Active Users - March 2012

ACTIVE USERS OF THE LIRC

(Period: 01/03/2012 to 31/03/2012)

CATEGORY: STUDENTS

Sr. No.	Member	No. of transactions
1	MERIN SHAILA MANIDURAI PACKIALET	20
2	SAWANT SAISH UMAKANT SHRADDHA	20
3	ISHA D. SHAH	16
4	KOTIAN HARSHITA MOTILAL	16
5	PAIS NIGEL	16
6	DESAI GOURI S.	15
7	JHAWAR SHRIMOHAN	13
8	YOGESH PUSARLA	13
9	ROSE JOYCE JOSEPH	13
10	PAWAR VIVEK	12
11	YADAV JAGDISH H.	12

CATEGORY: FACULTY

Sr. No.	Member	No. of transactions
1	Asso. Prof. NAZNEEN ANSARI	10
2	Asst. Prof. PRACHI RAUT	10
3	Asso. Prof. BIDISHA ROY	05
4	Asst. Prof. NITIKA RAI	05

CATEGORY: NON-TEACHING STAFF

Sr. No.	Member	No. of transactions
1	Ms. YASHADA AGHARKAR (Lab. Asst. – ExTC)	02
2	Ms. SEEMA JADHAV (Lab. Asst. – ExTC)	02
3	Shri. AMANAT PATHAN	02

The above “Active Users” are entitled to one extra book till 30^th. April, 2012.

Scholar's Card Facility now available

First three toppers of the odd semester examinations from FE to BE are requested to avail the Scholar's Card Facility. Kindly contact the library for more details.

Know how you fared in NET, instantly

Know how you fared in NET, instantly

Chetan chauhan, Hindustan Times

Students appearing for the National Eligibility Test (NET), 2012 will be able to evaluate their performance immediately after appearing for the much-simplified test. The University Grants Commission (UGC), which conducts the test for around 2.5 lakh students twice a year, on Thursday decided that candidates can take carbon prints of their optical reader answer sheets with them.

This will enable students to know instantly how they have fared in the test, said UGC chairperson Ved Prakash.

In another decision, the UGC has decided that all the question papers for the test will be objective type.

Till now, two papers were objective and the third one subjective. This has led to delay in declaration of the results, sometimes forcing students to appear again.

Students had earlier expressed their unhappiness over evaluation in the subjective type paper.

Now, we will be able to declare the results much before next NET and to the satisfaction of students, Prakash said. The format will be applicable for the June 2012 exam and results will be announced by October before the next exam in December 2012.

Only those who clear the NET are eligible for junior research fellowship and for appointment in colleges and universities.

Sourced from: http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Know-how-you-fared-in-NET-instantly/Article1-786360.aspx

PM Declares 2012 as Natiional Mathematics Year

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday expressed concern that young minds with a natural ability for mathematics were not pursuing the disciple at an advanced level, resulting in a "decline in the quality of maths teachers at the school and college levels". In his inaugural speech at a function to mark the 125th birth anniversary of eminent mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, the Prime Minister said there was a "general perception that pursuit of maths does not lead to attractive career possibilities".

He declared 2012 as the National Mathematics Year and Dec 22, the day Ramanujan was born, as Mathematics Day.

"The mathematical community has the duty to find ways and means to address the shortage of top quality mathematicians in the country. It must reach out to the public, especially in the modern context where mathematics has tremendous influence on every kind of human endeavours," he said.

Sourced from: http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Chennai/Young-minds-not-pursuing-maths-PM/Article1-787270

Open Access to select publications from Springer

Hi,

Springer is providing Open Access to select publications at the following URL:
Open Access - Engineering

E-LEARNING Free English CDs for class 10 students

Mumbai: In a first-of-itskind move, the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education will distribute free elearning CDs with English textbooks for students of class 10. While in the first year, from June 2012, CDs will be available only with English textbooks designed for second and third languages, the board plans to extend the facility to other subjects in future.
The audio-visual CDs will not only have content from the textbook, but will also have the pronunciations of words with their meanings. “They will be aimed at helping students who find it difficult to learn and comprehend English,” said board chairman Ujjwala Patil.

Patil said that officials are also working on making available similar CDs for other subjects.

“Many firms have approached us with proposals on learning technologies. However, all come at a price. We cannot incur a huge expense. So we are looking at cheaper options. Several schools do not have laboratory facilities. Students are unable to conduct experiments or even see them. We are trying to make these experiments in science subjects available to the students. We plan to compile a list of useful links in sciences and social sciences and put them on our website for students,” Patil said.

This is the first time the board is planning to make use of technology on such a scale. From June 2012, information and communications technology will be introduced from class 10 and later to higher classes. Under the curriculum, the board intends to teach students how to create e-mail IDs and to send mails.

The curriculum guides you to create blogs and make use of online tools or Wikipedia. “The teacher training programme for information and communications technology (ICT) will begin from December 15. Teachers will come to training centres once a week and will be practising in their schools for the rest of the week,” said the chairman. The Maharashtra government is also working out ways to provide computers to every school in the state.
Source Times of India 12 December 2011

Dons fear new credit system will burden their shoulders

Published: Tuesday, Jun 7, 2011, 23:11 IST
By Puja Pednekar | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA

While the credits-based choice system will bring cheer to many students as new avenues and flexibilities open up for them, the teaching community is not happy with the new system, which will be implemented from this academic session. They fear that the system, which involves 40 marks for students for project work, will mean additional burden on their shoulders. With a student teacher ratio as high as 120 students per teacher, the teachers will be overburdened with the extra work of assessing number of projects and other activities, say principals across degree colleges in the city. “Such a system works in foreign universities because they have four to five teaching assistants helping the professors. These assistants check projects, papers, tutor students so there is very little burden on the professors. However, the university has no such system in place. How many students’ assignments can one teacher correct?” said Madhu Paranjape, officiating general secretary, Buctu and university Senate member. Paranjape added that before implementing the system the university should appoint adequate number of teachers. “Due to the revised norms that require certain staff members to be PhD holders, we are facing shortage of teachers. There are vacancies that need to be filled.” However, Dr Rajpal Hande, director, board of college and university development said that the system will not add any extra burden to the teachers if followed properly. “It is a tried and tested system in several universities and it will help students in learning. The role of the teachers will be that of a mentor and guide.” Even though the colleges will start their academic year June onwards, the sensitisation workshops launched by the university at different levels are yet to gain ground. “The workshops have not yet begun for many departments,” she added. Courtesy: www.dnaindia.com (Accessed on 07/06/2011)

You can now access May / June 2010 question papers

Question Papers of the exams held in May / June 2010 are uploaded to Digital Library @ SFIT under Question Paper Repository.