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India plans 14 Innovation Universities

siteadmin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:39:26 +0000

By fachcha.com

India has planned to introduce one more signature university to promote innovative technological talents among the Indian students. Union Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal has today said that government has planned to establish 14 Innovation Universities. The announcement has been made during his inaugural speech at India-UK Round Table Conference on Innovation and Skill Development in New Delhi.

“We aim at nurturing innovation in the educational system through actions in schools and colleges by talent spotting of innovations, and award of Innovation Fellowships”, the HRD Minister said. The conference was attended by the vice-chancellors of various universities, officials and educationists of UK and India.

“Each of the Innovation University shall consistently aspire for attainment of pinnacle of knowledge and will provide the knowledge manpower of the country in training professionals, specialists, scientists and researchers needed by the supporting national innovation system. Government has already framed a legislation for Universities of Research and Innovation which will provide a facilitating framework for creation of these institutions. These universities would be embedded in ecosystems developed for promoting synergies among education, research and incubation centres or industry.”

According to him these Innovation Universities will not be clones of each other, but will focus on one deep theme of innovation and will focus on one area or problem of global significance in general and India in particular such as urbanization, public health, water security, environmental sustainability, digital literacy etc.

The university will enjoy autonomy in designing their disciplines, admission criteria, academic programmes, credit systems.

IGNOU to organise discussion on corporate governance

admin — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:30:30 +0000

By fachcha.com
IGNOU is organizing a panel discussion on “Good Corporate Governance: Issues and Practice” on 1st March. A lecture on “The New Companies Act: Relevance for Good Corporate Governance” will be delivered by Veerappa Moily, Union Cabinet Minister of Corporate Affairs, on the before the discussion.

Prof. M. Aslam, Vice Chancellor, IGNOU, Dr. R. Bhaskaran CEO, Indian Institute of Banking and Finance(IIBF) and Prof. S. Narayan, IGNOU-IIBF Endowment Chair shall also address the gathering on the occasion in New Delhi.

Only 90% result for IGNOU’s term end examinations

siteadmin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:48:31 +0000

By fachcha.com
Despite all tall claims the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) could not declare complete results of December 2011 Term End Examination (TEE). Results of only 90% students could be declared despite all the efforts. According to IGNOU a record 4,17,047 students were appeared for 2045 courses at 803 examination centres including 40 international.
As per the ordinance, the exam results are meant to be declared within the stipulated time period of 45 days. Decentralized the evaluation work to seven evaluation centres were taken place in different parts of the country.
The evaluation centres, under their supervision, tied-up with the local reputed educational institutions/ universities, if available, for evaluation of the answer scripts in their premises under the supervision of the evaluation centre, IGNOU says in a release. This type of arrangement was done where there were a large number of answer-scripts to be handled, it added.

IGNOU celebrates World Hindi Day

siteadmin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:26:05 +0000

By FNS
IGNOU today celebrated World Hindi Day. Various programmes and competitions were organized on the occasion.
Prof. M.Aslam, Vice Chancellor IGNOU said that Hindi is a link language for entire country. He also encouraged staffs and students of the students to use Hindi by saying that foreigners come here to learn Hindi but we are hesitant in using it into official work.
World Hindi Day is celebrated on 10th January as the first Hindi conference was organized at Nagpur on 10th January, 1975.

Rs. 4.5 Lakh fine on L N Mithila University for deficiency in MBA programme

siteadmin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:29:07 +0000

By Kashi Prasad
“The Lalit Narayan Mithila University has played joke with the golden career of the complainant debarring him from his studies which is a very serious matter.” With this observation, the President of the District Consumer Redressal Forum, Munger U.B.N. Singh and its members Dr. Shabnam Abha and Bishundeo Sah unanimously slapped Rs. Four lakhs on the university besides Rs. Fifty Thousand for mental agony for ruining the educational career of the complainant. The Forum also ordered to pay Rs. Ten thousand to the complainant towards legal and other expenses .
The judgment was delivered by the Forum this evening. And it was ordered that if the amount slapped on the university was not paid to the complainant within two months, 12% interest per annum will be added on the amount to be paid to the complainant.
Ajay Kumar, an educated unemployed youth had sought his admission in M.B.A. course following advertisements in newspapers that the university has started distant education courses in atleast 12 subjects. Several hundred students including Ajay Kumar got themselves admitted in courses of studies as per own choice in 1998, but the university neither provided reading materials to the students nor arranged for their teaching till about 9 years from the date of admission.
The complainant Ajay Kumar whenever contacted the university on this matter, no satisfactory response was made from the other side and being harassed and mentally agonised, requested the university to return his fees and other charges realised by the university from him in 1998.
The university did not respond at all. The complainant approached the governor – cum- chancellor of the universities of the state who ordered the V.C. L.N.M. University to return back the money to the complainant, but even then the university failed to return back the money to the complainant.
At last, after a lapse of 9 years being disappointed, the complainant filed a complained case in the District Consumers Redressal Forum in 2007 bearing case no. 01/07.
Pleading the case of the complainant counsels of Ajay Kumar said that the university played a fraudlent game by collecting more than one crore from several hundred students in the name of imparting teachiing through correspondece course without getting permission from the proper authority, i.e., the Distant Education Council, New Delhi functioning under the IGNOU under the Central Government.
Though counsel of the university pleaded that permission was not granted to the university that time.(EOM)

Workshop on IT Mass Literacy

siteadmin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:24:26 +0000

By FNS
IGNOU in collaboration with HRD, Department of IT and DOEACC under the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), organised a workshop on IT Mass Literacy programme to create awareness about IT and its applications.

The main objective the programme was to enhance the use of IT in areas of a citizen’s interest by adopting simple and commonly used IT practices and methods for day to day activities. N. Ravi Shanker, Additional Secretary, Department of IT, Government of India, said that ICT played a crucial role in skill formation and empowering people. It was because of the reason DOEACC’s Certificate Course in Computer Concepts (CCC) is available in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu, Punjabi, Marathi, Bengali, Assamese, Manipuri, Malayalam and English, he said.

V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai, VC, IGNOU said that IGNOU has chalked out a plan for IT literacy. He also informed about various programmes about IT literacy and other programmes run by the university.

C. Muralikrishna Kumar, Senior Adviser (C& IT), Planning Commission said that the government has identified strategy was to enhance skills and faster generation of employment. K. R. Srivathsan, Pro VC, IGNOU too presented his views on the occasion.

Learn Chinese from IGNOU

siteadmin — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:50:38 +0000

By FNS
IGNOU’s School of Foreign Languages (SOFL) has launched diploma and certificate programmes in Chinese language for July 2011 session.

The Diploma in Chinese language and Culture (DCLC) is one-year programme and can be completed in maximum two years duration. The programme also intends to train learners about the basic culture of China by introducing China’s political system, economy and general knowledge of the country, says Prof. G. Chaudhuri, Director, SOFL, IGNOU.