences and engineering courses which IITs have introduced on Google and YouTube.
This will be done under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), a joint venture by the seven IITs — Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Madras, Kanpur, Kharagpur and Roorkee — and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
At present over 200 engineering institutes across the country are using the complete content that IITs provide free of cost on You Tube and Google.
“AICTE is planning to make it mandatory for the engineering institutes to have access to NPTEL and update their libraries accordingly. The engineering institutes will also be able to access these courses free of cost,” said Mangala Sunder Krishnan, National Web Courses Coordinator at IIT-Madras.
NPTEL, an endeavour by IITs, was launched around three-four years ago to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by developing curriculum-based video and web courses. NPTEL was started along the lines of Open Courseware by MIT in the US.
Around 15 institutes — Seven IITs, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and other engineering institutes — have collaborated to carry out the venture. The IITs have been nominated as the one of the best institutions in providing free university courses.
IITs which are implementing the second phase of the project, plan to introduce around 950 courses in basic sciences and engineering, in the next two years on NPTEL.
SNAPSHOT
o NPTEL based on Open Courseware by MIT in the US
o To introduce 950 courses in second phase
o MHRD releases a grant of Rs 50 crore
o NPTEL has around 4,400 videos on You Tube in 120 courses
o 2.6 million viewers and about 23 million uploads so far.
o 2nd most popular site to IPL at present
o Over 200 engg colleges using NPTEL content
The Ministry for Human Resources and Development (MHRD) has recently released a grant of Rs 50 crore for the second phase. Total budget for second phase is Rs 96 crore.
NPTEL in the first phase of the project, had developed around 250 courses. All of these are available online for a duration of 4,500 hours, free of charge.
The course materials (both web and video) are freely accessible by everyone independent of their geographic location. “Professionals can use these courses to update themselves. Open and distance education using NPTEL contents are long-term prospects for IITs,” added Krishnan.
IIT Madras which officially handles the venture, distributes web contents free of charge to the government-funded institutes.
In addition it will allow the content to be hosted on a website local to the institutions (intranet). Privately-funded institutions obtain the entire web course contents on DVD ROMs for hosting them on their Intranet for a fee of Rs 1,00,000. The IITs are also planning to revise the fee shortly.
NPTEL is planning to have text of the video (of one hour) in the second phase.
Faculty members from the new IITs will also develop course materials for NPTEL. Universities, research labs and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research are also part of the programme.
NPTEL has around 4,400 videos on You Tube in 120 courses and 2.6 million viewers (channel) and about 23 million (uploads) so far.
“Its the second most popular site to IPL at present. A lot of students and professionals are using it,” said Krishnan.
Source Link: http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/logto-iit-courses-aicte-tells-engineering-colleges/392316/
The institutes will be able to access these courses free of cost
Engineering institutes in the country will now be able to access course materials designed by the Indian Institutes of Technology free of cost.
The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is planning to make it mandatory for engineering institutes in the country to use basic sciences and engineering courses which IITs have introduced on Google and YouTube.
This will be done under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), a joint venture by the seven IITs — Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Madras, Kanpur, Kharagpur and Roorkee — and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
At present over 200 engineering institutes across the country are using the complete content that IITs provide free of cost on You Tube and Google.
“AICTE is planning to make it mandatory for the engineering institutes to have access to NPTEL and update their libraries accordingly. The engineering institutes will also be able to access these courses free of cost,” said Mangala Sunder Krishnan, National Web Courses Coordinator at IIT-Madras.
NPTEL, an endeavour by IITs, was launched around three-four years ago to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by developing curriculum-based video and web courses. NPTEL was started along the lines of Open Courseware by MIT in the US.
Around 15 institutes — Seven IITs, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and other engineering institutes — have collaborated to carry out the venture. The IITs have been nominated as the one of the best institutions in providing free university courses.
IITs which are implementing the second phase of the project, plan to introduce around 950 courses in basic sciences and engineering, in the next two years on NPTEL.
