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Engineering Education in India

All engineering educational institutes and universities are affiliated to All India Council for Technical Education AICTE. All engineering colleges or institutes do offer graduate (BE or BTech) and post graduate( M E or M Tech). There are private and Government colleges available in plenty under each State of India and under almost all universities. We have a full list of State wise Universities or colleges offering degree and PG in professional courses such as medical, dental and engineering fields.
In short India has some of the top engineering and medical institutions in the world that offer cheapest, affordable but high quality medical, dental and engineering courses.
For a full list of colleges and Universities that offer the courses of your choice in Medical Schools, Dental and engineering.
For a full list of colleges and Universities that offer the courses of your choice in Medical Schools, Dental and engineering.


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Medical and Dental council of India

Any education in degree level or postgraduate or PG level in Medicine is either classified into medicine or Dental. Both are controlled and monitored by Medical council and Dental council, separately.
A student has to keep a watch over the medical, dental and engineering entrance tests conducted in India by various States and Universities, if he or she has to get Admission to such courses. Usually the time for such tests will be around a couple of months earlier than the month in which the actual courses start in Medical Schools. The time a new academic year begin in India is usually the month of July.

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Medical Education In India

Medical Education in India is also given an important consideration from an international point of view. The Medical Council of India (MCI) controls medical Education in India.All States and all Universities or Colleges that give medical education is monitored and timely inspected by the Medical Council of India every year.

They allow colleges or universities to grant MBBS, MS, MD, BDS, MDS or any Graduate or PG degree or diploma provided those colleges are strictly adhering to the standards set by the Medical Council of India.
The MBBS course is of four and a half year's and is followed by one year of Compulsory Rotating Residential Internship. The course is taken in three stages, following a short foundation course which provides basic principles of Communication, Ethics and Problem Based Learning. The first stage is for 12 months and covers the basic sciences of Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry. The next stage is for 18 months and includes Pharmacology, Pathology, Microbiology and Forensic Medicine.
The last stage is for 24 months and covers Ophthalmology, Otorhinolaryngology, Community Medicine, General Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery and Obstetrics & Gynecology


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Higher Education In India

Education has ever been looked at Indian culture as a holistic effort since time immemorial. Indian culture is in the core attributes of education beginning from ”Gurukul” type of education, where the disciples lived in the house of the Master who taught them what all things he knew for years together. And medical education has never been an exception since the period of Vedas.
As a tradition education is being looked upon holistically even today in India. The students practise it more holistically, whatever be its field. Be it Medicine, Engineering, Electronics, Humanities or any subject one is likely to get proper Higher Education in any of these fields.
Today the Higher Education is controlled and maintained by the University Grants Commission in India. They keep the quality of education on par with the international standards, which is a heritage India acquired since the British occupation.
Since then all fields of Education remained up-to-date in quality and in quantity. Medical education, Engineering education or any type of professional education be it, it remains so even now.

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Charles Sturt University (CSU)

Charles Sturt University (CSU) is rapidly making its mark on higher education as a dynamic and responsive university of national and international standing. CSU study locations include campuses in regional Australia (Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Orange and Wagga Wagga) and study centres in Melbourne and Sydney.



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Newcastle University,

Newcastle University, named as '..one of Britain's most successful universities' by the Guardian University Guide in 2004, is one of the UK's major international universities with an excellent record for quality in both teaching and research. We also have one of the best graduate employment records in the UK (see http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/careers).

Our University is situated on a single-site campus and combines the best aspects of a strong campus identity with its location in the centre of a lively and cosmopolitan city.

At Newcastle our aim is simple: to inspire our students through teaching and research, and create an exciting yet supportive environment in which to study. We currently have over 4,000 postgraduate students from more than 100 countries representing a vibrant and valued part of our academic community.


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Higher Education Quertly

Higher Education Quarterly publishes articles concerned with policy, strategic management and ideas in higher education. A substantial part of its contents is concerned with reporting research findings in ways that bring out their relevance to senior managers and policy makers at institutional and national levels, and to academics who are not necessarily specialists in the academic study of higher education.

Higher Education Quarterly also publishes papers that are not based on empirical research but give thoughtful academic analyses of significant policy, management or academic issues.


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Post-secondary or tertiary education

Post-secondary or tertiary education, also referred to as third-stage, third level or higher education, is the non-compulsory educational level, following the completion of a school providing a secondary education, such as a high school, secondary school or gymnasium. Tertiary education is normally taken to include undergraduate and postgraduate education, as well as vocational education and training. Colleges and universities are the main institutions, that provide tertiary education (sometimes known collectively as tertiary institutions). Examples of institutions that provide post-secondary education are vocational schools, community colleges and universities in the United States, the TAFEs in Australia, CEGEPs in Quebec and the IEKs in Greece. They are sometimes known collectively as tertiary institutions. Tertiary education generally results in the receipt of certificates, diplomas or academic degrees.


Rupert I founded the University of Heidelberg in 1386Higher education includes teaching, research and social services activities of universities; and within the realm of teaching, it includes both the undergraduate level (sometimes referred to as tertiary education) and the graduate (or postgraduate) level (sometimes referred to as graduate school). In the United Kingdom, post-secondary education below the level of higher education is referred to as further education. Higher education in that country generally involves work towards a degree-level or foundation degree qualification.

In most developed countries, a high proportion of the population (up to 50%), now enter higher education at some time in their lives. Higher education is therefore very important to national economies, both as a significant industry in its own right and as a source of trained and educated personnel for the rest of the economy.

There can be disagreement about what precisely constitutes post-secondary or tertiary education: "It is not always clear, though, what tertiary education includes. Is it only that which results in a formal qualification or might it include leisure classes? In the UK, are A-levels tertiary education as they are post-compulsory, but taught in school settings, as well as colleges? Is professional updating or on-the-job training part of tertiary education, even if it does not follow successful completion of secondary education?"[2]

There are two types of higher education in the UK: higher general education and higher vocational education. Higher education in the United States specifically refers to post-secondary institutions that offer associate degrees, baccalaureate degrees, master's degrees or Ph.D. degrees or equivalents. Such institutions may offer non-degree certificates, which indicate completion of a set of courses comprising some body of knowledge, but the granting of such certificates is not the primary purpose of the institution. Tertiary education is not a term used in reference to post-secondary institutions in the United States.


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AMI Education

AMI Education Melbourne aims to deliver quality programmes that provide a first-class learning experience, ensuring the opportunity to attain full intellectual and personal development, together with career enhancement. AMI Education will achieve its mission through:

•highly qualified and experienced lecturers

•innovative teaching methods

•language focus in all programmes

•student-centred learning

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•latest learning resources - technology and print based.

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Higher education and universities

Qualifications and entrance requirements
Australia has a national set of qualifications that are endorsed by the Australian Government. This means that there is national and international recognition of each qualification and the level of education it represents.

Entry into most higher education (university) courses in Australia is highly competitive and a high standard of English language is required for both undergraduate and postgraduate study. Each education provider will have different entrance requirements so it’s important to contact individual providers to check. You can use the Institution Search to search for and contact individual universities and higher education providers.


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Welfare work training row

THE professional body for welfare and community workers is facing legal action from a group of private training colleges angry at plans to increase English language requirements for registered welfare workers.

The Australian Institute of Welfare and Community Workers says it is cracking down on colleges producing graduates with insufficient English skills. It is worried the colleges are enrolling too many international students who are chasing permanent residency.

"We have warned them for a long time that there are too many students enrolled in these courses," AIWCW secretary Ian Murray told The Australian.

He said he was concerned the colleges were producing graduates "with very poor English and they won't get jobs".

The colleges claim the institute is being discriminatory and protectionist.

