Kerala Board (dhsekerala.gov.in) Plus Two Result will be declared on 21st May- keralaresults.nic.in

Kerala Board (education.kerala.gov.in or www.dhsekerala.gov.in), General Education Department Government of Kerala will be declared Class 12th (Plus Two or HSE) Result 2015 on 21st May 2015. Students can check their DHSE class 12th plus two exam results at keralaresults.nic.in, all the Kerala Board Plus Two Result Updates will be published on kerala12.jagranjosh.com.

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The Directorate of Higher Secondary Education, Government of Kerala (DHSE or education.kerala.gov.in or www.dhsekerala.gov.in) successfully organized Kerala Plus 2 Exam 2015 from 3rd March 2015 to 30th March 2015. Around 4.3 Lacs of students were appeared in the board examination of class 12th in the state of Kerala. 

Students who appeared for the exams and are eagerly waiting for their results can keep themselves updates through Board’s official website www.keralaresults.nic.in or www.dhsekerala.gov.in for further and latest information regarding results. 

Directorate of Higher Secondary Education, Kerala (DHSE), is the authority that takes care for Kerala Board Higher Secondary Exam (HSE). It is responsible for conducting the exam and then publishing the Kerala HSE results 2015/ plus two result 2015 on time. 

Kerala Board (DHSE) conducts the Kerala DHSE First Year and DHSE Plus two exams every year and releases the Kerala higher secondary result. Kerala State Board Examination was set up in the year 1990.

The candidates would also have the facility to check their result through www.jagranjosh.com  using their Roll Number. Candidates would also be able to download the PDF of their result and save it for future reference/ taking print out. 

Kerala Board (education.kerala.gov.in), General Education Department Government of Kerala is all set to announce the plus two +2 HSE class 12th examination results 2015 by tomorrow at education.kerala.gov.in  and keralaresults.nic.in. Students can also check their DHSE class 12th plus two exam results at kerala12.jagranjosh.com.

This yearc Kerala 2nd year HSE exams were conducted from 3rd March – 30th March, 2015 for  4,32,760 students (2,14,012 boys and 2,18,748 girls) who appeared from 2,000+ centers across Kerala, Lakshadweep, Mahe and the Gulf regions. For Kerala HSE results 2015 (DHSE Kerala Plus Two Result 2015) updates students can register at http://kerala12.jagranjosh.com and get regular updates about the Kerala Board 12th exam results 2015 on their mobile number and email id.

Google launches affordable XOLO Chromebook in India, Nexian Air priced at Rs 12,999; available on Snapdeal and Amazon

Google on Friday launched three new budget Chromebooks in India focussing on education –  XOLO Chromebook is to be made available on Snapdeal priced at Rs 12,999, Nexian Air Chromebook with same price tag will be available on Amazon – in the coming months latest units from ASUS including the Chromebook Flip and C201 and Samsung will also be available from local retailers.

Google also launched a Chromebox for businesses. The Chromebox, which is a video meeting utility, will be priced at Rs 90,000 and will be manufactured by Asus for India. “HP and Acer are making the Chromeboxes that are being sold in Europe,” Smita Hashim, Global Product Manager, Chrome OS, said. “Chromebox for meetings brings together Hangouts, Google Apps and easy­ to­ manage chromebox, making it simple and affordable for any company to have high­ definition video meetings,” a release from the company claimed.

The Google Chromebook runs on a much lighter OS and thus boots up easily.

The budget Chromebooks are targeting educational institutions and during the launch, Google showed off its new capabilities and new apps that are now available in the web store. “We are trying to get a lot of Android apps on the Chrome OS as both the OS complement each other. We can send regular updates to the OS after intervals of six weeks,” Hashim said implying quicker and faster development to the new OS from the stable of Google.The budget Chormebooks will come with with Google Apps for Education enabling the user to work in an already well-defined environment.

All the new devices will come with a management control console through which the educational institution or business can manage the devices. Each device use will be charged — a revenue model that Google has long been using with its email services.With the Chromebook management console, administrators can set up and manage up to thousands of Chromebooks from a computer or phone. “Plus, regular updates from Google mean that Chromebooks actually get better over time, reducing school’s maintenance and software costs,” Hashim said.