SNAPSHOT
o NPTEL based on Open Courseware by MIT in the US
o To introduce 950 courses in second phase
o MHRD releases a grant of Rs 50 crore
o NPTEL has around 4,400 videos on You Tube in 120 courses
o 2.6 million viewers and about 23 million uploads so far.
o 2nd most popular site to IPL at present
o Over 200 engg colleges using NPTEL content
The Ministry for Human Resources and Development (MHRD) has recently released a grant of Rs 50 crore for the second phase. Total budget for second phase is Rs 96 crore.
NPTEL in the first phase of the project, had developed around 250 courses. All of these are available online for a duration of 4,500 hours, free of charge.
The course materials (both web and video) are freely accessible by everyone independent of their geographic location. “Professionals can use these courses to update themselves. Open and distance education using NPTEL contents are long-term prospects for IITs,” added Krishnan.
IIT Madras which officially handles the venture, distributes web contents free of charge to the government-funded institutes.
In addition it will allow the content to be hosted on a website local to the institutions (intranet). Privately-funded institutions obtain the entire web course contents on DVD ROMs for hosting them on their Intranet for a fee of Rs 1,00,000. The IITs are also planning to revise the fee shortly.
NPTEL is planning to have text of the video (of one hour) in the second phase.
Faculty members from the new IITs will also develop course materials for NPTEL. Universities, research labs and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research are also part of the programme.
NPTEL has around 4,400 videos on You Tube in 120 courses and 2.6 million viewers (channel) and about 23 million (uploads) so far.
“Its the second most popular site to IPL at present. A lot of students and professionals are using it,” said Krishnan.
Source Link: http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/logto-iit-courses-aicte-tells-engineering-colleges/392316/
Thursday, April 15, 2010
IIT-JEE: More instances of ambiguity come to light
IIT-JEE: More instances of ambiguity come to light
New Delhi: Allegations of ambiguity in the IIT-JEE papers were made today including that they carried certain questions having more than one correct answer but thecomplaints were refuted by the organisers.
There were certain questions in section-II which were carrying more than one correct answers. The instructions said candidates will get partial marking for choosing partially correct answers.
These questions had no negative marks, an IIT professor claimed.
"This provision could have allowed students to exercise random choice. Without using mind, a student can randomly blacken all bubbles and stand to get full marks," the professor said.
The IIT-JEE for the first time introduced the provision for partial marking.
There were 15 such questions, carrying 45 marks, in section-II of the papers yesterday.
The papers had a few other questions where the candidates were asked to make correct matching. But there was possibility of more than one correct matching, the professor said.
However, IIT-JEE authorities denied these allegations.
"If one student blackens all the bubbles, his answer will be rejected," IIT-JEE organising chairman Prof TS Natarajan said.
The IIT-JEE today also issued a statement, clarifying that appropriate corrective actions would be taken during evaluation to take care of printing errors in the papers.
"There was a minor error in the order of printing of the subject headings (Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics) in the ORS... One of the 10-codes (namely, Code 4) of the Hindi version of Paper-1, Question 44 was not printed. Appropriate corrective action will be taken during evaluation of the papers," the statement said.
The test was conducted at 1,026 centres across the country yesterday as nearly 4.72 lakhs students attempted the examination for nearly 10000 seats in the 15 IITs, IT BHU and ISM Dhanbad.
Source Link: http://www.dnaindia.com/academy/report_iit-jee-more-instances-of-ambiguity-come-to-light_1370579
New Delhi: Allegations of ambiguity in the IIT-JEE papers were made today including that they carried certain questions having more than one correct answer but thecomplaints were refuted by the organisers.
There were certain questions in section-II which were carrying more than one correct answers. The instructions said candidates will get partial marking for choosing partially correct answers.
These questions had no negative marks, an IIT professor claimed.
"This provision could have allowed students to exercise random choice. Without using mind, a student can randomly blacken all bubbles and stand to get full marks," the professor said.
The IIT-JEE for the first time introduced the provision for partial marking.
There were 15 such questions, carrying 45 marks, in section-II of the papers yesterday.
The papers had a few other questions where the candidates were asked to make correct matching. But there was possibility of more than one correct matching, the professor said.
However, IIT-JEE authorities denied these allegations.
"If one student blackens all the bubbles, his answer will be rejected," IIT-JEE organising chairman Prof TS Natarajan said.
