CBSE looking to collaborate with schools for organizing events

Requisition of School Auditorium / Venue for hosting CBSE Workshops / Seminars / Conferences.

The Central Board of Secondary Education has consistently been striving to establish new benchmarks in secondary education through its policies and programmes. In one of its move to strengthen the implementation of CCE scheme of evaluation in all of its affiliated schools and bring about other reforms in the education system of the country, CBSE has a separate training division that would take care of all training and development needs of teachers and school leaders.

In an endeavor to make this initiative a success, CBSE is planning to initiate training workshops for teachers and school leaders focusing on new initiatives and implementation of various innovative practices in all aspects of school education including the use of ICT, Assessment and Evaluation. In this regard, CBSE would like to collaborate with Independent Private Schools including Sahodaya School complexes which have an auditorium with a capacity to accommodate approximately 80-100 participants. CBSE would like to use this facility to conduct/organize trainings and workshops on various new initiatives. The effort is to involve as many institutes as possible in every Region of the Board.

The auditorium may be used for two consecutive days for which the expenditure of providing lunch, refreshments, and stationery to the participants shall be borne by CBSE.

The interested schools / Sahodaya School Complexes may fill in the requisition form attached and e-mail to sadhanap.cbse@nic.in, cbsecp@gmail.com

This collaboration will go a long way in strengthening and facilitating the smooth functioning of the Training Division leading to a wide outreach to the school community.

• Application Form

Via Circular No. : Acad-55/2012

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CBSE Conducting Group Mathematical Olympiad, 2012 in December

Central Board of Secondary Education has been conducting Group Mathematical Olympiad every year with an aim to strengthen the knowledge of the students, enhance their innate problem solving skills and to identify talent at a young age.

This year the Group Mathematical Olympiad will be held on 2^nd Dec, 2012 at selected venues in different parts of the country leading to participation in the International Mathematical Olympiad. The enclosed folder gives the detailed information about the competition.

Further queries in this regard may be addressed to:

Anjali Chhabra
Assistant Education Officer, CBSE
“Shiksha Sadan”, 17, Rouse Avenue,
New Delhi-110 002.
Tel.: 23231247, Email-anjali.cbse11@gmail.com

You are requested to give wide publicity to the information contained in the folder and encourage participation in large numbers.

Via Circular No. Acad-58/2012

 

IIT Kanpur all set to open first overseas office in New York

Reportedly Indian institute of technology Kanpur is all set to open its first Overseas office in New York, at 62, William Street. The space has been provided by the student ‘Sanjay Khosla’ 1986 batch for a period of five years. He will not be charging any rent from the institute.

With this office, the prestigious institution hopes to deal with a range of overseas affairs including faculty hiring, fund-raising and entering into collaborations for research and development, according to a release.

ISM Dhanbad Placement – Phase 1, Academic year 2012-13 Overview

The first phase of placement process for 2013 batch is over.
Company wise placement data is as below:


Total Strength – 502

Students Placed – 291

Branch	Comp. Sc & Engg	Electrical Engineering	Electronics & Communications Engineering	Environmental Engineering
Student strength	69	65	66	25
Facebook Inc.	1
Yahoo Software India Pvt. Ltd.	1
Tata Steel Ltd. (PPO + OCP)	2	3		5
Microsoft – IDC	5
Tata Motors		1	2
Futures First		1
Jindal Steel & Power		3
Caterpillar		3		2
Software Engineering Lab India (SEL)	25
LG Soft India Pvt. Limited	2		8
Samsung India Sofware Operation (SISO), India	6		9
Mu Sigma Business Solutions		2	1	2
Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd.	3	6	5
Ericsson India Global Services Ltd..	4		13
Tata Consultancy Services	2	16	7
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.	2	3	2	1
Ambuja Cements Ltd.				2

Branch	Mechanical Engineering	Mineral Engineering	Mining Engineering	Mining Machinery Engineering	Petroleum Engineering
Student strength	75	27	79	13	83
Tata Steel Ltd. (PPO + OCP)	3		5
Shell Technology (PPO)			1		2
Schlumberger (PPO + OCP)			1		11
Halliburton (PPO)	5				1
Cairn Energy India Pty. Ltd. (PPO + OCP)		1	2		13
Tata Motors	6
Futures First	1		1	1
Jindal Steel & Power	5		2	1
Caterpillar	1
Mu Sigma Business Solutions	2				1
BG Energy Holdings Ltd					1
ACC Limited			2
Hero MotoCorp Ltd.	5
Maruti Suzuki	3
Weir India Pvt. Ltd.	5
Vedanta Resources Plc.		6	27
PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd.			1
Tata Consultancy Services	4		2		2
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.	2	1	1		4
Ambuja Cements Ltd.	6	8		2	4
Essel Mining & Industries Ltd.			3	1

ISM Dhanbad could be converted as an IIT

Dhanbad-based Indian School of Mines (ISM) could be converted into an IIT while ensuring that its core competency is not diluted, the Planning Commission has recommended to the government.


