Money Quest in Deregulated Class Rooms! The Knowledge Economy Deprives Enlightenment and Empowerment to the Excluded Communities to Ressurect Manusmriti Law of Knowledge!

Money Quest in Deregulated Class Rooms! The Knowledge Economy Deprives Enlightenment and Empowerment to the Excluded Communities to Ressurect Manusmriti Law of Knowledge!Vocational courses for school students planned!

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Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday called on the private sector and foreign investors to fill the deficit of universities and colleges that India is likely to face if the government attains its target of increasing enrolment in higher education by 2020.

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Higher Studies and Research dumped to Promote Profit Oriented  Vocational Education to reduce Generation Next Illiterate or Semiliterate Industrial skiled Labour is the agenda of Kapil Sibal and his Knowledge Economy.Vocational courses for school students planned.The human resource development ministry is planning special incentives to lure faculty from the older Indian Institutes of Technology to take up teaching posts at the country's new breed of IITs struggling to attract teachers.

Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday called on the private sector and foreign investors to fill the deficit of universities and colleges that India is likely to face if the government attains its target of increasing enrolment in higher education by 2020.

"We need a national vocational education framework to empower and harness the talent of those school students who do not take up or are unable to afford the conventional higher education. We are working on this," said Sibal, while addressing a conference on Higher Education Conclave 2010 organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

The proposed vocational training will begin at the school level only and it will be of 10 levels.

Students from Class 8 onwards will be able to take up various vocational courses, like carpentry and para-medical, along with their regular courses till Class 12.

They will be provided certificates based on their work over four levels till Class 12 and six levels after Class 12, said the minister

The vocational training courses will depend on various sectors of employment. This programme will also help meet the huge shortage of skilled personnel, the minister said.

My GIC Teacher Tara Chandra Tripathi,who Never did teach me in calss room but controlled my life since he saw my answer books in the Half Yeraly Eaxms of Class Eleven, has sent me some books written by him recently. He has retired already and almost Seventy years old. He continues to be in touch with his old student. Me and kapilesh Bhoj had been virtually ejected out of bengal Hotel, on Mal Road, Nainital asTripathi accomodated us in his Home, Mohan Nivas and we were First Year Graduation students in DSB College then.

Tripathi is an elite Brahamin. Bhoj was a Kumuni Rajput while I was known Out Caste belonging to a resettled Black Untouchbale Bengali Refugee Peasant family.

But Tripathi was a follower of materialism propoagated by CHARVAK and Marx.

What made the real difference, was his Commitment to his students and education system.

We had a library at his home. He would decide book list for us. I saw him to do this even at the last leg of his service in GIC , Bhimtal in 1989.

No students were allowed to sit in the final exams until he had read and written synopsis of the BOOKS prescribed by the Principal.

Not only Tripathi, I may also name my Primary teacher Pitambar Pant, Junior Highs School teachers Suresh Chandra sharma, Mahesh Chandra Verma and Prem Prakash Budhlakoti and each and every teacher in GIC Nainital, JC Pant, SC Sati, HC Sati and so on. Even our Graduation Postgraduation days,we had always good teachers who cared so much so for us. Captain LM Sah, Mrs Madhulika Dexit, Mrs Prema Tiwari, Mrs Lilu Kumar, Mrs Anil Bisht who taught us. But there were many more who Never did teach us as Dr Batrohi, Professor Shekhar Pathak, Dr. Uma Bhatt, Mrs Kavita Pandey, Dr Ajoy Rawat and so on.

Tara Chandra Tripathi has written a book on his experiences as PRICIPAL, covering a tenure of almost Twenty five years.

Amusingly, Tripathi became Principal for the first time in Begawala, near Rudrapur,hardly three KM away from my village Basantipur. I came to know the fact only after reading the book.In fact, he located me every time since I left GIC.

This book is quite nostalgic for every student whoever studied out of kapil sibal`s knowledge Economy.

What Amir Khan tried to propagate in Three Idiots, it is nothing new for us as we were taught to study in quest for knowledge and Enlightenment, Not for degree or Professional Training to get a job.

We were NEVER CAREER Seeking students.

We were always taught to go beyond the Syllabus!

Tripathi himself is quite nostalgic to remember GIC days.

I was known to be a arrogant boy in GIC.

But I Never dared to miss my English Class as Mr JC Pant was such a respected fellow that we had to say yes sir, whenever he called Rolls. He knew each and every student.

HC sati was our class teacher and known for excellent administration. He used to teach Geography. He had insisted that I should study Geography but I opted for History. But the teacher was always looking on me. I could not move around freely as I knew my teacher was following my movements.

Ramesh Chandra Sati was an Excellent teacher of Economics and he taught us the Fundamentals so well that we may not forget.

Tripathi is not a professional writer.The book may disappoint those who are interested in only language work and stylistic writing. The language is also typical with Sanskrit words used abundantly. He could not tell the story with skilled writing karishma. But, believe me , it is very interesting to know the education systems and our lod committed teachers and their thoghts, mission and experiments, determination and NON compromising attitude.It is most Relevant and essential Book to save genertion next from the Claws of Knowledge Econmoy, I must say.

You may just write Mr Tara Chandra Tripathi for your Copy. His email: nirmaltara@gmail.com

What you see around you, Vocational Education centres assuring lacs of Placements mushroom in every Metro, Suburban Cities, Towns and even Rural areas. Parents do spend thousands per month as Fees for those which have not adequate Faculty. Thousands and thousands students DROP out from formal education system skipping Higher studies to get Quick Job with Excellent Pay promised and they end up in disappointment, personality Disorder and all round Disaster. As the Coaching Centres, Franchises, Study centres and Vocational Education centres and institutions are NOT REGULATED at all.
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I believe that every student of Mr Tripathi would agree that the book does not represent the Teacher and the Principal which he had been all the time. Honestly, he may not describe the real Impact as we can!