The IIT-JEE today also issued a statement, clarifying that appropriate corrective actions would be taken during evaluation to take care of printing errors in the papers.
"There was a minor error in the order of printing of the subject headings (Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics) in the ORS... One of the 10-codes (namely, Code 4) of the Hindi version of Paper-1, Question 44 was not printed. Appropriate corrective action will be taken during evaluation of the papers," the statement said.
The test was conducted at 1,026 centres across the country yesterday as nearly 4.72 lakhs students attempted the examination for nearly 10000 seats in the 15 IITs, IT BHU and ISM Dhanbad.
Source Link: http://www.dnaindia.com/academy/report_iit-jee-more-instances-of-ambiguity-come-to-light_1370579
Dream not over yet: Kota IIT classes spread out India-wide
Dream not over yet: Kota IIT classes spread out India-wide
MUMBAI: Three years ago, Kota-based coaching class Insight made a quiet entry in Mumbai’s western suburbs. The academy didn’t spend an ounce on brand-building ; all it mentioned in its pamphlets was that it came from Rajasthan’s coaching hub.
That was the time when Resonance, another Kota-headquartered coaching academy, set shop in Delhi. It adopted a big-bang approach ; bus panels and billboards screamed about its arrival . In the meantime, Kota’s Big Daddy — Bansal Classes — also set up two branches in Jaipur and in Ajmer.
Two decades ago, Kota, an obscure speck along the Chambal , was in the news for a spate of suicides that took place after J K Synthetics closed down, leaving 4,000 of its employees jobless. Today, however, this town is a brand that claims to know the formula that IIT aspirants must apply to get inside the premier tech schools.
As Lokesh Khandelwal, director and co-founder of Resonance , proudly proclaims, ‘‘ Classes in Kota have developed a system which is superior to any other. About 40% students who make it to the IITs have benefited from the approach designed at Kota.’’ And it’s not all big talk; close to 50,000 IIT contenders from across the country travel to Kota each year for that passport into the IITs. So why is Kota coming to them?
Experts who know a thing or two about IIT-JEE and Kota say many of the Kota institutes that are reaching out to students across the country are doing so to attract talent. In an industry driven by the final outcome , or the grand JEE result, attracting bright students is essential for survival.
‘‘ At the end of the game, the IIT ranks that students get speak louder than a million ads,’’ Praveen Tyagi, proprietor of a Mumbai-based class IITian’s Pace, feels. A few years ago, Bansal Classes used to admit a few thousand students. Now, it annually takes in tens of thousands, netting the best of the IIT prospects, and that probably has prompted the other coaching classes to spread their net farther and wider.
But these institutes say their reaching out has nothing to do with Bansal’s expansion. After teaching for 22 years in Kota, R K Sharma, managing director of Aakrati, has started a residential coaching class in Mumbai and calls it ‘‘ Mini-Kota’’ . He gives presentations for prospective candidates and their parents and provides them several reasons for not moving out of home: ‘‘ Why move away from your family?’’ and ‘‘ No need to adjust to the extreme climate of Kota’ ’ are two of those reasons.
Sharma is confident that, after watching his PPT, parents will think at least 10 times before sending their children to Kota. Concurs B V Rao, founder -director of Rao’s IIT Academy, ‘‘ No matter what, we can’t take care of these students 24x7. When they come to Kota, we exactly know what they do during class. But we have no idea of the time they get up, the food they eat. So we decided to set up a base in other parts.’’
Career Point has expanded to 13 cities of India. Rao’s IIT Academy is present in cities of West Bengal, Gujarat and Resonance Academy has spread across 13 branches in different cities, including Bangalore, Delhi , Bhopal, Jaipur,Rajkot and Bhubaneshwar. But all this does not mean that the attraction of going to Kota, the place known for its rigorous training, has faded. The class strength of the centres in Kota is still more than that you’d find in any of the outstation centres, says Insight proprietor Shishir Mittal; he has 2,000 students, 800 of whom are contributed by only Kota.
Source Link: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/education/Dream-not-over-yet-Kota-IIT-classes-spread-out-India-wide/articleshow/5783911.cms
MUMBAI: Three years ago, Kota-based coaching class Insight made a quiet entry in Mumbai’s western suburbs. The academy didn’t spend an ounce on brand-building ; all it mentioned in its pamphlets was that it came from Rajasthan’s coaching hub.
