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Engineering seats have no takers in West Bengal

Published On: 02 Sep 2010

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In West Bengal around 6,238 engineering seats are lying vacant after the second round of counselling and the reasons are manifold. Experts believe that the primary reason is the increasing number of private engineering colleges that stands at 79. This is a sharp increase from around 2,200 vacancies last year from 73 private engineering colleges. The total number of engineering seats in West Bengal is about 28,100 compared to 24,000 last year. It is also believed that in our country, a student decides to study or not to study a subject depending on its job prospects. The number of..

VIT University invites application for BSc and MSc in Manufacturing Engineering Technology

Published On: 31 Aug 2010

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Applications invited by VIT University in collaboration with University of New York are offering the following courses B.S. in Manufacturing Engg. Technology (granted by SUNY) M.Sc. in Manufacturing Engg. Technology (granted by VIT University) B.S. in Software Technology (granted by SUNY) M.Sc. in Software Technology (granted by VIT University) Eligibility: For B.Sc. & M.Sc. Manufacturing: B.Sc. degree (Physics / Chemistry / Mathematics / Applied Sciences or Computer Science) For B.Sc. & M.Sc. Software Technology: B.Sc. degree (Physics / Chemistry /..

IIT Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) 2011 to be held on April 10th

Published On: 31 Aug 2010

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The IIT Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for 2011 is to be held on April 10th . IIT Kanpur will be in charge of JEE 2011. The decision regarding entrance exam form and its submission will be taken within next 10 days. IIT-Kanpur, which will be conducting the test in 2011, made an announcement on Saturday that the exam pattern will remain unchanged. Students will have to answer questions in the same subjects - mathematics, chemistry and physics - as in JEE 2010 and in the same format. The government wanted to change the JEE format to an aptitude..

Debate continues on having single CET

Published On: 30 Aug 2010

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It is high time to take a decision for the private engineering college managements as the state department of higher education has decided to have a single Common Entrance Test (CET) for undergraduate engineering courses. The department has begun the exercise,if the private managements do not join hands this year too, the government will bring an act which will include the single CET concept. Higher education minister Aravind Limbavali is going to have a preliminary meeting with educationists and department officials to discuss the pros and cons of framing such an act. The meeting is..

Newly revamped course curriculum for VTU

Published On: 27 Aug 2010

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The Undergraduate students of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), from the computer science and information science branches, will have a new syllabus from this academic year. The VTU, in association with Intel Corporation, has prepared a multi-core curriculum which is aimed at integrating parallel programming at the undergraduate level to nurture future software developers. The new syllabus will come into effect from the current academic year, classes for which commence on 6 September 2010. The VTU plans to revise curriculum for undergraduate courses once in every four years..

Brown University to have a student exchange programme with IIT Bombay

Published On: 12 Aug 2010

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The Brown University is willing to start a student exchange programme with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay. Representatives of the varsity are currently in India to explore the possibility of tie-ups with educational institutions. “We expect to sign an agreement when the director of IIT Bombay comes to Brown University in October this year. As part of the programme, two students from IIT Bombay will come to our university and vice versa. They will spend one semester at the respective institutes,” said Matthew Gutmann, vice-president for international..

CET counselling ended leaving 2839 seats vacant

Published On: 10 Aug 2010

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The CET counselling session was rescheduled to begin on 14 July instead of 18 June, but due to technical glitches it was re-scheduled. However, the number of seats left vacant this year after the completion of the admission round counselling for undergraduate engineering courses is less as compared to 2009. According to the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA), through which the counselling ended on 8 August 2010, the number of seats left vacant was 2,839 . In 2009, the seats left vacant after the completion of admission round counselling had crossed 3,000. But this time due to..

IIT Bombay to simplify Application Process for its Study Abroad Aspirants

Published On: 03 Aug 2010

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The students from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B), who would plan to study abroad for higher studies, will now be guided by the institute in their application process. The ‘app cell’ of IIT-B will work as a full-fledged entity to ease students’ pressure when they apply for foreign universities. There are wide levels of universities and there are many students interested in applying to institutes abroad. But, many do not know how to go about the application process. ‘Apping’ is a costly affair and the app cell will simplify the processes..

IIT students also need to groom themselves to grab a right placement

Published On: 29 Jul 2010

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Despite a better 2009-10 placement season at IIT Bombay compared to 2008-09, 20 of 200 companies did not make a single recruitment. The students they interviewed were found inadequately prepared, lacking in focus or unclear about goals.Some students had poor communication skills and not enough awareness about the companies. This shows that merely getting into an IIT is no guarantee for a job. It is one thing to take your engineering subjects seriously, quite another to convince a recruiting firm that you know your stuff. With this, IIT Bombay has began restructuring its placement..

Delhi Technological University set for second round of Counselling

Published On: 27 Jul 2010

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Delhi Technological University (DTU), formerly Delhi College of Engineering, has completed its first counseling with all the seats getting filled in the General category for both Delhi and outside Delhi region.After the implementation of the Other Backward Classes (OBC) quota, the total number of seats in 14 B.Tech courses of DTU has increased to 1128 from the original intake of 910. Since 85% of the seats are reserved for Delhi candidates, there are 959 seats available for Delhi candidates and 169 for those belonging to outside Delhi region. Out of these, 551 seats were in offer for the..

KEA would resume counselling from 14 July

Published On: 13 Jul 2010

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The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has more seats for undergraduate engineering courses this academic year. With having 1,800 seats more, this year - KEA plans to to continue the counselling process for engineering courses with the previous year’s seat matrix after having approval from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) recently. In 2009, the KEA has 36,524 seats for the undergraduate engineering course. The AICTE has also granted approval this year to seven new engineering colleges in the state. The newly approved engineering colleges are required to give..

IIT admission board commited error

Published On: 12 Jul 2010

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With judgement error by the authorities at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) 52 students have lost the chance to pursue courses at India's most prestigious engineering institutes, or any other engineering institutes this year. It has beeen reported that 52 undergraduate students, who had cleared the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) and had been allotted seats at the IITs, were told a day before they were to submit their course fees that their seats have been cancelled. The students were set to study architecture and design courses at the institutes. According to IIT..

IIT formulates new criteria for admissions

Published On: 06 Jul 2010

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A panel of the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has recommended that 70 percent weightage be given to Class 12 marks and 30 percent to marks obtained in an aptitude test conducted more than once a year for the Indian Institute of Technology - Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE ). According to the proposal, in the month of June every year,a cut-off list based on the Class 12 results and the aptitude test will be prepared. The top 40,000 candidates according to the cut-offs would then be eligible to give an add-on test for admission to IITs. The panel was headed by the director..

KEA counters fresh problems on engineering seats

Published On: 01 Jul 2010

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A day after the state department of higher education resolved the issue of obtaining approvals for the existing 167 engineering colleges from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), it has encountered a fresh problem. According to the state government authorities, AICTE had not accepted their request to increase the number of engineering seats for students opting for a lateral entry. The state government had increased the intake of diploma students into engineering courses through lateral entry from 10% in 2003 to 15% in 2009. The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) had..

AICTE approved 167 engineering colleges in Karnataka

Published On: 30 Jun 2010

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It was decided at the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) general council meeting to grant approval to all the existing 167 engineering colleges in Karnataka. The colleges would offer about 36,000 seats in the counselling. However, the six new colleges that had obtained the state’s permission did not get the AICTE nod. Officials from the state who had attended the meeting confirmed that all the existing institutions in the state were granted approval by the council. The council officials added that the number of seats would be similar to that of last year, which..

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