Phil Honeywood, the marketing manager for Cambridge International College in Melbourne, which has about 1200 students studying community welfare, said: "They are engaging in discriminatory behaviour to protect their jobs for Australians only."

Mr Honeywood said there was a growing community need for welfare workers from different cultural backgrounds to serve the migrant and refugee communities.

Registration from the AIWCW is important to international students because it is needed if they are to apply for residency under the skilled migration program. The changes, which are proposed to come in from September 30, will hit about 5000 international students, many of them Indian, who are already enrolled in courses.

The Federation of Indian Associations of Victoria is organising a petition to protest against the changes.

The federation's president, Vasan Srinivasan, said he had written to Education Minister Julia Gillard to try to get the AIWCW to change its stance, but was not ruling out legal action.

The AIWCW this month endorsed recommendations from a report it commissioned that welfare workers needed to be rated with a minimum level of English, equivalent of "good", under the International English Language Testing System, up from "competent".

Both the colleges and Mr Srinivasan say that is unnecessarily high. But Mr Murray said it was justified in a profession such as welfare work and put it in line with nursing.

Separately, the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Agency has hired forensic accountants from Deloittes to assist in a rapid audit of 17 training colleges it has deemed as high-risk. The audit was announced in May in response to concerns that some colleges were exploiting students and breaching regulations.
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17/07/2009

Model provost Peter McPhee bows out as the 'big punt' pays off

There was a moment in March 2006 when University of Melbourne provost Peter McPhee thought the prospect of overhauling the venerable institution's curriculum and introducing US-style postgraduate schools was just too difficult, that the culture of the university was just too conservative.

Not long before, Melbourne's vice-chancellor Glyn Davis had appointed McPhee, a French history scholar, as chairman of the curriculum commission charged with translating the idea into a concrete proposal. But after just a few weeks of meetings, the scale of the task had begun to weigh. Would the university rally around the project? Would students with their eyes on professional degrees be prepared to first study broad arts or science degrees?

Struggling with doubts, McPhee went for a walk along the beach at Aireys Inlet, southwest of Melbourne, determined not to return until he had made up his mind on whether to see the project through. But he had forgotten his sun hat. Four hours later he returned sunburned and tired, but he had made his decision.

"I was the colour of lobster, but I had decided I would give it my best shot," says McPhee, with the lightness of a man who feels his task is done. Today is his farewell as provost; he plans to return to French history writing and teaching, made sweeter by the prospect of three months of research in the south of France later this year.

McPhee, credited as the key architect of the university's new Melbourne model, raised eyebrows in April when he decided to step down as provost a year before his contract was due to end and less than two years into the implementation of the new model.

But McPhee says his decision to bow out was driven by what he says were reassuring demands in January for the university's broad bachelor of arts and science degrees that convinced him the university's "big punt" had paid off. Offers for science at Melbourne were up 21 per cent.

"I felt this great wave of relief and satisfaction that this had worked," McPhee tells the HES in the office he is giving up in Melbourne's historic Gatekeepers Cottage. "Knowing that we are going to be having a large number of really good students continuing to come here has led to a great sense of reassurance across the institution that, yes, this model is not only worth doing, it is working.

"That is when I thought it was time for someone with fresh ideas to see through the next part of the process and time for me to write a couple of books."

But while McPhee is confident the model will prove itself, he says there is still work to do. In particular, he says the university's ambition to teach cross-disciplinary undergraduate subjects, such as linking science and humanities, has proven to be more difficult in some cases than anticipated. Too much has had to be crammed into some courses, while in others the university had underestimated the difficulty of making basic science accessible to humanities students.

"In some cases we have had to realise that it isn't a simple matter to teach a genuinely multidisciplinary course," McPhee says.

And he says more attention needs to be placed on ensuring the pathways between undergraduate degrees and the professional graduate degrees are clear to students.

The transition to the new model is also still in process. Many professional courses have migrated to the new graduate model, such as law, teaching, nursing and architecture, but next year engineering will switch over, followed by medicine and veterinary science in 2011.

McPhee says introducing the Melbourne model has been the hardest thing he has done, and its adoption has fundamentally changed the university's culture. It has prompted new thinking about what an undergraduate or postgraduate degree should be, beyond a collection of courses, and about how to link teaching and research.

But the development and implementation of the model has been contentious. There had been an ideological debate over whether the move to two-year postgraduate professional programs would be a barrier to poorer students given the extra year added to full-time study.

Also, at the time the model was being developed, graduate courses were all full-fee paying. McPhee says the decision of the federal government to allow the university, and the wider sector, to allocate commonwealth-supported places to the postgraduate degrees was critical for the model to work. "It was a huge breakthrough for us."

Although an additional year has been added to securing professional degrees, McPhee says before the change many students were already having to take an extra year because they changed their minds about what they wanted to do.

Under the Melbourne model students are effectively required to take more time to decide and explore what they may want to specialise in.

The introduction also has increased workloads of staff, who have to continue teaching subjects that are being phased out while also teaching the new subjects.

McPhee says it is unfortunate timing that as the model was being introduced the arts faculty had to go through a cost-cutting and redundancy process to improve its finances. That spilled over into public stoushes between staff and management. But, overall, he says, staff have supported the new model.

"We have expected a lot from staff in terms of commitment to a good quality teach out as well as committing to a new program," he says. "There have been some wheels that have been squeaky but the level of commitment is really quite remarkable."

He says the new model has prompted a healthy questioning across all universities over how they see themselves and their mission. He notes that the University of Western Australia is adopting a similar model while universities such as Swinburne and Victoria University have moved to differentiate themselves with a focus on work experience and internships.

"While it has been controversial in the sector, there has been an enormous interest in it," McPhee says. "It has meant that every university has had to think about what is distinctive about it."

An immediate challenge for McPhee now is to write a biography of French revolutionary Robespierre, who ended up on the guillotine, a victim of the revolution he championed. Fortunately for the former, he has been able to come through his own revolution with his head still on his shoulders.
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17/07/2009

New chief Ed Byrne wants Monash University on regional map

IT is only Ed Byrne's second day back in the country and his first on the job as Monash University's new vice-chancellor, and outside his office the winter sun is shining on the gum trees, reminding him he is back home.

But it is the world that is very much on his mind.

Back from heading medicine and health at University College London since 2007, where he said his research resources were not far short of the total budget of the National Health and Medical Research Council, Professor Byrne is acutely aware of the tough competition Australian universities face to be globally relevant.

He said that, for Monash, the key to meeting that challenge would be to continue strengthening its offshore campuses to make them more research active and so position the university to tap international research agencies.

Speaking with an unhurried northeast English accent that he has retained since immigrating to Tasmania at age 15, Professor Byrne, 56, has an obliging manner, but he is quietly forthright on what he wants to achieve.

"Monash has the potential over the next few years, let's say the course of my vice-chancellorship, to become the outstanding university in this part of the world. And I don't just mean Australia, I mean the region," he told the HES.

Professor Byrne has inherited established campuses in Malaysia and South Africa as well as an emerging presence in India in alliance with the Indian Institute of Technology. While he rules out any near-term plans to establish further offshore campuses, he is determined to fully capitalise on what Monash already has.

He said the challenge for Australia, as a small country, was to concentrate its university research resources.

Smaller universities needed to focus on research "that makes a difference", he said, while even the larger universities must be increasingly strategic.

By tying funding to research excellence, he said, networks of excellence would naturally concentrate research across different institutions. These could be complemented by the government's plans for a system of direct compacts with universities to guide research towards areas of substantial need.

Professor Byrne said Monash had staked out ground in areas such as sustainability, climate, water and health, which he said were critical for Australia and which he would continue.