That was the time when Resonance, another Kota-headquartered coaching academy, set shop in Delhi. It adopted a big-bang approach ; bus panels and billboards screamed about its arrival . In the meantime, Kota’s Big Daddy — Bansal Classes — also set up two branches in Jaipur and in Ajmer.
Two decades ago, Kota, an obscure speck along the Chambal , was in the news for a spate of suicides that took place after J K Synthetics closed down, leaving 4,000 of its employees jobless. Today, however, this town is a brand that claims to know the formula that IIT aspirants must apply to get inside the premier tech schools.
As Lokesh Khandelwal, director and co-founder of Resonance , proudly proclaims, ‘‘ Classes in Kota have developed a system which is superior to any other. About 40% students who make it to the IITs have benefited from the approach designed at Kota.’’ And it’s not all big talk; close to 50,000 IIT contenders from across the country travel to Kota each year for that passport into the IITs. So why is Kota coming to them?
Experts who know a thing or two about IIT-JEE and Kota say many of the Kota institutes that are reaching out to students across the country are doing so to attract talent. In an industry driven by the final outcome , or the grand JEE result, attracting bright students is essential for survival.
‘‘ At the end of the game, the IIT ranks that students get speak louder than a million ads,’’ Praveen Tyagi, proprietor of a Mumbai-based class IITian’s Pace, feels. A few years ago, Bansal Classes used to admit a few thousand students. Now, it annually takes in tens of thousands, netting the best of the IIT prospects, and that probably has prompted the other coaching classes to spread their net farther and wider.
But these institutes say their reaching out has nothing to do with Bansal’s expansion. After teaching for 22 years in Kota, R K Sharma, managing director of Aakrati, has started a residential coaching class in Mumbai and calls it ‘‘ Mini-Kota’’ . He gives presentations for prospective candidates and their parents and provides them several reasons for not moving out of home: ‘‘ Why move away from your family?’’ and ‘‘ No need to adjust to the extreme climate of Kota’ ’ are two of those reasons.
Sharma is confident that, after watching his PPT, parents will think at least 10 times before sending their children to Kota. Concurs B V Rao, founder -director of Rao’s IIT Academy, ‘‘ No matter what, we can’t take care of these students 24x7. When they come to Kota, we exactly know what they do during class. But we have no idea of the time they get up, the food they eat. So we decided to set up a base in other parts.’’
Career Point has expanded to 13 cities of India. Rao’s IIT Academy is present in cities of West Bengal, Gujarat and Resonance Academy has spread across 13 branches in different cities, including Bangalore, Delhi , Bhopal, Jaipur,Rajkot and Bhubaneshwar. But all this does not mean that the attraction of going to Kota, the place known for its rigorous training, has faded. The class strength of the centres in Kota is still more than that you’d find in any of the outstation centres, says Insight proprietor Shishir Mittal; he has 2,000 students, 800 of whom are contributed by only Kota.
Source Link: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/education/Dream-not-over-yet-Kota-IIT-classes-spread-out-India-wide/articleshow/5783911.cms
'Serious mistakes' in JEE, claims IIT professor
'Serious mistakes' in JEE, claims IIT professor
NEW DELHI: A senior IIT professor has pointed out ‘‘serious blunders’’ in this year’s IIT-JEE test that concluded on Sunday. He claims a clever student can get 93 marks without any preparation.
The claim was made by Rajeev Kumar, professor of computer science, IIT Kharagpur. IIT-Madras, which conducted the JEE has, however, disputed his claim. Kumar has been pointing out problems with JEE for the past four years and has even gone to the Delhi High Court.
Kumar has pointed out that Paper I had 28 questions each in maths, physics and chemistry, of three marks each, divided into four sections. He has raised concerns about Section II.
The section had five questions of three marks each, one or more correct answers (partial marking) and no negative marking for incorrect answers. Kumar says if a candidate darkened all the circles then he could deserve full credits.
