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This Goregaon school is grooming eco-warriors to protect environment

Environment protection programmes are as important as the academic curriculum at VIBGYOR High, a school in Goregaon. Keeping in mind various pressing issues related to environment protection, the school has been taking effective steps to facilitate an environmentfriendly campus.
They have initiated multiple campaigns like ‘Go Blue’, to save water, ‘Waste Management’, where compost pits have been installed to control school waste and ‘Anti-Plastic’, where students have taken to clean the beaches of Mumbai, to raise awareness among students.
As a part of the waste management initiative, VIBGYOR collaborated with non-governmental organisation Daily Dump to install compost pits in their campus that help recycle food waste into manure.
This is used as fertiliser in the school garden.
These compost pits are situated behind the canteen, where most of the food waste is generated.
“Students are taught to segregate their leftovers into wet and dry waste,” said Jerry Paul, manager, administration, VIBGYOR.

As a part of the pilot project started in November, a total of 1,331 kilograms of compostable waste has been collected till February this year.
“Owing to the success of the compost pits in managing food waste, the pits are now being set up across all 28 schools of the VIBGYOR chain situated across the country,” said Paul.
Following the footsteps of corporates, the school has set up a Students Social Responsibility Council (SSRC) for classes 9 and above. “It is our collective endeavour to create awareness and sensitise our students about the anti- plastic drive with the focus to make our school free of one-time-useplastic,”saidTanya Gulrajani, principal, VIBGYOR High.
One such initiative taken by the SSRC is the cleaning up of Versova beach.
The school has been working on its beach clean-up project with Afroz Shah, a lawyer and beach clean-up crusader, for a year.
Every alternate Saturday, about 200 students of the school gather on the beach and collect marine debris.

Source: Hindustan Times dated 23 April 2018
Link: http://htsyndication.com/htsportal/ht-mumbai/article/this-goregaon-school-is-grooming-eco-warriors-to-protect-environment/27049707

Colleges plan workshops to help staff upgrade their skills

SELF­IMPROVEMENT Teachers to learn how to use technology in classroom and develop e­content

Our routine work revolves around conducting lectures, supervising exams and assessing answer papers. We hardly get enough time to upgrade our knowledge. It is good to know that colleges are noticing this and organising faculty enrichment programmes to help teachers upgrade. ASHWINI MHATRE, teacher

MUMBAI: At a time when college teachers are busy supervising University of Mumbai (MU) examinations and assessing answer sheets, college managements are simultaneously planning faculty enrichment programmes for their teaching and non-teaching staff.
Workshops on developing e-content, using technology in classrooms and assessment methodology are some of the topics that colleges plan to cover this summer for their staff.
Mithibai college, Vile Parle, which recently secured autonomy from University Grants Commission (UGC) had organised a two-day faculty development programme to help teachers upgrade to the new curriculum.
“We had experts from various fields, including head of departments at colleges that have already got their autonomy, who were part of the workshop. This not only helped our teachers brush up their knowledge, but also understand what more they need to do to be prepared for regular class starting mid-June,” said Nupur Mehrotra, vice-principal, Mithibai college.
RA Podar College, Matunga, will also organise workshops for its teaching and non-teaching staff during summer holidays.

“Even the non-teaching staff has been asked to attend workshops on financial management and personal development. We ask teachers in advance about the areas they need to improve and accordingly organise workshops during vacations,” said principal Sobhana Vasudevan.
The delay in announcing results for exams conducted in March-April 2017 by MU not only disrupted the schedule for the ongoing academic year, but also delayed the examination season for the current semester.
Exams that commenced in the second week of April and will end in June, leaving teachers with no summer vacation because they will be busy supervising and assessing answer papers.
Keeping in mind that the teachers are being overworked, several colleges are also planning to conduct these workshops by giving their teaching staff space to accommodate a small vacation.
“It’s unfair to expect teachers to keep working without taking a break. So this year, we have scheduled our faculty enrichment programmes in a way that teachers don’t have to compromise on their summer holidays or reporting for assessment duty,” said Naresh Chandra, principal of Birla College, Kalyan