The Chromebook runs on a much lighter OS and thus boots up easily. The tech giant claimed that it has prepared the device for more offline activity than its earlier releases. “When we introduced Chromebooks four years ago, we
wanted to build a laptop for the way people use computers today­ always fast, easy to  use,  and  secure  by  default.Since launching Chromebooks in India, we’ve been working to ensure that Chromebooks work in an environment  where  connectivity  can  be  spotty,  and  many  people’s  first experiences with technology are through a phone rather than a laptop,” Hashim added.

According to IDC’s latest report on tablets and laptops in K­12 education, Chromebooks were the best­selling device in the US last year. While the devices released on Friday will run on the RK3288 Rockchip processor, the ones to come in the market will use Intel chips at its base.

Microsoft Brings Power of its Cloud Platform to Indian education, Launches K-12-Targeted Product ‘Edu –Cloud’

Identifying India as a huge potential market for IT reforms, more particularly in Education sector, Microsoft on Tuesday launched Edu-Cloud, a K-12 targeted product combining a digital learning platform on cloud and software solutions for schools, all deployed on Microsoft’s Cloud Platform.

Edu-cloud is going to provide ERP, SIS solutions and digital library access to schools and at the same time will offer virtual learning platform and teacher training aimed at students and teachers. This will be done by a system preloaded in a Lenovo tab serving as a point of access for all digitised content and Microsoft’s other software offerings such as Office 365 and Evernote.

Edu-Cloud is expected to reach 60 lakh students and 10 lakh teachers in over 1500 institutions in the next 18 months as told by Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman of Microsoft India who was in Hyderabad to launch Edu-Cloud.

Currently Microsoft has joined hands with a chain of educational institutions, Sri Chaitanya Schools being one of them, having network in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana which plans to roll out this service by next year to the students of standard 3, 4 and 5th. Sri Charan, Director of Sri Chaitanya Schools said,

We have a tie-up with Macmillan publishers for their digitized books as well as our own content. The current tie-up will reduce the assessment time, especially for test-prep for plus-one students from one day to a few minutes

It is noteworthy that K-12 education system has been quickly gaining popularity in India after establishing its footprints in USA and Canada, especially after the launching of free primary education schemes by Indian government. In fact, the current K-12 school system in India is one of the largest in the world with more than 1.4 million schools and over 250 million students enrolled, as revealed in EY-FICCI report on the education sector in India.

This concept covers the education from Kindergarten (K) till the 12th grade and focuses more on teacher-student interaction and “learning by doing” method, unlike our conventional education system based on “rote learning for exam” method.

Just the Beginning of Cloud Services

The idea of Edu-Cloud based on cloud services can be seen as just the beginning of cloud computing services by Microsoft, with the tech-giant reporting a staggering 106%growth in its cloud-computing business over the last year with annualized revenue rate of $6.3 billion.

In India, Microsoft is gearing up to offer its cloud services through three hybrid cloud data centers in Pune by the end of 2015 and later through centers at undisclosed locations in West and Southern India.

Bhaskar Pramanik the Chairman of Microsoft India, while speaking about the Microsoft plans to offer these services to enterprises and SMEs, financial institutions and government bodies, said

The public cloud market in India is currently 1% of the IT industry. We are building for the future by trying to grow the market to capture 50% of the $40 billion IT spend by enterprises in the country.

He further added,

We have been through every single guideline including the IT Act, IDRBT guidelines for the Indian banking sector and SEBI guidelines to make sure that our functionalities meet the requirements. These centers were set up for multiple tax and security reasons.

Education in Nepal

Education System in Nepal

Primary Education

Nepal has ambitious plans in place to turn education around by 2015 and ensure that every Nepalese child has an equal chance. The current program begins with 5 years of primary school, with pre-primary preparation available only in a few areas. At the end of this period, a standard school leaving certificate examination is prescribed.

Middle Education

Three years of lower secondary grade education follow. Students also have the option of moving on to a technical school instead, and obtaining a training level certificate.

Secondary Education

Secondary education takes place in 2 stages. Grades 9 to 10 follow a common academic curriculum leading to a school leaving certificate. During grades 11 to 12 though, there are opportunities to follow separate streams in commerce, education, humanities or science, and to receive a higher education certificate.

Vocational Education

The council for technical education and vocational training oversees vocational training throughout Nepal through policy formulation, competency-based curricula and quality control.

Tertiary Education

With one exception, all universities in Nepal are publicly managed, and publicly funded - although some state-controlled ones are also affiliated to private colleges.