"Advances will be made where there is a massive concentration of resource," he said. "The danger for Australia is that it just spreads a small cake too thinly."

Professor Byrne backed the federal government's higher education changes and budget, even if the increased funding is staged and will leave the sector dependent on international fees in the near term.

"The government has made clear that higher education and research at universities are seen as incredibly important to Australia. One never got that impression from the previous government."

However, he said there was a case in the future for uncapping tuition fees within defined ranges to introduce price competition and encourage differentiation into the sector, while also providing scholarships for the disadvantaged. "If some institutions wish to invest more in supporting quality in education and have fees that support that experience, and students want to take advantage of it, I can't see that being a bad thing for the country."

The son of a general practitioner, Professor Byrne is a neurologist who was made an officer of the Order of Australia in 2006 for his research and clinical work, particularly in mitochondrial disease. He ran the Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne under former vice-chancellor David Pennington.

17/07/2009

Take a leaf out of Copenhagen Business School's book

I READ with interest Luke Slattery's ("Great gains for Danes", HES, June 17) account of Danish innovation and its lessons for Australia, for I have recently spent three weeks researching in the Centre for Management Studies of the Building Process at Copenhagen Business School.

This is a centre, funded by the construction industry peak employer body situated in the Department of Organisation, that has a lively pool of research students working on detailed ethnographic studies of aspects of construction design, management and practice.

Copenhagen Business School has recently been accredited as the one of the best business schools in Europe, as No.2, in fact.

When you look at the range of work that is done there, then its imaginative grasp of possibilities drawn from across the social sciences, design and philosophy is an eye-opener for almost any Australian university business school.

What it is not is determinedly instrumental; it is not oriented merely to providing what industry thinks it wants now. Nor is it just business-focused; there is a large and lively research focus on public sector management as well.

As one of the largest schools in Europe, CBS turns out a great many PhDs, not all of whom become academics. Some go into practice of various kinds.

Having smart graduates in powerful places leads to more fruitful collaborations between industry and university, as shown by the Centre for Management Studies of the Building Process.

For too long in Australia, under successive governments, innovation has been seen as something that only proper scientists do, in expensive laboratories. It isn't.

Innovation also comes from the skill-basis of people working in general management positions.

CBS turns out a constant stream of graduates who, rather than being educated as cash cows with an instrumentally oriented curriculum and focused on skills and techniques, are as likely to encounter political philosophy or post-structuralism in the classroom. Treating management education seriously, they treat managers as rounded and well-tempered people, not merely instruments specialising in accounting, finance, human resources and so on.

Australia and Denmark do have a lot in common: a princess who was one of us, and a relaxed, informal and highly egalitarian approach to everyday life and business organisation.

But they also have an outstanding focus on creativity and imagination, not only in their scholarship but in their approach to everyday culture more generally. (Check out Lars von Triers latest imaginative, thoughtful and unsettling film, Anti-Christ).

It is not as apparent that all Australian business schools share these element of boldness and creativity. There are many leaves that Australia may take out of Denmark's book and the most important is that creativity, imagination and innovation are not just the products of big science but are also grown in faculties of business and design, for instance.

As a part of an ongoing strategic conversation about the future direction of the University of Technology, Sydney faculty of business, initiated by dean Roy Green, it is apparent that at least one Australian business school will be emulating some elements of Danish designs. It is to be hoped that Australian business and public sector will support the shift in practice.

Stewart Clegg
Professor and research director
Centre for Management and Organisation Studies
Faculty of business
University of Technology, Sydney
17/07/2009

Curtin appoints Wood and Gill

Curtin University of Technology has appointed Professor David Wood as its new Deputy Vice-Chancellor International.
Curtin Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jeanette Hacket said Professor Wood had served the university in a number of capacities over the last 13 years, most recently as Pro-Vice Chancellor of Humanities.

Professor Wood had proven himself to be a committed member of Curtin’s executive management team and is recognised as an innovative leader and strategist, she said.

“The international marketplace for higher education is dynamic and challenging and Professor Wood is a capable leader who can significantly grow our interests in this area,” she said.

Professor Wood developed new offshore courses and improved the management of existing partnerships which had enhanced Curtin’s financial situation while Director of Humanities International Programs and as Pro Vice-Chancellor Humanities.

He also managed the development and implementation of new pathway programs to enhance international recruitment, and lead a team that is implementing innovative marketing approaches for Humanities courses locally and internationally.

CUT simultaneously appointed former WA Water Corporation Chief Executive Officer Dr Jim Gill as Chancellor. Dr Gill succeeds Gordon Martin, Executive Chairman of Coogee Chemicals, who has been Chancellor since 2006.

Dr Gill was the Water Corporation’s inaugural CEO from 1996 till he retired in December 2008.

A major focus during his tenure was a program to greatly increase the State’s water source capacity and promote efficient water usage to adapt to significantly drying climate. He also introduced seawater desalination to Australia and this has now been adopted by four other states.
17/07/2009

Kathryn Greiner Bond Deputy Chancellor

Bond University Council has appointed business and community advocate Mrs Kathryn Greiner, AO, as Deputy Chancellor.

The former City of Sydney councillor has stepped into the role following the appointment of Dr Helen Nugent AO as Bond’s new Chancellor.

Mrs Greiner has been a member of the University Council since 2003.

“I’ve been on the Council now for more than five years and the position of Deputy Chancellor was a terrific opportunity to work with Dr Nugent in the first year of her term by sharing the background and knowledge I’ve acquired regarding the growth and opportunities of Bond,’’ she said.

“There are always going to be challenges along the way. The higher-education space has been largely occupied by the public system. Bond is a relatively new player – we’re only 20-years-old – but the University has managed to consolidate its position as a strong contender for producing leading graduates,’’ she said.

Mrs Greiner is currently Chairman of Australian Hearing and Chairman of Biotechcapital Ltd. She has also held Directorships for Pacific Power, John Singleton Advertising, Carlovers Ltd and The Financial Planning Association.

Dr Nugent said she looked forward to working closely with Mrs Greiner.

“Mrs Greiner has a distinguished background in governance as well as the commercial and not-for-profit sectors,’’ Dr Nugent said.

Mrs Greiner has served the Bond Council during some pivotal moments for the University, including the addition of the Mirvac School of Sustainable Development - the first Green Star-rated building built at an Australian university, the opening of the Bond Medical School, the launch of the Legal Skills Centre, and this year’s opening of The School of Hotel, Resort and Tourism Management.

Mrs Greiner was made an officer of the Order of Australia in 2001 for her services to social work, philanthropy awareness and local government.

17/07/2009

Griffith appoints with sustainable eye

Former United Nations advisor and international expert on sustainability, Professor Malcolm McIntosh, will head up the new Asia-Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise within the Griffith University Business School.

Professor McIntosh was a special advisor to the UN Secretary-General's Global Compact and worked for the UN’s Environment Program.

He has also worked for the International Labour Organisation, the UN’s Development Program and Shell, BP, Pfizer and a number of international non-government organisations.

Professor McIntosh has been leading a global research project using trans-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder roundtables on sustainable enterprise to investigate movement towards a low carbon sustainable enterprise economy for the 21st century.

"Griffith’s new Asia-Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise will research sustainability in luxury goods, carbon trading, catastrophe bonds, faith-based (Islamic) investment, tourism and accounting, among other things,” he said.

Postgraduate and undergraduate courses on sustainability will also be on offer, he said.

Professor McIntosh pioneered the teaching of corporate responsibility and sustainability in universities in the UK, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. He has contributed to books in this area and also produced films on the topic for BBC TV.

