Hindustan Times

Monday, July 20, 2009

Judge forgives 33 cheating students

A metropolitan magistrate acquitted 33 young people, including five girls, who were caught cheating in an examination, saying he did not want to ruin their future.

The young people were accused of receiving answers on their mobile phones, while taking an exam at the Delhi Engineering College in 2005.

The CBI had been called in by the college authorities after all the 33 candidates submitted identical papers and scored the same marks. The CBI alleged they had paid for the answers, which they received on their cellphones.

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Friday, February 27, 2009

Campus placements go bust

As the placement season peaks, final-year students at the country’s top business schools are coming to terms with a new reality — a cut in offers and salaries from prospective employers, and the chance of not landing a job at all.

At the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Bangalore, where placements begin on Friday students said , they would be happy to get as much salary as their seniors got a year ago. Their apprehension is not without reason.

Sample this: investment banks that in the past flocked to IIM Ahmedabad were missing in action as placements at the top-rated business school opened on Wednesday, only 49 companies showed up in the first phase of placement at IIM Calcutta earlier this week — down from 107 last year

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Labels: Campus placements, first phase of placement, IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Bangalore, jobs, placement season, students, top business schools

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Indian Institute of Technology gets tougher: 49 dreams, 1 seat

Getting into an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) will be more difficult this year than it was in 2008, even though two new ones will come up by July This yeal: 49 students will compete for one seat, up from the 44 that did so last year.

Last year, 3.11 lakh students took IIT's joint entrance exam for one of 6,992 seats, while this year more than 3.9 lakh (a rise of 25 per cent) will vie for approximately 7,900 seats (a rise of 13 per cent). The exam will be held on April l2.

"Many more students in the Other Backward Class category may be taking the test this year because the seats reserved for them will increase," said Gautam Barua, IIT-Guwahati director, who provided the data.

All IITs must eventually reserve 27 per cent of their seats for this group. The six new IITs that began last year implemented the quota all at once. Two more new IITs coming up in Indore and Himachal Pradesh this year will also do so.

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

World’s best B-school graduates opt for sarkari internships

It’s not quite the place where you would expect job hunting students to seek an internship. But oddly enough, the government is where many bright sparks from the London School of Economics (LSE) to Kellogg’s are heading for their final rite of passage to the professional world.

The country’s apex planning body, the Planning Commission, for instance, is proving to be a very popular destination since it started an internship programme two years back. The only quibble: selection is strict, hence only the best pass muster. Just 40 of the over 300 who apply every year are inducted.

A hands on insight on how things work in the world’s largest democracy as a student says is a great “pull factor”.

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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Indian Institute of Technology open exam process to students

Results of the IIT's Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) - one of the most keenly contested examinations in the country just got more transparent. Taking note of the numerous queries filed under the Right to Information Act (RTI) regarding its admission procedure, IIT Joint Admission Board has decided to release the cut-off scores for individual subjects and different streams on its website.

Applicants can now get to know the cut-off scores in individual subjects like physics, maths or chemistry and also aggregate cut offs for streams like computer, electronics, mechanical and civil engineering. For the 2007 entrance exam, the institute had posted their question papers and correct answers on their site.

The first detailed score sheets will be released on August 1 at 8 pm on the institute's website www.iitg.ernet.in for students who appeared for the 2008 entrance exam. The score sheets will show the opening and closing ranks of different branches for every category, general and reserved.

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Friday, June 20, 2008

Delhi students may lose out on top courses

Applicants from the city far out number outstation students seeking admission to Delhi University this year. But outstation students stand a better chance of getting the top courses in the sought-after colleges.

An analysis of the centralised common pre-admission forms reveals that the ratio of local and outstation applicants is around 70:30 this year. "After introducing pin codes in the optical mark reader forms this year, we've tracked the number of applications coming from Delhi, which does not include NCR. We have 64,090 forms from Delhi and 27,000 from outside Delhi," said Suman Verma, Joint Dean (students welfare).

Regional affiliations don't guarantee city students a seat in Delhi University's top courses or popular colleges, say principals.