In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha on Friday, Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor said, “The Planning Commission has recommended that ISM Dhanbad may be converted into an IIT while ensuring that its core competency in mining and geology would be central to the institution and would not be diluted.”

ISM Dhanbad with the approval of its Finance Committee, Executive Board and General Council has forwarded the proposal for its conversion into an IIT, he said.

The approval on ‘Conversion of ISM Dhanbad into an IIT’ is an agenda item for the meeting of the council of the IITs to be held on January 7, Tharoor said.

In reply to a question on Gross Enrolment Ratio in the country, Union Minister for HRD M M Pallam Raju said, the GER has gone up to 18.8 per cent in 2010-11.

“The GER of students in higher education as a percentage of population in the age group of 18-23 years has increased from 13.7 per cent in 2008-09 to 18.8 per cent (provisional) in 2010-11, as compared to estimated world average of 29 per cent during the year 2009-10 as per the Global Education Digest 2012 published by UNESCO,” Raju said.

He also said that the National Knowledge Commission had recommended a series of initiatives for expansion, governance, curriculum research, faculty development, finance, asset management and affirmative actions.
On whether government is aware that controversies are arising regarding syllabus of CBSE, Tharoor said “No Such controversies have come to the notice of the CBSE.”
Keywords: Dhanbad based, Indian School of Mines, ISM, converted into an IIT, ensuring core competency is not diluted, Planning Commission recommended to government

BITSAT-2013 Test Format:

BITSAT-2013 will be of total 3-hour duration (without break). The test consists of four parts:

Part I : Physics

Part II : Chemistry

Part III : (a) English Proficiency and (b) Logical Reasoning

Part IV : Mathematics

All questions are of objective type (multiple choice questions); each question with choice of four answers, only one being correct choice. Each correct answer fetches 3 marks, while each incorrect answer has a penalty of 1 mark (-1mark). No marks are awarded for questions not attempted. While the candidate can skip a question, the computer will not allow the candidate to choose more than one option as correct answer. There will be 150 questions in all. The number of questions in each part is as follows:

	Subject	No of questions
Part I	Physics	40
Part II	Chemistry	40
Part III	(a) English Proficiency (b) Logical Reasoning	15 10
Part IV	Mathematics	45
	Total:	150

There is no time limit for individual parts of the test. The candidate can go back and change any of his/her answers among the 150 questions.

If a candidate answers all the 150 questions (without skipping any question), the candidate will have an option of attempting 12 (twelve) extra questions, if there is still time left. These extra questions will be from Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics only; four questions from each part. Further, once the candidate has opted for extra questions, he cannot go back for correction of any of the earlier answered 150 questions.

The questions are so designed that a good student will be able to answer 150 questions in 180 minutes. The extra questions (a maximum of 12) will give a chance to highly meritorious candidates to score higher. However, candidates should keep in mind the fact that there is negative marking for wrong answers and any attempt to answer the questions by pure guessing of the answers is not likely to have any advantage, but may result in a reduction in the total score.

The questions will be selected at random from a large question bank. Different candidates will get different question sets. An expert committee will ensure that the question sets are of comparable difficulty level, content, question type etc. In this matter, the decision of the expert committee will be final and binding on the candidate.

All the questions and instructions of the test will be in English only. Candidates should bring a pen for the purpose of rough work, signing etc. Blank sheets for rough work will be provided, if required. Calculators and logarithmic tables are not allowed in the test centers. Candidates are not allowed to bring any other personal belongings such as mobiles.



Each candidate who registers for BITSAT-2013 will be instructed to download a ‘Hall Ticket’. Candidates with the hall ticket only will be allowed inside the Test centers. All centers are closely monitored for security and candidates’ identity and activities will be recorded using web cameras and/or closed circuit TV cameras. Candidate’s finger print and photograph will be taken at the time of the test and will be matched at the time of admission. Anyone violating the rules of the test center will not be allowed to continue with the test and will automatically be disqualified.

IIT-KGP girl bags highest offer of the institute with two other batchmates

Three students of IIT-Kgp Comp.Sc department have bagged pay package of 80 LPA while 8 others have been offered annual package of 75 LPA.

Kolkata girl Anusha Suresh, an alumnus of Future Foundation School, is among those picked up by Google. “My parents are really happy. I have realised my dream. . With one more semester to go, I shall leave for the US in October next year,” she said

Her base salary is $100,000. “I have also been offered a few shares in Google,” she said. A faculty member of the IIT-Kgp placement cell said: “With the other components, her net income could exceed Rs 1 crore, which will be an achievement for any IIT grad in their first year.” Batchmates Prashant Tibrewal and Jay Prakash Gupta have got the same offer.