Mangalore-Udupi Education: Schools/Colleges/Universities [Archive]

mangalore mania

August 15th, 2011, 05:01 AM

Dental Colleges:-

A. B. Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences, Deralakatte
A J Institute Of Dental Sciences, Kuntikana
Manipal College of Dental Sciences Mangalore
Yenepoya Dental College & Research Institute

Physiotherapy Colleges

Alva's college of Physiotherapy
City College of Physiotherapy
Dr. M.V Shetty College of Physiotherapy
Father Muller college of Physiotherapy
Karnataka College of Physiotherapy
Kasturba Medical College
K.Pandyarajah Ballal college of Physiotherapy, Ullal, Mangalore.
Laxmi Memorial College of Physiotherapy
Nitte Institute of Physiotherapy, Deralakatte
Shree Devi college of physiotherapy
Srinivas College of Physiotherapy & Research Centre
Vijayalakshmi Institute of Physiotherapy
Vikas College of Physiotherepy
Yenepoya physiotherapy college & Research Institute

Colleges of Nursing

Alva's college of Nursing
Athena College of Nursing, Falnir
City College of Nursing, Shaktinagar
Dr. M V Shetty Institute of Health Sciences, Panjimoguru
Fr. Muller's College of Nursing, Kankanady
K Pandyarajah Ballal Nursing Institute College of Nursing, Ullal
Laxmi Memorial College of Nursing, Balmatta
Mangalore College of Nursing, Kavoor Road, Kulur
Manipal College of Nursing, Mangalore
Nethaji Institute of Nursing Sciences, Mannagudda
Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences, Deralakatte
Rukmini Shetty Memorial College of Nursing, Kadri
Sahyadri College of Nursing, Kankanadi[[2]]
SCS College of Nursing Ashok Nagar Post, Urwa,
Shree Devi College of Nursing, Bhallalbagh
St. Ann’s College of Nursing, Mulky
Unity College of Nursing, Kankanady
Yenepoya Nursing College, Deralakatte
Zulekha Nursing College, Kodiabail

Other Health Related Institutes

Alvas Ayurvedic college Moodabidray
Alvas Homoeopathic college
College for Speech & Hearing Institute of Health Science, Kulur
Srinivas College of Pharmacy
Karnataka Ayurvedic Medical College
NGSM Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Polytechnic

Govt. Polytechnic for Women at Bondel
Karnataka Polytechnic, Kadri, Mangalore
KVG Polytechnic, Sullia
Niranjana Swamy Polytechnic at Sunkadakatte
P.A.Polytechnic,Mangalore,Nadupadav
SN Mudibidri Polytechnic, Moodabidre
Vivekananda Polytechnic, Puttur

There are many more like PA college, one in Bajpe, I ll try to collect more in formation on it.

Industrial training institute( ITI )

Government Industrial Training Institute, Yeyyadi
Government ITI, Vitla
HEBIC, Balmatta
Karnataka Institute of Commerce, Balmatta
K S Gowda Junior Technical High Scholl ,ninthikal Sullia 574328
KVG ITI, Sullia
Mulki Ramakrishna Poonja ITI, Thokur
Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshvara ITI Venur
Sri Parivara panchalingeshwara ITI, Ninthikal Sullia 574328
St Aloysius ITI, Kodialbail
St Joseph Industrial Training Institute, Jeppu
Syed Madani Industrial Training Institute, Ullal Mangalore

Hotel Management Colleges

Motimahal College, Falnir Road
Saptagiri College of Hotel Management
Sarosh Institute of Hotel Management, Kankanady
Shree Devi College of Hotel Management
Srinivas College of Hotel Management, GHS Road

Fashion Technology Colleges

Karavali College of Fashion Design
Mangalore Institute of Fashion Technology, Baikampady
Sri Devi College Of Fashion Design, Ballalbagh

Source Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_educational_institutions_in_Mangalore)

mangalore mania

August 15th, 2011, 05:04 AM

Law, Arts, Commerce, Science & Business Management Colleges

Agasthya College of Management Studies, Kodialbail
Alva's first grade college
Badria First Grade College, Bunder, Mangalore
Besant Women's College, Kodialbail
Besant Evening College, Kodialbail
Canara College, Kodialbail
College of Fisheries,Jeppina Mogaru,Gorigudda
Govindadasa College, Suratkal
Govt First Grade College for Women Mangalore, Balmatta, Mangalore.
Govt.Fr.Gr.College, Kavoor
Institute of Professional Science & Management College of Social Work, Vidyanagar, Kulur
Karavali College, Kottara
Karnataka College, Ashokanagar
K.S.Gowda First Grade college (BBM & BCom) Varsha nagar,Ninthikal, Sullia
Manel Srinivas Nayak Memorial Institute of PG Management Studies, Bondel
Mangalore Academy Of Professional Studies, Kadri Hills
Mangalore University, Konaje
Meridian College of Commerce & Business Management, Valencia
Sahyadri Institute of Management & Sciences
Sandesha College of Fine Arts, Bajjodi
School of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya, Jeppu
SDM Law College, Ballalbagh
SDM Law college,Kodialbail
Sharada College, Kodialbail
Shree Bharathi College, Nanthoor
Shree Narayan Guru Fr.Gr. College, Katipalla
St. Aloysius College Founded 1880, Light House Hill
St. Agnes College, Bendore
Sri Ramakrishna College, Bunts Hostel Circle
Sri Gokarnanatheshwara College, Mannagudda
Sri Devi College of Information Science, Lalbagh
Sri Devi College of Interior Decoration, Ballalbagh
Sri Devi Institute of Social Work, Ballalbagh
Shri Devi College, Ballalbagh
Sri Narayana Guru College, Kudroli
Transformational Institute for Managerial Excellence(TIME), Ashokanagara
University College Founded 1868 (formerly Government College), Hampankatta

B.Ed Colleges

Govt. College of Teacher Education, Hampankatta
St Anns College of Teacher Education, Pandeshwar
Alva's B.Ed college
St Aloysius Institute of Education, Kodialbail

The above listed colleges are mostly from Mangalore. Colleges from Udipi and other taluks of DK is not mentioned, others can help me in making the list. This list from wikipedia again

ajay ramchandran

August 15th, 2011, 05:16 AM

mangalore mania

August 15th, 2011, 10:53 AM

Dear Mangalore mania. Great thread.Please continue with your good work.
I am not sure if you have the India today cutting. You could scan the page and put it here (the page that has ranked NITK and KMC Manipal in the top 10)

No Ajay, I ll try to search from net,
There will be constant update of list of colleges in the above given space. And i request the posters to post images of institutes all over DK & udipi
Thanking You

ahmed shaheen

August 15th, 2011, 12:42 PM

great work of u.

mangalore mania

August 17th, 2011, 10:49 AM

Mangalore, Aug 17: Head of Research at Beltone Financials, Cairo, Egypt, Angus Blair visited St Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology (AIMIT), Beeri here on Tuesday August 16.
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Blair spoke to the MBA students of AIMIT on some of the crucial issues in financial sector and especially on the ethical issues relating to the functioning of companies and financial institutions. Giving some concrete examples he explained that financial crises could have been avoided if the persons at the helm of affairs were honest and owned responsibility for their actions and not cover up the mistakes they made. He said that honesty and transparency is very important and then only there could be better functioning of business firms.

The formal session was followed by a question and answer round where few students asked questions on various issues relating to financial services.

Blair hails from Scotland and has been a global leader and thinker in financial sector and investment banking. He has been interviewed by CNBC on finance related subjects and has been giving lectures around the world. He is also one among the top fifty thinkers invited by Bloomberg for a special conference in New York.

He has over 25 years of experience in investment banking and financial service sector. He has also been a consultant to a number of companies within Middle East and Internationally, advising on restructuring and extending operations across the Arab world.
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mangalore mania

August 17th, 2011, 11:01 AM

Several Mangaloreans have done well in the qualifying examinations of the prestigious Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS), London.

According to a press release issued by the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry, under the guidance of which the Mangalore centre examinations were conducted for the first time a few months ago, 14 candidates appeared for 48 papers.

Successful

The candidates were successful in 26 papers, resulting in pass percentage of 54.

The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, London, announced the results of ICS Qualifying Exams for 2011 on its website recently. Those passing the qualifying examinations can become members of ICS which is the internationally recognised professional body representing shipbrokers, ship managers and agents throughout the world. ICS membership is a qualification with a global reputation and is said to represent a commitment to maintaining the highest professional standards across the shipping industry.

The KCCI has congratulated Ramanathan Kumar of Infinity Shipping, Mangalore, Prashanth C.G. of Interocean Shipping, Mangalore, Hubert D'Souza of Ericson and Richards (Karnataka), Mangalore, and Rayner Pais of Sea World Shipping and Logistics, Mangalore, on clearing all seven papers.

It said that they were the first batch of candidates to have completed the ICS Professional Qualifying Exams from the Mangalore centre. KCCI has also congratulated Hassan Zakiyy of Hassan Hajee and Co. Mangalore on clearing all four papers of Group A. “A commendable achievement to note here is that the candidates have passed with distinction in specialisation subjects such as Dry Cargo Chartering, Marine Insurance, Shipping Law, Ship Operations and Management, Port Agency and Port and Terminal Management. Question papers were set and answer sheets evaluated in London. The KCCI is planning a course for preparing candidates for the April 2012 ICS exams from September 1. For the coming year, candidates can appear for Group A, Group B and Group C parts at one go at the Mangalore centre for which logistic arrangements have been worked out. Those interested may log on to www.ics.org.uk or call the KCCI office (0824-2420128), for details. The former president G.G. Mohandas Prabhu was the examination coordinator and K.N.S. Shetty, ICS invigilator for the Mangalore centre.
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mangalore mania

August 17th, 2011, 11:07 AM

The Department of Physics, Poornaprajna College, and the Association of Physics Teachers of Mangalore University, will, in association with the Indian Association for Radiation Protection, organise a two-day workshop on “Public awareness on benefits and risks of radiation” here from Friday.

In a press release issued here on Monday, principal of the college K. Sadashiva Rao said that the aim of the workshop was to raise awareness on the importance of nuclear energy for electricity. It would also raise awareness about radioactive substances and radiation.

Another objective of the workshop was to generate interest among the youth to pursue study in this field, and mobilise local people for interaction with scientists. It would also provide a forum for students and scientists to interact with one another.
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akhilesh kinnigoli

August 17th, 2011, 03:13 PM

nice thread.good job mangalore mania.
very needed thead to a city which gives first priority to education

^^

mangalore mania

August 17th, 2011, 08:48 PM

nice thread.good job mangalore mania.
very needed thead to a city which gives first priority to education

^^

Yes Ofcourse, Now i am trying to list out the colleges in DK and UDIPI, in such a way that the specialty of these two district will be mentioned, i.e every Taluk Headquarter will have a major institution to carry out whether it is PU, Scince, Arts or Commerce, Students need not travel to far away urban area like Mangalore or Udipi

There are new updates and list of colleges in the starting of this thread

mangalore mania

August 18th, 2011, 09:31 AM

Mangalore, Aug 18: A national conference on ‘Indian aviation and tourism: Opportunities, challenges and new directions’ will be jointly organized by Mangalore University, Mangalore Airport Diamond Jubilee Celebration Committee and Airports Authority of India at Old Airport(Bajpe Terminal) here on Sunday August 21 and Monday August 22.

The conference will be inaugurated on Sunday August 21 at 9.30 am by Dr Veerappa Moily, Union Corporate Affairs Minister. The guests of honour for the function are D Devaraj, regional executive director(Southern), Airport Authority of India, Chennai, M Narendra, chairman, Indian Overseas Bank, Anantha Krishna, chairman, Karnataka Nank Limited, Dr N Vinaya Hegde, chancellor, Nitte University. The function would be presided by Abayachandra Jain, MLA, Moodbidri constituency.

The valedictory function would be held on Monday August 22 at 4.00 pm. The chief guest for the function would be Dr K N Vijaya Prakash, commissioner, Mangalore City Corporation. The guest of honour would be Sandeep Sancheti, director, National Institute of Technology, Giorgio Magistrelli, senior consultant for Consortia, Governments, embassies and corporations with particular concern to their operations in developing markets and economies, Beijing, China. The function would be presided by professor Mustiary Begum, chairperson, department of Business administration, Mangalore University.

Delegates from different parts of the country are expected to take part in the two-day conference.
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mangalore mania

August 18th, 2011, 09:38 AM

MANGALORE: The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS), London, announced the results of ICS qualifying exams for 2011 on August 5 through its website. The Mangalore centre exams were conducted under the guidance of Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), Mangalore. A total of 14 candidates appeared for 48 papers of which candidates were declared successful in 26 papers, an overall pass percentage of 54.

Latha Kini, president, KCCI, congratulated Ramanathan Kumar of Infinity Shipping, Mangalore, Prashanth C G of Interocean Shipping, Mangalore, Hubert D'Souza of Ericson and Richards (Karnataka), Mangalore and Rayner Pais of Sea World Shipping and Logistics, Mangalore for successfully clearing all 7 papers and being the first batch of candidates to have completed ICS, London Professional Qualifying Examination from Mangalore centre.

Latha also congratulated Hassan Zakiyy of Hassan Hajee and Company, Mangalore, for successfully clearing all four papers of Group A. A commendable achievement to note here is that candidates have been successful in specialisation subjects like dry cargo chartering, marine insurance, shipping law, ship operations and management, port agency and port and & terminal management besides four subjects being passed with distinction.

The question papers were set and answer sheets evaluated in London. The KCCI is planning for 2012 April ICS course from September 1. For the forthcoming year, candidates can appear for group A, group B and group C parts at one go at Mangalore centre for which logistic arrangements have been worked out. Log on to www.ics.org.ukor call KCCI office (2420128) for details. Mohandas Prabhu, former KCCI president was exam coordinator.
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mangalore mania

August 18th, 2011, 09:44 AM

MANGALORE: The 64-year-old Ramakrishna Ashram here is not only a spiritual centre for those underprivileged children in the city, but it also offers free coaching.

The free tuition centre in the ashram is indeed a ray of hope for poor children, whose parents are not in a position to afford the increasing tuition fees being collected by various tuition centres in the city.

While tuition centres in the city collect anything between Rs 200 and Rs 1,000, students at the ashram get tuition, refreshment and a cup of milk for free every day. A total of 208 students from Government High School, Bolar, Cascia High School, St Gerosa School and St Anns School have registered their names and are availing the benefits.

Tuition classes in the ashram start at 4.15pm and ends at 5.30pm with a refreshment so children will go home happy. Ashram head Swami Jitakamananda told TOI: "The main objective behind giving free tuition to the poor students is to ensure that all students are able to pursue higher education. It is a fact that poor parents are not in a position to send their children for tuition classes. Hence, we started the tuition centre here, where students from Standard IV to X are taught all subjects in separate batches.

The ashram also pays a nominal honorarium to qualified homemakers and part-time teachers who teach children in the centre.

Swami said most schools conduct special classes for SSLC students in their own school. Hence, the number of students registered for coaching for SSLC at the ashram is very less. "However, more children are approaching us seeking admission for tuitions, but due to space constraints and other reasons we have restricted admission," he said, adding that the ashram will expand the programme in future.

In addition to tuition and refreshment, students are also given bags, a set of uniform, umbrella and notebooks for free during the commencement of tuition classes.
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There was drastic drop in ranking position of Udipi & DK in SSLC passing percentage ranking. DDPI of respective district have taken major steps to address the issue. Pvt players like this one above will have major impact on performance of th e students

mangalore mania

August 18th, 2011, 07:52 PM

1.Alvas Homoeopathic Medical College
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2.Fr Mullers Medical College, Deralakatte

3.Shri D.M. College of Ayurved, Udupi

4.Muniyal Institute of Ayurved Sciences, Manipal

mangalore mania

August 20th, 2011, 08:08 PM

MANGALORE: All study centres and chairs functional at Mangalore University will be housed under one roof in an integrated block that would be ready by December, vice-chancellor T C Shivashankara Murthy said here on Thursday. The university has a maximum number of study centres and chairs among universities in Karnataka at 19, including the Nehru Studies Centre which V K Nataraj, retired professor, IDS, Mysore University inaugurated here.

Presiding over the inaugural function of the Centre, the VC said all but a few of the 19 study centres and chairs of the university are functioning well and carrying out the brief given to them. At present these study centres and chairs are functioning from various locations on the university campus, he said, adding that their presence at one location would help the centres and chairs to bring about greater cohesiveness in their functioning and yield better results.

Earlier, inaugurating the Centre, Prof Nataraj said, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of Independent India was venerated by his generation and bitterly criticized posthumously, unlike other politicians of the day. Unlike Mahatma Gandhi, there is no single critical analytical book on Nehru, he said, barring the three-volume biography penned by S Gopal and other writings on him do have much that would hold the reader's interest for very long.

However, Nehru can be credited with building scientific temper in a nascent nation by setting up premier institutions of research and development across India and also giving fillip to modern infrastructure in dams. Prof Nataraj said history was against Nehru, in that he did have the economy backing him despite his recognized stature as a leader of importance in the world. The situation is quite the converse in the present day circumstances, he opined.
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mangalore mania

August 22nd, 2011, 05:07 AM

Enrolling for Ph.D. and pursuing research at Mangalore University is no more a cakewalk. The university has revised its regulation for the Ph.D. course from the academic year 2011-12 as per the directions from the University Grants Commission to universities, according to Vice-Chancellor T. C. Shivashankara Murthy. “It is a new experience. It is expected to improve the quality of research works produced.''

The revision is in tune with the decision taken by the Karnataka State Higher Education Council to streamline Ph.D. norms in universities across the State on the basis of UGC guidelines.

Now candidates who want to enrol for Ph.D. will have to appear for an objective-type entrance test which will be followed by an interview. The selected candidates will have to do six-month (which is a semester) course work as pre-preparation for research work.

During the six months, they have to attend regular classes for four months. The classes will be conducted for them separately in the respective departments. They will have three papers to study during four months.

The first one will be a general subject paper, the second one will be on research methodology and the third one will be on the topic the candidates have chosen for the research. Examinations will be conducted for them in the fifth month. The answer scripts will be evaluated by internal and external evaluators.

Prof. Murthy said that those who pass the examinations will have to face a viva voce on the subject they have chosen for the research work. Those who clear it will be selected for the research work in the sixth month.

Period

The Vice-Chancellor said that the period of research work of the candidates selected will be counted from the day they began their course work (six months ago) with retrospective effect.

He said that those who have M.Phil. degree and those who have passed National Level Eligibility Test, State Level Eligibility Test, and Junior Research Fellow (JRF) examinations will be exempted from appearing for the first objective-type written test meant for enrolling for the Ph.D.. But they have to appear for the interview.

The Vice-Chancellor said that candidates can pursue research work on a full-time (by being in the university campus) or a part-time basis. Those who pursue it on a full-time basis can complete the work in two years. They will be given two more years (totally four years) of extension if required.

Those who will do it on a part-time basis will have to finish the research work in three years. They can be given three more years (totally six years) of extension.

In some special cases, one more additional year of extension can be given to both full-time and part-time candidates, he said.

It is mandatory for both types of research scholars to attend the four-month regular classes during the six-month course period.
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engineer.akash

August 23rd, 2011, 09:13 AM

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mangalore mania

August 23rd, 2011, 01:00 PM

‘Those who do not attend school for more than 60 days are seen as dropouts'
Nearly half of the number of school dropouts in Dakshina Kannada district are from Sullia, according to the Child Census 2011, says a handout of statistics from the Department of Public Instruction at a meeting in the zilla panchayat in the city on Monday.

Students seen as dropouts are those who do not attend school for more than 60 days. At the time of the census, there were 30. After that, 17 of them have been brought to school, said M. Swamy, Block Education Officer (BEO), Sullia.

Illiterate

He said that of the 30 children, parents of 25 were illiterate and did not send their children to school.

Five students had migrated to Sullia for work in the plantations and had moved on once the work was over, he said.

The handout said that of the 62 dropouts, Sullia accounted for 30, followed by Puttur (9), Bantwal and Belthangady (8 each), and 7 from Moodbidri.

There were no school dropouts from Mangalore city and taluk., it said

The dropout rate at the district level was 0.06 per cent, it said.

Ratio

In the district, 2,73,555 students enrolled in schools in 2010-11 as against 3,14,220 students in 2001-02. Attendance at the district level is 99.25 per cent. The student to teacher ratio has changed from 37:1 to 23:1 now.

There is a primary school within 1 km and a higher secondary school within 3 km from 1,734 colonies.

Abhiyaan

This is one of the aims of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan (implemented during 2001-02).

There are 5,054 special children for whom seven special resource centres have been set up. Of them, 605 children get education at home.

Primary schools have received a grant of Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 25,000 for building maintenance per year.

Fund

A sum of Rs. 67 lakh was spent last year on libraries in government schools and on book melas to enable schools to buy books.

In the district, 118 schools have computer laboratories., the handout said.

Recruitment

One hundred and eighty one (181) teachers have been recruited for primary schools and 191 higher secondary schools have been upgraded to high schools (8,910).

Allowance

All teachers have been granted an allowance of Rs. 500 per year for training for 20 days a year.

J. Krishna Palemar, Minister for Ports and District-in-charge, Abhaychandra Jain, MLA, Moodabidri, Deputy Director of Public Instruction (DDPI) Moses Jayashekhar, block education officers (BEOs) and teachers from government schools from the district attended the meeting.
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mangalore mania

August 25th, 2011, 09:49 AM

MANGALORE: Children in select primary schools in Dakshina Kannada district will soon get coaching in music, art, dance and job skills. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) has sanctioned 265 posts of art teachers and vocational training teachers for the district in its action plan for the year 2011-12.

While SSA has sanctioned 130 posts of part time teachers for art, 135 teachers will be appointed to train children in job skills. A total of Rs 39 lakh has been reserved to give salaries for the art teachers and Rs 40.5 lakh has been allotted towards the salary of vocational teachers. SSA deputy project co-ordinator N Shivaprakash said at a meeting of the SSA district programme implementation committee here on Monday that art and job skill teachers would be posted to higher primary schools, where the number of students is more than 100." Vacant posts of headmasters will be filled soon as per the guidelines of Right to Education Act, which will be implemented in the state soon. A total of 90 schools, where posts of headmasters remain vacant, will get heads soon," he said.

A total of 31.11 crore has been sanctioned under SSA for the implementation various activities and for the civil works in schools for the year 2011-12. "The national joint review mission (JRM) of SSA has already declared Dakshina Kannada as one of the 20 best districts in the nation with regard to the implementation schemes under SSA," he said.

Zilla panchayat chief executive officer K N Vijayaprakash said that 447 posts of primary school teachers and 199 posts of high school teachers remain vacant in the district. District in-charge minister J Krishna Palemar inaugurated the programme.
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s.yogendra

August 26th, 2011, 04:44 PM

Udupi: New Block of St Mary's College, Shirva Inaugurated

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Udupi, Aug 26: The new block of St Mary's College, Shirva here was inaugurated amid a glittering ceremony on Thursday August 25.

The building was inaugurated and blessed by Bishop of Mangalore Dr Aloysius Paul D'Souza. Fr Richard Coelho, administrator of Fr Muller Medical College and Hospital, unveiled the granite slab to formally mark the opening of the new block.

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Krishnamoorthy K

August 28th, 2011, 08:00 AM

The Manipal Life Science Centre (MLSC) has been ranked number one biotech school in Karnataka and number three among private schools in the country in a recent national survey by Biospectrum , a leading Biotechnology monthly magazine.

According to a Manipal University release, this was the first time that the MLSC had taken part in the survey since coming into existence six years ago. The parameters employed for ranking included: number of faculty, industry interactions, infrastructure, placement and research output. SASTRA University, Thanjavur, and Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan, were ranked one and two respectively. The MLSC undertakes research and developmental activities in the area of human diseases, including cancer.

The Hindu (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article2395232.ece)

TAPMI gets J.J. Irani Award (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article2395228.ece)

mangalore mania

August 29th, 2011, 03:41 AM

The committees have recommended select PG courses
Hebri college requires three additional rooms to offer the existing postgraduate courses
Some colleges are more than a decade old
Five government degree colleges under Mangalore University wanted to offer select postgraduate courses from the current academic year. But local inquiry committees of the university which visited them for an assessment observed that they lacked infrastructure and teachers for teaching the requisite undergraduate courses. Some of the colleges were more than a decade old.

However, though they lacked facilities, he committees have recommended offering select postgraduate courses.

The reports of the committees tabled in the special meeting of the Academic Council of the university two days ago have commonly pointed out lack of classrooms in those colleges. The committees had visited the colleges in June and July.

A report said that the college at Vittal was 18 years old. The college did not have infrastructure and a place to construct buildings.

“It has got minimum classrooms to run undergraduate courses and postgraduate courses.” The college did not have a ladies room, said A. Raghurama, head of the committee.

The committee led by Vishwanatha which visited the college at Bantwal said that it offered four undergraduate courses. Classes were conducted in two buildings of which a new building at Kamage village was about 5 km away from the old building, which was a rented one.

“In the old rented building, the college has two classrooms for B.Sc. and no laboratory. This building is not fit for any classes and looks like godown.”

The report said the new building had four classrooms and at the entrance temporary sheds had been erected to conduct classes. It said that 12 additional classrooms were required to conduct the present undergraduate courses. “B.Sc. laboratory equipment are dumped somewhere due to lack of space.”

In its observation on facilities at the college at Uppinangady, another committee headed by Vishwanatha said that according to the principal of the college there was shortage of classrooms. Hence the timings of undergraduate classes had been changed and they are running on shift basis.

The college required eight additional teachers to teach Kannada and six additional teachers to teach Commerce for undergraduate courses.

The college had 13 permanent faculty members to teach five undergraduate courses. There was no regular principal in the college and in-charge principal was interested to start postgraduate courses.

Another committee headed by Vishwanatha which visited the college at Hebri said the college required three additional rooms to offer the existing postgraduate courses. It said the college was conducting B.Sc. Physics classes in the laboratory for want of space.

This college was conducting undergraduate classes on shift basis. The college required three additional teachers for teaching Economics, two additional teachers for History, and nine additional teachers for Commerce for undergraduate classes.

A committee led by K.M. Balakrishna, which visited the college at Barkur, pointed out on the college conducting existing courses on shift basis due to lack of classrooms.
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September 1st, 2011, 06:34 PM

‘Contemporary debate on Haribhakthisara of Kanakadasa' will be the theme
Centre for Research on Kanakadasa at Mangalore University would organise a series of 10 lectures on the thoughts of Kanakadasa at different colleges between September 3 and December 9, 2011.

The theme of the lectures would be “Contemporary debate on Haribhakthisara of Kanakadasa”, a release by the convener of the centre B. Shivarama Shetty said.

The first lecture of the series would be held at Nitte Shankara Adyanthaya Memorial Degree College, Nitte, at 9.30 a.m. on September 3. K. Balakrishna Bharadwaj, principal, Srinivasa Pre-University College, Mangalore, would speak on the subject. Rajarama Tolpady, associate professor, Department of Political Science, Mangalore University, would deliver the second lecture at Venkataramana Women's College, Karkala, on the same day at 11.30 a.m.

The third lecture would be conducted at Gokarnanatheswara College, Mangalore, on September 7 at 11.30 a.m. R. Narasimhamurthy, Head, Department of Kannada of the same college, would speak.

The fourth lecture in the series would be delivered by V. Ga. Nayaka, senior writer, on the same day at Sharada College, Mangalore, at 3 p.m.

Senior writer Kalegowda Nagavara would deliver the fifth lecture at B.T. Chennaiah Gouramma First Grade College, Somwarpet, Kodagu, at 11 a.m. on September 30. The sixth lecture would be delivered on the same day by Ganesh, associate professor, Government Degree College, Bilikere, Mysore, at Government First Grade College, Shanivarasanthe, Kodagu, at 2.30 p.m.

H.N. Muralidhara, professor, V.V.N. Degree College, Bangalore, would deliver the seventh lecture at Government Degree College, Kasaragod, on October 28 at 11 a.m. Radhakrishna Bellur of the Government Degree College, Kasaragod, would deliver the eighth lecture at Govinda Pai First Grade College, Manjeshwar, Kerala, on October 28 at 2.30 p.m.

The ninth lecture in the series will be at the Government Pre-University College, Malpe, at 11 a.m. on November 4.

H.T. Krishnamurthy, professor, PVS Arts and Science College, Shimoga, would speak on the subject.

The last lecture in the series would be by Shaila, guest teacher, Department of Kannada, Mangalore University at Government Degree College, Vittal, on December 9 at 2.30 p.m., the release said.
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September 2nd, 2011, 03:51 PM

Mangalore, September 1: With Dakshina Kannada district slumping to 21st place in SSLC examination this year, the authorities in the district have come up with 18 point formula to improve the SSLC results.

In fact, the district was in 8th position in the results in 2010. All the schools which have secured below 60 per cent results in SSLC were issued notices and feed back was collected from such schools. Details were collected from all the managing boards of all the private and unaided schools for poor performance, said DDPI Moses Jayashekar.

The action plan prepared for improving the results should be implemented effectively, he said. All the previous SSLC examination question papers will be provided to the schools at the block level. A workshop for the head teachers of those schools which had secured below 60 per cent results and the teachers in whose subject the students performed poorely, was organised at the district-level.

In the workshop, Subject inspectors and DDPI gave the guidance to the teachers. All those schools which had received less than 60 per cent will be adopted by all the officials at the district-level and taluk level implementation officers. In fact, the Government College of Teachers Education will provide refresher courses to those teachers in whose subject, there was poor performance.

The head teachers of the school will confirm whether teachers carry out the classes as per the time table and send a report to the block and district-level officers. Identifying the learning disability in each child after every monthly examination and discussing the same with the parents and members of SDMC at a meeting.

The teachers have been asked to give special empahsis to such children in imporving their performance. All the teachers in the district should prepare model question papers in their subject and discuss it in length. The prepared question papers along with the answer key will be selected at the block level.

A block level workshop on preparation of question papers and the answer keys will be held. The prepared question papers at the block level will be collected and printed through High SChool Teachers Association and distributed among all the schools for revision.

The students will be compulsorily made to go for copy writing in the form of letter writing, essay writing, drawing, writing poems and tables. A book will be given to each student to write the unit tests. This will help the teachers and the parents to know the learning problem in the child.

A question bank along with the answer key will be prepared at the school level and distributed among the students. Unit tests/mid term test/and preparatory examinations must be conducted at the school level and the details should be sent to the subject inspectprs, DDPI office in Mangalore. A training for teachers will be held every month at the block level which will be attended by the BEO. The meet will discuss on month’s review of the learning ability of the students, and take measures to improve the ability of the students.

As MLAs are President of high school SDMC, he/she will be asked to adopt schools which had secured below 60 per cent results in SSLC in his constituency. All the schools have been asked to take special classes from the beginning of the academic year.

The students will be divided on average, below verage, above average categories and special attention will be paid to those who are below average.
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The school where i studied, one of my teacher told me that if one student in the class in her subject Fails in SSLC exam, then her anual incentive will be cancelled...
And the teacher used to give special importance for the student whose marks have been consistently poor..
This has ensured good results in my school, Even for now i dont find more than 2 people fail in a year in SSLC.

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September 2nd, 2011, 03:57 PM

Mangalore, Sept 1: The AICTE, Delhi uploaded the APPROVAL LETTERS for the MBA and MCA programmes conducted by St Aloysius College (Autonomous) at AIMIT, Beeri, the new campus of St Aloysius College. The College has been approved an intake of 240 seats for the MBA progamme and 120 seats for the MCA programme sunder the autonomous scheme.

AICTE has changed the mode of approval since this year. It has been trying to make the process transparent and easy for uploading institutional information on the AICTE web portal, after which approval could be downloaded. Thousands of Engineering colleges and other Management institutes were waiting for the final approval letters which were available only since yesterday.

St Aloysius College (Autonomous) has been conducting the MCA programme for the last ten years and the MBA programme since 2004. The College has moved these two programems to the world class campus set up at Beeri, Kotekar two years back. The Campus recruitment has been very good and most of the students have been placed in reputed firms. A new Placement Team under the leadership of Mr David Noronha (USA) and under the guidance of Rev. Dr. Oswald Mascarenhas SJ, the Chairman, MBA dept. will be functioning from this year.

AIMIT has also been conducting a lot of MDP and Faculty Development Programmes. Recently an FDP on Research Methodology was held. MDP on Behavioural Processes in Management will be held on 13 and 14th of October and a MDP/FDP on Financial Modeling using Excel will be held on 23 and 24th Sept. Resource person will be from Mumbai.

Masters in Science ( Software Technology) and M Sc(Bioinformatics) programmes are also conducted at the AIMIT CAMPUS.
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September 2nd, 2011, 04:04 PM

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September 3rd, 2011, 07:23 PM

Udupi/Puttur, Sep 3: Ashok Kumar Shetty Matapady, headmaster, Sriniketan High School, Matapady, and Sarojini Shetty, headmistress of Menala higher primary school in Puttur taluk have bagged this year's state Best Teacher Awards.

Ashok Kumar served as assistant teacher for three years at Vani High School, Nadoor, and is serving as the headmaster of Sriniketan High School since the past 22 years.

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He had bagged the district excellent teacher award in 2004–05 and twice bagged the excellent achiever teacher award in social science.

Ashok has done M Ed from Annamalai University. He is serving as president of the district high school headmasters’ and pre-university college teachers association and secretary of Bunts Sangh, Brahmavar.

Ashok Kumar Shetty has already won awards instituted by human resources department, Grama Bachat Scheme, child welfare insurance, polio eradication, AIDS awareness, rainwater harvesting, etc. He also has bagged the ‘Paul Harris Fellow’ award for contribution to the international rotary movement.

After completing his primary, high school and PU education at Kadoor, Kokkarne and Barkur respectively, Shetty secured his degree from Milagres College Kallianpur. He got his postgraduate degree from Karnataka University Dharwad and B Ed from Sarvajna College of Education under Bangalore university.

Shetty has served as president of Brahmavar Rotary and secretary of Buntara Sangha Brahmavar. His school, which registered a pass percentage of 100 percent thrice under his leadership, has always been logging a result of over 90 percent every year in SSLC. Shetty, who was trained under EDUSAT satellite-based education system, is the district level resource person for this subject.

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Sarojini Shetty, headmistress of Menala higher primary school in Puttur taluk, has won the state award meant for best teacher in primary schools category. After starting work as a teacher of the government model higher primary school at Mulky in 1972, Sarojini was transferred to Menala in 1975. She was promoted as headmistress of Nanya school in 2007, but came back to Menala school in 2009.

She has bagged the popular teacher award in 2001, district level best teacher award in 2010, and state level Dr Radhakrishnan award for best School Development and Monitoring Committee secretary award.

Sarojini has been encouraging her students to get involved with extra curricular activities by staring health club, sports club, science club and arts club in her school. She has been organizing various programmes like painting, Chutuku literary conference etc in her school.
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September 3rd, 2011, 07:24 PM

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Mangalore, 02 Sep 2011: Movie-making is a risky business, every producer knows. And investing 10 million rupees in a vernacular film for the minuscule Tulu-speaking population is even riskier.

But a Mangalorean, who put his money into a Tulu movie “Oriyardori Asal” (One smarter than the other), has not only ducked the trend, but has also reaped cent per cent profit with the film achieving a rare feat by completing 100 days in a cinema in the coastal district in recent years.

While the movie will complete 100 days (4 shows a day) in Jyothi Theatre in Mangalore on Saturday (September 3), it has crossed 75 days in Udupi, Moodbidre, Sakleshpur, Koppa, Tirthahalli, and more than 50 days in B C Road.

The movie has, in fact, been released in 22 theatres across Karnataka, and continues to run to packed houses in some cinemas. It is scheduled for release in Mumbai on October 2 and in Dubai — where there’s a sizeable Tulu-speaking community — on October 28.

Speaking to playwright Vijaykumar Kodialbail said he had proved a point that the money invested in a good movie would pay dividends. “At a time when people are scared to invest even Rs 30 lakh in a film, I invested Rs 1 crore and succeeded in getting the money back,” he said with a smile, recalling the days he first staged the play with the same title on February 10, 1987.

The play was a runaway success and crossed over 1,000 shows in the coastal region, Mumbai and West Asia. Vijaykumar has so far written and directed 19 plays and almost all of them have been a success. While his Tulu play “Madime” (Marriage) has crossed 350 shows, “Kutumba” (Family) has crossed 300 shows and “Maamugonji Maami” (An aunt for uncle) has crossed 400 shows.

Vijaykumar is confident his new movie would run for 150 days. On his future projects, he said two comedy Tulu plays were on the anvil. He said he also planned to release his next Tulu comedy/suspense movie within six months.

“Oriyardori Asal” is a story of three families living in the same compound (vatara) and the happenings in their daily life — a laugh riot throughout the movie. However, the three main actors who dominated the play when it was staged for the first time in 1987, are no more, and their roles have been performed by other artistes in the movie.

While the film has been directed by Ha Soo Rajashekar, the story, screenplay, dialogue and lyrics have been penned by Vijaykumar Kodialbail. Popular Tulu theatre actor Naveen D Padil is among the lead actors, supported by theatre artistes Aravind Bolar, Rajesh Bantwal and Suresh Mangalore. A K Vijay (Kokila) has scored the music.
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September 3rd, 2011, 07:28 PM

Eating Out Diana, a restaurant in Udupi town serves some scrumptious ice-creams
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The latter part of the saying “Some live to eat and the others eat to live”, brings to mind Diana, an eatery in Udupi town that is popular among the local people. Situated in the heart of the city, Diana was started as a small joint which served ice creams in 1962 by the late Mohandas Pai, was converted into a restaurant two years later. It is now run by his son Vittal Pai.

The 49-year-old restaurant has a rather unusual ice cream on its menu, and is unlikely to be available elsewhere: Horlicks Cake, which is Horlicks-flavoured ice-cream served with crumbs of cake sprinkled on it. You could also pamper your taste buds by having the famous Gudbud ice-cream which has scoops of several ice-cream flavours in a tall glass.

The hotel also has standard fare such as puri bhaji, Bombay cutlet and dahi vada, dosas and a variety of dishes for lunch and dinner. The restaurant is open on all days of the week from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. It remains closed only during festivals such as Ganesh Chaturthi and Diwali.

Mr. Kumar, a businessman from Mangalore, is a regular here. He keeps coming back for the dahi vada which keeps getting better. Leena, a homemaker from Udupi, comes to Diana for the Gudbud ice cream.
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September 3rd, 2011, 07:31 PM

TREND Mangalore too has caught up with tattoo art. Everyone, young and old, are rushing for it
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Be it unrequited love or a declaration of love and fidelity, expression of a sense of individuality or mere device to rid yourself of boredom, there is a story behind every tattoo. People may frown upon them and see it as an act of “narcissism and masochism”. Others call it plain ‘dirty', but tattoos are here to stay.

And Mangalore appears to have a thriving demand for permanent art on the body. Artists at two tattoo parlours in Mangalore – Tribal Tattoos opposite Empire Mall and Cons Tattoo studio in Padil – say that there has been a steady increase in business over the years.

Young and old, women and men in Mangalore are getting themselves tattooed with all designs, and for an equal variety of reasons. Nagesh, co-owner of Tribal Tattoos, says that 60 per cent of his clients are men. Conrad Misquith who runs Cons Tattoo studio recalls a customer who got his daughter's portrait tattooed on her third birthday and a 58-year-old man whose life's ambition was to get a tattoo of Christ. Filmstars with tattoo are definitely helping them promote the business, he said, but tattooing is not a recent trend.

Tattoos have been around since the time of ancient Egyptian civilization, and in India it has been a part of tribal culture while henna or mehendi is regarded as a form of temporary tattooing. However, in the recent times, tattoos have come to be “trendy” and “cool”. Melissa Saldahna, an engineering student considers tattoos as an expression of self, a visual statement of her personality. She considers her three tattoos – an anagram with her parents' names, “friends forever” in Chinese and a demon being trampled at her ankle to indicate the end of anything evil – as a “part of herself”.

For Megha, it was a matter of pride because she was trying impress a boy she liked and also to “prove that she could withstand the pain”. Strangely enough, boredom got Nivedita to get a bird tattooed on her lower back on an impulse, but she doesn't regret it. “Maybe I did want to rebel and re-establish my sense of identity through it because I had just started working and felt like I had lost my freedom. My tattoo brings back that sense of freedom that I am my own person,” she says.

But for Morris, the four hours of pain that he endured while getting a large design on his back and left arm were very personal. The pain “served as a release of negative emotions associated with his father's death” and helped him get over it. “It is now a symbol of what of I went through during his death and my way of remembering him,” he said.

Lastly, there is the eternal debate on whether tattooing names or portraits of loved ones especially a love interest is romantic or cheesy. Another section of people would ask whether one should declare one's love for another publicly. For Nithin, who has a portrait of his ex-girlfriend tattooed on his back, a tattoo can be a way to “remind you of something special”.
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September 5th, 2011, 08:05 PM

Additional facilities like a new room have given hope to government schools to become model schools in the future.
A new classroom was inaugurated at the Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayath Department of Public Instruction Government Composite High School in Moodushedde, Mangalore taluk, recently.

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It was inaugurated by Abhayachandra Jain, Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in the presence of members of Round Table India, which contributed to the funds to build the classrooms.

Lester D'Souza, Chairman, Mangalore Round Table-115, said that the members of the Round Table took up the work of constructing the classrooms when they got to know from the school's principal that the construction had been stopped due to lack of funds.

The Mangalore Round Table-115 gave Rs 6. 6 lakhs which it had sourced from fund raising activities, for the construction of the classrooms.

Mr. Jain, chief guest, requested the Round Table to adopt the school and help make it a model school. He also expressed hope that the government would give permission to start a junior college in the school.

Mukesh Lund, Area Chairman, Area VI Round Table India, said that the students should make best use of the facilities given to them and return as successful citizens to help other students in need. Members of Mangalore Round Table-115, the school headmaster, teachers, students, president of the zilla panchayat were present.
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September 5th, 2011, 08:09 PM

College students of Mangalore University will have an opportunity to exhibit their talent this month.

The Directorate of Student Welfare of the university will conduct inter-collegiate cultural competitions at five colleges on select days between September 7 and September 23. In all, there will be 24 competitions in five categories. The competitions will be conducted in literary, fine arts, dance, music, and theatre categories. Quiz, elocution, and debate competitions will be conducted on September 7 at Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara College, Ujire.

On-the-spot painting, collage, poster-making, clay modelling, cartooning, rangoli, and spot photography competitions will be conducted on September 13 at Crossland College, Brahmavara. There will be folk, tribal, and classical dance competitions on September 14 and September 15 at Bhandarkar's Arts and Science College, Kundapura.

Ramakrishna College here will host competitions under the music category on September 16 and 17. This includes classical vocal solo (Hindustani or carnatic), classical instrumental solo (percussion), classical instrumental solo (non-percussion), light vocal (Indian), Western vocal solo, group song (Indian), group song (western), and folk orchestra.
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September 5th, 2011, 08:23 PM

Mangalore, Sep 5: Mitchel Valentina D'Souza, a student of National Institute of Technology-Karnataka (NIT-K), Suratkal has bagged the first rank in BTech (electronics and communications) in this year's examinations.

A student of of 2007-2011 batch, Mitchel is also recipient of the 'Best Electronic Student' Award of the College.

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She is a parishioner of Mother of Sorrows Church, Udupi and daughter of Marshal D'Souza, assistant general manager, Syndicate Bank, Pali Hill, Mumbai and Irene D'Souza.

Mitchel was a student of Sri Poorna Prajna P U College, Udupi and St Cecily’s Convent Schools, Udupi. It may be recalled that she had secured the second rank in pre-university (science) examination of Karnataka P U Board held in March/April 2007.

Presently, she is working as the component design engineer at Intel, Bangalore.
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Proud topper from Udupi in prestigious NIT-K

Mangalorean Shwetha bags second rank in IES exam
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Mangalorean selected for legal education award
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September 6th, 2011, 04:11 PM

MANGALORE: While many teachers confine themselves to the four walls of a classroom, Dayananda Rai, a physical education teacher who has completed successful 25 years in the field, has made his presence felt in many other fields through his extraordinary talent.

Dayananda, winner of State-Level Teachers Award in 2010-11, never limited his activities to school campus alone. In addition to producing dozens of gold and silver medal winners in various schools, Dayananda also has bagged several accolades in sports, arts and other activities.

Dayananda's contributions to Tulu theatre is significant and he had acted in more than 300 dramas. Ajjig Erla Ijji, one of the dramas he acted in, was staged more than 100 times. Ulayit Uller and Galig thikkina Thudar are some of his dramas, which attracted a large audience at several parts in the district.

Dayananda is popular not only as an actor, but at the same time, he is a successful director too. For instance, he directed more than 50 Tulu dramas including Badike Mooji Dina.
"Most of the arts clubs and schools request me to direct dramas. I get opportunities to direct 3-4 dramas every year," Dayananda told TOI.

Those who watch Tulu TV serials need no introduction about Dayananda. Tulu serial Nama Telipuga was aired in most of the local TV channels in the district.

Dayananda, who completed the Scouts master training, is a Yakshagana artist and yoga expert too.

His success saga had begun in 1985 when he was a student of BPEd. He had bagged the gold medal in Inter-Collegiate Baseball Championship conducted by Mysore University.

Dayananda, a basketball state referee, started his teaching career in 1987 as a physical education teacher at St Aloysius College. Later, he joined Navodaya High School, Puttur. He brought laurels to the institutes where he trained students in sports and games events.

"Navodaya High School children, who were trained by me, have bagged 48 gold medals at various district, state and national events," Dayananda said.
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September 8th, 2011, 06:00 AM

MANGALORE: The Government and aided schools in this literate district are quite stringent in implementing the best practices and maintaining hygiene as far as preparation of mid day meals for the school children is concerned.

The correspondent visited four schools in Mangalore and Bantwal taluks to check whether due care was being taken while preparing food for mid day meals. The day for personnel preparing food starts at 9.30 am, after they get the head count of students. DK Zilla Panchayat Higher Primary School at Munnuru chief cook Bharathi has been in service since eight years. The kitchen of the school was absolutely spic and span. We take enough care to see that food is safe and we taste it before serving children,' said Headmistress Devaki, who bought steel plates for all children to maintain uniformity.

It was 'dal saar' and white rice for 267 children. On special occasions, chutney, 'pallya' and 'payasam' are served. The four personnel were struggling to maintain deadline as the 'masala' had to be ground manually due to power cut.

The DK Primary School at Naringana was preparing meals for 400 children, 100 more than the usual number as the school was hosting a zonal Kabaddi tournament. Some school children were assisting in grating coconut and cutting vegetables. Euuzitha D'Souza, assistant teacher said as the numbers were more due to the meet students were providing the extra help.
The aided Higher Primary school at Kairangala was having a tough time preparing food for 180 students as government had sanctioned only two helpers. The cleanliness at all the schools, kitchen and storage rooms, was to the mark.