The oldest of these, Tribhuvan University was established in Kirtipur, Kathmandu in 1959. It offers over 1,000 undergraduate courses and its student body, at almost 300,000, is rated the 19^th largest in the world. There are 65 integral colleges, and over 200 affiliated ones.

IIM-Calcutta receives prestigious accreditation

IIM-Calcutta

NEW DELHI: Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta is now in the elite list of 711 B-schools globally known as Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), after US announced the new members of this exclusive club. With this, IIM-Calcutta becomes the first IIM to receive this accreditation, which is considered to be the gold standard of by B-schools and less than 5% of the global business programme being accredited by it. IIM-Calcutta is only the third Indian B-school to be accredited by AACSB — two other are Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and T A Pai Management Institute, Karnataka.

In all there are 716 B-schools across 47 countries which have received AACSB accreditation. Apart from AACSB, the other global accreditation bodies are Association of MBAs (AMBA), European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS). IIM Calcutta has already been accredited by Association of MBAs (AMBA) this year. It is also the only Indian member of Community of European Management Schools (CEMS), which is an elite club of 29 premier business schools from across the world. Therefore IIM-Calcutta is the only institute in India to have dual accreditation by AACSB and AMBA and a member of CEMS.

Terming this a big opportunity for the B-school, Saibal Chattopadhyay, director, IIM-Calcutta said: "We have been waiting for this for a long time. To be assessed globally and then be a part of the exclusive club of 716 B-schools is a great opportunity. Therefore, this is a major breakthrough for us."

IIM-Calcutta underwent five years of assessment by AACSB, and based on 21 standard assessments of which 19 are applicable to the B-school, as it dosen't offer any undergraduate programme, has been given accreditation for a period of five years.

"We all like to be a global player, to have international faculty and students and with this accreditation we will be a part of the top international network of B-schools. What helped us is that we think differently in our continuous improvement. With the stringent parameters laid down by AACSB, we have gone through a five year journey of continuous improvement in a holistic manner which has had a positive impact on several aspects of the institute such as quality of students, faculty quality and research output, infrastructural facilities, among others. With this accreditation our responsibility has become many manifold. And indeed this is a huge opportunity for us to go global," added Chattopadhyay.

All accredited schools must go through a peer review process every five years in order to retain their accreditation. AACSB International also announced that ESPAE-Graduate School of Management (Ecuador), National Central University (Chinese Taipei), Newcastle University (United Kingdom) and the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) have earned accreditation in business, and Northumbria University (United Kingdom) has earned accreditation in accounting.

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Ignou's shut courses leave lakhs in the lurch

NEW DELHI: The Indira Gandhi National Open University, India's primary vehicle for taking higher education to the poorest, is today a case study in chaos. It has swung from furious expansion under the previous leadership to the other extreme, with the current dispensation randomly shutting down courses and initiatives, leaving lakhs of students in the lurch. 

Such is the state of this critical institution that the vice-chancellor and a former registrar stand accused of perjury. A hike in tuition fees has coincided with a drop in student intake. As a result, thousands are being denied access to cheap higher education and skill development. 

The roots of the crisis is said to have been during the tenure of previous vice-chancellor V N Rajasekharan Pillai (2006-11), when the university carried out massive expansion, far beyond its capacity. Pillai has since been booked by CBI for alleged corruption in some of those decisions. 

But if Ignou needed a course correction, the response of the new leadership under V-C M Aslam has been excessive, although he claims to have wielded the axe on the basis of recommendations of a high powered committee. 

In the last two years, it has shut down nearly 300 programmes and 250 community colleges, cancelled over 600 MoUs with various institutions, suspended courses through 29 partner institutions in 19 foreign countries, stopped most on-campus programmes, abruptly shut India's first sign language research and training centre, cancelled all programmes for the disabled, scrapped a convergence scheme run in partnership with regular colleges and shut down most chairs and all special centres in the Northeast. 

As these decisions come under increasing scrutiny, top Ignou functionaries have been accused of selective presentation of facts to a parliamentary standing committee and the Delhi high court. 

A high powered committee appointed to look into the working of the university is now being expanded to bring on board at least two more experts. A source told TOI that the three-member panel, headed by educationist N R Madhava Menon, is now set to look at new evidence and allegations. 