Now, let me clarify that I am writing about my teachers only to highlight the difference between class room nowadays and the class room our generation did attend.

For Generation Next, Class Room does not mean any quest of Knowledge as the Schools have turned to be Money making machines so have become all the teachers where our teachers would have no place.

They had been paid very badly.

But they had so many things at the stake as they groomed us.

Now, just see, Senior faculty members of IITs, IIMs to get higher grade pay! Whereas,he All India Management Association (AIMA) will hold a new online test in February next year to evaluate B-School students on their employability in line with the current industry trends. Just because, they are ENGAGED to design the best of Money machines!
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"This test will certify and check the students of their readiness and aptitude before they enter the corporate world," Sanjiv Goenka, president, AIMA said.

The Management Aptitude and Skills Test (MAST) will address the employers' long-time grievance of poor employability of a large number of fresh management graduates, he said.

MAST would be held Feb 20, 2011 all over India. It is an online test.

The MAST has benefits both for employers and students.

The employers will have the opportunity to choose students with the right skill. It also makes the recruitment process cost effective and efficient.

The students will have a pan India exposure to the job market. It will also act as a level-playing field irrespective of geographical location or category of the B-School.

In what could come as a good news for professors of IITs, IIMs and IISERs, the Government has decided to offer experienced and senior faculty members a higher administrative grade (HAG) pay.

According to the decision, senior faculty members would receive an HAG pay of Rs 67,000 to Rs 79,000.

IIT teachers had gone on an agitation path last year seeking higher pay for senior faculties.

"It has now been decided in consultation with the Department of Expenditure to extend the HAG scale of Rs 67000-79000 without any Grade Pay in place of academic grade pay (AGP) of 12000," said a notification issued by the HRD Ministry .

The new pay scale would also apply to professors of Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore apart from professors of IITs and IIMs.

In an earlier order last year, the Ministry had said that professors would be eligible to move to academic grade pay (AGP) of Rs 12,000 per month after six years of regular service. However, the new notification has done away with the the AGP of Rs 12,000 per month.

The higher pay grade, said officials, would help retain the best minds in the country and lure many more into the teaching profession.

Come February 2011, management school graduates will have to crack an entrance test before they can bag those dream jobs. The All-India Management Association (AIMA) plans to introduce a computer-based screening test, which will assess whether a B-school graduate has the skill-sets required to become an effective manager.

Big recruiters like Deloitte, Dabur, MetLife India, Idea Cellular , Camlin Ltd , Alembic Ltd , HLL, Pfizer , Parle, PwC India, McAfee, Nokia, Lenovo, JM Financial , Reliance Industries , Suzlon and TATA Communications have agreed to use the score of the AIMA test during recruitment.

"In the job market, recruiters are faced with the daunting task of choosing the right candidate and fresh management graduates need counselling to pick the right job which suits their skill-sets, interests and capabilities. This test will help both the students and recruiters," said AIMA president and RPG Enterprises vice-chairman Sanjiv Goenka in a press conference here on Tuesday.

The 150-minute test, christened Management Aptitude and Skills Test (MAST), will test the candidate's management aptitude, domain knowledge in areas of specialisation like finance, marketing, HR, international business, operations & IT and assess their personality traits such as leadership, handling stress, decision-making skills, stability and teamwork abilities. The first test is scheduled to be held on February 20, 2011 across India.


IGNOU, the largest open university in the world, plans to open study centres in several countries in Europe and Africa to offer a variety of courses and teachers' training programmes.

"We have proposals from as many as 11 countries including Germany, France , Austria, Kenya and Ethiopia and we currently studying them," said IGNOU vice chancellor V N Rajasekharan Pillai.

He said the African countries are keen on rural development programme while Kenya and Ethiopia have also evinced interest for management programmes.

"We would also be offering teacher training programmes in the African nations while a host of programmes on contemporary subjects would be offered in some of the European countries," he said.

IGNOU already handles a study centre in London. Besides, it has presence in over 35 countries through 56 study centres. Over 42,000 students are enrolled at its overseas centres. More than 90 per cent of them are the people of Indian origin.

IGNOU courses were also seemingly gaining popularity in the Gulf region that has a large strength of Indian expatriates.

Sibal had earlier said that his ministry aims to increase the enrolment in colleges and varsities from the current 12.4 percent to 30 percent of the total students attending school education which would translate to 40 million students by 2020.

Speaking at the Higher Education Conclave organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce in Kolkata, the minister said that India's current 12.4 percent gross enrolment ratio (GER) was "abysmally low" compared to global standards and radical steps were needed to drive it up.

"India will never attain double digit growth if unless education is taken seriously," said Sibal, taking frequent digs at the corporate gathering for lack of participation in the "national initiative".

To support the 40 million students that are expected by 2020, an estimated 800 new universities and 40,000 colleges are said to be required according to the HRD ministry's calculations, Sibal said.

"And we can't create that kind of infrastructure. And it is not even the government's job to create that with public funding. Therefore we need the private sector and the foreign direct investment to take a pivotal role in moulding the country's higher education," he said.

However he warned of private players wanting to jump on to the education bandwagon to make quick bucks of the upcoming Education Malpractices Bill that will hold institutions liable for any claims that they make on their prospectus or on their website.

"If we find any institution that resorts to things like renting faculty on the days of inspection or making false claims of infrastructure -- and we will know because the students will complain -- the institution and responsible people will face sever action."

The minister also spoke about the National Vocational Education Framework that was being framed by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to empower the rest of the 70 percent students that still would not make it to the higher education centres.

"The framework will be ready within the next one year and with it we are basically trying to set up vocationally oriented for students of class eight onwards. These will courses may include anything from carpentry to refrigerator repairing," he said.