He was founding editor of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship and joined Griffith from the University of Coventry in England, where he was a Professor of Human Security and Sustainable Enterprise and Director of the transdisciplinary Applied Research Centre in Human Security.

He was one of the founders of the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education of which Griffith was the first Australian signatory.

Meanwhile, adult education specialist Dr Graeme Coetzer has also joined Griffith University from Central Washington University in Seattle.

Dr Coetzer will take over the role of Director of Executive Development and Associate Professor in Griffith Business School.

With a PhD in organisational behaviour from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Dr Coetzer has also researched adult attention deficit disorder and its implications for the workplace and adult learning.

“We want to provide the latest knowledge and skills to support those facing the challenge of working within increasingly complex organizations, and deliver our services in a way that fits with their circumstances,” he said.
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La Trobe locks in Johnson as VC

La Trobe University has moved to lock-in vice chancellor Paul Johnson until the end of 2014 to ensure he is at the helm to fully implement a change program based on his strategic plan.

Professor Johnson, an economic historian from the London School of Economics, was appointed in April 2007 under a five year contract but has now signed up to extend that by more than two and a half years.

"The University decided to secure the services of its successful chief executive to ensure implementation of a significant change program based on the Strategic Plan he developed," chancellor Sylvia Walton said.

Professor Johnson has moved to improve La Trobe's tight finances with an administrative shake up that included a voluntary redundancy program.

The university is also in the process of completing several academic and research reviews that include changes to the curriculum.

17/07/2009

Geoscience's seismic shift as fresh approach breathes life into discipline

GEOSCIENCE is among those disciplines that always have to argue their case, Ray Cas says.

It is not taught in schools, so first-year university students come to it as a requirement for their general science degree. Some take a shine to it and stay.

The opening of a new lab at Monash University has just given an almighty boost to the prospect of retaining those who come within the ambit of geology, geophysics and hydrogeology, the subjects collectively known as the geosciences.

The discipline's allure usually lies in fieldwork and the idea of one day working in remote and interesting locations, but in the university classroom chalk and talk have prevailed.

When Cas became head of school at Monash last year, he knew that to lift the quality of teaching and learning for undergraduates, he and his colleagues would have to aggressively pursue funding.

They were granted just under $1 million from the federal government's Learning and Teaching Performance Fund, the university and the department of science, and immediately set about changing things. They have created classes based around pods, benches and smartboards, a move aimed at increasing the relevance and appeal of the geosciences by making it possible to link it to events in (or under) the real world.

"All the teaching used to be done from the front of the classroom on a black board, a whiteboard or an overhead projector; everyone was focused on what was happening at the front of the classroom," Cas says of the old teaching model.

In the refurbished lab, groups of up to 10 students will work atgranite, sandstone, dolorite and other stone benchtops, using computers and smartboards to siphon information from websites such as those run by the Smithsonian Institution or the US Geological Survey.

"For example, if we are working on plate tectonics, one group might identify where in the last hour, or four hours, or 24 hours there have been earthquakes, another might look at volcanic eruptions, and where these occurred in relation to the plates," Cas says.

"It's almost real-time access, and we can monitor webcams at the sites of activity, too."

In another example, Google Earth will be used to monitor sedimentary zones such as riverbeds, or deserts or continental shorelines.

For Cas, the teaching ticks the pedagogical boxes of immediacy and flexibility. Work from one group can be scaled up and screened around the room so all 70 students can benefit.

Monash's geosciences school is the largest in the country and has more than 300 students across three years.

For Cas, it is gratifying that numbers are building, despite the closure of 10 geosciences programs in universities in 15 years to 2007 and the underfunding endemic in the Howard years.

Before the global financial crisis, geosciences students who completed their honours years at Monash, as two-thirds of third-years do, were partly attracted by the high starting salary, which was about $90,000.

Cas estimates that post-crisis, this is about $60,000, still a respectable figure, and concedes not all of this year's graduates can expect to find jobs immediately. But he predicts resources will be one of the economic sectors first out of the downturn.
17/07/2009

Closed minds stifle science

IT'S cognitive misers in the audience who make science communication a hard sell. "Individuals are naturally 'cognitive misers'," warns a new paper, Science Communication Reconsidered, in the journal Nature Biotechnology.

"If they lack a motivation to pay close attention to science debates, they will rely heavily on mental shortcuts, values and emotions to make sense of an issue, often in the absence of knowledge." The paper, wisdom of a Washington, DC, workshop bringing together a score of experts, including Melbourne psychologist Christine Critchley, suggests there is more to science communication than knowledge.

Scientists, it seems, are kidding themselves if they imagine mere ignorance explains public resistance to their projects. "Knowledge is only one factor among many influences that are likely to guide how individuals reach judgments, with ideology, social identity and trust often having strong impacts," the paper says.

It was her work on trust that got Dr Critchley, from Swinburne University of Technology, a seat at the workshop. "If scientists are working in a private organisation ... people tend to perceive their motivation to be more self-interested," she says, offering a thumbnail sketch of her research.

The paper complains of a "blurring of boundaries between public and private science" with implications for public trust. "Science communication ... remains driven by an ever-more-complex relationship between institutions, stakeholders, the media and a diversity of publics."

One strategy is to "switch the frame", pitching stories in ways that connect. To its surprise, the US National Academies found students did not respond well when evolution was put in the frame of well-known court decisions. A frame of modern medical advances worked.

As for public engagement, the paper says this should move "upstream" so people have a say when the science is at a formative stage. "Sometimes an engaged public might reach collective decisions that go against the self-interests of scientists," it says, citing a case where lay members of a nanotech forum morphed into research watchdogs.

Here the paper falls into a trap, says Bob Williamson, a human geneticist who has taken up the science policy portfolio with the Australian Academy of Science. "Scientists may have to take into account and answer public perceptions that are incorrect, such as fundamentalist religion in the US or Iran, or exaggerated fears of genetically modified organisms in Europe," he says. "((But) at the end of the day it is evolution that is the scientific fact and not creationism, and GMOs do not pose major new hazards."

The paper canvasses media training for science postgrads and government jobs for science journalists who've lost their jobs. This was a hot topic at the sixth World Conference of Science Journalists in Britain last week, says science communicator Jenni Metcalfe, of the Brisbane firm Ecoconnect.

Journalists shed by traditional media have been taking up jobs with government science agencies in Britain and the US. "I'm not sure (their work) can be called independent any more because presumably government representatives are vetting it before it gets published," she says. "It also means there's a lack of investigative science journalism."

17/07/2009

Too much information

IT'S becoming more common to head to the internet to obtain a diagnosis of a rash or headache. But according to new research from Microsoft, this isn't such a good idea. A Google search of your common symptoms could lead to anxiety, work interruption and cyberchondria.

Cyberchondria is the unfounded escalation of concerns about common health symptoms based on search results found on the web. And it's easy to imagine how it happens. In Australia, about one in every 21,000 people are diagnosed with a brain tumour every year. Yet the probability that someone searching headaches on the web will end up at a site suggesting the possibility of a brain tumour is significantly higher, the Microsoft study says.

"The internet contains a relatively large amount of content on rare and scary diseases versus what's written about more common explanations for symptoms like headaches, muscle twitches and chest pain," explains Eric Horvitz, co-author of the study and principal researcher at Microsoft Research.

"When people put common symptoms in the search engine, in many cases you are just about as likely to bring up the scary things as the common things."

The study surveyed 500 Microsoft employees in the US city of Seattle. It found employees searched the internet for health-related inquiries on average 10 times a month. Most searches (more than 85 per cent) were for benign symptoms such as headaches and stomach aches. And of those interviewed, more than 90 per cent found their medical inquires of common symptoms led to a review of content on serious illnesses.

