NIIT, leading Global Talent Development Corporation and Tally Solutions (P) Ltd., leading Business Management Software Product Company, have entered into a global alliance to develop comprehensive business software professionals with particular expertise in Tally.ERP 9 product. This global Alliance will cover besides India, international geographies such as the Middle East, Africa, China & Asia- Pacific in a progressive manner, thus ...

Manipal University, the pioneering force in higher education in India, today announced the signing of Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with the L V Prasad Film & TV Academy. Manipal University (MU) and L V Prasad Film & TV Academy (L V Prasad Academy), with a mutual vision to add value to the Media & Entertainment industry and the student community, ...

Aptech Learning Services, the learning content development arm of Aptech Limited, a global leader in learning solutions has won the prestigious 'APEX 2010- Award for Excellence' in the Education & training and Green categories for its projects: LTS 3000 HSE Induction Program (Work done for L&T - SapuraCrest) and Let's Share our Planet (Created for an NGO along with Arena ...

HP has announced that the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) has been selected to participate in the prestigious HP Labs Innovation Research Program (IRP). The program is designed to provide colleges, universities and research institutes around the world with opportunities to conduct breakthrough collaborative research with HP. Associate Professor Soumen Chakrabarti, from IIT Bombay will collaborate with HP ...

Supporting schools develop their curriculum, Lighthouse Funds may be leading the race for iDiscoveri. The leading contender for investing into education services firm iDiscoveri Education Pvt Ltd is the private equity firm Lighthouse Funds. iDiscoveri helps schools develop curriculum through its programme called X-SEED and is also involved in corporate training. iDiscoveri also provides outdoor programmes for children through a ...

HCL Career Development Centre (CDC), the IT traning and skill development arm of HCL Infosystems, India's premier hardware, services and ICT system Integration company today announced the commencement of the nationwide search of youthful minds through the Yuva Pratibha Scholarship Exam (YPSE) 2010 scheduled for August 22, 2010. The All India YPSE 2010 has been designed to get young individuals ...

NIIT, leading Global Talent Development Corporation and Asia's largest IT trainer, today, launched the 'industry endorsed' multiple track GNIIT for Engineers in Delhi. G. Raghavan, President-Global Individual Learning Solutions, NIIT, announced the launch of the program. GNIIT for Engineers is aimed at enhancing employability of engineering graduates by bridging the skill gap. According to industry reports, only 25% of the ...

In an announcement made by NComputing it was mentioned that it was selected to provide desktop computer access to 600 government schools as part a computer literacy initiative launched by the Bihar government. The aim of this initiative is to build 600 computer labs throughout the State to make computer access and learning available to school children for the first ...

Lui Tuck Yew, Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts bestowed honour upon s total of 27 students from the junior colleges, polytechnics and international schools received the National Infocomm Scholarship awards, recently. This brings the total number of National Infocomm Scholars, since the launch of the scholarship in 2004, to 208. Nine of the 27 scholars have been ...

Educomp Solutions Ltd, India's largest integrated education company, today announced that it has picked up a strategic stake in leading engineering test prep player Vidya Mandir Classes Pvt Ltd (VMC) for close to Rs. 34 crores. Founded in 1989, VMC is a premier test preparation institute for IIT-JEE (Joint Entrance Examination for Indian Institutes of Technology in India) and other ...

Secondary education is to be made inclusive of vocational education. In order to do so, it is proposed that training curriculum be flexible to be able to address skill sets of vocations peculiar to a region. This will make the vocational education in secondary education relevant and useful to students from economically weaker sections, and will also act as a ...

Freedocast, a high quality live broadcasting platform by Global Takeoff Inc, today announced successful completion of first ever broadcast of Delhi Technological University's Orientation session 2010-11 addressed by Prof. P.B.Sharma, Vice Chancellor, Delhi Technological University for new students joining the session. The broadcast reached DTU alumni and parents of students worldwide. The program was accessible live on TV, PC and ...