Ignou V-C M Aslam told TOI that his decisions were based on recommendations of a high powered committee and the board of management, or grounded on strong legal advice. He also cited a Delhi high court order to justify the steps. He added that the aggressive expansion during his predecessor's tenure was "unjustified" and "a disaster". 

However, TOI investigation shows crucial information was held back by the Ignou leadership while defending its decisions. For instance, Aslam's critics accuse him of not submitting two legal opinions before the high court and parliamentary committee that backed Ignou's expansion in 2009. 

Opinions of then attorney general Goolam Vahanvati and additional solicitor general Mohan Parasaran were obtained in October 2009, before the university expanded into community colleges and on-campus programmes. Both legal officers supported the moves, saying 'open university' did not mean correspondence education alone. They said Ignou could use all means of imparting education to expand higher education. 

The policy reversal began soon after Aslam took over. By the end of 2012, Ignou had cited a high power committee recommendation to shut all 253 community colleges where 1,42,321 students were enrolled. Aslam told TOI in a written statement that the committee had said the community college scheme must be "discontinued". 

TOI has a copy of the committee report and it contradicts Aslam's assertion. "The scheme of community colleges fits well with the Ignou's mandate for skill development," the report states. It recommends some restructuring of these colleges to meet the aim of skill development, consistent with the National Skill Development Mission. Until then, it says, no new colleges must be added to the scheme. 

Besides community colleges, Ignou has also scrapped most on-campus programmes. Aslam told TOI, "Ignou has neither the mandate to launch face-to-face programmes nor does it have the mandate to create centres/units for offering academic programmes." However, Ignou continues to run hospitality and hotel administration programmes through 53 institutes, defying its own logic that the varsity should not be involved in on-campus programmes. 

The stand also contrasts with the legal opinion of both Vahanvati and Parasaran, as well as the Ignou Act. The Act says the university "may establish or maintain colleges, regional centres and study centres at such other places in India as it may deem fit." 

Ignou's shutting spree hasn't spared programmes for the disabled. In recent months, it has shut down the Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre, India's first such institute set up with funding from the Centre. Ignou claimed it didn't have land for further construction at its Maidan Garhi campus in Delhi. However, Delhi Pollution Control Committee documents show Ignou has another 100 acres where construction could have been carried out. 

The list of axed programmes includes e-Gyankosh, through which Ignou offered resources online to learners, and a research and training assistant scheme under which young scholars were being helped in research leading to MPhil and PhD degrees. 

Meanwhile, over 3,50,000 students, including over 2 lakh military personnel, await their certificates for courses they completed almost two years ago. The HRD ministry on June 24 ordered Ignou to issue the certificates, but they are yet to be given. 

As a fallout of these decisions, Ignou faces over 2,000 cases in various high courts. An Ignou faculty has accused the V-C and the former registrar of perjury in securing Aslam's appointment.

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Students yet to receive benefit of Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowships

Under this scheme a candidate is eligible for over Rs 16,000 financial assistance per month. (Representative image)

NEW DELHI: Over 2,500 students are still waiting for financial assistance promised under the Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowships (RGNF) scheme for scheduled caste and scheduled tribes, formulated and funded by ministry of social justice and empowerment and ministry of tribal affairs. The batch of 2013-14 are yet to get any money so far, they are alleging that despite repeated attempts to contact the University Grants Commission, which disburses the money, no one in the commission is ready to meet them. The social justice ministry officials however said that the fund has not being released as the UGC has not submitted the utilization certificate of the previous batch. 

RGNF is open to candidates who belong to SC and ST and wish to pursue higher studies such as regular and full time MPhil and PhD degrees in sciences, humanities, social sciences and engineering and technology. There are 2,000 slots for SC and 667 slots for ST candidates every year for all the subjects. Under this scheme a candidate is eligible for over Rs 16,000 financial assistance per month. 

"We have not got anything so far. And they have called for a fresh batch. We approached the UGC which is supposed to disburse the money, but we are being snubbed by officials there saying that they don't talk to students. The entire batch is waiting for the financial assistance till date," said Senthalir, who is pursuing her PhD in political science from Madras University. 

Social justice ministry officials, however, said that UGC has not given utilization certificate of earlier disbursal for RGNF. Officials said UGC still has some funds left. On its part, UGC says since RGNF is a government scholarship, ministry should not break the continuity. As for not furnishing utilization certificate, commission sources say, process is being streamlined.

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