Samaja on vocational courses
Following are from the Saturday pages of Samaja. It talks about various vocational courses that are in demand.
June 23rd, 2007
Sambada has opened a school of mass communication and culture through its charitable trust
Sambada reports that through its charitable trust “Sambada and Ama Odisha trust” it has opened a school of mass communication and culture. This college has permission from the state government and the Utkal University of Culture. This year it will start a 2 year post graduate degree course on Journalism and Mass Communication. There will be an entrance exam to select students. The college plans to make arrangements so that 100% of its students get jobs.
1 comment June 22nd, 2007
Higher education vision document in the offing
The higher education department of the government of Orissa is preparing a vision document which will be placed in the assembly. This is reported in several parts in New Indian Express (part1, part2, part3) and other papers. Following are some of the salient points; some of them are being debated and others have been decided.
- student evaluation of teachers
- higher fees in autonomous colleges
- common entrance tests for admission to autonomous colleges
- replacing pass/fail with grades
- introduction of career oriented courses
- all colleges subject to NAAC rating
- fundamental knowledge of computers for all students
- self financing courses on foreign languages
- placement cells in colleges
June 20th, 2007
Institutions with Nontraditional programs – a dated list
Following is a list of institutions with non-traditional programs that I compiled earlier. They are categorized as follows: Arts and Crafts, Design, Teachers training, Diploma in Engineering, ITIs, Film and TV, Homeopathy and Ayurveda, Hotel management, Journalism, Law, Library Science, Performance arts, Physical Education, Sanskrit and Social work.
Continue Reading 6 comments June 8th, 2007
Biju Patnaik Film and TV institute advertises for admission into its programs
Following is an ad by the Biju Patnaik Film and TV institute for its diploma programs in cinematography, sound and TV engineering and Film and video editing.
Continue Reading 20 comments June 8th, 2007
Pursuing M. Ed in Orissa
Besides the NCERT run Regional Institute of Education in Bhubaneswar there are at least five other institutions where one can pursue M. Ed (Master in education) in Orissa. They are:
1. RNIASE (Radhanath Institute of Advanced Studies in Education), Cuttack
2. DPIASE, Berhampur
3. PMIASE, Sambalpur
4. NDW CTE, Bhubaneswar
5. NKC CTE, Angul
Following is a recent ad for admission into the above five institutions.
Continue Reading 2 comments June 6th, 2007
WIPRO campus selection at SCS College, Puri
Sambada reports that WIPRO will visit SCS College Puri for campus selection. They will conduct a test for students in Maths, Computer Science, Statistics, Electronics, IT and Physics.
1 comment May 18th, 2007
Mail to CMO: looking out for all of Orissa in the HRD front
Dear Friends:
Its time to convey to the Orissa government that they need to look out for all of Orissa and not just BBSR/CTC/Puri areas.
Following is a draft letter that one can send to the CM (cmo at ori.nic.in) about developing higher education and medical opportunities outside of the BBSR/CTC/Puri area. This is a draft. Please make changes to your liking.
If I missed your favorite location, please add them in your letter.
best regards
Chitta
Continue Reading 9 comments April 11th, 2007
From mineral resources to human resources
For some time there has been discussion that Orissa government should formulate a policy of going from mineral resources to human resources. I.e., it must cajole the various mineral based industries (steel plants, aluminium plants, coal fields etc.) in Orissa to invest in the human resource development of Orissa. So far except the announced Vedanta University, and 13 crores donated by the Tatas towards the Institute of Mathematics, the others have at most contributed small amounts towards ITI type trade schools. In this regards the GOI public sectors in Orissa have not done much.
Now Orissa must take a quick lesson from Jharkhand. Today’s Telegraph reports that Bokaro steel plant has agreed to establish an engineering college as well as a medical college in Bokaro.
Continue Reading 2 comments February 26th, 2007
Dr. Digambara Patra on lack of state funded higher education institutions in undivided Kalahandi, Balangir and Boudha-Kandhamal districts.
Tathya.in has an article titled “Kalahandi Crying for Center of Higher Learning” which reports on Dr. Digambara Patra’s concerns. Following are some paragraphs from Dr. Patra’s recent mail to a newsgroup.
… Instead of looking at 30 districts, first the state government should focus on 13 undivided districts as there are still imbalances (I had made a table earlier on this
Continue Reading February 8th, 2007
Dismal state of technical education and state funded education in Orissa
Purna Mishra has created a 19 page document on the dismal status of technical education in Orissa. Commenting on that Dr. Sri Gopal Mohanty discusses below the dismal state of state funded education in Orissa. This is what he has to say:
Continue Reading February 8th, 2007
Inititiation of KBK university by state govt? Dr. Digambara Patra, November 15, 2006
… Keeping all these things in mind, if our state government could make a KBK University (from the Biju KBK grant or a separate grant of 100 crores for 3 yrs), it would be easier to convert it to a central university later on, which happened earlier to Institute of Life Sciences, Institute of Physics, Allahabad University and some other North Eastern State Universities. …
Continue Reading 1 comment December 11th, 2006
Bhubaneswar University: Put BJB, RD, CET and Capital Hospital together
All great cities have a university with the same name. In India there is Delhi University, Bombay University, Kolkata Univesrity, Chennai University, Bangalore University, Pune University, Allahabad University, Lucknow University, University of Hyderabad, etc. Now that Bhubaneswar is growing up as a city it needs a university with the same name as the city. (Note that even in Orissa there is Sambalpur University and Berhempur University named after the towns they are in.)
For this one need not start from scratch. BJB College is perhaps the top college in Orissa now. (Ravenshaw, which is now a university, was better in some areas.) R. D. Womens College is also among the top two womens colleges in the state. CET (College of Engineering and Technology) is now preferred over other state engineering colleges.
Continue Reading 16 comments December 11th, 2006
B.Sc (Honors) in Computer Science — down the memory lane
In July 1997 during the OSA convention a few people developed a plan to introuduce B.Sc (honors) in Computer Science in Orissa colleges. This plan was written up and in December it was brought up with the Orissa government. That time the additional Chief Secretary Dr. P. K. Mishra liked the idea very much and while we were in the secretariate discussing the plan the BJB College principal and few others were called and the plan was further discussed. It was decided then and there to open this in BJB, Rama Devi, Ravenshaw, Govt. College Rourkela and few other colleges. (My memory fails me.)
The main idea was to train the excellent mathematics and physics lecturers so that
Continue Reading December 4th, 2006