But the schools in Bantwal taluk had a peculiar problem of short supply of LPG. Each school needs five to six cylinders per month and they get less number forcing them to use firewood.
There are 1,429 government and aided school in the district with mid day meal. Of these
132 in Mangalore taluk and city and 11 in Bantwal taluk are supplied food by Akshaya Patra foundation.
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September 8th, 2011, 04:51 PM

MANGALORE: The All India Council for Technical Education ( AICTE) has accorded permission to P A Polytechnic for increase in intake for mechanical engineering and civil engineering branch from 90 to 120 seats respectively. Those interested to join these diploma courses can contact the principal on 0824-2284710/2284701/02/03/04.
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September 9th, 2011, 06:33 PM

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Manipal, September 9: The Manipal Institute of Communication a constituent of Manipal University, in collaboration with EICAR, the International Film and Television School, Paris (France) is all set to launch a new dual degree Master’s Programme in Film Art and Filmmaking from the academic year 2011.

Varadesh Hiregange, Director of the Institute has informed in a press release that this course is the first of its kind which offers both Indian and foreign degree in MIC. The course will commence in Manipal on September 19.

The common goal of this programme - one year in MIC and one year in EICAR, Paris was to prepare students to find employment in one of the five major disciplines directing, production, editing, cinematography, screenwriting - of audio-visual production, whether it be film, television or new media.

EICAR is located in Paris which has a great historic legacy in terms of the medium of film - from the birth of the medium to the present day. Access to some of the definitive spaces, stat-of-the-art film studios, museums, exhibitions and screenings will be definite instruments in the holistic grooming of a student.

The first year at MIC will ground the students in understanding the medium from a socio-cultural-historic-economic-critical perspective with equal emphasis on hands-on training in audio-visual production in the digital video format.

In the second year at EICAR, Paris, students will specialize in direction, screenwriting, cinematography or editing.

This dual degree programme was realized with the guidance of the Pro Vice Chancellor of Manipal University Vinod Bhat.

On successful completion of the course, students would be awarded the degrees of Master of Arts in Film Art by Manipal University and Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking accredited by the European Accreditation Board of Higher Education Schools, EABHES.

A candidate for admission to this programme should have completed a bachelor degree course in any stream (which is of three or more years' duration after the 10+2 examination) from any recognized university, having secured not less than 50 per cent of marks in the aggregate of the total marks prescribed. The faculty coordinator of the programme is Sunil Bhadri. The programme would commence at MIC on September 19, 2011.

Eligible candidates may e-mail their applications to office.mic@manipal.edualong with a scanned copy of a recent photograph.

For details, log on to: www.manipal.edu E-mail: sunil.bhadri@manipal.edu or office.mic@manipal.edu Phone: (0820) 2571904 or 91-9880422203.
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September 13th, 2011, 07:13 AM

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mangalore mania

September 15th, 2011, 02:48 PM

Mangalore, September 14: The MCA, Master of Science (software Technology), M.Sc.(Bioinformatics) and PGDCA students of AIMIT, St. Aloysius college (Autonomous) will be jointly organising a national level Inter-collegiate IT and Life Sciences Exhibition, INFOVISION-2001 on September 15 and 16, according to a press release issued here.

The programme is part of the activity of the Computer Society of India (CSI) Chapter of AIMIT

Students from all over, under-graduate and post-graduate, will be participating in the exhibition and displaying their innovative models to the public. During the event the spot light will be on the entire student community hailing from various colleges in India with a view to encourage innovative models.

The models will be displayed under the following categories: IT Models and Life Science Models. The aim of the event is to get young minds from all over to participate in a competition of showcasing their ideas through models. In the IT segment, students will be exhibiting their software and hardware models. Students can showcase applications developed for various devices with live demos. In the Life Sciences segment, students will exhibit software related to life sciences with either working, non-working models or charts.

The theme for Infovision this year is INFINITY, Ideas Unlimited. The purpose of choosing this theme is to break the barriers of ones imagination to lead you to better oneself and the world we live in.

The Exhibition is open between 9 a.m. till 5 p.m. to all College and School students to come and see the models.

Prof. Santhosh Rebello (Dean, IT & Bioinformatics dept) and the Faculty Coordinators Mr.S.Ruban and Mrs.Deborah Vijay along with students are organising this mega event, stated the release.
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mangalore mania

September 21st, 2011, 12:07 PM

According to a press release received here, Mangalore Institute of Technology and Engineering, Mijar, Moodbidri, has introduced an Aeronautical Engineering course.
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mangalore mania

September 21st, 2011, 12:08 PM

mangalore mania

September 22nd, 2011, 08:53 AM

Principal Secretary, Department of Home, S.M. Jaamdar, inaugurated the M. Sc (Criminology and Forensic Science) course at School of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya, on Wednesday. Nine students have opted for the course that was approved by the Mangalore University this year. Inspector-General of Police Alok Mohan and Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh were present.
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mangalore mania

September 23rd, 2011, 07:48 AM

MANGALORE: For the 131 years old St. Aloysius institutions, this year marks the silver jubilee year of the crumbling of the male bastion. The credit for this revolution goes to then college principal Fr. Leo D'Souza, now the director of the Laboratory of Applied Biology (LAB).

"We thought it as the best way of all round development of our students,'' said Fr D'Souza. The beginning was not all too bright in 1985. Only three girls applied and the college saw that they were placed in other colleges.

"The next year PUC was opened up for girl students. There was only one student. I remember she insisted she wanted to study here, particularly as we had electronics course. She had got admission in another college and was willing to forego the fee,'' recalls Fr D'Souza. That year degree electronics courses too had three girl students.

"Though the institution had capped percentage at 10% of the total admissions for girls, the numbers started going up. Looking back, I'm very glad about the decision. They have practically taken in charge of the college, especially in science streams,'' notes Fr D'Souza.

"Aparna K Suresh, first batch student of Physics Electronics Mathematics degree course, says there was an inbuilt urge to study at St Aloysius as all her family members, including her father and uncles had studied at that college. Day in and out, I used to hear what they did at the college and their experience. And when Aloysius invited application from girl students, I opted for it,'' she said.

"My only regret is that we could not take girls from right beginning. May be the society's thinking that higher education was not meant for girls (at that time) too was a contributory factor,'' rues Fr D'Souza.

Dr KV Rao, then head of Department of physics, says the decision was taken by the management after due consultation with the staff and parents. We too thought that it was necessary for the all round development of boys, especially psychologically. Later we saw the hyper activity of boys when they saw girls started coming down,'' he added.
Stanly.
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mangalore mania

September 27th, 2011, 08:26 AM

Alliance Francaise de Bangalore, which conducts French classes, will open its Mangalore chapter at the School of Social Work Roshni Nilaya here on September 28. It conducts French classes for beginners, intermediate, and advanced levels, a release said
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mangalore mania

September 27th, 2011, 08:47 AM

A weeklong course on GIA diamond grading will be organized by the Manipal Institute of Jewellery Management from Monday in collaboration with Gemological Institute of America at the institute here. Participants will be given a qualified diamond grader certificate by the GIA.
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mangalore mania

September 30th, 2011, 06:38 AM

MANGALORE: Tulu, one among the developed Dravidian language with a history of more than 2,600 years will be taught academically as a subject.

Academic council of Mangalore University at its second general meeting here on Thursday approved regulations governing the certificate, diploma and PG diploma courses in Tulu under correspondence and regular programme mode and will be offered once the governor gives his assent to these regulations.

Acting as a catalyst to a request from Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy, and considering the state government's initiative to popularize Tulu in schools and teach it as a third language for students of Class VI to X in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, the university that has been promoting the cause of various languages framed regulations for the above modes of teaching the language. It also seeks to provide an assembly line of teachers to teach Tulu.

While candidates who have passed SCLC are eligible to take up the certificate course, those who have passed their pre-university course can take up the diploma course, and those who have passed their degree course, or diploma course in the language can take up the PG diploma. The certificate course will extend over a period of six months, and the diploma and PG diploma course over a period of one academic year, regulations to these course states.

For the certificate course, students at the end of stipulated study period have to appear for an examination consisting of two papers and a viva, all put together of 300 marks. Diploma and PG diploma programmes will have four papers, each of 100 marks and viva for 100 marks. The medium of instruction and examination will be in Tulu, and Kannada, and not Tulu script, will be used for the purpose of curriculum.

K Chinappa Gowda, registrar, said constituent and affiliated colleges of the university may offer these courses once they are notified. An expert committee set up to draft the regulations for these courses will be called upon to form the detailed syllabus, he said adding that even the Academy could arrange to offer the courses on behalf of the university, which will award the degree to successful candidates. VC T C Shivashankara Murthy chaired the meeting.
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mangalore mania

October 5th, 2011, 06:27 AM

MANGALORE: The academic council of St Aloysius college has resolved to introduce choice based credit system in postgraduate programmes under autonomous system from the current academic year.

The academic council has also approved the proposal to request Mangalore University to grant three more postgraduate programmes from the next academic year (2012-13) namely MSc in physics; MSc in food and nutrition science and MSc in chemistry. Fr Swebert D'Silva, principal, chaired the meeting. Dr AM Narahari, registrar and Fr Francis Almeida, secretary were present. At present there are 14 PG programmes under the autonomous system.

The academic council approved the list of 1,334 candidates who have become eligible for the Undergraduate degree (872 candidates) and the Postgraduate degree (462 candidates) in the next Convocation of Mangalore University.

The structure and the syllabi of BTFS (Biotechnology Finishing School) Course approved by the Government of Karnataka were endorsed. The Postgraduate Diploma programme will be conducted under autonomous system. The students will have one semester programme in the college and the other semester in the industry. Four Industries have come forward to accommodate the students.

The academic council was informed that the Biotechnology and Biochemistry Departments of the college have been approved as a Research Center by Mangalore University. Three Professors have been allowed guide Ph.D candidates. Nine candidates have registered for Ph.D in the current year. It was also announced the UGC Review Committee will soon visit the college soon to review the extending autonomous status. The revised structure and the syllabi of several Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses were approved in the meeting.
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mangalore mania

October 10th, 2011, 07:23 AM

MANGALORE: Rural schools, anganwadis and backward class and minority hostels in the Dakshina Kannada (DK) district need not shell out money to get refilled LPG cylinders anymore. DK zilla panchayat plans to set up biogas production plants in schools, anganwadis and backward class and minority hostels which would convert waste into cooking gas.

Many of the rural schools in the district find it difficult to get refilled LPG cylinders due to irregularities in the supply by the gas agencies. Biogas plants will help the schools cut down their dependence on LPG and firewood for cooking and not just save money.

While biogas produced in the plant will be used to cook mid-day meals in schools, it will be used in the kitchens of anganwadis and hostels. The zilla panchayat has already earmarked Rs 20,000 each to set up biogas plants in four centres in the district.

The plants will be initially set up in the anganwadi centres of Daddelakadu and Soornadu in Bantwal taluk, backward class and minority hostels in Bajpe in Mangalore taluk and Balthila in Bantwal taluk.

Total sanitation officer of the district Manjula told STOI that an agency that quotes a suitable price will be given the task of setting up the biogas plants, which will reduce the burden on rural schools, anganwadis and hostels in several ways. In addition to saving money, it will also help to maintain cleanliness in the schools, the anganwadi and hostel premises as kitchen waste and other bio-degradable waste can be used as a raw material for the plant, she said.

The proposed plants will have the capacity to produce biogas, sufficient for two hours of cooking, with two kilograms of waste. Also power can be generated from the plant with the help of a generator, she said, adding that the work will commence soon.

More rural schools will be chosen where such biogas plants will be set up in near future, she added.
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mangalore mania

October 15th, 2011, 06:27 AM

The IBM Centre for Excellence of AIMIT, St Aloysius College was inaugurated recently in the AIMIT Hall.

Lawrence Mohanraj, regional manager, South & West Academic Initiative from Chennai was the chief guest. In his address to the students, Mohanraj congratulated AIMIT for being one of the few Centres of Excellence of IBM in India, imparting very good computer education and having excellent infrastructural facilities.

"IBM has been a forward looking company. From a hardware company it has moved to be a software company and now a service oriented company," he said. The question he raised was, "IBM has completed a hundred years of existence, and what can IBM do for the next hundred years?"

He said that IBM wants to create a smarter planet by being in various fields like healthcare, transportation, communication, energy etc. Business analytics is one more field in which IBM would venture and convert information into insight. He said IBM believes in "letting go to grow".

Dr Ozzie Mascarenhas, chairman, MBA section of AIMIT spoke of Sam Palmisano, chairman and president of IBM who took IBM to the next level, from a hardware company to a software giant. Mentioning the book authored by Louis Gerstner, 'Who said Elephants Cannot Dance?' he spoke about the growth of IBM during the past few years.

Fr Denzil Lobo, director, AIMIT mentioned how St Aloysius College got into computer revolution when one of the alumni, Aubrey D'Souza donated the first computer back in 1987. Since then the Institue has grown in leaps and bounds, right now having the world class campus at Beeri.

He also talked about the various initiatives that have been taken and the MOUs drawn with various companies for training the IT students. He thanked IBM for selecting AIMIT to be a Centre for Excellence and said that the Institute will train students to be the best for the industry.

Prof Santhosh Rebello, dean, IT section of AIMIT welcomed the gathering.

The formal programme was followed by the inaugural of the lab for excellence.
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Krishnamoorthy K

October 17th, 2011, 12:42 PM

New building of KVG Law College inaugurated in Sulya.

How many law colleges are there in twin coastal districts?

mangalore mania

October 17th, 2011, 01:42 PM

Dakshina Kannada:-

SDM law college
Kurunji venkataramana gowda law college

Udupi

Vaikunta baliga law college is the only i guess in Udupi.
If any other posters can mention

mangalore mania

October 21st, 2011, 12:29 PM

MANGALORE: It's a break from routine classroom learning for Class VII students in all government schools.

They will get an opportunity to learn outside the four walls of classrooms through Chinnara Zilla Darshana, a two-day fun filled tour for children, which is organized under the government's Sarva Shiksha Abhiyana.

All they need to do is forget about classrooms and syllabus, travel to any one of the prominent places in the district, study the significance of the place and come back with a handful of information from their visit. The tour will not only give them opportunity to learn, but also offer fun-filled moments.

SSA has plans to take more than 4,500 children from Dakshina Kannada district. A team of 50 students from two or three schools in an area will be selected to participate in the tour. Teachers and School Development and Monitoring Committees will decide the tour sites.

Schools may choose any tourist spots, historic monuments, important educational institutions, historic temples, churches, mosques or club. Children will have to make a note of all details about the place they visited and after the tour they will be asked to write an essay on the tour.

Meanwhile, SSA will hold a competition and prizes will be distributed to students for the best essays. SSA deputy project co-ordinator N Shivaprakash told TOI that the government has already sanctioned Rs 21 lakh to implement the programme in the district for 2011. The major objective of the programme is to make children familiar with important places in the district. "Booklets with information on the place, which have been selected for the tour, will be distributed to children before the commencement of tour," he said.

Each team will be given Rs 24,000 towards food, travel and other expenses.

"A total of 91 teams have been formed in the district. The tour programme was flagged off in Sullia on October 10 and will be completed before November 10," he added.
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Krishnamoorthy K

October 24th, 2011, 07:12 AM

Harigovind, Mangalore, Oct 23, DHNS:

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The regional centre of the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) in Mangalore, which was set up to facilitate students from distant villages to pursue their dreams of being educated has been left in lurch due to negligence of the concerned in managing the centre.

The centre situated at Lady Hill functions in a congested old rented building, which does not have even basic facilities.

The major problem faced by the centre is the man power crunch. The centre deals with hundreds of students on daily basis. Since the number of staff working in the centre is insufficient, both existing staff and students coming to the centre are put to inconvenience.

There are only five staff (three permanent, two on contract) in the centre at present though it requires a minimum of eight staff. The centre has been managing the show with the same number of staff since two years. The shortage of staff has forced the data entry operator to double as a clerk as well!

October to December is considered as the peak time in the Open University offices, since the last dates for applying to many courses fall on these months. “Many a days, we don’t even have our lunch. Since the last dates for applying many courses without fine falls on this month, we don’t want the students to pay the huge fine, just because the office lacks sufficient staff,” said one of the staff.

Needless to say, the students come to the centre from distant places of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi district. The strength of staff is bare minimum considering the fact that the centre stands in second place in terms of number of students, out of the 10 KSOU regional centres.

The sorry state of affairs is obvious with the fact that the building does not have even toilets and potable water facility, despite the fact that 80 per cent of the people accommodated in the building (students and staff) are women.

“We are made to wait in the queue for hours together just to submit an application. There is no toilet and not even a bottle of water here,” said Preethi from Sullia, who was waiting in a queue.

Apart from this, since there is not even a hotel or a juice centre near the building, the applicants have to invariable board a bus or travel some distance to munch on snacks. The employees however get tiffins.

The worst victims of the entire episode are the handicapped students. “Handicapped students find it difficult to climb the stairs and submit applications at the centre,” said one of the staff.

There is no proper arrangement in the office to keep the study materials for the students. There is no back up power supply in the office, which deals with hundreds of students throughout the day. Situation in office, which first of all lacks proper lighting, is getting worse when the power supply goes off.

Though the KSOU is paying more than Rs 20,000 as rent for the building, it doesn’t have any facility. The office which was functioning at Jyothi circle was shifted to Lady Hill last January and continues to wait for the attention of the department concerned so that things would fall in place.

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mangalore mania

October 24th, 2011, 06:42 PM

Mangalore: The school upgradation programme, introduced by central government through Rastriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), will be a blessing for many students in rural areas of Dakshina Kannada.

Students and parents of 20 schools in the district need not go searching for educational institutions to the nearest towns, as Clas IX will be introduced in their schools under the upgradation programme from next academic year.

RMSA has decided to upgrade 20 government schools in rural areas by sanctioning additional funds to commence Class IX. If everything goes as per plan, those schools which have classes from standard one to eight only, will get Rs 60 lakh each for infrastructure development.

In fact, RMSA already upgraded three government schools (Sadashivanagara in Mulki of Mangalore, Saralikatte and Naravi in Belthangady) in 2010-11 and one school (Mullakkadu in Mangalore taluk) in 2011-12 on a pilot basis. With the upgradation of 20 more rural schools in 2012-13, more than 1,200 students studying in Class VIII will be able to continue their education in their same schools.

RMSA district assistant project co-ordinator Geetha Devadas told TOI that schools were identified based on a set of guidelines issued by the Central government. "As per guidelines, schools should have a minimum of 60 students in Class VIII. Further, the schools should have a minimum of two acres of attached land. A proposal with a list of 20 schools is sent to RMSA. Schools will be able to start the new classes in 2012-13, if central government approves the proposal," Geetha explained. "The schools may utilize the sanctioned amount for construction of additional classrooms and other infrastructure required for upgradation," she added.
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mangalore mania

October 28th, 2011, 04:59 AM

St. Aloysius College has proposed to introduce postgraduate courses in Physics, Chemistry, and Food and Nutrition Science from 2012-13. The Academic Council of the college in its meeting recently decided to seek the approval of Mangalore University for the courses. It approved the list of 872 degree candidates and 462 postgraduate degree candidates who are eligible to receive their degrees in the next convocation.
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Suj Mangalore

October 30th, 2011, 03:10 PM

Awesome updates Mangalore mania,got some good info about educational institutions in both dakshina kannada and udupi districts,this thread is very interesting:)

mangalore mania

November 3rd, 2011, 03:24 PM

Awesome updates Mangalore mania,got some good info about educational institutions in both dakshina kannada and udupi districts,this thread is very interesting:)

Thank you.

The first thing which makes me proud to be a Mangalorean is the quality oriented education system of DK-Udupi.

mangalore mania

November 3rd, 2011, 03:27 PM

Mangalore, Nov 3: Petrocon Institute of Piping Engineering (PIPE), a leading engineering institute in piping engineering and technical education for a decade in Hyderabad, has now established PIPE institute in the city, which was formally inaugurated by Haji Abbu Shet Beary recently.

Petrocon, a premiere engineering institute in India and Middle East specialized in providing technical education in the Piping Engineering, HVAC, Plumbing, Fire Fighting and Safety and Non Destructive Testing.

Piping engineering is a multi disciplinary field of study having its roots in other engineering studies including chemical, mechanical, civil, and electrical also instrumentation and control. So traditionally it was taken up by the engineers having the above background, it was believed that many years of experience only could make a good piping engineer out of them.

With the engineering sectors as well as companies hosting formal in-house trainings for piping design had made it a fast track training opportunity.

Piping design engineering today is industrially accepted course and PIPE has become a pioneer in education and training in all aspects of piping design and provides training to match the industry needs. Piping industry is expected to see a considerable change with a possibility of growth in the future.

Petrocon has a team of experienced and qualified professionals with varied industrial background. In the last nine years the institute has delivered exclusive education and training to 5,000 engineers in Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. The training programme here combines both theory and practical sessions, which demonstrate latest practices in the global engineering industry.

PIPE has wide range of customized coursed for various industries like to hydrocarbon, power, pharma, paper, mining and all process engineering design and construction sectors.

PIPE has both in-house and outhouse training, which covers all aspects of the piping engineering right from designing to the evaluation of the projects including all calculations. Both trainings are designed to improve the skills of the existing employees within a restricted budget.

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Mangalore: Petrocon Launches Piping Engineering Courses in City

Mangalore, Nov 3: Petrocon Institute of Piping Engineering (PIPE), a leading engineering institute in piping engineering and technical education for a decade in Hyderabad, has now established PIPE institute in the city, which was formally inaugurated by Haji Abbu Shet Beary recently.

Petrocon, a premiere engineering institute in India and Middle East specialized in providing technical education in the Piping Engineering, HVAC, Plumbing, Fire Fighting and Safety and Non Destructive Testing.

Piping engineering is a multi disciplinary field of study having its roots in other engineering studies including chemical, mechanical, civil, and electrical also instrumentation and control. So traditionally it was taken up by the engineers having the above background, it was believed that many years of experience only could make a good piping engineer out of them.

With the engineering sectors as well as companies hosting formal in-house trainings for piping design had made it a fast track training opportunity.

Piping design engineering today is industrially accepted course and PIPE has become a pioneer in education and training in all aspects of piping design and provides training to match the industry needs. Piping industry is expected to see a considerable change with a possibility of growth in the future.

Petrocon has a team of experienced and qualified professionals with varied industrial background. In the last nine years the institute has delivered exclusive education and training to 5,000 engineers in Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. The training programme here combines both theory and practical sessions, which demonstrate latest practices in the global engineering industry.

PIPE has wide range of customized coursed for various industries like to hydrocarbon, power, pharma, paper, mining and all process engineering design and construction sectors.

PIPE has both in-house and outhouse training, which covers all aspects of the piping engineering right from designing to the evaluation of the projects including all calculations. Both trainings are designed to improve the skills of the existing employees within a restricted budget.

Petrocon Offers Training Programs such as:

Process Piping Engineering as per ASME B31.3/31.1
PG Diploma in Piping Engineering
Plant Layout Engineering
Pipe Stress Analysis
Piping Softwares
HVAC
Non Destructive Testing
Process Engineering

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Mangalore being the hub for ONGC led petro chemical industries.. Great scope for students to pursue a career from here

mangalore mania

November 5th, 2011, 03:34 PM

MANGALORE: Chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda during his maiden visit to Dakshina Kannada had promised that government primary schools in Dakshina Kannada will not be closed based on the government circular dated September 24, 2011.

But the block and district level Primary School Merging Committees (PSMCs) headed by taluk panchayat presidents and zilla panchayat president respectively have already prepared a list of 11 schools with less than 10 students in the district for closure.

The circular had directed deputy director of public instruction (DDPI) to identify schools with less than 10 students and merge them with the nearest schools. Though a circular in this regard has not been sent to the DDPI so far, they have no option but to close such schools. DDPI Moses Jayashekhar told TOI that he has not received any circular from the government .

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyana deputy project co-ordinator N Shivprakash said that initially 16 schools were identified with less than 10 students. Of the 16, lower primary schools at Malavooru, Uliya Pavooru and Naryabailu had already closed due to its poor student strength. Meanwhile, schools in Iddyadka in Puttur taluk and Achrapaddy in Sullia taluk managed to increase the student strength this year. The future of 11 schools in the district still hangs in balance as they continue with less than 10 students, he added.

Government lower primary schools at Melpatre and Malaru in Bantwal block, Kuntalagiri Konaje and Kutthethuru Bajavu in Mangalore block, Kanadhale, Pidhmale and Moodukone in Moodbidre block, Heeryadka, Boothakallu, Kemmanaballi and Rangathamma in Sullia block will be closed, if the PSMC submits a report as directed in the circular. Efforts are on to save those schools, Shivaprakash said adding that block education officers have been asked to visit those schools, meet parents and teachers to find alternative ways to preserve it.

Ironically, the government circular does not call it 'closure', but says 'merger of schools with less than 10 students with nearby schools'. It has also directed PSMCs that the list of schools to be merged be ready by February 15, 2012.
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November 10th, 2011, 05:07 AM

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BACK TO LEARNING: Teachers at a training session on Right To Education, Comprehensive and Continuous Evaluation and the National Curriculum Framework in Mangalore on Wednesday

Teachers working in government and aided primary schools in Mangalore city and taluk are preparing to adapt themselves to a different approach towards their students. They are undergoing training on the Right to Education (RTE), Comprehensive and Continuous Evaluation (CCE), and the National Curriculum Framework (NCF).

On Wednesday, one of the subjects that the teachers discussed at the training centre in Government High School, Bunder, was the changing attitude of children towards teachers and how to handle them appropriately. “We (teachers) cannot go on with our old ways,” said Jayanthi K, Headmistress, BMLP School, Car Street, who was the trainer at the school for the session on RTE.

Geetha, Cluster Resource Person (CRP), Deralakatte, speaking in Uchil Bovi Higher Primary School, said that with the CCE, teachers had to evaluate children according to several parameters. They had to study the student formally and informally. “It is not just the classroom that matters but outside the classroom too,” she said. Agnes Dotty Pinto, Nodal Officer, Mangalore taluk, at the same centre, said as part of training on RTE, the teachers were told of how they were stakeholders in the child's growth. Vishwanath M.K., headmaster, GHP School, Kumpala, said that education today was different from what it was earlier. He said that copies of Totto Chan , a book about how a Japanese girl of the same name was given informal education, was given to the participating teachers.

One teacher, who did not wish to be named, said that although the teachers were enthusiastic about participating in the training, there were challenges that arose in implementing them. He said that it was difficult to convince parents that the CCE was a good system of evaluation.

Parents point to private, English-medium schools that had an evaluation system with marks. Fifty teachers from 42 government primary schools and 39 aided primary schools were being trained at Government High School, Bunder, said Subraaya Pai, Block Resource Person (BRP). Dayananda Patali, Block Resource Co-ordinator (BRC), Mangalore city, said that in the Mangalore city area, 392 teachers were undergoing training at four centres, including three government schools in Gandhinagar, Ladyhill, Bunder, and at a training facility in Urwa. He said that 200 teachers, 50 at each centre, were trained currently. Lakshminarayan, Block Resource Co-ordinator (BRC), Mangalore taluk, said that 600 teachers from 204 government and aided Kannada-medium schools were undergoing the training from the taluk area.

At Uchil Bovi Higher Primary School, on Wednesday, three batches were trained simultaneously. The first batch had 53 teachers while the second and third batch had 56 and 46 teachers participating in them respectively, said Ms. Pinto.
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November 10th, 2011, 01:25 PM

Mangalore : KMC Manipal inaugurated the new block of Manipal School behind KMC hospital, Attavar here on November 10.

The programme began with an invocation by the school children. Principal of Manipal School Anuradha Shivaram welcomed the gathering. T Vimala Pai and Mohandas Pai unveiled the plaque in the pre-primary and primary blocks The programme was symbolically inaugurated by registrar, AGE and chancellor of Manipal University Dr Ramdas Pai along with other dignitaries by lighting the traditional lamp.
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Addressing the gathering Dr Pai said, "Education is the most important and basic requirement of every human being. If you want to lead a good life and to be a civilized person in the society it is only possible with the help of education. Primary education is the basic stage to the child and it will get needful education in the class. Child will be able to learn good manners and behaviour which will help the child to become civilized in the society."

Further he said, "In this age teachers should try to teach the children as much as possible to make them knowledgeable through extra-curricular activities. Primary education is the most effective education in every child's life because they are very innocent and tender."

Continuing he said, "The secondary education will be the next stage and the child can get more knowledge and it will start questioning. At this time, children need proper guidance and teacher should teach the values of education. In our country the young population is large in number and if all the children get good education then our country will be the richest in the world by 2025. But we must maintain the high level of education."

Dr H S Ballal said, "In our country the government has made education mandatory till 8th standard but the implementation is not done systematically. About 70% of the rural children drop out because there are no proper toilets in the schools, no proper drinking water facilities, no proper teachers to teach; and the infrastructure is appalling . Especially the female students after 8th standard they discontinue their studies for certain reasons. Education is the triggering force and we need to educate our younger generation. Only educating our children is not sufficient but we need to conduct teachers training and orientation for teachers which is not at all there in our country. Teachers must be trained to check the aptitude of the child because it will help the child to decide to take up their further studies or else when the child grows it cannot take any decision to take up any course he/she should depend on their parents."

Vimala Pai stressing on the importance of all four languages said mothers should teach their children their mother tongue, the state language, the national language and then the international language so that the child could easily co-ordinate with the world.

Mohandas Pai and Meena Ganesh were also present on the occasion.
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November 17th, 2011, 03:50 AM

MANGALORE: "Leading Light," these two-words by M H Siddharth, NITK Students' Council president aptly summed up the five-year tenure of Sandeep Sancheti as director of National Institute of Technology - Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal.

Sandeep who took over as director of NITK on November 18, 2006 ended his five-year stint as head of India's leading technical institute on Wednesday and is scheduled to take over as director of NIT, Delhi on Friday.

From a little over 15 post-graduate programmes to nearly double the number of programmes now, and from student strength of 2,700 to more than 4,800 now have happened in these past five years. NITK was asked to lead sister NITs as and when need arose and Sancheti played the role of mentor for NITs at Goa, Puducherry and Sikkim and donned the role of in-charge directors of NITs at Trichy, and Calicut apart from his main role as director of NITK.

Expressing satisfaction at a successful stint at NITK, Sandeep, who will report to his parent institution MNIT at Jaipur on Thursday before heading to the national capital and take charge there, told TOI that NITK in 2006 was a frontrunner among equals. But presently, NITK is firmly among the frontrunners among NITs in terms of output, performance, number games and most importantly - students' preference for admission among technical institutes.

Structured freedom given to staff and students, academically, administratively and financially and involving younger faculty members who would be around for the next two decades and more was the cornerstone of the mission to take NITK forward, he said. "A 10-year strategic plan launched last year with short and long term goals guided by top-down and bottom-up approach has set NITK on path of progress from which there is no turning back," he noted.

A planned move to usher in research culture under Sancheti has seen NITK bag prestigious and leading research projects with a funding to the tune of Rs 35 crore. "The per capita research output of NITK is on part with leading technical institutions," he says adding that industry academia interactions have been taken to their logical conclusion giving students and staff more to work with. "We signed two MoUs last week," he said to buttress his point.
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November 19th, 2011, 08:17 AM

Taluk edn blocks to be restructured
TNN | Nov 18, 2011, (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Taluk-edn-blocks-to-be-restructured/articleshow/10782138.cms)MANGLORE: Education blocks in Mangalore taluk will be re-structured for the convenience of administration. The education department has decided to overhaul two education blocks in the taluk in the wake of large geographical imbalance prevailing in the distribution of schools.

Currently, there are three blocks --Mangalore City, Mangalore Rural and Moodbidri. After the overhaul, blocks will be known as Mangalore North, Mangalore South and Moodbidri.

Mangalore rural block comprises 39 GPs, 77 revenue villages, 15 wards of MCC, 15 wards of town panchayats, 20 wards of town municipality. The block has a total of 428 schools including 293 primary schools and 135 high schools, which is an overburden for officials in the block as well as for the department. Meanwhile, Mangalore city block has only 133 primary schools and 70 high schools of 45 wards in MCC; Moodbidri block has only 99 primary schools and 24 high schools in 10 GPs, 28 revenue villages and 23 wards of town municipalty.

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyana (SSA) deputy project co-ordinator N Shivaprakash told TOI that the geographical imbalance hampers implementation of schemes in schools. "Problems persist more in Mangalore rural block as it has 428 schools. Mangalore city and Moodbidri blocks have only 203 and 123 schools respectively. To set right this geographical imbalance we have decided to overhaul the blocks," he explained.

The department has decided not to touch Moodbidri block. However, Mangalore rural and city blocks will be restructured and renamed as Mangalore North and Mangalore South. While 315 schools, out of 631 schools, will be shifted to one block, another block will get 316 schools. Hence, it will be convenient for officials to function smoothly, Shivaprakash said. ZP has approved the proposal and it has been sent to the state education commissioner for final nod, he added.

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November 24th, 2011, 11:54 AM

Vijaya Bank is sponsoring part of the beautification work on the campus of Mangalore University, Mangala Gangothri, Konaje, at a cost of Rs. 9.5 lakh, according to a press release. A letter of assurance was handed over to T.C. Shivashankara Murthy, Vice-Chancellor, Mangalore University, by Sudhakar Shetty M., Deputy General Manager, Vijaya Bank, Regional Office, Mangalore.

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November 24th, 2011, 11:59 AM

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A PLEASANT TRIP: Schoolchildren along with teachers from Mangalore taluk travelling on a boat from Old Port to participate in Prathibha Karanji, a talent search competition, at Bengre Kasba in Mangalore on Wednesday. Photo: R.Eswarraj

At least 700 schoolchildren from 35 government, aided and unaided schools in Mangalore taluk took a boat on Wednesday to participate in ‘Prathibha Karanji', an annual talent show programme that is part of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan.

They took a boat from theDhakkein Bunder (the old port) in the city to cross the Phalguni river to reach Kasba Bengre, located between the river and the Arabian Sea. The venue for the event was the Kasba Bengre Government Higher Primary School, which is 15 km away by road from the same point and takes at least 45 minutes to reach by bus.

A banner at theDhakkewelcomed the children to the event. The boat ticket (Rs.4 one-way) was sponsored by Al Madrasathuluddineeya Association, Kasba Bengre, said Mukesh, Assistant Teacher of the school.

The children, from schools in Bajal Nanthoor, Bajal Padpu, Permannur, Babbukatte, Sandpit, Bengre, Ullal and Kallapu, participated in games, group dances such as kolaata, Yakshagana, poetry recitation, singing, and yoga.

Soudha Hafiza, Class 7, Government School, Melangady, was busy reading an English poem for the reading competition while Aysha Afeefa from Peace Public School was waiting for the quiz. Nizamuddin from a school in Bajal Nanthoor said about the Kannada poem he was given, “Sulabha ide, avarige kashta, English.” (It is easy, those who have to read English poems will find it difficult.)

Abdul Rehman Afrid, Class 7, Kasba Bengre School, said his teacher and “akka” (elder sister) had helped him learn a story to narrate. Mohammad Hafeez from the same school said he had practised yogasanas for a week while Razik said he had practised making clay models of the Taj Mahal for the past three days.

Chief guest Haji Hasan, president, Al Madrasathuluddineeya Association, said that children like to come to Kasba Bengre as they get to travel in the boat.

The organisers instructed teachers to ensure the children stayed within the venue. "Children are fond of water but please do not go near the river or the sea,” he said.

Shakunthala Karkera, councillor, Bengre, said that some children were talented but they had the problem of funds and there were obstacles at home so they get no opportunity to show their talents here…”

T. Gopal, Cluster Resource Person (CRP), Bajal Nanthoor cluster, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan, said that they had been preparing for the last few weeks to participate in the programme.

Shekhar Suvarna, the other chief guest and member of Bengre Mahajan Sabha, said that while the Government wanted to shutdown Kannada-medium schools as children did not go there, a large number of children are attending the Kannada-medium school in Kasba Bengre, which is notable.
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November 24th, 2011, 12:11 PM

With more than 200 gram panchayat libraries and many other big libraries in Dakshina Kannada, the people of the coastal district have plenty of opportunities to gain knowledge, writes Ronald Anil Fernandes.
Untill the advent of internet, perhaps there was only one place (still it is!) where any person seeking information could quench his thirst for information — library! However, library(ies) continue to attract people from all fields.

Be it an eight-year-old child or an 80-year-old scientist, be it a home maker or an executive or a student, library is one common place where people from all walks of life visit to gain information.

Perhaps, there is no school or institution without a library, however small it is, and Mangalore is no exception, which is also a hub of education with various unique courses across the length and breadth of the coastal districts.

Besides the state of the art libraries in various institutions in the coastal districts, there are several public libraries in the nook and corner of Dakshina Kannada district.

Speaking to City Herald, DK District Central Library Chief Librarian T J Venkatesh said that there are 204 Gram Panchayat libraries. In addition, there are 7 branch libraries (in Sullia, Puttur, Belthangady, Ullal, Moodbidre, B C Road and Mulki), 4 libraries for slum dwellers (in Kodialguttu, Pandeshwar, Kudkori Gudde and Jyothi Nagar, all in Mangalore taluk), 2 libraries for vagabonds (in Mudipu and in Konaje) and one service centre library at Asaigoli (at Karnataka State Reserve Police centre).

Interestingly, the number of libraries went up in the year 2005 when the then Minister Basavaraj Horatti decided to open libraries in gram panchayats. “Accordingly, 132 gram panchayat libraries were opened in single year in 2005 in Dakshina Kannada district alone,” he said and added that though there are libraries in every gram panchayats, there is no seperate building for the same and the GP libraries function in the GP building itself.

There is a move to construct seperate building for library in every gram panchayats at a cost of Rs 8 lakh each and if it is done, then every GP library will get independent building, he informed.

Stating that most of the readers would like to read only select books such as those written by Saisuthe, M K Indira, Usha Navarathna, Shivram Karanth, Kuvempu, Poornachandra Tejaswi, S L Byrappa and Ravi Belagere, Venkatesh said at present the persons who look after the library in gram panchayats are paid only a honararium of Rs 2,500 per month.

Libraries in City

Besides the above mentioned libraries (outside the Mangalore City, but within DK district), there are 18 branch libraries in Mangalore City, one community children’s library (in Valencia), one library training school, also in Valencia where SSLC passed students can take up 4-month certificate course in library science. In addition, there is a mobile van which visits 24 points in a week.

Incidentally, the mobile van, which was rendering its service for the last 27 years, stopped its service this week (National Library Week!) as the vehicle is very old and the permit can not be renewed as per the RTO rules, said City Central Library Deputy Director K V Raghavendra. However, a new mobile van is expected soon, he informed.

The City Central Library, which was established in 1961 too is being renovated and soon will wear a new look. With 38,741 members as on date, the library will soon have a seperate reference section, browsing section besides computerisation of the library.

Novel contests

As a part of the National Library Week, both district library as well as city central libraries have planned novel competitions to create awareness among the members of the public as well as the existing readers.

District Librarian T J Venkatesh said that the aim of this Library Week is “to make people visit library,” he said and hoped that once the people start coming to library, they will glance through the available material.

On the other hand, City Central Library Deputy Director K V Raghavendra said that he has planned many novel programmes in the Library Week (Nov 14 to 20) that includes:

* Jnanada Vikasadatta Ondu Hejje (A step towards gaining knowledge) — Inviting all readers in all branches on November 15 between 6 pm and 7 pm and asking them to read what they want.

* Oodu - Paripoorna, Arthapoorna haagu Sundara Badukigagi (Read for a complete and better life) - a programme where experts will speak and create awareness on reading habbit.

* Oodu - Pustaka Gellu (Read and win books as prize) - Readers will be asked to read a book and write opinion on the book. The best opinion will be rewarded.

This apart, there are contests for library staff such as to get back maximum number of unreturned books (taken by members) and also a ‘Best (dedicated) Reader’ award in each library. In addition, the department has organised drawing, elocution, essay, story telling, fancy dress and quiz contests. The department has been taking steps to attract readers. It is upto the readers to take it or leave it. But the fact remains the same: “Knowledge is Power.”

Corp Bank library

Apart from the government public libraries, the Corporation Bank Centenary Public Library near Mangala Stadium is quite popular in Mangalore. Dedicated to the citizens of Mangalore, “Corporation Bank Centenary Public Library” was inaugurated by the then Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on March 12, 2006. The library has 3 floors with an area of 3700 sq ft to 4000 sq ft on each floor. While the basement is having the internet and video conferencing facility, the ground floor houses the newspapers and periodicals / reference section. A numismatic center is also functional on this floor.

A multipurpose hall on the first floor of the library meant for releasing new books, lecture sessions involving distinguished authors etc., will be selectively used at the discretion of the Bank, informed Chief Librarian Tony George. The library has more than 12,000 books and over 620 CDs under 52 categories (subjects).

Documentary on CDs for kids

In the extremely competitive world, it is very difficult to compete with private players. However, as a step towards innovation, the Government of Karnataka, has provided a TV set and several CDs on geography, general knowledge, maths, history, life science and many other topics to one library each. Accordingly, the Moodbidre branch of the library has received the same.

Giving details on the same, Moodbidre library Head Pranitha Priya Monteiro said that she would start organising documentary shows for children from November 14, children’s day. The library with more than 30,000 books has been catering to the needs of localites in and around Moodbidre since 1970s.

Father of Library Science S R Ranganathan

Although the history and tradition of literacy and books among certain classes in India is long-standing, the modern library movement has roots in the later 18th century with real growth appearing a century or more later.

Earlier, the libraries were attached to seats or centres of learning like Nalanda, Vikramshila, Somapuri,Jaggadal, Mitthla or Takshsila.

However, it is said that the libraries developed and prospered in the Moghul period, thanks to the Moghul Kings who were highly educatedand and fond of books.

The year 1808 is a landmark in the history of library movement in India when the then Bombay government initiated a proposal to register libraries, which would receive free copies of books published from the Funds for the Encouragement of Literature.
Mathematician

Dr Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, popularly known as S R Ranganathan is known as Father of Library Science. Born on August 9, 1892 at Shiyali, a small town in Tamil Nadu, he did his MA in Mathematics and taught at Madras University. In 1924, he was appointed as the librarian of Madras University, a post he held for twenty years.

As a newly appointed librarian, he travelled to London’s School of Librarianship and toured over 100 libraries in the UK.

While in England, Ranganathan saw that the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) was the most popular system in use. His analytical mind quickly discovered its fundamental deficiency and its inability to express all the aspects of a specific subject of a document.

He also thought that a classification system should allow for future subjects to be combined in unexpected or unplanned ways. The five laws developed by Ranganathan are relevent even to this day.

Interestingly, the concept is attractive for its simplicity, predictability, and depth in comparison to classification on a linguistic level, such as is used by search engines such as Google.
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Krishnamoorthy K

November 27th, 2011, 07:50 AM

Mangalore, Nov. 22:

The Nitte-based NMAM Institute of Technology (NMAMIT) and PennState Harrisburg University have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on engineering course.

A press release by the institute said here that as a part of the MoU, NMAMIT and PennState Harrisburg University have planned to introduce 2+2 engineering course.

Under this, students will study the basics of engineering in India during the first two years, and they study in Harrisburg in the remaining two years.

The MoU also helps in exchange of ideas in teaching, research and administration, and exchange of delivery methodology and demonstration process, it said.

The Chancellor of PennState Harrisburg, Dr Mukund Kulkarni, who was in Nitte recently, also delivered the Silver Jubilee endowment lecture at NMAMIT.

Speaking on the occasion, he said that in India, private investment is made only in disciplines such as engineering, medicine, management and other professional courses, but not in courses leading to create good dancers, artists and so on. But it does not happen in American universities, where budget allocation is uniform irrespective of disciplines, he said.

The Chancellor of Nitte University, Mr N. Vinay Hegde, said that intelligent students, who go abroad for higher studies, should come back after the study and serve the community with the capacity they earned through their education.

He also urged such students to take up teaching as their profession to provide quality education to the student community.

vinayakaj@thehindu.co.in
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November 30th, 2011, 04:56 PM

Manipal, November 29: Manipal University will, for the first time, hold a common entrance test and counseling for admissions to BTech courses for the academic session 2012-13. The CET will be held for admissions to Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal; Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim and Manipal University, Jaipur to facilitate students,” said Manipal University, Manipal Registrar Dr G.K.Prabhu.

While addressing media persons in Manipal on Tuesday he said that the online entrance test would be conducted in 30 cities across India. “In addition, Dubai will be the first overseas exam centre to be introduced this year. That will enable students from the nearby countries to take the exams instead of coming to India,” he said. “The counseling will be held at Bangalore, Jaipur, Manipal and Sikkim and the seat allotment will be done as per merit secured in the Manipal University Online Entrance Test 2012”.

New Courses

Dr Prabhu also said that 12 new courses were added to the curriculum for the next session. “That takes the total number of courses in the University up to 338 in 15 streams,” he said.

The following are the new courses:

MTech Biochemical Engineering, MTech Industrial Pollution and Control, MPharm Regulatory Affairs, PG Diploma in Cellular & Molecular Diagnostics, MSc Tech (Business Management Systems), MSc Pharmaceutical Medicine, PG Diploma in Photonics, Master of Public Health - Environment and Occupational Health, Master of Library & Information Science, Certificate course in Library & Information Science, Masters in Film Art & Film Making – Dual degree, PG Diploma in Film Art.

Scholarships

About the scholarships, the Registrar said, “To encouraging meritorious students and academic excellence, many scholarships are offered for deserving candidates. For the year 2012 the University has raised the total scholarships from Rs 16.29 crore to Rs 18.13 crore”.

The different scholarships are:

Merit-Cum-Means Scholarship: Candidates admitted to MBBS course within the first 500 ranks and BDS, BTech, BPharm courses within the first 1000 ranks of the respective merit list are offered merit-cum-means scholarship. Scholarship amount shall be determined based on the parents’ annual income (from all sources) as mentioned below:

For parents whose annual income is up to Rs 5 lakhs the scholarship will be 100 percent, for those between Rs 5 lakhs and Rs 7.5 lakhs it will be 75 percent, for those between Rs 7.5 lakhs and Rs 10 lakhs it will be 50 percent, between Rs 10 lakhs and 12.5 it will be 25 percent and above Rs 12.5 it will be 10 percent.

The merit-cum-means scholarships are subject to 5% of the general category intake and will cover only the course fee payable for the particular course of study.

AICTE Scholarship: AICTE has introduced the scheme on tuition fee (course fees includes tuition and other fees) waiver for economically backward meritorious students to Bachelor’s programmes in Technology, Pharmacy and Hotel Management. The proposed scheme will be applicable only to the students with parents’ annual income (from all sources) less than Rs. 4.5 lakhs. Last year the scholarship was applicable to students with parents’ annual income less than Rs. 2.5 lakhs.

Scholarship for Konkani Speaking Students: 10% tuition fee waiver for admission to all courses of Manipal University for Konkani Speaking students only.

Academy of General Education Students Scholarships: There is a 10% tuition fee waiver for students of schools and colleges of Academy of General Education (AGE) joining any course at Manipal University. However, the waiver will be 25% for those students joining Allied Health Sciences or Nursing courses. This would be applicable to General Category only.

Scholarships for Gate Qualified Students: Top 10% students admitted to PG courses at Manipal Centre for Information Sciences (MCIS) based on Manipal University Online Entrance test and GATE qualified students.

