Senior level Executive programme at NIIT Imperia

Chennai: NIIT Imperia - Centre for Advanced Learning, offers Executive Learning Programs in association with leading Business schools in India.

NIIT Imperia in collaboration with Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIMC), invites application for one year - Senior Management Program.

Designed to equip the senior level executives with tools and perspectives to make well considered strategic decisions, the programme would benefit managers, likely to take on the essentials of functional skills of management and aiming for leadership roles; and practicing Senior Managers wishing to stay updated with contemporary management thoughts, can opt for this program.

Key objective of the one year program is to develop on tools and techniques required for managing organizations and transform the senior level executives into strategic leaders within their organizations.

Working professionals/ self employed  Graduate (10+2+3) in any discipline with minimum 50% marks recognised by UGC/ AICTE/ DEC/AIU having minimum 10 years of work experience post completion of graduation as on August 01, 2012

For complete addresses and contact numbers, visit www.niitimperia.com

Specialised course on Diabetes Management

Chennai: Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Education Academy (DMDEA) announced the launch and expansion of CCEBDM (Certificate Course in Evidence Based Diabetes Management) to develop core skills and competencies in primary care physicians for the practice of evidence based diabetes management, focused on the management of Type 2 Diabetes.

An educational grant for this capacity building initiative has been provided by MSD Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. (MSD India), a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA.

Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM), has become a serious health threat with exploding population and changing lifestyle. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes has achieved an endemic proportion and is currently a global public health threat. The prevalence of T2DM among adults is expected to rise from 285 million in 2010 to 438 million by the year 20301. The numbers would probably be even far more disturbing if we count the number of associated lifestyle disorders like obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia and impaired glucose tolerance.

Diabetes is a considerable cause of premature mortality, a situation that is likely to worsen, particularly in low and middle income countries as diabetes prevalence increases. Surveys suggest that in the urban areas of the country almost 11 per cent of the population suffer from diabetes2. The ICMR-INDIAB study3 published last year projected that in 2011, 62.4 million and 77.2 million people in India were living with diabetes and pre-diabetes respectively.

The aim of the program, CCEBDM, is to impart on-job training to the primary care physicians on the latest advances in the field of Diabetes Management. The course curriculum is divided into twelve modules spread over 12 months under which physicians are trained by regional faculty identified by the program organizers. 

Google signs MoU with NIIT

Chennai: Google introduced a comprehensive training program for young professionals in India in alliance with NIIT.

Aimed to bridge the digital skill gap in the country and help students and professionals capitalize on the emerging job market for the online industry, Google has identified the progammme as ‘Google Web Academy (http://www.niitgooglewebacademy.com/). 

Under the initiative, NIIT will be Googles first partner to offer specialized courses through its centres across the country.

Speaking about the launch Rajan Anandan, VP & Managing Director Google India, said “As the Indian internet market continues to show robust growth, we believe a capacity building program to help young professionals gear up for the opportunity is the need of the hour.”

Commenting on the launch of this initiative, Vijay Thadani, Chief Executive Officer, NIIT Limited said, “At NIIT, we have always taken the lead to address the need for professionally trained manpower for promising sectors, through cutting-edge IT training courses .”

Google signs MoU with NIIT

Chennai: Google introduced a comprehensive training program for young professionals in India in alliance with NIIT.

Aimed to bridge the digital skill gap in the country and help students and professionals capitalize on the emerging job market for the online industry, Google has identified the progammme as ‘Google Web Academy (http://www.niitgooglewebacademy.com/). 

Under the initiative, NIIT will be Googles first partner to offer specialized courses through its centres across the country.

Speaking about the launch Rajan Anandan, VP & Managing Director Google India, said “As the Indian internet market continues to show robust growth, we believe a capacity building program to help young professionals gear up for the opportunity is the need of the hour.”

Commenting on the launch of this initiative, Vijay Thadani, Chief Executive Officer, NIIT Limited said, “At NIIT, we have always taken the lead to address the need for professionally trained manpower for promising sectors, through cutting-edge IT training courses .”