This escalation of web queries, from googling headache to retrieving information on brain tumours, can cause anxiety and interrupt work and online activities for weeks and months. Almost 60 per cent of those surveyed admitted that the escalation of health-based inquiries interrupted their online activities, and when asked "How often do your queries for serious disease persist over weeks, months or years?" only 27per cent said never.

The study, published in ACM Transactions on Information Systems, also uncovered another problem with people and how they use the web. "With medical diagnosis people really expect to get great information because people get accustomed to the accuracy of information from the internet in other areas," Horvitz explains. "But the web is a retrieval system, not a diagnostic system."

Web search engines rank according to the popularity of a website, its credibility and the number of times a term is used within the site. Unlike an accurate diagnostic measure, search engines do not consider the person's age, genetics or family history.

"For someone under 35 who is otherwise healthy and has no family history of heart disease, there is an exceedingly small chance that their chest pain is a sign of a heart attack. But if you put in chest pain into the web, you will get lots of pages on heart attacks," says Horvitz, who also completed a medicine degree at Stanford University in California.

"People use the internet like it is an oracle," he says. This study reveals that, just like us, search engines are prone to biases in judgment. And when we are self-diagnosing we should keep this in mind.
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17/07/2009

Overseas students in limbo as college collapses

VICTORIAN education authorities were last night scrambling to place 300 mainly Indian and Nepalese students in new courses, following the collapse of a private vocational college in Melbourne.

The Melbourne International College had its education licence cancelled by the state Registration and Qualifications Authority, forcing it to cease operation.

It is the biggest such collapse since the failure of Sydney's Global College last year.

Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority director Lynn Glover said yesterday that MIC students would be able to transfer to another provider "following the business failure of the college and the cancellation of its education licence".

Industry observers said last night that they believed the college's collapse was likely to have been driven by the joint federal and state government rapid audit program of high-risk colleges.

When asked if MIC was one of 18 colleges subject to rapid audit, Ms Glover refused to comment.

It is believed the collapse of MIC -- which could not come at a more sensitive time for the Australian education export sector -- is linked to the recent crackdown on Australia's permanent residency-driven private training sector.

It is understood the college's difficulties may stem from the fact that welfare -- the college's mainstay course -- was not included on the federal government's recently updated critical skills list for potential immigrants.

MIC director Yarlini Nadarajamoorthy, 22, refused to comment on the reasons for the college's business failure when contacted by The Australian last night.

She said she would be unable to speak about the collapse until her father arrived home.

Australian Council of Private Education and Training chief executive Andrew Smith told The Australian he was confident that fellow ACPET member colleges would be able to accommodate displaced students in alternative courses.

"We haven't had a closure in this type of course in Melbourne before," he said. "Once the Tuition Assurance scheme is activated we have 28 days to place them elsewhere," he said.

All international students are covered by a consumer protection framework administered by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. However a string of smaller college collapses over recent years has strained the back-up fee refund program. Ms Glover said she expected the student relocations process to be completed in the next few weeks.

However a senior private training source who would not be named told The Australian that the private college sector was already straining under the weight of having to accommodate students displaced from other collapsed colleges.

An investigation by The Australian has established that private training colleges are not subject to publicly available audit.



17/07/2009

UNSW faculty's staffing top-heavy

THE University of NSW's science faculty is "top-heavy with senior people" in some high-performing research areas, an international panel of experts has found.

The panel said that if the university wanted to assemble and maintain a "high-profile, internationally recognised" faculty, it needed a more "academically robust" recruitment and appointment process.

But the panel, commissioned by vice-chancellor Fred Hilmer, was impressed by the faculty's "high overall quality" of scientific research and made 12 recommendations to enhance it.

The science review was chaired by University of Cambridge professor of theoretical geophysics Herbert Huppert and included academic illuminati from prestigious universities in Europe, Britain and the US, as part of Professor Hilmer's determination to ensure UNSW is a world-class research leader.

The panel was selected after discussions with senior staff including faculty dean Mike Archer, who is due to step down from the position early next month.

Professor Hilmer said the reorganisation of the faculty was going to be a five to 10-year process. The executive summary and recommendations of the science review were released to the HES, but other sections, dealing with each of the faculty's schools and centres, tagged commercial-in-confidence, were not.

Professor Hilmer told the HES that of the university's three big faculties in the science area -- engineering, medicine and science -- the last was the one that needed a strong focus.

"There are lots of choices we needed to make on where to concentrate relatively scarce resources," he said.

The panel recommended strategic expansion of the understaffed schools of chemistry, mathematics, physics and psychology, which it regarded as "critical to the university in the future, and in each of them the university could gain a significant competitive advantage".

Professor Hilmer said that given present resources, adopting some of the recommendations meant the faculty would have "to do less of something else or get better at finding funds".

The panel said the faculty should be aiming to recruit more promising scientists at the start of their careers, to ensure a strong line of succession to the top jobs within the schools and centres.

It recommended that the faculty abandon the practice of using search firms to recruit staff and instead use committees of scientists, which would include as a matter of course heads of schools.

It should also recruit more research-only staff. At present it has the lowest number in the Group of Eight -- 172 compared with 303 at the University of Sydney, for example -- which "puts it at a disadvantage in terms of research output and those measures of performance that are a function of head count".

The report was critical of the Australian method of tertiary funding, which made life harder for the faculty, noting "the difficulties in Australia for direct and appropriate levels of funding for research caused by the imposition by the federal government of a connection between funding and numbers of enrolled undergraduate students".

"The panel believes that service teaching should not drive budgets at the expense of research, and the support of research strengths should not have to depend on teaching loads."

The review said the university and the faculty needed to cultivate a more entrepreneurial culture, and the university should strengthen its efforts to register patents and trademarks and to commercialise technology "as it is underperforming relative to other members of the Go8 in this area".

The panel was also briefed about Project Optimum, set up by the university and Deloitte to monitor and measure research performance at UNSW.

The panel was "highly sceptical of this approach to evaluating and achieving academic and research excellence". It noted strong concerns from several schools about the accuracy and usefulness of the Project Optimum formula.

Professor Hilmer said the formula was still being worked on and accepted that it might need to give greater weight to human judgment in relation to scientific research, rather than relying too heavily on metrics.

"I think the general idea of measurement is not loved; on the other hand, it comes with the turf that if you are responsible for a big institution with a $1.2 billion budget you have to have some objective measures, saying this is a good use of resources and this is not," he said.

17/07/2009

Science careers need lift

THE Australian Academy of Science has called on the Rudd government to improve career opportunities for the nation's scientists to complement extra infrastructure spending detailed in the May federal budget.

In a formal response to the government's emerging-science policy, the academy welcomed the budget's 25per cent funding increase for science and innovation but questioned the spending priorities.

It said the budget's focus was "almost entirely on material infrastructure" and that the "human infrastructure" required to support the effective use of this expenditure "is yet to be properly addressed and future budgets will need to provide associated additional funding".

It added that about 43 per cent, or $730 million, of the extra money for science in 2009-10 had gone to industry grant programs. "It is unclear at this stage whether either scientific endeavour or R&D will be a significant component of that activity," the academy said.

The academy also noted that most of the budget's funding commitments were back-ended and would not be delivered until 2011-12 and 2012-13.

Bob Williamson, the academy's policy secretary, said it was imperative that Australian researchers be given the same career opportunities as otherprofessionals.

"In Australia engineers and accountants can expect to have a career of 10 to 20 years after graduation," he told the HES. "But Australian science is unique. Unlike other countries, much of our scientific research is done by people who are on three-year renewable grants from research councils even when they are senior and in their 40s, which greatly increases the feeling of job insecurity."