"Since there is no negative mark for any wrong answers, one cannot deduct marks for darkening the wrong bubble (circle). All right bubbles are anyway marked, so one has all correct answers marked along with wrong bubbles for which there are no negative marks. Therefore, IIT cannot deduct marks. Thus a student can get 5X3 = 15 marks each in mathematics, physics and chemistry without applying his mind," he contends.
IIT-Kharagpur professor Rajeev Kumar’s claim that the IIT-JEE test has more flaws than meets the eye was contested by T S Natarajan of IIT-Madras, who is involved with the exam.
Disputing Kumar’s contention that a clever student can get up to 93 marks by darkening all options in answers to certain questions, Natarajan says, “If all four options are shaded for a question for which there are less than four correct answers then the candidate gets zero. To avail partial mark the number of choices shaded should not exceed the number of correct choices and must include at least one of the correct choices.”
Kumar, however, points out that the instructions say something else. “Nowhere do the instructions say that four choices cannot be correct. They also do not state that you cannot mark all the choices,” Kumar argues.
Kumar gives another example from section IV of paper II with two questions of eight marks each.
Source Link: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/education/Serious-mistakes-in-JEE-claims-IIT-professor/articleshow/5791527.cms
NEW DELHI: A senior IIT professor has pointed out ‘‘serious blunders’’ in this year’s IIT-JEE test that concluded on Sunday. He claims a clever student can get 93 marks without any preparation.
The claim was made by Rajeev Kumar, professor of computer science, IIT Kharagpur. IIT-Madras, which conducted the JEE has, however, disputed his claim. Kumar has been pointing out problems with JEE for the past four years and has even gone to the Delhi High Court.
Kumar has pointed out that Paper I had 28 questions each in maths, physics and chemistry, of three marks each, divided into four sections. He has raised concerns about Section II.
The section had five questions of three marks each, one or more correct answers (partial marking) and no negative marking for incorrect answers. Kumar says if a candidate darkened all the circles then he could deserve full credits.
"Since there is no negative mark for any wrong answers, one cannot deduct marks for darkening the wrong bubble (circle). All right bubbles are anyway marked, so one has all correct answers marked along with wrong bubbles for which there are no negative marks. Therefore, IIT cannot deduct marks. Thus a student can get 5X3 = 15 marks each in mathematics, physics and chemistry without applying his mind," he contends.
IIT-Kharagpur professor Rajeev Kumar’s claim that the IIT-JEE test has more flaws than meets the eye was contested by T S Natarajan of IIT-Madras, who is involved with the exam.
Disputing Kumar’s contention that a clever student can get up to 93 marks by darkening all options in answers to certain questions, Natarajan says, “If all four options are shaded for a question for which there are less than four correct answers then the candidate gets zero. To avail partial mark the number of choices shaded should not exceed the number of correct choices and must include at least one of the correct choices.”
Kumar, however, points out that the instructions say something else. “Nowhere do the instructions say that four choices cannot be correct. They also do not state that you cannot mark all the choices,” Kumar argues.
Kumar gives another example from section IV of paper II with two questions of eight marks each.
Source Link: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/education/Serious-mistakes-in-JEE-claims-IIT-professor/articleshow/5791527.cms
Minor glitches in IIT entry test
Minor glitches in IIT entry test
A printing error in the answer sheet was a source of confusion for candidates appearing for the IIT Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) on Sunday.
Students were worked up initially when they noticed a mistake in the order of printing of the subject heads.
“The corresponding question numbers for physics on the answer sheet were under the mathematics section and those for maths were under the physics section. I couldn’t figure this out initially and was a little worked up,” said Deepak Goyal (17), a candidate at the Modern School centre on Barakhamba Road.
The answer sheets for JEE are in the form of Optical Reader Sheets (ORS).
In ORS sheets, students choose their correct option by darkening circles.
The confusion was, however, sorted out in about five to ten minutes into the examination once candidates were asked to ignore the subject heads and attempt questions as per their serial number.
This problem wasn’t confined to centres in Delhi alone, but was faced by candidates across the country.
IIT Madras, which is in charge of organising the examination this year, acknowledged the error.
“The error was recognised immediately and the confusion was cleared. It wasn’t such a big deal as the questions had their correct serial. number on the answer sheet and students were asked to just concentrate on that,” said T.S. Natarajan, Organising Chairman.