Availability of Applications

Applications are available at 320 select branches of State Bank of India and Syndicate Bank all over India. Applications are also available online at www.manipal.edu

Manipal University partners National Geographic Channel for “Teenovator”

In a new venture, Manipal University has tied up with National Geographic Channel to provide teenagers across the country a lifetime opportunity to explore the genius within them. “It will be a nationwide talent hunt to bring out the genius from over 2.5 lakh students across 350 schools in six cities, “ said director Admissions, Dr Narayana Sabhahit. He said the final winners would not only win an enormous sum of Rs 15 lakhs, but also get an unparalleled opportunity to be a part of a 5-part series on Nat Geo.

National Geographic Channel and Manipal University through ‘Teenovator’ will stimulate the intellect of young minds and bridge the gap between theory and practice. The competition will reach out to students between classes 9th and 12th across the country through an exhaustive selection procedure consisting of written examinations and GDPI, 4 shortlisted participants will be selected from each of the four zones . These participants will be given real life case studies to exercise their knowledge and creativity to churn out valuable solutions. This 5 part series will be airing on National Geographic Channel in March 2012.

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December 1st, 2011, 09:11 AM

MANGALORE: Facing with a shortage of talent pool and work force having hands on training experience an Indian bank has partnered with Manipal University to boost talent in the banking industry.

Kotak Mahindra Bank will get into an academic collaboration with the Manipal University for a unique probationary officers programme to be launched in December this year. The highlight of the programme is not only the bank will provide financial assistance, it will also guarantee job placement on successful completion of the course. The duration of the course is 12 months - nine months on-campus followed by three-month internship plus assured employment with the Bank on successful completion.

V Sivaramakrishnan, president, Manipal Global Education Services, said it was the third such initiative in banking sector they were working on after ICICI and Bank of Baroda. Fundamentals of the curriculum are almost same, but there are areas of differences as each bank has its specific set of goals. We work with the bank and devise the curriculum specific to that bank,'' he added. The degree offered is Post graduate diploma in banking and relationship management.

The programme also offers financial support - A monthly fixed allowance of Rs 2,500 to meet out of pocket expenses and living expense during nine month on-campus period and a monthly stipend of Rs 20,000 during the internship. On successful completion of 48 months of service with the Bank, 85% of the course fee would be paid back.

The core curriculum includes specialized banking knowledge and managerial skills including all aspects of relationship management; which can be scaled up to a full-fledged post graduate business management programme.

Subrho Bhaduri, Executive VP and head HR, of the bank says: There is large pool of freshers out there, but we require trained professionals who understand how the product works in a particular space aligned to the thought process of the bank. Getting a pre trained professional will surely help us. He said Manipal was zeroed in for the infrastructure and professional capability they had, adding selection will be done on the basis of merit and aptitude.

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Krishnamoorthy K

December 10th, 2011, 08:53 AM

Here is TOI excerpts

Tissue culture laboratory to reproduce endangered species through micro-propagation process.
Bio-diversity laboratory for identification and extraction of medicinal properties from rare medicinal plants.
VGST of state S&T dept has released Rs. 60 lakhs for infrastructure.
A draft plan of Rs. 1.10 crores is ready.
Dept of Applied Botany already has 10 acres of arboretum.
Dept has also developed a arboretum at Pilikula.

Mangalore Varsity to provide laptops to 160 teachers (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/article2691686.ece)
Mangalore varsity will host global meet on chemistry (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-12-07/mangalore/30485476_1_mangalore-varsity-mangalagangothri-mangalore-university)
Varsity to host international chemistry meet (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article2691072.ece)

mangalore mania

December 11th, 2011, 07:38 PM

MANGALORE: T C Shivashankara Murthy, vice-chancellor, Mangalore University on Thursday said it is not prudent to teach nanotechnology at the UG level as a separate course. Noting that there is a school of thought that favours introduction of nano-technology as a course at the UG level, Prof Murthy said, "It cannot stand as an independent course. "Do not make nano-technology an independent discipline. It will spoil beauty of science, he noted.

Presiding over the inaugural function of three-day international conference on synthetic and structural chemistry organized by department of chemistry as part of International Year of Chemistry here on Thursday, the VC said nanotechnology could be taught only as a subject. Basic sciences are the mother of all applied sciences. The challenge before education and research institutes now is how to attract students to basic sciences, he noted.

Observing that there were not many women scientists, he said, "Where do they go after completing their studies?" Keeping this in mind, the Indian Science Congress to be held at KIIT, University, Bhubaneswar, from January 3 to 7, 2012, would focus on women. The theme of the Congress, he said would be 'Science and Technology for inclusive innovation, role of women'.

PM Akbarali, MD, Apotex Pharmachem India Pvt. Ltd said there is need to manufacture more drugs to cure tropical diseases. Out of nearly 1,000 new drugs manufactured in recent past, only 20 drugs are related to tropical diseases. There is a need to explore manufacturing herbal-based medicines in a scientific manner as they would have more shelf life.

Drug manufacturers are gradually shifting their focus to biologicals. N Guru Rao, faculty, solid state and structural chemistry unit, IISc, Bangalore said other branches of science should support chemistry for better benefits to mankind. K A Suresh, director, Centre for Soft Matter Research, Bangalore and M R Gajendragad, former Vice-Chancellor, Kuvempu University spoke. B Thimme Gowda, chairman of the conference dwelt on the scope of the conference.
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mangalore mania

December 17th, 2011, 03:08 PM

Mangalore, Dec 16: Vice chancellor of Mangalore University, Prof T C Shivahankara Murthy, informed that all the units functioning under Kannada Study Centre of the university will be shifted to the new building of the centre, once the same is completed.

He was speaking after presiding over the general session of the academic council of the university held on Thursday December 15 at the senate hall. He said that the construction of the building at a cost of Rs 2.9 crore is progressing at a brisk pace.

He informed that the university has decided to adopt rotation system in which even assistant professors in the absence of professors in the departments, can become the chairpersons of the department of studies. This system has been in vogue since long in Mysore University, he said, adding that the new system will become effective from January 1, 2012. The only condition is that a person should have an experience of at least five years to be able to head the department.

He informed that by using two crore rupees of University Grants Commission grant under information technology, the university will increase the number of computers from the current 700 to 1,000. He said that internet connectivity will be provided without any limit, and tender has been floated for providing laptops and internet connections to all the teachers of the university at an estimated cost of Rs 40 lac.

The meeting was attended by registrar of the university, Prof K Chinnappa Gowda, registrar of examinations, Prof P S Yadapadittaya, and finance officer, Fakirappa.
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mangalore mania

December 18th, 2011, 05:38 AM

Mangalore, Dec 18: Beary Group (Academy) will extend its wings to provide the technology service and is establishing IT services and solutions as part of its business platform, informed its top executives at Falnir Chamber in the city on Saturday December 17.

Speaking to media persons, Sayid M Beary, chairman, Beary Academy, said that they are already providing good service in the fields of education, real estate, health care, retail, and e-commerce. They will provide IT services and solutions with the partnership of Motorola and MS Bizspark.

Beary said that the new service will help IT companies in the coastal region. They are planning to open this innovative sector since the past seven to eight years and the dream has been realized now. The inauguration of the new service will be held on Sunday, December 18 at Marz Chambers, Falnir, Mangalore.

“Dr B M Hegde, former Vice Chancellor, MAHE University, will be the chief guest. Along with him Sidharth Malik, senior RFID product management, Motorola USA, M V Srinivasan, economic advisor-oil and gas affairs, ministry of national eonomy, Sultanate of Oman, will be the guest of honour,” he added.

Praveen Kumar Kalbavi, director and CEO, said that Beary Global InfoTech Ltd, is planning to provide better service through its new IT sector in the future. “Their vision is to develop industry services and provide effective solutions in this region. So far, 30 trained and qualified staff members have been appointed. Also, they have opened two developing centers in the state in Bangalore and Mangalore. This innovative service could help to Mangalore and the rural region,” he added.

Beary Group was founded in 1981, and created as ‘Green Developers’. It has won prestigious awards in India and abroad. Over the years, the academy has emerged as a leader in the entire spectrum of real estate, Shariah investments, education, telecommunication, e-commerce, mobile apps, and so on. Now its new sector of technology includes Microsoft, NET, MOSS2007/Sharepoint2010, Java, J2EE, iOS/Black Berry/Windows, Mobile/Web Android, Oracle9i/10g, SQL services2005/2008, C,C++ PHP/Open Source, and others
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mangalore mania

December 23rd, 2011, 05:15 AM

New medical college and hospital, Srinivas Institute of Medical science is going to come up at Mukka, Suratkal and a hospital with 400 beds.
So total number of medical colleges in Dakshina Kannada
AJ Institute of Medical Science
Yenepoya Medical College
KS Hegde Medical Academy
KVG Medical College Sullia,
Fr Mullers Medical college
Kasturba Medical College

Did i miss any name

hakindian1984

December 23rd, 2011, 01:26 PM

Mangalore, December 22: The Srinivas Institute of Medical Science and Research Centre and Srinivas Hospital, built under the auspices of A Shama Rao Foundation, are all set for inauguration at Srinivas Nagar, Mukka near Suratkal on the outskirts of the city.

Karnataka chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda is expected to inaugurate the Research Centre and Hospital on Friday, December 25, in the presence of Pejawar Mutt pontiff Vishweshwara Theerta Swamiji, said A Srinivas Rao, vice president of the Foundation.

State Minister of Higher Education and Religious Endowment Dr. VS Acharya, Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister Krishna J Palemar, Secretary of AICC Vinay Kumar Sorake, Vice Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore Sriprakash KS will be among the chief guests.

President of A Sharma Rao Foundation CA A Raghavendra Rao will be presiding over the function.
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mangalore mania

December 24th, 2011, 09:57 AM

Minister for Higher Education V.S. Acharya will inaugurate the yogic sciences building and laboratory at Mangalore University on December 26, Vice-Chancellor T.C. Shivashankar Murthy said on Friday.

Prof. Murthy told presspersons here that the building of the Department of Human Consciousness and Yogic Sciences had been built at a cost of Rs. 1.25 crore. The university had built the laboratory for department at a cost of Rs. 50. He said that a seminar organised in association with the Yoga Practitioners' Association of India and Dharmanidhi Yoga Peetha, Mangalore University would also be held on the same day.
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mangalore mania

January 2nd, 2012, 04:04 PM

In the 90s, the Central government’s motto was to ‘teach a child with a click.’ But now the computer has made its way into classrooms in several schools and all the schools in Karnataka will soon be found on Google Earth.
Under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, the government has taken up an initiative
to upload all the schools including lower primary, higher primary and high schools on Google Earth. As a result, an alumni of a remote school in Dakshina Kannada sitting in his posh office at USA or UK or Australia can look at his school with a click of a button.

Speaking to City Herald, SSA district coordinator Shivaprakash said
that under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) in Dakshina Kannada, the authorities concerned will use Geographic Information System (GIS) to map 1,924 schools.
“The SSA will acquire geographical coordinates of all the schools including lower primary, higher primary and high schools.

The project also includes a web-based application for accessing the District Information System of Schools Education (DISE) database and the integrated database of schools. The project includes collecting the names and addresses of each government-aided and unaided school and DISE code in each education district from the state project office. It also includes visiting the schools and capturing the geographical coordinates using GPS in a prescribed format.”

“In fact, the Block Resource Centre in each cluster has been given 3G GPS facility enabled smart phones to take the photographs of the schools. They were asked to capture minimum of 10 photographs of every school that covers the school building and any other infrastructure present within the premises. Each photograph will capture the correct description of the particular school. In Dakshina Kannada, the photographs of all the schools have been clicked and sent to state SSA office.

Though uploading of all the schools of Dakshina Kannada has been complete, it is not open for the public access. It will be open for the public only when all the process in all the districts are complete. Once all the photographs are collected, it will be verified. Through the National Information Centre’s data server, all the information provided by the DISE will be uploaded to the Google Earth.”

He says that even the schools which were temporarily closed down were included while taking the photographs.

The details pertaining to the number of students, teachers, facilities available in the schools will also be uploaded on the Google Earth in the future. The initiative will help in giving information on the drinking water facility, toilet facility in schools and to implement the development work.

The functioning of the BRC and CRP can be viewed at the state-level through GPS mobile facility. At the same time, during election, the details from a particular booth can be obtained easily through GPS facility, he added
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mangalore mania

January 18th, 2012, 05:19 PM

Mangalore: The National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Suratkal (NITK) has been collaborating with a school for the visually challenged, Roman and Catherine Lobo School, over the last few months. As part of the project, the NITK has developed many educational solutions to aid the visually impaired students.

The project has been a great success and to celebrate it, the school is organizing a function on Thursday, Jan 19 at 3 pm in the school. The event will be attended by the director and deans of NITK and the director of Seva Bharati Trust, Mangalore.
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This function is expected to promote the NITK initiative and is aimed at getting other visually challenged individuals to benefit from their technologies which are free and open source.

About Roman and Catherine Lobo School for the Blind (RCLSB)

RCLSB is a full-fledged school for the visually impaired children in Dakshina Kannada, established by the Seva Bharati Trust. It aims at providing formal education as per the Karnataka Education Board syllabus. Along with this, computer education and computer skills are also taught.

The other informal methods of education include orientation and mobility, independent living, handicrafts, special games like cricket, chess and so on.

The aim is to impart first to seventh standard education in Braille, which will include subjects like English, Kannada, Hindi, science, mathematics, social studies, physical education and moral `education.

The long-term goal of the school is to make the visually challenged stand on their own feet and open to them the wide doors of knowledge based society and create opportunities for them in the hope that they will play a role in nation building.
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ajay ramchandran

February 22nd, 2012, 09:27 PM

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Krishnamoorthy K

February 24th, 2012, 07:33 AM

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Mangalore, Feb 22,2012, DHNS:

Mangalore University has established a Centre for Application of Radioisotopes and Radiation Technology (CARRT), in collaboration with Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS) and Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology (BRIT), Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Mumbai.

A view of the laboratory at Centre for Application of Radioisotopes and Radiation Technology to be opened in Mangalore University on Thursday.The CARRT will be inaugurated on Thursday, by Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Dr Srikumar Banerjee.

According to a press release, the BRNS has provided Rs three crore to establish the centre. Mangalore University has spent about Rs 60 lakhs to establish the laboratories required for the Centre as per the guidelines of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), Government of India. Scientists from the BRIT and BARC have worked with the university in establishing the Centre. This Centre is first of its kind amongst the Indian universities established for the purpose.

CARRT has laboratories including Gamma Irradiator, Radioimmunoassay/Immuno Radiometryassay Lab, Radioiodinaiton Lab, Carbon-14 and Other Radioisotope lab, Hybridoma and Cell Culture Lab and Radiation Counting and Instrumentation Lab.

Through certificate courses and other educational programmes, the centre will provide the needed technical support and training for graduate and post graduate students from biological sciences, medical, pharmaceutical and agricultural sciences, and young researchers, in the field of radiation technology and applications of radioisotopes.

Summer and vacation courses for a few selected students of undergraduate science courses will be held to inspire the students to pursue the higher studies in basic and applied sciences using radiations and radio technology. The Centre will also conduct tailor-made short term training programmes to scientists and engineers from industries and other R and D organizations. CARRT will also act as nodal agency to facilitate research in areas that involve radiation and radioisotopes application.

Reserarch

The research to be undertaken in the CARRT include radiolabelling of biological molecules for biological research, development of antibodies and radioimmunoassay, tracer experiments using Carbon-14 labeled compounds for biological research, gamma radiation effect on materials, low level counting and isotope hydrology.

Studies on production of insulin and its quantification, Helicobacter pylori (responsible for gastric and duodenal ulcer) infection incidences in coastal population, radioprotective effects of some drugs (bioflavonoids), conservation of endemic and endangered trees species of Western Ghats through radiation exposure of seeds are some of the ongoing research projects sanctioned by the BRNS in the first phase of the programme.

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Mangalore varsity gets new facility on radiation technology

Mangalore, Feb. 22:

Mangalore University's new facility - Centre for Application of Radioisotopes and Radiation Technology (CARRT) - will be inaugurated on February 23.

Addressing presspersons here on Wednesday, Prof T.C. Shivashankara Murthy, Vice-Chancellor of the university, said that Dr Srikumar Banerjee, Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), will inaugurate the facility.

He said that CARRT will provide the technical support and training for graduate and post-graduate students from biological sciences, medical, pharmaceutical, and agricultural sciences through certificate courses and other educational programmes.

Summer and vacation courses for students of undergraduate science courses will be held to inspire them pursue higher studies in basic and applied sciences using radiation technology.

Tailor-made programmes

Prof Murthy said this centre will also conduct tailor-made short-term training programmes to scientists and engineers from industries.

CARRT will also design and develop the syllabus on the application of radioisotopes and radiation technology suitable to introduce in different graduate and post-graduate courses.
nodal agency

It will also act as a nodal agency to facilitate research in areas that involve radiation and radioisotopes application.

He said that CARRT has been established in collaboration with Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS) and Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology (BRIT) of the Department of Atomic Energy, and signed a memorandum of agreement (MoU) with them.

Under the MoU, BRNS has provided Rs 3 crore to establish the centre.

The Mangalore University has spent Rs 60 lakh to establish the laboratories required for the centre according to the guidelines of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB).

Stating that scientists from BRIT and BARC (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre) have worked with the university in establishing the centre, Prof Murthy said this is the first of its kind amongst the Indian universities.

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hakindian1984

February 24th, 2012, 03:18 PM

Mangalore, Feb 24, 2012: National Institute of Technology – Karnataka (NIT-K) in Suratkal will hold its 9th annual convocation on Feb 25 Saturday.

Making the above announcement at a press conference held today, G. Umesh, the professor of the department of physics and dean (research and consultancy) of NIT – K, said that the convocation ceremony will be held in NIT-K’s Silver Jubilee Auditorium at 11:00 a.m.

Revealing further details, he said that Padmashree Dr. Shrikumar Banerjee, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, will deliver the convocation address.

Sushil Chandra Tripathi, the chairman of the Board of the Governors of NIT-K, will preside and Prof. Sandeep Sancheti, the director of NIT-K, will deliver the welcome address.

He also said that senate members, board of governors, board of governors, parents, staff members, and others will participate in the convocation ceremony, during which 509 students will graduate with B.Tech degrees, 455 with M.Tech, 70 with MCA, 40 with MBA, 42 with M.Sc, and 16 with Ph.D. Besides, medals for outstanding academic performance will be conferred on 37 students, he added.

Revealing statistics of students passing out of the institutions, Prof. Umesh said that 1132 students passed out in 2010 – 11. He also informed that the peak salary in India for students passing out is Rs. 16 lakh per year and the international salary is Rs. 64 lakh per year.

Krishnamoorthy K

March 10th, 2012, 01:17 PM

Manipal, March 9 2012, DHNS:

Manipal University established the Innovation Centre and Technology Business Incubator (MUTBI) at Manipal Institute of Technology as a part of its growth in innovation and entrepreneurship in 2010. The initiative forms part of its vision to become a world class university.

The centre has been encouraging student innovations and start-ups and is developing an ecosystem for boosting research and Innovation outcome of MU, said co-chairman of MUTBI Luis Miranda.

In the first of its kind initiative in the country, MUTBI will set up satellite centers at Manipal University institutions at Sikkim in June this year and Jaipur on March 21, 2012 to support the alumni. “Currently the Centre in Manipal supports six companies with nearly 15 employees and 45 interns working for them. The management hopes to target 50 companies and employee strength of 1000 in the next five years,” Luis said.

This plan to start the satellite centers is in line with the Social obligation of the University to encourage and nurture innovation and entrepreneurship among students, faculty and people of the region.

The policy and procedures applicable to MUTBI will be extended to these centers. One faculty coordinator each will be from the representative University who will be managing the centre.

The operating expenses of the Centre are supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, with a funding of Rs 3.3 crores and an additional fund of Rs 66 Lakhs from MSME, Government of India, he added.

MUTBI CEO Professor Manohara Pai M M said the centre was working on a project to generate Green power up to 2MW, through Solar photovoltaic, using the roof top model. Initially, the power generated will be available to MU and gradually extended to other sites. Our vision is to make Manipal as the first solar city to generate 50- 100 per cent power used during day time from solar energy. With this, MU would become the first university in the country to achieve this feat. The Centre is introducing a new course titled Innovation and Entrepreneurship, as an open elective, with 3 to 6 credits, for the benefit of students of Manipal University.

A unique Pre-Incubation facility will be attached with the course as a launch pad for start-ups.

Based on the experience gained from this, a School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship will be setup in the academic year 2013-14, for an MBA/Executive MBA program. The course and the program will be run jointly with the support of TAPMI, Manipal, he said.

Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Mobile applications and Game development is envisioned in order to promote inclusive growth, it is proposed to set up a CoE in mobile applications.

Besides the University is setting up a World class Central Instrumentation Facility with an outlay of Rs 6 Crores at MIT, he said.

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Krishnamoorthy K

March 14th, 2012, 08:02 AM

110 schools to have playgrounds
Naina J A, Mangalore, Mar 12,2012, DHNS:

* Work can be taken up under MGNREGS too

All those government primary schools, which do not have playgrounds will get playgrounds within a year.

Speaking to Deccan Herald, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan district co-ordinator Shivaprakash said that 110 government primary schools do not have playgrounds in the district. A proposal has already been submitted to the government through Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan to allot land to have playgrounds in these schools. The work on playgrounds can be taken up under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) as well.

White paper on toilets

As per the direction of the Supreme Court, all the schools must have toilets by March 31, 2012.

Accordingly, preparations are on for issuing a white paper on toilet facilities in schools in Dakshina Kannada.

Shivaprakash said “all the 1,181 primary schools including 955 government schools have toilets, as per the guidelines issued by the Supreme Court. We are also conducting a re survey to make sure that all the schools have toilet facilities. The survey will be completed by March 20. After the survey, the Deputy Commissioner will issue a white paper on the same before March 31,” he said.

All the Block Education Officers and head teachers of the schools have already confirmed in writing that all the schools in their jurisdiction have toilet facilities. Dakshina Kannada has seven education blocks with 114 clusters.

Under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, as many as 108 disabled-friendly toilets have been constructed in 108 schools in the last two years, at the cost of Rs 50,000 each.

“We have submitted a proposal to the government to construct disabled-friendly toilets in all the schools in its Action Plan for 2012-13. We have identified 13 schools, which will require additional toilets, which will be constructed during 2012-13.”

At the same time, all the schools have water facility. There are few schools which have three sources of water i.e well, borewell and panchayat water connection. All the schools in Dakshina Kannada have basic infrastructure of electricity as well.

Two school buildings which are under construction at Nadupadavu and Kundadka are yet to get the electricity connection, he said.

All the government schools in Dakshina Kannada can also boast of having a library. Under SSA, grant of Rs 3,000 to Rs 13,000 was given to the schools to purchase books for the library, he said.

During 2012-13, 33,200 metres compound wall for the school property will be constructed in Dakshina Kannada district.

“We have also asked for furniture for 23,000 students this year, so that the old furniture can be replaced. At the same time, a proposal of Rs three crore has been submitted to the government for repairing the school buildings in the district.”

Teacher-students ratio

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan district coordinator Shivaprakash said that as per the Right To Education Act, the teacher and the students ratio should be 1:30. In Dakshina Kannada, the average teacher-students ratio is 1:24.

“Under SSA, we have sought funds for the construction of four additional classrooms during 2012-13. As 13 schools do not have a separate head masters’ room, the construction of the same has been included in the proposal for 2012-13.”

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Krishnamoorthy K

March 14th, 2012, 08:37 AM

* The research project will cater to the institute and also feed the state grid

Come summer and the state dreads power breakdowns. In an attempt to mitigate the power crisis, a rooftop wind-solar hybrid power system was recently set up at the National Institute of Technology-Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal.

Dr Dattatraya N Gaonkar, who is part of the project, told Bangalore Mirror that a 10-kW wind-solar hybrid power system was set up as part of a research project funded by the ministry of power (MoP) through the Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bangalore. The system is connected to the local MESCOM grid. It can cater to the demand of both MESCOM and NITK.

The system consists of two wind turbines of 3.2 kW each and a photovoltaic system of 3.6 kW capacity, a power electronic converter control system and related equipment. The converter can detect the load in NITK and feed the institute or connect to the MESCOM grid.

The project is being undertaken in two phases at a cost of Rs 25 lakh each.

The first phase covered the installation, which is complete. Studies on various parameters like the quality of power and wind speed are going on.
The researchers are also looking at the possibility of having rooftop grids for domestic purpose. Once the results of the studies are out, in the second phase, the researchers will design new controls for schemes considering two other sources, like fuel cell and micro turbines, along with the existing wind and solar systems.

Gaonkar said, “The project is a step towards setting up a micro-grid with multiple distributed energy sources capable of operating both in grid connected and isolated operation.” The others in the project include Dr Udayakumar Yerragatti and several PhD scholars.

Prof Sandeep Sancheti, director of NITK, Surathkal, said, “We are taking the lead in harnessing renewable energy sources through these projects. Also, such initiatives are needed for research purposes.”

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Krishnamoorthy K

April 3rd, 2012, 07:26 AM

Mangalore,Mar 31, 2012, DHNS :

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Reading corner in every classroom is speciality in this institution

A look at the campus of the Mullakadu Government Higher Primary School at Kavoor in Mangalore will give a person an idea of how a government school should ideally be.

A teacher helping students in their studies at Mullakadu Government Higher Primary School. dh photoNormally, a typical government Kannada school faces some shortcoming in facilities.

Be it hygiene, classroom, teachers, toilets, mid-day-meals there is always some issue that needs to be dealt with ‘urgently.’

However, a visit to this school is likely to change the perception of a government school.

The tiled floors, full-fledged library, playground, and a rangamandira can be seen only in private schools. However, here is a government school which is a head of others.

The school was started in 1965. At present as many as 257 students are pursuing education from first to eighth standard. Under Rashtriya Madhyamika Shikshana, ninth standard has been started from 2011-12. Now, the Zilla Panchayat has declared the school as a model school in the district.

The school had not received any additional funds to carry out the activities. Utilising the available funds, the school has created facilities for it, said officials.

Seating arrangement has been made for all the children in Nali Kali classrooms. One can also get a view of round table in the classroom for discussion.

The students are given opportunity to portray their creativity including in writing stories, poems in the classroom daily. ‘Meena Club’ is active in the school. The Club trains girl children in developing leadership quality, creates awareness on hygiene.

Reading corner in every classroom is the speciality of the school. The reference books needed for the students of a particular class are kept in the mini library in every classroom. This has helped the students to gain knowledge. At the same time, every classroom has teaching aids. The school also has a complaint box, first aid box, computer room, disable friendly toilet, water facility and fire extinguisher.

The school is ahead of the rest of schools in maintaining the documents pertaining to the school. The National Joint Inspection Committee from New Delhi had visited the school in January 2011. The committee has not made any remarks on the loopholes in maintaining the documents. With the effort of school head teacher Chandravathi Rai, the school was able to get the attention from all over.

She has won state-level best teacher award. Now, she wants to retire from service by taking up the work on compound wall. As many as eight teachers are tirelessly working by joining hands with each other to make the school a model school.

About 98 per cent of the children who are pursuing education come from labour class. Of which 80 per cent are from SC/ST. The students say prayers in English and Kannada on alternative days. Hence, children are quite confident of English language, says teachers.

Speaking to Deccan Herald, Zilla Panchayat CEO Dr K N Vijayaprakash said “Mullakadu school was not given any special funds. However, the school authorities have utilised the available funds effectively. I feel proud to say that this is our model school.”

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan coordinator Shivaprakash said “we want all the government schools to excel on the model of Mullakadu school.”

DHNS (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/238609/model-government-school-dk.html)

Krishnamoorthy K

April 8th, 2012, 07:35 AM

RENUKA PHADNIS

Last week, the Deputy Director of Public Instruction (DDPI) of Hassan wanted to speak to teachers of government high schools in Bantwal. Instead of travelling to each school, located in remote corners of this taluk, he pulled up at B.C. Road on NH8 and walked into the office of the Block Education Office. There, he logged into the Net, and using a webcam and Skype, he spoke to teachers of Navoor High School and Government High School, Manchi, about the "guidelines to improve SSLC results."

The school is part of Meghavahini, a project that, for the first time in the State, links online 35 government high schools, all in Bantwal, it is said. Seven aided schools and six private schools are also networked.

Other than officials, School Development Monitoring Committee (SDMC) presidents, headmasters (HMs), teachers, and students of Class 8 to 10, communicate with their counterparts in other networked schools using the webcam.

Chamaraj A.T, Hassan DDPI, said: "We are so loaded with work in this system of administration that we cannot reach many schools though we are concerned about them. So we say, 'You please come online'. It is a good way of creating a bond."

He said that teachers feel good that the DDPI was sitting with them trying to sort out their problems while enabling and motivating the headmaster.

He said: "There is so much stress on getting high marks, anxiety, and the HM is the pivot of any change in schools. But if we don't talk to teachers and give them confidence...the HM will not be motivated...

This (web conference) gives him moral support and is a real way to understand him and his subject, appreciate it.

It makes a difference to the way he transfers knowledge to his students."

Shashimangala Pai, HM Government High School, Sujir, near Farangipete, who came online, told The Hindu on the webcam that official communication and exam preparation were subjects that were frequently discussed.

H.N. Nanjundaswamy, Headmaster of the Government High School, Navoor, which is 6 km from B.C. Road, said that he and his students spoke over the webcam with other government high schools (such as the ones in Kavalapadur, Kanyana, Panjikallu, Soorya and Kodamannu).

Power shutdowns and connectivity pose a challenge. However, BSNL does respond to phone calls and ensures the connection was restored, said Ramananda, Education Co-ordinator, Bantwal.

Sudhakar K., BEO, Bantwal, said that 81 schools would get networked by July this year in Meghavahini. Plans were on to tie up with local engineering colleges so that students could learn more of electronics and physics.

Srinivas College, Valachil, is building a website that will help 380 educational institutions in Bantwal communicate, he said.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/article3272578.ece

Krishnamoorthy K

April 8th, 2012, 07:38 AM

TNN Apr 5, 2012, 05.26AM IST

MANGALORE: Children in Dakshina Kannada district will get an opportunity to visit farms and understand agriculture activities as part of their curriculum if a proposal submitted by the Dakshina Kannada unit of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is approved by the Union government.

With an aim to help children sustain their curiosity through exposure to vocations and help them understand its importance, the activity called 'Chinnarige Krushi Vrutti Darshana" (agri darshana) programme was proposed by the SSA district unit for 2012-13.

The activity will expose children to vocations like horticulture, sericulture, bio-fuel, organic farming, apiculture, fisheries, poultry, medicinal plant cultivation, vermicompost, kitchen gardening, agri processing unit, rainwater harvesting, dairy etc. Target children are students of class VIII. A total of 6,500 children in the district will get the opportunity to get on field experience through the programme, once it is approved by the Union ministry of human resource development.

SSA deputy project coordinator N Shivaprakash told TOI that the programme was included in the annual plan as it was recommended in the National Curriculum Framework 2005.

"The main objective of the programme is to impart basics of farming and other activities. The programme will help children learn more effectively when exposed to a practical situation," he added.

A maximum of five venues in each block will be selected for the programme, he said adding that it would require Rs 150 per child to implement the scheme. A district-level execution committee will be formed and it will be headed by either the deputy commissioner or chief executive officer of the zilla panchayat.

The role of such committees will be to identify and select an ideal location for krushi vrutti darshana, he said adding that voluntary organizations or individuals will be roped in for the support of the program unconditionally.

TOI (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-05/mangalore/31293816_1_organic-farming-ssa-programme)

mangalore mania

April 13th, 2012, 01:16 PM

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S.C. Patil, Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, Kannada University, Hampi, lighting the lamp to inaugurate the N.G. Pavanje Memorial Endowment Lecture, in Mangalore University on Thursday.

The Mangalore University has initiated the process to seek permission of the State Government to start a certificate course in Fine Arts.

Speaking at the N.G. Pavanje Memorial Lecture, Vice-Chancellor T.C. Shivashankara Murthy said on Thursday that a panel of seven persons, including S.C. Patil, Dean of Kannada University's Faculty of Fine Arts, was working out the syllabus and regulations for the certificate course in fine arts. “One of the meetings of the panel is scheduled today,” he said. The syllabus and the regulations framed by the seven-member panel would be placed before the University's Academic Council and the Syndicate.

The university would then send the same before the State Government and seek permission to start the course. Mr. Murthy later told The Hindu that starting a certificate course would be a step towards commencing Bachelors and Masters Degree course in the fine arts.

They would consider starting a Fine Arts Faculty in the University, He said the university was awaiting permission of the State Government to start the M.A. (Bharatanatyam) course. Mr. Murthy said response had been poor to undergraduate courses in dance and music.

The Vice-Chancellor said Mangalore University had been working towards protection and promotion of native language, art, and culture. The university had 19 chairs dedicated to various subjects including Tulu, Yakshagana, and Fine Arts.

“Except for Ambigara Chowdaiah Chair, all the 18 chairs are active. In case of Ambika Chowdaiah Chair we are awaiting passage of a statute necessary for its working,” Mr. Murthy added.
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Krishnamoorthy K

April 13th, 2012, 03:14 PM

Tailoring course for unemployed youth

Mangalore, April 11, 2012, DHNS:

* Unit will have 48 sewing machines

Mangalore Institute of Fashion Technology (MIFT) in association with the Department of Textiles and Handlooms will hold training for unemployed youth in tailoring under Suvarna Vastraneethi, at its premises in Mangalore.

Addressing a press meet, MIFT Director M G Hegde said that Department of Textiles and Handlooms has set up a full-fledged unit in MIFT with 48 sewing machines to impart training to the youth.
He said minimum 40 youth can be given training in the unit at a time.

The applicant should have passed seventh standard and must be below 35 years of age. The selected will get a stipend of Rs 2,000 per month. Three types of training are given for the applicants viz one month, two month and three month.

The initial month-long training focuses on the operation of electrical and electronic sewing machines, with special emphasis on how to control the speed and maximise production and stitching. The training will help many youth in securing jobs in the readymade garment manufacturing units, in Bangalore and Hassan. “In fact, we are in contact with 10 garment manufacturing companies for providing placement for the trained youth,” he added.

He said there is a demand for cutting experts, quality control assistants and embroidery tailors. There is a need for 10,000 tailors for the garment units in Bangalore and Hassan. The MSW students are creating awareness among unemployed youth in and around Mangalore on Suvarna Vastraneethi.

However, several youth are not ready to get trained as many feel that tailoring is not a good profession, he said adding that pamphlets are distributed among the youth.

Two staffs from MIFT were given special training at Garment Training Institute in Bangalore, to impart training for the unemployed youth in the institute.

He said the institute with 20 machines was providing free training for unemployed youth for the last two years. “We had organised training in tailoring for 10 batches of students with 20 students each. About 150 trained youth are working in and around Mangalore and Manipal,” he said.

The best student in each batch hailing from economically poor background was given an electrically operated sewing machine free of cost by the institute chairman Dr Aroor Prasad Rao.

DHNS (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/241355/tailoring-course-unemployed-youth.html)

Although Garments & Apparels may not come us a part of MSEZ now we have news of a Garment unit coming up in Sulya.

mangalore mania

April 26th, 2012, 05:35 AM

Degree course in hairdressing sought
The Hindu, UDUPI, April 26, 2012 (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article3355090.ece)
President of Alva's Education Foundation Mohan Alva has urged the Mangalore University to start a three-year degree course in hairdressing. He was speaking at the valedictory of the workshop-cum-exhibition on hair dressing organised by the Bhandary Maha Mandala, here.

Dr. Alva said that efforts should be made to start the degree course so that those who had passed their Pre-University Course (PUC) could take advantage of it. Such a course should be taught in English, Kannada, and Hindi mediums, he said and urged the Bhandary Maha Mandala to put in serious efforts in this regard.

MLA Raghupati Bhat said a proposal would be submitted through the Bhandary Maha Mandala to the State Government to start a diploma course in hairdressing.

President of Bhandary Maha Mandala K. Suresh Bhandary, president of Mumbai Bagwadi Mogaveera Mahajana Sangh Suresh Kanchan, hairstylist from Mumabi K. Shivaram Bhandary, and president of district unit of Savita Samaj Govinda Bhandary were present.

Krishnamoorthy K

May 3rd, 2012, 11:13 AM

Mahesh PU College, Alake, Mangalore

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Just wonder whether hostel block is a highrise.

New PU college open today (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/6539/banner-300x250.swf)

M T Educare Trust (http://www.mteducare.com/mteducare.asp)

I think M T Educare is opening an MBA college also.

mangalore mania

May 8th, 2012, 05:55 PM

Mangalore: Specialized Course of BA- Security Management, Detective Science in City Now
Daijiworld
Tuesday, May 08, 2012 (http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=137369)

Mangalore, May 8: Mangalore Institute of Fashion Technoloy (MIFT) is the first college to offer a full three year of degree programme in B A in security and detective security recognized by Mangalore University in the field of security and intelligence management, stated a press release here on Tuesday, May 8.

Detective and security is a demanding profession with tremendous challenges. It requires intelligence, reasoning, good communication skills and attention to details. Private security and investigation management is an ideal career for youth in India.
This course is known for its unique and professional training. Its learning component makes it easier to grasp and more interesting than conventional instruction. The quality and strength of the course lies in easy, step-by-step training methods. The students get to conduct real assignments-vehicle and foot surveillances, civil and criminal background checks, locate missing persons, conduct on-line research, trace license extract and telephone numbers all in city.

The multi-media training component with careful guidance will help the students become street smart and enable them to pick the secrets of the trade to get fast results as the modern detective and security personnel must be able to use a wide variety of equipment as aids to investigation, ranging from binoculars, cell phones, video recorders and camera to the most advanced small hidden camera, night vision equipment and counter surveillance system, practically everything that would preserve evidences. It opens a wide range of careers for the youth.

For more information, one can contact to Johnson R on 9686584961, Princeson L (9845078946) and Meena Malani (9880407918).

mangalore mania

May 19th, 2012, 09:44 AM

Dakshina Kannada gets excellent results
The Hindu (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article3435041.ece)

123 schools secured 100 per cent pass result this year in SSLC as against 53 schools last year
22 government schools have achieved the feat
Special classes by teachers pay dividend

This year, the number of schools in Dakshina Kannada with cent per cent pass in the SSLC examinations, has more than doubled.

In 2011-12, 124 schools have got cent per cent pass results in the district when compared to 53 schools in 2010-11.

Of the 124 schools with cent per cent pass this year, 22 are government schools, nine aided schools, and 93 unaided schools, said a release from the Deputy Director of Public Instruction, Dakshina Kannada. (In 2010-11, of the 53 schools that had scored 100 per cent pass results, there were eight government schools, two aided schools and 43 unaided schools.)

The same trend is reflected in Mangalore city where schools had overall got a higher pass percentage than last year.

Mangalore city block

The pass percentage in Mangalore City block is 94 per cent this year, an increase of over last year's 89 per cent. It stood first this year (and last year), in the district, Dayawathi, Block Education Officer (BEO), told presspersons in the city on Friday.

She said that in Mangalore city, 14 schools had got cent per cent pass result. Of them, two are government schools: Balmatta Government Pre University College for Girls (High School Section) and Government Junior Technical High School, Kadri Hills.

The one aided school with cent per cent pass is Adarsh Bharathi High School, Padil.

The 11 unaided schools with cent per cent results are: Capitanio English High School, Kankanady, Nalanda English Medium High School, V.T. Road, St. Aloysius High School, Urwa, BGH High School, Kavoor, St. Joseph's High School, Kulshekar, BEM High School, Car Street, Noble High School, Kunjathbail, Sarojini Madhusudan Kushe High School, Attavar, Beary's Public School, Hat Hill, Indira Gandhi Memorial High School, Konchady, and St. Ann's School, Kuntikana.

In Mangalore City, the pass percentage is 85.65 in government schools, 93.94 in aided schools and 96.16 in unaided schools.

Meanwhile, the pass percentage is 99.4 in three government schools: Milagres High School, Hampankatta, Sacred Heart High School, Kulshekara and Shrinivas Pathashala, V.T. Road. All three schools are opting for a re-evaluation as each of them has one student who has failed despite excelling year round, she said.

All girls pass

While all 77 students (all girls) of Balmatta Government Pre University College for Girls (High School Section) have passed, six have got distinction and 44 have got first class.

Ms. Dayawathi said that the school (which is in the same compound as her office) had teachers who worked like a family. Students begin the day with yoga and meditation.

Vinoda B., Headmistress in charge, Balmatta Government Pre University College for Girls (High School Section), told The Hindu that the results were due to the efforts of the eight schoolteachers, who worked as a team. In particular, the success was due to the special classes that the school held every day since June last year to clear the doubts of students from classes 8, 9 and 10. One teacher handles two days of special classes.

All students are encouraged irrespective of their academic performance. Last year (2010-11), the school's pass percentage was 95 and it was 100 in 2009-10, she said.

Puttur, Belthangady

Sheshashayana Karinja, Block Education Officer, Puttur, told The Hindu that 24 schools got cent per cent pass including one government school (Government High School, Sarve), two aided, and 21 unaided schools.

He said that the pass percentage has improved throughout the block due to training camps and the daily one-hour class held for six subjects on six days and special Maths coaching, he said.

Shivaram Bhat, Principal, Government High School, Sarve, told The Hindu that teachers held monthly tests and group discussions which helped students.

In Belthangady block, 16 schools got cent per cent pass. Of them four are Government schools (including Kalmanje, Guruvayankere, Mithabagilu and Koiyuru), six are aided and six are unaided schools, Lokesh C., BEO, Belthangady told The Hindu .

mangalore mania

May 19th, 2012, 09:45 AM

Nice to see so many govt colleges with cent percent results

mangalore mania

May 19th, 2012, 09:47 AM

81 Udupi schools get 100 per cent pass result (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/article3432147.ece)

Only one school gets below 60 per cent pass result
As many as 81 high schools in Udupi have scored 100 per cent pass results in the SSLC examinations, the results for which were announced on Thursday.

According to the information provided by the Department of Public Instruction here, of the 81 high schools, 15 are aided high schools, 22 government high schools, and 44 unaided high schools.

As many as 232 schools in the district have got above 80 per cent pass results. They include 59 aided high schools, 100 government high schools, and 73 unaided high schools.

As many as 12 high schools have got between 60 per cent and 80 per cent pass results. They include three aided high schools, eight government high schools, and one unaided high school.

Only one government school in the district got pass result below 60 per cent.

STUDENTS

As many as 16,071 students had appeared for SSLC exams in the district. Of these, 14,387 had passed. Girls performed better than boys in the examination. Of the 8,058 girls who had appeared for the examinations, 7,537 had passed. Of the 8,013 boys, 6,852 had passed.

PERFORMANCE

Unaided high schools performed better than aided and government high schools in the district. But unaided schools had lesser number of students than government and aided schools. The pass percentage in unaided high schools was 93.49 per cent, while it was 87.18 per cent in aided high schools and 80.36 per cent in government high schools.

Of 3,691 students from government high schools, 2,966 had passed. Of the 2,449 students who had appeared for the exam from aided high schools, 2,135 had passed. Of the 1,873 students from unaided high schools who had appeared for the exam, 1,751 had passed.

HIGH SCORES

As per the information available on the internet and by the schools to the Department of Public Instruction, there are five top scoring students in the district in the SSLC exams.

They are: Sanjana Aithal from Sri Venkataramana High School, Kundapur (615 out of 625 marks); Akshata Nayak from Sri Venkataramana High School, Kundapur (614/625); Neeraj from T.A. Pai English Medium School, Udupi (614/625); Mayur Mallya from T.A. Pai English Medium School (613/625); and Anaghashree from St. Mary's English Medium School, Kannarpady, Udupi, (613/625).

Sanjana Aithal, who stood first in Udupi district, has attributed her success to her family members, teachers, and hard work. Speaking to The Hindu over the telephone, Ms. Aithal said that she used to travel from her house in Amasebail village to Kundapur town on the school bus, which was one-and-a-half hour's journey.

Her favourite subject is mathematics. She did not attend any tuitions.

“I used to study daily for three hours. I used to read what was taught in the school daily. Hence it was not heavy during the examinations. I used to be attentive in class. This used to help me grasp the subject properly,” she said.

“I want to become a doctor as I like to help people. I want to join MGM College in Udupi for PUC,” Ms. Aithal said.

mangalore mania

May 23rd, 2012, 10:33 PM

Now a lab for law graduates as well (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Now-a-lab-for-law-graduates-as-well/articleshow/13413674.cms)

MANGALORE: Science students fiddling with beakers, test tubes or any other apparatus in labs is a common feature. Giving a similar hands on experiment to law graduates in a first of its kind initiative for any law school anywhere in India is the law laboratory at SDM Law College and Centre for Post-Graduate Studies and Research in Law here. This lab is useful not only to law students, but also for legal professional and even for the general public.

Legal process is evidentiary in nature. Familiarity with umpteen number of documents is the lifeline for advocates. While students are informed about these documents in theory classes, most would getting a feel of these documents for the first time when they enter the profession leading to doubts on how to use them. The lab, which has more than 150 types of documents connected to legal profession, gives students a hands on feel of these documents.

Result of pain staking efforts of more than a year by BK Ravindra, the college principal, this laboratory in its inceptional stage, has already won accolades from the National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC), peer committee of Bar Council of India as well National School of Law University (NLSU), Bangalore. Uday Kumar, professor of law too has played an important role in adding to the collection and setting up the lab, Ravindra says.

Class room teaching gives students knowledge about the documents, Ravindra told TOI. The general confusions that students face with regard to using these documents once they enter the profession is what prompted the college to set up the lab, he said. On display at the lab are copies of handwritten, typed and computer generated judgments of Supreme Court, High Court. These are rare and have resulted due to personal rapport, Ravindra confided.

In addition to these documents, lab has charts pertaining to structure of courts, history of legal institutions as well as names of incumbents - present and past. This information too is very useful to law graduates. Asked if Karnataka State Law University has plans to replicate this experiment in Ravindra, who is the dean of KSLU says, "Setting up the lab is a cost expensive proposition and we have succeeded due to support from the management."

mangalore mania

May 23rd, 2012, 10:38 PM

On a mission to create workforce
Manipal Global Education plans more corporate education institutes to churn out industry-ready graduates
Business Standards (http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mission-to-mouldfuture-workforce/475184/)

BUILDING A TALENT BANK
* Tie-up with ICICI Bank for MBA in banking and finance, and partnerships with Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Bank of Baroda for one-year PG diploma in banking
* Courses focus on developing domain knowledge, soft skills, personality and leadership skills
* Plans to set up institutes that will train graduates for infotech, manufacturing and BPO industries

Time and again, those at the helm of companies across sectors have deplored the ‘unemployability’ of graduates which many of the country’s colleges churn out. For instance, last April, IT lobby body Nasscom said of the yearly 5,50,000 engineering college graduates, only 25 per cent was immediately employable. Manipal Global Education (MaGE), arm of the Manipal Education and Medical Group that runs its campuses abroad, is now looking to step into this gap by setting up various training institutes of corporate education.

