CBSE Grading Pattern for Class 10th
No more biasness due to competitiveness. Quite surprising but true, the traditional examination system facilitates competition but also encourages a distinct class system according to the marks of the students.
The Minister for Human Resource Development Mr Kapil Sibbal, whose has initiated to abolish the traditional class 10th examination system created controversy evoking a strong reaction from states, as it was again advocated on a traditional-examination free education system.
”We must move away from the standard text book examination system. You should test the child on the raw knowledge he has,” said Mr Sibal replying to questions at the Social Editors’ Conference here. Read more
CBSE Grading System for Class 9th
Once can forget about failing in classes IX or X in a CBSE school. Though the CBSE board has made changes in several evaluation methods, the CBSE board will now allow three more attempts for the students who do not clear classes IX and X to make the grade. And if they still fail to do so, the board is take into consideration their performance in extracurricular activities and sports after seeing their past academic record. So if you can bend a ball like Bekham but are with a poor maths score, there’s a chance you’ll still pass the year.
Assessments, will also be reevaluated. A child who performs miserably in the written exams can be checked orally, or through the class projects, just to ensure if he has understood the concepts or not. Adding more to it, the CBSE board, which is in the preparation of making board exams optional and replacing them with a system of continuous and detailed evaluation in classes IX and X – now wants schools to show students their answer sheets over the two years and take into account students’ feedback before the final grade is given. Read more
MHRD/AICTE Staff Development Programme 2010-Wireless Ad Hoc/Sensor Networks-IIT-Kharagpur
ALL INDIA COUNCIL FOR TECHNICAL EDUCATION, New Delhi is sponsoring a MHRD/AICTE Staff Development Programme On Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks and organized by School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur for the year 2010
Wireless communication technologies are undergoing rapid advancements. The last few years have experienced a steep growth in teaching and research in the areas of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. These networks have emerged to be attractive in many civilian and military applications and they hold great promises for our future.
The attractiveness of ad hoc networks, in general, is attributed to their characteristics/features such as ability for infrastructure-less setup, minimal or no reliance on network planning and the ability of the nodes to self-organize and self-configure without the involvement of a centralized network manager, router, access point, or a switch. These features help to setup a network fast in situations where there is no existing network setup or in times when setting up a fixed infrastructure network is considered infeasible, for example, in times of emergency or during relief operations. Likewise, sensor networks, wherein communication takes place with the help of spatially distributed autonomous sensor nodes equipped to sense specific information, have emerged to be very popular. They find a variety of applications in both the military and the civilian population worldwide such as in cases of enemy intrusion in the battlefield, object tracking, habitat monitoring, patient monitoring, fire detection and so on
This course will provide a foundation of fundamental and some advanced concepts in these areas. Broadly, the following topics will be covered during the training program:
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: History, properties, medium access control, routing including multicating and broadcasting, mobility models, transport layer issues, congestion and flow control, quality of service, security issues.
Wireless Sensor Networks: History, properties, medium access control, routing, energy efficiency, topology management, coverage, congestion and flow control, quality of service, resource allocation, scheduling, security, multimedia transmission, mobile sensor networks, applications.
Wireless Mesh Networks: Evolution, medium access control, channel assignment, routing, transport protocols, congestion control, scalability, mobility management, applications.
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: Introduction, applications and their classification, VANET communication stack, medium access control, routing, security, mobility models, vehicular sensor networks.
Imaginative Reading, Creative Writing Winter School 2010-IIT Kharagpur
MHRD/AICTE Sponsored Summer School Imaginative Reading, Creative Writing: Language, Literature and the Teacher-Winter School is going to be organized by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur for the year 2010
One of the pitfalls of our present day education system is its undue emphasis on cognitive modes of organising knowledge. Such a cognitive leaning and orientation towards knowledge runs the risk of destroying the imaginative and the creative roots of life as a result of which the student ceases to show interest in the formulation and exploration of life’s emotions and experiences. By focussing on Reading and Writing – the two advanced skills of language learning – and sprinkling upon these skills some colouring of imagination and creativity, the proposed winter school tries to redress the loophole present in our education system. By sensitizing teachers towards the magic potentials of Imaginative Reading and Creative Writing, this training programme aims at enabling them to appreciate, politically as well as aesthetically, the world of literature and culture. In this context it is prudent to remember the simple but a well-established axiom that language, in its literary manifestation, provides a vital and lively means for engaging teachers and students in transformative learning. It is in order to sensitise students and teacher towards this dimension of learning that this theme is proposed for the MHRD/AICTE sponsored winter school.
Short Term Course 2010-Advances In Rubber Technology-IIT Kharagpur
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur is going to organize a Short Term Course on Advances In Rubber Technology – From Micro To Nano for the year 2010
The last decade has witnessed a paradigm shift in Rubber Technologies due to the explosive development and growth in industries and research activities around the world. Micro- and Nano-technologies are wedded together to give a magical demonstration of the art of the judicious selection of novel materials, compounding, processing and testing. In addition, there are changes in product manufacturing technology as well as in concepts and designs. Modern civilization depends heavily on rubbers and rubber-like materials with improved performances in defence, aerospace, automotive and electronic industries.
QIP Short Term Course 2010-Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is organizing QIP Short-Term Course on Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems for the year 2010
Massive customization poses major challenge to the manufacturing system to cope with the varieties and diversification desired in the present era. Some of the prerequisite for becoming dynamic and global production network demand that the manufacturing processes, resources, plants structure and layout as well as their supply network system be adoptable safely with minimum efforts. Thus, the changeability demands that the present manufacturing system should be able to withstand continuous changes and the turbulence witness in the market. One of the recommendations proposed by the experts to resolve the above problem is to adhere with the concept of the reconfigurable manufacturing system which characterizes quick adoption through changes in the capacity requirement through system reconfiguration.