Criminal action against schools collecting excess fee: Tamil Nadu Govt

Chennai: Directorate of Matric schools has ordered to take strict actions by the team headed by Chief Education officer, against schools collecting excess fees fixed by the Tamil Nadu fee fixation committee. Apart from that it has also stated that criminal action would be instigated against erring school management.

Over the past month, the state has witnessed several agitations from parents side on excess fees collections by private schools. Parents allege that officials fail to take prompt and firm actions against these schools though Directorate of Matric schools has taken certain steps. Even the inspectors of Matric schools, fail to take proper action on private schools resulting in these increasing demonstrations.

Briefing regarding this, Directorate of Matric schools' sources say, "proper actions have been taken against complaints on 15 schools in chennai and have been ordered to repay the excess amount collected from the students.

We are unable to handle the complaints coming from every district. Hence, we have appointed committees headed by respective chief education officers of the various distircts.

This committee includes inspector of Matic schools and other officials. These committees have been instructed to immediately enquire and take action against schools breaking the fee norms. At the same time, the committee should not hesitate to take criminal action against school officials if they fail to go by the fee norms.

In a meeting that was held on Monday, we have clearly instructed about this to all the inspectors of Matric schools, revealed directorate sources.

14,450 applications for Para-medical courses

Chennai: Totally, 14,450 applications have poured in for admission to Para- medical studies in Govt, Medical Colleges and Private Medical colleges under govt. allotted quota.

Issuing of application forms for admission to Para-medical courses like B.Sc Nursing, B.PT, B.Pharm in Govt. Medical Colleges and Private Medical colleges under govt. allotted quota began on June 4.

Applications were available in all the Govt. Medical colleges until June 13 with the last date for submission of filled application fixed as June 18. 

Briefing regarding this, Sukumar, Secretary and Additional Director of Medical Education told totally 22,000 applications were printed, out of which 17,200 applications were sold. Among the sold applications, 14,450 applications have been submitted. After the completion of counselling for Medical studies, counselling for Para-Medical Studies would begin, he told.

Three private medical colleges charged with irregularities

Chennai: Three Private Medical collges have been charged by the CBI with irregularities in obtaining recognition from the Medical Council of India (MCI).

Apart from irregularities like inadequate infrastructure, lacking proper faculties, the CBI have also found out that Sathya Sai Medical College, Kanchipuram, Aadhi Parasakthi Medical College and Lakshmi Narayanan Medical college, Puducherry channelised doctors from outside providing fake identity cards, a CBI charge sheet said.

Among these colleges, as Aadhi Parasakthi Medical College comes under the ambit of Dr. M.G.R Medical University which has now created problems for the forth coming general counselling for medical seats. However, nobody has forward to provide any details regarding this. 

Medical Council of India (MCI) officials told that they had not received any formal intimation whether CBI had filed a complaint or had taken any actions, regarding these irregularities.  

Diploma Nursing application forms from June 11

Chennai: Application forms for Diploma Nursing studies in Govt. Medical colleges and District Govt. Hospitals are issued from June 11, told Sukumar, Secretary and Additional Director of Medical Education.

Application forms are made available to aspiring candidates from June 11 to fill Diploma Nursing seats at 17 Govt. Medical Colleges. SC/ ST students can get the application free of cost, while other community students can obtain it by paying Rs 215.

Directorate of Medical education would bring out the official notification on June 11, revealed Sukumar, Secretary and Additional Director of Medical Education.

Chennai burns over 'high' school fees

Chennai: Parents and Some city schools continue to be dissension over 'high' school fees. Today, a group of parents protested in front of a city school and alleging that the school authority was not being clear about the fee structure.

Parents are unhappy by the functioning of school authority and their grievance is that the school was not giving them the receipt for the actual amount paid, and did not inform parents about the fee structure suggested by the 'fee determination committee' organised by government.

By defanding school authority, Principal said, we have put all the details on the notice board and we have requested for a revision in the fee structure directed by the fee committee. When we get a new suggestion from committee we will refund the extra fees.