"Instead of complaining about the low employability of the students coming out of the system, we need you guys to come to us with a syllabus for these courses which would make them employable," Sibal told the conclave participants which included industry honchos.

21 Oct, 2010, 04.07AM IST,ET Bureau
School Deregulation: An Erosion of trust
In its most recent report on the education sector, IDFC SSKI quotes Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal as saying: "We cannot have companies listed on the stock exchange to run educational institutions and pay dividends to shareholdefrom the fees parents pay. We cannot allow education to be subject to risk factors." But it's happening, whether it's a listed company or, in several cases, a non-profit trust.

In its steadfast, principled intentions, the trust model works. Paul Machado, principal of Campion School , a private ICSE board school in South Mumbai, is against privatisation of education, as he feels it is not a commercial activity. "Our charitable trust collects tuition fees to maintain the institute," he says, adding that he fails to understand why some schools would need to outsource their management and operations. "These are the loopholes in the system that lead to corruption," he says.

But there are others who say it is naïve to believe in the trust model anymore. Madhav Chavan of Pratham likens the current non-profit trust structure in schools to prohibition: it encourages illegal trade and manufacturing, people still drink, and the only loss is that of tax revenues for the state. "It's hypocrisy to say schools can't make profits," says Chavan. "Everyone ultimately makes money except the government."

It's why many educationists say deregulate the sector and do away with the non-profit trust structure. Allow management companies to bring in private capital, which can enable more and better schools. "It is better to regulate schools by allowing them to be profit-making," says Chavan.

This, he says, will make the system more transparent and draw in private capital.One of the ways the government can regulate schools is through the recent quota system, wherein all schools are required to enrol 25% of students from the weaker sections.
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21 Oct, 2010, 02.12PM IST, Ahona Ghosh,ET Bureau
How entrepreneurs are profiting from business of schools
Earlier this month, Career Point Infosystems , a Kota-based tutorial service provider, had a dream debut on the bourses. Its shares more than doubled on listing, and the company raised 115 crore from its initial public offer (IPO). The overwhelming investor response was as much a comment on Career Point's old business, tutorials, as it was on its new business, schools.

The concept of schools as a business is at odds with the government's stated position on the issue. Saying schools shouldn't be run like a business, the government mandated a 'trust' structure for all schools from kindergarten till class 12, or K-12 schools. So, only non-profit trusts can operate schools; and if a trust has a surplus, it has to reinvest it in the school it runs. At least on paper.

In reality, there are ways and ways to take money out of a school. The surplus of a trust can't flow out, but money can flow out on the pretext of payments — real or fictitious — for services provided to the school. "It's been happening all these years," says Madhav Chavan, CEO and president of Pratham Education Foundation, a voluntary organisation focused on educating underprivileged children in India.

Increasingly, it's getting organised. Companies and investoare hooking up to devise business models that are legal, but are morally ambivalent in the present construct of the law. The essence of these business models is companies providing services to schools — for example, leasing a building or managing its operations — in return for a fee. That fee is negotiated between the trust and the company; in dealings that are not at arm's length, this arrangement makes a mockery of the trust structure.

For companies and investors, it is making available an increasing chunk of the schools segment — $20 billion, and growing at 14% a year, according to Kaizen private equity's education report. Suddenly, schools have become big business. In 2010, till August, private equity funds had invested $168 million into the sector through 14 deals, according to VC Circle, an investment research firm tracking private equity, M&A and venture capital (See table: Going to School).
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Higher Education in India has evolved in distinct and divergent streams with each stream monitored by an apex body, indirectly controlled by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. The 415 universities/ institutions, are mostly funded by the state governments. However, there are 25 important universities called Central universities, which are maintained by the Union Government and because of relatively large funding, they have an edge over the others. The engineering education and business schools are monitored and accredited by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) while medical education is monitored and accredited by the Medical Council of India (MCI). Like-wise, agriculture education and research is monitored by the Indian Council for Agriculture Research. Apart from these, National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) controls all the teacher training institutions in the country. The country has some ace engineering, management and medical education institutions which are directly funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Union Government. Admission to all professional education colleges is done through all-India common admission tests of which the IIT-JEE, AIEEE, CAT and CPMT are the most popular ones. Most of the institutions reserve a small percentage of seats for foreign students.

l 16 Oct, 2010, 07.48PM IST,PTI

'Bills on higher education unconstitutional'

NEW DELHI: A newly-formed body of universities today termed as "unconstitutional" a series of bills aimed at reforming higher education in the country and demanded that they be referred to a committee headed by a Supreme Court judge.

The Indian Council of Universities , which held its first meeting here, discussed the Educational Tribunal Bill, 2010, the Prohibition of Unfair Practices in technical educational institutions, medical educational institutions and Universities Bill , 2010 and the Higher Education and Research Bill , 2010 which is yet to be introduced in Parliament.

The opposition from the body comes close on the heels of a similar resistance HRD Minister Kapil Sibal faced in the Rajya Sabha with the Educational Tribunal Bill passed by the Lok Sabha.

The meeting, attended by senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Oscar Fernandes as head of a parliamentary standing committee on HRD, felt that the bills were "unconstitutional and their constitutional validity needs to be checked", ICU president S S Pabla, also the Vice Chancellor of Sikkim Manipal University, told reporters here.

He claimed that Fernandes suggested that the ICU representatives should place its views before the parliamentary committee. The Congress leader, however, was not present at the press briefing.

The ICU at present has 60 members, which include chancellors, vice-chancellors of private, central, state and deemed universities and institutions of national importance.

The body demanded that all the bills on higher education be referred to the top law officers or a committee be set up under a Supreme Court judge to check their validity in view of constitutional provisions distributing the legislative powers related to higher education among states and the Centre.