In his first interview after his appointment as chief executive officer and managing director of MaGE, Vaitheeswaran S said the idea was to use the platform to drive the group’s growth in India.

By corporate education, Vaitheeswaran is referring to the Rs 1,100-crore entity’s programmes in India that look to make graduates industry-ready, such as the ICICI Manipal Academy for Banking and Insurance, a joint venture between ICICI Bank and the Manipal group, which offers an MBA in banking and finance. Tie-ups with Bank of Baroda, Axis Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank are already in place for one-year postgraduate diplomas in banking and finance. A similar programme with Andhra Bank will be launched next month.

This model, explains Vaitheeswaran, who will take over the position of managing director from Anand Sudarshan on July 1, focuses on domain knowledge, soft skills and personality development and leadership skills. “Unlike in the past, where education was centred first in the metropolises and later in cities like Pune and Ahmedabad, more and more students are now passing out from places all over the country, including tier-III cities. Students from smaller towns are as bright as their counterparts in cities, but they lack confidence and soft skills, among other things. This is where our institutes come in,” he says. The group has started with banking institutes, but plans to extend the model to other verticals such as infotech, manufacturing and business process outsourcing (BPO).

Corporate education, though, forms a small part of MaGE’s revenues, around 55 per cent of which comes from its five campuses abroad. The first of these was a medical college in Nepal, set up by Ramdas Pai, the son of Manipal University founder

T M A Pai, in 1994. This was followed by the Melaka Manipal College in Malaysia in 1997, a campus in Dubai in 2000 and the acquisition of American University of Antigua in 2008. The latest addition to the fold is a multi-disciplinary campus in Kuala Lumpur, the Manipal International University. Apart from corporate education in India, Dubai and Malaysia are what Vaitheeswaran has identified as “high engines of growth”. Talks are also on with the Sri Lankan government to set up a campus there. Currently, there are around 3,000 students in MaGE’s campuses abroad.

The other big project in the pipeline for Manipal Education and Medical Group, the holding company, is a five-university cluster, which is being looked after by Mohandas Pai, the non-executive chairman of MaGE and former Infosys chief financial officer and HR head. Of the five, the university in Jaipur is already up and running, while talks are on to set up campuses in Bangalore and Orissa.

mangalore mania

May 24th, 2012, 02:22 PM

Mangalore varsity will soon have Directorate of Correspondence Courses (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/article3451645.ece)

Government approves 35 permanent posts for academic, administrative
The State Government has approved a proposal of Mangalore University to create 35 permanent posts comprising academic and administrative in its proposed directorate of correspondence courses, said sources.

Sources told The Hindu that the Governor who is the Chancellor of universities approved the “Draft Statute Governing the Creation of Academic and Administrative Posts in the Directorate of Correspondence Courses in Mangalore University” on May 16, 2012. It was awaiting the approval for over two years.

Sources said that the university, after notifying the draft statute approved last week, could recruit candidates for 35 posts. They said that another draft statute which should formally allow the university to establish the directorate had been awaiting approval for over two years. Since the Government had approved creation of 35 posts in the proposed directorate, approval for the “Draft Statute for Establishment of Directorate of Correspondence Courses in Mangalore University” was just a formality. It was expected soon, sources said.

Sources said that of the posts approved include that of a Director and a Deputy Director, two posts each of assistant directors, supervisors, and senior assistants. There would be four posts each of first division assistants and computer operators and eight posts of senior division assistants.

The rest of the posts include attendants, peons, and a stenographer.

They said that the proposal of establishing the directorate was more than two-years old. Earlier, the university had sent a draft statute which dealt both with the establishment of the directorate and creating academic and administrative posts. But the Government asked the university to split it and draft two statutes separately and send them for approval. Hence there was a delay in the proposal becoming a reality.

Sources said that now the university offered some distance education courses after obtaining approval from the State Distance Education Council.

Some of the staff members in its distance education cell were university teachers/ non-teaching staff who were holding additional responsibility on in-charge basis. Some more staff members were working on temporary basis.

Once the Directorate of Correspondence Courses with 35 permanent staff members was in place, it would be a full-fledged wing of the university, sources said.

TULU CERTIFICATE COURSE

Sources said that the distance education cell of the university would offer a six-month Tulu certificate course from the academic year 2012-13. Syllabus of the course was ready and the university was now preparing the study materials of the course, sources said.

mangalore mania

May 25th, 2012, 06:47 AM

Students flock Dakshina Kannada for better education
TNN | May 25, 2012 (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Students-flock-Dakshina-Kannada-for-better-education/articleshow/13463038.cms)

MANGALORE: Colleges in Dakshina Kannada district have produced many toppers in the PU results. However, most of them are not Mangaloreans. They had come to the coastal city in pursuit of quality education.
Vivek Hegde, a student of Alva's PU College Moodbidri, who secured 590 out of 600 in the science stream is a native of Umblekoppa village in Uttar Kannada district. He completed his class X in Hosanagar. Even though Vivek passed SSLC with 97% from the Government Junior College high school, Shiralkoppa, he preferred Alva's College in the district considering the quality of education. "My teachers and my brother suggested me to join Alva's college," he said.
HA Chidananda, who secured 589 marks in the science stream, is a student of Sri Satya Sai Loka Seva PU College, Alike in the district. However, he hails from Gouribidanur in Chikballapur district. It was his teachers in the Muddenahalli school who suggested him to join the college in Alike after he passed SSLC with 98.2%.
N Sumanth of Expert PU College in the city, who scored 589 in science, hails from Hassan. After securing 98.88 % in SSLC from the Vijay English School in Hassan, Sumanth was sent to study at Expert PU College here. "My parents knew about the college and also about expert faculty here. Hence, they made me to join Expert PU College," he added.Nikhil Mouli, another student of Expert PU College who bagged 579 in science, too is a native of Hassan. In fact, Nikhil's father HP Chandra Mouleeshwara, who is a farmer, wanted his son to be an engineer.

Girls rule the roost
Girls in Dakshina Kannada district outdid their counterparts in the PU results. While 81.74 per cent of boys passed the examination, the pass percentage of girls is 89.43. Out of the 14,424 boys, who appeared for the examination, 11,790 cleared it and of the 15,304 girls, who wrote the examination, 13,686 passed.

mangalore mania

May 25th, 2012, 09:06 AM

11 PU colleges each in Udupi, DK get 100 p.c. pass results (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article3454664.ece)

Eleven pre-university colleges in Udupi district have secured 100 per cent pass results in the second year examinations.

The Department of Pre-University Education gave the names of eight PU colleges, which have secured 100 per cent results, on May 23. But on Thursday, the department said three more colleges had secured 100 per cent results. They are Green Valley PU College, Shiroor; Al Ihsan Women's PU College, Muloor, and Government PU College, Kodikanyana. The lowest pass percentage in the district is 66.66. The colleges which have registered the lowest pass percentage in the district are Morarji Desai PU College, Udupi, (66.66), Government PU College, Hejmady, (71.42), and St. Mary's PU College, Kundapur, (74.16).

Of the 14,430 students, who had appeared for the second year PU examinations, 12,355 have passed. Girls have performed better than boys. Of the 7,516 girls, who had appeared for the exams, 6,705 have passed. Of the 6,964 boys, who had appeared for the exams, 5,650 have passed.

Of the 724 students from the Scheduled Castes, who had appeared for the exams, 575 have passed.

Of the 585 students from the Scheduled Tribes, who had appeared for the exams, 476 have passed.

Of the 12,195 regular students, who had appeared for the exams, 11,298 have passed. Of the 1,516 private candidates, who had appeared for the exams, 782 have passed.

In Dakshina Kannada

Eleven pre-university colleges have secured 100 per cent pass results in Dakshina Kannada, according to Rajaveera Indra, Dakshina Kannada Deputy Director of Pre University Education.

They included five government colleges at Ontepadavu in Bantwal taluk, Thenkamijaru in Moodbidri taluk, Chelyaru, Arasinamakki, and Muthuru in Mangalore taluk, and six private institutions – Sri Sathya Sai Loka Seva PU College, Alike (Bantwal); Narayana Guru PU College, Katipalla; Rotary English Medium High School, Sullia; Durgamaba PU College, Alangaru (Puttur); Hasanabba PU College, Katipalla; and BGS PU College, Mangalore, he said.

Krishnamoorthy K

May 28th, 2012, 06:33 AM

Vinobha K T, TNN | May 27, 2012, 06.44AM IST

MANGALORE: National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), India's largest entrepreneurship fraternity, has accredited EFOREA, the Entrepreneurship Cell of National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), as a high performance e-cell.

The highest rating has been accredited to NITK in acknowledgement of its continuing persistence with fostering a vibrant culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. EFOREA, the ten member student club that started two years ago, has now grown into an organization having more than 50 members and partners including the Nadathur S Raghavan Center for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore), National Social Entrepreneurship Forum, department of Science and Technology, government of India and Science Technology and Entrepreneurship Park (STEP) and Intel.

Raghav R, outgoing chairman of EFOREA, told STOI that the cell has taken several flagship initiatives including E-pitch, TEDxNITK, EFOREA labs and TechVentures and Startup Internship Drive.

E-pitch, region's largest B-plan contest, had seen several ideas taking shape into business. The event has prizes over Rs 1.5 lakh in cash and enjoys mentorship support from NSRCEL, IIMB as well as incubation facilities at Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Park (STEP-NITK). The event is supported by department of science and technology and Intel. TEDx NITK was a successful symposium having an audience of over 1,000 for over eight hours and witnessed an array of speakers, he said.

With about 50 strong mentor support from alumni and partner networks EFOREA links students in the region with mentors who are experts in fields like Cleantech, biotechnology, retail, IT etc. Mentors support students to turn their ideas into a start up venture; he said adding that the cell was also instrumental in enabling students to avail funding support from the Technopreneur Promotion Program (TePP) scheme of the government through STEP.

TechVentures of EFOREA, a consultancy hub for SME, has already been ranked amongst the top 20 best student ventures by NEN and Tata. Startup internship drive, which was implemented in the year 2011-12, is aimed at giving NITK students a peek into the challenging, stimulating and diverse experience of interning at start up companies. Omnesys, Practo, Milaap, MixOrg were some of the start ups in which students found internships through EFOREA.

TOI (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Entrepreneurship-cell-praises-e-cell-in-National-Institute-of-Technology-Karnataka/articleshow/13547343.cms)

Krishnamoorthy K

May 30th, 2012, 05:06 AM

Mangalore, May 29 2012, DHNS:

To give hands on experience to law students, SDM Law College and Centre for Post-Graduate Studies and Research in Law has come out with a law laboratory, which is first of its kind in the country.

The lab will be beneficial not only for the law students but also for the general public.

Speaking to presspersons here on Tuesday, Principal Dr B K Ravindra said the law students are taught theory in classrooms and are not exposed to practical aspects. In a bid to provide complete knowledge to the students, Prof Uday Kumar strove hard to develop the lab.

The lab will be open on all the seven days in a week from 9 am to 7 pm for the general public as well.

Dr Ravindra said the laboratory which is in its initial stage, has won accolades from the National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC), peer committee of Bar Council of India as well as National School of Law University (NLSU).

In the classrooms, the students are given knowledge about the documents and how to write legal documents. The students face problem with regard to using these documents once they come out of the college and start practicing, he said.

What’s in store?

In the lab, under civil category, there are details on hierarchy of court, document of legal notice, affidavit, plaint, written statement, issues and so on. In criminal category, there are details on hierarchy of courts, copy of old FIRs and new FIRs, old chargesheets, new chargesheets, warrants of arrest, summons to witness, vakaalat and cases under domestic violence act are neatly arranged.

Under Consumer Protection Act, there is a model of forms of notice, complaints, model of a will, gift deed, lease deed, format of single mortgage. Under the title of banking, there are documents like application forms, pass books, cheques, application for DD, pay slip and so on. In company law, there is share application form, draft memorandum of associations, vouchers, simple share certificates and original equity share certificate.

There are documents of various judgements by the Supreme Court and High Courts.

There are copies of handwritten, typed and computer generated judgments of Supreme Court and High Court.

The legal documents related to insurance also find its place in the lab. In addition to these documents, the lab has charts pertaining to structure of courts in Mangalore, preamble of Indian Constitution, history of legal institutions, names of advocate general (past and present), names of high court and supreme court judges (past and present), details on cyber crime, Presidents of ICRC, works on Savigny, contents of Savigny’s theory and so on. The lab also has Kautilya Arthashastra in three volumes as well.

Appreciation

National Law School of India University Registrar Prof V Nagaraj who was part of Bar Council of India’s peer team which visited the college and the lab on May 12, in a letter to the Principal said: “This is the first college to the best of my knowledge which has developed such a concept under your creative leadership. The laboratory has all the practical aspects of legal profession documented and classified. This will compliment the teaching of various subjects in their application to routine requirements. This will also contextualise the study and application of law, thereby making study of law interesting....”

Copyright

Dr Ravindra said that the college will have a copyright for the lab. “Any law college can not just copy the format. They can make changes in the format and create their own lab.”

He said that principals of other law colleges, who visited the lab had asked photocopies of the legal and other documents which the college had displayed in the lab. “However, we have turned down their request.” SDM Law College is the first law college to have received ‘A’ grade after reaccreditation from NAAC.

DHNS (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/253111/a-lab-law-mangalore.html)

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mangalore mania

June 1st, 2012, 04:22 PM

Fisheries course to include aquatic medicine (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/agri-biz/article3479694.ece)

MANGALORE, JUNE 1:
The College of Fisheries, Mangalore, will introduce aquatic medicine subjects in the degree curriculum, according to its Dean.

Addressing presspersons here on Friday, Dr K.M. Shankar, Dean (Fisheries), College of Fisheries, Mangalore, said that with the introduction of aquatic medicine subject in B.F.Sc (Bachelor of Fisheries Science) course, henceforth fisheries graduates can prescribe drugs to aquatic animals like their counterparts in veterinary.

Stating that aquatic production in the country is witnessing growth of around 8 per cent every year, he said it is contributing more than 50 per cent of total fish production. Diseases in aquatic fishes are causing a huge loss. In such a situation, health management has become crucial in the growth of aquaculture, he said.

Though use of drugs and antibiotics in tropical aquaculture has been initiated, it has remained a low-key affair. Now the aquaculture in Asia, India in particular, is growing, there is a need to build up a sound aquatic medicine practice with good pharmacology and toxicology backup.

The College of Fisheries, Mangalore, is the first one in the country to introduce aquatic medicine subjects, including pharmacology and toxicology, in B.F.Sc programme, Dr Shankar said.

Dr Shankar said that the college is in talks with National Fisheries Development Board to train the existing fisheries graduates, who are working in various sectors, on aquatic medicine.

mangalore mania

June 2nd, 2012, 09:01 AM

MS will turn MSc for students

TNN | Jun 2, 2012 (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/MS-will-turn-MSc-for-students/articleshow/13719648.cms)

MANGALORE: The students, who joined MS software technology course at Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology (AIMIT) of St Aloysius College in 2009, may not get their degree certificates as the Mangalore University has not approved the course. Instead they will be getting certificates for MSc Software Technology. The convocation ceremony will be held on Saturday.

As many as 37 students had joined the institution for MS in software technology and the two-year course was completed in 2011.

"We joined the course with the expectation of receiving an MS degree in software technology as advertised in the media, official website and college prospectus. We preferred the post-graduate course to the widely-accepted MCA trusting the management, who assured us that the course is more proficient than MCA. However, we are disappointed at the fact that we will be receiving an MSc degree instead of the promised MS degree," students complained in a signed letter, a copy of which is in TOI's possession, to the college authorities. "We had raised the issue during the first year of the course and the management then had reassured us that we will be receiving an MS degree. MS and MSc are two different courses and this makes a lot of difference to a person's qualification," students stated in the letter.

Varnashri Kamath (name changed), a student, said, "Our parents have spent thousands for the course. It is not fair on part of the college to offer courses without getting necessary approval from the university. The college and the university should think about our future and do the needful to compensate our loss."

When contacted college registrar AM Narahari said that he was not aware of the objections from the students regarding the course.

"In the marks card it was clearly mentioned as MSc software technology and at no stage, there was a mention of MS in Software Technology," he added.

Mangalore University vice-chancellor TC Shivashankara Murthy said that the university did not approve MS degree in Software Technology for AIMIT of St Aloysius College.

"We have given approval for MSc in Software Technology," he added.

mangalore mania

June 2nd, 2012, 09:02 AM

Fisheries college to introduce aquatic medicine this year
TNN | Jun 2, 2012 (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Fisheries-college-to-introduce-aquatic-medicine-this-year/articleshow/13719650.cms)

MANGALORE: For the past one decade aquaculture has seen a steady growth in the country.

To meet the needs of the fast-growing industry, the College of Fisheries (CoF) here is introducing aquatic medicine as a subject in its four-year Bachelor of Fisheries under-graduation (BFsc) course from the current academic year.

The industry is paying a price for the unprecedented growth. Despite aquaculture farmers incur huge losses owing to disease caused viral, bacterial, fungal and parasitic pathogens year after year, there are very few people in the country who are eligible to provide treatment to aquatic organisms.

CoF dean KM Shankar said, "Aquaculture or aqua farming accounts to over 54.5% fish production in India. It is now become a major part of our marine exports and is growing eight per cent annually."

According to him, the college has introduced the new subject to help curb the loss incurred by the farmers.

"Every year, the industry is facing a loss of about Rs 100 crore. We need more people eligible to provide medical care for the aquatic animals. Students of the 2012-13 batch will become certified experts to provide treatment to fishes like vets. These students can also prescribe medicines for fishes," he added.

Intensive course

The college has also introduced an intensive two-month course in aquatic medicine for BFsc graduates. "The National Fisheries Development Board has sanctioned Rs 1.5 crore for the purpose. Even candidates, who had finished BFsc degree a decade back, can join the two-moth course," he said.

Aquaculture

Aquaculture is the production of fish, shellfish, prawns, shrimps, crabs and other crustaceans in small ponds and water bodies

mangalore mania

June 2nd, 2012, 09:04 AM

Mangalore: MSc Nursing Courses Inaugurated at Father Muller
Daijiworld
June 01, 2012 (http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=139298)

Mangalore, Jun 1: "Father Muller is known across the globe for its service in the field of medicine. The academics should help the students of Father Muller to provide greater service to the patients in practical and not mere perfection in the theory of medicine," said Gulzaar Banu, mayor of Mangalore City Corporation.

She addressed the gathering after inaugurating the 21st batch of MSc nursing courses of Father Muller College of Nursing at the FMMC decennial memorial hall her on Friday June 1.

In his presidential address, Dr Patrick Rodrigues, director of FMCI advised the freshers of MSc nursing batch to do a little more apart from what the post graduates are expected to contribute. Quoting one of the formulas of successful people, he said that to excel in one's field, it is necessary to give more than what is expected.

"Go out from the institution, with the desire to serve, to take care of patients rather than to acquire the ability to lecture in the classes," he said addressing the students of MSc nursing.

Fr Denis D’Sa, administrator of FMCON introduced the chief guest Gulzar Banu to the gathering of people.

Sr Winnifred D’Souza, principal of FMCON welcomed and Irine Alvares, PG coordinator thanked everyone.

Naveen, corporator, Fr Rudlof and Fr Richard were among other dignitaries present at the inaugural.

Prior to the inaugural ceremony, a documentary was presented narrating the legacy of the legend Fr Augustus Muller and developments of the institution from the beginning to now.

mangalore mania

June 2nd, 2012, 05:07 PM

Mangalore: CBSE in St Aloysius Institutions - a Dream Come True (http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=131350&n_tit=Mangalore%3A+CBSE+in+St+Aloysius+Institutions+-+a+Dream+Come+True)

Mangalore, Mar 11: With the commencement of CBSE curriculum from 2012-13 at St Gonzaga School, a new unit of St Aloysius College Institutions, this celebrated organization with a rich and unmatched legacy is going to open a new chapter in its 137 year long history. This has come as wonderful news for many who have been waiting for quite long for St Aloysius to have CBSE curriculum so that their children could study CBSE in a reputed institution like St Aloysius.

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dmissions have already begun to classes 1 to 5 and will continue till May end, which is the usual time for admissions. Recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff is also complete. The school has appointed Grace Noronha, Ex Principal of Lourdes Central School, as the Principal of Gonzaga School. Grace Noronha has the veritable experience of 14 years as Principal with and an impeccable track record to her credit. “In Grace Noronha we have a Principal who has a proven track record spotless credentials which will be an asset to us”, says Rev Fr Elvis Lewis, administrator of St Aloysius PU College.

Catering to Changed Needs

The school has been named after St Aloysius Gonzaga, the patron of St Aloysius institutions and will function from St Aloysius Pre-University College Campus, K S Rao Road. A new ultra modern multi-storied new school building is under construction in P U College campus and would be ready for occupation only from the next academic year. For the time being the school will operate from the modified hostel block of the college, which is near the new school building under construction.

Rev Fr Elvis Lewis speaking to daijiworld.com says starting CBSE curriculum is a long awaited dream of St Aloysius institutions which is fructified with the establishement of Gonzaga School. “We had thought of starting CBSE almost 40 years ago when no else had given a thought to it. A few decades ago CBSE was meant for the elite community. Naturally many Jesuits felt their foremost concern should be to the poorer sections of the society which prevented them from pursuing their CBSE dream. But the situation is not the same any more”, Fr Elvis said.

These days all parents want to give the best of education to their children and send them for English medium schools of repute. The recent decision of the state government to close 1200 schools due to lack of students is a grim pointer to the fact that even the poorest want to provide good education to their students. The management of Aloysius institutions felt it was the opportune time to provide affordable quality education to our children that paved the way for the establishment of Gonzaga School, said Fr Elvis Lewis in response to what prompted the management to opt for CBSE curriculum.

Quality Education

He further adds “we have a rich tradition of 137 years of service, experience and expertise which we want to give to the Catholic community of Mangalore by providing them quality and affordable education”. That is why the management has kept the school fee at Rs. 25,000/- per year even when other CBSE schools have been charging a much higher fee. “We don’t charge donations or any other kind of fees from the students. Our intent is to give qualitative education to the public of Mangalore”, declares Fr Elvis. To achieve this intake of students per class is limited to 24 or 26 so that the teachers are able to provide individual and concentrated attention to every student.

The management wants to make it a full-pledged school in a phased manner within the next 5 years. Principal of the school Grace Noronha says that they have already completed the recruitment of qualified and experienced teaching and non-teaching staff required for the school. “Our focus will be to both academics and extracurricular activities aimed at the all-round personality development our students. Emphasis will be on research and application of skills which would help children to develop reasoning ability and analytical capacity, which finally would enable them become productive citizens of the country”, Grace Noronha pointed out. She also stated that CBSE curriculum would provide a sturdy foundation for the students from the primary level itself to become better citizens of tomorrow. Grace also pointed out that the school would provide concentrated efforts aimed at the total excellence of students.

Gonzaga School with CBSE comes at a time when the state government is all set to introduce CBSE from class 5th, 8th and 11th from the coming academic year so as to bring about uniformity in the curriculum and provide CBSE advantage to state schools. But mere change of text books with no changes in infrastructure or lack of training to the teaching faculty, it is not going to make any impressionable difference in the quality of education.

Gonzaga schools is sure to cater to all those who want to provide the best of the rich tradition of Aloysius institutions and quality CBSE curriculum at an affordable cost.

mangalore mania

June 2nd, 2012, 05:08 PM

Mangalore: Gonzaga CBSE School at St Aloysius Campus Inaugurated (http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=139307)

Mangalore, Jun 1: Gonzaga School, a new CBSE unit of St Aloysius Institutions was inaugurated here in its premises on Friday June 1.

Fr Francis Serrao, provincial, Karnataka province said that though there were Kannada and English medium schools under St Aloysius Institutions, CBSE syllabus was the need of the hour, which the city needed too.

"Comparatively, Kannada medium has become less significant and parents usually choose the modern curriculum. Moreover, CBSE syllabus opens up various avenues for students and hence the job opportunities are wide," he opined.

"Eventually we will teach till 12th standard. We will continue to teach Kannada and English medium in the campus. CBSE is a private institution while the others are government aided," he said.

Speaking to Daijiworld, Grace Noronha, principal of Gonzaga School informed that classes for 1st to 5th standard have started. Apart from academics, there are non-academic and extracurricular activities like karate, roller skating, western music, Indian dance, and animation graded courses with tie-up with Lifeway College of Newzealand.

On Saturday June 2, the teachers will be trained on animation by the faculty of New Zealand College.

There are as many as eight teaching and three non-teaching members of staff. Teachers are trained with week-long orientation programme along with child-centered teaching and learning programmes, she said.

Fr Joseph Rodrigues, rector of St Aloysius Institutions also spoke.

Fr Elvis Lewis, manager of Gonzaga School was present on the dais.

Computer suite, staff room, principal’s office and one of the classrooms were inaugurated by the dignitaries to declare the school formally open.

mangalore mania

June 5th, 2012, 08:46 PM

Course in marine engineering (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/logistics/article3493102.ece)

MANGALORE, JUNE 5:
Mangalore-based Srinivas Institute of Technology has got permission to start BE in marine engineering. A press release by the institute said here on Tuesday that AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) has given the permission to start BE in marine engineering from the academic year 2012-13. The institute said that the intake of students for marine engineering course is 60.

Krishnamoorthy K

June 12th, 2012, 06:02 PM

Renuka Phadnis

The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS), London will hold recruitment exams in Mangalore. The subjects include Shipping, marine insurance, shipping law etc.

Individuals who want to build a career in commercial shipping by taking examinations conducted by The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS), London, can now do so in Mangalore. For the past three years, the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has been a centre for the examinations. A person who clears the exams becomes a member of the ICS, an internationally recognised professional body representing shipbrokers, ship managers and agents. According to the ICS website, the papers are in subjects such as shipping, marine insurance, shipping law, finance and logistics, port management, liner trades, ship operations and management, economics of sea transport and international trade, and ship sale and purchase.

Read more TH (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/article3518690.ece)

mangalore mania

June 13th, 2012, 05:32 PM

ZP proposes residential school for children of migrant workers (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/article3522337.ece)

The Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat is preparing to submit a proposal to the Government to set up a residential school for children of migrant workers in Mangalore, Chief Executive Officer of the zilla panchayat K.N. Vijay Prakash has said.

Participating in a function to mark Anti-Child Labour Day here on Tuesday, Mr. Prakash said the need for such a school was mooted during the recent visit of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights member Yogesh Dube. Mr. Prakash said Mangalore was among the fast-growing cities in the country and construction activity here had been increasing at a greater pace. Mangalore was turning out to be a home for migrant workers from north India and north Karnataka.

Mr. Prakash said there was a need to provide healthcare and education to children of migrant workers. A residential school would go a long way in meeting these needs.

Mr. Prakash later told The Hindu that discussions were on over the modalities of this school with officials from the Women and Child Welfare Department and representatives of non-governmental organisations. “We are also looking at how children aged between three and five can be taken care of,” he said. Special funds from the Centre would be sought for the proposed school, he added.

Earlier, Assistant Labour Commissioner Venkatesh Sindihatti said eight children were rescued and rehabilitated after 2,315 raids by the Labour Department personnel to different industrial units and houses last year. Of the eight cases, one was found following a child labour survey conducted during October and November 2011.

He said a report on the survey had been submitted to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, which had questioned the findings of the survey.

Principal District and Sessions judge Ashok Nijagannavar said there were about six crore child workers in the country. Of them, 1.2 crore were working in hazardous units. He expressed the need for society to help such children who had been denied of joyous moments of childhood. Mangalore City Corporation Commissioner Harish Kumar, Principal Civil judge Subramanya and Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime and Traffic) D. Dharmaiah participated in the function.

Mangalore Education district always come with innovative ideas to provide education or every corner of society

Krishnamoorthy K

June 13th, 2012, 05:53 PM

Mudipu, Jun 11, 2012, DHNS :

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New school building will be inaugurated on June 14

If at all the kids living in and around Nyupadpu and Harekala area of Dakshina Kannada district can read and write the credit should solely go to this illiterate orange vendor named Harekala Hajabba.

Keeping all his problems aside, Hajabba had dreamt of having a good school in his village itself so as to help the students study nearby school instead of treading a few kilometres in their quest for education.

Though the government had sanctioned a high school, it did not have a school building. Now with the help of the donors and the government, Hajabba has built a school building.

With this, the crusader is not going to rest. Ask him what next? ‘PU College’ comes the answer.

Hajabba, after shaping up a school for the village single-handedly, now aims at having a PU College for the students wanting to pursue their further studies.

Speaking to Deccan Herald, he said that his dream of having a new school building came true thanks to the help of government and donors.

“I want to start government PU College. I have already submitted memorandum to Chief Minister and MLAs in this regard,” he said. The government had sanctioned high school to the existing primary school in 2007-08 but the school did not have own building.

The classes were held in the primary school classrooms and three batches of students have passed out. At present, as many as 130 students are studying in the high school section of the school. The new building will be inaugurated on June 14.

The programme will be attended by MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, MLA U T Khader, ZP President Shailaja Bhat and others. Realising the need for a school in Nyupadpu, the Jamaath in the region started first standard in the madrasa, when Hajappa was the president. Owing to shortage of fund, the school was facing threat of closure.

It was then that Hajabba took up the challenged of raising funds and giving the schools all the facilities required. With the help of the then MLA U T Fareed, Hajabba raised adequate funds and succeeded in purchasing land for the school building.

The high school has six teachers. The school has 1.19 acre land and there is a need to build compound wall around the school.

DHNS (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/256264/after-school-hajabba-aims-pu.html)

romfern

June 13th, 2012, 06:27 PM

Course in marine engineering (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/logistics/article3493102.ece)

This course has to be approved by the Directorate General of Shipping and will be affiliated to IMU, Chennai.
AICTE recognition is not important.

Krishnamoorthy K

June 18th, 2012, 06:58 PM

Jaideep Shenoy, TNN Jun 5, 2012, 05.25PM IST

MANIPAL: Manipal University, which has the second best green campus among institutions in India, celebrated World Environment Day on Tuesday by planting 70 medicinal saplings. Of these 60 were planted in Madhav Vihar and 10 in Kasturba Hospital. Another 900-odd sapling will be planted over a period of two months. Around 480 school and 120 university students took part in an awareness rally flagged off by DC MT Reju on this occasion.

The students then marched to the amphitheatre in Madhav Vihar where they planted saplings and different speakers gave their messages on Environment Day. At the university building, where the rally started, Pro Chancellor Dr HS Ballal dwelt briefly on role played by the university in maintaining the campus and therefore a good environment. Dr Reju exhorted the students on the importance of eco-friendly environment.

At the amphitheatre, MV Kamath, honorary director of Manipal Institute of Communication (MIC) spoke on the significance of saving water, saving trees and contributing towards the preservation of environment. Vijetha Shetty, student of Kamala Bai High School, Udupi delivered a message on environment and Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, Udupi Environment Officer Rajshekhar Puranik on ways to protect the environment.

TOI (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-05/the-good-earth/32055164_1_world-environment-day-saplings-green-campus)

We know Bearys Institute of Technology has green buildings. I am not sure whether Manipal University campus has any green building. Manipal University might have got green credit only for its green plants & trees. Next time, anybody while declaring a campus as green, should check also for other green practices like having solar/wind units, waste treatment plants, rain harvesting, bicycle infrastructure, etc. I think NITK Surathkal has grid connected wind/solar unit for teaching purposes.

akhilesh kinnigoli

June 18th, 2012, 07:53 PM

^^ Manipal main library may be green building.

mangalore mania

June 21st, 2012, 03:24 PM

Vigilance committee to fight for the reopening of closed school in DK
TNN | Jun 20, 2012 (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Vigilance-committee-to-fight-for-the-reopening-of-closed-school-in-DK/articleshow/14303488.cms)

MANGALORE: Dakshina Kannada District RTE vigilance and monitoring committee has decided to fight for the reopening of Malar Government Primary School (MGPS) in Bantwal taluk, which was closed down on June 14 citing the reason of 'lack of students'.
The Committee members have brought the issue to the notice of Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR) and also to the government.

Committee coordinator Renni D'Souza said that he has already discussed the issue with Nina Nayak, chairperson of KSCPCR. "I have requested the chairperson of KSCPCR to consider the issue as a violation of RTE Act and also pleaded the commission to take appropriate action against officials. State High Court after hearing a PIL has directed the government today (June 20) that schools, which have more than five children should not be closed down. Hence, MGPS should not be closed as parents of more than five children are willing to send their children back to the same school," he added.

Parents and villagers of Malar village too are united to fight for the reopening of MGPS as it is the only school in the village.

The school development and monitoring committee (SDMC) has sent a written complaint to KSCPCR seeking inquiry to find out the reason which led to the closure of the school, which had seven children. The committee also pleaded the commission to recommend departmental action against the teacher, cluster resource person (CRP) and block education officer (BEO) for violating rules and for not taking initiatives to protect the school.

SDMC president Seetharama Samani and villagers alleged that school teacher, CRP and BEO have violated the RTE Act by sending children of MGPS to other schools, which are located nearly five kilometers away. "The rules mandate that there should be a primary school at every one kilometer in villages. It is a violation of rules, that the authorities concerned did not take initiatives to protect the school even though there is no school within one kilometer radius of the village. Hence, we plead before the commission that action should be taken against the erring officials and also should make arrangements to reopen the school," Seetharama told TOI.

Alumni Sampath Pakkala said that the school, which has a history of more than five decades, should be protected at any cost. "Children, especially those belong to poor SC/ST families, are forced to walk about two kilometers everyday to catch a bus to reach the nearby schools in Mudipu or Salethoor," he added.

Menawhile, deputy director of public instructions Moses Rajsekhar said that the school has been closed as parents of seven students have taken their transfer certificates.

mangalore mania

June 23rd, 2012, 02:44 PM

Sign in for a course that is designed to glitter
TNN | Jun 23, 2012 (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Sign-in-for-a-course-that-is-designed-to-glitter/articleshow/14349323.cms)

MANIPAL: From the beginning of civilization, jewellery has been a fascinating part of human life and the ever expanding jewellery industry in the country and abroad is constantly in need of people trained in designing. Catering to this need is the Manipal Institute of Jewellery Management which offers a three-year Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) course in jewellery design and management (JDM).

The demanfor the course, started in 2005, has increased two folds and majority of the students opting for the course is from outside the state. In 2005, as many as 32 students took admission to the course and this year till now 55 students joined the course. The admissions are still on. In the first batch, 20 of the 32 students were from other states and this year so far 31 non-kannadigas have joined the course.

"The demand for the course has increased as the booming jewellery industry is creating more job as well as business opportunities in the country despite the sky-rocketing gold prices," said MIJM director M Madhav Shanbag. The course covers various aspects like production and merchandize of jewellery, designing and manufacturing of jewellery and gemmology.

He said that a private company had joined hands with the institute to recruit its students. "The company plans to open about 100 jewellery outlets in India in near future. Over 90% of out students gets absorbed by various firms in the country before finishing their course and rest has started their own business ventures. To purse the course students need creativity," he added.

To meet the increasing demand, MIJM will offer a PG diploma course in jewellery sales and retail operations from this year.

Rohini Sood, a sixth semester student said, "I joined this course since I did not want to do a regular MBA. Apart from business administration I learnt about jewellery designing here. I already got a job in a jewellery company with a pretty good pay package."

Krishnamoorthy K

June 27th, 2012, 04:56 PM

The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyana District Implementation Committee on Thursday approved an action plan of Rs. 22.49 crore for the Sava Shiksha Abhiyana (SSA) programmes in the district for 2012-13 at a meeting here on Thursday.

According to a release from the Department of Public Instruction here, the meeting approved various proposals under the action plan, including construction of a classroom each for class eight in 24 primary schools in the district.

The other proposals approved were construction of a new building for a lower primary school at Nagur village, construction of classrooms in 20 schools, and compound walls for select schools.

Udupi Zilla Panchayat president Katapady Shankar Poojary said that the amount approved should be spent in a meaningful and transparent manner in the district.

TH (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article3557281.ece)

mangalore mania

June 28th, 2012, 09:46 AM

Mangalore University goes hi-tech with IP phones
TNN | Jun 28, 2012 (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Mangalore-University-goes-hi-tech-with-IP-phones/articleshow/14445629.cms)

Mangalore: In a first among universities in the state, Mangalore University has installed internet protocol (IP) phones in its 25 post-graduate departments. The IP phones facilitate communication between the departments without additional cost using intercom facility.

Another specialty of the technology is it does away with cabling used for connecting phones from one PG department to the other because the connection is taken from internet connection points available in each department. According to Mangalore University vice-chancellor TC Shivashankara Murthy IP phones not only ease communication activities among teaching and non-teaching faculty but also speed up the works of university. He told TOI that 126 IP phones had already been installed in PG departments. "Soon 50 more IP phones will be installed in the university including the administrative office. MU is the second university after University of Calcutta to install such a facility in the country," he added.

The university also plans to install 30 additional computers at the cyber lab inside the university library within a few days. At present, the varsity has 90 computers and three cyber labs. There is much more when it comes to the upgradation of technology in MU. The university had distributed 103 laptops to its teaching faculties to help them make audio-visual presentation on various topics to students recently. "This will better their understanding of academic subjects and it also helps the teaching staff who attend conferences in different places," said Vijay, the computer operator of MU.

mangalore mania

June 29th, 2012, 01:24 PM

Mangalore: St Aloysius High School Introduces Smart Class
Daijiworld (http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=141761)

Mangalore, Jun 29: The inaugural ceremony of ‘smart class edurite education system’ in St Aloysius School was held at high school auditorium on Tuesday June 26. The education system was sponsored by the old students of 1977 batch.

Sashi Kishore Patil, old student was the chief guest. The stage programme began with a prayer song and lightning of lamp by chief guest and dignitaries present on the dais.

Fr Edward Rodrigues, headmaster welcomed the gathering. Vinod D’Souza, old student read the report of 77th batch.

Mangalore, Jun 29: The inaugural ceremony of ‘smart class edurite education system’ in St Aloysius School was held at high school auditorium on Tuesday June 26. The education system was sponsored by the old students of 1977 batch.

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Sashi Kishore Patil, old student was the chief guest. The stage programme began with a prayer song and lightning of lamp by chief guest and dignitaries present on the dais.

Fr Edward Rodrigues, headmaster welcomed the gathering. Vinod D’Souza, old student read the report of 77th batch.

Krishnamoorthy K

June 30th, 2012, 05:52 AM

Hemanath Padubidri
Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi

Udupi, Jun 29: Karnataka director general of police Lal Rukhama Pachao paid a visit to the district on Friday June 29 to inspect the coast guard and the police force.

Addressing the media, he said that a coastal marine training centre will be set up extending from Shiroor to Ottinene. A 100-acre land for the project has been earmarked, he added.

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The training centre will cover nine states and three union territories. Coast guard personnel will be trained in the centre, he said.

Moreover, a jetties will be constructed at Malpe and Kadadi (Uttara Kannada district), and the project has been finalized, he said.

Twelve interceptor boats will be introduced for which the training will be managed by the centre and conducted in Mumbai.

In addition, four new coast guard police stations - at Hejamady, Honnavar, Gangolli and Belekeri - will be set up and work on the same is going on. As many 220 police personnel will be chosen for the same, he said. The four stations will function from temporary rented buildings till their own buildings are ready.

Harshavardhanraj of state internal security, IG Bhaskar Rao, IGP (western range) Pratap Reddy, Udupi SP Dr Borelingaiah, ASP M V Venkateshappa and others were present.

Daijiworld (http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=141794)

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hakindian1984

July 1st, 2012, 12:04 PM

Mangalore, June 30, 2012 : St. Aloysius School inaugurated the Smart Class Erudite Education System at a special ceremony held in the school auditorium on June 26, Tuesday. Old students belonging to the 1977 batch had sponsored this system.

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Old student Sashi Kishore Patil was the chief guest of the event. Old student Vinod D’Souza read the report of the 1977 batch.

Delivering the inaugural address, Kishore Patil said that the old students made a join effort to introduce Smart Class in St. Aloysius School. He also thanked the school for teaching him life values and expressed his gratefulness to the institution.

School SPL Jagath proposed the vote of thanks and presented a book bearing students’ signatures to the chief guest.

Fr. Edward Rodrigues thanked all the donors.

Assistant Headmaster Joseph D’Souza and several old students were present.

http://mangaloretoday.com/mt/index.php?action=mn&type=6236

Krishnamoorthy K

July 2nd, 2012, 11:18 AM

Muthi-ur-Rahman Siddiqui, Bangalore, July 1, 2012, DHNS:

If you love the sea and the waves and don’t mind spending six months on a ship with water everywhere, then you may as well take notice.

In a first in Karnataka, Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) will introduce a four-year undergraduate course (BE) in marine engineering from the 2012-13 academic year.

Marine engineering refers to research conducted in oceans and coastal or inland waters. It deals with construction and maintenance of ships and other sailing vessels. The course will be offered at Mangalore Marine College and 60 students will be admitted.

The programme has been approved by the Directorate General of Shipping (DGS), Mumbai, and is expected to get a stamp of approval from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in a few days. Students will be able to pick seats once the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) starts the counselling for professional courses later this month, VTU Vice-Chancellor, H Maheshappa, said.

“It’s the first of the new engineering disciplines we have planned to introduce,” Maheshappa told Deccan Herald. Railway engi neering and aerospace engineering may be introduced in the next academic year.

Of the total intake, 27 seats will be offered through KEA and the rest will be made available under the management quota, according to Abdul Razak, Public Relations Officer (PRO), MMC.

Although the DGS requires students to score at least 60 percent in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics at Class 12 (II PUC level), the Mangalore college will not insist on the minimum qualifying marks. Under VTU, a student with 45 per cent marks is eligible.

The college will follow the syllabus adopted by the Indian Maritime University, Visakhapatnam. VTU has just made some small changes. Half of the syllabus will be the mechanical engineering component; the rest will be knowledge of ships.

Students will have to write eight examinations from the Standards of Training, Certification, and Watchkeeping (STCW) during the course. In addition, VTU will conduct semester-wise exams.

The course at a glance

A course in Marine engineering will be available at Mangalore Marine College from this academic year. Earlier, students had to study the course outside Karnataka. The Directorate General of Shipping, Mumbai, has approved the course. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to give a go-ahead in a few days.
Students with 45 per cent marks in PCM and those who have written the CET can vie for 27 seats under the government quota. The fee is Rs 33,090. A total of 33 seats will be available under the management quota for which the fee is Rs 1.25 lakh. Students need to clear a college-level entrance test.
Upon completion, students will be given a Continuous Discharge Certificate (CDS), the passport for sea voyage. They will be registered with the Indian National Database of Seafarers (INDOS).
Admission will be subject to medical fitness. Students sho*u*ld be 157 cm tall, have a 6X6 eyesight and no disea*s*es. A DGS doctor will examine them.
Starting salary will be at least $500 (Rs 30,800) in ad*d*i**tion to boarding and lodging.

DHNS (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/261168/vtu-start-course-marine-engineering.html)

Mangalore Marine College (http://cmc.ac.in/mmc/) <- Click

I am waiting for IIMT also.

mangalore mania

July 2nd, 2012, 04:42 PM

Mangalore: Student Intake for MBBS Course at Father Muller Goes up to 150
Daijiworld (http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=142041)

Mangalore, Jul 2: The Medical Council of India has sanctioned the increase in number of student intake for the MBBS course from 100 to 150 at Father Muller Medical College for the academic year 2012-13 as per u/s 10A of the IMC Act, 1956 as amended.

Father Muller Charitable Institutions were established in the year 1880 by Fr Augustus Muller, a Jesuit missionary from Germany. The institution, from its humble beginning 132 years ago, has grown into a vast complex today having 1,250 beds. The institution, while growing leaps and bounds in the area of medicine and medical care, has also not lagged behind in the area of medical education.

Father Muller Medical College completed a decade of its fruitful presence in the field of health care and education in 2009. Post graduation courses have completed two decades.

The institution strives tirelessly to provide ample opportunities for the intellectual, physical, emotional, and spiritual growth of its students, stated a press release.

hakindian1984

July 2nd, 2012, 04:44 PM

Mangalore : "We are celebrating 169th Media Day in DK District , and we have completed 6 generations in the media " said senior journalist Vasanth Kumar Perla, on 'Journalism Day 'celebrated at the Press Club Urva here on July 2.

Vasanth Kumar continued and said, "In 1843, on July 1, Herman Mogling started the first newspaper "Mangalooru Samachara" and it is a history in the Media world". In India there are 560 celebrations in 365 days, and each day is a celebration. Celebrating any day means reviewing our past achievements in a particular field and looking forward for the better growth of the same.

At present in the media, there is a lot of competition and people working in the media are in competition with each other. They forget the reality and quality of their work. Television journalists have a important role to play while broadcasting any news, they must maintain the credibility of the news. Credibility plays an important role, once we lose credibility, people will not trust the particular channel"

"While reading the news, readers should understand the voice culture. While writing the script of the news for TV the writer should be impartial. Television has huge impact and so journalists have to be more responsible and careful. Media has responsibility in projecting news in a very balanced way. Media plays an outstanding role in strengthening the society; it is a mirror of the society. Its duty is to inform, educate and entertain people. In this globalized world, task and duties of the media are increasing day by day. Unitedly, there is still a lot to be done by the media for the betterment of the society." While concluding Kumar said, "Media should use their power for the better cause of the society."

Script writer and senior journalist Jogi addressing the journalists said, "Journalists should go every nook and corner of the city to gather news, no one can sit inside the four walls and write reports. Media is very powerful and it is the eyes, ears and tongue of a society through which a person, a community, a society, a nation and the world sees, hears and speaks. It is all pervading and all powerful, touching and affecting almost every one’s life directly or indirectly. It can make or break a person, an organization or a society, even a state, and cause serious upheavals and impact on the whole world. It has proved to be a double edged weapon, if used properly and wisely, it is the pillar of strength of a society but if used improperly, it can ruin many lives and many societies. Nowadays some media have started supplements and it is only meant for filling the space between the advertisements. Most of the media houses are owned by the editors and they are impartial while publishing the news " Jogi said.

The programme was inaugurated by Vasanth Kumar Perla by lighting the traditional lamp. President of the Working Journalist Association P B Harish Rai welcomed the gathering. Photographs exhibition was inaugurated by Jogi on the occasion.

http://www.mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=broadcast&broadcastid=328478

hakindian1984

July 2nd, 2012, 04:49 PM

MANGALORE: The academic council of Mangalore University at its first general meeting for the academic year 2012-13 approved a 28.5% increase in admission to B.Com course in 16 government first grade colleges and 17 private colleges affiliated to it here on Monday. This move in real terms has resulted in an increase in 968 seats - 561 in government colleges and rest in private colleges and has been done to cater to rise in demand for B.Com course.

The total approved intake to these 33 colleges prior to the approval was 3,209 seats including 1,430 in government first grade colleges and rest 1,779 in private colleges. Vice-Chancellor TC Shivashankara Murthy, who chaired the meeting, said the university acting on requests from principals of respective colleges increased the approved intake as sought by institutions after ascertaining that they had required infrastructure facilities for the same.