A statement issued by IIT Madras also pointed out another mistake in the paper.
A question was missing from one out of the ten versions of paper I in Hindi.
“In one of the 10-codes (namely, Code 4) of Hindi version of Paper-1, Question 44 was not printed,” the statement informed.
“The students and parents are assured that appropriate corrective action would be taken during evaluation
of the papers,” the statement added.
This year, close to 4.72 lakh candidates across the country are competing for 10,000 seats at the B-Tech level at 15 IITs, Indian School of Mines (Dhanbad) and IT-BHU (Banaras Hindu University).
The results for the examination will be announced on May 26.
Source Link: http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/newdelhi/Minor-glitches-in-IIT-entry-test/Article1-530066.aspx
A printing error in the answer sheet was a source of confusion for candidates appearing for the IIT Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) on Sunday.
Students were worked up initially when they noticed a mistake in the order of printing of the subject heads.
“The corresponding question numbers for physics on the answer sheet were under the mathematics section and those for maths were under the physics section. I couldn’t figure this out initially and was a little worked up,” said Deepak Goyal (17), a candidate at the Modern School centre on Barakhamba Road.
The answer sheets for JEE are in the form of Optical Reader Sheets (ORS).
In ORS sheets, students choose their correct option by darkening circles.
The confusion was, however, sorted out in about five to ten minutes into the examination once candidates were asked to ignore the subject heads and attempt questions as per their serial number.
This problem wasn’t confined to centres in Delhi alone, but was faced by candidates across the country.
IIT Madras, which is in charge of organising the examination this year, acknowledged the error.
“The error was recognised immediately and the confusion was cleared. It wasn’t such a big deal as the questions had their correct serial. number on the answer sheet and students were asked to just concentrate on that,” said T.S. Natarajan, Organising Chairman.
A statement issued by IIT Madras also pointed out another mistake in the paper.
A question was missing from one out of the ten versions of paper I in Hindi.
“In one of the 10-codes (namely, Code 4) of Hindi version of Paper-1, Question 44 was not printed,” the statement informed.
“The students and parents are assured that appropriate corrective action would be taken during evaluation
of the papers,” the statement added.
This year, close to 4.72 lakh candidates across the country are competing for 10,000 seats at the B-Tech level at 15 IITs, Indian School of Mines (Dhanbad) and IT-BHU (Banaras Hindu University).
The results for the examination will be announced on May 26.
Source Link: http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/newdelhi/Minor-glitches-in-IIT-entry-test/Article1-530066.aspx
Friday, April 9, 2010
Institutes hire IT professionals to train faculty
Institutes hire IT professionals to train faculty
NEW DELHI: Ranchoddas Shyamaldas Chanchad’s dream may well have come true. The protagonist in 3 Idiots attracted his teachers’ displeasure when he tried to make their methods more student-friendly, but off the screen, things are a lot better. Teachers in engineering colleges across the country are more than happy to have information technology professionals teach them a thing or two.
As part of this collaborative effort, complex subjects like cryptography are being taught in many colleges through treasure hunts. Snakes and ladders are being used to teach the applications of low and high pass filters, and word games demonstrate the working of reaction turbines.
Institutes like IIT Powai, Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University, Andhra Pradesh, Visves-waraiah Technological University, Belgaum, Anna University in Tamil Nadu and ITS Ghaziabad are some of those partnering with companies like Wipro to have their faculty trained.
“Students were often not serious in classrooms, but with the adoption of new teaching methods, we have seen considerable interest. Students also tend to retain a topic much longer,” says Abhay Bansal, professor of computer science at IPS Ghaziabad.
Bansal is a faculty member involved in a training programme called Mission10X, launched by software service company Wipro, which aims to train almost 10,000 teachers this year.
“About 3,000 innovative methods of teaching are up on our website,” says Nagarjuna Sadineni, general manager, talent transformation, Wipro Technologies.
Under the programme, Wipro captures a teacher’s training session on camera and assigns mentors to introduce innovation to teaching methods.
Besides Wipro, the world’s largest chip design company, Synopsys, has also unveiled a section called SEER Akademi to train teachers. “The demand for electrical and electronics engineers in India is estimated to reach five lakh by 2015. Our initiative aims to fill the supply gap,” says Srikanth Jadcherla, CEO of SEER Akademi.