In a statement, ICU claimed that Parliament can only be empowered to enact laws on higher education only after the Constitution is amended.

"Constitution of India categorically prohibits Parliament to regulate higher education while empowering states to do so...," the body said in the statement.

The members also alleged that they were against "over regulation" and believed in evolving a mechanism of self regulation on the lines of TV broadcasters.

National Vocational Educational framework in a year: Sibal

BS Reporter / Kolkata October 21, 2010, 0:23 IST

Union human resource development minister Kapil Sibal plans to come out with a national vocational educational framework within one year.

He said the proposed framework would empower those students who do not want to become doctors, engineers or IT professionals.

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                            varsities to work in tandem, share resource

From Our Correspondent

                        NEW DELHI : On September 29 the vice-chancellors of                         about 40 Central universities took some landmark                         decisions on common admission test, curriculum sharing,                         credit transfer system and faculty sharing, assuring                         quality in the newly-opened Central universities.

                       

                        According to the decisions taken at the meeting chaired                         by Minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal a                         common admission test will be introduced from next                         academic session for admissions to the undergraduate and                         post-graduate courses in all Central universities.

                       

                        The VCs discussed in detail the reports of the                         Committees of Vice-Chancellors constituted in the                         earlier meeting held in March this year.

                       

                        Briefing reporters soon after the meeting Sibal said                         that weightage would be given to Class XII marks for                         admission to the UG courses. An expert committee headed                         by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Vice-Chancellor B                         Bhattacharya would work out the modalities, including                         percentage of Class XII marks to be considered along                         with scores in the admission test. The committee would                         submit its report within two months.

                       

                        As regards admission to the Post Graduate                         programmes, the basis may be marks obtained at the                         graduate level and a common test having some subject                         component. The modalities could be worked out by the                         Central Universities keeping in view their specific                         requirements.

                       

                        He however clarified that if universities like Jamia or                         JNU with a unique historical background, decide not to                         adopt the test then such institutions may be exempted.                         "We are not going to force any university to accept                         this. But we want to reduce the burden on students who                         need to write separate tests for different                         universities," Sibal said.

                       

                        The VCs also decided to give a go to the credit transfer                         between Central universities. There would be bilateral                         MoUs between universities, which would allow mutual                         credit transfers for their students. The Association of                         Indian Universities, he said, may play a vital role in                         this regard.

                       

                        "This system would help in student mobility and                         should be in place next academic session," Sibal added.

                       

                        There was also a consensus to start a four-year                         integrated BA/BSc/BEd course in Central universities.

                       

                        A student, who could complete his three-year degree                         course (BA/BSc), would be able to go for a one-year B.Ed                         course at one go. Usually B.Ed course is of two years'                         duration.

                       

                        Faculty sharing

                       

                        The vice-chancellors agreed on sharing of faculty                         amongst Central universities and a model MoU is to be                         worked out for this in two months. There may also be a                         built-in systems of financial incentives for the faculty                         involved. A Central Universities' Portal is proposed to                         be created for facilitating mobility amongst faculty and                         the modalities in this regard are expected to be worked                         out in the next two months.

                       

                        The universities should also start a course on                         academic management for registrars, proctors and other                         managerial staff engaged in universities. "Our objective                         is to move towards a regime when a degree in academic                         management would be mandatory for all aspirants to such                         posts," Sibal said.

                       

                        Taking a cue from the Ivy League universities in the US                         a proposal to set up Navaratna universities has also                         been mooted. An expert committee would work out within                         two months the stringent standards which such                         institutions would have to follow.

                       

                        The meeting also felt that the university assets,                         physical or academic, be put to optimal use not only for                         the benefit of the university but also to make it more                         relevant to societal needs. The assets of the                         universities may also be used for strengthening of                         vocational skill development so that not only academia                         gains but the industry as well benefits. There was also                         a consensus that there should be a code of conduct for                         university administrators, faculty, staff and students                         and a detailed scheme in this regard may be worked out                         for consideration in the next conference.

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Foreign Universities Bill and its impact

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Whether the Foreign Universities Bill is populist or not depends on whether caste-based reservation will apply in the matter of student admissions.