Professor Williamson also lent his support to the call for concentration of limited research funds, rather than their dispersal among a large number of institutions and researchers.

"The academy supports generous funding to a smaller number of groups of true international quality, with the ability to act as national centres for research and teaching, as in the centres of excellence schemes offered by the ARC(Australian Research Council) and NHMRC (National Health and Medical Research Council), rather than sharing manifestly inadequate support between many groups," Professor Williamson said.

"The government must play a part in setting these priorities and be particularly aggressive in ensuring that innovative research, which is often interdisciplinary and may not fit into existing boundaries, is allowed toflourish."

The academy, which has analysed the budget commitments in the context of its own research and innovation policy statement of 2007, concluded that commonwealth spending on science and innovation had fallen 22 per cent as a share of gross domestic product since 1993-94.

"Australia's business R&D collapsed in the late 1990s," it said. "While it has grown since then, it will lag many of our competitors and is in danger of remaining behind unless the government implements policy that drives greater innovation and R&D expenditure."

Professor Williamson, an internationally renowned geneticist and honorary senior principal fellow of the Murdoch Institute and the University of Melbourne, said the budget outlays for science and innovation were a step in the right direction, especially in the light of the financial situation. He stressed, however, that Australian spending in those areas still lagged other countries.

"The academy welcomes any initiatives that cut across departmental, state and federal boundaries to allow funding at a level that will allow development of a critical mass in Australia," he said.

He also stressed the need to strengthen mathematics and science from primary school to university.
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17/07/2009

Ford drives spin research

STUART Middleton will go to the US to test his theory that the Republicans have been able to weather the Watergate, Iran-Contra and weapons-of-mass-destruction scandals because they have "a credible narrative".

The University of Queensland post-doctoral researcher has won access to former president Gerald Ford's archive. He will follow a paper trail he expects will reveal Republican spin-meisters' efforts to build a powerful story around "Ford the man" in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

Dr Middleton -- who cut his teeth on reputation crisis management in research on the Salvation Army -- said the efforts of the Ford campaign team to overcome its party's tainted image following Watergate represented an intriguing and important political story.

In the wake of Richard Nixon's resignation over the break-in at the Democratic party's headquarters at Watergate, Congress appointed to the presidency Ford, who pardoned Nixon -- the least popular president in American history -- ahead of any trial or indictment.

Yet despite these adverse effects, the result of the 1976 election was surprisingly close. Ford claimed 48 per cent of the vote in a narrow loss to Democrat Jimmy Carter.

Dr Middleton's initial research has shown that Ford's campaign highlighted five themes: Ford the man; Ford the leader; Ford the unelected president; Ford the man of compassion; and Carter the Southern Nixon.

"These are important because each has elements which ultimately rebuke the reputational effects of Nixon and Watergate," he said.

Asked by the HES why the campaign tactics weren't just spin, Dr Middleton said that somehow the Republicans had "got to the heart" of what makes a narrative credible. "That gets to understanding the heart of the audience, and that means it's more than spin," hesaid.

Like the Salvation Army, the Republicans "are really good at knowing who they are, and what they stand for," he said.

Dr Middleton is doing the research in stages and on top of other research investigating the conflicting missions of hospital medical staff and management under an Australian Research Council grant won by UQ's business school.
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Indian Institute of Software Testing, Quality & Embedded System

Address:
#140, Sheshan Complex, 1st Floor, Anna Salai, Chinnamalai
Saidapet, Chennai - 600015
Landmark:
Near Chellammal Women’s College
Phone:044-65638612
Mobile:
9003916503
Website:
www.iist-global.com
Products/Services

* Software Testing & Quality Management
* Manual Testing & Tools
* Embedded Systems
* Certification Based Training for HP, ISTQB and PMP
* Recruitment Based Job Guarantee Courses
* Corporate Training Programs - Dot Net
* Advanced Automation Tool Training
* Corporate Training Programs – Testing
* Corporate Training Programs - J2EE
* Live Projects for Career Courses
* Corporate Training Programs - Quality Process
* ISTC - International Testing Certification
* By Indian Testing Gurus
* College Based Vocational Courses
* Corporate Training Programs - Java


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Competency Center - Software Quality (ISO 9001:2008 Certified)

Address:
#6/22, 2nd Floor, Dhandapani Street
T. Nagar, Chennai - 600017
Landmark:
Near Shrine Vailankanni Senior Secondary School
Phone:044-42035577
Mobile:
9710773493
Website:
www.ccsq.in
Products/Services

* Software Testing
* Manual Testing Concepts
* Quick Test Professional
* Win Runner, Load Runner
* Test Director, Quality Centre
* Rational Tools (RPT, RFT)
* Quality Management
* Software Standards/Models
* Software Standards/Models (CMMI)
* Estimation in Software
* Configuration Management
* International Quality Audits/Assessments
* Six Sigma Concepts
* International Certified Software Tester

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Institute of Basic Computers

Address:
#4, Sri Rama Plaza, United Business Chambers, Dr. D.V.G. Road
Basavanagudi, Bangalore - 560004
Landmark:
Near Ice Thunder Hotel
Phone:080-26600555
Mobile:
9916713401
Website:
www.ibcedu.co.in
Products/Services

* Tally 9
* MS Office
* Basic Computers
* Basic Hardware
* Basic Accounting

post by.. karthik.. 17th july..

Krypton Holdings

Address:
#MIG-215, 1st Floor, Road No. 1, KPHB Colony
Kukatpally, Hyderabad - 500072
Landmark:
Behind ICICI Direct
Mobile:
9246331127
Website:
www.caddcentre.co.in
Products/Services

* Tally 9.0
* PMP Certification
* MS Project
* Primavera
* AutoCAD
* Solid Works
* ArchiCAD
* Staad.Pro

post by.. karthik.. 17th july..

St. Angelo's Computer Education

Address:
Jyoti Plaza, 6th Floor, S.V. Road,
Kandivali West, Mumbai - 400067
Landmark:
Above Tata Motor
Phone:022-28617579
Mobile:
9867864444
Website:
www.saintangelos.com
Products/Services

* St. Angelo’s IT Graduate Program
* Web Programming/HTML/DHTML/JavaScript/FTP/Dreamwea
* Java Specialist/Oracle/Core Java/XML
* NET Specialist/SQL Server/ASP.NET/VB.NET/C#
* Hardware & Network Engineering
* Graphics & Website Design
* 2D & 3D Animation/Multimedia
* Red Hat Linux/Networking Technologies
* Web & Software Engineering
* Audio/Video Editing & Special/Visual Effects
* CCNA(Cisco Certified Network Associate)
* MCSE(Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer)
* Core Programming/C/C++/SAD
* Programming Logic Techniques
* RDBMS Concepts

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Neon Computer Education Velachery

Address:
Paramount Park, Shop #9, B Block, Vijaya Nagar
Velachery, Chennai - 600042
Landmark:
Opposite to Sutherland Building
Mobile:
9094079801
Products/Services

* Hardware Networking
* Tally
* Multimedia
* MS-Office
* C, C++

post by.. karthik.. 17th july..

Careers Junction

Address:
#109, Andhra Mahila Sabha, 1st Floor, Luz Church Road
Mylapore, Chennai - 600004
Landmark:
Next to Nageswara Rao Park
Phone:044-45535568
Mobile:
9094047501
Website:
www.careersjunction.in
Products/Services

* MS Office, Multimedia/Animation
* Networking, Oracle
* C, C++
* Database Management
* Software Testing
* Sun Certification
* Tally
* Technical Writing
* Web Designing
* Synon, Java, J2EE
* JDE, MS Certification
* Project Management
* IBM-AS/400, IBM Main Frame

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Sai Computers

Address:
#114, Jai Ganesh Vishwa, Vishrantwadi Chowk, Alandi Road
Alandi Devashi, Pune - 411015
Landmark:
Opposite to Kirti Restaurant
Phone:020-32519881
Mobile:
9850000254
Products/Services

* C, C++, DS, VB, C#
* .NET, DTP, MSCIT
* Corporate Training
* Web Site Development
* Hardware and Networking
* Web Designing
* JAVA, ADV JAVA

post by.. karthik.. 17th july..

