24x7 School Education Channel for Students

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) have submitted a proposal for launching 24X7 television channel to cater to the needs of school education and adultliterary.

The details are as under:
(i) Upgradation of equipment
(ii) Establishing production facilities (studio and communication link with the earth station)
(iii) Augmenting manpower requirement
(iv) Development of e-content
(v) Mapping of programme available with other agencies (Private, NGO and other government agencies)

The Central Institute of Educational Technology, National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi and the National Institute of Open Schooling, NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh will be the lead partners. The Department of Adult Education and its sister agencies in the States, State Institutes of Educational Technology, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sanghatan, Novodaya Vidyalaya Samiti and other educational agencies in the Centre and the States will be invited to participate and contribute.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Human ResourceDevelopment Dr. D. Purandeswari, in a written reply to a question, in the Lok Sabha today

IES/ISS Exam, 2011 from December 03

The Union Public Service Commission will hold the Indian Economic Service/Indian Statistical Service Examination (IES/ISS), 2011 commencing from December 03, 2011 for recruitment to Grade IV of the Indian Economic Service and Indian Statistical Service. The examination will be held at various centres across the country.

For details regarding eligibility conditions, the syllabus and scheme of the examination, centres of examination, guidelines for filling up application form etc. aspirants must consult the detailed notice of the examination published in the employment News/Rozgar Samachar dated July 30th, 2011 or the UPSC website www.upsc.gov.in.

Single Entrance Test for College Admissions gets Public Nod

In what could be a turning point in the way college admissions are conducted across the country, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has said that the public responses that it has received regarding the National Testing Scheme (NTS) are favourable and most of the people have recommended a change in the current examination system.

The NTS is based on a single-examination evaluation so that students do not have to appear for multiple entrance examinations conducted across the country by various institutions or consortium of institutions.

A Committee with Dr T. Ramasami, Secretary Department of Science and Technology was constituted by the MHRD to design a National Testing Scheme (NTS) to provide for admission of students to undergraduate courses in Science and Engineering.

In order to obtain a cross-country feedback on the design of the NTS, opinion of the public through a specially designed questionnaire was sought on a range of issues by the Committee. The NTS website was launched in May 2011 to seek responses online and was open till June 21, 2011.

2063 responses were obtained which have been analysed by the Committee. Of the responses, 98.5% were received from India and 11% were received from women. 74% of the respondents had a science or engineering background.

The response received from students was substantial with 59% of the respondents, while 32% were employed and 5% were parents.

An overwhelming majority of the respondents were in favour of the reforms in the examination system with 59% suggesting major changes and 26% advocating partial changes.

The suggestions indicated were preference for a single examination having high knowledge intensity and features such as alignment with the Class XII examination syllabus, affordable examination fee, judicious use of time and money and transparency in examination results.

Substantial support was also indicated for a weighting factor for performance in the School Board examinations at Class XII. 66% of the respondents were in favour of the weighting factor.

Of the respondents who were against the weighting of the Class XII Board examinations for admission to undergraduate programmes, the principal reason cited was of non-uniformity across Boards.

73% of the respondents expressed their preference for National Testing System (NTS).

Support was also evinced for a mix of aptitude and advanced test with 70% expressing their preference for the same.

The Ramasami Committee is also separately undertaken extensive with School Boards and academics. The recommendations of the Committee would be submitted to the Ministry of HRD by September, 2011.

CAT 2011 to be Conducted with Changed Format

This year, numerous changes have been made in the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 format.CAT is a common entrance test for admission into the 13 IIMs and other premier B-Schools in the country.

According to the sources, CAT 2011 will have the same number of questions, however, the exam will have two sections instead of three and extra five minutes will be allotted to students in order to attempt the test.

As per an official statement issued by Prometric, the testing agency and IIMs, CAT 2011 will have only two sections. The first section will mainly assess candidate’s quantitative ability and data interpretation, while the other will emphasize on verbal ability and logical reasoning.

Furthermore, the statement informed that the two sections will be applied in order of separate time limits. The exam duration will be 140 minutes and candidates will get 70 minutes to answer 30 questions within each section. Once the time limit ends for the first section, candidates will have to move to the second and will no longer be able to go back, concluded the statement.

In support of the changes made, Prof Janakiraman Moorthy, Convenor, CAT 2011 said that this is a move, which will make the exam more student-friendly. As there are many students who lose out on a seat as they would have failed to perform in one of the sections, he added.

An additional five minutes have also been added to the existing two-and half hours of the exam duration, which includes a 15-minute tutorial that will guide students through the process. Bhilai, Jammu and Dehradun have also been added to the existing 33 test locations of CAT Exam.

This year the CAT 2011 will be conducted between October 22 and November 18, 2011, which implies that there is no change in the number of testing days. Therefore, the number of days remains the same to be 20. However, check-in time for the exam has been reduced by half-an-hour from the previous two hours, which will help in starting the afternoon sessions at 3.15 pm.

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Students will have to travel miles for engg entrance exam

Rahul solanki should have been buried in his texts, preparing for the All India Engineering Entrance Exam. Instead, he is working on logistical support to reach his exam centre which is 27 kilometres from home on May 1.

Like him, Akansha Joshi (name changed) will travel from Andheri to Panvel to take the AIEEE. "I can drive my daughter to her centre. But many others will have to take an early train or bus to get to their examination hall. Our first choice was Mumbai, but I guess there aren't enough centres in the city and we have been forced to go to Navi Mumbai," her father A Joshi said.

The AIEEE is the largest engineering entrance test in the country with more than 11 lakh students taking it. This year, the test also went online but only 4,900 students opted for the online version; the rest preferred the pencil-paper mode.