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P. V. Indiresan
The Union Cabinet has cleared the Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operation) Bill, 2010, which will be later introduced in Parliament. The Bill seeks to allow foreign education providers to set up campuses in India and offer degrees in various disciplines.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development has launched several schemes, such as right to education, reform of higher education and the like. Some are good, some populist.
Whether the Foreign Universities Bill is populist or not depends on whether caste-based reservation will apply in the matter of student admissions. According to Mr Krishan Khanna, who is doing a study on the education process in India, the country sends abroad over 150,000 students every year for higher education, and, in the process spends $10-$12 billion. That, if true, is a huge amount that deserves to be saved. Foreign universities will probably do so to some extent.
Objectives vary
I say to "some extent" because the proposal restricts the scheme to reputed universities and many of our students go to some of the 'not-so-well-known' ones. For instance, much of the trouble in Australia was because our students opted for third-grade courses, which, they hoped, would help them gain citizenship in that country.
Hence, we should bear in mind that the objectives of our families and youth vary widely; not all of them pertain to getting good education. If the scheme does attract the world's top universities, it is likely to benefit Indian education and India. I say "likely" and not "will" because it is not clear what the objectives of those universities are. If they want to attract talented Indian youth and set their fees accordingly, they will definitely do good. If their aim, however, is to milk the gullibility of Indian families and admit mostly rich students of inferior ability, they are not likely to do much good. Likewise, if they attract quality faculty from Indian universities with high salaries, they are likely to cause more harm than good.
American universities have a two-track system for admissions. They admit highly talented students from the poor families with attractive scholarships; they also attract the less able, rich students who contribute to their endowments which, in turn, help them attract competent, but poor students. It is likely that they will follow a similar policy here too but admit a larger share of rich students.
Then, we can see a reduction in the number of students going abroad for higher education. I am not sure of the extent of reduction because many do not get into the top institutions and may not be able to do so here too. There are also students whose sole interest is to get foreign citizenship; they are likely to continue to go abroad.
An important weakness of the Foreign Universities Bill lies in the fact that it does not in any way restrict our students going abroad. That is why it is difficult to say how much foreign exchange the country will save by this process.
At the same time, many of these universities may be genuinely interested in attracting top talent to their country. They may make it worthwhile for such students to shift from the IITs and other similar institutions and then later on inveigle them to shift to their own country.
Is that good or bad? Was it good that Professor Ramakrishnan went to the US and then earned a Nobel Prize or was it bad that he was lost to the country? Probably, it was good; if he had remained here our bureaucracy would probably have cut him down to size.
Shrink or compete?
It is most likely that the foreign universities will have an impact the culture of the top Indian universities, but not on most of the second-rate ones. By improving academic freedom, they will do good, primarily because academic freedom has been rapidly eroded in our country. However, that lapse does not bother most of our universities. Finally, will these institutions invest in research? If they do not and become mere teaching outposts, they will do little good to the country.
On the other hand, more and more Fortune 500 companies are establishing research laboratories in the country. They may find it more conducive to liaise with foreign universities. They may let them do much of the work they are doing now. As a result, Indian universities may shrink or use that as an opportunity to compete.
What will they do? I do not know! I fear the worst because, frankly speaking, many of the Ministry's ideas on the functioning and regulation of Indian universities are rather unintelligent.
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Sibal meets directors of new IITs

Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Thursday met the directors of the eight new Indian Institutes of Technology to discuss the teething problems they were facing.The eight new IITs have been started in Ropar (2008), Bhubaneswar (2008), Gandhinagar (2008), Hyderabad (2008), Patna (2008), Jodhpur (2008), Mandi (2009) and Indore (2009). IT BHU (Banaras Hindu University) is also to be upgraded as an Indian Institute of Technology.

As many of these institutes are presently functioning from temporary campuses, the directors told the minister of the constraints they face regarding infrastructure and faculty.

"A number of IITs are facing problems of clearances with central/state government departments for acquisition of the land allotted to them. In this regard, the minister has asked for a meeting to be taken next month with the concerned state government officials, central government officials and IIT directors to facilitate the process of land acquisition," an HRD ministry official said.

On the lines of the recent concession to IIMs on topping up the faculty salary, the new IITs have also been allowed to top up the faculty salary from their own funds, but only after the HRD minister's approval.

"At present, in the IITs, the scale Rs.67,000-Rs.79,000 is applicable for 40 percent of the professors in position. The new IITs expressed they have been unable to implement this grade since they have been able to recruit only few faculty so far," the official said. "The minister said the ministry would seek approval from the finance ministry/cabinet to be able to implement this salary grade for the new IITs."

The new IITs also felt that a revision in fund allocation would be required in view of the escalation of construction costs. "The minister (Sibal) has directed the officials to examine the matter and come up with a proposal in this regard," he added.

Major reforms are underway in the premier engineering institutions, with permission to take in foreign faculty and students, and for conducting medical courses (under the Medical Council of India's guidance) being some of them.

Adequate steps to provide hassle-free CAT 2010: Prometric
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.

The internal inquiry has revealed that the problem during the last year CAT examination was due to unlicensed software and non-updated antivirus at some test centres, Prometric managing director Soumitro Roy said here at a press meet.

The company has decided to purchase original software licences and give it to all the test centres. The company is also figuring out hardware of the computers. All external interfaces would be cut during that period, Roy said.

There would be a separately trained team to check and re-check the software and hardware capabilities, said an official.

Roy also said stress is given on security and security checks like thumb impressions and images of candidates would be used while appearing for examination in order to check proxy candidates.

9 Oct, 2010, 01.23PM IST, Vishwa Mohan,TNN
New syllabus for 2011 UPSC prelims out
NEW DELHI: Introducing a level-playing field for aspirants of India's elite services, IAS, IFS, IPS and others, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has come out with a new syllabus for the 2011 preliminary examination, which, besides aptitude and other skills, will also test candidates on their knowledge of "environmental ecology, biodiversity and climate change".

The aspirants will also be tested for English language comprehension skills. As of now, the English language test is part of qualifying papers without having any weightage in the civil services (Main) examination. But its introduction in the preliminary level could mean a brighter chance for all those whose English language skills are better, to qualify for the Main.

The new syllabus will have two common papers with equal weightage (200 marks each), unlike the current system which gives more weightage to subject paper (300 marks) than the common general awareness paper (150 marks). It will replace the present system, which has been in force since 1979.

The proposal to change the system had been pending for long as most of the government panels had advocated greater emphasis on "aptitude" of candidates than knowledge of their subjects, arguing that the specialists or experts of any particular subject may not necessarily be good civil servants unless they have actual inclination towards it.

"The new syllabus will provide a level-playing field and equity, since all candidates will have to attempt common papers unlike the current format which provides for only one common paper," an official said.

The first paper under the new syllabus will be more or less like the current general awareness paper, with additional issues such as climate change and biodiversity.

The second paper, being introduced by replacing the optional (subject) paper, will have aptitude, data interpretation and English language comprehension skills, which is more or less on the lines of MBA entrance test in India.

The second paper comprises general comprehension; inter-personal skills, including communication skills; logical reasoning and analytical ability; decision making and problem solving; general mental ability; basic numbers and their relations (secondary level) and data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables and data sufficiency). The English language comprehension skills will also be of secondary level.

