NISER will be a world class deemed university: Samaja and others
2 comments September 12th, 2007
Archive for September, 2007
Outlook-Cfore business school rankings
Outlook has an article on it and its detailed ranking will be available later. However, MBAuniverse.com has published the ranking from 1-20 with its own analysis. The rankings are: IIMA, IIMB, IIMC, IIML, XLRI, MDI, SPJ, NITIE Mumbai, IIM I, NMIMS, IMT Ghaziabad, IIM K, IIFT Delhi, ICFAI, XIM, SJSOM, IMI Delhi, IRMA Anand, TA Pai, Symbiosis Pune. XIM Bhubaneswar’s ranking, as per Outlook-Cfore calculations, has gone up from 16 last year to 15 this year.
September 10th, 2007
More details on the NITER proposal
More details are emerging on the NITER proposal. It seems it is only an Orissa govt. proposal. So it is far away from happening. At this point Orissa govt. should focus on getting one of the new IITs and should pursue NITER only after it gets an IIT. Following is a report on this from Samaja. (New Indian Express also has a report on it.)
2 comments September 10th, 2007
A collocated NITER with NISER?
Following is from Pragativadi. (Thanks to Purna babu for the pointer.) I hope this news is true and not some gossip by a govt. official. If it is true, I hope it happens in addition to an IIT.
September 8th, 2007
Samaja elaborates on the 4 more govt. medical college proposal
The following appears in the front page of Samaja in the left hand side.
September 8th, 2007
Orissa may have 4 more govt. medical colleges
Following is a news item on this from Sambada.
In this regard we would like to point out to our earlier article where we suggested that the Orissa government should consider converting some of its district hospitals to medical colleges. May be they listened.
In general, the district colleges that have close to 250 beds should all be converted to medical colleges and the government should recover some of the cost by charging the students half or 1/3rd of what private medical colleges charge.
September 8th, 2007
Stewart School in Cuttack to celebrate its 125th anniversary
Following are excerpts from a Telegraph report on this.
…On November 20, Orissa’s Stewart School gears up to celebrate its 125th year.
The institution, where Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose received six years of elementary education, is marking the occasion by asking former students to come forth and to share memories of the alma mater.
Through this exercise, principal Asha Margaret Das hopes to accumulate an school information archive. On November 20, a five-day celebration with a host of programmes is also expected to start.
So far, the school has started a special unit to receive messages from former pupils. “I am sure that former pupils from far and wide must have interesting anecdotes to share,” she said.
“If you have any stories related to the old higher-secondary school or any other information, we would love to hear from you. We believe that it’s important for former pupils to realise they are a part of a rich historical past,” Das said. “It is one of the oldest schools in Cuttack and the few that are older are so by 10, maybe 25 years.”
The school, which started in 1882, was re-christened Stewart School in 1919 after its founder William Day Stewart, a civil surgeon. Stewart School began as the Orphanage School in November 1882. Soon, it came to be known as Protestant European School (in 1891) and in the same year its doors opened to Indian students. Since 1971, the institution has been managed by Diocese of Cuttack, Church of North India. Until that time it was under the Baptist Missionary Society.
September 8th, 2007
Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology in Raebareli
A PIB reports on the setting up of this institute at a cost of 435 crores and when set up this institute will have B.Tech, M.Tech and Ph.D programs and will get the status of an Institute of National Importance.
Considering the number of steel plants in Orissa, the Orissa government should at the opportune moment push to make BPNSI (Biju Patnaik National Steel Institute) of similar status.
42 comments September 7th, 2007
Newly AICTE approved Indus college of Engineering will take students through the upcoming Orissa JEE counseling: Ad in Samaja
5 comments September 7th, 2007
Orissa govt ad in Samaja: accomplishments in higher ed and higher secondary education
September 7th, 2007
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Telegraph reports on the status of an AIIMS clone in Bhubaneswar
Following are some excerpts from that report. (Thanks to Deba Nayak for the pointer.)
The Union government would soon start construction of the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) near Bhubaneswar from December 2007.
The proposed regional centre of the AIIMS has been postponed for the past four years. Last year, Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) put the Bhubaneswar-AIIMS on fast track by making budgetary allocations under Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY). Official sources said a sum of Rs 330 crore has been so far sanctioned.
Replying to a query put by BJD MP Prasanna Patsani today, the Union health minister, Anbumani Ramadoss, said the construction would begin from December. “He assured me that work on the AIIMS college would begin in April 2008,” Patsani told The Telegraph. … According to an initial estimate, a sum of Rs 280 crore would be spent on the establishment of the Bhubaneswar AIIMS. In the first phase, three departments — cardiology and cardio-thoracic, nephrology and urology and cancer centre — would be set up at an estimated cost of Rs 133 crore.
A two-storied modular building was proposed on the 100-acre site to house four operation theatres, out patient departments, diagnostic block and in patient wards. The diagnostic unit was to be equipped with sophisticated equipment such as CT scan, MRI, X-ray machines, electro-encephalogram and electro-cardiogram.
September 7th, 2007
NISER Bhubaneswar gets cabinet approval
From http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=31005.
The Union Cabinet today gave its approval for establishment of National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) at Bhubaneswar at an estimated cost of Rs. 823.19 crore and also creation of 761 posts in academic, scientific, technical, administrative and auxiliary categories.
NISER will start functioning initially from the campus of Institute of Physics (IOP) and its academic programme will start from September, 2007.
The said institute will conduct the following programmes in science education for bright and meritorious students selected on all-India basis :
a) An integrtated 5 year M.Sc. programme in the core and emerging branches of Basic Sciences to students after their 10+2 Higher Secondary schooling. This in turn will be integrated with Ph.D. programme on the one hand and employment in various R&D organizations and industry in the country on the other.
b) Integrated m.Sc. + Ph.D after B.Sc from other Universities.
c) Ph. D. programme after M.Sc. from other universities.
(The PIB for the cabinet approval of IISER Kolkata and Pune is here.)
September 7th, 2007