IT Brain Shapers

Address:
Vasant Plaza, II Floor, Munirka, Delhi - 110057
Phone:011-26716682
Mobile:
9899326572
Website:
www.itbrainshapers.com
Products/Services

* Summer Training
* Diploma in .Net, Core & Java
* J2EE
* Software Quality Testing
* Multimedia
* Animation
* Web Designing
* Graphic Designing
* A+, N+
* Hardware
* Spoken English
* C, C++,
* HTML
* Java Script
* Networking

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Digital Glow

Address:
#B-5, 2nd Floor, Lajpat Nagar II, Delhi - 110024
Landmark:
Near Axis Bank
Mobile:
9818340349
Website:
www.121techtraining.com
Products/Services

* Web Designing
* Web Development
* PHP & .Net
* Multimedia Training
* Flash Training
* Video & Sound Editing
* 2D & 3D Animation
* CSS & Jave Script

post by.. karthik.. 17th july..

Aptech Preet Vihar

Address:
#81, Defence Enclave, Main Vikas Marg
Preet Vihar, Delhi - 110092
Landmark:
Near Big Apple Show Room
Phone:011-22055588
Mobile:
9811060629
Products/Services

* ACCP
* Java
* .Net Technologies
* Oracle
* Red Hat Linux
* C, C++
* Ms-office
* MCSE
* A+
* CCNA
* Tally

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AHS International Technologies

Address:
#1899-B, South Extension Part I, Delhi - 110049
Landmark:
Opposite B-50
Phone:011-32568644
Mobile:
9818049244
Website:
www.ahstech.com
Products/Services

* .Net
* C/C++
* Database Management
* Sun Certification
* Java/J2EE
* Software Testing
* Real Time Projects
* Networking

post by.. karthik.. 17th july..

Core Data Base System Pvt. Ltd.

Address:
#A-50, Sector - 58
Noida, Delhi - 201301
Landmark:
Near Indian Bank
Phone:0120-9971500882
Mobile:
9910103453
Products/Services

* Java
* ,.Net
* Live Projects
* CCNA
* Database Mangement
* Corporate Training
* Live Projects
* Oracle Application


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Wider Horizons

Address:
#1, 1st A Cross, Next to Hanuman Mandir
Madivala, Bangalore - 560068
Landmark:
Opposite to Total Shopping Mall
Phone:080-41730994
Mobile:
9731871000
Products/Services

* English & Personality, Computer Training for Kids
* ABACUS, Typing Classes for Kids
* Tutorials for PUC(PCMB/Computer Science, Commerce)
* C, C++ and UNIX, JAVA & J2EE, SQL and PLSQL
* ORACLE 9i/10g/11i, .NET, AUTO CADD and CATIA V5
* Multimedia, Graphic Design, Web Design, Corel Draw
* Photo Shop, Dream Weaver, Adobe Illustrator
* Page Maker, Flash, Financial Tally 9.0
* Web Based Training, Tally 9.0
* Tutorials for SSLC, B.E.
* Training for JEE, IIT - JEE, NTSC
* Training for CET/AIEEE
* Computer Training for Basics

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VIIT Computer Education

Address:
#71, Sri Cyber Complex, 1st Main Road, Kamalanagar
Basaveswara Nagar, Bangalore - 560079
Landmark:
Near 96D Bus Stop
Mobile:
9743477877
Products/Services

* CAD
* Tally
* Hardware
* Networking
* DTP
* HTML
* C, C++
* Flash
* Java, J2EE
* Cellphone Servicing
* CTTC
* Mechanical Engineering Classes
* Spoken English Classes
* Weekend Classes
* Handwriting Classes

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Surabhi Incorporation

Address:
#209/1, Susrisha, 8th Main Road, Srinivasa Nagar
Banashankari, Bangalore - 560050
Landmark:
Near Cakes & Slices Bakery
Mobile:
9448782775
Website:
www.surabhitechnologies.org
Products/Services

* C, C++, C Graphics
* Java and J2EE
* Technical Writing
* .Net & Networking
* Computer Basics and MS Office
* Green Belt Six Sigma Training
* Software Testing with QTP

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Software Technology Group International Limited

Address:
#304, Money Centre, 4th Floor, 7th Block
Koramangala, Bangalore - 560095
Landmark:
Opposite The Forum
Phone:080-32969963
Mobile:
9008026992
Website:
www.stgglobal.com
Products/Services

* Computer Software Training Testing Tool
* Computer Software Training Java
* Computer Software Training Oracle
* Computer Software Training .Net
* Technical Writing Training
* Computer Software Training SAS/VA & VC++
* Computer Software Training Red Hat Linux
* Computer Software Training C/C++
* Computer Software Training MS Office
* Data Warehouse Training
* Academy & Live Projects
* Computer Software Training J2EE
* Computer Software Training Unix
* Software Training SQL Server 2005
* Share Point, Ajax & Bio Informatics

post by.. karthik.. 17th july..

Karvin

Address:
#537, 1st Floor, C.M.H. Road
Indira Nagar, Bangalore - 560038
Landmark:
Above Coffee Day
Phone:080-41154366
Mobile:
9886452421
Website:
www.karvinlearning.com
Products/Services

* Java
* J2EE
* .Net
* Data Warehousing
* Software Testing

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G-TEC Computer Education

Address:
#52, 9th A Main, 1st Stage
Indira Nagar, Bangalore - 560038
Phone:080-43567000
Mobile:
9845490073
Website:
www.gteceducation.com
Products/Services

* Multimedia & Animation
* Graphic Designing & Web Designing
* Hardware & Networking
* Software Courses
* Mobile Technologies
* Spoken English & Personality Development
* Global Accountant & Tally
* CTTP

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Excell Academy

Address:
#2210/1, 10th Main, 3rd Block
Jayanagar, Bangalore - 560011
Landmark:
Opposite to Cosmopolitan Club Adjacent to Haryana Handloom
Phone:080-26765975
Mobile:
9845544600
Website:
www.excellindia.in
Products/Services

* C C++
* Oracle, Forms & Reports
* Core Java Programming
* Java Script
* Advanced Java
* Computer Software Training
* J2EE
* Dot Net
* SQL
* PLSQL
* Crystal Reports
* Job Oriented Courses
* Symbian Next Generation Programming in Mobile Tech

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CSEC Education Karnataka Pvt. Ltd.

Address:
#1439, Surabhi, 22nd Main
Banashankari 2nd Stage, Bangalore - 560070
Phone:080-26710477
Mobile:
9731557000
Products/Services

* CAD/CAM
* C/C++
* Embedded Systems
* MS Certification
* MS Office
* Networking
* Tally
* Software Testing
* Web Designing
* Java/J2EE
* .Net

post by.. karthik.. 17th july..

Cegonsoft Pvt. Ltd.