The company has reworked the microelectronics curriculum of colleges like Bhubaneswar Institute of Technology, Chitkara University (Punjab) and North East Technical Education Society in Assam, JNTU and VTU.
TCS has launched an Academic Interface Programme, and says it engaged with over 375 institutes in FY09. “Faculty development workshops & sabbaticals enable academia to understand industry better, adapt and align teaching curriculum and methodologies,” says a spokesperson.
Some of the lesser-known institutes are finding such training particularly useful in raising confidence levels in students. Colleges like the Meerut Institute of Engineering and Arya Institute of Engineering and Technology at Jaipur have adopted such programmes.
“Top IT companies demand soft skills at placement sessions, and such training programmes help us build these in students,” says a teacher at a Meerut-based institute.
Source Link: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/education/Institutes-hire-IT-professionals-to-train-faculty/articleshow/5768474.cms
NEW DELHI: Ranchoddas Shyamaldas Chanchad’s dream may well have come true. The protagonist in 3 Idiots attracted his teachers’ displeasure when he tried to make their methods more student-friendly, but off the screen, things are a lot better. Teachers in engineering colleges across the country are more than happy to have information technology professionals teach them a thing or two.
As part of this collaborative effort, complex subjects like cryptography are being taught in many colleges through treasure hunts. Snakes and ladders are being used to teach the applications of low and high pass filters, and word games demonstrate the working of reaction turbines.
Institutes like IIT Powai, Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University, Andhra Pradesh, Visves-waraiah Technological University, Belgaum, Anna University in Tamil Nadu and ITS Ghaziabad are some of those partnering with companies like Wipro to have their faculty trained.
“Students were often not serious in classrooms, but with the adoption of new teaching methods, we have seen considerable interest. Students also tend to retain a topic much longer,” says Abhay Bansal, professor of computer science at IPS Ghaziabad.
Bansal is a faculty member involved in a training programme called Mission10X, launched by software service company Wipro, which aims to train almost 10,000 teachers this year.
“About 3,000 innovative methods of teaching are up on our website,” says Nagarjuna Sadineni, general manager, talent transformation, Wipro Technologies.
Under the programme, Wipro captures a teacher’s training session on camera and assigns mentors to introduce innovation to teaching methods.
Besides Wipro, the world’s largest chip design company, Synopsys, has also unveiled a section called SEER Akademi to train teachers. “The demand for electrical and electronics engineers in India is estimated to reach five lakh by 2015. Our initiative aims to fill the supply gap,” says Srikanth Jadcherla, CEO of SEER Akademi.
The company has reworked the microelectronics curriculum of colleges like Bhubaneswar Institute of Technology, Chitkara University (Punjab) and North East Technical Education Society in Assam, JNTU and VTU.
TCS has launched an Academic Interface Programme, and says it engaged with over 375 institutes in FY09. “Faculty development workshops & sabbaticals enable academia to understand industry better, adapt and align teaching curriculum and methodologies,” says a spokesperson.
Some of the lesser-known institutes are finding such training particularly useful in raising confidence levels in students. Colleges like the Meerut Institute of Engineering and Arya Institute of Engineering and Technology at Jaipur have adopted such programmes.
“Top IT companies demand soft skills at placement sessions, and such training programmes help us build these in students,” says a teacher at a Meerut-based institute.
Source Link: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/education/Institutes-hire-IT-professionals-to-train-faculty/articleshow/5768474.cms
Monday, February 15, 2010
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)–DELHI
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)–DELHI
Introduction
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, is one of the six institutes of technology created as centres of excellence for higher training, research and development in science, engineering and technology in India, the others being at Kanpur, Kharagpur, Chennai, Mumbai and Guwahati. Established as college of engineering in 1961, the institute was later declared an institution of national importance under the ‘Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 1963’ and was renamed ‘Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi’. It was then accorded the status of a deemed university with powers to decide its own academic policy, to conduct its own examinations, and to award its own degrees.