"There is steady increase in demand for BCom courses in colleges affiliated to university," VC said, adding even the meritorious students, who have scored around 70% marks in their qualifying PUC examinations, have not been able to get admissions in various colleges. The increase in approved intake has been notified to respective colleges and they have already carried out admissions against the enhanced intake by June 30, VC said.

The decision of academic council will now be brought before the Syndicate for ratification when the highest decision making body of the university meets on July 4. Incidentally, the Syndicate at its last meeting had authorised VC to take appropriate decision with regard to requests from these colleges seeking enhancement of intake and bring it for ratification in case the academic council was not able to approve it prior to admission period ending.

A prime reason for this increase in demand for BCom course is the higher pass percentage of students in II PUC during the last academic year 2011-12 across Karnataka in general and Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts, which topped the PUC results, in particular, VC said. This had created a situation where students in eligible enrollment ratio as defined by the UGC were deprived of an opportunity to study a course of their choice, VC explained.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Mangalore-University-effects-30-2-increase-in-BCom-seats/articleshow/14610462.cms?

mangalore mania

July 12th, 2012, 08:28 AM

Mangalore: College offers new course in accounting, taxation, finance (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Mangalore-College-offers-new-course-in-accounting-taxation-finance/articleshow/14823091.cms)

MANGALORE: St Aloysius Evening College has introduced a specially designed course for those who want to have first hand information on accounting, taxation and finance.

The three-month course will help junior, middle and senior-level managers from non-finance organizations, who have to hold positions that require a deep understanding of the financial implications of their decisions.

Programme coordinator Donald Lobo informed TOI that non-financial, technical professionals including those engaged in information technology, research and development and system development projects with commercial applications may undergo the course to improve their knowledge on the subjects. Similarly, the course will also be helpful for bank, insurance, educational sector employees, entrepreneurs and general public with non commerce background, he said.

The course will cover topics including basics of accounting; interpreting accounting statements using ratios and cash flow statements; basics of taxation - personal income tax with reference to salary income and taxation of investments.

Experienced professionals will hold weekly classes with lectures, presentations and case studies, he said adding that the first batch will commence in August.

mangalore mania

July 12th, 2012, 01:19 PM

Dakshina Kannda scores high as pre-university hub
TNN | Jul 12, 2012 (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Dakshina-Kannda-scores-high-as-pre-university-hub/articleshow/14842457.cms)

MANGALORE: Degree colleges in Dakshina Kannda district have always been a sought after destination for students from across the country and abroad. Following the trend are PU colleges in the district which see a increase in students from other districts.

St Aloysius PU College principal Fr Elvis Lewis told TOI that every year about 1,000 students from different districts join PU courses in the college. According to him, since Dakshina Kannada has a long history of standing first in II PU and SSLC exams, students flock to Mangalore to pursue their education in the institutions here.

Of the 320 students in SDM Residential PU College in Ujire, 95 per cent are from other districts. The school also has students from metro cities like Mumbai and Delhi. "It is difficult for parents to monitor the education of their wards when they reach pre-university and to ease their burden they send the kids to schools in the district which are known to give quality education," said Shri Krishna Bhat, the principal of the school. "Parents and students have realized that apart from scoring good marks in II PU exams it is equally important to crack competitive exams like CET, AIEEE, IIIT JEE and others. The colleges in Mangalore provide best coaching for such entrance exams," said Ramchandra Bhat, the principal of Expert PU College.

For DN Niranjan, a sports enthusiast hailing from Kushalnagar, Kodagu and pursuing his I PU in the district, what encouraged him to join a PU college here is the better infrastructure it offered. "I visited some colleges in Mysore, but they did not have good playgrounds. In Mangalore colleges have better infrastructure and they give equal importance to sports and academics," he added.

Another PU student Niranjan E, who hails from Kasargod said, "After my class X, I did a google to find out the best PU colleges and most reviews and comments on websites said Mangalore has the best institutions. Several students from Kuwait, Dubai and other foreign countries are pursuing their PU here."

mangalore mania

July 15th, 2012, 09:49 AM

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By: Pruthviraj Umesh

mangalore mania

July 20th, 2012, 02:01 PM

Manipal varsity to open maths research centre (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/education/article3642760.ece)

MANGALORE, JULY 15:
Manipal University is planning to open a research centre to study pure mathematics, according to its Pro Vice-Chancellor.

Inaugurating a workshop on ‘MATLAB’ software recently, he said that mathematics has great role in the development of new technology. “Manipal University is planning to open a research centre to study pure mathematics in the near future,” he said.

He appreciated the efforts of the Department of Mathematics of the Manipal Institute of Technology to have a laboratory-oriented workshop. Such workshops provide platform for researchers and faculty members to exchange views, he said.

Dr Vinod Thomas, director of the Manipal Institute of Technology, said that MATLAB is an important tool for engineers, mathematicians and researchers to understand the geometrical interpretations of practical situations and solve the problems. Many more such workshops and conferences should be conducted in inter-disciplinary subjects, he said.

A press release by Manipal University said here that Dr Sesappa Rai, head of the Department of Mathematics and convener of the workshop, welcomed the gathering. Dr Ciji Pearl Kurian, Professor of Electrical Engineering and organizing secretary of the workshop, briefed about the event, it added.

mangalore mania

July 21st, 2012, 07:29 AM

KSWU plans to set up four regional centres (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article3664617.ece)

They will be in Mangalore, Mysore, Shimoga and Hubli, says Vice-Chancellor Meena Chandavarkar
Meena Chandavarkar, Vice-Chancellor of Karnataka State Women’s University, has said that there are plans to set up four regional centres in the State.

Addressing presspersons here on Friday, she said the varsity had sent a proposal to the government seeking approval for the centres in Mangalore, Mysore, Shimoga and Hubli.

“We are hoping that it [proposal] will be accepted,” she said.

Ms. Chandavarkar said six more postgraduate courses would be started from this academic year. These include Botany, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics and Political Science.

The university, for now, would induct 30 students in each course, she said, adding that based on demand, the limit would be increased.

Hi-tech lab

Laboratory work was under way and would be completed by next year. “I would like to proudly announce that we will soon have a state-of-the-art laboratory for students,” she said.

On the introduction of B.Ed. course, she said the university was waiting for the National Council for Teacher Education’s approval.

The Vice-Chancellor said the varsity was in the process of setting up a constituent college that would offer courses from pre-university to Master’s.

The new programmes would mark the university’s 10th anniversary.

Financial assistance

The varsity also planned to set up a Dashamanotsava Bhavan at an estimated cost of Rs. 5 crore.

“We are seeking financial assistance from MLAs, MP and MLCs of the district for the construction of the building,” she said.

A “unique” museum was also on the anvil.

Inspiring students

Achievers would be invited regularly to the varsity to inspire students. The Ministry of Kannada and Culture had been requested to grant funds for the project, estimated at Rs. 10 crore.

mangalore mania

July 23rd, 2012, 01:20 AM

Many takers for aviation, hospitality courses
TNN | Jul 23, 2012 (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Many-takers-for-aviation-hospitality-courses/articleshow/15099782.cms)

MANGALORE: The demand for courses and educational institutions is on the rise in this coastal district. Many students, who hitherto were flocking to Bangalore from Dakshina Kannada district to pursue various courses related to aviation and hospitality, now have the option to do the same closer home.

Providing them this opportunity is Aptech Ltd which has launched Aviation and Hospitality Academy (AHA, Mangalore). The academy, first-of-its-kind academy in the DK district, offers nine courses about aviation and hospitality management.

Aptech deputy general manager (business development) Krishnan Iyer told TOI that out of every 200 applicants to six AHA centres in Bangalore, 20% of the applicants are from DK. Most of the nine courses are affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University. The unique aspect of these courses is that classes will be conducted everyday for only for two hours in different batches, which helps students pursue other courses simultaneously.

Krishnan says due to increasing number of foreign tourists to India, around 10 lakh jobs are lying vacant in aviation and hotel sectors. "There will be a huge demand for aviation and hospitality management graduates by 2020. Many airports are expected to open even in small towns, and the number of hotels is already increasing to cater to the needs of tourists," he added.

As part of all the nine courses, the students have to compulsorily do internship for 1-3 months and candidates in 17-26 age group are eligible for the courses. "After completing the courses, students will be given placement assistance," Krishnan said, adding that salary in aviation and hotel sectors are in Rs 12,000-Rs 60,000 range.

mangalore mania

July 28th, 2012, 07:34 AM

Snooker, squash on sports menu (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Snooker-squash-on-sports-menu/articleshow/15161309.cms)

MANGALORE: The government school students in Karnataka will be soon potting balls on green baize if an initiative taken under Chinnara Krida Abhiyan (CKA) of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is an indicator to go by. It is a sports training programme for higher primary government schools students and will commence from August. Under the CKA programme, SSA has listed more than 15 indoor and outdoor games, including squash and snooker.

Training will be given to 11,250 eligible students in their respective districts. Of the listed games, squash and snooker are touted as rich man's games, and government schools in the state neither have a squash court nor a snooker table. SSA state project director Tushar Girinath said, the students would be exposed to squash and snooker with facilities in non-government organizations and state institutions.

"Many districts do not have snooker and squash facilities, though training for these two indoor games is mentioned in the CKA circular. Though the circular says that it is not compulsory to provide coaching for all games listed," he said.

However, he said that SSA officials should provide coaching for all those games for which facilities are available. They can associate with NGOs and state institutions of their respective districts to provide squash and snooker coaching, he added.

Students under 14 years are eligible for the CKA programme. Out of 11,250 students, 75% will be reserved for girls and out of every 100 students, 50 from SC / ST category will be taken. For every 15 students one coach will be deployed for training. For the implementation of CKA programme, a district-level executive committee headed by deputy commissioners or chief executive officers of zilla panchayats has been formed.

Dont understand this concept of reservation even in sports for kids.. They are developing a hatred among the kids itself

mangalore mania

August 1st, 2012, 08:41 PM

Mangalore: Online admission for Biotechnology Finishing School courses ends (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Mangalore-Online-admission-for-Biotechnology-Finishing-School-courses-ends/articleshow/15310666.cms)

MANGALORE: The state government in collaboration with departments of information technology, bio-technology, science and technology is sponsoring a post-graduate diploma course called Biotechnology Finishing School (BTFS). This course is being offered at 12 different colleges in the state - St Aloysius College here being one among them. The course is a year old of which six months the students will spend in the academic institute and the rest in the industry.

Leading industries across the state are approached for their six month internship following which they will be recruited into companies. St Aloysius College is also offering the course in two disciplines - namely - fermentation and bio processing and plant tissue culture. Fermentation and Bio processing was offered in the college during the last academic year and the students have been placed in Biocon, India. This year the college is open for even plant tissue culture.

Admissions have started via online mode and last date for applications being August 2, Fr Swebert D'Silva, principal said. Candidates who have cleared their master's degree in life science, biotechnology, microbiology, biochemistry, bioinformatics or any other life science related courses or BE/BTech in biotechnology, bioinformatics, bachelor of pharmacy, agriculture, veterinary sciences, MBBS and BDS are eligible for the course and may apply.

Candidates awaiting their result in the above mentioned courses may also apply. Students who apply for the course will face an online entrance test on August 6, 7 followed by an interview which will be held in Bangalore. Department of BT, Union Ministry of Science and Technology, will offer fellowship of Rs 5,000 per month and allowed to select the college and course of their choice for the course work. Log on to www.btfskarnataka.org . Call: 0824-2449700/01/13.

mangalore mania

August 2nd, 2012, 08:00 AM

Failing to see beyond black coats (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Failing-to-see-beyond-black-coats/articleshow/15322004.cms)

MANGALORE: The age-old perception that law graduates have no other career choice but to wait years on, struggling as assistants, before they become a name to reckon with in the legal fraternity, has prevented many from taking up law.

The effect of this ignorance is seen in the dwindling numbers of students opting to study law at the four law colleges in Dakshina Kannada district, even as the demand for other courses continues to see a steady increase.

The SDM Law College has 120 seats for the five-year LLB course. "But we've been getting only around 200 applications for it. We do manage to fill all the 120 seats though," says college principal B K Ravindra.

He attributes the lack of interest in law courses to students not being aware of the career opportunities available.

Unlike in the past, law graduates have wider career options in multinational companies to work as legal advisers, legal assistants, patent portfolio managers, legal transcriptionists and in the sector of intellectual property rights, which offer salaries of Rs 6 lakh to Rs 8 lakh per annum, Ravindra pointed out.

The situation is the same in Vaikunta Baliga College of Law (VBCL), the only law college in Udupi district. VBCL principal Prakash Kanive said the college has 66 seats each for the three-year and five-year LLB courses and receives around 150 applications every year for both.

"Majority of the students seeking admissions are from rural areas, but they fail to gain from the careers options at MNCs due to the lack of communication skills. On the other hand, students from urban areas are not aware of the job openings for law graduates in MNCs," he said.

KVG Law College in Sullia is desperately waiting for students for admissions.

Though the college has 60 seats for the five-year LLB course, they manage to fill only about 25 seats. Y Jayaram, a lecturer at KVG Law College, says students think they have to practice law for many years before they start earning well.

"This year, classes will start in August, but so far only 15 students have joined for LLB," he added.

mangalore mania

August 4th, 2012, 01:22 AM

NMAM Institute of Technology plans centre to make youths employable (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/NMAM-Institute-of-Technology-plans-centre-to-make-youths-employable/articleshow/15345755.cms)

MANGALORE: Acknowledging that several educated youths fail to get jobs as they lack soft and vocational skills, the NMAM Institute of Technology (NMAMIT) of Nitte Education Trust in association with the state government is planning to open an exclusive centre to train them. The centre will give free add-on and certificate courses for engineering, ITI, diploma and other graduates.

NMAMIT, which has been offering vocational training for the past four years for about 40 students, will now be able to provide the same for over 1,000 students when the proposed vocational training centre becomes a reality.

The centre will offer courses in advanced computer applications, animation and seven other areas.

The motto of setting up such a centre is making the educated youths employable in both private and public sectors and helping the private companies do away with in-house training for the newly joined employees in soft skills and other technical skills.

NMAMIT principal Niranjan N Chiplunkar said that the new centre would come up on five acres of land at a cost of about Rs 4 crore.

"The centre is coming up under the state government sponsored scheme Suvarna Kayaka Koushalyabhivridhi Yojane. According to the scheme the government will give Rs 800 per candidate as the fee. The courses will commence in October," he added.

The duration of the courses will be between six months and one year. Vice-principal I R Mithanthaya said that the college would provide free accommodation to the students. "This is the first such vocational training centre in the undivided Dakshina Kannada district," he added.

mangalore mania

August 4th, 2012, 10:04 AM

Nanthoor college to offer course in Vedic heritage and culture (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article3725872.ece)

Shree Bharathi College at Nanthoor will offer a six-month diploma course in Vedic heritage and culture from Saturday.

Principal of the college G.N. Bhat told The Hindu that the course was not offered by any university. It would be offered with an objective of imparting knowledge for all.

The 130-hour instruction course would end on January 31, 2013.

Mr. Bhat said that those who had passed SSLC could take up the course without any upper age limit. Classes would be held on Saturdays from 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. and Sundays from 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. The medium of instruction would be Kannada.

Mr. Bhat said that the course would have four papers of 100 marks each – Vedic literature, Samskrit literature, chanting of Vedic mantras and Ithihasa and Puranas.

A paper on Vedic literature would have four chapters. It would deal with philosophical principles of Vedas and Upanishads, historical cultural and social aspects of the Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda and the Atharvaveda and 10 major Upanishads. In addition, a candidate could learn science and technology of Vedas, techniques for personality transformations, and the like, he said.

The paper on Sanskrit literature would teach origin and development of Mahakavyas, stotra granthas, lyric and gnomic poems, popular tales, fables and Sankrit dramas. There would be a 40-hour chanting of Vedic mantras during the course. It would cover Shanti Mantra, Bhruguvalli, Purusha Sukta, Medha Sukta, and the like, he said.

The last paper on Ithihasa and Puranas would have introduction to the Ramayana and the Mahabharatha, brief introduction to 18 puranas, structure of skanda purana, concept of dharma, and the like, he said.

Mr. Bhat said that in 1993, when he was associated with a degree college at Kateel, he started a certificate and a diploma course in Veda, Tantra and Aagama for students only.

The college still offered courses recognised by Mangalore University.

In 2003, a degree college at Gandhinagar in the city launched a certificate and diploma course in Veda, Tantra and Aagama. The college wound up the courses for want of students, he said.

He said that during 18{+t}{+h}century, European scholars such as Max Muller and Moriz Winternitz studied Vedic heritage and culture extensively and had written books.

mangalore mania

August 6th, 2012, 03:29 AM

Learn science the fun way at Sunday science school (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Learn-science-the-fun-way-at-Sunday-science-school/articleshow/15369365.cms)

MANGALORE: With an aim to provide school children hands-on experience on various science projects, St Agnes College in association with Centre for Advanced Learning (CAL) has organized Sunday Science School for School Children (SSSSC ) on its campus.

Students will be conducting 50 science projects under the guidance of three science teachers and BSc students of St Agnes College on every Sunday for two hours.

The programme got underway on the college campus on August 5. This programme will go on for 25 Sundays.

Students of any school in Dakshina Kannada district can take part in the programme and all the required materials and equipments to perform various science experiments will be provided by the college authorities.

For registration and further details, dial: 9845737120/2249220/2214100.

Krishnamoorthy K

August 9th, 2012, 05:08 PM

Ganesh Prabhu

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The Government Polytechnic functions at the building of the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) in Udupi.

Hostel building has not been handed over because of dues

Lack of basic facilities and inadequate infrastructure have affected the functioning of the Government Polytechnic here.

The polytechnic began functioning in 2008 from the three rooms of the Veterinary Department at Bailoor before being shifted to the Kemthur School next year. It was subsequently shifted to the new building of the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) at Yemabathu Badagabettu.

The polytechnic, which offers diploma in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electronics and Communications (E&C), and Computer Science, had a strength of 413 students last year. The intake this year is still not clear as the process of admission is under way.

Out of 86 sanctioned teaching and non-teaching posts, only 12 had been filled at the polytechnic. Out of 31 sanctioned lecturer posts only six had been filled. The polytechnic is now functioning with the help of 20 part-time lecturers much to the discomfiture of the students.

According to Srinivas Bhat, a final year student pursuing E&C course, lack of classrooms is a big worry. “Many a times, combined classes are held for first year for English and Mathematics. The hydraulics lab has been hardly used,” he said.

Mohammed Saddam, a final year civil engineering student, said there was no hostel facility for the students coming from other districts. Many students were staying as paying guests and in rented rooms, which were in distant places such as Udyavar and Hiriyadka. There was no women’s hostel for the polytechnic.

“Some students have to change three buses from Udupi to reach the polytechnic. To board a direct bus to Udupi from the polytechnic, students have to walk 1.5 km to Manchi,” he said. Registrar of the Polytechnic Lakshmeesha Bhat said that though the women’s hostel had been built at a cost of Rs. 1 crore, it had not been handed over to the polytechnic yet.

The inaugural function was held in February and ever since the facility remained unutilised as the polytechnic owed Rs. 10 lakh to the contractor. Mr. Bhat agreed that there was shortage of classrooms. The foundation stone for the construction of a new building for the polytechnic was laid at Shivally in February. The building was expected to come up in two years at a cost of Rs. 8 crore, he said.

TH (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/article3740905.ece)

Krishnamoorthy K

August 16th, 2012, 07:37 AM

Pavan M V, TNN | Aug 14, 2012, 06.32AM IST

MANGALORE: The trend of using electronic devices like LCD projectors to conduct classes is catching up in colleges in undivided Dakshina Kannada district. Manipal University (MU) presently has 450 LCD projectors, installed across classrooms and laboratories.

MU director purchase and general services Colonel Badri Narayanan told TOI that in 2001 MU started using LCD projectors but that time they had just one. Later due to an increasing demand from students, classrooms with strength of 100 students were provided LCD projectors. "Now the same facility has been provided to classrooms even with strength of 50 students as LCD projectors help in providing effective teaching," he said.

NMAM Institute of Technology (IT) that had been using 10 LCD projectors to conduct classes installed 15 more LCD projectors in classrooms last year. NMAM IT vice-principal IR Mithanthaya said it helps in avoiding dictation of notes and improves teaching and learning skills, particularly for engineering students as they have to learn about various designs of machines. "Because of the LCD's, teachers do not have to draw figures on boards," he added.

Another city-based Besant Women's college has got an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB), which costs more than lakh rupees. IWB is a large electronic display connected to a computer, where users control it by using pen, stylus or fingers. Beasant Women's College principal Manjula KJ said, "We have been using LCD projectors for the last five years but the specialty of IWB is that internet can be used, which helps the teaching faculty to access videos, pictures and other data related to academics quickly." Marker-boards consume more time to teach as everything has to be written but these electronic devices not only save time but also make learning more interesting for students, she said.

Srinivas Institute of Technology (SIT), which has equipped it classrooms with 44 projectors, plans to install IWBs. SIT principal Shrinivasa Mayya said that these devices also reduce the workload on teachers.

TOI (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Increase-in-use-of-LCD-projectors-for-teaching/articleshow/15486426.cms)

Krishnamoorthy K

August 16th, 2012, 07:44 AM

ತ್ರಿಶಂಕು ಸ್ಥಿತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಉಡುಪಿ ತಾಂತ್ರಿಕ ಕಾಲೇಜು: 400 ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳಿಗೆ 4 ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕರು!

ವಿಕ ಸುದ್ದಿಲೋಕ | Aug 9, 2012, 07.03PM IST

- ಬಾಲಕೃಷ್ಣ ಶಿಬಾರ್ಲ
ಉಡುಪಿ: ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳು ಕಲಿಯುತ್ತಿರುವ ಒಂದು ವಿದ್ಯಾಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯಲ್ಲಿದ್ದ 12 ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕರಲ್ಲಿ 10 ಮಂದಿಯನ್ನು ವರ್ಗಾವಣೆ ಮಾಡಿ ಸರಕಾರ ಸುಮ್ಮನೆ ಕುಳಿತುಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತದೆ ಅಂದ್ರೆ ನಾಲ್ಕೇ ನಾಲ್ಕು ವರ್ಷಗಳ ಹಿಂದೆ ಆರಂಭಗೊಂಡ ಸರಕಾರಿ ಪೊಲಿಟೆಕ್ನಿಕ್ ಕಾಲೇಜು ಮಚ್ಚಲು ತಯಾರಿಯೇ ಇದು?

ಇಷ್ಟೇ ಅಲ್ಲ, ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಾಂಶುಪಾಲರೇ ಇಲ್ಲ! ನಾಲ್ವರು ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕರು(ಇಬ್ಬರು ವರ್ಗ ಬಯಸಿದವರು ಸೇರಿ), ಒಬ್ಬ ಬೋಧಕ, ಇಬ್ಬರು ಮೆಕ್ಯಾನಿಕ್ ಮಾತ್ರ ಇದ್ದಾರೆ. ಅಂದರೆ ಅವಶ್ಯವಿರುವ 63 ಹುದ್ದೆಗಳಿವೆ ಕೇವಲ 7 ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿಗಳಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಮತ್ತು 23 ಆಡಳಿತಾತ್ಮಕ ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿ ಇರಬೇಕಿದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ, ರಿಜಿಸ್ಟ್ರಾರ್, ಇಬ್ಬರು ಡಿ ಗ್ರೂಪ್ ನೌಕರರು ಮಾತ್ರ ಇದ್ದಾರೆ!

ಇದು ಇಲ್ಲಿನ ಪ್ರಗತಿನಗರದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಉಡುಪಿ ಸರಕಾರಿ ಪೊಲಿಟೆಕ್ನಿಕ್ ವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯದ ಕತೆ. ಇಷ್ಟಾಗಿ, ತಾತ್ಕಾಲಿಕ ನೆಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನೇಮಕ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡ ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕರಿಗೆ ಮತ್ತು ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಕಳೆದ 7 ತಿಂಗಳಿಂದ ಸಂಬಳವನ್ನೇ ಕೊಟ್ಟಿಲ್ಲ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಮುಂದಿನ ಸೆಮಿಸ್ಟರ್*ಗೆ ತಾತ್ಕಾಲಿಕ ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕರು ಸಿಗುವುದೂ ಕಷ್ಟ ಅನ್ನುವ ಪರಿಸ್ಥಿತಿ ನಿರ್ಮಾಣವಾಗಿದೆ.

ಕತ್ತಲಲ್ಲಿ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳ ಭವಿಷ್ಯ

ಜನಸಾಮಾನ್ಯರಿಗೆಟಕುವ ಈ ತಾಂತ್ರಿಕ ವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯಕ್ಕೆ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳೇನೋ ವರ್ಷದಿಂದ ವರ್ಷಕ್ಕೆ ಜಾಸ್ತಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಆದರೆ ಇದ್ದ ಕಾಯಂ ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕರನ್ನು ವರ್ಗಾಯಿಸುವುದು, ತಾತ್ಕಾಲಿಕ ನೆಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂದವರಿಗೆ ಸಂಬಳ ನೀಡದೆ ಇರುವುದು ಮಾಡಿದರೆ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಪಾಠ ಮಾಡುವವರು ಯಾರು?

ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ವರ್ಗವಾಗಿರುವ 10 ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕರಲ್ಲಿ 8 ಮಂದಿ ಬೇರೆಡೆಗೆ ತೆರಳಿದ್ದರೆ, ಮತ್ತಿಬ್ಬರು ಹೊರಡುವುದರಲ್ಲಿದ್ದರು. ಆದರೆ, ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳು ಜಿಲ್ಲಾಧಿಕಾರಿ ಕಚೇರಿ ಮುಂದೆ ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕರು ಬೇಕೆಂದು ಪ್ರತಿಭಟನೆ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದರ ಪರಿಣಾಮ ಪರ್ಯಾಯ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ ಆಗುವವರೆಗೆ ಅವರಿಬ್ಬರ ವರ್ಗವನ್ನು ಜಿಲ್ಲಾಧಿಕಾರಿ ತಡೆ ಹಿಡಿದಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಮೊದಲೇ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಲ್ಯಾಬ್ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಕೊಠಡಿಗಳು ಬೇಕಾದಷ್ಟಿಲ್ಲ. ವರ್ಷದ ಕೊನೆಗೆ ಮಣಿಪಾಲದ ಎಂಐಟಿ ಲ್ಯಾಬ್*ಗೆ ಹೋಗಬೇಕು. ಒಂದು ತರಗತಿಯವರಿಗೆ ಬೋಧನೆ ನಡೆಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದರೆ ಇನ್ನೊಂದು ತರಗತಿಯವರು ಹೊರಗೆ ಇರಬೇಕಾದ ಪರಿಸ್ಥಿತಿ ಇದೆ. ಸರಕಾರಿ ಪೊಲಿಟೆಕ್ನಿಕ್ ಎಂದು ಬಂದು ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳು ತೊಳಲಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಎಲ್ಲವೂ ಖಾಲಿ ಖಾಲಿ...

ಕಂಪ್ಯೂಟರ್ ಸೈನ್ಸ್, ಮೆಕ್ಯಾನಿಕಲ್, ಎಲೆಕ್ಟ್ರಾನಿಕ್ಸ್ ಆ್ಯಂಡ್ ಕಮ್ಯುನಿಕೇಶನ್, ಸಿವಿಲ್ ಎಂಜಿನಿಯರಿಂಗ್ ಹೀಗೆ ನಾಲ್ಕು ವಿಭಾಗಗಳಿವೆ. ಪ್ರತಿ ವಿಭಾಗದಲ್ಲಿ ನಾಲ್ಕರಿಂದ ಆರು ವಿಷಯಗಳಿವೆ. ಒಬ್ಬ ಪ್ರಾಂಶುಪಾಲ, 31 ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕರು, ಒಬ್ಬ ಸಿಸ್ಟಮ್ ಎನಾಲಿಸ್ಟ್, 4 ಬೋಧಕರು, 5 ಸಹಬೋಧಕರು, 8 ಮೆಕ್ಯಾನಿಕ್, 13 ಸಹಾಯಕರು ಬೇಕು. ಆದರೆ 63 ಮಂದಿ ಬೇಕಾದಲ್ಲಿ 7 ಮಂದಿ ಇದ್ದಾರೆ !

23 ಮಂದಿ ಆಡಳಿತಾತ್ಮಕ ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿ ಬೇಕು. ಒಬ್ಬ ರಿಜಿಸ್ಟ್ರಾರ್, ಮೂರು ಕಚೇರಿ ಅಧೀಕ್ಷಕರು, ಒಬ್ಬ ಗ್ರಂಥಪಾಲಕ, ನಾಲ್ಕು ಪ್ರಥಮದರ್ಜೆ ಸಹಾಯಕರು, 5 ದ್ವಿತೀಯ ದರ್ಜೆ ಸಹಾಯಕರು. 7 ಗ್ರೂಪ್ ಡಿ. ನೌಕರರು ಬೇಕು. ಆದರೆ ಮೂವರಷ್ಟೇ ಇದ್ದಾರೆ.

ನಾಲ್ಕೇ ವರ್ಷಗಳ ಇತಿಹಾಸ

2008ರಲ್ಲಿ ರಾಜ್ಯದ ವಿವಿಧೆಡೆ 21 ಪೊಲಿಟೆಕ್ನಿಕ್ ಕಾಲೇಜು ತೆರೆಯಲು ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸರಕಾರ ನಿರ್ಧರಿಸಿತ್ತು. ಡಾ.ವಿ.ಎಸ್.ಆಚಾರ್ಯರ ಮುತುವರ್ಜಿಯಿಂದಾಗಿ ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ಕಾಲೇಜು ಉಡುಪಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆರಂಭಗೊಂಡಿತು. ಉಡುಪಿ ಬೈಲೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಪಶುಸಂಗೋಪನಾ ಇಲಾಖೆಗೆ ಸೇರಿದ ಕಟ್ಟಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ವರ್ಷ ನಡೆಯಿತು. ಎರಡನೇ ವರ್ಷಕ್ಕೆ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ ದ್ವಿಗುಣಗೊಂಡಿದ್ದರಿಂದ ಜಾಗ ಸಾಕಾಗಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಅಲ್ಲಿಂದ 5 ಕಿಲೋಮೀಟರ್ ದೂರದ ಕೆಮ್ತೂರು ಸಮೀಪದ ಕೊರಂಗ್ರಪಾಡಿ ಹಿರಿಯ ಪ್ರಾಥಮಿಕ ಶಾಲೆಯ ನಾಲ್ಕು ಕೊಠಡಿಗಳನ್ನು ಪಡೆದುಕೊಂಡು ತರಗತಿ ನಡೆಸಲಾಯಿತು.

ಪ್ರಗತಿನಗರದಲ್ಲಿ ಡಯೆಟ್*ನವರ ಕಟ್ಟಡ 2010ರ ಜನವರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಉದ್ಘಾಟನೆಗೊಂಡಿತಾದರೂ ಡಯೆಟ್*ನವರು ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಹೋಗಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಜಾಗದ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಯಲ್ಲಿದ್ದ ಪೊಲಿಟೆಕ್ನಿಕ್ ಕಾಲೇಜು ಅದೇ ವರ್ಷದ ಆಗಸ್ಟ್*ನಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಕಟ್ಟಡಕ್ಕೆ ಸ್ಥಳಾಂತರಗೊಂಡಿತ್ತು.

ತೆರೆಯದ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿನಿ ನಿಲಯ

ಪಾಲಿಟೆಕ್ನಿಕ್*ಗಾಗಿ ಮಣಿಪಾಲ ಅನಂತನಗರದ ಸಿಂಡಿಕೇಟ್ ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ ಹಿಂದುಗಡೆ 5 ಎಕರೆ ಭೂಮಿ ಮೀಸಲಿಡಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಕಟ್ಟಡ ನಿರ್ಮಾಣಕ್ಕಾಗಿ 8 ಕೋಟಿ ರೂ. ಅನುದಾನ ದೊರತಿದ್ದು, ಕಟ್ಟಡ ನಿರ್ಮಾಣಕ್ಕೆ ಶಂಕುಸ್ಥಾಪನೆಯೂ ನಡೆದಿದೆ. ಅದರ ಪಕ್ಕದಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಪೊಲಿಟೆಕ್ನಿಕ್ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿನಿಯರಿಗಾಗಿ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿನಿ ವಸತಿ ನಿಲಯ ನಿರ್ಮಾಣಗೊಂಡಿದೆ. ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸರಕಾರದ ಮಾನವ ಸಂಪನ್ಮೂಲ ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ ಸಚಿವಾಲಯದ (ಎಂಎಚ್*ಆರ್*ಡಿ) ನೇರ ಅನುದಾನ 1 ಕೋಟಿ ರೂ. ನಿರ್ಮಾಣಗೊಂಡಿರುವ ಈ ವಸತಿ ನಿಲಯ ಉದ್ಘಾಟನೆಗೊಂಡು ಆರು ತಿಂಗಳು ಕಳೆದು ಹೋಗಿದೆ. ಲೋಕೋಪಯೋಗಿ ಸಚಿವ ಸಿ.ಎಂ.ಉದಾಸಿ, ಉನ್ನತ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಸಚಿವರಾಗಿದ್ದ ಡಾ.ವಿ.ಎಸ್.ಆಚಾರ್ಯರ ಉಪಸ್ಥಿತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಳೆದ ಫೆ.12ರಂದು ಉದ್ಘಾಟನೆಗೊಂಡಿದೆಯಾದರೂ ಈವರೆಗೆ ಕಾಲೇಜಿಗೆ ಹಸ್ತಾಂತರ ಆಗಿಲ್ಲ. ಅನುದಾನದಲ್ಲಿ 10 ಲಕ್ಷ ರೂ. ಬರಲು ಬಾಕಿ ಇರುವುದು ಒಂದು ಕಾರಣವಾದರೆ, ಅಡುಗೆ ಸಾಮಗ್ರಿ, ಪೀಠೋಪಕರಣಗಳು, ಫ್ಯಾನ್, ಲೈಟ್*ಗಳು ಇನ್ನೂ ಅಳವಡಿಕೆ ಆಗದೇ ಇರುವುದು ಇನ್ನೊಂದು ಕಾರಣವಾಗಿದೆ.

ಉಡುಪಿ, ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಕನ್ನಡ, ಉತ್ತರ ಕನ್ನಡ, ಶಿವಮೊಗ್ಗ, ದಾವಣಗೆರೆ ಮತ್ತಿತರ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಗಳಿಂದ ಬರುವ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿನಿಯರು ಎಲ್ಲೆಲ್ಲೋ ಉಳಿದುಕೊಂಡು ಬರುವಂತಾಗಿದೆ.

ತಾಂತ್ರಿಕ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ, ಸರಕಾರಿ ವಿದ್ಯಾಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಕನಿಷ್ಠ ಕಾಳಜಿ ಇದ್ದರೆ ತಾಂತ್ರಿಕ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಇಲಾಖೆ ಈ ರೀತಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕರ ನೇಮಕ ತಕ್ಷಣ ಆಗಬೇಕು. ಬಡ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳ ಭವಿಷ್ಯದ ಜತೆ ಚೆಲ್ಲಾಟವಾಡಬಾರದೆಂದು ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಪಾಲಕರು ಸರಕಾರವನ್ನು ಆಗ್ರಹಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

* ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕರು ಮೈಸೂರು, ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು, ಶಿವಮೊಗ್ಗ, ಹುಬ್ಬಳ್ಳಿ ಕಡೆಯವರು ಆಗಿರುವುದರಿಂದ ಅವರು ತಮ್ಮ ಊರಿಗೆ ಹತ್ತಿರ ಆಗುವಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ವರ್ಗಾವಣೆ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡು ಹೋಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಯಾರೂ ಬಂದಿಲ್ಲ. ಈ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ತಾಂತ್ರಿಕ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಇಲಾಖೆ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕರಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದಾಗ, ಕೂಡಲೇ ಕೌನ್ಸೆಲಿಂಗ್ ನಡೆಯಲಿದೆ. ಇನ್ನು 15 ದಿನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕರು ಬರಲಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎಂದು ಭರವಸೆ ನೀಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ - ದೀಪಿಕಾ, ಪ್ರಭಾರ ಪ್ರಾಂಶುಪಾಲೆ

* ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕರು ಇಲ್ಲದೆ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳಿಗೆ ತೊಂದರೆಯಾಗಿದೆ. ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳ ಪ್ರತಿಭಟನೆ ಮತ್ತಿತರ ಕಾರಣದಿಂದ ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕರಾದರೂ ಬರಬಹುದು. ಆದರೆ ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿಗಳ ನೇಮ ಆಗುವುದೇ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕರ ಜತೆಗೆ ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿಗಳನ್ನು ಕೂಡ ನೇಮಕ ಮಾಡಬೇಕು. ತಾತ್ಕಾಲಿಕ ನೆಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇರುವ ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಬಾಕಿ ಇರುವ ವೇತನ ನೀಡಬೇಕು - ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮೀಶ ಭಟ್ಕಳ, ಕಚೇರಿ ರಿಜಿಸ್ಟ್ರಾರ್

* ನಮಗೆ ಹಾಸ್ಟೆಲ್ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಉಡುಪಿ, ಮಣಿಪಾಲ ಮತ್ತಿತರ ಕಡೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಪೆಯಿಂಗ್*ಗೆಸ್ಟ್ ಆಗಿ, ಕೆಲವರು ಕುಕ್ಕಿಕಟ್ಟೆಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ವಸತಿ ನಿಲಯದಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಂತು ಬರುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಕಷ್ಟಪಟ್ಟು ಬಂದರೂ ನಮಗೇನು ಬೇಜಾರಿಲ್ಲ. ಆದರೆ ಹಾಗೆ ಬಂದರೂ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕರಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಪಾಠವೇ ಇಲ್ಲದಾಗ ಬೇಜಾರಾಗುತ್ತದೆ - ಚೈತ್ರಾ, ಸುಪ್ರಿತಾ, ಶೈಲಜಾ, ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿನಿಯರು

* ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕರು ಇಲ್ಲ. ಒಂದು ವೇಳೆ ಎಲ್ಲ ಉಪನ್ಯಾಸಕರು ಬಂದ್ರೆ ಪಾಠ ಕೇಳಲು ಕೊಠಡಿಗಳು ಬೇಕಾದಷ್ಟಿಲ್ಲ. ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಲಾಬ್ ಇಲ್ಲ. ವರ್ಷದ ಕೊನೇಗೆ ಎಂಐಟಿಗೆ ಹೋಗಬೇಕು. ಥಿಯರಿ ಮತ್ತು ಪ್ರಾಕ್ಟಿಕಲ್ ಒಟ್ಟಿಗಾದರೆ ತೊಂದರೆ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಈಗ ಥಿಯರಿ, ಕೊನೇಗೆ ಪ್ರಾಕ್ಟಿಕಲ್ ಅಂದ್ರೆ ಲಿಂಕ್ ಸಿಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಕಾಲೇಜಲ್ಲಿ ನೀರಿನ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ ಸರಿ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಕ್ಯಾಂಟೀನ್ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಒಂದು ಬಸ್ ತಪ್ಪಿದರೆ ಇನ್ನೊಂದು ಬಸ್ಸಿಗೆ ಮುಕ್ಕಾಲು ಗಂಟೆ ಕಾಯಬೇಕು. ಇಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದರೆ 2.5 ಕಿಲೋಮೀಟರ್ ನಡೆಯಬೇಕು - ಶಿವಾನಂದ, ಶಕಿಬ್, ವಿಶ್ವಗುರು ಹುಬ್ಬಳ್ಳಿ, ಅಕ್ಷಯ್, ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳು

Vijaya Karnataka (http://vijaykarnataka.indiatimes.com/articleshow/15422056.cms)

Krishnamoorthy K

August 16th, 2012, 07:46 AM

Pavan M V, TNN | Aug 27, 2012, 05.09AM IST

MANIPAL: Manipal University is all set to launch a website that will provide attendance, fees and other details of over 20,000 students studying on its camps.

The facility mainly caters to students who come from other states and countries. Each student and their parents will be given a username and password to log on to the website. Parents can visit the website to know activities and academic progress of their wards on the campus.

MU network administrator Sathish Kamath told TOI that website would be launched within a month.

"Earlier, the varsity used to mail students' attendance and other details to parents. The new website will give more visibility about their activities in institutions to parents. Details of hostel fees paid and dues, and internal and external marks obtained in exams will also be available on the website," he added.

"It is a good move by MU. Parents who stay away from their wards will always be worried about their children. The website will ease their tension. Some students get distracted in Manipal which may lead to lying to their parents and poor performance in exams," said Vinayak Prabhu, an MSc in media and communication student.

Abhishek, a third year electronics and communication engineering student, said that the new website might create problems to students, who are not attending classes properly. "But it gives parents a secured feeling as they can keep an eye on their children and their activities at any point of time," he added.

TOI (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Now-a-website-that-tracks-students-academic-progress/articleshow/15793060.cms)

Krishnamoorthy K

August 27th, 2012, 05:13 PM

Stanley Pinto, TNN | Aug 26, 2012, 01.47PM IST

MANGALORE: The Green College, Bearys Institute of Technology now has a Green council. The IGBC (Indian Green Building Council), Student Chapter was launched by Chandrashekar Hariharan, Vice Chairman, IGBC - Bangalore Chapter and Chairperson, Biodiversity Conservation India, which is first of its kind in an Engineering college in this region, on Saturday.

The vision of the council is to usher a green building movement in India and facilitate India to become one of the global leaders in green buildings. A green building is one which uses less energy, water and natural resources, creates less waste and is healthier for the people living inside compared to a standard building.

Syed Mohammed Beary, Chairman,IGBC - Bangalore Chapter and also the Chairman of BIT, said: A great amount of thought, planning and design has gone into the making of BIT's campus. The campus adheres to norms and guidelines of Green Building Architecture.''

TOI (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/BIT-Green-Students-Council-launched/articleshow/15747343.cms)

mangalore mania

August 28th, 2012, 11:48 AM

Manipal University ties up with Irish college (http://www.dnaindia.com/academy/report_manipal-university-ties-up-with-irish-college_1733258)

Manipal University (MU) will offer a master’s programme in pharmaceutical sciences in association with Hibernia College, Dublin, Ireland, from October 2012.

“The programme will be the first of its kind in the country to provide an understanding of drug development process from the initial discovery through research and development to the regulatory approval process and commercialisation,” said MU chief coordinator, Dr N Udupa.

The programme will enable students to design and manage projects, critically evaluate data and lead multidisciplinary teams. It will also help students gain valuable business and management expertise required for senior positions in the pharmaceutical industry.

Eighty per cent of the course will be conducted online and the remaining 20% through teacher-student participation. The duration of the course is two years and professors from Hibernia College will be part of both online and in-contact programmes.

The Higher Education Technical Awards Council (Level 9) and International Federation of Associations of Pharmaceutical Physicians have given accreditation to the programme. Students who have completed BPharm, MBBS and BDS with at least 55% marks can enrol for the course. Those who are working in pharmaceutical companies are also eligible.

mangalore mania

August 30th, 2012, 08:01 AM

Varsity teachers to get laptops (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article3838372.ece)

Mangalore University will provide high-end laptops to all teachers on its campus within next month, said Vice-Chancellor T.C. Shivashankara Murthy. The laptops have arrived and are ready for distribution.

About 130 teachers would get laptops, he told The Hindu . The teachers should use the personal computer for research and academic activities, he said. The university had reserved funds for its purchase in its 2011-12 Budget, he said. Prof. Murthy said that the library would soon have 60 computers with internet access.

He said that the university opened a Kannada Adhyayana Samsthe recently after shifting its Department of Kannada to a new building.

mangalore mania

August 30th, 2012, 08:11 AM

Mangalore varsity now approves admission statements online (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article3838373.ece)

Colleges can upload student details on university website
The university creates electronic data bank with details of each undergraduate student
193 colleges affiliated to the university send admission statements online
Mangalore University has switched over to receiving and approving of admission statements of undergraduate students from colleges online from this academic year, said Vice-Chancellor T.C. Shivashankara Murthy. The university had developed a software for the purpose.

Degree colleges would have to send admission statements of first semester undergraduate students to the university online by filling the details in a prescribed format hosted on its websitewww.mangaloreuniversity

.ac.in, he told The Hindu .

Prof. Murthy said the new method had avoided paper work and delay in receiving the admission statements from colleges at the university and in turn colleges receiving the approval statements.

The university had created an electronic data bank of details (with photograph) of each undergraduate student admitted till he passed out of a college by obtaining the convocation certificate. Details would include date of birth, category of merit, marks obtained in pre-university (later at the college), home address, and other aspects. As soon as the university approved the admission of a student it generated a register number for the particular student. The register number would be his or her number to be written in examinations till the student completed the course.

He said that all the 193 colleges affiliated to the university had sent their admission statements online after the last date for admission of undergraduate students (by colleges) for the first semester was over on August 14. Initially, July 13 was the last date for admitting students. Later, it was extended up to August 14 to accommodate those students who had passed the supplementary examinations of the pre-university courses, he said.

Prof. Murthy said the university had approved the admission statements of about half of the colleges. Of the affiliated colleges, 120 were private colleges, 33 were government-aided private colleges, 33 were government colleges, five were autonomous colleges, and two were constituent colleges of the university.

The colleges would have to scan the documents such as marks card, transfer certificate, eligibility certificate, migration certificate, proof for date of birth, and upload them with the admission statement. The software had a provision for verifying the admission statements in different stages by its officials such as Case Worker, Superintendent, Assistant Registrar, and finally the Deputy Registrar.

P.S. Yadapadithaya, Registrar (Administration), said the colleges would be asked to upload the internal assessment marks of students of first, third, and fifth semesters online and send hard copies of the same. “This time we will follow the dual system. For the next second, fourth, and sixth semester examinations to be held in May 2013, we will ask the colleges to upload the internal assessment marks online and discard the system of sending hard copies,” he said.

hakindian1984

August 31st, 2012, 04:26 AM

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mangalore mania

August 31st, 2012, 06:50 PM

Mangalore University to improve physical, knowledge infrastructure (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/education/article3844612.ece)

MANGALORE, AUG. 31:
Mangalore University is improving its physical and knowledge infrastructure, according to its Vice-Chancellor, T.C. Shivashankara Murthy.

Addressing presspersons here on Friday, he said the Department of Science and Technology has sanctioned a grant of Rs 9 crore for the development of science infrastructure in the campus.

Of that amount, Rs 3 crore has been released. With this, the university will buy hi-tech equipment related to research infrastructure in the next three months.

ONLINE ADMISSIONS

To avoid paper work related to the admission of students in colleges under its jurisdiction, the university has implemented online system from this academic year.

He said colleges imparting under-graduate courses will have to submit admission statements of first semester students online. For this, the colleges will have to fill the details in a prescribed format on the university’s Web site.

Apart from avoiding paper work, this method would help in the speedy approval of admission process of students, he said.

The university has approved the admission process of nearly 80 colleges till now. It has around 190 colleges under its jurisdiction.