Source: Hindustan Times dated 23 April 2018
Link:  http://htsyndication.com/htsportal/ht-mumbai/article/colleges-plan-workshops-to-help-staff-upgrade-their-skills/27049585

Good Reads: April 2018

 57. Break the Glass Ceiling! By Aruna Sundarajan, Secretary, DoT

Voice and Data, Vol.25, Issue 3, March 2018

She is being dubbed as the ‘first lady in Indian telecom’ and is credited for bringing in reforms to India’s ICT arena. On the occasion of Women’s Day, Aruna Sundarajan, Secretary, DoT, sends out a message to the women workforce - to come out of cocoon and break the glass ceiling

58. IoT to be the Catalyst for Industry 4.0 by Jayant Krishna, ED & COO, National Skill Development Corporation

Voice and Data, Vol.25, Issue 3, March 2018

National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is playing a proactive role in acquiring new skills around Big Data, Data Analytics, Cyber Security, IoT and Android.

59. Software: Testing Times by Jyoti Bhagat

PC Quest, Vol 31, Issue 4, April 2018

60. Tech Outlook 2018

Dataquest, Vol XXXVI, No. 1, January 2018

Technologies and trends that will shape Enterprise IT in 2018 that will bring new technology trends that will change the way industry works

61. India’s share of World Research according to Science and Engineering Indicators 2018, by Gangan Prathap

Current Science, Vol 114, Issue 7, 10 April 2018

62. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) by Rajesh Gopakumar and Spenta R. Wadia

Current Science, Vol 114, Issue 7, 10 April 2018

63. Face to Face: On Research Misconduct: Hari Sridhar talks to Vidyanand Nanjundiah

Resonance: Journal of Science Education, Vol 23, No. 4, April 2018

64. The Billion Dollar Startup Factory: the idea and people behind Growth Story by Deepti Chaudhary and Debojyoti Ghosh

Fortune India, April 2018

65. Big Data meets Biology by Erika Fry and SY Mukherjee

Fortune India, April 2018

66. Artificial Intelligence: pushing the frontiers of Machine Intelligence by Shobhna Kunwar

Science Reporter, April 2018

Cell Phone Radiation Affects Fertility; Make Changes in your Lifestyle for Healthy Living

Today, cell phones have become an integral part of human life. They are truly changing our life by making everything convenient and time saving. ........
 
To read more, visit: http://www.voicendata.com/cell-phone-radiation-affects-fertility-make-changes-lifestyle-healthy-living/  (accessed on 19 April, 2018)

Social entrepreneurship lab established at SPPU

PUNE: An entrepreneurial lab for social innovation has been set up on Sunday at the International Centre of Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU). It has received funding of Rs10 lakh from the European Union (EU) to start operations and is only the country's fourth such lab to receive financial benefits from the EU.
Vijay Khare, director of the International Centre at SPPU, said, "The lab has been established for budding entrepreneurs from the university. Innovative ideas that will give solutions to problems related to the daily needs of people in society would be encouraged through it."

The two objectives of the lab are boosting social innovation and entrepreneurship.

The international project, which has been approved by the EU, will be called Social Innovation for Local Indian and Israeli Communities and Graduate Entrepreneurs (SILICE).

Among foreign universities, the Tel-Hai Academic College in Israel, University of Edinburgh in Britain, the Technical University of Berlin in Germany, the University of Applied Science from Croatia and the University of Lisbon in Portugal have received funding from the EU to set up start-up labs.

This project is a partnership between institutions of higher education located in Israel, Europe, and India. The project aims to establish Centres for Social Innovation that will give students and workers tools for initiating, planning and implementing innovative and creative social business projects.

Khare said, "We will concentrate on solar energy and alternative energy sources, the clean India campaign and manual scavenging to bring out solutions from this lab. An alternative technology to eradicate manual scavenging will be our priority."


Source: The Time of India dated 16 April, 2018
Link: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/social-entrepreneurship-lab-established-at-sppu/articleshow/63775828.cms (accessed on April 18, 2018)

Statistics show less than half of engg graduates get job through campus placement

To read the full article, go to:
https://www.deccanherald.com/content/670582/statistics-show-less-half-engg.html

Reference: Deccan Herald dated 16 April, 2018 (Accessed on 18/04/2018)