Programs
Two-year full-time MBA program with focus on management systems
Two-year full-time MBA program with focus on telecommunication systems management
Three-year part-time master of business administration (MBA) program for working executives with focus on technology management
Students with work experience (in per cent): 57
Students with no work experience (in per cent): 43
Specializations offered (in per cent):
Finance: 26%
Strategy: 13%
Marketing: 35%
IT: 26%
Background profile (in per cent): Mechanical 31, electrical 23, electronics 18, chemical 12, textile 6, Civil 6, production 4
Eligibility
Sixty per cent (60%) marks in aggregate (of all the years/semesters) or 6.75/10 CGPA in bachelor’s degree in engineering/technology/architecture/pharmacy/agricultural engineering.
Or
A master’s degree in commerce, economics, physics, chemistry, mathematics, statistics, computer application, electronic science, environmental science, operations research, computational/information science, agriculture for the two-year full-time MBA programme.
Additionally, at least two years relevant work experience required by August 1, 2002 for three-year part-time MBA programme for working executives.
Admission test : JMET
Placements
Salary Structure:
Average salary (in LPA): 4.12
Highest salary (in LPA): 7
Correspondence
Web address: www.iitd.ernet.in
Contact address: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Hauz Khas, New Delhi–110016, India
Contact number: 11–6861977, 6581696
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Introduction
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, is one of the six institutes of technology created as centres of excellence for higher training, research and development in science, engineering and technology in India, the others being at Kanpur, Kharagpur, Chennai, Mumbai and Guwahati. Established as college of engineering in 1961, the institute was later declared an institution of national importance under the ‘Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 1963’ and was renamed ‘Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi’. It was then accorded the status of a deemed university with powers to decide its own academic policy, to conduct its own examinations, and to award its own degrees.
Programs
Two-year full-time MBA program with focus on management systems
Two-year full-time MBA program with focus on telecommunication systems management
Three-year part-time master of business administration (MBA) program for working executives with focus on technology management
Students with work experience (in per cent): 57
Students with no work experience (in per cent): 43
Specializations offered (in per cent):
Finance: 26%
Strategy: 13%
Marketing: 35%
IT: 26%
Background profile (in per cent): Mechanical 31, electrical 23, electronics 18, chemical 12, textile 6, Civil 6, production 4
Eligibility
Sixty per cent (60%) marks in aggregate (of all the years/semesters) or 6.75/10 CGPA in bachelor’s degree in engineering/technology/architecture/pharmacy/agricultural engineering.
Or
A master’s degree in commerce, economics, physics, chemistry, mathematics, statistics, computer application, electronic science, environmental science, operations research, computational/information science, agriculture for the two-year full-time MBA programme.
Additionally, at least two years relevant work experience required by August 1, 2002 for three-year part-time MBA programme for working executives.
Admission test : JMET
Placements
Salary Structure:
Average salary (in LPA): 4.12
Highest salary (in LPA): 7
Correspondence
Web address: www.iitd.ernet.in
Contact address: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Hauz Khas, New Delhi–110016, India
Contact number: 11–6861977, 6581696
Check Other Top Management Colleges in India
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IIM Bangalore
IIM Kolkatta
IIM Lucknow
IIM Indore
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Mudra Institute Of Communications (MICA), Ahmedabad
Institute Of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad
T.A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal
University Business School (UBS), Chandigarh
Institute Of Management – NIRMA University, Ahmedabad
International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi
FORE School Of Management, New Delhi
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management-ndim.html">New Delhi Institute Of Management (NDIM), New Delhi
NIILM Centre For Management Studies, New Delhi
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Lal Bahadur Institute of Management (LBS) - Delhi
Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur
Xavier Institute of Management (XIM), Bhubaneshwar
Goa Institute of Management, Goa (GIM)
Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Tirichirapalli (BIMT)
Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), Chennai
Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (IIT)
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT)
Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune
AMITY Business School, Noida
Symbiosis Institute of International Business (SIIB), Pune
Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies (SIMS), Pune
Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communication (SIMC), Pune
Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management (SITM), Pune
Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai
Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai
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Masters of Finance and Control, Delhi (MFC)
Xavier’s Institute of Social Service (XISS) – JHARKHAND
KIRLOSKAR Institute of Advanced Management Studies (KIAMS)– HARIHAR
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