In the next phase, the university will ask the colleges to send the details of internal assessments of students online. Such a system would help the university announce results faster, Shivashankara Murthy said.

All the teaching staff in the university above the grade of assistant professors will get hi-end laptop computers, he said.

The university will be celebrating its foundation day on September 10. On that day, Ramananda Shetty, former Vice-Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, will deliver the foundation day lecture, he added.

mangalore mania

September 1st, 2012, 04:15 PM

Varsity to set up centre for science research (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/article3847722.ece)

‘Panel has approved purchase of equipment worth Rs. 3 crore’
Mangalore University will set up a centre for research in science with funds from the Union Department of Science and Technology and from its own fund, according to Vice-Chancellor T C Shivashankara Murthy.

Addressing presspersons here on Friday, Prof. Murthy said the Department of Science and Technology had sanctioned Rs. 9 crore to the university considering its achievement in research in various branches of science. Of the sanctioned amount, Rs. 3 crore has already been released.

The purchase committee of the university a few days ago had approved procurement of science equipment worth Rs. 3 crore. Now the university would seek the approval of the Syndicate, in its meeting next month, for purchasing the equipment, he said.

Prof. Murthy said the building in which the Department of Kannada had been housed would be upgraded and converted into a centre for research in science. The university would spend about Rs. 70 lakh for renovating the building. The Vice-Chancellor said there were about 40 researchers in the university who did not have the support of any fellowship or grant. The university has decided to provide such candidates a fellowship of Rs. 8,000 per month for one year. If they required further financial support the fellowship would be extended to the second and even up to the third year.

Thus the university would support the researchers by providing infrastructural, financial and knowledge support, he said.

Laptops

The Vice-Chancellor said the university would distribute high-end laptops to about 145 postgraduate teachers on September 10 which was the Foundation Day of the 32-year-old university. The cost of each laptop is Rs. 46,000. S. Ramananda Shetty, Vice-Chancellor, Nitte University and former Vice-Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences would deliver the Foundation Day lecture.

He said the university had set up the Kannada Adhyayana Samsthe a few days ago. P. S. Yadapadithaya, Registrar (administration) was present.

Krishnamoorthy K

September 7th, 2012, 07:41 AM

Mangalore University to improve physical, knowledge infrastructure

Mangalore, Aug. 31:

Mangalore University is improving its physical and knowledge infrastructure, according to its Vice-Chancellor, T.C. Shivashankara Murthy.

Addressing presspersons here on Friday, he said the Department of Science and Technology has sanctioned a grant of Rs 9 crore for the development of science infrastructure in the campus.

Of that amount, Rs 3 crore has been released. With this, the university will buy hi-tech equipment related to research infrastructure in the next three months.

Online admissions

To avoid paper work related to the admission of students in colleges under its jurisdiction, the university has implemented online system from this academic year.

He said colleges imparting under-graduate courses will have to submit admission statements of first semester students online. For this, the colleges will have to fill the details in a prescribed format on the university’s Web site.

Apart from avoiding paper work, this method would help in the speedy approval of admission process of students, he said.

The university has approved the admission process of nearly 80 colleges till now. It has around 190 colleges under its jurisdiction.

In the next phase, the university will ask the colleges to send the details of internal assessments of students online. Such a system would help the university announce results faster, Shivashankara Murthy said.

All the teaching staff in the university above the grade of assistant professors will get hi-end laptop computers, he said.

The university will be celebrating its foundation day on September 10. On that day, Ramananda Shetty, former Vice-Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, will deliver the foundation day lecture, he added.

vinayak.aj@thehindu.co.in

BL (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/education/article3844612.ece)

Department of Biotechnology selects St Agnes College under star college scheme (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-05/mangalore/33614878_1_scheme-financial-assistance-autonomous-college)
ಕಾವೂರು ಕಾಲೇಜು ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ವಿಭಾಗಕ್ಕೆ ಮುಚ್ಚುಗಡೆ ಭೀತಿ (http://vijaykarnataka.indiatimes.com/articleshow/16267873.cms)
Future sound for grads of healthcare management (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Future-sound-for-grads-of-healthcare-management/articleshow/16275298.cms)

mangalore mania

September 11th, 2012, 08:22 AM

Mangalore: Padua Edu Inst Goes Hi-tech with New Digital Teaching Systems (http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=149215)

Mangalore, Sep 10: "Catholic institutions have made commendable contributions to society," said MLA Abhayachandra Jain. He spoke during the inauguration of digital teaching systems (smart class) including computer lab, E-library and genset at Padua Educational Institutions campus here on Monday September 10.

MLA Jain also the spoke on the importance of Catholic institutions in the upbringing of the society. He lauded the efforts made by various Catholic institutions in taking education to new heights.

He also congratulated the Padua institution for the progress achieved since its inception and asked the students to make optimum use of the opportunities provided by the institution.

Fr Wilson D’Souza, secretary of Catholic board of education, Rohan Monteiro, chairman, Rohan Corporation, Hemacharya, editor of Daijiworld Weekly, E P Jose, trustee of the Aubrey D’Souza Foundation, Vasudev Kamath, senior delivery manager of Infosys, Fr Antony Serrao, correspondent of Padua Educational Institution were the main guests.

Rohan Monteiro congratulated the institution for taking up this new venture of digital classes. "I am sure this will help in the all round development of the student as it has lot of potentiality," he added.

Hemacharya congratulated the students for being the beneficiaries of this new opportunity. He appealed to the students to make best use of the facility provided without being prey to wrong things. He also asked students to believe in themselves and to follow the examples set by leaders while taking decisions.

The programme was presided over by Fr Wilson D’Souza who blessed the new digital teaching system, computer lab, E-library and genset.

Rohan Monteiro inaugurated the genset while Abhayachandra Jain inaugurated smart class and EP Jose along with Vasudev Kamath inaugurated the computer lab.

Fr Antony Serrao welcomed the gathering, Roshan compered and Fr Michael Santhumayor delivered the vote of thanks.

Francis D’Souza, Alice Noronha, Lavina John, Sr Olivia among others were present.

mangalore mania

September 11th, 2012, 11:24 AM

Varsity teachers get laptops (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article3883925.ece)

Postgraduate teachers on the Mangalore University campus were elated on Monday as the university gave them high-end laptops.

S. Ramananda Shetty, Vice-Chancellor of Nitte University and former Vice-Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, gave away the laptops at the foundation day function. Dr. Shetty distributed laptops symbolically to chairpersons of various departments.

T.C. Shivashankara Murthy, Vice-Chancellor of Mangalore University, said that other teachers could collect the laptops from the Department of Computer Science.

Prof. Murthy said that now the university had procured 103 laptops for teachers. It would buy 43 more laptops for distributing them among some research scholars, officials and teachers.

He said that the cost of each laptop was Rs. 46,770. It had the latest motherboard, i7 quad core, VGA output. The laptops were wifi-enabled.

Krishna Kumar G, chairman, Department of Applied Botany, and A.M. Khan, chairman, Department of Electronics, told The Hindu that the laptops would help them prepare better for teaching and research activities. As it was portable, it helped in delivering talks in any institution outside

Krishnamoorthy K

September 13th, 2012, 05:20 AM

ಸರಕಾರಿ ಕಾಲೇಜುಗಳಿಗೆ ಮೂಲ ಸೌಲಭ್ಯ: ಸಿ.ಟಿ.ರವಿ

ವಿಕ ಸುದ್ದಿಲೋಕ | Sep 11, 2012, 10.32PM IST

ಸುರತ್ಕಲ್: ಕಾಲೇಜುಗಳಿಗೆ ಅಗತ್ಯ ಮೂಲ ಸೌಕರ್ಯ ನಿರ್ಮಿಸಿಕೊಡಲು ಸರಕಾರ ಅದ್ಯತೆ ನೀಡಲಿದೆ. ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸರಕಾರಿ ಕಾಲೇಜುಗಳಿಗೆ ಕಟ್ಟಡ, ಪ್ರಯೋಗಶಾಲೆ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ ನಿರ್ಮಾಣಕ್ಕೆ 12 ಕೋಟಿ ರೂ.ಗಳನ್ನು ಎರಡು ದಿನಗಳ ಹಿಂದೆ ಬಿಡುಗಡೆ ಗೊಳಿಸಿರುದಾಗಿ ಉನ್ನತ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಸಚಿವ ಹಾಗೂ ದ.ಕ. ಜಿಲ್ಲಾ ಉಸ್ತುವಾರಿ ಸಚಿವ ಸಿ.ಟಿ. ರವಿ ಹೇಳಿದರು.

ಹಳೆಯಂಗಡಿ ಗ್ರಾಮ ಪಂಚಾಯತಿನಲ್ಲಿ 82 ಲಕ್ಷ ರೂ ವೆಚ್ಚದ ನಾನಾ ಕಾಮಗಾರಿಗಳನ್ನು ಅವರು ಮಂಗಳವಾರ ಉದ್ಘಾಟಿಸಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಿ, ಕಳೆದ ಸಾಲಿನ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಗೆ 26.35 ಕೋಟಿ ರೂ. ವೆಚ್ಚದ ಸುವರ್ಣ ಗ್ರಾಮ ಯೋಜನೆ ಕಾಮಗಾರಿ ಶೇ. 80 ರಷ್ದು ಪೂರ್ಣ ಗೊಂಡಿದೆ. ಕಳೆದ ಸಾಲಿನಂತೆ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಗೆ 2012-13ರ ಸಾಲಿನಲ್ಲಿಯೂ 33 ಸುವರ್ಣ ಗ್ರಾಮ ಯೋಜನೆ ನೀಡಿ 33.5 ಕೋಟಿ ರೂ. ಅನುದಾನ ನೀಡಲಾಗುವುದು ಎಂದರು.

ಇಲ್ಲಿನ ಕದಿಕೆ- ಸಸಿಹಿತ್ಲು ನಿವಾಸಿಗಳ ಹಲವು ಕಾಲದ ಬೇಡಿಕೆಯಾಗಿರುವ 5 ಕೋಟಿ ರೂ ವೆಚ್ಚದ ನಂದಿನಿ ಸೇತುವೆ ನಿರ್ಮಾಣಕ್ಕೆ ಸೆ. 17ರಂದು ಟೆಂಡರ್ ನಡೆಸಲಾಗುತ್ತಿದ್ದು 18 ತಿಂಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಮಗಾರಿ ಪೂರ್ಣವಾಗಲಿದೆ ಎಂದರು.

ವಿಕ (http://vijaykarnataka.indiatimes.com/articleshow/16356100.cms)

mangalore mania

September 18th, 2012, 09:02 AM

TAPMI teachers win global case contest (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-others/tp-states/article3905001.ece)

Mangalore, Sept. 16:
Two professors from the Manipal-based T.A. Pai Institute of Management (TAPMI) have been selected winner in ISB-Ivey Global Case Competition.

A press release by TAPMI said here that the case study of the professors, Ajith Kumar and A. Sivakumar, titled ‘Primacy: Global design from India?’ has been selected a winner in the innovation management category at the recently conducted ISB-Ivey Global Case Competition 2012.

Case study

This case was about the global design competence centre of an Indian company – Primacy. Primacy Industries Ltd in Mangalore exports scented designer candles to the US and European markets.

ISB received 220 forms with intent to participate. Of them, 190 entries were selected after the initial screening, the press release said.

Through this competition, ISB-Ivey aspires to reach out to a wide network of Indian and global b-schools with the objective of facilitating the building of a repository of a high-quality, internationally benchmarked cases about Indian businesses, it said.

Cash award

As the winner of the ISB-Ivey Global Case Competition 2012, Ajith Kumar and Sivakumar received an award of $2,000 and a certificate from ISB and Ivey.

The Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Case Development at the Indian School of Business (ISB), in partnership with Richard Ivey School of Business and Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) conducted the ISB-Ivey Global Case Competition 2012.

The event was supported by European Association for Management Development and the AIMS, the release added.

Krishnamoorthy K

September 23rd, 2012, 06:20 PM

Dakshina Kannada, which in some sense is an educational village, can be made an absolute educational hub, said Oscar Fernandes, Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee for Human Resources here on Saturday.

Speaking at an interaction event held at the Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) office on “Education policy”, Mr. Fernandes said land and capital were needed to make educational institutions in the district among the top in the world.

He further said that the Centre believed that the country needs 1,500 more universities to make up for the shortfalls in higher education. “The enrolment in Higher Education is just 13.4 per cent. Distance education and use of technology can increase the percentage,” he said.

Mr. Fernandes said it was worth pondering why none of the Indian universities could make it to a list of top 100 universities in the world. “The students here are gifted, talented, and yet, why is there no university at the top? There is a gap to be filled, and I believe it is research. There is not enough being spent on basic research. There is also not much being done to attract foreign students,” he said.

LEGISLATION

However, he expressed confidence that bills regarding education which would be tabled before the Parliament soon would correct the disparities and imbalances in the system.

The Education Tribunal Bill would set up State- and National-level grievance mechanism system for students and teachers; the Copyright Bill to strengthen intellectual property rights; prohibition of unfair practices to curtail the menace of capitation fees plaguing the admission process in private colleges and universities; Foreign Education Institution Regulatory Bill to regulate the entry of foreign universities into the country; National Accreditation Regulatory Authority that would make accreditation compulsory and thereby increase “competition” among colleges; National Academic Repository Bill that would set up a website wherein students can download their authentic certificates for a fee; Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth and Development; bills for technical education wherein, those in the unskilled sector can be certified through an examination; apart from an overarching bill to govern higher education, he said.

MEMORANDUM

A memorandum submitted to Mr. Fernandes by the KCCI President Mohammad Ameen urged the Union Government to set up a knowledge village in the district, setting up of more universities, greater autonomy to autonomous colleges affiliated to a university, exemption of service tax for educational institutions under construction. Apart from these, KCCI also asked him, in his capacity as a Rajya Sabha MP, to expedite expansion of National Highway between Sakleshpur and Gundiya, air cargo complex at Mangalore Airport and construction of fishing harbour at Kulai, Hosabettu on the outskirts of the city.

TH (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/oscar-dakshina-kannada-can-be-made-educational-hub/article3928968.ece)

How to make DK an educational hub? What is central government role and what is state goverment role? Whether anybody has come up with any plan for for making DK an educational hub?

We have heard of PCPIR, ITIR, NMIZ, SIR, AIR, etc. What about Educational Investment Region - EIR?

mangalore mania

September 26th, 2012, 09:21 AM

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September 26th, 2012, 10:05 AM

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mangalore mania

September 26th, 2012, 02:20 PM

Compound walls to be built for 100 schools in remote areas (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/compound-walls-to-be-built-for-100-schools-in-remote-areas/article3938116.ece)

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K.N. Vijay Prakash, Chief Executive Officer of Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat, and Shailaja Bhat,
president of the panchayat, addressing presspersons in Mangalore on Tuesday. Photo: R. Eswarraj
More than 100 schools in the district will get compound walls with funds being sanctioned for the work, said K.N. Vijay Prakash, Chief Executive Officer of the Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat.

He told presspersons in Mangalore on Tuesday that the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) had planned to build compound walls for 500 schools. With the released amount, 113 schools could get compound walls.

“We had sought Rs. 830 lakh from the Government, but got Rs. 581 lakh,” he said.

The work would be executed in a phased manner. Once the compound walls were built, the schools could start with the “shaale-vana” and “shaale-thota” programmes (in which schoolchildren grow gardens and small forests within the school grounds), said Mr. Prakash. “For another 100 schools, we can build compound walls with funds generated from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA),” he said.

At present, 525 out of 932 schools have compound walls, according to a press release.

The amount sanctioned for the SSA in the district this year is double than that of last year. “About Rs. 51 crore from the State government is a quantum jump. It is almost double that of last year. Last year, it was Rs. 31 crore,” he said.

A sum of Rs. 25 lakh sanctioned for the naxal-hit areas would be spent on creating infrastructure, including giving bags, footwear, umbrellas, geometry boxes, textbooks and a basic English dictionary to 2,496 children from 24 schools in nine gram panchayats and 12 villages in remote areas of Belthangady. In the same taluk, 100 children had joined a residential school, which started this year at a cost of Rs.33 lakh.

Mr. Shivaprakash said five government schools and 22 unaided schools had closed down in Dakshina Kannada district in the past five years for want of children.

He said that 35 schools had introduced English as medium of instruction from Class 6 onwards. The number could increase next year depending on the feedback from School Development Monitoring Committees (SDMCs), he said.

Providing an update on educational indicators as defined by the SSA in the district, he said that while the required teacher-pupil ratio according to the Right to Education (RTE) is 1:45, in Dakshina Kannada, it was 21:1. The literacy rate in 2001 in Karnataka was 66.64 and 83.47 in Dakshina Kannada, it was 75.6 in Karnataka and 88.61 in the district today.

Enrolment of children in government schools in the district in 2001-02 was 3,14,220 and in 2011-12, it was 2,73,555. The number of children out of school in the district was 7,864 in 2001-02 and is 137 in 2012-13.

In 2001-02, 97.35 per cent of children had access to a lower primary school (LPS) within 1 km and 98.47 per cent of children had access to higher primary school (HPS) within 3 km. Today, all children have access to LPS and HPS within the defined distance.

A total of 932 schools have been provided with drinking water and toilet facilities, he said.

mangalore mania

September 27th, 2012, 05:30 PM

Varsity council extends autonomous status of five degree colleges (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/varsity-council-extends-autonomous-status-of-five-degree-colleges/article3941743.ece)

The Academic Council of Mangalore University at its meeting on Wednesday agreed to extend the autonomous status of five degree colleges for six more years till 2016-17.

The colleges are St. Agnes College, School of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya, St. Aloysius College, St. Ann’s College of Education, all in Mangalore, and Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara College at Ujire.

The council agreed to extend the autonomous status based on the report by a 12-member review and evaluation committee of the university.

The colleges had been granted the autonomy for five years from 2007-08.

As per the statute governing the grant of the autonomy, the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the university would have to review the status of autonomy once every six years. After the UGC reviewed the status and recommended extending the status of autonomy the university had taken up its exercise.

Vice-Chancellor of the university T.C. Shivashankara Murthy who presided over the meeting told the council that the observations of the council would be placed before the Syndicate for its approval in its next meeting. Later it would be sent to the government.

Not up to mark

The 12-member committee of the university in its ‘remarks and recommendations’ column commonly observed that except St. Ann’s College of Education, other colleges offering postgraduate courses would have to create research atmosphere on the campus by encouraging the faculty to take up sponsored research subjects. The committee observed that there was lack of qualified faculty (with Ph.D. and national eligibility test passed teachers) to teach postgraduate courses.

The council approved regulations governing a diploma course in mobile application development and web technologies and a postgraduate course in food science and nutrition. Prof. Murthy said that the regulations would be sent to the government. If the government approved them those colleges interested to offer those courses could start them.

Mission statement

He said the university has drafted its vision and mission statement.

The 32-year-old university did not have a vision and mission statement. The draft would be sent to all postgraduate departments on the campus for suggestions if any.

The vision and mission statement would serve as a guide to the university, he said.

Keywords: Mangalore University, University Grants Commission, autonomous colleges

Academic council extends autonomy of five colleges (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Academic-council-extends-autonomy-of-five-colleges/articleshow/16565622.cms)

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Krishnamoorthy K

October 3rd, 2012, 06:00 PM

Mangalore, Oct. 2:

Manipal University has set up a research and development centre in Manipal to develop products and services for geriatric care.

A press release said here that Manipal University, along with Applied Cognition Systems Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, has set up the centre at Manipal Centre for Information Science. The aim is to enhance self-reliance in elders and physically-challenged in making management easier for their caretakers.

Quoting P.S. Ramkumar, MD and co-founder of Applied Cognition Systems, the release said there is a need to develop new technologies to address various challenges associated with mobility, security, and appliance control and health management of elderly people in remote areas.

G.K. Prabhu, Registrar of Manipal University, spoke on the challenges faced by the elderly people.

Harishchandra Hebbar, Director of Manipal Centre for Information Science, and Sandeep from Applied Cognition Systems were present on the occasion, the release added.

BL (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/education/article3958244.ece)

Varsity walks the talk in energy conservation (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Varsity-walks-the-talk-in-energy-conservation/articleshow/16647833.cms)

mangalore mania

October 4th, 2012, 11:57 AM

Don’t close down government schools: NGO (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/dont-close-down-government-schools-ngo/article3963897.ece)

The Federation of Education Resource Centres, a Mangalore-based NGO working throughout Dakshina Kannada district in the field of education, has rejected the recommendation of the Govinda Committee on closing down unviable government schools in the State and said that the recommendation must be rejected.

A press release issued at the valedictory function held in the city to mark the conclusion of a teacher-education week (‘Shikshaka-Shikshana Saptaha’) organised by the federation in the city on Monday, said that teachers of government schools should be allowed to discuss and debate issues related to schools before changes were made to the latter. Government schools should not be closed under any circumstances and the quality of education must be improved in accordance with the Right to Education (RTE).

The resolutions said that to enhance the physical and intellectual development of students, teachers should be appointed for physical education and drawing. There should be at least one teacher per class for quality education. A sufficient number of Group ‘D’ employees must be appointed.

mangalore mania

October 4th, 2012, 11:58 AM

IT professionals pool money to help 573 poor students (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/it-professionals-pool-money-to-help-573-poor-students/article3963788.ece)

Employees of Infosys Mangalore and other organisations have helped over 570 students who were unable to pay for their education, said a press release.

In all, 573 students, including 95 students pursuing professional courses, from Udupi, Dakshina Kannada, Kasaragod, and Uttara Kannada districts, were supported with Rs. 22.33 lakh. Of the amount, Rs. 17.21 lakh was contributed by Prerana, an employee-run social service trust of Infosys Mangalore, and the remaining funds were contributed by other donors and Dhrithi Foundation.

Bevinje Sridhara Kakkillaya Foundation, Yakshagana Kalaranga, and Vidyaposhak, are the other organisations helping them.

The employees organised an event called ‘Pratibha Poshak 2012’ through Prerana to distribute the scholarships.

It was a Statewide initiative with social service organisations and individuals joining hands to offer financial support students.

This was the seventh year that the organisations were extending support to meritorious students, the press release said.

Good Samaritans from amongst the public who helped Infosys Mangalore employees in recent medical emergencies were honoured on the occasion.

Krishnamoorthy K

October 5th, 2012, 08:29 AM

TNN | Oct 5, 2012, 08.50AM IST

Mangalore: Engineering students very often don't get the needed exposure to latest technology due to non-availability of the software or equipment. At the Mangalore Institute of Technology and Engineering (MITE), a unit of Rajalaxmi Education Trust, students get hands-on experience in hydraulics, pneumatics, sensorics, PLCs, robotics and mechatronics in their state-of-the art laboratories.

MITE in collaboration with Bosch Rexroth set up the Regional Centre of Competence in Automation Technology (RCCAT) a year ago at its premises in Moodbidri, 40 km from the city. MITE has been training students on mechatronics, robotics and other automation subjects with the latest technology in RCCAT.

Bosch has set up RCCAT in 15 colleges across the country, of which four are in the state. MITE is the only college to have RCCAT in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts. Rajesh Chowta S, president, Rajalaxmi Education Trust, told TOI that RCCAT was set-up at a cost of Rs 5.4 crore, of which 80 percent has been funded by Bosch and remaining 20 percent by MITE. Training on various automation subjects in this centre is not restricted just to students of MITE, but engineering and diploma students and teaching faculties of different colleges and professionals, who are presently working in industries in the region, he added.

MITE and Bosch Rexroth Drive and Control Academy vice-president R S Rajkumar says this centre will bridge the gap between formal education and the demand of industries. It takes about two years to groom students on the latest technology and machineries, he said.

TOI (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Futuristic-tech-comes-alive-in-this-lab-at-MITE/articleshow/16679480.cms)

Krishnamoorthy K

October 8th, 2012, 04:57 PM

Krishna Palemar gets into poll mode - The Hindu (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/krishna-palemar-gets-into-poll-mode/article3977368.ece)

Referring to the future projects, the booklet said that an Industrial Training Institute (ITI) would be opened at Ganjimath. It said the Mangalore Government Polytechnic would be upgraded as an engineering college as the Assembly constituency covered 22 wards under Mangalore City Corporation. It listed 11 other projects to be taken up in the constituency.

I think both diploma and engineering courses will be there.

Krishnamoorthy K

October 9th, 2012, 05:54 AM

To the Agricultural College in Brahmavar, Government has sanctioned 5 crores, but the college has not started functioning yet due to some technical problems. Discussing with the CM, money would be released soon for this project, he said.

Mangalorean (http://www.mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=broadcast&broadcastid=350622)

hakindian1984

October 10th, 2012, 05:14 PM

MANGALORE: Ryan International Group of Institutions, which has presence in India and ten other countries, is firming up plans to open three schools in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Districts in the next 18 months.

While one of the schools will offer International Baccalaureate (IB) and the British Columbia (Canada) curriculum, the rest of two will offer CBSE ( Central Board of Secondary Education) and ICSE (Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations).

Ryan International has more than 100 institutions all over the country which also offer SSC and HSC (Secondary and Higher School Certificate) and IGCSE, A & O Level (Cambridge International Examinations).

Grace Pinto, Managing Director, Ryan International Group of Institutions said that they have lands at Konaje and in Udupi district. The IB school will be in Konaje,'' she said.

The group has international branches in USA, Australia, Middle East, Singapore, Canada, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and South Africa.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/IB-school-in-Mangalore-soon/articleshow/16754230.cms?

mangalore mania

October 11th, 2012, 09:21 AM

^^
Coming Soon : Ryan International School to Mangalore (http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=152222)

mangalore mania

October 12th, 2012, 11:34 AM

Udupi: Britain to Collaborate with Manipal University for Excellence in Education (http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=152295)

Udupi Oct 11: British Deputy High Commissioner Ian Felton and his team from Bangalore visited Manipal University (MU) on Wednesday with a simple message, “Britain is open to India and we want to be India's partner of choice - be it in business or education”.

Speaking to the media after visiting the college of Manipal University with UK links, British Deputy High Commissioner Ian Felton said, "I am delighted to be here at Manipal to celebrate the successful collaboration between British and Indian centers of excellence."

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Earlier in the day, Felton interacted with top Manipal University officials and discussed avenues for greater collaboration with UK universities. Pro vice chancellor, Dr H Vinod Bhat, who was also present at the briefing said, “Manipal University is always keen to collaborate with universities in the United Kingdom for mutual benefits in academics and research. As a result, we do have tie-ups with Universities like Nottingham, Lancaster, Exeter and others”.

Dr Bhat added, “The collaborations are primarily for student and faculty exchange in the disciplines of engineering, information sciences, hospitality management, sports medicine etc.

The student exchange programs provide opportunities for students to pursue both undergraduate tie-up programs as well as dual master’s degree programs.Our faculty members are also being benefited through post-doctoral research”.

“Research is a key focus area for the UK,” said Felton. “Converting research output into viable commercial ventures is important. That is reflected by the recent Cambridge University-IISc innovation meet in Bangalore in September,” he said.

Forging business ties is another focus area: Members from the UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) met with top officials during their visit to Manipal Life Center for Life Sciences (MLSC) and Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MCOPS) to explore future tie-ups with UK companies.

Dr Bhat hoped that the visit of Felton would not only enhance the prevailing relationships further, but would also support Manipal University’s efforts to initiate new relationships.

Talking of the existing collaborations, Felton said that some of these collaborations came into existence almost a decade ago, while some partnerships were new. He added; "The UK produces the highest number of science, mathematics and computing graduates annually in the EU, and the highest number of ICT graduates. ICT in the UK is a £140 billion market and the UK is Europe's leading market for software and IT services".

About the research and development Felton said, "We have a long and successful research and development record – 80 per cent of the UK's largest foreign-owned companies undertake more research and development activity in the UK than at home. Again in ICT, software development attracts investment of £930 million per annum in research and development from international businesses," he added.

UKIERI Funding

Manipal University and University of Nottingham's partnerships operate across a range of disciplines and activities. Since the initial signing of and MoU in 2010, the two institutions have worked closely to develop a multi-disciplinary, multi-faceted institutional partnership, he added.

The two universities share a strong commitment to research. University of Nottingham has hosted two Manipal faculty - one from Engineering, the other from Medicine - during the summer of 2011 for three-month fully-funded research fellowships. In November 2011, Nottingham University and Manipal Life Sciences Centre obtained UKIERI funding to develop a split-site PhD in Life Sciences, which is under development.

In December 2011, the two universities received funding from the British Council's 'Knowledge Economy Partnership' scheme to run a major joint conference in Delhi. The event took place in June 2012, focussing on the development of international teaching partnerships from the perspective not only of higher education institutions, but also government and industry.

Manipal University along with Sheffield Hallam University has also won a project (understanding the pedagogic process) under the UKIERI's staff Exchange Programme.

In addition to this list, researchers from Manipal are currently working with research counterparts in University of Cambridge,
University of Warwick and Middlesex University.

Manipal University is likely to sign agreements with University of Birmingham (medical studies) and University of Coventry (Serious gaming) in the near future.

-- List of MU affiliates and their respective links to UK universities

A: International Center for Applied Science (ICAS)
1. City University, London
2. Lancaster University
3. Sheffield Hallam University
4. University of Leicester
5. The University of Nottingham
6. Edinburgh Napier University
Nature of Collaboration: Undergraduate twinning programme

B: Manipal Center for Information Sciences (MCIS):
1. Lancaster University
2. Edinburgh Napier University
Nature of Collaboration: Dual Degree programmes

C: Welcomegroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration (WGSHA):
1. University College of Birmingham, Birmingham
Nature of Collaboration: Internships

D: Manipal College of Allied Health Sciences (MCOAHS):
1. Robert Gordon University
Nature of Collaboration: Dual Degree

E: Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MCOPS)
1. Edinburgh Napier
Nature of Collaboration: Dual Degree programme

F: Manipal Institute of Communication (MIC)
1. Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
2. University of Central England, Birmingham (UK)
Nature of Collaboration: Faculty exchange

mangalore mania

October 16th, 2012, 11:05 AM

Futuristic tech comes alive in this lab at MITE (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-05/mangalore/34278452_1_mite-diploma-students-mangalore-institute)

Mangalore: Engineering students very often don't get the needed exposure to latest technology due to non-availability of the software or equipment. At the Mangalore Institute of Technology and Engineering (MITE), a unit of Rajalaxmi Education Trust, students get hands-on experience in hydraulics, pneumatics, sensorics, PLCs, robotics and mechatronics in their state-of-the art laboratories.
MITE in collaboration with Bosch Rexroth set up the Regional Centre of Competence in Automation Technology (RCCAT) a year ago at its premises in Moodbidri, 40 km from the city. MITE has been training students on mechatronics, robotics and other automation subjects with the latest technology in RCCAT.
Bosch has set up RCCAT in 15 colleges across the country, of which four are in the state. MITE is the only college to have RCCAT in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts. Rajesh Chowta S, president, Rajalaxmi Education Trust, told TOI that RCCAT was set-up at a cost of Rs 5.4 crore, of which 80 percent has been funded by Bosch and remaining 20 percent by MITE. Training on various automation subjects in this centre is not restricted just to students of MITE, but engineering and diploma students and teaching faculties of different colleges and professionals, who are presently working in industries in the region, he added.
MITE and Bosch Rexroth Drive and Control Academy vice-president R S Rajkumar says this centre will bridge the gap between formal education and the demand of industries. It takes about two years to groom students on the latest technology and machineries, he said.

mangalore mania

October 21st, 2012, 02:32 AM

Tech schools in Mangalore focus on soft skills (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Tech-schools-in-Mangalore-focus-on-soft-skills/articleshow/16897531.cms)

MANGALORE: Students of undivided Dakshina Kannada district are known for performing well in academics, but they seem to remain on the weaker side when it comes to cracking interviews during campus selection.

Realizing the need for equipping students for interviews, a few technical institutions have started training programmes to hone their soft skills.

One among them is the - Ananth Prabhu and Raghav Shetty, to give interview skills training to technical course students. While 500 students joined CITS in 2010, it witnessed a four-fold increase in 2011 when 2,000 students sought admission. This year, more than 3,000 students are undergoing training.

CITS cofounder Ananth Prabhu told STOI that most of the engineering students, who have scored good marks in examinations, are failing in interviews due to lack of soft skills like communication and reasoning ability skills.

"Students also lack technical skills due to gap between academic syllabus and technology used in companies. Companies recruit students who have good knowledge about technical skills practised presently in industries," he added. Shree Devi Institute of Technology (SDIT) principal KE Prakash says last year in SDIT, 35 per cent of the engineering students failed in campus interview.

"Representatives of companies after interview told us that even students who failed in interview has good technical skills, but lack soft skills. Most students who perform poorly in campus interviews are from rural areas. From last year, we started conducting skill development programmes to help students crack interview," said Prakash. The skill development programme initiated by Srinivas Institute of Technology to groom students two years ago is also receiving good response.

"We are seeing 100 per cent placement of students from our college during campus interviews. Earlier, it was only 60 per cent," SIT principal Srinivas Mayya said. Since many students are not performing well in interviews, Bearys Institute of Technology (BIT) recently conducted a 10-day soft skill development programme to its students.

BIT principal Chaithanya Kumar said last year, during a recruitment programme conducted by two companies, only six out of 50 BIT students were selected.

"Companies look for students, who can work in a team, but many lack the required skills and there is a need for personality development. From next year, we are planning to conduct personality development programme for students once in a month by inviting human resource management experts from various industries," Chaithanya added

mangalore mania

October 26th, 2012, 08:50 PM

Bank of Baroda to scale up recruitment from institute (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/banking/bank-of-baroda-to-scale-up-recruitment-from-institute/article4035125.ece?ref=wl_industry-and-economy)

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M.D.Mallya, chairman of Bank of Baroda, speaks at a press meet in Mangalore on Friday. — H.S. Manjunath
MANGALORE, OCT 26:
Bank of Baroda will increase the intake of candidates through the Baroda-Manipal School of Banking to meet its human resource requirement.

Addressing presspersons here on Friday, M.D. Mallya, Chairman and Managing Director of the bank, said that the institute began offering one-year diploma in banking in August 2011.

The bank offers jobs to students graduating from the institute, besides education loans at subsidised rates, he said.

“Every quarter, we take one-fourth of the requirement of the year. Last year, we had taken 180 per quarter. For the second year, we have scaled up the intake to 240 per quarter,” he said.

The bank, which had taken 720 candidates through this mode in the first year, has increased the intake to 960 for the second year. “Depending on our requirement, we can scale up further in the days to come. May be over a period of time, the entire requirement of the bank is met by this,” Mallya said.

He said 180 candidates, who were part of the first batch, have been working in different fields in different locations.

Under its Baroda-Manipal School of Banking model, the candidates are first trained in banking and finance before they take up career in Bank of Baroda. Participants are put through an on-campus curriculum spread over nine months. This curriculum gives thrust on application of knowledge and overall development of personality. After that, these candidates are given practical training at various branches of the bank through a three-month internship programme.

To a query on the expectations from RBI’s quarterly policy review on October 30, he said RBI has been consistent in terms of balancing the growth vis-à-vis anchoring inflationary conditions. He hoped that RBI would continue to pursue the strong policy of balancing.

hakindian1984

November 1st, 2012, 09:22 AM

MANGALORE: Union ministry of human resource development (MHRD) has given category 'A' status to eight deemed-to-be universities in India, which includes KLE University, Belgaum and Nitte University, Mangalore. Category 'A' is the top most rating for deemed-to-be universities.

In 2009, Committee for Review of Existing Deemed-to-be Universities headed by PN Tandon formed by MHRD, in its report had given category 'B' status to 44 deemed-to-be universities. Of these universities, eight deemed-to-be universities received 'A' status this year.

Category 'A' has been declared based on comparative assessment of deemed-to-be universities of 2009 Tandon Committee's report and after consideration of compliance report, by another committee in 2012.

However the compliance report copy, which is available with TOI, states that both KLE and Nitte Universities have not shown any appreciable changes in areas like admission process, awarding of degrees, and in teaching-learning process.

After the review of these two universities in 2009, Tandon Committee report had given score of 26 and the same has increased to 32 in compliance report (2012), while KLE University's score that was 21 has gone up to 31. The minimum score for the award of category 'A' status is 30.

The compliance report has also mentioned that there has been a perceptible improvement in research output (research publications, books monographs, and patents) in KLE University while there has been an appreciable research output in Nitte University.

On deficiencies of university, M Shantharam Shetty, pro-chancellor of Nitte University told TOI that thr university will start integrated training for students and teaching faculties to enhance quality of teaching and learning process. "We will also strengthen teaching program and curriculum. Category 'A' status will benefit university to attract more students, particularly foreign students to provide admissions in Nitte University," he added.

Chandrakant Kote, vice-chancellor of KLE University, said "within three years, we will strengthen courses offered and category 'A' status will help our university for collaboration with foreign universities."

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Nitte-gets-A-category-status-among-deemed-varsities/articleshow/17042275.cms?

mangalore mania

November 2nd, 2012, 07:52 AM

MT Educare (http://business.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?282624)

At A Glance
Started: 1988
Initial investment: Rs 6 lakh
No. of campuses: 188 centres in 110 locations
No. of students: 68,000+
Revenue: Rs 130.57 crore*
Profit: Rs 12.83 crore*
*As of FY12
On a damp August evening in Mumbai in 1984, 20-year-old Mahesh Shetty was finding it hard to sleep. He looked at the train ticket to Chennai and thought of what a youngster had affectionately told him earlier that day. “Sir, we will miss you if you decide to leave.” The Chennai trip was for the final interview to join the armed forces; the alternative was to stay back in Mumbai and continue teaching at a local coaching institute. By the time Shetty closed his eyes, his mind was made up.

Nearly three decades later, Shetty says he’s never regretted giving up the armed forces. “I was keen on the army but things have turned out pretty well,” he smiles. They certainly have: Shetty’s company, MT Educare, has 68,000 students across 188 centres in 110 locations. It employs 2,500 people (1,000 are teachers) and earned Rs 130 crore in FY12. In March, the company got listed: currently, the stock is quoting at Rs 107.90 — 34% more than its offer price. That’s quite an achievement for someone who started teaching math as a stopgap arrangement at Shetty Academy in Mulund, at a paltry Rs 7.50 per lecture
Going corporate meant expanding operations, not just in the number of centres but also courses offered. By 2007, MT Educare was operating in both science and commerce streams till graduation in addition to Chartered Accountancy (CA). The money from Helix was used to expand into states such as Gujarat, Karnataka (pre-university junior colleges), Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu (CA final course). It wasn’t all organic growth. Last February, MT Educare bought a 51% stake in Chitale’s Personalised Learning, giving it a foothold in the CAT and MAT coaching market. And in January 2010, it tied up with HT Education to expand into North India. Part of the Rs 99 crore raised in the IPO will be used to fund new centres and a pre-university college campus in Mangalore — barring half a dozen centres in Nashik, the company has shunned the franchisee route

Krishnamoorthy K

November 3rd, 2012, 09:46 AM

BEIJING: The Manipal University has signed comprehensive partnerships with two of China's top universities, thus becoming the first Indian institution to enter the flourishing Chinese education market.

The Manipal University, one of top Indian private educational institutions, has signed partnership agreements with Tianjin University and Shanghai's Tongji university.

The MoUs were signed by the Vice-Chancellor of Manipal University, K Ramnarayan. While Tongji MoU was signed today, the Tianjin agreement was signed yesterday, Ramnarayan told mediapersons here.

"The MoUs are for mutual, comprehensive partnerships in the areas of student exchange, faculty exchange, joint degrees, twinning programmes, and the exchange of research scholars and post-doctoral fellows," Ramnarayan said.

Now that the MoUs which were in the pipeline for some time were signed, the exchange programmes were expected to begin soon, Ramnarayan said.

The programme is extended to all the science and humanity subjects being taught by the Karnataka-based University.

Those Chinese students who would be opting to study there would get exposure to English and study the subjects of their choice in English language, he said.

The academic collaborations included research, joint and dual degree programmes, twinning and credit transfer programmes, vocational education programmes, faculty and student exchange programmes, study abroad in India programmes.

Manipal University has overseas campuses in Dubai, Nepal, Antigua and Malaysia.

With the MoUs, the Manipal University will become the first Indian educational institution to have formal tie-up with Chinese universities.

ET (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/education/manipal-university-signs-mous-with-two-chinese-universities/articleshow/17066758.cms)

mangalore mania

November 3rd, 2012, 09:00 PM

Library Cert. Course at Manipal University (http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Shownews.asp?newsid=16578)

mangalore mania

November 6th, 2012, 07:25 AM

Army recruitment drive for students (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Army-recruitment-drive-for-students/articleshow/17108522.cms)

MANGALORE: If you have the zeal to serve the nation, here is a golden opportunity. Indian Army launched a recruitment drive exclusively for engineering students at Canara Engineering College in Bantwal on Monday.

The recruitment drive will also be held at Vivekananda Institute of Technology, Puttur and Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal till Friday.

On the first day of the drive Major MB Thimaiah, Colonel S Jiggo and Lieutenant Colonel Vinayagan conducted preliminary screening of army job aspirants. Explaining about the recruitment process, Major Thimaiah told TOI that the preliminary screening is conducted for the third year engineering students of 22 engineering colleges in the region. "The recruitment is meant only for boys for the post of Captains. We have received a good response and over 200 students attended the drive on the first day," he said.

He said candidates, who are selected during preliminary screening, will be called for a final interview to be held by Service Selection Board (SSB).

The selected candidates will be given a stipend of Rs 21,000 per month till they complete their course. Engineering students of any stream can attend

the preliminary screening.

Army guns for state engineers through campus recruitment (http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_army-guns-for-state-engineers-through-campus-recruitment_1760345) DNA

mangalore mania

November 9th, 2012, 09:52 AM

Wongly posted here

mangalore mania

November 10th, 2012, 07:02 AM

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mangalore mania

November 10th, 2012, 07:15 AM

^^
College to open innovation lab (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/College-to-open-innovation-lab/articleshow/17165059.cms)

MANGALORE: To provide a platform for engineering students and researchers to innovate, the Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management (SCEM) has set up four centres - government research and development, incubation, placement and training.

Manjunath Bhandary, chairman of SCEM told reporters here on Thursday that the centres were started with the support of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) and the state government.

Minister for higher education CT Ravi will inaugurate the centres in SCEM premises on Saturday. "The minister will also inaugurate a centre of excellence and an innovation lab set up with the assistance of IIIT- Allahabad on the campus," he added.

"Students of all colleges in the region can make use of these centres. The objective of opening such centres is to promote innovative ideas. In the innovation laboratory experts will guide students about designing various products. The centre of excellence aims at bridging the gap between the industry and academia and will train students according to the needs of the industry," he added.

Krishnamoorthy K

November 14th, 2012, 08:09 AM

The State government’s three centres — for research, incubation, and placement and training – were inaugurated on Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management campus on Saturday. The government provided Rs. 5 crore for setting up the three centres.

Earlier, Chairman of Bhandary Foundation Manjunath Bhandary said people across the State can make use of the three centres. The research centre will be open for all those who want to carry out research. Shankar Prasad, who heads the centre, said, “We will be providing support for the research work that benefits society at large.” It would provide opportunities for carrying out research adopting multidisciplinary approach. The incubation centre will be a platform for discussion of new ideas and concepts. The placement and training centre will be organising campus selection programmes and industry interactions for students who do not have such facilities at their institutes.

Speaking on the occasion, Higher Education Minister C.T. Ravi hoped that the centres would help come up with nation-transforming innovations and ideas. Director of IIIT Ahmedabad M.D. Tiwari,former Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda and VTU Vice Chancellor Maheshappa participated in the function.

TH (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/centres-for-research-placement-opened/article4094454.ece)

Krishnamoorthy K

November 15th, 2012, 09:22 AM

Control instrumentation system conference at Manipal (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Control-instrumentation-system-conference-at-Manipal/articleshow/17217744.cms)
Renovated museum of anatomy inaugurated in Manipal (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/renovated-museum-of-anatomy-inaugurated-in-manipal/article4090293.ece)
Mangalore: 'Guiding Stars' Treasure Hunt for Visually Challenged on Nov 18 (http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=155509)

New developments in education sector.

mangalore mania

November 16th, 2012, 10:51 AM

Students learn Linux (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/students-learn-linux/article4101213.ece)

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Schoolchildren participating in 'Etoys' at P.A. College of Engineering in Mangalore on Thursday

Over 200 of them turned up at FOSS-related events
More than 200 students from schools and pre-university (PU) colleges in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, and Kasaragod participated in competitions based on open-source software in a city college on Thursday. The event titled “Byte-Struck '12” was held at P.A. College of Engineering (PACE), to create awareness about free open-source software (FOSS) among high school and PU students.

FOSS is non-proprietary software.

Deviprasath, a student at PACE and one of the co-ordinators for the event, told The Hindu that the aim of the event was to apprise the students of the fact that Linux could be interactive.

Workshops

The event included two workshops. Students of class 8, 9, and 10 participated in the workshop titled “Build Your Own Blocks” (BYOB); and finished an assignment that required them to use basic programming skills. The assignment was an introduction to writing simple codes using open-source software. Since it is more visual and has drag-and-drop features, it is user-friendly and meant for entry-level users of FOSS such as schoolchildren.

The other workshop “Etoys” boasted a higher difficulty level than BYOB and aimed at familiarising PU students with writing programs using open- source software.

Local users

There is a Linux Users Group (LUG) in Mangalore. Two groups employ open-source software in Mangalore. One group includes the students from the Department of Information Science and Computer Science of PACE, students of National Institute of Technology (NIT-K), Surtathkal make-up the other group.

Aravind, a PACE student and an organiser of the event, said they were publicising the idea that anybody could use Linux. “Linux is not for geeks, it is for all and it is user-friendly,” he said. While 107 teams of 214 students participated in BYOBs, 37 teams of 74 students participated in Etoys, he said.

Before the workshops commenced, the students participated in an informal quiz. Pranav, Sharad, Rushab and Preethesh, all students of Sharada Vidyalaya, said that Linux had a good design, was secure and could be personalised.

On the other hand, it couldn’t support new applications, and games were for Windows platform, they said.

Earlier, the Principal of PACE, S.A. Khan, said that budding engineers should start thinking of what they could do with open-source software.

The Hindu was the media partner for the event.

Damn one should kick these Microsoft software..

We are helpless as many of our professional software are compatible with Linux only

mangalore mania

November 17th, 2012, 06:00 AM

Drive to identify school dropouts gets underway (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Drive-to-identify-school-dropouts-gets-underway/articleshow/17249735.cms)

MANGALORE: The department of education in Dakshina Kannada district has launched a drive to identify school dropouts, who is working in hotels, restaurants, farms, construction sites and other business establishments, or staying at home.

Block-level committees headed by block education officers (BEO) have already been formed in Mangalore, Mangalore Rural, Puttur, Sullia, Bantwal, Belthangady and Moodbidri. As per the government circular, the task of the committees will be to meet periodically and chalk out plans to conduct raids to find out school dropout children.

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) assistant project coordinator K Peethambara told TOI that officials of the departments of education and labour will conduct raids together. "The teams will conduct raids either based on tip offs from the public or randomly. The government has directed that the committees should conduct raids every month," he added.