The Bangalore based M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT), run by the Gokula foundation, which offers several courses in engineering, and the global electrical major Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management, have joined hands to promote 'technical excellence' in the field of electrical, electronics, software and control engineering. The two have signed a MoU today covering 'University partnership ...

An MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Vivek is also a visiting faculty to the International Management Institute. Committed to exploring how technology can be used to make high quality education and training available to the billions of people at a cost that they can afford and at a place they can reach.Our vision is to provide effective and ...

The key architect of India's telecommunication revolution, in an interaction with Ravi Gupta and Pravin Prashant, sam Pitroda talks about his vision for the Indian education sectorWhat is your vision for public information infrastructure and innovations in India?As we move into a growth era, India needs to be globally competitive and needs to innovate. Both the President and the Prime ...

P. Uma Maheswari (Assistant Professor) &Dr. S. Arulchelvan (Assistant Professor, Department of Media Sciences), Anna University ChennaAnna University Chennai is one of the top most technical institutes in India and has taken several initiatives to enhance teaching learning process; most prominent being the recently introduced Wi-Fi services within the campusWi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) access technologies offer an interesting insight into the ...

The neologism 'eLearning' is the technique of Learning through the use of electronic devices where live teaching is facilitated through electronic media extending beyond the reach of the classroom, popularly termed as Class Room Window (CRW). The unique aspect of CRW is the ability to transcend space anywhereThe neologism 'eLearning' is the technique of Learning through the use of electronic ...

Web 2.0 has revolutionised the education world and brought the world closer. Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content, in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to themThe Internet has undergone a revolution since the 1990s and early 21st century. ...

Automation of Administration of Examination is Now EasyA System for Automated Governance of Examinations (SAGE) has been developed by the Computer Centre of University of Kerala for complete automation of all stages of the administrative part of examinations. The procedure for governance of examinations has been thoroughly revamped and simplified, based on a model, which numerically represents all the examination-related ...

Ravi GuptaEditor in ChiefCentre for Science Development and Media Studies(CSDMS)ravi.gupta@csdms.inThe global education sector has been completely transformed by the advent of modern ICT tools. The need of the hour is to find ways in which the strengths of the available and upcoming technologies can be integrated to achieve the country's objective of "Education for All". The needs of the beneficiaries ...

A One Stop Online Repository System of Learning Objects Classroom WindowsIn a country like Sri Lanka, more than 100,000 students per year do not have access to tertiary education. One of the primary reasons being the lack of repository and storage of the e-learning objects and developed content. eNOSHA is a free, open and flexible learning object repositoryIn a country ...

A Pedagogical Shift Integrating e-Tools, e-Resources and e-Knowledge"Just-in-Time" (JIT) is a pedagogical shift towards problem and competence-based learning environments. It's a holistic approach that involves new pedagogical strategies, processes, people and systems to deliver knowledge and skills required by academia and organisations, in a timely and cost-effective mannerWeb-based technologies embedded with vast, and easily accessible online content have brought about ...

This paper argues that Information Communication Technology (ICT) enabled education should be an integral part of the Right to Education Act (2009) passed by the Parliament of India. This paper also presents an ethical argument for the formulation of a National Policy that would ensure ICT Enabled Education as a part of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) ...

Jawahar Knowledge Centre has helped over 200 engineering colleges in the tier II and III towns of the state increase their employment rate of graduates from 8% to 28%As a proportion of national GDP, the IT sector revenues have grown from 1.2% in 1998 to an estimated 5.8% in 2009 and it is here in India's IT industry where the ...

Prof. Inder K RanaDepartment of MathematicsIndian Institute of Technology Bombaye-mail: ikrana@iitb.ac.inIndian education systemThe system of education in India is '10 + 2 + 3' model. Education is a state subject and there are 26 states in India. Each state has its own Education Board which is responsible for all matters relating to school education in that state. This makes the ...