The first paper, on the other hand, will test civil services aspirants on current events of national and international importance, Indian history, Indian and world geography, Indian polity and governance, economic and social development and general science, besides environmental ecology, biodiversity and climate change that do not require subject specialization.

The new syllabus is only meant for the preliminary examination, which shortlists candidates for the CS (Main) Examination, being conducted every year by the UPSC.

"The syllabus for the CS (Main) Examination will also be changed in due course. As of now, the existing syllabus will be used for the Main examination in 2011 as well," a senior official of the ministry of personnel said.

23 Sep, 2010, 10.28PM IST, Nageshwar Patnaik,
15000 in engineering college seats vacant, private colleges in Orissa cry foul

BHUBANESWAR: At a time when Orissa is emerging as the education hub in the eastern India, non-filling of more than 15,000 seats in engineering colleges and 2000 seats in MCA programme exposes the state government's failure to put up a good show in counseling and lackadaisical approach of some government officials.

As the final counseling session for engineering candidates in Orissa ended recently, an alarming number of 20,000 seats from the available 37,893 seats have been left vacant. Similarly, from the 3,675 seats available for the MCA programme, around 2000 seats have been left unoccupied, official sources said adding that even if the management is allowed to fill up their quota of 15% seats, more than 15,000 seats will remain vacant in the colleges in this academic session.

The Orissa figures come in sharp contrast with the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh where around three lakh students took admission in 630 colleges this academic session. The colleges in Andhra Pradesh rely on their own state and Orissa to fill up seats. Whereas Orissa, despite having a number of feeding states such as Jharkhand, Chhattishgarh, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, fail to have full-capacity students.

According to informed sources, some "unfamiliar" processes like e-counseling, gaps in communication and sudden changes of counseling dates deprived huge number students in taking admissions in the colleges.

"The procedure of e-counseling stood as a major bottleneck for rural students who are not either not exposed to computer networking or lack e-infrastructure. Absence of proper communication through print and electronic media also played its role. Most of the students could not know till the last moment in which colleges they have been selected to get admission," said Antaryami Badu, joint chairperson of Aryan Institute of Engineering and Technology.

Sources said – in some instances - suspected hijacking of passwords by government appointed nodal officers also resulted in much harassment to students and parents. The nodal officials – using the hijacked passwords – sent students deserving admission in standard colleges to some poorly managed colleges. This kind of irregularity saw that many colleges not getting good enrollment of students while others walked with many.

The students and engineering colleges had alleged that the options registered by students had been tampered with. On this allegation, the board has assured to investigate into the matter.

"The investigation regarding the irregularities in e-admission is going on," Industries Secretary Sourav Garg said.

Following allegations of tampering of best option registered by students, the Orissa private engineering college association [OPECA] had demanded re-counseling. Accordingly, two spot counseling for admission into engineering, MBA, MCA and other technical streams were conducted on August 21 and 22. Only 2200 seats in engineering colleges were filled up.

General Secretary OPECA Binod Das said, "non-filling up seats will have indirect ramifications on Orissa's future economy. Orissa will not have adequate share in the technical job market.

Mr Das further demanded that the private colleges be allowed to fill up the vacant after all counseling is exhausted within the prescribed norms. He also demanded to hike the AIEEE quota to 25% from the existing 15%.

"Besides, after completion of one-round of JEE counseling, all vacant seats, including the ones reserved for NRIs, should be handed over engineering colleges to fill up the vacant posts," Mr Das said adding that the state government in its affidavit filed recently before the Supreme Court had nearly agreed to our view points.

Sources said that the Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT), which controls the private engineering colleges, is not in favour of holding a second Orissa Joint Entrance Examinations on the ground that it lower the standard of education. Despite repeated attempts, BPUT registrar Dr Achyutananda Acharya could not be reached for his comments.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/education/15000-in-engineering-college-seats-vacant-private-colleges-in-Orissa-cry-foul/articleshow/6615889.cms

20 Oct, 2010, 12.20AM IST, Dibyajyoti Chatterjee,ET Bureau
Future Group ties up with Everonn to woo youngsters to retail trade

MUMBAI: Kishore Biyani's Future Group and Chennai-based education company Everonn Education have joined hands to provide training in organised retail. The 50-50 joint venture between Future Human Development (FHDL) and Everonn Skill Development will offer several short and long-term programmes aimed at school-leaving youngsters and graduates who will get training opportunities at Future Group's various retail formats. However, neither of the companies disclosed the size of the investment in the venture.

"This partnership will help create frontline workforce for the retail industry where there's a growing requirement of skilled people," said Muralidhar Rao, chief executive of FHDL , Future Group's education and training arm. The frontline workforce comprises shop floor sales assistants, employees in the supply chain and those who manage the warehouse.

The training programmes will focus on year-long courses on visual merchandising, supply chain management, and other short courses on warehousing, housekeeping, home furnishing and beauty & wellness.

"We need to increase focus on courses and training programmes that are aimed at creating employability at the bottom-of-the-pyramid, added Mr Rao. Future group hires at least 2,000 people every month in retail.

While the Future Group will share its domain knowledge in retail and offer the course methodology, the Everonn Education will manage the content and provide reach through its VSAT connectivity across all the centres. "Our focus is to develop content based on Indian experience, which is in line with the Indian culture and consumer behaviour," said Mr Rao. Through this partnership, Future Group aims to be present at every level of training in modern retail - from entry level to senior managers.

"We will start off with 3,000 students and plan to train about 25,000 in next one year," said P Kishore, managing director of the company. He hopes that skill development, which contributes only 2% of the company's total revenues, will account for at least 10% in next three years.

The courses, which are likely to begin from next month, will be delivered at about 60 skill development centres across the country. The centres are being jointly prepared by Everonn and Future Group.