Address:
#58/A, 8th Main, 17th A Cross
Malleswaram, Bangalore - 560055
Landmark:
Near MES College
Phone:080-41110955
Mobile:
9980010082
Website:
www.cegonsoft.com
Products/Services

* Software Training
* J2EE
* Java
* Software Testing
* .Net
* Rich Internet Application
* PHP & My SQL
* IT Certification

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Aptech Computer Education

Address:
#56, 2nd Floor, 1st Block, 3rd Phase
Banashankari 3rd Stage, Bangalore - 560085
Landmark:
Opposite Kathriguppe Water Tank
Phone:080-26423363
Mobile:
9448454376
Website:
www.aptechedubsk.com
Products/Services

* Java@ SSi -Level 1
* Computer Fundamentals
* HTML/DHTML, JAVA
* Client Side scripting with Javascript
* Java@ SSi -Level 2
* JSP & Servlets, EJB 20., JSF & Struts
* Office Works -Level 1
* Internet Fundamentals, Outlook
* Introduction to Computers, eProject
* Windows
* Word, Excel & Power Point Overview
* Office Works -Level 2
* Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Level 3
* Office Works -Level 3
* RDBMS Concepts, MS Access

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Systems Domain

Address:
#174/40, 401, Lucky Paradise, 4th Floor, 22nd Cross, 8th F Main Road, 3rd Block
Jaya Nagar, Bangalore - 560011
Landmark:
Opposite ICICI Bank
Phone:080-41210358
Mobile:
9663693122
Website:
www.systemdomain.net
Products/Services

* .Net
* Academic Projects
* C/C++
* Java/J2EE
* MS-Office
* Multimedia/Animation
* Oracle - DBA/Developer
* Software Testing
* SAP
* Technical Writing
* Spoken English
* Call Centre Training

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Java Learning Centre - A Division of SDSOFT Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.

Address:
#25, Ram Tulasi Chambers, HMT Main Road
Mathikere, Bangalore - 560054
Landmark:
Opposite Axis Bank ATM
Phone:080-41275999
Mobile:
9620052688
Website:
www.jlcindia.com
Products/Services

* BASIC COURSES
* ADVANCED COURSES
* Database Concepts - My SQL/Oracle
* JDK 1.5/Hibernate 3.1
* Core Java/JDBC/Servlets
* EJB 2.0/EJB 3.0
* JSP/Struts/ANT
* JPA/J2EE Design Patterns
* Log4J/Eclipse
* JSF 1.2/Struts 2.0
* HTML/CSS
* XML/Web Services
* Java Script
* Unit Testing/CVS
* AJAX/UML

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Peers Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Address:
#207, 2nd Floor, HUDA Mythrivanam
Ameerpet, Hyderabad - 500038
Phone:040-40310000
Mobile:
9490751292
Website:
www.peerstech.com


Products/Services

* .Net (VB.Net, ASP.Net, C#.Net)
* Java (Core Java, ADV Java, J2ee)
* Share Point 2007
* BizTalk Server
* C, C ++ & Unix / Linux
* Oracle 11g & Oracle DBA
* Testing Tools, QTP 10.0 & VB Script
* SQL Server & SQL DBA
* VB 6.0 & D2K
* MS - BI (SSIS,SSAS,SSRS)
* PHP with MY SQL
* Data Ware Housing
* AJAX, Silver light, WCF,WPF,WWF
* Mini/Live Projects
* Online Training

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aa Jaif Technologies

Address:
#3rd Floor, Empress Court, 6-2-30/B, Above Gulf Air, Next to BATA Showroom
Lakdi Ka Pul, Hyderabad - 500004
Landmark:
Opposite Royal Court Function Hall
Phone:040-40151777
Mobile:
9912276896
Website:
www.jaiftech.com
Products/Services

* JAVA -- Core Java . Adv.Java . J2EE
* .NET -- VB.Net . ASP.Net . C#.Net
* Live Projects

post by.. karthik.. 17th july..

3 Wisemen

Address:
#6-3-668/9/1/D, Nizam Court
Panjagutta, Hyderabad - 500082
Landmark:
Opposite Model House
Phone:040-66778222
Mobile:
9246287034
Products/Services

* MS Office
* Vidya Courses
* Java/J2EE
* C/C++
* .Net

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Edvantage Education Pvt Ltd

Manhattan Review / CK's Edvantage Education Pvt Ltd
4th Floor Afzia Towers Opposite Life Style
Begumpet, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh 500016
040 42300748‎
manhattanreview.in

Global Education Cyclops

Cyclops Global Education

Shop No. 205, Saptagiri Towers, 1-10-75/1/1-6
Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
040 66328836‎
09246527843‎
09949462786‎ - Mobile
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service tax and educstion cess on higher education

Is it necessary to separately show the amount of service tax, education cess and higher education cess or can we just indicate the effective service tax rate—inclusive of the various components, of 12.36% on an invoice raised for providing taxable services.

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ducation, Punjaguta
Write a review
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040 66779222‎ - Fax
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Boston Globe

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engineering college in orissa,


Ajay Binay Institute of Technology
Badambadi Cuttack
CSE - Electrical - ECE - Mech
http://www.worldcolleges.info/orissa/orissa-collegelist.php?id=1

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Institue for excellance in higher educstion bhopal, below mentioned are the contact betails.

HIGHER EDUCATION BHOPAL - The Institute is a state level academy for Higher Education. Since it is located within the territorial jurisdiction of the Barkatullah University Bhopal,

contact details:

Kaliasot dam,kolar road,
Post no 588, bhopal 462016
Phone: (0755)2492406

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GERMANY

In Germany there are at present some 312 state and state-recognised higher education institutions divided into three types. There are two semesters each academic year. The standard study period in which a degree programme can be completed is at least eight to ten semesters at universities and at Fachhochschulen six semesters, or eight semesters for degree programmes with integrated practical semesters

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The Swedish National Agency for Higher Education


Reviewing the quality of higher education


Ensuring HEIs comply with relevant legislation and regulation
Monitoring trends and developments in higher education
Providing information about higher education
Recognising qualifications from abroad.

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Swedish higher education has been a unified system since 1977. Compared to most other European systems there is a strong sense of a united mission and shared purposes. But important expectations remain, most notably health colleges which have been left outside this unified system and music, drama and other art colleges, which have remained semi-detached.

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Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, located in Delhi, is a deemed to be University offering higher education at the national level. Prime objective of the University is to provide facilities for the study of such languages and literature of Asia that have a bearing on Sanskrit studies viz. Pali, Iranian, Tibetan, Mongolian, Chinese, Japanese etc.

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Visit below menitoned website for more info

Nirma Institute of Technology

Established in the year 1995, the Nirma Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad or NIM as it is popularly known was founded by the well-known industrialist and philanthropist Dr. Karsanbhai K.Patel, Chairman of the Nirma Group of Industries. The NIM, Ahmedabad is a premier institute of technology in the country today

courses offered

Chemical Engineering

Civil Engineering

http://www.highereducationinindia.com/engineering/nirma-institite-of-technology.html

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Best engineering college in hyderabad

The Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad was founded in the year 1981 by the Vasavi Academy of Education. The Vasavi Academy of Education was founded in-turn by Sri Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah. The Vasavi College of Engineering is considered as a premier institute for engineering. It is affiliated to the Osmania University. It is a self-financed institution, located in Ibrahimbagh, Hyderabad. The college has been accredited by the National Board of Accreditation.

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For higher educstion in UK, pls visit below mentioned website

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/higher-education

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for higher studies in Uk, contact below mentioend website

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/higher-education

Open University Network

The Distance Education Council (DEC) has taken several initiatives to develop the Open University Network. The programmes developed and produced by IGNOU are extensively used by the State Open Universities in the country. Efforts have also been made to evolve common standards for the products as well as processes (programme structure, credits, examination, grading, etc.) to facilitate student mobility across programmes as well as institutions through systems of credit transfer. Steps have also been initiated of credit transfer. Steps have also been initiated to frame norms and standards for the design, development and delivery of programmes in specific fields and to ensure their quality.


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