A design for the right mix of products must be coupled with the technical capabilities that allow for quick changeover of product mix and quantities that might vary dramatically, even on a monthly basis. The Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, or simply RMS, has these capabilities.
Reconfigurable manufacturing systems, whose components are reconfigurable machines and reconfigurable controllers, as well as methodologies for their systematic design and ramp-up, are the cornerstones of this new manufacturing paradigm.
Exposure to latest advances in these areas will enable the participants from academics to introduce relevant topics in their curriculum and carry on research activities in those fields. The industry participants may directly apply the tools, techniques and technologies of RMS to enhance their productivity with variety of products.
Indian Institute of Technology-MHRD/AICTE Sponsored Winter School 2010-Kharagpur
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences is going to hold MHRD/AICTE Sponsored Winter School on Critical Thinking, Reading & Writing Skills: Learning to Think, Read and Write the Modernist Way for the year 2010
This course aims to enhance the existing critical thinking, reading and writing skills of the faculty of English in various AICTE sponsored Engineering colleges and other Institutes of excellence across India by enabling them to explore the unique fashion of thinking, reading and writing practiced by the modern continental thinkers. These explorations shall yield new insights, which shall open up exciting horizons in Literary and Communication Studies enabling the faculty of English/Humanities from various Institutes to reorient their current strategies of knowledge-dissemination
In order to open up new sites in thinking, reading and writing, this course has been divided into four sections. The first section shall make an attempt to enable the participants to re-locate the genesis of critical thinking within and across significant historical events. The second section intends to interrogate contemporary issues through the lens of modern critical thinking. The third section intends to provide reading exercises from modernist perspectives, and the final section explores new possibilities in modern critical writing.
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MHRD/AICTE Staff Development Programme:Short Course 2010-Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
2010 Short Term Course on Telecommunication Networks with State-of-the-Art Hands-on Experiments by Deptt. of Electronics and Electrical Commn. Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Research on telecommunication systems started in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering (E&ECE) at IIT Kharagpur in early fifties. From the last century following 2nd world war, the whole world has witnessed an all-pervasive growth in the technology of telecommunication networks. IIT Kharagpur has also followed this advancement and continued to make its own contributions through teaching as well as research activities in this area. Recently, realizing the needs for hands-one training in this area to bridge the gap between theory and practice, E&ECE Department has developed a State-of-the-Art Laboratory under the FIST programme of DST, Govt. of India. The laboratory has been setup with a wide range of modern telecommunication equipments, including IP routers, Ethernet and ATM switches, ISDN and EPABX systems, ADMs as SDH nodes, wireless access points, network access control and intrusion detection software, etc., This networking infrastructure is used across the department building to form in-house network test-beds with different possible practical topological formations, with which our students carry out wide range of experimentations on networking concepts. To share the fallouts and benefits of this rare networking facility at IIT Kharagpur, we have designed this short-term course, sponsored by AICTE. The proposed 10-days-long comprehensive training would consist of theory and laboratory classes going hand-in-hand. Thus, the short-term course will offer, along with stimulating lectures in the area, a rare opportunity to gather a hands-on experience on how telecommunication networks are formed in practice and, how data, voice and video are transferred between heterogeneous networks therein, through Ethernet, router, ATM, SDH based networking infrastructures. The course will also provide a forum for professional interaction between the IIT community and others, which would hopefully lead to useful research collaboration amongst the participating organizations in due course of time.
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Remote Sensing/GIS:Short Term Course 2010-IIT Kharagpur
2010 Continuing Education Programme of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur on Remote Sensing and GIS: Short Term Course sponsored by MHRD / AICTE
In recent years, Remote Sensing and GIS techniques have emerged as one of the most versatile decision making tools in the geospatial domain with increasing applications in new areas. Integrated application of these two techniques culminates in harnessing the natural resources with incredible speed and reasonable accuracy, even from inaccessible areas, to help the process of planning the integrated development of a region. They are widely used in monitoring, management and planning in diverse fields of activities, such as, sustainable development, infrastructure development, disaster management, environmental monitoring, resource inventory, rural and urban planning etc. Remotely Sensed data from Aerial photographs and Satellites, combined with GPS serve as the basic database in GIS for multi-criteria decision making in several applications, viz., groundwater and mineral exploration, land use / land cover, wasteland management, inland water resources, mining, agriculture, forestry, coastal mapping and developm nt, land records, health care, socio-economic, crime investigation etc., to name a few.
The main objective of this course is not only to expose the participants to the rapidly growing field of Remote Sensing and GIS but also to motivate them to take up research in this rapidly growing field of science and technology.
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National Multidisciplinary Seminar 2010-Artists/Scholars-IIT Kharagpur
2010 National Multidisciplinary Seminar on “Indian Aesthetics: Convergences and Divergences” organized by Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Department of Architecture and Regional Planning , Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
The seminar aims to explore how the different aspects of Indian art tradition have been influenced by one another, have drawn inspiration from other traditions or have influenced them. It also wishes to look at how contemporary practitioners of various art forms including visual arts, plastic arts, music, performing arts and folk arts draw inspiration from tradition and innovate. It wishes to both explore points of convergences as well points of departures, deviations and divergences, and wishes to do this by a unique combination of theory and practice. Thus, it would include (a) Scholarly papers in the above area and (b) Presentationse/exhibitions of various kinds of arts by artists.
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