"A lot of Delhi candidates do apply but the best courses are taken by outstation candidates with high scores," said Sri Ram College of Commerce Principal P Jain. "We have applicants .C. from Tamil Nadu and West Bengal Boards with scores of 95 per cent and more. Since boards across the country have witnessed good results this year, Delhi students are bound to lose out."

In 2007, only 110 students from Delhi made it to SRCC against 203 outstation ones. Ramjas College Principal Rajendra Prasad confirms a strong representation of outstation candidates this year. "We have numerous candidates from state Boards with 92 per cent and above and they will definitely land good courses at DU."

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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Three new IITs coming, but where is the infrastructutre?

Here's another example of the clumsy manner in which the HRD ministry handles India's most prestigious institutions of higher education. Three new IITs are opening next month, but no buildings, infrastructure or faculty befitting the global brand is in place yet.

Three existing IITs - Guwahati, Madras and Delhi - have been made ‘mentor institutions' for the new institutes at Patna, Medak and Rajasthan.

Faculty from the Guwahati and Madras IITs will be deployed to teach at makeshift campuses at Patna and Medak. IIT Rajasthan doesn't even have a ‘makeshift campus', and will debut from its mentor's campus at IIT Delhi.

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Thursday, April 17, 2008

9 percent OBC quota at IITs this year

Seven Branches of IIT will reserve nine percent seats for OBC category students in the 2008-09 academic session, a joint admission board decided in a meeting on Wednesday. Directors of the seven IITs, along with representatives of IT BHU and ISM Dhanbad said that admissions into the JEE 2008 will be done taking into account the reservation for OBC category students.

However, the three new IITs, proposed in Rajasthan, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh will implement 27 per cent reservation. "The new IITs will take in 50 percent general category students and the rest will be from SC, ST and OBC categories. But the existing IITs will implement the entire 27 per cent reservation by 2010," said Prof Surendra Prasad, director, IIT Delhi.

The IITs will have to double the existing strength of faculty in order to cope with the extra students. "At IIT Delhi we have a sanctioned strength of 556 faculty positions and roughly 420 are filled," said Prasad. "If we plan to implement 27 per cent OBC quota by 2010 we will need to double faculty strength in the next two years."

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Labels: 2008-09 academic session, admissions, IITs, JEE 2008, joint admission board, OBC category, OBC quota, reservation, seats, Seven Branches of IIT, students

Friday, April 11, 2008

Scheduled Castes clears Other Backward Classes quota law

Ending uncertainty over the controversial law providing for 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes in central educational institutions including IITs and IIMs, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld its validity but ruled that the "creamy layer" among the backwards would not get reservation.

A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan upheld the Central Educational lnstitutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006, paying the way for its implementation in all central educational institutions.

The landmark verdict comes as a major victory for the UPA government, which had to face embarrassment after the court stayed the implementation of the OBC quota law last year.

The bench, also comprising justices Arijit Pasayat, C.K. Thakker, R.V Raveendran and Dalveer Bhandari, unanimously said the "creamy layer" must be excluded from the socially and educationally backward classes as per a 1993 government order The government order excludes wards of people holding constitutional posts and senior government officials from the quota ambit.

Justice Bhandari asked the government to exclude the children of former and present MPs and MLAs from the purview of OBC reservation. The judges, however, clarified that the "creamy layer" concept was not applicable to Scheduled Castes and Schedu1ed Tribes. There should be a periodic review after five years on continuing with the OBC quota, they added.

The bench also upheld the validity of the Constitution (93rd Amendment) Act 2005 that enabled the government to enact laws providing for OBC reservation in central education- al institutions, saying it did not violate the Constitution's basic structure. It also rejected the petitioners' contention that not extending the OBC quota law to minority educational institutions was illegal.

The exclusion of minority educational institutions from the ambit of the law did not violate the Constitution as "they (minority institutions) are a separate class and their rights are protected by other constitutional provisions," the CJI said.

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Labels: 93rd Constitutional Amendment, central universties, cut-off marks, higher education, IIMs, IITs, K.G. Balakrishnan, minority institutions, OBC quota law, reservation, SCs, STs, students

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