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IITs are no more than 'glorified' engineering colleges: UGC Chairman The University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman, Dr Ved Prakash has said that the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are no more than “glorified engineering colleges”. Dr Prakash while emphasizing upon the importance of universities, said he was miffed at not receiving any research proposals for Singh-Obama initiative from the universities and the same had to be awarded to an IIT. Thr UGC Chairman said since universities were not coming forward so the initiative had to be awarded to IIT (“IITs ko majboori mein dena pada”) for execution in the wake of country's “prestige”. “IIT, Kya hai IIT. (What are IITs?). Glorified engineering colleges. University aur IIT mein zameen aasman ka antar hai (University and IITs are poles apart),” Prakash said. He was all praise for Union Government’s ambitious Rs 22,000 crore project Rashtriya Uchchtar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) and said Punjab stood to ga...

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Presenters: Chris Erdmann, Head Librarian, John G. Wolbach Library and Information Resource Center, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics  Chris is a published author in the areas of digital libraries, library UX, interactive technologies, bibliometrics and data visualization. Heather Chisholm, Programme Manager for Collaboration and Student Centric Streams, Information Technology and Service Department,   Imperial College London Heather works on platforms that support collaboration and Web 2.0 technologies, and her interests range from semantic technology and data science to mobile apps. Wouter Gerritsma, Subject Librarian - Plant Sciences, Wageningen UR (University and Research Centre) Library Wouter is responsible for research support at the library, including research assessments on the basis of bibliometric analyses for all of the university's research units. Topics : Establishing researchers' identity and authority Sharing and collaborating remotely ...

AUTHOR WORKSHOP WITH PUBLISHER KEITH LAMBERT To better understand the publishing process for scientific journals, SFIT LIRC had hosted an  Author Workshop with the renowned publisher - Keith Lambert on September 11, 2013 between 3.00 pm to 5.00 pm. Students of M.E. Part 1 and Part 2 and senior faculty members attended the workshop, making the total count of participants to 56. Keith Lambert is an Elsevier Publisher for Mechanical Engineering Journals. Prior to joining Elsevier in 2009, he has more than 30 years experience in both book and journal publishing across many scientific disciplines. As part of the company’s continuing programme providing scientific publishing workshops for early career researchers, Keith Lambert has hosted similar events for future authors in the United Kingdom and Germany. This workshop covered the following topics in depth: • An introduction to scientific publishing • The peer review process • How to write a scientific article • Th...

The Facebook Effect by DAVID  KIRKPATRICK, NEW YORK/ RANDOM HOUSE/ 2010 From the title, it suggests on what is the book about, a familiar term "Facebook", the site we usually login at least once in a day. The story-line revolves around how Facebook evolved from a Harvard dorm room experiment to a successful company having almost a billion of active users, the struggles of keeping the company stable, about its competitors, about its strategies, failures etc. It makes us realize that nothing is achieved without pure hardwork, determination and a focused way to reach your goal. It also shows Mark Zuckerberg's ability to handle the company well, make it financially viable without compromising on the quality of the product, to remain steady despite failures, believing in the concept of the company and make it so successful. Also, it gives opinions of Facebook by its investors, stakeholders, management team etc. and gives an insight about the lives of people involved...

20-mark test to speed up evaluation UoP initiates new online MCQ exam Results of digital test will be made available immediately, ensuring more transparency As part of a newly-introduced credit system, management students of University of Pune (UoP)-affiliated colleges will now have to take a multiple choice question-based (MCQ) online examination of 20 marks for every subject taught in their courses.  This move by the varsity is expected to increase evaluation speed and bring transparency into the proceedings. Students will be able to see their scores immediately after finishing the examination, and a student will also get a second attempt in the next semester, in case of failure.  Dr E B Khedkar, Dean, Faculty of Management, UoP and Director, D Y Patil Institute of Management, explained, “Twenty MCQ questions will be asked for 20 marks, which students will have 25 minutes to complete. Considering this year’s academic calendar, we will schedule the...

Book Fair at Sunderbai Hall, Churchgate Dates: 2nd August to 20th August, 2013 Time: 9.45 am to 7.45 pm Discount: Upto 85% off Organized by: Ashish Book Centre

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