Future Group has a multipronged approach towards training in retail. From August 2010, the company started its MBA and BBA programmes in retail management in partnership with IGNOU to prepare senior managers for the retail industry. The management programmes in retail are being offered at four cities - Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and Ahmedabad. Of late, several education players like Manipal Universal Learning and Educomp have entered vocational and skill development education as the sector promises huge growth opportunities.

Is Kapil Sibal Behind The Draconian Provisions
     That Puts GM Critics In Jail?
       
By Devinder Sharma
       
01 March, 2010
        Devinder Sharma Blog
       
The case of the proposed National Biotechnology Regulatory Authority Bill is getting curiouser (or should I say getting solved). Ever since the controversial provisions in the proposed draft bill became known, the first reaction on everyone's lips was who could be so stupid to incorporate such draconian provisions that puts the critics of the GM technology behind bars. Even communist China does not have such laws in force.
       
In case you missed it, the specific provision that I am talking about, reads: "Whoever, without any evidence or scientific record, misleads the public against the safety of the organisms and products specified in Part 1, Part II or Part III of Schedule 1, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months, but which may extend to one year and with fine, which may extend to two lakh rupees, or with both."
       
No sooner the news broke out, the Science & Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan was quick to deny it saying that the draft bill does not contain any such provisions. I was not amused since I had myself seen the draft bill, but I thought maybe the Minister had probably not read the bill. Or maybe he was trying to buy time by convincing the public that it was merely a diatribe against his ministry, and in the meanwhile drop the controversial provisions from the final draft that has still to be placed in Parliament.
       
Coomi Kapoor from the Indian Express has perhaps provided us the right answer. In her column "Inside Track" (Sunday Express, Feb 28, 2010), she writes that the bill was actually drafted in March 2008 when Kapil Sibal was the Minister for Science & Technology.
       
Now I understand why Prithviraj Chavan (he succeeded Kapil Sibal) was caught unaware about the draconian provisions in the proposed draft bill. Well, thank you Coomi for clearing the mist or to put it more succintly for solving the mystery. It is important for the nation to know the extra mile Ministers can walk to back multinationals and big business.
       
Anyway, discussing Budget 2010 with the yoga guru Swami Ramdev on Aastha TV channel on Feb 26, I brought up the issue of the draconian provisions in the proposed draft bill. Swami Ramdev was shocked to learn that the government could even think of introducing such a law.
       
Nevertheless, when I said that if the NBRA law was already in force, I as well as Swami Ramdev would have been in jail by now, he warned: "I dare them to arrest me. They will get a taste of what it means to gag independent voices," and added: "My opposition to GM foods will continue."
       
I hope Kapil Sibal is listening.
http://www.countercurrents.org/sharma010310.htm

Allahabad, 9th August 2010: Celebrating Aisa's 20 Year Legacy Of Resistance, Protest And Struggle

        
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On 9th August 2010, AISA organized an 'All India Student Convention' to commemorate and celebrate the completion of twenty years since the founding of AISA. The aim of this Convention was to bring together students from different corners of the country, to engage with culture and ideas, and to understand what kinds of possibilities may be held out for the student movement in the future. The Convention took a strong stand against the corporate loot of resources and education and the repression being meted out on democracy in campuses and throughout the country.

Delegates from sixteen states attended the Convention, alongwith over two hundred students from Allahabad itself. The first session of the Convention had speakers reflecting on the legacy of the past two decades as well as the current political situation. Despite the fact that the Allahabad University administration refused to open the premises of the student union hall for the Convention, AISA activists in Allahabad, defying the orders of the administration, successfully managed to hold the convention outside the union hall. Ramayan Ram, State Secretary of UP AISA conducted the morning's proceedings.

At the outset itself, Ravi Rai, AISA's National General Secretary, welcomed the assembled delegates and called the speakers for the day to the stage. The guests included Prashant Shukla, one of the founding members of AISA, currently a faculty member in BHU; Sunil Yadav, student leader in BHU in the 1990s and subsequently National General Secretary of AISA; Girija Pathak, an AISA activist who was elected president of the Kumaon University students' union in 1993; Kumudini Pati, one of the key activists of the Progressive Students' Organization which preceded AISA and Vice-President of the Allahabad University Students' Union in 1983-84;  Mohammed Salim, National President of the Revolutionary Youth Association;  Pranay Krishna, President of the JNU Students' Union in 1993 and presently General Secretary of the Jan Sanskritic Manch; V. Shankar, AISA's national president in 1997-98; Indiresh Maikhuri, former national president of   AISA; and Ramji Rai, former student leader of PSO and now Polit Bureau member of CPI(ML) Liberation.

A booklet entitled 'Chhatra Andolan ke Pramukh Padav' ('Important Episodes in the Student Movement') was released commemorating the occasion. It examines and offers a critical evaluation of the students' movement in India, from the time of the freedom struggle to the present day.

In his speech, Sunil Yadav pointed out that if we look today at the university where AISA was founded, then it is evident that not only is there no functioning student union, but there is also a complete absence of campus democracy. What we see reflected in our campuses is also reflected in our country: curbs are being placed everyday on our democracy. He spoke of the plight of the youth of Kashmir who are arrested and tortured daily under AFSPA, many of whom have been murdered or else have disappeared, and whose protests are met by police bullets and the repression of the army. What sort of democracy do we have in our country?, he asked, since when the PM visits Kashmir, curfew is immediately imposed.Lado padhai karne ko, padho samaj badalne ko', AISA must speak up and struggle for the rights of the ordinary citizen at every point. To do so, will be to prove that the revolutionary student struggle is not dead.

Discussing the undeclared emergency that prevails in campuses across the country today, Kumudini Pati saluted AISA's attempts at challenging this status quo. The state wants to ban student unions so that no voices will be raised in opposition to their policies of privatization and commercialization. Kapil Sibal's reforms, she suggested, should be discussed in every campus and students should put forward a blueprint of what kind of education they envision.  She cautioned that if we do not assert ourselves against the neo-liberal agenda, it may soon be much too late.

