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Ujjwal Mahajan |
OH GOD ANOTHER ADDICTION
Description :The west is treating online gaming addicts in retreat centres. I fact, a 19-year-old is the first one to be a part of it. Most net addicts agree that their love for the virtual world may be more than just a timepass, but all of them completely deny a treatment for the same. Even though students admit to being addicted but they think a retreat program is a cynical thought. I have heard about kids in the west succumbing because they sat online for hours at a stretch, but going for a rehab program is out of question for them. Solutions to offer for the gaming addicts. Any who's got a strong will power can come out of an addiction and for all those who are sensing the A of addiction should try and constantly keep themselves busy with activities that are equally interesting. SO LET'S BE FREE GUYS.
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Urvashi Mishra |
Fight Terrorism with Education
Description :Citing the dramatic confession of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving Mumbai terrorist, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said good education and jobs were the ways to keep people from turning to terrorism.
“We have to make sure people do get a good education; we have to make sure that people do have jobs. I mean, those are all part of what we see as a more positive alternative than to what the terrorists are selling,” she told a Thai TV channel in Bangkok Wednesday.
“You probably saw in the news the very dramatic development in the trial in India of the surviving Mumbai terrorist who confessed in court,” Clinton said, according to a transcript released by the State Department. “But what I found so interesting about his confession is that he was a young man without much purpose in life.
“He was in a job that he didn’t find particularly satisfying, and he was susceptible to the blandishments of the terrorist organisations that this will make you feel strong and powerful; this will give you a meaning and a purpose in your life. And he bought into that and joined this group that was trained for the Mumbai attack.
“And yet when you listen to his confession, as I heard on Indian television, this is not someone who had some deep, overriding ideological commitment. It was someone who got swept up in it,” Clinton noted.
“So we want to convey to families and communities across the world there’s a better way. Now, we have to put some meat on the bones of that statement.”
Reiterating US resolve to defeat international terrorists and their networks, Clinton said international terrorism was still a big threat “and it is, of course, an overwhelming priority of the United States because of our own experience”.
Describing the Jakarta bombing as a cowardly terrorist attack, she said: “Clearly, the terrorists, they don’t want to compete in the political environment. … So they engage in this very destructive, violent behaviour.
“So as tragic as something like that is, I think it’s important to convey to the terrorists that they will not intimidate us and they will not, in any way, undermine our resolve to defeat them and their networks.”
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| Posted on : Thu Jul 23 2009 17:01:15 | Comments : [1] |
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Posted by :
Urvashi Mishra |
Social technologies can work in education
Description :IT boom did many things, and one significant effect was the shift in the conversation from only ‘employment’ to ‘employability’ and ‘scale,’ observes Vaidya Nathan, Founder and CEO, Classle Knowledge Pvt Ltd, Chennai (www.classle.net).
Excerpts from the interview.
What are the innovations that can help in education?
Many of the concepts and technologies used in the Internet services share the attributes of our problem. The newer and popular phenomena such as ‘social media’ (Wikipedia, YouTube, Podcast, and so on), ‘social networking’ (Facebook, Orkut, LinkedIn), ‘social bookmarking’ (del.ico.us, digg, etc.), and micro-blogging (twitter), handle large size, wider audience, are viral, and very accessible, and also free.
So far, they have been looked at and also used from an informational and entertainment perspective. But as a capability, they are very potent and have the required attributes to solve the concerns of education.
Thankfully, the newer companies in education see this capability and combine them with other insights and innovations and directly address the issues of education. Even the principle of ‘social enterprise’ is available as a business model.
What more, from an adoption point of view, the youth, who are the consumers of this, take to these concepts and technologies quite naturally. Communication and sharing are very common and natural behaviour for them. They don’t think in terms of ‘What’s in it for me?’ They just share.
Also of relevance are technologies such as the cloud computing environment, and Open Source software, apart from the increased availability of connectivity, mobile platforms, and the abundant material on the Web. All these pieces have individually, and in combination, demonstrated their potency and effectiveness with solutions.
We have the pieces, so what do we do next?
All the pieces are available to address the different aspects of the education issue. What are required are the ‘system integration’ principles, which are very common in IT. Interestingly, most of these tools are available at a level which is extremely economical.
We are really looking at a scenario where IT-driven innovation can dramatically alter the academic and professional quality of education, especially higher-education and research.
While all technology can come about and set the stage, the actual actors have to enact the play. That is, in solving the problems in education with these technologies, all hands have to join to make it happen. Let us not forget that all the tools which form a part of the solution are ‘social’ in nature. This will succeed only when the ‘society’ is involved and engaged in the exercise.
That is, everybody, including the academic institutions, instruction staff, industry, students and even parents, all have to be a part of the solution. The good news now is that the technologies make the effort involved in participating in the solution very small. All that is required is making that behavioural change.
How do you see IT impacting research?