Music Academy granted status of Research Centre

Chennai: Music Academy, an internationally acclaimed organisation in the field of carnatic music, has been granted the status of a Research Centre by the Tumkur University in Karnataka.

Announcing this, the Academy said in a press release that researchers could now enrol themselves with it for Ph.D and avail the guidance of stalwarts in the field.
    
In the last few years, the Academy has started an Advanced School of Carnatic Music with a three year diploma course for producing top class musicians.
    
Keeping these in view, the Academy has been granted the Research Centre status by the Tumkur University,  Academy President N Murali said in a press release.
    
"The Academy is all set to raise the bar in the standards of research in the field of Carnatic Music", he said.
    
The 84-year old institution engaged in preserving, promoting and propagating Carnatic Music has also been a premier academic institution with a library comprising more than 5,000 specialised books, digital listening archives holding about 5,000 hours of music at present. It aims to digitize around 20,000 hours of music, it said. 

Instant exam for standard X from June 25

Chennai: Even as the entire state is eagerly awaiting for the tenth common exam results that is to be released on June 4, 1:30 PM, the Directorate of School Examination has released the date for the instant supplementary exams.

According to the directorate, the instant supplementary exam would begin on June 25 and end on July 2. 

Those school students failing to clear the common exam can take up instant supplementary exam by filling up the application that would be available at the school office from June 5 to June 7 paying appropriate exam fees.

Private students can obtain the application form the office of the Chief Education Officer of their respective District and submit the filled application form with appropriate exam fees at the office of the Regional Deputy Director, Department of School Education. 

SSLC students (both old and new syllabus) need to pay Rs 125 for all subjects, Matriculation students need to pay Rs 135 for one subject and Rs 100 for additional subjects, Anglo Indian Board students need to pay Rs 85 and Rs 50 for additional subjects.       

Four students take top honours in the Tamil Nadu 10th public exam

Chennai: Even as the entire state is eagerly awaiting for the tenth common exam results that is to be released on June 4, 1:30 PM, the Directorate of School Examination has released the date for the instant supplementary exams.

According to the directorate, the instant supplementary exam would begin on June 25 and end on July 2. 

Those school students failing to clear the common exam can take up instant supplementary exam by filling up the application that would be available at the school office from June 5 to June 7 paying appropriate exam fees.

Private students can obtain the application form the office of the Chief Education Officer of their respective District and submit the filled application form with appropriate exam fees at the office of the Regional Deputy Director, Department of School Education. 

SSLC students (both old and new syllabus) need to pay Rs 125 for all subjects, Matriculation students need to pay Rs 135 for one subject and Rs 100 for additional subjects, Anglo Indian Board students need to pay Rs 85 and Rs 50 for additional subjects.       

Marginal raise in overall pass percentage

Chennai: With tenth result just released, 86.20% of the total students have cleared the tenth standard first common exam under the " Samacheer Kalvi" Scheme.

Tenth common exam under "Samacheer Kalvi" scheme began on April 4 and got over on April 23. Totally 10.84 lakh students appeared for the exam through school and 95,418 appeared through private. Results of the tenth common exam were just released by the, Directorate of Government Examination.

Overall 9,05,538 students registered through schools have cleared the common exam raising the pass percentage to 86.20% from 85.30% of last year. With 83.40% of pass among boys and 88.90% of pass among girls.

5,68,815 students have secured more than 60 per cent with 1,141 scoring centum in Mathemetics; 9,237 scoring centum in Science and 5,305 scoring centum in Social Science.    

Centum in Maths plummets down this year

Chennai: With the tenth standard exam results just released, numeric shows that centum in Mathematics have drastically come down as compared to the previous year.

Result of tenth common exam under "Samacheer Kalvi" scheme was just released by the Directorate of Tamil Nadu school examination. Totally 10.84 lakh students appeared for the exam through schools and 95,418 appeared through private.

Last year, 12, 532 students secured centum in Mathematics. But, only 1,141 students secured centum this year through "Samacheer Kalvi" scheme.

"Although, all the questions were asked from the book only, the reason for not many scoring centum was that the one -mark questions were a bit twisted", told students.    

