Research show the teacher is one of the most crucial factors in your child's school success.
A great teacher inspires them forever.
A great teacher inspires them forever.
3 Jul 2013
Few More Online Resources
This is amazingly
great website for teachers and students with a collection of online
resources. Let me congratulate Mr N.J.
Sharma and his team for the remarkable efforts to collect all important
resources from the internet and keep them at a single point for teachers and students.
Many number of them are very much suitable for flipped learning. it will be a
great help if the resources are arranged
by subject wise as soon as possible ( i am informed on this)......
The NASA
Science Education Program sponsors educational activities at all levels of
education to provide opportunities for learners to investigate their world and
universe using unique NASA resources.
Dedicated
to help students excel in physics by giving notes, motivation and resources
especially for secondary school students
Science
Videos,Interesting Fun Facts, ,Powerpoint presentations, Quiz,Questions,
The search engines are designed to search all kinds of
information regardless of the user age group who may be a kid, teenager, adult
or elder. So it’s nearly impossible to trace different users to restrict to
some particular access of information. And so even with many top search engines
provided with parental control options are not 100% safe. A kid of today’s
generation needs access to right information, and that’s the reason behind the
development of search engine for kids.
multimedia platform, providing innovative and informative
content for everyone involved with or wanting to be involved in schools.
Besides all the content from Teachers TV, there is something for everyone:
videos, interactive games, work sheets, fact sheets, information and latest
education news.
Fun,
interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from
the PhET™ project at the University of Colorado.
This concept map is elaborate and downright incredible.
Robert Millwood built this behemoth and you should be sure to head over to his site to
thank him and learn more about the Holistic Approach to Technology Enhanced
Learning (HoTEL). In any case, this detailed analysis and chart of every single
learning theory is worth zooming in and studying.
Free Teaching Resources PowerPoint Presentations free
to download. Free PowerPoint Presentations for biology, chemistry, physics, English,
maths, history, geography and........Of course,
not all are that great...but many are...
Do Other Alternative Exists???
More B-schools closing than new ones
opening
Hemali Chhapia TNN
Mumbai:The dawn of the third millennium marked the golden age of professional
education in India. Hundreds of new institutes came up adding thousands of
seats. An equal number queued up to grab them.
A decade on, the picture is one of stark contrast in
technical professional colleges: this year more B-schools applied for closure
than those that took wing. This academic year, 94 management colleges have
sought consent to shut down. In the case of engineering colleges, many in the
southern states, which experienced the highest growth in the professional
education space, are up for sale. Many more colleges have trimmed programmes,
branches of engineering or streams in the management course.
On the academic front, the Master of Business
Administration programme was once supreme, attracting not only those interested
in business but also those who wanted to master the tools of management. Today the
overall growth of MBA education is negative in the books of the All India
Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Between 2011 and 2013, the AICTE
received 231 applications from management colleges wanting to shut down. The
AICTE has okayed about 80 of them. ‘Professional edu must be in line
with industry’
Mumbai: Professional education in India is going through a rough patch. Like
the MBA programme, a similar story haunts the Master of Computer Application
(MCA) course—while 84 colleges stopped offering the programme last year, only
27 started it. For students who choose not to apply to an MCA college, the
decision is a nobrainer: with many more engineering seats available now, an
undergraduate would rather earn a BTech degree followed by a two-year master’s
than enrol for a bachelor’s in computer application and back it up with a
three-year MCA that would also eat up six years.
The AICTE has decided to allow colleges to offer a
five-year dual degree programme and permit graduates of science, BSc (computer
science) and BSc (information technology) to jump to the second year of the MCA
course. Yet, the small positive growth in the sector is from the engineering
colleges where new institutes are coming up faster than closures taking place,
largely in Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab and Rajasthan.
S S Mantha, AICTE chairman, said: “This is a critical
phase for the professional education sector. Professional education must be in
line with industry. If you don’t offer placements, students are not going to
come. Colleges in remote India and institutes of poor quality are not getting
students. There is just one key to attracting students: institutes need to
be top-of-the-line. There is no payoff in running a bad college.” But things
seem to be looking up. “As the economy revives, we will see a larger pool of
applications from colleges wanting to start. We have received close to 120
applications from B-schools for the next academic year,” he said.
Joining a professional college was once the pinnacle of
an Indian student’s career. Aspirants far outnumbered the seats. But often,
they were put off by one or more of these three reasons: poor quality of
teaching, lack of adequate faculty or no job offer at the end. “MBA as a
programme has to be relooked at in many colleges. The AICTE must set up quality
control cells,” said an IIM director.
Times of India, Mumbai edition Date 1 July 2013
23 Jun 2013
Weak skills, no jobs for most Indian graduates
'Rema Nagarajan' TIG, Times of India, MUMBAI, page 19, June 23,2013.
Of the five million odd graduates that India produces annually, only a little over half are employable in any sector of the knowledge economy.
Just 2% are employable in corporate communication or content development, for which the primary requirement is English and basic analytical skills.
Only 3% are employable as analysts and a mere 2% in accounting.
About 16% and 14% of the graduates were employable in sales and customer service or operations jobs, respectively. These require communication, cognitive skills and personality traits such as friendliness and agreeableness and in the latter numerical ability too.
Over one third of the graduates (36%) were suitable for employment in clerical/secretarial jobs, the sector showing highest employability for graduates, followed by IT-enabled services and BPO. These show 21.4%employability as they require relatively low skills.
However, when it comes to IT services and IT operations, only 13% and 16%, respectively are employable.
In teaching, the employability was just 15%.
The city from where the students graduate also influences employability. Employability is highest in the bigger Tier I cities (over 25 lakh population). The drop in employability is maximum for jobs of analysts and corporate communication , all jobs that require high competence in cognitive skills and English.
It was found that the higher the skill requirement for a job, the greater the gap between employability in Tier I compared with Tier II and III cities. Tier III cities (less than five lakh population) seem worst off when it comes to exposure to computers, while in English both Tier II and Tier III need help.
It was found that the higher the skill requirement for a job, the greater the gap between employability in Tier I compared with Tier II and III cities. Tier III cities (less than five lakh population) seem worst off when it comes to exposure to computers, while in English both Tier II and Tier III need help.
When it comes to a drop in skills from Tier II to Tier III cities, it is noticeable that the drop in cognitive skills is the highest among management and engineering students.
Full article epaper TOI
In the place of discussing the problem, is it not time to
discuss the solution?
The solution has to come from teachers, in my opinion, as they are the ‘oxygen’
of education system.
Why keeping salient. Could you please offer your solution?
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