Research is also another area where there are serious imbalances. Low preference towards research is only a symptom. Actually, the students who prefer to do research go out to other countries.
There are many structural and policy changes which are required to improve the condition. Some of the issues are the time taken for research degree process, relevance of problem statements, and availability of collaborators, referees and mentors.
If the transparency, reach and collaboration, which come easily with IT, are factored in, and the process redesigned accordingly, that would be a necessary first step to give a boost to research. Our research should be able to make technology more democratic, more localised, a lot more sustainable and definitely more people-friendly. IT, by bridging the islands of academia, industry and society, can certainly bring about a positive change.
Source: The Hindu
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Posted by :
Sheenu Gupta |
No ragging please
Description :NEW DELHI - There should be absolutely no ragging when Delhi University starts its new session Thursday, police said Wednesday.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Sagar Preet Hooda said anything that leads to or is even remotely seen as promoting ragging will not be condoned.
No incidence of ragging or conduct by any student, whether by words spoken or written or by any act which has the effect of teasing, treating or handling with rudeness a fresher or any other student or indulging in rowdy or indiscipline activity will be allowed, Hooda said.
The anti-ragging measures were decided upon at a meeting of the university proctor, principals of colleges, wardens of hostels of Delhi University and Delhi Police.
(It) was decided that both educational institutions and the police would work in close coordination and any incident of ragging, however trivial, would be taken seriously, Hooda said.
The police have told owners and managers of private hostels that they will be held responsible if any ragging took place in their premises.
The police have intensified patrolling in the Delhi University campus.
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| Posted on : Thu Jul 16 2009 12:05:20 | Comments : [1] |
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Sibal allays fears on foreign universities
Description :NEW DELHI: Allaying apprehensions of MPs on the entry of foreign universities, Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday appealed for a "change in the mindset" and assured the Lok Sabha that the government would evolve an elaborate and strict monitoring mechanism to regulate their entry.
Replying to a marathon discussion in the Lok Sabha on the demands for grants under control of the HRD Ministry as allocated in the budget for 2009-10, Mr. Sibal belied the fears of the members that foreign universities, if allowed to set up their establishments in India, would enslave the country. He also made a plea for keeping education free from politics.
"Change your mindset"
"The time has come that you must change your mindset. India is too big and strong a country and nobody can enslave our country. We will not allow every foreign university to come here. We will monitor the entire process," he said in his 45-minute reply.
Contending that all kind of experiments should be allowed in the education sector, including private-public-partnership, Mr. Sibal asserted that education was not meant for one section of society but for all, including backward sections and the minorities.
No compromise
Reiterating that there cannot be any compromise on inclusiveness of the education, the Minister said that there was unanimity on carrying out reforms in the sector. "The question is what direction should these reforms take and what are the hurdles to be crossed," he said.
Mr. Sibal said that expansion, inclusion and excellence were three vital components of the education policy. Referring to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Murli Manohar Joshi’s question on "autonomy," the HRD Minister said that autonomy in the context of education meant giving choices to a child.
"Give a child the right to decide and not let the results of examinations decide his or her future. A child is the recipient of knowledge and for the past 60 years no choices have been given," Mr. Sibal said.
Making out a case for bringing some kind of uniformity in school education, he said the government had no design for cancelling 41 State boards across the country. "We only want a uniform system of examination, we will discuss it with States and in Parliament too. We need the cooperation of States," he said, citing the example of Europe where 40 nations were following a single pattern of examination.
Mr. Sibal said X board examinations were crucial as the marks decided the future of a child. "In my opinion, there should be only one examination after XI class and admission to the universities should be decided on the basis of merit list," he added. Pointing out that nearly 1,60,000 Indian students enrolled in foreign universities and institutes, he said this was because of the autonomy they enjoyed there. "In the XI Plan, the HRD sector has been given Rs. 85,000 crore. This is also not enough. The private sector has to come in but we are going to control and regulate it," he said.
Referring to the recommendations of the Yashpal Committee and the Knowledge Commission, Mr. Sibal said the government was studying them and the effort was to first internally reform the system. He felt that an overarching regulatory authority should be set up for higher education. "Only experts and academics should be its members. There should not be any politics in it," he said, adding that it should be based on the market and research needs of the country.
Questioning the concept of deemed universities, the Minister favoured a constant review mechanism and a separate accreditation agency for them.
He said that Right to Education Bill would also be brought in the current Parliament session. He announced that model schools would also be opened in States and 16 States have already sent in their proposals.
Earlier, initiating the discussion, Mr. Joshi said "communalism and politics" should be kept out of education and urged the HRD Ministry to introduce reforms to "humanise" studies and inculcate moral values and cultural pride in students. Mr. Joshi, a former HRD Minister, criticised his successor Arjun Singh for following a "communal agenda" by establishing schools in areas where minorities lived in large numbers.
"The agenda of education reforms should not be communal," Mr. Joshi added.
Source: The Hindu
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