Orissa Education and HRD related headlines from our sister site in Twitter (August 20 – October 20 2009)
October 22nd, 2009
Our sister site in Twitter is http://twitter.com/orissalinks. (Often when we are busy or do not feel like writing a full posting here, we post a micro-blog in our Twitter sister site. The Twitter sister site also automatically adds the headline from this site and the orissagrowth site. Once in a while we will collect those headlines here. But readers wanting a broader and more immediate coverage should consider following our Twitter site at http://twitter.com/orissalinks.) Following are some selected items from that site between August 20th and October 20th 2009.
- IGNOU to start 5 vocational training and educational programs in Kandhamal, Orissa. http://bit.ly/1LLrpt
- http://bit.ly/YDZyS IIIT Bhubaneswar inaugurated. Article mentions an Entrepreneurship Development Inst. having been established. Where?
- Max Phd prod in US between 99 & 03: Berkeley 2175, Seoul nanl U 1655, Nanl Taiwan U 1190, & Beijing Univ 1153. http://bit.ly/noV2h
- Indian Inst of Legal Metrology (IILM) at Ranchi, Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar, Bangalore & Faridabad have microbalance m/c. http://bit.ly/bMcVT The microbalance m/cs can be used to detect forged signatures. They can detect exact wt of objects of relatively small mass like a signature.
- India needs more civil engineers. http://bit.ly/T574W IIT Bhubaneswar only new IIT to offer it. Kudos to Prof. Acharya for his foresight.
- 2009 World Bank Rept: Secondary education in India : universalizing opportunity. pdf Vol 1 http://bit.ly/167vcJ Vol 2 http://bit.ly/3ItjpQ
- Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Orissa to have a department and programs in disability studies. http://bit.ly/1sSUt3
- RT @betwasharma Rugby in Orissa http://bit.ly/2ceJhD Nice article about Rugby in KISS, Bhubaneswar.
- Orissa CM asks for more SAI Centres in tribal districts like Koraput, Malkangiri, Keonjhar, Sundergarh and Mayurbhanj. http://bit.ly/3ryYWF
- Prof. Anil Gupta, of National Innovation Foundation mentions about a herbal fruit ripener from Orissa to ripen bananas. http://bit.ly/2isPSM
- Kapil Sibal: Will set up 1,000 polytechs, and make them quality institutions; community colleges that give diplomas. http://bit.ly/ZDYC7
- The recent (Sept 10) AIIMS Bhubaneswar tender document is at http://bit.ly/SqlEb
- Orissa govt’s plan for PPP based medical colleges in Balasore, Rayagada and Naraj may be related to GOI initiatives. http://bit.ly/1NNNeY
- Health Ministry: PPP to upgrade district hospitals to medical colleges will be allowed in NE states, hilly states and backward states.
- Health Ministry: New medical colleges in metros to go vertical. Min required land reduced from 25 to 10 acres. http://bit.ly/5PTiJ
- Health ministry: Out of the 6 AIIMS-like institutes, 4 in Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna and Rishikesh have got clearance. http://bit.ly/5PTiJ
- HRD minister Kapil Sibal proposes a National Higher Education Finance Corporation (NHEFC) to finance higher education. http://bit.ly/t7R9x
- CRRI Cuttack ( #Orissa ) scientists have crossed soft rice (komal saul ) with high yielding rice and obtained a hybrid. http://bit.ly/6JFNS
- North Orissa University, Baripada awards 368 PG, 26 M.Phil and 6 Ph.D degrees this yr. More such univs needed. #Orissa http://bit.ly/3gAPqx
- Qualcomm & Premji Fndn to provide wireless broadbnd to schools. Pilot: 40 in Gujarat, Karnataka, #Orissa & Rajasthan. http://bit.ly/1P0vW7
- NIFT will have a 10 acre campus in Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar. Classes to start in temporary digs in Jan-Feb. http://bit.ly/zW2SM
- Nice op-ed by IIMA Prof. T T Ram Mohan on why IITs and IIMs need not immediately broaden to full-fledged universities. http://bit.ly/L33Bz
- Kapil Sibal while inaugurating CUO Koraput http://bit.ly/OP4ej Centre keen to setup international standard educational institutions via PPP
- Kapil Sibal http://bit.ly/OP4ej Companies shd setup such institutes to help students pursue higher studies in India instead of going abroad
- Sam Pitroda in http://bit.ly/19mv2B : we need to expand more colleges, more universities, more research programs, more teachers, …
- Sam Pitroda in http://bit.ly/19mv2B : Overall expansion requires not only participation from government, but also from the private sector.
- Prince dance group plan to open a dance academy in #Berhampur #Orissa. http://bit.ly/SQLbw Samaja reports that CM will give 1 cr for that.
- In Lanjigarh, Kalahandi (Orissa) Vedanta Resources runs a public school in partnership with DAV. http://bit.ly/hrKxS
- Vedanta University Project adds 139 to take the total number of students it sponsors for studying in DAV school to 414. http://bit.ly/v4zVS
- Central MOS Srikant Jena unsuccessful in convincing central gov. for a medical college in Balasore. At least he tried. http://bit.ly/3Kfwlu
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