1,092 more centum in all subjects than last year

Chennai: The plus two results percentage has improved by 1.1 % to 86.7% compared to the last year count.

The number of centum scored by the students in all the subjects increased by 1,092, highest ever in the history, because of the students having more awareness about their higher education from this performance.

Due to difficulties in the questions asked in the physics subject, only 142 students are scored the maximum marks compared to the last year count of 646 students. In the same way, the count for mathematics centum by 2,656 students which is dropped by count of 64 compared to the last year total of 2,720.

Leaving Maths and Physics subjects, 200 more centum are made by only chemistry students leading to the total of 1,444 compared to the last year performance of 1,246 students for the Engineering admission in Tamil nadu.

Subject Name	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Physics	217	282	245	231	646	142
Chemistry	145	306	467	741	1,246	1,444
Mathematics	1568	3852	4060	1762	2,720	2,656
Biology	129	153	218	258	615	620
Botany	12	19	6	4	14	6
Zoology	1	1	1	1	0	4
Computer Science	0	60	276	265	223	615
Commerce	288	148	285	968	1167	921
Accountancy	133	739	621	851	1320	2,518
Business Maths	156	291	198	341	358	475
Total	2,649	5,851	6,377	5,422	8,309	9,401

- Moorthy Selvakumaran, Educational Analyst & Consultant

Girls outshine boys in Class XII state board exams

Chennai: Girls continued to outshine boys in the Class XII examinations conducted by the state government, results for which were announced today.

Students hailing from Namakkal district bagged the top three ranks from among nearly 8.20 lakh students who appeared for the exam conducted in March.

Girls continued to dominate by registering a pass percentage of 89.7 while 83.2 per cent of boys cleared the exams. Incidentally, this time there was a drastic dip in the number of centum-scorers in Physics, with only 142 students scoring a hundred as against a little over 600 last year. It was the same case with Mathematics too.

However, more students had scored centum in Chemistry this year. Susmitha from Namakkal topped the exams by scoring 1,189 out of 1,200 marks while the second rank was shared by three students from the same district. Two students from Namakkal came third.

Namkkal students get all three state ranks in Plus two

Chennai: Namkkal students having Tamil as first language get all the three state ranks in Plus two examinations 2012.

First Rank: 1189 out of 1200 marks

SUSHMITHA - S.K.V. HSS M KANDAMPALAYAM NKL,NAMAKKAL

Second Rank: 1188 out of 1200 marks

KARTHIKA D - S.K.V. HSS M KANDAMPALAYAM NKL,NAMAKKAL                     

ASHOK KUMAR P - GREENPARK MHSS NAMAKKAL,NAMAKKAL                            

MANIKANDAN C - VIVEKANANDHA HSS PANDAMANGALAM,NAMAKKAL                     

Third Rank: 1187 out of 1200 marks

MAHESWARI P - VIDHYAVIKAS GHSS THIRUCHENGODE,NAMAKKAL                     

PRABHA SANKARI B - S.K.V. HSS M KANDAMPALAYAM NKL,NAMAKKAL 

Pondy and Chengalpattu students top in Tamil Nadu plus two exam

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Deparment of Government Examinations declared plus 2 results today.

List of Overall State rank holders:

 

First rank: 1190 marks out of 1200

SWAPNA. S - STJOSEPH OF CLUNY M GHSS PDY,PUDUCHERRY)

