For the first time, institutions of the stature of IIT and IIM have joined hands to run a post graduate programme for enhancing the skills of workers in the manufacturing sector.

This is the first occasion when the Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management have joined hands to run a post-graduate programme. The programme is expected to generate 300 visionary leaders in manufacturing field in the next three years, NMCC Chairman V Krishnamurthy said on Monday.

The programme, which has been designed by IIM Kolkata, IIT Kanpur and IIT Madras in association with CII, National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council has been named Executives in Manufacturing for Visionary Leadership.

Source : timesofindia.indiatimes.com

In a bid to revamp security, Northern Railways has sought help from IIT-Delhi to carry out an extensive survey of its railway stations.

Project in-charge Professor DT Sahni today led a team to see how security can be strengthened at the Old Delhi Railway Station.

A senior railway official said: The Railways are 150 years old and not well-equipped to cope with any terror attack. Especially after the Samjhauta Express blasts, we felt the need for a comprehensive relook at security scenario.

More : cities.expressindia.com

Against the backdrop of the Samjhauta Express blasts, the Northern Railway and IIT-Delhi have joined hands to revamp security at important railway stations to prevent any future terror attacks.

There is an urgent need to look up at all these stations especially after the Samjhauta blasts since many of these are too old and do not have the complete security arrangements as they were not built in accordance with that, CPRO Rajeev Saxena said.

He said a team of experts, led by Prof D T Sahni from IIT-Delhi, has been constituted to carry out a security audit in the Railways.

More : economictimes.indiatimes.com

The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) conducted for admissions into Ramaiah IIT coaching institute would be held on May 6 from 8.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at five centres in Hyderabad.

Legislative Council member Chukka Ramaiah said, Mathematics paper would be held from 8.30 a.m. to 10.30 a.m., Physics from 11 a.m. to 12 noon and Chemistry from 12 noon to 1 p.m.

The papers would carry 60 marks each. The test will be held at Centre for Distance Education (OU), Railway Degree College, College of Technology (OU), Engineering College (OU) and Krishnaveni Talent School, Dilsukhnagar. He said 11,565 candidates will be taking the test.

More : hindu.com

Admission season in capital will begin with Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) conducting its entrance examinations across the 75 centres in India and abroad. The entrance exams will be conducted from May 15 to May 18.

We will be going to places like Bhutan and Colombo and plan to include more offshore centres in the near future, said JNU Vice Chancellor Mr. B.B. Bhattacharya.

Approximately 98,000 students will be appearing for the entrance examination this year which is far more than the number of admission seekers the previous year. The varsity will offer approximately 1500 seats in 100 different programmes.

More : indiaedunews.net

The first college in Shanghai offering diplomas for passenger plane pilots is ready for take-off.

The facility was set up on Monday and applicants will be selected after university entrance exams in July. The college is a joint operation by the Shanghai University of Engineering Science and Shanghai Airlines Co Ltd.

Ding Xingguo, the new college dean and vice president of the airline, said they hope the college will become the citys base for training enough pilots to meet the goal of Shanghai becoming a major terminus port in air traffic in the Asian Pacific region in the next five years.

More : english.eastday.com

In recent months at least two new institutes named as Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) modelled after IISc have been inaugurated. This is justifiable since science education and research badly needs a good boost as the country produces enough PhDs in sciences to staff these new institutions.

In addition, an equally important decision has been taken in recent years, namely to open three more IITs with plans to create 20 more in the next 5-year plan. With regards to this decision, however, several questions need to be raised. Specifically, do we have enough trained and qualified manpower to staff these new IITs as well as the requisite infrastructure in new facilities and services?

In a resource-constrained country like ours, we need to optimise our resources and be effective especially in technical education, an issue addressed in this article.

More : timesofindia.indiatimes.com