Two years ago, several city students had complained they had been allotted centres in Port Blair and Daman. Students heaved a sigh of relief that they didn't have to book air tickets but many complained of a long travel before a crucial test. "I stay in Colaba, but have been allotted a centre in Anushakti Nagar. I am wondering how to get there as the exam starts at 9 am," Solanki said.

In fact, Solanki wanted to visit the centre before the D-day, but he received his hall tickets only on Wednesday. According to the CBSE, he ought to have obtained it before April 6. "I went to the post office to apply for a duplicate hall ticket to ensure that I have my seat number before the exams," he said.

Officials at the Central Board of Secondary Education, which conducts the entrance exam, said that centres were allotted randomly, based on students' choice of cities. "We only ask students for preferred cities for the exam and not areas. The centre section is done randomly and not manually to ensure security," said Vineet Joshi, chairman of the CBSE board. "We are open to suggestions and if students have a problem, then we will look into it next year."

This year, though, students will have to just start early. "I have to leave at 7 in the morning to ensure I reach the centre on time," said Amarjot Kaur, an aspirant who lives in Goregaon and has her centre at Koliwada. "I have never been there before." (TOI)

Application are invited for Admission at Anupam kher's acting school

HOW TO GET ENROLLED IN ACTOR PREPARES?
Noted drama school owned by India's veteran actor Anupam Kher invited application for Admission for the next session. Many new and successful actors and actresses of Mumbai film industry like Abhisek Bachchan, Hritik Roshan, Deepika Padukone etc. have trained in this institute. Interested candidates can send applications for attending interviews and auditions for getting Admission at Actor prepares.

Eligibility for Admission at Actor Prepares
Interested candidates need to appear for interviews and auditions after sending application.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE AT ACTOR PREPARES
Application for for Admission at Actor Prepares can be downloaded from the official website of Actor prepares that is www.actorprepares.net.

If you think that you have the talent to act and want to brush up your skills under the veteran actor than send duely filled up application form along with a DD of Rs.200/ payable at Mumbai in favour of ACtor Prepares. Complete address of Actor prepares is given below.

Actor Prepares
1st Floor,,
Film Industry Welfare Trust, next to Ajivasan Hall.
Near SNDT College,
Juhu Road.
Santacruz West, Mumbai-400049.

Last date of sending Application to Actor Prepares is not mentioned in the official website.

DETAIL SCHEDULE OF COURSES, INTERVIEW AND VENUES OF ACTOR PREPARES SESSION 2011-12

· The next session of Acting courses at Actor prepares will start from 1st June at Chandigrah. This will be 12th batch.

Selection by interview and audition will be 21 and 22 May.

·Admssion for full-time course in Mumbai will start on 2nd May 2011.

Selection process for the Mumbai campus will be on 16th & 17th April 2011.

·Part-times courses Admission in Mumbai interview will start from 4th April 2011. Courses will start from 2nd May, 2011.

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·Full-time course of Actor Prepares at Ahmedabad begins on 2nd May 2011.

Auditions and interview procedure for the Ahmedabad kicks off from 27th March 2011 in Ahmedabad and 3rd April in Jaipur.

· There is also option for working persons or students who can participate in Weekend workshops. Such weekend Workshops in Mumbai begins on 2nd April 2011, 7th May 2011.
For more details, visit www.actorprepares.net

GGSIPU Invites Applications for session 2011-2012

The Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) invites applications for admission into the ensuing academic year 2011-2012. Also, the University has announced its three new programmes and admission reforms. The university's application forms went on sale from March 1, 2011. In total there are more than 20,000 seats available in various courses. The university released three brochures for admission to professional programmes (Admission Brochure I); engineering and BArch (Admission Brochure II) and PG medical programmes (Admission Brochure IV).

At a press conference, DK Bandyopadhyay, vice chancellor, said that the university, from this academic session, is going to start three new courses - MBA (hospitality management), MBA (financial market) and BBA (financial market). He also added that the MBA in financial market and BBA in financial market programmes would be launched in association with the National Stock Exchange. Moreover, Bandyopadhyay informed that aspirants can submit the CET 2011 application form and the fee at ipu.admissionhelp.com.

In addition, this year, admissions to around 85 programmes will be through 48 common entrance tests (CETs) for seats in 11 schools of the university and in 103 affiliated institutes. GGSIPU is going to hold the CETs for four of its most sought-after programmes MBA, MBBS, BTech and MCA in Delhi, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Bhopal, Jalandhar, Nagpur, Shimla, Muradabaad, Hisar and Dehradun. The test for other courses will be held only in Delhi.

The application forms are made available at 44 designated branches of Indian Bank, 22 in Delhi and 22 outside. The last date for the submission of the filled-in-applications for most of the programmes is April 25, 2011. For details, contact GGSIPU campus, Sector 16C, Dwarka 110 075 Ph: 011 25302170, www.ipu.ac.in www.admissionhelp.com/G GSIPU/login.aspx

In addition, Bandyopadhyay while elaborating on the changes in the process, said, as a part of the examination reforms carried out by the university, they have decided that the applicant is required to fill the admission form in his own handwriting, which would be crosschecked at various stages of the admission process. He also added to maintain transparency in the admission process, the students will be required to paste a bigger colour photograph with white background. He emphasized that candidates must go through the brochures thoroughly before filling the forms.

Contact address:
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Kashmere Gate
Delhi - 110 403
Delhi
Phone: +91-11-23900166, 23900167, 23900168, 23900100
Fax: +91-11-23865941, 23900111
vkjain@ipu.edu
www.ggsipu.nic.in
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