The officials conducted a raid in Uppinangadi in Puttur taluk and found four school dropouts, who are children of labourers, working in a farm in Koila village. The children - Pradeep, 9, Gowramma,8, Ramesh, 6, and Naveen Kumar, 6 - were found at a private farm along with their parents.

Puttur BEO K Sheshashayana said that arrangements were made to re-admit them to Government Higher Primary School, Koila.

"Parents have been convinced and we have advised them to send the children to school regularly. School head has been asked to provide information about the children," he added.

Remember Mangalore Udupi are the district with leasts number of dropouts

mangalore mania

November 17th, 2012, 10:40 AM

Coastal Mirror Magazine

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Krishnamoorthy K

November 18th, 2012, 04:10 PM

TNN Nov 11, 2012, 04.53AM IST

MANGALORE: National Institute of Technology - Karnataka (NITK), Srinivasnagar, has entered into an MoU with Mitacs, Canada. Mitacs is federally/provincially funded research network in Canada. It brings together academia, industry and public sector to develop cutting edge tools. The MoU will enable NITK to pick and chose from 95 universities in Canada for research as well as student-faculty exchange programmes.

Interacting with reporters on the sidelines of 10th annual convocation of NITK on Saturday, Swapan Bhattacharya, director said it is common for faculty members to have informal ties with their counterparts in educational institutions in India and abroad for various educational projects. "Through this MoU, we have given structure to such tie-ups," he said adding IITs, Mumbai and Roorkee, NIT Trichy and BITS, Pilani too are on board with this initiative.

NITK at its meeting of board of governors held on October 1 has okayed research promotion scheme which will make available funding for PG/UG students. Scholars wanting to present papers in national level seminar will get Rs 10,000, international conferences Rs 25,000 and those wanting to take up summer internship abroad Rs 40,000 under this scheme, he said, adding this is bound to give a fillip to research activities undertaken at NITK. The Institute has also overhauled its curriculum for PG/UG programmes in May 2012 and all new batches are studying revised curriculum

These programmes encourage self-learning and promotes individual thinking to a great extend, Swapan explained. NITK has also doubled the quantum of institute research scholarships given from 50 to 100, he said.

TOI (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-11-11/news/35049563_1_nitk-national-institute-research-network)

mangalore mania

November 28th, 2012, 07:53 AM

SAP woos Indian students to promote entrepreneurship (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/careers/education/SAP-woos-Indian-students-to-promote-entrepreneurship/articleshow/17388677.cms)

BANGALORE: Global enterprise software major SAP India hosted a hi-tech event here on Monday to promote entrepreneurship among 5,000 students from 200 universities across the country and bridge the industry-academic gap.
"The 'Techniversity 2012' is an ideal platform for varsity students to learn about key technologies and trends required to shift from academia to industry, as the event is based on education, inspiration, innovation, career and competition," SAP Labs India vice-president Sunder Madakshira told reporters on the occasion.
Among the technologies showcased at the event was a 'Design Challenge' where students were asked to come up with an innovative product or a solution that could help the world run better.
"The students were also exposed to latest technologies such as cloud computing, mobile computing, data, analytics, in-memory computing and first hand information in social media to give an insight into the requirements of the changing software market," Madakshira said.
Delivering the keynote address, chess grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand advised the wannabe techies to follow their dreams and challenge themselves to excel.
"You need to constantly practice to excel in any occupation or profession. It is important to cultivate interest and develop an eye for detail," Anand told the students.
Leading online bus tickets firm RedBus chief executive Phinandra Sama, ethical hacker and computer security expert Ankit Fadia and global search engine Google Indian country head Sunil Rao addressed the students during the day-long event.
"The platform also enabled some of the bright students to demonstrate their innovative skills in using technology for various applications," Madakshira added.
Majority of students were from cities like Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mysore and Pune and towns such as Hubli, Kolar, Mangalore, Sringeri and Tumkur across the state (Karnataka).
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mangalore mania

November 30th, 2012, 07:10 AM

Staff crunch hits libraries in DK district (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Staff-crunch-hits-libraries-in-DK-district/articleshow/17424809.cms)

MANGALORE: Government libraries in Belthangady, Mulky and other rural areas of Dakshina Kannada are reeling under staff shortage. Some days some of the libraries don't even open as there is no staff to run it. The coastal district has 217 government libraries.

The ones most hit are rural students. While students in cities turn to the net for information, their counterparts in rural areas, with limited access to the internet, turn to government libraries for added information.

Chinmay Rai, an LLB student, says that if the library is closed even for just a few hours it is setback for students, particularly during exam times. "Rural students not only visit libraries to refer books, but also to study as the atmosphere is calm. Libraries should remain open on all days," he added. Vinay S, a II PU student, feels the government should employ sufficient staff for libraries to function smoothly.

According to a source in the district library department, of the 34 sanctioned posts in the department 19 are vacant from years. Belthangady and Mulki have just one person taking care of the libraries. Due to shortage of staff, the department has recruited temporary employees for a salary of Rs 2,250 per month.

An officer on condition of anonymity said, "Since the salary of temporary employees is low, they quit soon and then it becomes very difficult to keep the libraries open."

Venkatesha CJ, chief librarian of DCL, told TOI that every year since the past four years, the department has been sending proposals to the government to fill the vacant posts. "Though there is shortage of staff, we try and keep libraries open on all days except public holidays," he added.

Staff shortage may hit DCL hard. A source said that two of the employees in the department will retire within four months. The vacant posts include library assistants, second division clerk, typist and library attenders.

mangalore mania

November 30th, 2012, 09:59 AM

source: Deccan Herald

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mangalore mania

November 30th, 2012, 10:01 AM

source: Deccan Herald

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hakindian1984

December 4th, 2012, 08:41 AM

MANIPAL: Manipal University will introduce 12 new courses in the forthcoming academic year. At present the varsity is offering 320 courses in 18 streams.

GK Prabhu, registrar of Manipal University, said here on Monday that the university would conduct online entrance tests (OET) for all its courses, including MBBS, BTech and BPharm from April 15 to May 15, 2013. The number of test centres has been increased from 30 to 50 this year, he added.

"There is no clarity in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to medical courses introduced by the Union government. As a result several deemed universities have moved court. We have also moved court against NEET and if the Supreme Court directs us to admit students through NEET, we will do that. However, we will conduct the online entrance tests as per the schedule," he added.

This year, the university has added a new feature to the entrance test. The candidates will be allowed to take a second test, if they are not satisfied with their performance in the first attempt. "The better score will be considered for the merit list," he said.

He also said that even though there is a need for more nurses in the country, there is a decline in the demand for nursing courses. To encourage more students to take up the course, the university has introduced scholarships for nursing students.

"Candidates who have scored above 80% in their 12th standard exam and whose parents' family income is below 12.5 lakh are eligible for the scholarship," he added.

The university has also increased the funds set aside for scholarships from Rs 18.13 crore to Rs 25.01 crore. "There is also a 10 percentage tuition fee waiver in all course for Konkani speaking students," he said.

A few seats in all the courses are reserved for schools and colleges of Academy of General Education. Some of the scholarships offered are Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) scholarship for qualified students, All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) scholarship, merit-cum-means scholarship.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Manipal-University-will-introduce-12-new-courses/articleshow/17474420.cms

mangalore mania

December 7th, 2012, 07:39 AM

31 private schools close in district (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/31-private-schools-close-in-district/articleshow/17514464.cms)

MANGALORE: If you thought that it was government schools that shut down because of poor infrastructure or student strength, think again. In five years, out of 48 schools that closed in Dakshina Kannada district, 31 are private schools.

Generally private schools in rural areas close due to poor strength. But off the 31 private schools, nine schools are from Mangalore city and 11 schools are in Mangalore taluk. During the same period three government schools and 14 government aided schools closed owing to poor admissions.

N Shivaprakash, deputy project coordinator of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), told TOI that people have a perception that private schools provide good quality education. "Private schools open with the motto of business but not with the motto of serving society. Due to low number of admissions private schools close," he added.

Over the years infrastructure and other facilities in government schools have improved and admissions in government schools have also gone up. However, a government school each in Pavoor and Malavuru of Mangalore taluk and the other in Naryabailu village of Puttur taluk have closed.

Shivaprakash said schools in Pavoor and Naryabailu were closed due to lack of strength. "Population in these regions is very less," he added. The school in Naryabailu was closed during the expansion of Mangalore International Airport and students of this school were shifted to government school in Karambar village.

Krishnamoorthy K

December 8th, 2012, 08:32 AM

x-posts.

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Dell India inks MoU with NIT-Karnataka

MANGALORE: Indian arm of hardware major Dell - Dell International Services India Private Ltd (DISIPL) inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with National Institute of Technology - Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal.

This is the first instance of DISIPL signing a MoU with any educational institute in India with focus on collaborative research and development in areas of cloud computing and server domain.

The MoU with shelf life of three-years will focus on three specific problems that Dell has posed to the academia at NITK. These are the servers used in local market - effect of dust and humidity on them, filling in the missing functionalities in the 'cloud' software, and security technologies which recognizes that every computing environment faces a threat and how expertise of students and faculty can be used to address it.

The departments of computer science and engineering, electronics and communication, mechanical, electrical and electronics and information technology of NITK will work on the problem areas posed to them by Dell either collectively or separately. Other departments of NITK too are expected to come on board the problem solving endeavour depending on what expertise or solutions they can offer to tackle the issues on hand.

Swapan Bhattacharya, director, NITK who signed the MoU with Rudramuni B, executive director and head, Dell India (R &D Centre), Bangalore said the pact will enable students and faculty at NITK to interact directly with the industry - Dell in this case - and try and provide solutions to them. This will also meet a strong emerging demand for greater industry academia interaction to problem solving and resource sharing, he said.

Dell is interested in having unique solutions to above problems that are cost effective. The other tangible takeaways include paper publications for students and faculty, possible patents, and codes for software which the open source community accepts. "It will be a huge honour for students to get their codes accepted by the community," Rudramuni, a former alumnus of NITK said, adding solutions could start emerging in 12-18 months.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/hardware/Dell-India-inks-MoU-with-NIT-Karnataka/articleshow/17522652.cms

:banana:

Krishnamoorthy K

December 16th, 2012, 10:13 AM

It is likely to come up within a year, says Atmananda

The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), an autonomous body under the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences, Chennai, has proposed to set up an ocean technology centre at the National Institute of Technology – Karnataka (NIT-K) at Surathkal near here, according to NIOT Director Atmananda.

Addressing a gathering after inaugurating a two-day workshop on “Conservation of water resources of the west-flowing rivers in coastal Karnataka” at NIT-K on Friday, he said that the documentation process was on. The proposal would be placed before the Ministry soon for approval. The centre was likely to come up within a year.

He said NIOT would be the facilitating institute of the centre. Being a technical institute, NIOT had various projects in ocean technology with scope for research. As NIT-K involved in research activities with expertise in it, NIOT would like to involve it for research required for the projects. Once the centre came up, it could collect data required for coastal protection through observation. The data would be analysed and steps required to be taken for the protection would be placed before policy-makers for action.

Mr. Atmananda said that in coastal areas, excess use of groundwater could lead to salinity. Hence, management and engineering techniques were needed for sustainable exploration of groundwater.

He said Karnataka had 10 west-flowing rivers, providing 60 per cent of the State’s inland water resources.

Mr. Atmananda said that inter-linking of rivers should be done after a detailed study. There was no point in opposing inter-linking of rivers without a proper basis and scientific study of impact of inter-linking of rivers. Environmentalists had raised concern about threat to aqua life, deforestation and submergence of land. “…So it is necessary to strike a via media. This is very important. I am not suggesting that forests are to be destroyed. Via media is important…”

Chief Executive Officer of the Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat K.N. Vijay Prakash said the panchayat would desilt 122 tanks in the district.

He said there was over exploitation of groundwater in 44 habitations in Dakshina Kannada which now faced scarcity of water in summer. The groundwater table in the district had depleted from 90 mts a few years ago to 120 mts now.

TH (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/niot-moots-ocean-tech-centre-at-nitk/article4202990.ece)

pavan9741650414

December 16th, 2012, 12:44 PM

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mangalore mania

December 23rd, 2012, 07:54 AM

X posting from Karntaka E-Governance.

Admission process at Mangalore University goes online

By Jaideep ShenoyJaideep Shenoy, TNN | Dec 22, 2012, 05.20 PM IST

MANGALORE: Mangalore University's admission process has gone fully online - right from time of admission to declaration of results. Thanks to software developed by Udupi based Robosoft Technologies Pvt Ltd, the entire admission process in 195 affiliate, constituent and autonomous colleges under the university is now done online. The university will either ratify or reject the admission of student based on data uploaded by respective colleges online.

While this eliminates all manual work related to admission process, benefit for students and the colleges is they can now track the admission status real time online. "If there is any short coming in admission data pertaining to a student, the university authorities affix their remarks and college authorities can take remedial measures by providing information," Purushotham R Bhat, director (facilities and infrastructure) of Robosoft Technologies told STOI.

TC Shivashankara Murthy, VC who announced this development at the 3 rdgeneral meeting of academic council here on Saturday said the next logical step in this process is for colleges to start uploading internal assessment marks of students online. "With this, entire process related to student admission will go online," he said. University already has computerised its results declaration system including tabulation of marks and declaration of results.

Once the university ratifies the admission, the data is sent to the examination section, which takes care of generating examination hall tickets for students, uploading marks secured in the examinations with help of OMR sheets and generating marks list. The only manual part in this entire process is the time when registrar (evaluation) affixes facsimile signature on the marks list and it is dispatched to the respective colleges for distribution to students.TOI (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Admission-process-at-Mangalore-University-goes-online/articleshow/17720203.cms)

mangalore mania

December 26th, 2012, 05:13 AM

Mangalore varsity gets its own exam manual (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Mangalore-varsity-gets-its-own-exam-manual/articleshow/17761487.cms)

MANGALORE: Mangalore University has cut its last vestigial link to University of Mysore - its parent university - by bringing out its own examination manual. A seven-member examination manual committee headed by PS Yadapadithaya, registrar, compiled the 106-page manual. This replaces the almost three-decades-old manual of conduct of university examinations.

If one takes the various annexures into consideration, the entire manual will run into 300-plus pages. It is expected to meet the university's needs for another decade, said TC Shivashankara Murthy, vice-chancellor.

The present manual aims at guiding the "effective, efficient and lawful conduct of university examinations diploma and certificate courses, comprising correspondence programme, UG and PG programmes, master of philosophy and doctor of philosophy programmes". The entire manual is coordinated in 10 chapters along with 40 appendices to give greater clarity to all aspects of examination processes.

The university at present conducts examinations for 155 streams of BA course, 25 streams of BSc course, six streams of BCom course, 15 other courses without sub-streams, 3 UG and PG correspondence programmes each, five regular PG programmes, four other PG courses without streams, Doctor of Philosophy in 26 streams, 3 PG diploma and one certificate course. The university also conducts 22 other diploma and certificate courses.

Yadapadithaya said the revamped manual will be sent for printing once language experts vet the minor spelling and grammar errors in the draft presented before the council. Copies will be distributed to all the 195 colleges - affiliated, constituent and autonomous.

"The revamp of the manual was a much needed exercise given that there have been lot of changes in university's functioning," Yadapadithaya said, adding that the manual will be the Bible for the university's academic processes.

mangalore mania

December 26th, 2012, 09:31 AM

Four colleges offer certificate courses in consumer education (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/four-colleges-offer-certificate-courses-in-consumer-education/article4237183.ece)

The Dakshina Kannada District Federation of Consumer Organisations conducts certificate courses in consumer education at four colleges in the district, according to federation president M.J. Salian.

The colleges are: Govinda Dasa College and Canara College in Mangalore; St. Philomena College, Puttur, and the Government First Grade College in Kavoor. “The federation has MoUs with the colleges, and sends handbooks, co-ordinators, resource persons for the one-year course,” he said, while addressing a gathering on Monday.

The courses were being offered for the past three years and had received a good response. “There was a demand from other colleges to start the course, but this was not possible due to a shortage in resources,” Mr. Salian said. The certificate that students received at the end of the course had the name of the federation and the Department of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs on it, he said.

A consumer affairs magazine called Grahaka Chhaya priced at Rs. 5 (Rs. 3 for students) has also been brought out, Mr. Salian said. He said that students must remember they could use the Right to Information Act to get information, Mr. Salian said.

Krishnamoorthy K

January 2nd, 2013, 10:09 AM

Raviprasad Kamila

A unique feature of the mission is that it offers colleges financial grant of up to Rs. 75 lakh for offering courses in food processing

The Dakshina Kannada District Food Processing Mission has come into force under the Union government’s National Mission on Food Processing. A unique feature of the mission is that it offers colleges financial grant of up to Rs. 75 lakh for offering courses in food processing and setting up food processing units on a pilot basis.

Mune Gowda N., Deputy Director, Department of Horticulture, Dakshina Kannada, and Member-Secretary of the district mission, told The Hindu that the district mission, a 11-member body, came into being recently. It is headed by Deputy Commissioner N. Prakash. The National Mission on Food Processing had come into force under the 12th Plan.

Mr. Gowda said that colleges or universities would have to submit a project proposal to the district mission to avail the grant. The institutes could offer certificate, diploma, and degree or post-graduate courses on food processing. They could purchase books, e-journals, set up laboratories, and purchase laboratory equipment. The institutes could set up a pilot plant of food processing. The project proposal should encompass all the components.

He said the government would provide 10 per cent to 20 per cent (with a ceiling of Rs. 75 lakh) of the project cost to the universities after the government approved the project. It would be a one-time grant. Mr. Gowda said an autonomous college in the city had submitted a proposal to the district mission seeking grant as it had proposed to offer a post-graduate course in food processing. He said the mission offered financial grant for entrepreneurs for setting up new food processing units or upgrading the technology of their existing food processing units. The assistance would be up to 25 per cent of the project cost with a maximum ceiling of Rs. 50 lakh. It provided 50 per cent assistance of the project cost with a maximum ceiling of Rs. 10 crore for setting up cold storage units, value addition units, and to purchase refrigerated vans which support supply chain development.

The non-governmental organisations (NGOs) or any other identified institutes or bodies which promoted food processing activities through seminars, workshops, training programmes, exhibitions, and tours could avail from Rs. 1 lakh to Rs. 3 lakh. There would be a one-year follow up of the activities of the beneficiary institutes or bodies. For example, if an institute trained 20 candidates in food processing, how many of them had ventured into food processing would be monitored for one year. He said that in addition to horticulture produce, the food processing activities applied to fish, meat, and dairying.

Mr. Gowda said as the financial year 2012-13 would end in three months, the mission now would focus on promotional activities for the remaining months in the district.

TH (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/food-processing-mission-set-up-in-dakshina-kannada/article4264604.ece)

mangalore mania

January 4th, 2013, 02:41 PM

Mangalore deserves IIT but the process may take time: HRD Minister (http://www.coastaldigest.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49479:mangalore-deserves-iit-but-the-process-may-take-time-hrd-minister-&catid=57:in-the-news&Itemid=18)

Mangalore, Jan 4: Mangalore does qualify to possess an IIT but it will take some time for the government to give its nod for the same as overseeing of complete implementation of IIT’s granted in the 11th five year plan needs to be done in the first place, said Pallam Raju, Union Minister for Human Resource Development.

Speaking at an interaction session with members of the Congress party at the district Congress office in Mangalore on Friday, Mr. Raju said in response to the demand made by former MLA Vijay Kumar Shetty and other Congress leaders of allowing an IIT for NITK, Surathkal, that Mangalore deserves an IIT but the process may take time.

Women’s University

“Unless the IITs granted in the 11th plan are established, it is difficult to talk about setting up of new IITs. But Mangalore certainly qualifies to have an IIT. The city being an educational hub, a separate Women’s University may also come up in due course of time”, the Minister said.
To a suggestion made by J R Lobo, Former Commissioner, MCC, about including agriculture and horticulture in school syllabi, Mr. Raju said that such a step indeed needs to be taken as rural children need academic exposure to a discipline that they are good at. The Minister asked members of the party present in the gathering to seriously consider including agriculture as part of school syllabuses if the party comes to power in the state.
On the issue of having better R&D (Research and Development) in the academic circles, Mr. Raju said that the local Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other similar institutions must be made to pump funds into R&D development at local levels. The Government of India is also aware of enhancing R&D in the country. “Currently only 0.85% of our GDP is spent on R&D whereas China spends 3%. The Prime Minister has promised that it will be increased to 2%”, he said.

NEET

U T Khader, MLA, brought to the notice of the Minister the issue of NEET entrance tests and problems being faced by the students and teachers in the state. Both students as well as teachers have been accustomed to state syllabus all this while and with NEET and the changed central syllabus coming in, there was a need to provide training to students and teachers which has not happened, he said. Salaries have not been paid to high school teachers in the state in the last three months by the state government, he said.
Not a single high school, PU or degree college has been started by the state government in its current term and whatever activity has been carried out is mere implementation of Centre’s projects by the state government, he added.

For its quality of education and sheer number of students, literecy rate and over above all the percentage of students getting in top list rank from undivided DK and entering professional courses Mangalore or Udupi district needs an IIT..

If not Mangalore we will be happy somewhere in the lap of nature like Moodbidri, Karkala, should be somewhere between Mangalore and Kundapur..

How does it sound guys IIT-Moodbidri
IIT-Karkala
IIT-Ujre

Anything is acceptable

mangalore mania

January 4th, 2013, 02:51 PM

Mangalore: Ashok Aranha of ArcelorMittal Inc, UK Visits AIMIT, St Aloysius College (http://www.mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=broadcast&broadcastid=368764)

Mangalore: St Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology organised a Guest Lecture on Determination and Perseverance delivered by Ashok L Aranha, Head of Purchasing Worldwide, Arcelor Mittal at the Main Auditorium of the AIMIT campus here on Thursday, 3 January 2013.

The Function commenced with the college choir leading the gathering through prayer. Fr Denzil Lobo SJ, Director, AIMIT, addressed the gathering and introduced the guest to the audience, The welcome speech was delivered by Babitha.

Aranha started his talk by speaking on the three C’s of management - Concern, Compassion and Commitment. He also spoke on his experience with the Tata’s which ran up to 26 years. His meeting with Laxmi Mittal in 1991 and his subsequent bonding and employment with Mittals were also spoken about.

Aranha also threw light on how the Mittals went on to acquire more brown field pants and how they rose to become a giant from a small operating company. Producing 240,000 tons of steel. The determination and grit they displayed at Khazakisthan working under extreme conditions of -30’C converting it to the most profitable plant for Mittal was elaborately described.

He ended the talk by exhorting the students to identify their area of competency and act accordingly. The talk was followed by a face to face discussion.

Father Ozwald Mascharenhas spoke on the occasion and gave his valuable inputs and Presented the guest with a Memento.

Daphnie delivered the vote of thanks. The programme concluded by singing the college anthem. After the programme Aranha visited the AIMIT campus. He was given a presentation of the history, progress and vision for AIMIT by Fr Denzil Lobo SJ. He also saw the Management Lab- a unique feature of AIMIT to train the future entrepreneurs.

Krishnamoorthy K

January 11th, 2013, 04:29 PM

9 Jan 2013 | Priya Raju | Comment now

Institute for Print and Media Technology at Chemnitz University of Technology (pmTUC) will open a pmIndia Innovation Lab in collaboration with the Manipal University. The inauguration ceremony is scheduled for 24 January, 2013 at the Manipal University Innovation Centre, Manipal.

The laboratory will be for the applied printed paper photovoltaics and will be setup in the campus at Manipal.

In the last decade, pmTUC has focused on printing electronic devices on paper. Photovoltaics, which refers to the electronic conversion of light into electricity, has been particularly considered as attractive. However, silicon electronics could not satisfy the expectations, despite extensive and costly research.

The contribution of photovoltaics to power generation is small today and excellent research has brought about complex solar technologies, which still produce expensive electricity. Now, printed paper photovoltaic (3PV) concept pursues the strategy to produce solar panels, which not only have moderate energy efficiencies and rather short life times, but which are also prepared with the cheapest possible materials and by means of very cost-effective mass-printing, thus, offering significant advantages in the overall balance.

With the latest publication on solar cells, it was possible to establish a research facility focusing on the application side. This will be a next step in the Indo-German collaboration.

Manipal University is one of the oldest private universities across India. The technical courses of Manipal University will provide a skilled platform for this laboratory.

printweek (http://www.printweek.in/News/328297,pmtuc-opens-pmindia-innovation-lab-at-manipal-university.aspx)

mangalore mania

January 16th, 2013, 07:23 AM

Mangalore: St Aloysius to Become University Soon - Principal (http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=160718)

Mangalore, Jan 13: If things go as per plan, St Aloysius College (Autonomous) is set to become University on its own in a couple of years. This was revealed by Fr Swebert D’Silva, principal of the College and director of St Aloysius College Alumni/ae Association (SACAA), in his message at the college annual reunion organized on SACAA platform at the college campus on Saturday January 12.

Fr Joseph Rodrigues, rector of St Aloysius College Institutions and patron of SACAA, presided. Dr Dayananda Pai, noted educationist and builder, an ex-Aloysian, was the chief guest.

In his message at the reunion, Fr D’Silva said that the college imparts some special values – of competence, conscience, compassion and commitment. "When you are able to live up to these values, you become brand ambassadors of this college. When the college becomes a University, it will need the help of its alumni in terms of expertise and various other contributions." He acknowledged their love and support extended to the college in its endeavors and sought their collaboration to take the institution to even greater heights.

Speaking on the occasion, Fr Rodrigues said that what started for providing education for Catholics in Mangalore 132 years ago has today grown into an educational conglomerate with about 14,000 students at the main campus alone. "There are 23 institutions under the Mangalore Jesuit Educational Society, including two major campuses at Beeri, near Mangalore, and Harihar. Many of these were established to mark the centenary and post-centenary golden jubilee of the college," he said.

Fr Rodrigues said that there are less Jesuits than the number of institutions and noted that they could be managed because of the help and support of lay people, both Catholics and non-Catholics. He urged ex-Aloysians to continue to support the Jesuit institutions in imparting wholesome education to the youth.

The focus of the reunion this year was the ambitious Swimming Pool Project, to be built to international standards, providing for 8 lanes of 50 metres each. It involves a cost of over Rs 4 crore and the University Grants Commission has sanctioned Rs one crore for it.

The chief guest, Dr Pai, so far the largest individual donor for the project, promised to do even more for it. More than the offer of enhanced donation, Dr Pai moved the audience with his spirited extempore speech wherein he exhorted the parents to encourage their children to be job-creators rather than job-seekers. The audience repeatedly clapped moved by his inspirational exhortations to give back to society what they drew from it, especially educational institutions – adding that he would continue to feel indebted despite whatever philanthropy he could do.

Fr Francis Almeida, who spearheads the fund-raising for the swimming pool project, conducted the “pot-luck” programme at the reunion venue by moving among the audience with an earthen pot from which well-wishers of the project drew chits bearing a number from 600 to 5999, which is the amount to be settled later through cheque.

SACAA president Michael D’Souza welcomed while vice-president, Dr Richard Gonsalves proposed the vote of thanks. Arthur D’Souza, convenor, along with Sumit Rao and Janice Goveas compered the event that comprised housie, music, fun and interactive games, ending with buffet dinner.

mangalore mania

January 16th, 2013, 07:40 AM

Wrong thread

mangalore mania

January 16th, 2013, 09:33 AM

source: Vartha Bharathi (http://vbepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=5874&boxid=14247119&uid=&dat=1/14/2013)

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Krishnamoorthy K

January 17th, 2013, 05:31 AM

A centre for studying the importance of plants of the Western Ghats comes up at Mangalore varsity

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Endemic, endangerd and threatened plants of the Western Ghats being conserved on four acres of land on the premises of Mangalore University at Mangalagangotri

The Mangalore University has set up a Centre of Excellence for Bio-diversity and Bio-prospecting. Its main objective is conservation of endemic, rare, threatened and endangered species of the Western Ghats and bio-prospecting of the plants under a project funded by the State Government, according to the Vice-Chancellor of the university, T.C. Shivashankara Murthy.

According to K.R. Chandrashekar, Professor in Applied Botany and Principal Investigator of the project, some of the plants of the Western Ghats have not been studied at all. No literature is available if they are pharmacologically important or not as their pharmacological compounds have not been studied and recorded.

Some of such plants are Epiprinus malllotiformis, Croizat (an endemic plant), Mastixia arboreaand Polyathia fragrans.

The centre will study the importance of such plants with their chemical nature under the project and record their importance.

He said that the university has planted 40 varieties of the Western Ghats species on a four-acre land under the project funded by the Vision Group on Science and Technology of the Department of Science and Technology of Karnataka Government. They include endemic, threatened, vulnerable, endangered and critically endangered categories. The government has sanctioned Rs. 60 lakh for the project for three years.

The vernacular names of some of the plants are bilva patre, vate huli, anemungu, gandha, sarpagandhi, Ashoka (all threatened); siri honne, banasampa, hebbalasu, ennemara (all endemic, endangered); rampatre (endemic, threatened); and hole hippe (threatened). One plant, Syzygium travancoricm gamble (family Myrtaceae), is endemic and critically endangered.

TH (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-educationplus/for-the-sake-of-bioprospecting/article4305652.ece)

Krishnamoorthy K

January 17th, 2013, 05:32 AM

MANGALORE: It is common to see students flock to the Dakshina Kannada district, an education hub in Karnataka, for cutting-edge teaching. But what is not so common is that students prefer the district's coaching centers to train for the Common Entrance Test, the gateway examination for professional courses in the state.

With less than five months left for the CET, students are approaching coaching centres that dot the city. The Expert Coaching Classes (ECC) has declared its seats are filled for this year. Students are trained for CET after the second-year pre-university course exams end.

ECC communications and marketing chief Ananth Prabhu told TOI some 2,000 students from across Karnataka, a good number of them from North Karnataka, land in the district. "Some of them are from Bangalore," he said.

CET coaching centers in the district have been attracting students for at least a decade. The USP is the winning combination of easy-to-understand coaching and descontructed approach to crack the seemingly tough Physics and Mathematics papers. He said most lecturers who author Science PU textbooks and CET assistance literature are from the district.

Anil Mascarenhas, teaching faculty at Boscoss Tutorials, said CET toppers since 2000 are products of the district's coaching centres. "We conduct coaching in two batches with 60 students in each batch. At least 30 of them are from outside of Dakshina Kananda," Anil said.

As is the practice, CET coaching centres admit students with sound academic record. But Cosmos Tutorials has been reserving 15 seats per batch for 12 years for students who need handholding.

Cosmos Tutorials founder Mohammed Nadeem said at least five of these 15 academically disadvantaged students are from outside of the district. "They come to Dakshina Kannada because the region is known for quality education and its sterling record in SSLC and PUC exams."

TOI (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/DK-CET-centres-attract-students-from-across-Karnataka/articleshow/18027979.cms)

National level conference on higher education at Canara College (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/National-level-conference-on-higher-education-at-Canara-College/articleshow/18046683.cms)

mangalore mania

January 18th, 2013, 06:51 PM

Mangalore varsity spruces up infra at constituent colleges (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/education/mangalore-varsity-spruces-up-infra-at-constituent-colleges/article4319800.ece)

MANGALORE, JAN. 18:
Mangalore University has taken steps to improve infrastructure at its two constituent colleges in Mangalore and Madikeri.

T.C. Shivashankaramurthy, Vice-Chancellor of the university, said this while inaugurating the BBM block at University College in Mangalore city on Friday. University College in Mangalore city is a constituent college of Mangalore University.

Giving details of the infrastructure development at University College in Mangalore, he said around Rs 1.80 crore has already been spent on the infrastructure development. Added to this, the university has built a BBM block at a cost of Rs 2.3 crore on the college campus.

The university is planning to add more postgraduate courses at its campus in University College. He said that the University College will have a new look by June this year.

Stating that constituent colleges in Mangalore and Madikeri have been accredited with ‘A’ grade by NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council), he said these colleges will now seek ‘centre of excellence’ status.

H.R. Lakshminarayana Bhat, Principal of University College, said the college has a history of more than 125 years. Earlier, this college was called the Government College. It became a constituent college of Mangalore University 20 years ago. Since then it is known as University College, he said.

P.S. Yadapadithaya, Registrar of Mangalore University, and Chinnappa Gowda, former Registrar of the university, spoke on the occasion

mangalore mania

January 19th, 2013, 04:14 AM

source: Vartha Bharathi (http://vbepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=5940&boxid=13145984&uid=&dat=1/19/2013)

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Krishnamoorthy K

January 19th, 2013, 06:57 AM

Mangalore, Jan 17, 2013, DHNS:

3-day international conference on ‘Recent advances in material sciences and technology’ begins

The National Institute of Technology-Karnataka (NITK) has been sanctioned with three centres for excellence under Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) phase II, of which one centre will be the centre for excellence in advance material science technology, said NITK Dean-Social Welfare Dr Gopal Mugeraya.

He was delivering presidential address at the inauguration of three-day international conference on ‘Recent advances in material sciences and technology-2013’ (ICRAMST-13) organised by the Department of Chemistry at NITK campus on Thursday. He said three centers including the centre for material sciences, cloud computing and renewable energy and smart grid will be developed at a cost of Rs 12.5 crore, of which TEQIP has already released Rs six crore to initiate the work.

Later, elaborating the same to media persons, Dr Mugeraya said the centres will be developed by pooling in the already existing equipment at the departments and purchasing additional equipment using the sanctioned amount.

The project works on a simple formula wherein the government funds for developing the centre, NITK will house the equipment, students can make optimal use of available equipment and the industry will put recurring expenditure. Specially at a time when the industries find it hard to invest on developing such centres, the government’s initiative will help in numerous ways, he told.

Meanwhile, attributing the role of various departments in developing the centres, he said the centre for material sciences will be developed with the co-ordination of four departments including metallurgy, chemistry, physics and chemical engineering and it will be led by the metallurgy department. While cloud computing will be led by the computer science department and centre for renewable energy and smart grid will be led by the electrical department. “The centres will be developed and managed by the existing faculties, in the absence of any special employees reserved for the purpose. The expertise will be shared by all the departments,” the Dean said.

TEQIP had sanctioned Rs 20 crore for the development of various departments in NITK, under its phase I programme.

Research and industry

Earlier, chief guest of the programme, Shell Technologies (Bangalore) Regional Manager Dr S Girish Rao emphasised on the need for the industry and research to go hand in hand. There is a lot of scope for the students pursuing education in institutes like NITK, to take up research work in collaboration with the industry. “I have come here to explore such possibilities, where the educational institutes and the research centres like Shell Technologies can work hand in hand to meet the growing demand for energy,” he said.

DHNS (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/306044/nitk-gets-3-centres-excellence.html)

mangalore mania

January 21st, 2013, 03:07 PM

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A haunted look for entrance, But lot of work is going inside, roads, pavements and dont forget, one of the youngest university with good numbers of PhDs and researchers,,

mangalore mania

January 21st, 2013, 03:08 PM

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January 21st, 2013, 03:11 PM

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mangalore mania

January 21st, 2013, 06:00 PM

Mangalore's University College all set for a facelift (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Mangalores-University-College-all-set-for-a-facelift/articleshow/18111947.cms)

MANGALORE: The 145-year-old University College, a constituent college of Mangalore University, is all set to get a facelift. Plans are afoot to build eight new classrooms at a cost of Rs 1.10 crore and a new auditorium at a cost of Rs 38 lakh on the college campus.

The college at present has 30 classrooms, an auditorium and a seminar hall.

Presently over 1,600 students are pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate courses and others the college which has around 30 classrooms, one auditorium and a seminar hall.

TC Shivashankara Murthy, vice-chancellor of the university, who recently inaugurated the new BBM block building at the college, told TOI that an exclusive rest room for girls will also come up on the campus.

For providing good quality teaching, the college got 'A' grade from National Assessment Accreditation Council (NAAC) in September 2010.

"The infrastructure developments will help the college to get 'Potential for excellence' scheme benefits from the University Grants Commission, which has given an A grade for the college, in the coming days," the VC said.

He added that the tenders for construction works at the college premises have been already called. "Already Rs 1.8 crore has been spent for various development works. We are also planning build an asphalted road on the campus," he said. About 1,600 students are studying the college currently.

NEW COURSE PLANNED

Of the 56 full time teaching faculties in the college 36 have doctoral degrees. Since there is a demand for postgraduate courses for the college, the university is planning to start MA in Kannada, economics and political science courses from next academic year.

"These three courses have been planned to utilize the potential of 36 faculties who have doctoral degree," he added.

Laxminarayana Bhatta HR, the college principal, said the new classrooms are needed as the available classrooms will not be sufficient after the start of PG courses.

Krishnamoorthy K

January 24th, 2013, 02:55 PM

By Stanley PintoStanley Pinto, TNN | Jan 24, 2013, 11.37 AM IST

MANGALORE: Manipal University has once again been ranked at number two overall and first in suburban category among Indian universities in the Universitas Indonesia's Green Metric Ranking for world universities 2012.

The results are computed from information provided by universities online. The information relates to six main categories and their weightings are: Green Statistics (15%), Energy and Climate Change (21%), Waste management (18%), Water usage (10%), Transportation (18%), and Education (18%).

In the global rankings, Manipal University was placed at 118 among the 215 universities from 49 countries in the overall, 37th in the suburban and 87th in the comprehensive categories respectively. IIT, Madras was the best among the Indian Universities and was ranked 62nd globally. IIT, Bombay was ranked third best in India and 142nd in the world.

University of Connecticut was first in the world rankings in the overall and comprehensive categories and the University of Bath topped in the suburban category. Universities from the US, the UK, Japan, and countries in Europe, Palestinian, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Romania and South Africa, China, Fiji, Finland, Greece, Hong Kong, Mexico, and South Africa took part in the survey.

The UI Green Metric Ranking is innovative in that it is the first world-wide college-based commitment to the development of sustainable infrastructure, education and research. The ranking methodology is based on a widely accepted principle that measuring sustainability should involve three things: Environment, Economics and Equity (the 3 Es).

The ranking not only helps to raise awareness about these issues, but is also proving to be a catalyst to put in place 'green' campus management policies around the world. It is drawing the attention of university leaders and stake holders to combat global climate change, energy and water conservation, waste recycling, and green transportation.

TOI (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Green-Ranking-Manipal-University-holds-on-to-second-position-in-India-once-again-/articleshow/18162355.cms)

Krishnamoorthy K

January 24th, 2013, 02:57 PM

ಉಡುಪಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲಾ ವಿ.ವಿ. ಸ್ಥಾಪನೆಗೆ ಬೆಳಪು ಸೂಕ್ತ (http://www.udayavani.com/news/239338L15-%E0%B2%89%E0%B2%A1-%E0%B2%AA--%E0%B2%9C-%E0%B2%B2-%E0%B2%B2--%E0%B2%B5--%E0%B2%B5---%E0%B2%B8-%E0%B2%A5-%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%A8-%E0%B2%97--%E0%B2%AC-%E0%B2%B3%E0%B2%AA--%E0%B2%B8-%E0%B2%95-%E0%B2%A4.html)

ದೇವಿಪ್ರಸಾದ್* ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ

* Udayavani | Jan 22, 2013

ಕಾಪು : ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸರಕಾರದ ಆದೇಶದಂತೆ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸರಕಾರ ಅನುಷ್ಠಾನಿಸಬೇಕಿರುವಉಡುಪಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಶೈಕ್ಷಣಿಕ ರಂಗದ, ಕ್ರಾಂತಿಕಾರಿ ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆಗೆ ನಾಂದಿ ಹಾಡಲಿರುವ ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾವಿತ ನೂತನ ಜಿಲ್ಲಾ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾನಿಲಯ ಸ್ಥಾಪನೆಗೆ ಉಡುಪಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಬೆಳಪು ಗ್ರಾಮ ಸರ್ವ ವಿಧದಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಸೂಕ್ತ ನಿವೇಶನವಾಗಿದೆ. ವಿ.ವಿ. ಸ್ಥಾಪನೆಗೆ ಬೆಳಪು ಗ್ರಾಮ ಪಂಚಾಯತ್* ನಿರ್ಣಯದ ಮೂಲಕ ಸರ್ವಸಮ್ಮತ ಸಹಕಾರ ನೀಡಲು ಸಿದ್ಧವಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಬೆಳಪು ಗ್ರಾಮ ಪಂಚಾಯತ್* ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷ ದೇವಿಪ್ರಸಾದ್* ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ ಪತ್ರಿಕಾ ಹೇಳಿಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ತಿಳಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಗ್ರಾಮೀಣಾಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆದರ್ಶ ಗ್ರಾಮವಾಗಿ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರ ಮಟ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಗುರುತಿಸಲ್ಪಟ್ಟಿರುವ ಮತ್ತು ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸರಕಾರದ ಪ್ರಾಥಮಿಕ ಶಾಲಾ ಪಠ್ಯ ಪುಸ್ತಕದಲ್ಲೂ ದಾಖಲಿಸಲ್ಪಟ್ಟಿರುವ ಬೆಳಪು ಗ್ರಾಮ ಪಂಚಾಯತ್* ವ್ಯಾಪ್ತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ವಿ.ವಿ. ಸ್ಥಾಪನೆಗಾಗಿ ವಿಶಾಲ ಮತ್ತು ಸಮತಟ್ಟಾದ ಸರಕಾರಿ ಜಮೀನು ಲಭ್ಯವಿದೆ. ಈ ಪೈಕಿ ಮಂಜೂರಾತಿ ಶರತ್ತುಗಳನ್ನು ಉಲ್ಲಂಘಿಸಿರುವ ಮತ್ತು ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಕೈ ಬಿಡಲಾಗಿರುವ ಮಂಗಳೂರು ಪವರ್* ಕಂಪೆನಿ ಎಂಬ ಕೊಜೆಂಟ್ರಿಕ್ಸ್* ವಿದ್ಯುತ್* ಸ್ಥಾವರಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಕೈಗಾರಿಕಾಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ ಮಂಡಳಿ ವಶಪಡಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದ 68 ಎಕರೆ ಭೂಪ್ರದೇಶವನ್ನು ಕೇವಲ 68 ಲಕ್ಷ ರೂ.ಗೆ ನೀಡಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಈ ಜಮೀನನ್ನು ಯೋಜನೆಯಿಂದ ಮರುಸ್ವಾದೀನಪಡಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಜಿಲ್ಲಾಧಿಕಾರಿಗೆ ಬೆಳಪು ಪಂಚಾಯತ್* ಮನವಿ ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಿದ್ದು, ಈ ನಿವೇಶನವನ್ನು ಜಿಲ್ಲಾ ವಿ.ವಿ. ಸ್ಥಾಪನೆಗೆ ಬಳಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದು ಎಂದು ದೇವಿಪ್ರಸಾದ್* ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ ತಿಳಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾವಿತ ನಿವೇಶನದ ಪಕ್ಕದಲ್ಲಿಯೇ 24.86 ಎಕರೆ ವಿಸ್ತೀರ್ಣದ ಮತ್ತೂಂದು ಸರಕಾರಿ ಜಮೀನು ಇದ್ದು, ಈ ಪ್ರದೇಶವನ್ನು ಬೇರಾವುದೇ ಯೋಜನೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಸ್ವಾಧೀನ ಪಡಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳದಂತೆ ಸರಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಬೆಳಪು ಪಂಚಾಯತ್* ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಆಕ್ಷೇಪಣೆ ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಿದೆ. ಈ ಭೂಮಿಯಲ್ಲೂ ವಿ.ವಿ. ಸ್ಥಾಪಿಸಲು ಸರಕಾರ ಮುಂದಾಗುವುದಾದರೆ ಇದಕ್ಕೂ ಬೆಳಪು ಪಂಚಾಯತ್* ಸರ್ವಸಮ್ಮತದ ನಿರಾಪೇಕ್ಷಣಾ ಪತ್ರ ನೀಡಲು ಸಿದ್ಧವಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ ಹೇಳಿದರು.

ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕವಾಗಿಯೂ ಬೆಳಪು ಗ್ರಾಮ ಶೈಕ್ಷಣಿಕ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸ್ಥಾಪನೆಗೆ ಅತೀ ಸೂಕ್ತವಾಗಿದೆ. ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾವಿತ ನಿವೇಶನಗಳ 100 ಮೀಟರ್* ಅಂತರದಲ್ಲಿ ಪಡುಬಿದ್ರಿ ರೈಲು ನಿಲ್ದಾಣ, 35 ಕಿ.ಮೀ. ದೂರದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಂಗಳೂರು ಅಂತರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ವಿಮಾನ ನಿಲ್ದಾಣ ಮತ್ತು ಮಂಗಳೂರು ನಗರ, 16 ಕಿ.ಮೀ. ಅಂತರದಲ್ಲಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲಾ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಉಡುಪಿ ಮತ್ತು ಮಣಿಪಾಲ, 2 ಕಿ.ಮೀ. ಅಂತರದಲ್ಲಿ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಹೆದ್ದಾರಿ 66ರ ಪಟ್ಟಣ ಪ್ರದೇಶ ಮತ್ತು 15 ಕಿ.ಮೀ. ಅಂತರದಲ್ಲಿ ಪಶ್ವಿ*ಮ ಘಟ್ಟದ ತಪ್ಪಲು ಪ್ರದೇಶ ಒಳಗೊಂಡಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಅವರು ವಿವರಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಈ ಎಲ್ಲ ಅಂಶಗಳನ್ನು ಕೇಂದ್ರೀಕರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ಕಾಪು ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದ ಶಾಸಕ ಲಾಲಾಜಿ ಆರ್*. ಮೆಂಡನ್* ಅವರು ಬೆಳಪು ಪಂಚಾಯತ್* ವ್ಯಾಪ್ತಿಯ ಪ್ರದೇಶವೇ ವಿ.ವಿ. ಸ್ಥಾಪನೆಗೆ ಸೂಕ್ತವೆಂದು ಪರಿಗಣಿಸಿರುವುದರಿಂದ ಉನ್ನತ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಸಚಿವಾಲಯದ ಸಮಿತಿ ಬೆಳಪು ಗ್ರಾಮದಲ್ಲೇ ವಿ.ವಿ. ಸ್ಥಾಪನೆಗೆ ಅವಕಾಶ ನೀಡುವಂತೆ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸರಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಶಿಫಾರಸು ಮಾಡಬೇಕೆಂದು ಬೆಳಪು ಗ್ರಾಮ ಪಂಚಾಯತ್* ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷ ದೇವಿಪ್ರಸಾದ್* ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ ಆಗ್ರಹಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

I think locations near port should be used for industries and university can come up somewhere near center of Udupi district so that Kundapura people also benefitted.

hakindian1984

January 27th, 2013, 08:45 AM

MANGALORE: The Manipal University, who has collaboration with various foreign universities to promote research, touched another milestone by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Institute of Print Media Technology of Chemnitz University of Technology (CUT), Germany, recently.

Under this MoU, CUT has launched a new laboratory for printed solar cells at Innovation Centre of Manipal University. This lab will serve as basis for analyses and projects on printed solar cells.

