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Common exam – AIEEE and AIPMT

Monday, November 29th, 2010 by

A common entrance exam for engineering and medicine aspirants after Class XII instead of a separate All India Engineering Entrance Exam (AIEEE) and All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT), a full-fledged curriculum for value education for schools, mandatory sports classes across schools, and insurance and housing schemes for 60 lakh school teachers — these are among the new key initiatives Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal announced on Friday as part of his next one-year agenda.

Briefing the media after a meeting of the State Education Ministers in New Delhi, Sibal said the government wanted to reduce the multiplicity of entrance examinations for entry to higher education. To start with, a combined entrance exam for engineering and medicine would be started in 2011.

“While there will be one common entrance exam designed to test raw intelligence and aptitude of students after Class XII, we will also mull over the weightage that should be given to Class XII marks and the scores attained in this aptitude test. Most states also said they were not averse to the idea. There will also be a value education curriculum that will be prepared with the help of NCERT and other stakeholders, and physical education will be made part of school syllabus for a more holistic development of children,” Sibal said.

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Roadmap for IITs to fund themselves

Monday, September 20th, 2010 by

The Indian Institutes of Technology may for the first time themselves fund up to 50 per cent of their financial needs soon, under a new financial model expected to dramatically enhance their autonomy from the government.

The model is being finalised by a human resource development ministry panel under former atomic energy secretary Anil Kakodkar to prepare an autonomy blueprint for the IITs, three committee members independently confirmed.

But gradual fee hikes may be inevitable under the new model, the sources accepted.

The IITs at present depend completely – 100 per cent — on grants awarded directly by the HRD ministry, unlike Indian Institutes of Management in Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta, which are virtually independent.

The financial independence has given the B-schools a bargaining power that enables them to function with far less government intervention than the IITs.

Recognising the correlation between financial independence and autonomy, HRD minister Kapil Sibal — who appointed the Kakodkar committee in February — is keen that the IITs increasingly fund themselves.

The Kakodkar panel’s mandate is to draw up an autonomy blueprint that can help catapult the IITs into the top few institutions across the globe. The IITs can generate funds through a combination of gradual fee hikes backed by scholarship schemes  to help all needy students, greater collaboration with industry and government on revenue-generating projects and tapping alumni.

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Way to independence for IITs?

Friday, August 20th, 2010 by

The IITs at present depend completely — 100 per cent — on grants awarded directly by the HRD ministry, unlike IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta, which are virtually independent.
A model being finalised may for the first time allow the IITs to themselves fund up to 50 per cent of their financial needs.
The funds can be generated through a combination of gradual fee hikes backed by scholarship schemes, greater collaboration with industry and government on revenue-generating projects and tapping alumni.

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Panel suggests 70% weight for Class 12 marks in IIT entry

Friday, June 25th, 2010 by

In what may mark a major shift away from the current scheme of admission to the country’s bluechip engineering institutions, an HRD ministry panel has recommended 70% weightage to class XII marks and 30% for performance in an aptitude test to be conducted more than once a year, for the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination.

A cut-off list on the basis of the class XII result and the aptitude test will be prepared in the month of June every year and the top 40,000 will have to take the additional test for IITs. Right now, more than four lakh students appear for IIT-JEE in a single test.

The panel headed by Damodar Acharya, director of IIT Kharagpur, that gave its report to HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday, has also suggested that the aptitude test be an ongoing affair which students can take more than once.

However, the best score in the aptitude test — which will have questions on reasoning, numerical ability and communication skills — should be taken into account. It is only the add-on test for the top students that will have questions on physics, mathematics and chemistry. However, the panel has put a restriction on the number of times the add-on test can be taken.

Also, unlike the present system, right at the beginning, students will have to give their choice of IIT or other institutes — like Indian Institute of Science Education & Research — whose admission test is conducted through JEE. Students will also have to spell out their choice of branch of engineering or stream of pure science.

HRD sources said the ministry’s first task would be to bring all state boards as well as CBSE on par with each other by developing a comprehensive weighted performance index so that there is no gross inequality among them and students do not suffer. Already, a core science and mathematics syllabus has been mooted by the HRD ministry and approved by the Council of Board of Secondary Education. “The move will ensure that students from small towns and even those who cannot afford expensive coaching can aim to be in IITs,” a source said.

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