The government of the day, Mohammed Salim emphasized, spends all its time speaking of either Naxalism or terrorism as the greatest threats. But it does not see the great poverty of the country's people as a challenge or a threat. Neo-liberal policies in agriculture are directly responsible for farmers' suicides and Operation Green Hunt represents nothing but an attempt to hunt down the dalits and adivasis of our land. With regard to the ongoing preparations for the Commonwealth games, he said that the elite of the country have forgotten the legacy of the freedom struggle and are instead expressing pride at being host to the Queen's Baton.

Pranay Krishna described how AISA was established at a time when the neoliberal policies had begun spreading their hold and people were quick to proclaim the demise of socialism following the collapse of the Soviet Union. AISA has however challenged these conventions and renewed the demand for peoples' democratic space. It has sought to change the grammar of student politics by expressing solidarity with peoples struggles across the country. The struggle that we have to wage is a renewed freedom struggle, for a freedom that will have meaning for the most dispossessed of our country's people.

V. Shankar spoke of how AISA has emerged as a political movement that links student issues with those of the polity surrounding us. He said that Chandrashekhar, rather than Rahul Gandhi or Navin Jindal, should be held up as a model for the youth of today. Chandu is an icon in our struggles against oppression, we have to follow his example in cultivating the same revolutionary spirit as we face the two-fold challenges of communal fascism and imperialist globalization.

Ramji Rai invoked the legacy of Bhagat Singh in asserting the power of youth to give a critique and an alternative to the politics of the Indian ruling class. He spoke of how under the of the UPA, the attack of Liberalization-Privatization-Globalization is growing even stronger. The ruling order wishes to suppress the dreams and aspirations of young people so that there can be no space to struggle. The challenge is to keep alive the spirit of struggle even in these dark times, for without the revolutionary spirit there can be no change in society.

Sandeep Singh, AISA's national president, gave the vote of thanks.

The programme concluded with an evening of poetry marked by the presence of a range of poets including Sahitya Akademi award winner Viren Dagwal, revolutionary poet Ramashankar Vidrohi, Pankaj Chaturvedi, Rajendra Kumar, Harishchandra Pandey, Priyadarshan Malviya, and Ashutosh Kumar.

This year, as we celebrate twenty years of AISA's existence, we thank all those who have supported us in our ongoing efforts to strengthen the radical student movement in confronting the challenges of our time. We wish to use this opportunity not only to recall past times, but also to introspect and reflect, and to engage with the problems and promises of the student movement in our times and beyond.  Many challenges confront us and we must courageously stand up to them in the days to come.

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17 Oct, 2010, 10.18AM IST, Gauree Malkarnekar,TNN

IITs refuse refund to students, parents complain to Sibal

PANAJI: Students who applied to IITs but later opted out have not been refunded the fees. Their parents complained to Union human resource development minister Kapil Sibal that they haven't received the refund even three months after the admission process was over.

This year, IIT admission was online replacing individual counselling. Students had to first arrange the 50-odd course options in order of preference online. They were then allotted a course on merit-cum-choice basis in the first round of admissions.

To be eligible for the second round of admissions, students had to pay Rs 40,000 as equivalent to first semester fees as acceptance of the seat allotted . Students who didn't get a course of their first preference this year after round two and opted out of IITs are yet to get the refund.

However, IIT sources pointed out that according to government rule an IIT will refund the fee only if it managed to fill the vacant seat.

Around 10-15 seats in each IIT have remained vacant this year. About 40 students who had paid the fees but later decided against joining the IITs are demanding the refund.

18 Oct, 2010, 04.12PM IST,PTI

ICSE, CISCE condemned for text books slurring national heroes

RAJKOT: Condemning ICSE and CISCE board for approving defamatory write ups about freedom fighters in its standard tenth history textbooks, an NGO here has demanded Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention to remove the offending text about national heroes.

Desh Bhakta Nagrik Sangh (DBNS) in a letter to Singh, sought his intervention to remove the defamatory text, which refers freedom fighters like Balgangadhar Tilak, Lala Lajpatrai, Bipin Chandra Pal and Bhagat Singh as criminals.

DBNS also demanded action against boards concerned alleging callousness on the part of approving the text books.

A case in this connection have already been filed in the court of additional district judge of South Delhi following which the court had issued summons to the chairman of ICSE and CISCE, the president and general secretary.

DBNS has extended their support to the parties who filed the case.
19 Oct, 2010, 09.45AM IST, Mathang Seshagiri,TNN

IIM boards ineffective managers, says panel

BANGALORE: In a startling revelation, a five-member committee appointed by HRD minister Kapil Sibal has found the boards of the IIMs to be ineffective managers of the elite B-schools . It now wants the registered societies of the institutes to function as 'enlightened owners' of IIMs.

Calling for dissolution of existing boards, the committee headed by RC Bhargava , chairman of IIM-Ranchi , has sought replacing them with smaller boards comprising 12-14 members. Currently, IIM-Bangalore board has 26 members.

'' The practice of board members representing different interests should be given up. An attempt must be made to ensure that at least one-third of the board members are alumni, or if alumni are not available, persons who have studied at other IIMs,'' the report, a copy of which is with TOI, states. Upset over low turnout at board meetings, the committee has suggested that absence from three consecutive meetings, without leave of absence, should result in automatic cessation of membership.

Stating that the management of IIMs has suffered because of divided responsibilities between government , boards, directors and the faculty, the committee has said it is the society of every IIM which should be the 'enlightened owner' .

'' The members of the society should thus be persons who remain there for a long period of time and have motivation for working as trustees,'' it said.

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