In the first project of this MoU, the new lab will concentrate on application-related tests on Printed Paper Photovoltaic (PPP). This innovative technology, developed by a team of teaching faculties headed by professor Arved C Hubler of CUT and this technology helps produce electricity.

CUT in association with MU and other Indian institutions, will analyze the efficiency of PPP under real conditions. CUT is planning to develop some possible PPP business models for the market. An Indo-German Industrial Advisory Board will continually supervize the new laboratory activities.

Opening of the new laboratory in India will help promote the excellence of CUT at the international level, as a result more international students come to CUT, said Amold Van Zyl, chancellor of CUT.

He said the number of Indian students alone has increased in the recent years.

In 2010-11, 40 Indian students have enrolled at CUT and the in 2012013, 40 Indian students have enrolled.

"Started in 2008, the only Indo-German double degree Master's programme Print and Media Technology allows students of both the universities to study in both the countries," he said.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Manipal-varsity-signs-memorandum-of-understanding-with-German-institute/articleshow/18201335.cms

Krishnamoorthy K

February 14th, 2013, 05:50 AM

ಮಂಗಳೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಬಹು ಕೌಶಲ್ಯ ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ ಕೇಂದ್ರ (http://vijaykarnataka.indiatimes.com/articleshow/18488103.cms)

ವಿಕ ಸುದ್ದಿಲೋಕ | Feb 13, 2013, 09.58PM IST

ಮಂಗಳೂರು: ವೃತ್ತಿ ತರಬೇತಿ ನೀಡುವ ಉದ್ದೇಶದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಜರ್ಮನಿಯ ಜಿಐಜೆಡ್-ಐಎನ್ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯ ತಾಂತ್ರಿಕ ಸಹಕಾರದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಹು ಕೌಶಲ್ಯ ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಮಂಗಳೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ಥಾಪಿಸಲು ಸರಕಾರ ನಿರ್ಧರಿಸಿದೆ.

ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತ ರಾಜ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ 158 ಸರಕಾರಿ ಹಾಗೂ 195 ಖಾಸಗಿ ಅನುದಾನಿತ, 1091 ಖಾಸಗಿ ಕೈಗಾರಿಕಾ ತರಬೇತಿ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗಳ ಮೂಲಕ 1,67,208 ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿಗಳು 40 ನಾನಾ ವೃತ್ತಿ ತರಬೇತಿ ಪಡೆಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದು, ಇನ್ನೂ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಅನುಕೂಲವಾಗುವಂತೆ ಬಹು ಕೌಶಲ್ಯ ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸ್ಥಾಪನೆಗೆ ಸರಕಾರ ತೀರ್ಮಾನಿಸಿದೆ.

ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಹಾಗೂ ಗುಲ್ಬರ್ಗದಲ್ಲಿ 2012ರಲ್ಲಿ 40 ಕೋಟಿ ರೂ. ವೆಚ್ಚದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸಲಾದ ಎರಡು ಕೇಂದ್ರಗಳು ಕಾರ್ಯಾಚರಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದು, ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸರಕಾರ 32.23 ಕೋಟಿ ರೂ. ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ಸಹಾಯ ನೀಡಲು ಒಪ್ಪಿದೆ ಮಾತ್ರವಲ್ಲದೆ ದೇಶಾದ್ಯಂತ ಇಂತಹ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಅಳವಡಿಸಲು ಸಲಹೆ ನೀಡಿದೆ.

ಎಲ್ಲ ರಾಜ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಹು ಕೌಶಲ್ಯ ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸ್ಥಾಪಿಸಲು ಉಪಕರಣ ಮತ್ತು ಯಂತ್ರೋಪಕರಣಗಳ ಶೇ. 50 ವೆಚ್ಚ ಭರಿಸುವಂತೆ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸರಕಾರವನ್ನು ಕೋರುವಂತೆ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸರಕಾರ ನಿರ್ಧರಿಸಿದೆ.

ಮಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಕದ್ರಿಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಸರಕಾರಿ ಕೈಗಾರಿಕಾ ತರಬೇತಿ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಲಭ್ಯವಿರುವ ಜಾಗದಲ್ಲಿ 37.27 ಕೋಟಿ ರೂ. ವೆಚ್ಚದಲ್ಲಿ ಹೊಸ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸಲು ಸರಕಾರ ಯೋಜನೆ ರೂಪಿಸಿದೆ.

ಮಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಕೇಂದ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಕನ್ಸ್*ಟ್ರಕ್ಷನ್ ಟೆಕ್ನಾಲಜಿ, ಅಡ್ವಾನ್ಸ್*ಡ್ ವೆಲ್ಡಿಂಗ್ ಟೆಕ್ನಾಲಜಿ, ಇನ್*ಫಾರ್ಮೆಶನ್ ಟೆಕ್ನಾಲಜಿ, ಟೂಲ್ ರೂಮ್ ಆ್ಯಂಡ್ ಪ್ರೆಸಿಷನ್ ಮ್ಯಾನುಫ್ಯಾಕ್ಚರಿಂಗ್, ಇಂಡಸ್ಟ್ರಿಯಲ್ ಅಟೋಮೆಷನ್, ಇಂಡಸ್ಟ್ರಿಯಲ್ ಮೆಕಾಟ್ರಾನಿಕ್ಸ್ ತರಬೇತಿ ನೀಡಲು ಉದ್ದೇಶಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿಗಳ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚುತ್ತಿರುವ ಹಿನ್ನೆಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ 2012-13ನೇ ಸಾಲಿನಲ್ಲಿ 4,50,000 ಮಂದಿಗೆ ನಾನಾ ತರಬೇತಿ ನೀಡುವ ಗುರಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಬೆಳಗಾವಿ, ಹುಬ್ಬಳ್ಳಿ ಮತ್ತು ಮಂಗಳೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸ್ಥಾಪಿಸಲು ಸರಕಾರ ಉದ್ದೇಶಿಸಿದೆ ಎಂದು ವಿಧಾನ ಸಭೆ ಉಪಸ್ಪೀಕರ್ ಎನ್.ಯೋಗೀಶ್ ಭಟ್ ತಿಳಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

hakindian1984

February 14th, 2013, 06:33 PM

Mangalore, Feb 14: The Prestige International School, founded by H R Educational Foundation in the year 2006 as a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative, will lay the foundation for its new campus at Jeppinamogaru on Saturday.
Announcing this at a press conference here on Thursday, chairman of the school Hyder Ali said that the new campus would be one of the best equipped schools in the region.
The foundation laying ceremony will be held at 8.30 a.m. and Rajya Sabha MP Oscar Fernandes will lay the foundation stone. Union Minister for Minority Affairs K Rahman Khan will launch the logo of the school, while former Union Minister C M Ibrahim will inaugurate the school’s annual sports meet. Deputy Speaker of Karnataka Assembly N Yogish Bhat will preside over the function. Dignitaries such as MCC Mayor Gulzar Banu, Mangalore MLA U T Khader, Vice Chancellor of Yenepoya University Y Abdulla Kunhi, Mangalore North MLA Krishna J Palemar, Moodbidri MLA K Abhayachandra Jain and Bantwal MLA B Ramanath Rai among others will be the guests of honour, he said.
Spread over four and a half acres, the campus will have a large pre-primary block with 35 rooms, a large primary and secondary school block with a well-equipped library, Maths lab, Science lab, and an Arts lab along with an indoor stadium and a large auditorium. The school will also have two swimming pools and an outdoor sports stadium with separate grounds for cricket, volleyball and football, he said.

http://www.coastaldigest.com/index.php/news/50823-prestige-international-school-to-get-a-new-campus

Krishnamoorthy K

February 15th, 2013, 01:44 PM

Manipal: Infosys chairman to inaugurate research facility at MIT (http://www.mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=377960)

Published Date: 15 Feb, 2013 (4:37 PM)

Press Release

Manipal, February 15: Infosys Chairman and non-executive chairman of ICICI bank, Mr K.V.Kamath will inaugurate the Central Instrumentation Facility a research facility at MIT in Manipal University on February 16, 2013 at 10 am. Mr Kamath will also deliver a lecture at the Library auditorium of MIT on The Technology Story knowledge economy and disruptive power of technology. The award ceremony of Provenance 2012 will also be held simultaneously, according to Dr Manohara Pai MM, CEO and Secretary, Manipal University Technology Business Incubator.

The Innovation Centre, MIT Manipal has set up a state-of-the-art Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF) in order to support multi-disciplinary research areas including Material Sciences, Biotechnology, Organic photovoltaics, Nanotechnology and other emerging frontier areas of research.

The CIF houses advanced research instruments viz. Scanning Electron Microscope and EDS, X-Ray Diffractometer, UV-VIS-NIR, Spectrophotometer, Ion Chromatography, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Atomic Force Microscope.

The rationale behind this new facility is, to support the interested researchers/ faculty and students of Manipal University and the people of the region for their academic, research and commercial activities.

Manipal University has invested Rs 10 crore in creating this state of the art facility for the benefit of the researchers and innovators.

Provenance-2012 is a state-level business plan competition organized by MUTBI. This year 158 executive summaries were received for the first round of the competition. Fifty of them were shortlisted by the professors of TAPMI for the second round. The third round saw 16 entries making into the final. A team of Industry experts and Venture Capitalists decided on the feasibility of the business plans.

The final round was held at the Innovation Centre, MIT Manipal on January 18 and 19, 2013. It was judged by Mr. Chandrasekaran, Chairman- Meritrac, Advisor-MEMG; Mr. Rajesh Jog, Chairman & Managing Director, Waygate Capital, Alumni MIT Manipal; and Mr. Nakul Zaveri, Global Environment Fund.

The Business Ideas viz. Mastermind Solutions (MIT, Manipal), Opticure (MCODS, Manipal), and Paper tree (MIT, Manipal) won the top three prizes respectively. As a special mention by the judges, Appworld (MIT, Manipal) was considered in the special category. The winning teams shall receive cash prizes worth Rs 11 Lakhs, and also , get all the resources and space to set their own company in Manipal University Technology Business Incubator.

mangalore mania

February 16th, 2013, 01:47 PM

International multiple skill development centre to be set up in Mangalore soon (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/International-multiple-skill-development-centre-to-be-set-up-in-Mangalore-soon/articleshow/18528856.cms)

MANGALORE: As the growing industrial sector in Mangalore look out for more skilled employees, the government is all set to open an international multiple skill development centre in collaboration with German-based GIZ-IN Institute.

The state government has identified 10 acres of land near Government ITI at Yeyyadi in the city and the centre will be set up at an estimated cost of Rs 37.27 crore jointly by the state and central government.

Mangalore South MLA and Assembly deputy speaker N Yogish Bhat told TOI that there 158 government it is, 195 ITCs and 1,091 private institutions in the state training more than 1.67 lakh students on 40 skills. "Even when the number of institutions increasing, a need arises to train students to make them experts in their trades. To cater this need, the state government has decided to open international multiple skill development centres in Mangalore, Belgaum and Hubli," Bhat said.

In Mangalore, 10 acres of land has been identified near Government ITI at Yeyyadi, he said. "A sophisticated building for the centre will be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 8.5 crore. Rs 19 crore has been sanctioned for the purchase of machines and training equipment. Meanwhile, Rs 4.12 crore will be reserved for GIZ-IN Institute as implementation cost," Bhat said adding that the government will release Rs 78 crore to set up three institutes.

Various advanced courses under construction technology, advanced welding technology, information technology, tool room and precision manufacturing, industrial automation and industrial technology streams will be taught in the three centres.

mangalore mania

February 18th, 2013, 04:19 PM

Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University

New courses such as hygienic meat processing are being started for students and personnel of slaughter houses. Two model abattoirs are being set up in Bangalore and Bidar. The university has seven colleges. Three more are being set up in Puttur, Athani and Gadag.
EXTENSION

The university has set up farmers’ training centres in its Bidar, Mangalore and Bangalore campuses. Farmers referred by agencies like Karnataka Milk Federation, and poultry and fish breeding agencies or industries are trained in these centres. The seven livestock research and information centres across the State are also training farmers.

RESEARCH

The university’s research is broadly divided into two categories: livestock improvement and disease prevention. One of the most popular poultry breeds in the country, Giri Raja, is a contribution of the university’s scientists. “We are now working on improving buffalo, fish, sheep, Deoni cows and bullocks varieties,” Mr. Prasad said.

The second important contribution of the university is the development of vaccines for animals, birds and even fish. Oral vaccines have been developed for captive bred and inland fish. The Bangalore-based Institute of Animal Health and Veterinary Biologicals, which is part of the university, has also perfected vaccines for buffaloes, pigs, dogs, and other pet animals.

The most important benefit of the varsity colleges has been the treatment of animals, birds and fish at hospitals on campus. Expert doctors treat lakhs of animals in the colleges in Bangalore, Bidar, Mangalore, Shimoga and Hassan every year.

“This remains our primary area of service to the people of the State. The university serves as the tertiary healthcare centre for animals. All treatment is free and that has strengthened the confidence farmers have in us,” Dr. Prasad said.

source:http://www.thehindu.com/features/education/creating-rural-entrepreneurs/article4397445.ece

Krishnamoorthy K

February 20th, 2013, 07:38 AM

Manipal University to develop forested area (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Manipal-University-to-develop-forested-area/articleshow/18583619.cms)

Pavan M V, TNN | Feb 20, 2013, 03.12 AM IST

MANIPAL: In a green initiative, Manipal University will convert about 50 acres on the campus into a forest. The varsity authorities will plant about 10,000 saplings on the campus at the End Point in Manipal.

Colonel Badri Narayanan, director of purchase and general services, Manipal University told TOI that only plants that are found in the Western Ghats will be planted on the campus and the saplings are being sourced through the forest department and nurseries situated in and around Western Ghats. More than 100 varieties of saplings including Shivani (gnelina arobora), Kakke (cassia fistula), Kanaka Champa (pperostermun acerifolium) and others will be planted.

"Because of urbanization, the forest cover is fast depleting. The habitat of birds is affected badly because of this. This initiative of the university will help the birds in the region the most as it will reconstruct their habitat to a certain extend. Since the surface of the land is rocky, four mechanical diggers are being used to make pits," said Badri, adding that about 1,500 pits already been dug up.

After planting all the saplings the university will take proper care of the plants, he said. "We will use drip irrigation method to water the plants and they will be provided sufficient manure for five years," he added.

mangalore mania

February 20th, 2013, 04:15 PM

Wrong thread

mangalore mania

February 22nd, 2013, 05:26 AM

Mangalore University students log on to cyber security from 2013 (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-02-21/news/37220569_1_cyber-security-national-security-system-mangalore-university)

MANGALORE: Though students are hooked on to the internet, not many know about cyber security and information security. If everything falls in place, Mangalore University undergraduate and postgraduate students of all the streams will be exposed to these two subjects from the next academic year.

The Task Force on National Security System, constituted as per the directions of the cabinet committee on security, has recommended introduction of cyber security and information security as subjects in universities and technical institutions. The University Grants Commission has issued a circular to all the universities in this regard.

University vice-chancellor T C Shivashankara Murthy told TOI they were introducing the subjects, though it wasn't mandatory. The next academic meeting will decide on the syllabus. The university is yet to decide whether to introduce these two subjects as optional or compulsory, V-C said.

Visvesvaraya Technological University is also gearing up to implement cyber security and information security in all its technical courses. Vice-chancellor H Maheshappa said they will soon decide on introducing these two subjects as either compulsory or elective.

Manipal University, too, is very keen on the subjects. Vice-chancellor K Ramnarayan said the university is taking necessary steps to introduce these subjects in all disciplines. "The next academic year is round the corner, we'll hold a meeting in this regard," he said.

mangalore mania

February 24th, 2013, 01:39 AM

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Krishnamoorthy K

February 24th, 2013, 08:06 AM

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-- Udayavani

MU is one of the excellent universities in science and research – Ramaswamy (http://www.mangaloreinformation.com/city/4116-mangalore-mu-is-one-of-the-excellent-universities-in-science-and-research-ramaswamy-)

The education board has recognized 44 excellent universities in science and research out of the 600 universities in the country and Mangalore University is one among those,” said Dr T Ramasami.

The Mangalore University awarded 84 PhDs - 15 in arts, 59 in science, eight in commerce and two in education; and seven MPhils - six in science and one in commerce. In addition, students also received 36 gold medals and 55 cash prizes.

Krishnamoorthy K

February 26th, 2013, 01:50 PM

ಮಣಿಪಾಲ: ಪೋಲಿಶ್* ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಆರಂಭ (http://www.udayavani.com/news/256231L15-%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%A3-%E0%B2%AA-%E0%B2%B2--%E0%B2%AA-%E0%B2%B2-%E0%B2%B6---%E0%B2%85%E0%B2%A7-%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%A8-%E0%B2%95--%E0%B2%A6-%E0%B2%B0-%E0%B2%86%E0%B2%B0-%E0%B2%AD.html)

Udayavani | Feb 25, 2013

ಉಡುಪಿ: ಪೋಲಂಡ್* ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯದ ರಾಯಭಾರ ಕಚೇರಿ ಮತ್ತು ಹೊಸದಿಲ್ಲಿಯ ಪೋಲಿಶ್* ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ ಮಣಿಪಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಪೋಲಿಶ್* ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ಕೇಂದ್ರವನ್ನು ತೆರೆದಿದೆ.

ಮಣಿಪಾಲ ವಿ.ವಿ.ಯ ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕ ರಾಜಕೀಯ ಮತ್ತು ಅಂತಾರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ವಿಭಾಗದಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸೋì ವಿ.ವಿ. (ಅಂತಾರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ ಮತ್ತು ಯೂರೋಪ್* ಕೇಂದ್ರ) ಪಾಲುದಾರಿಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಯುವ ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ಕೇಂದ್ರವನ್ನು ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲಿ ಪೋಲಂಡ್* ರಾಯಭಾರಿ ಪ್ರೊ| ಪಯೊಟರ್* ಕ್ಲೊಡ್ಕೊವಿÕ$R ಸೋಮವಾರ ಉದ್ಘಾಟಿಸಿದರು. ಅಲ್ಲಿನ ವಿದೇಶಾಂಗ ವ್ಯವಹಾರಗಳ ಸಚಿವಾಲಯದ ಉಪ ಜಂಟಿ ಕಾರ್ಯದರ್ಶಿ ಮಾಸಿಜ್* ಜಿಮನೊಸ್ಕಿ, ವಾರ್ಸೊ ವಿ.ವಿ. ವಿದೇಶಾಂಗ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ವಿಭಾಗದ ಉಪಕುಲಪತಿ ಪ್ರೊ| ಅಲೊಜಿ ನೊವಕ್*, ವಿ.ವಿ.ಯ ಅಂತಾರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕ ಪ್ರೊ| ಎಡ್ವರ್ಡ್* ಹಲಿಜಕ್*, ಉಪನಿರ್ದೇಶಕ ಡಾ| ಜಾಕುಬ್* ಝಜಾಕೊಸ್ಕಿ ಮಣಿಪಾಲಕ್ಕೆ ಭೇಟಿ ನೀಡಿದ ನಿಯೋಗದ ಸದಸ್ಯರಾಗಿದ್ದರು.

ಮಣಿಪಾಲ ವಿ.ವಿ. ಪರವಾಗಿ ಉಪಕುಲಪತಿ ಡಾ| ಎಚ್*. ವಿನೋದ ಭಟ್* ಮತ್ತು ಪೊಲೀಶ್* ನಿಯೋಗದ ಪರವಾಗಿ ಪ್ರೊ| ಪಯೊಟರ್* ಸ್ವಾಗತಿಸಿದರು. ಅನಂತರ ತಿಳಿವಳಿಕೆ ಪತ್ರಕ್ಕೆ ಪೋಲಂಡ್* ಸರಕಾರದ ಪರವಾಗಿ ಪ್ರೊ| ಪಯೊಟರ್*, ವಾರ್ಸೊ ವಿ.ವಿ. ಪರವಾಗಿ ಪ್ರೊ| ಅಲಜಿ ನೊವಕ್*, ಮಣಿಪಾಲ ವಿ.ವಿ. ಪರವಾಗಿ ಡಾ| ಎಚ್*. ವಿನೋದ ಭಟ್* ಸಹಿ ಮಾಡಿದರು.

ಮಣಿಪಾಲದ ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕ ರಾಜಕೀಯ ವಿಭಾಗದ ಮುಖ್ಯಸ್ಥ ಪ್ರೊ| ಅರವಿಂದ ಕುಮಾರ್* ಅವರು ಪೋಲಿಶ್* ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ಕೇಂದ್ರದ ಕುರಿತು ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾವನೆಗೈದರು. ಪೋಲಂಡ್* ಮತ್ತು ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಭಾರತದ ಭೌಗೋಳಿಕ ರಾಜಕೀಯ ಸವಾಲು ಮತ್ತು ಅವಕಾಶಗಳ ಸಹಸಂಬಂಧದ ಕುರಿತು ಜ್ಞಾನ ವೃದ್ಧಿ ಮತ್ತು ಯುವ ವಿಶ್ಲೇಷಕರ ಜಾಲ ಸ್ಥಾಪನೆ ಹೀಗೆ ಎರಡು ಉದ್ದೇಶಗಳನ್ನು ಹೊಂದಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಅರವಿಂದ ಕುಮಾರ್* ಹೇಳಿದರು.

ಅಧ್ಯಯನದಲ್ಲಿ ಎಂಫಿಲ್*, ಸ್ನಾತಕೋತ್ತರ, ಪಿಎಚ್*ಡಿಗೆ ಅವಕಾಶಗಳಿವೆ. ಅಧ್ಯಯನವು ಪೋಲಿಶ್* ಸಮಾಜ, ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿ, ರಾಜಕೀಯ, ಅರ್ಥಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ, ವಿದೇಶಾಂಗ ನೀತಿ, ಭಾರತ ಮತ್ತು ಈಶಾನ್ಯ ಏಶ್ಯಾದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಪೋಲಂಡ್* ಸಂಬಂಧಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಬೆಳಕು ಚೆಲ್ಲಲಿವೆ. ಭಾರತದಲ್ಲಿ ಇಂತಹ ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ತೆರೆಯುತ್ತಿರುವುದು ಇದು ಮೊದಲ ಬಾರಿಯಾಗಿದೆ. ಮುಂದೆ ಕೋಲ್ಕತ್ತಾ ವಿ.ವಿ.ಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕೇಂದ್ರವನ್ನು ತೆರೆಯಲಾಗುವುದು ಎಂದು ಪೋಲಂಡ್* ರಾಯಭಾರಿ ಪತ್ರಿಕಾಗೋಷ್ಠಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ತಿಳಿಸಿದರು.

Krishnamoorthy K

February 26th, 2013, 04:51 PM

^^
Polish study center begins at Manipal (http://www.udayavani.com/news/256507L14-Polish-study-center-begins-at-Manipal.html)

Udayavani | Feb 26, 2013

Manipal: Republic of Poland’s embassy office and Polish organization of New Delhi opened Polish Study Center at Manipal.

The study Center was inaugurated by Prof. Payoter Kludko on Monday. The center was setup under the partnership of Geo-political division of Manipal University and International Communication Organisation and Europe Center of International Communication Department.

Deputy joint secretary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mazid Zymanoski, Deputy Chairman of Varso University’s foreign communication department, Prof. Aloji Novak and other members of mission were visited to the Manipal.

On the behalf of Manipal University Deputy Chairman Dr. H. Vinod Bhat and behalf of Polish Mission Prof. Payter welcomed the gathering. Later behalf of Poland Govt. Prof. Payter, behalf of Varso University Prof. Alaji Novak and behalf of Manipal Univarsity Dr. H. Vinod Bhat signed to the letter of understanding.

Chief of Geo-political division of Manipal University, Prof. Aravind Kumar introduced about the Polish Study Center. Developing the knowledge of Challenges of Poland and Indian geo-political and the establishment of a link of young critics are the main aim of the center, he added.

There are opportunities to do M.Phil, Post graduation and Ph.D in the study. The center will look after the issues of Polish society, culture, politics, economics, foreign policy, the relationship of Poland with India and north-east Asia. For the first time India opens this kind of study center. In the coming days center will also be launched in Kolkata University, said Poland Embassy in the press meet.

mangalore mania

February 27th, 2013, 10:10 AM

Mangalore: IT students design apps for Windows 8 at AIMIT (http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=165564)

Mangalore, Feb 27: AIMIT St Aloysius College, Mangalore was one of the fifty Institutions around the Country (and among the two in Karnataka) to be selected for the Microsoft APP fest on February 26.

The introduction of ‘Microsoft App Fest 2013’ began at 9 am in the auditorium of St Aloysius College Institute of Management and Information Technology, AIMIT.

Professor Santhosh Rebello, Dean, department of Computer Applications and Bio Informatics, introduced the Microsoft proctor, Ajay Kumar and welcomed the gathering, which included students from the IT Dept of AIMIT, as well as various institutes in and around Mangalore. He said that he was glad to have such innovative programmes conducted for the students, which helped them to enrich their creative and technical skills.

Fr Denzil Lobo, director, AIMIT stated that it was great to have AIMIT as a hub centre for this App Fest and said that such programmes help the students to keep pace with the racing speed of Information Technology. He thanked the faculty coordinator of the fest, Thomas CG, and the Microsoft Student Partner, Ashwin Kumar for helping to organize the programme.

The introduction was followed by the live streaming of the formal inaugural ceremony held in Mumbai, where several dignitaries spoke on the occasion. The App Fest was declared open with the traditional “Banging of the Gong” by the dignitaries.

Dr S S Mantha, chairman, AICTE congratulated the students participating in the event and thanked Microsoft for holding such an event. The focus of the event is on broad-based consumer applications, incorporating education, games, apps for social good etc. In addition to submitting the apps for evaluation for a chance to get on the Microsoft Store, the training and experience received via this program will boost the students' employability, and create a more capable developer ecosystem in the country.

Ajay Kumar, Microsoft Proctor, spoke to the students at AIMIT explaining the relevance of the Windows 8 Operating System. He mentioned that with a similar IDE in the backend, one can run a single app on several devices that include even hand held ones. He also mentioned about several amazing features of the Windows 8 phone such as Multi core Chipset, Graphics Processor, encryptable storage and many more. He encouraged the students to design apps with quality and standards.

The students coded applications for the Windows Platform throughout the day under the supervision of Microsoft mentors, trainers and Microsoft Student Partners, and submitted the app online - an opportunity to make it available on the Windows Store after due diligence. The focus will be on broad-based consumer applications, incorporating education, games, apps for social good etc.

In addition to submitting the apps for evaluation for a chance to get on the Microsoft Store, the training and experience received via this program will encourage the students to showcase their creative ideas and implement them using the latest technology.

hakindian1984

February 27th, 2013, 09:34 PM

Mangalore, Feb 27, 2013: Dakshina Kannada district tops in the state as far as the number of educational institutions which have applied for registration under the Right to Information (RTE) Act.

Of the 809 educational institutions here, 163 have applied for registration. Of these highest number of appications i.e 89 are from Bantwal taluk, 35 from Puttur, 20 from Sullia and 19 from Moodbidri.

In Udupi district which stands second, a total of 58 schools have submitted their applications to the DDPI out of the total 501 schools. Thouh the schools in DK had not evinced much interest in getting registered under the RTE last year, this year however, there is some interst.

In fact, out of 19,966 schools (including aided and unaided) in the State, only 223 schools have applied for RTE registration, so far. In Dakshina Kannada, 168 unaided schools excluding minority run schools,offer 1652 seats under RTE for the first standard. In Udupi, 74 unaided schools, excluding minority schools, offer 1061 seats under RTE Act.The minority institutions do not come under the purview of the Act and in DK out of the 476 unaided schools, over 177 are minority run schools.In Udupi dstrict, 44 out of the 118 unaided schools are run by minorities.

http://www.mangaloretoday.com/mt/index.php?action=mn&type=8310

Krishnamoorthy K

February 28th, 2013, 04:53 AM

Mangalore University set to acquire linear accelerator from BARC (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Mangalore-University-set-to-acquire-linear-accelerator-from-BARC/articleshow/18722153.cms)

The writer has posted comments on this articleTNN | Feb 28, 2013, 06.16 AM IST

MANGALORE: The 32-year-old Mangalore University is all set to further fortify its standing as a leading centre for radiation studies among conventional universities in India with proposed induction of linear accelerator. The Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) has given in-principle approval to provide this new state-of-the-art instrument which will further boost radiation studies in the university.

A formal signing of memorandum of understanding between Barc and the university is all that separates BRIT handing over the instrument. The current value of the instrument is pegged at Rs 12 crore.

The initial cost of the instrument a year back when the two bodies started negotiations on upgrading the microtron accelerator that the university currently has was around Rs 10.84 crore, explains TC Shivashankara Murthy, vice-chancellor.

"The linear accelerator could make the university perhaps the only conventional state university in India to acquire such a state-of-the instrument," TC Shivashankara Murthy, vice-chancellor told TOI.

The university on its part has to shell out about 10% of the instrument cost to create necessary infrastructure to house the linear accelerator, he said, adding savings on account of grants received from UGC and the department of science and technology will be used to put up the necessary infrastructure as instructed by BRIT authorities.

The linear accelerator, an improved version of the microtron accelerator, will boost research in agriculture and medicine. Controlled usage of radiation dose on plants can help study if it maximizes yield of the crop or mutates on increased radiation dose which can also help boost yield, the VC said, adding the departments in the university or other agencies could make use of the instrument to carry out their research under the university's guidance.

The university installed and commissioned the microtron accelerator in 1995 in collaboration with Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore and Barc to carry out frontline research studies in several important areas of radiation physics and interdisciplinary areas of science and technology. "It is currently attracting investigators from educational institutions from across the state. Linear accelerator will only spur this," the VC added.

mangalore mania

February 28th, 2013, 07:21 PM

NSE education initiative (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/315363/nse-education-initiative.html)

The National Stock Exchange has tied up with 250 schools in 22 cities, in various regions, in Ahmedabad, Baroda, Bangalore, Calicut, Cochin, Coimbatore, Hubli & Dharwad, Mangalore, Pondicherry, Dehradun, Jaipur, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar, Jamshedpur, Ranchi, Bhopal, Goa, Indore, Nagpur, Pune & Raipur.

The NSE is conducting a workshop, for two hours, on the concepts of financial planning, termed as “The Three Jars: Spend, Save, and Grow.”

This workshop will be conducted by NSE representatives who will educate students on the importance of frequent saving, wise spending, and growing money. The exchange shall inform the students on the difference between “needs and wants”, in their daily life, on how one must address “needs” and try and curtail “wants”, as much as possible. In the next session, of the same workshop, students will be taught the importance of savings. Here, the focus will be on topics like importance of saving regularly, start saving from a young age, save for a longer period, start saving with small amounts, savings must have a goal and that it must have a clear plan of action.

The third session--Grow, shall talk about the importance of growing savings--how important is it to save for one’s financial well-being, saving and investing wisely, the fact that it is not just about saving but also looking at growing one’s saving and that happiness has no price and cannot be purchased.

Post the completion of this workshop, students will work on a project termed as “My Hero”—Find the financial hero around you--wherein they will have to talk about the people, in the real world, who are facing financial challenges. The students will have to interview such individuals, judge them as to who is the real hero amongst the ones they have short-listed and interviewed.

NSE conducted special two-hour movie screening for children, on motivating global business leaders like Bill Gates, to inspire the young minds planning their future course of action. This was followed by a project, for the next two months.

The third and final workshop started in February, called “Financial Wiz”; focuses on the essentials of financial planning, followed by a test. In the third workshop the exchange included finance master mind (a finance Olympiad level 1) to help student to know their financial acumen. The students passing this level would qualify for the next level of Olympiad.

The entire workshop involves educating students on basic financial concepts such as interest rates, inflation, value of money and other interactive activities. Post the successful completion of an activity or a project, students become well acquainted with the basics of financial concepts and they are also awarded with certificates.
The NSE website, www.nsefq.com, is an interactive one and explains the basics of finance to the youth at an early stage.

mangalore mania

March 5th, 2013, 08:02 AM

Mangalore: Foundation stone laid for degree college at Naravi (http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=166100)

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Mangalore, Mar 4: The foundation stone for the new college was laid by Dr Aloysius Paul D’souza, Bishop of Mangalore at St Antony Church Naravi., at a programme held for the same, on Saturday March 2 at 10 am.

Srinivas Kini, ex- president of A P M C, Belthangady and member of K P C C, Belthangady, JayanthKotian, Talukpanchayath member, Sumithra, Panchayath president Naravi, Sr Grace, superior St Jerosa Convent. Fr Louis Cutinha, parish priest, Fr Edwin Mascarenhas, principal, Fr Arun Wilson Lobo, assistant parish priest and vice principal, Lawrence Cutinha, the engineer, Vijay Martin, the contractor, staff, students and the parishioners were present.

Bishop blessed and laid the foundation stone and gave a message to the attendees on the occasion.

Lawrence Menezes, vice president of parish council welcomed the gathering. Santosh Saldanha, lecturer compered the gathering.

mangalore mania

March 5th, 2013, 08:08 AM

I did my little googling..
Naravi is a village in Dakshina Kannada district on the foot hills of western ghats. It is 20 km from Karkala towards Dharmasthala. It is also known for Sri Sooryanarayana temple which is one of the two well known SUN temples, Other one is Located at Konark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naravi

Naravi is one of the Village in Beltangadi Taluk in Dakshin Kannad District in Karnataka State . Naravi is located 20.9 km distance from its Taluk Main Town Beltangadi . Naravi is 34.4 km far from its District Main City Mangalore . It is 267 km far from its State Main City Bangalore .

Near By Villages of this Village with distance are Marodi(3.5 k.m.) ,Nellikaru(3.9 k.m.) ,Kashipatna(6.9 k.m.) ,Daregudde(8.5 k.m.) ,Shirlalu(9.6 k.m.) ,. Nearest Towns are Beltangadi(20.9 k.m.) ,Bantval(27.7 k.m.) ,Mangalore(39 k.m.) ,Puttur(40.6 k.m.) ,

Aladangadi , Arasinamakki , Bandaru , Hosangady , Ilanthila , Indabettu , ... . are the villages along with this village in the same Beltangadi Taluk

Naravi Pin Code is 574109 and Post office name is . Other villages in Post Office (574109,) are Idu , Naravi , .

http://www.onefivenine.com/india/villages/Dakshin-Kannad/Beltangadi/Naravi

mangalore mania

March 5th, 2013, 10:34 AM

Mangalore school turns to voice call service to keep parents in loop (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Mangalore-school-turns-to-voice-call-service-to-keep-parents-in-loop/articleshow/18804287.cms)

MANGALORE: It is voice alert time for parents of students studying at Mount Carmel Central School. While schools in the city have experimented by keeping parents in the loop on the academic activities of their children through smss, Mount Carmel has taken this to the next logical step by going in for voice calls using pre-recorded messages.

The school recently launched School Ezy, a voice call service, in which alerts about students' homework, festival greetings, parent-teacher meetings and other events of the school are sent to parents' mobile phones. The school is providing this service through a Chennai-based software service company Never Skip. This school is home to 866 students --- from LKG to 10th standard and has 45 teachers.

Sr M Melissa, principal, told TOI that the school launched alerting parents about examination timetable, holidays and other academic activities in 2010 using sms. "Few days ago we launched voice call service," she added. Earlier parents were alerted by postal services, but the voice call service has helped cut down on usage of papers and saving time for school authorities,'' says Melissa. To provide voice call and sms service, the school charges Rs 180 per year per student, she adds.

So how does this voice call service work?

If the school authorities want to alert the parents about any academic activities, they make a call to Never Skip. After this message, which school authorities want to send to parents, is recorded in an in-house application of the software service company, the message will be sent to all the parents at a time from one common number.

Shankar Jambelingam, CEO of Never Skip, says: "Our company has tied up with three mobile operators to provide the voice call facility." In Mangalore, this is the first school to have voice call facility, he adds. School authorities can send as many voice calls and smss they need every day, says Shankar.

mangalore mania

March 8th, 2013, 05:25 AM

Committee to look at Mangalore University's proposed Udupi PG centre site (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Committee-to-look-at-Mangalore-Universitys-proposed-Udupi-PG-centre-site/articleshow/18854261.cms)

MANGALORE: A seven-member team lead by senior most professor of Mangalore University KK Achary and comprising of two senior faculty members, two syndicate members, finance officer and engineer will visit the proposed site for Mangalore University's PG centre at Kolalagiri in Udupi on Friday.

The team is expected to brief the vice-chancellor of Mangalore University TC Shivashankara Murthy on its findings on Monday and submit its report within a week, after which it will be placed before the Syndicate for ratification. The state government has sought a report from the University authorities on setting up a PG centre in Udupi.

Krishnamoorthy K

March 10th, 2013, 04:37 PM

Construction Of Regional Training College For Nabard At Mangalore (http://tenders.indiamart.com/details/976934524/)

REGIONAL TRAINING COLLEGE , NABARD, MANGALORE (http://www.nabard.org/training/mang_about.asp)
"Manjusha Building", Above Automatrix, Bejai Church Road, Bejai, Mangalore 575 004

Established in 1984 but I had not heard about it so far.

mangalore mania

March 10th, 2013, 05:33 PM

Varsity to set up centre for science research (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/varsity-to-set-up-centre-for-science-research/article3847722.ece)

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‘Panel has approved purchase of equipment worth Rs. 3 crore’
Mangalore University will set up a centre for research in science with funds from the Union Department of Science and Technology and from its own fund, according to Vice-Chancellor T C Shivashankara Murthy.

Addressing presspersons here on Friday, Prof. Murthy said the Department of Science and Technology had sanctioned Rs. 9 crore to the university considering its achievement in research in various branches of science. Of the sanctioned amount, Rs. 3 crore has already been released.

The purchase committee of the university a few days ago had approved procurement of science equipment worth Rs. 3 crore. Now the university would seek the approval of the Syndicate, in its meeting next month, for purchasing the equipment, he said.

Prof. Murthy said the building in which the Department of Kannada had been housed would be upgraded and converted into a centre for research in science. The university would spend about Rs. 70 lakh for renovating the building. The Vice-Chancellor said there were about 40 researchers in the university who did not have the support of any fellowship or grant. The university has decided to provide such candidates a fellowship of Rs. 8,000 per month for one year. If they required further financial support the fellowship would be extended to the second and even up to the third year.

Thus the university would support the researchers by providing infrastructural, financial and knowledge support, he said.

Laptops

The Vice-Chancellor said the university would distribute high-end laptops to about 145 postgraduate teachers on September 10 which was the Foundation Day of the 32-year-old university. The cost of each laptop is Rs. 46,000. S. Ramananda Shetty, Vice-Chancellor, Nitte University and former Vice-Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences would deliver the Foundation Day lecture.

He said the university had set up the Kannada Adhyayana Samsthe a few days ago. P. S. Yadapadithaya, Registrar (administration) was present.

mangalore mania

March 10th, 2013, 07:05 PM

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mangalore mania

March 11th, 2013, 07:07 PM

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St. Aloysius College (http://www.flickr.com/photos/neilbetter/288228335/) by neilbetter (http://www.flickr.com/people/neilbetter/), on Flickr

mangalore mania

March 11th, 2013, 07:11 PM

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mangalore mania

March 11th, 2013, 07:17 PM

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NITK_ main building (http://www.flickr.com/photos/manthoin/359175847/) by manthoin (http://www.flickr.com/people/manthoin/), on Flickr

mangalore mania

March 12th, 2013, 10:38 AM

Colleges in coast take steps to make students job ready (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-11/mangalore/37622594_1_chowdari-prasad-students-job-tapmi)

MANGALORE: Scores of graduates are losing out in the job market because of lack of employability. To help their students acquire skills that will give them an edge in the job market, colleges in the coastal region are introducing new concepts.

Manipal University (MU) is planning to introduce, Open Electives, a concept where students pursuing one course, can opt to learn a paper from a different course.

GK Prabhu, registrar of the university, told The Times of India that under the new concept students can opt for a subject that they are really interested in outside their curriculum. "Under the new concept, an engineering student will get an option of studying one subject from humanities. This will provide more exposure to students," he added.

A few institutions in the university have already introduced Finishing School, a concept where students will be groomed for the industry. There will be classes on soft skills, foreign languages, interview skills and personality development. "We are planning to implement the concept in all the colleges under the university," he added.

Due to lack of knowledge about computers, many non-technical course students are failing in interviews. Manjula KT, principal of Besant Women's College, said it is essential for freshers to be technology savvy to land good jobs. "We will introduce training programmes on communication and computers skills for students of all streams," she said.

"Our former students who are leading successful careers will be invited to share their experience," said Swapan Bhattacharya, director of NITK, Surathkal. "There is a need for colleges in this region to tie-up with institutions like Indian Institution of Technologies to improve the employability of the students,"' he added.

Chowdari Prasad, dean of branding and promotions, T A Pai Management Institute (Tapmi) said the institute will hold more interaction programmes with industrial experts. "Since most of the students pursuing management courses in Tapmi have work experience, we promote group learning off the classroom. In such programmes freshers can study with individuals, who have work experience," he said.

Geo D'Silva, head of the training and placement department, Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management said, "In addition to the two project works that the students are supposed to do as part of their course, we will launch an internship and a research project from next year.

mangalore mania

March 17th, 2013, 08:02 AM

Times Of India (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/State-to-get-disaster-response-force/articleshow/19013079.cms)

Two new engineering colleges will come up at Mangalore and Koppal. Each college is being set up at a cost of Rs 25 crore.

mangalore mania

March 17th, 2013, 08:08 AM

Varsity okays new affiliation to 11 colleges (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/319320/varsity-okays-affiliation-11-colleges.html)

The academic council meeting of the Mangalore University has okyed the new affiliation to 11 colleges in its jurisdiction.

Charing a meeting, Mangalore University Vice-Chancellor Prof T C Shivashankaramurthy has said that the colleges which had applied for new affiliation are Sai Shankar degree college, Ponnampet (BCom); Aaba Women’s First Grade College, Surathkal (BA, BCom); Gurudeva First Grade College, Belthangady (BA, BCom); Anugraha Women’s College, Kalladka (BA, BCom); Aims First Grade College, Kadaba (BA, BCom); Trisha College, Kalyanapura (BCom); Hazrath Sayyed Madani Banath Women’s College, Ullal (BA, BCom); Mangalore One School and College, Chembugudde (BA, BCom); Tauheed Women’s College of Commerce, Gangolli (BCom, BBM); St Antony College of Commerce, Belthangady (BCom) and Kodlipete First Grade College (BA, BCom).

The Academic Council has okayed permanent affiliation to Canara College, Mangalore and Dr K Shivaram Karanth First Grade College subject to meeting of the condition. The council has also okayed permanent affiliation to Dr G Shankar Government Women’s First Grade College, Ajjarakadu.

It also okayed continuation of affiliation to 144 colleges.

The Council has rejected the proposal of Fr Muller’s College, Mangalore for starting Masters of Audiology, Speech Language and Pathology (MASLP), as it fails to fulfill the eligibility prescribed by the UGC. As per the UGC norms, the colleges must have been offering BASLP for the last 10 years or must be possessing permanent affiliation or NAAC accreditation. Pompei College, Vivekananda College, St Philomena College, St Aloysius Evening College and Alva’s Colleges have been given permission to start PG courses by fulfilling the conditions put forth by the local inspection committee. As the local inspection committee has not recommended for the starting of PG course at Government First Grade College in Vittal, as the college did not have infrastructure facilities, it was not given the permission.

SC/ST fund

The VC said that the government has earmarked Rs 3.70 crore under Special Component Plan (SCP) and Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) grant during 2013-14. A committee will be constituted to prepare an action plan for the utilisation of funds. The fellowships for SC/ST research scholars will be increased to Rs 10,000 from Rs 8,000.

Food and Tech course

St Aloysius College has sought autonomy to start MSc in Food science and technology course during 2013-14. However, the review committee had observed that the college lacked a pilot plant for conducting practicals, lack of expert teachers to teach and non availability of library facility exclusively for food science and technology course. If the college fulfills the minimum facilities like specialised faculty members for teaching and pilot plant for conducting practicals and submit a compliance report to the Mangalore University by June, then the committee will inspect the facilities and submit a report on the same.

Jain study centre

The Council also okayed the statute relating to the establishment of Jain Study Centre in Mangalore Universty.

Registrar Prof Yadapadithaya, Registrar (Evaluation) Dr B Narayana and Finance Officer Dr Pakkeerappa were present.

Good news for guest lecturers

Here is a good news for the guest lecturers serving in the Mangalore University. The salary of the guest lecturers will be hiked to Rs 15,600. If the guest lecturers had passed NET/SLET, then they will get addition of Rs 4,400, thus amounting to Rs 20,000.

Eleven degree colleges get Mangalore varsity’s go-ahead (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/eleven-degree-colleges-get-mangalore-varsitys-goahead/article4518516.ece)
They can start functioning from next year after complying with conditions

The Academic Council of Mangalore University on Saturday granted affiliation to 11 new degree colleges, all private, for 2013-14 subject to complying with certain conditions before the start of the next academic year.

The council gave its ‘conditional approval’ for seven degree colleges, including two government colleges, to start some postgraduate courses from 2013-14.

But they have to fulfil certain conditions laid by the local inquiry committees of the university related to infrastructure.

Vice-Chancellor T. C. Shivashankara Murthy, who presided over the meeting of the council, said the colleges would be subjected to inspection again before the commencement of the next academic year to verify if they have fulfilled the conditions stipulated by the committees.

Degree courses

Mr. Murthy said that of the 11 new degree colleges, six colleges have proposed to offer both B.Com. and B.A. courses, three colleges will offer only B.Com., while the remaining two colleges will have both B.Com. and BBM courses.

The colleges who have proposed to offer both B.Com. and B.A. courses included Aaba Women’s First Grade College, Surathkal; Gurudeva First Grade College, Belthangady; Anugraha Women’s College, Kalladkka; AIM’s First Grade College, Kadaba; Hazrath Sayyid Madani Banath Women’s Degree College, Ullal, and Kodlipet First Grade College, Kodlipet.

Sai Shankar Degree College, Ponnampet; Trisha College, Kalyanpur; and St. Antony College of Commerce, Belthangady, will offer only B.Com. course, while Mangalore One School and College, Chembugudde and Touheed Women’s College of Commerce, Gangolli, will introduce both B.Com. and BBM courses.

Postgraduate courses

The colleges which have secured conditional approval for starting postgraduate courses Pompei College, Aikala, St. Aloysius Evening College, Mangalore, Government First Grade Colleges at Baindoor and Vitla (all M.Com. course); Vivekananda College, Puttur (M.Com., Chemistry); St. Philomena College, Puttur (Mathematics); Alva’s College, Moodbidri (Statistics, Economics, Psychology, Chemistry, Computer Science and M.Com. in Insurance and Bank Management); and Government First Grade College, Vamadapadavu (M.A. in Kannada and M.A. in History). The Vice-Chancellor told the council that the university had plans to offer postgraduate courses in English, Economics and Political Science subjects at University College, a constituent college of the university in Mangalore, from 2013-14.