PAVITHRA. V - PRINCE MAT HSS MADIPAKKAM,CHENGALPATTU                      

Second rank: 1189 marks out of 1200

RAHUL JAIN. P  - S.B.O.A MAT HSS CHOKKAMPUDUR,COIMBATORE

MAHEEMA BHEN R - S R V  G HSS RASIPURAM,NAMAKKAL

SUSHMITHA S - S.K.V. HSS M KANDAMPALAYAM NKL,NAMAKKAL                     

ANCY PHILIP - CSI JESSIEMOSES MHSS ANNANAGAR,CHENNAI NORTH               

ARJUN S - S J S S J MATHSS MAHARAJANAGAR,TIRUNELVELI                  

Third rank: 1188 marks out of 1200

KANUSHIYA S - CLUNY MAT HSS SALEM,SALEM                                   

KIRITHIKA C M - CLUNY MAT HSS SALEM,SALEM                                   

KARTHIKA D - S.K.V. HSS M KANDAMPALAYAM NKL,NAMAKKAL                     

ASHOK KUMAR P - GREENPARK MHSS NAMAKKAL,NAMAKKAL                            

MANIKANDAN C - VIVEKANANDHA HSS PANDAMANGALAM,NAMAKKAL                     

ARAVINTH S - ZION MAT HSS SELAIYUR,CHENGALPATTU                          

SUNDARA RAMAN R - SRDF V VID HSS CHROMPET,CHENGALPATTU                        

DEEPA R - S D A V  HSS ADAMBAKKAM,CHENGALPATTU                        

BHAVANI S - SRIAHOBILAMATH OHSS CHENNAI-33,CHENNAI CENTRAL              

PRIYA V - SRIAHOBILAMATH OHSS CHENNAI-33,CHENNAI CENTRAL              

AASHISH RAJESH - DAV HSS GOPALAPURAM CHE 86,CHENNAI CENTRAL        

Chennai region CBSE Class 10 results: 99 Percentage pass, many report perfect 10s

CHENNAI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) published the results of class 10 for theChennai region on Monday. As many as 99.66% of the 1,52,086, who appeared for the board and school-based tests in the region have qualified for admission to class 11. 

In the Chennai region, 97,259 took the board exam, while 54,741 opted for the school-based test this year. As many as 21,884 students, including 16,466 students, appeared for the class 10 exams in the state this year. 

A Deepshika, a class 10 student of Sir Sivaswami Kalalaya Senior Secondary School, who scored a perfect 10, said, "It was so unexpected. I was sitting in my coaching class when my friend told me about the results. After that I couldn't stop thinking about it and couldn't wait for my class to get over. I am so happy." 

Many schools reported that several of their students had secured the highest cumulative grade point average of 10 by securing the highest grade (A1) in five subjects. While 28 students in PSBB, Nungambakkam, secured a CGPA of 10, 18 students in Bhavan's Rajaji Vidyashram secured a perfect 10, and seven in Sir Sivaswami Kalalaya secured the top score. L Neelakanta Pillai, principal of Kola Perumal Chetty Vaishnav Senior Secondary School, said, "About 10% of our students have secured a CGPA of 10 thanks to the implementation of CCE. We hope that the system will soon be extended to class 12 as well. Then, like western countries, our children too will be happy doing what they do best." 

The board does not declare a student pass or fail. It allows students who have scored either A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2 or D grades to continue to the next class. Students with E1 or E2 grades are declared eligible for improvement of performance. 

"The students will be given a certificate of continuous and comprehensive evaluation comprising of their performance in classes 9 and 10. The performance encompasses their achievements in scholastic as well as co-scholastic areas," said regional officer of the Chennai region D T Sudharshan Rao. 

Despite the CBSE making board exams optional in a bid to reduce exam-related stress, nearly 64% of the students who appeared for the test in the Chennai region opted for the board exam. Overall, more than 75% of class 10 students in CBSE schools opted for the board exam this year. 

Candidates can apply for verification of marks within 21 days of the declaration of results and those who wish to apply for improvement of performance can apply before June 22 without late fee. The tentative date of this examination will be July 16. 

IIT-JEE more competitive or BITSAT

Chennai:  For a question like this, anybodys initial guess would be the former, thats the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). But if you break into the details of the numbers, its totally a different story.

Numbers dont lie, do they?

About 68 students were estimated to compete for a single seat in this year's BITSAT, the online test for admission into degree courses at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. On the other hand, only 54 students contested for an IIT seat.

Going deeper into the number, in the case of BITSAT, the number of applications received was 1.36 lakh for 2,000 seats in the institute's campuses in Pilani, Hyderabad and Goa. But 5.2 lakh students took the IIT-JEE on April 8 to be eligible for 9,600 seats in the 15 IITs.