All India Education News

New Delhi : Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU), Delhi has invited applications for its Doctoral/ Post Doctoral Research programmes for the 2008-09 academic session.

Research opportunities are available for eligible scholars/ candidates in the specialized areas of Biotechnology, Chemical Technology, Information Technology, Basic & Applied Sciences, Humanities & Social Sciences, Management Studies, Environment & Disaster Management and Law & Legal Studies in respective School of Studies of GGSIPU.

Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, the constituent college of University is also offering research programmes in different areas of engineering including, Computer Science Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mechanical and Automation Engineering.

Eligible and short-listed candidates will be called for an interview and to make a presentation for about 30 minutes about his/her research plan before the School Research Committee (SRC), to test the comprehension of his/her field/ area of research, academic preparations and potential to carry out the proposed research.

The amount of fellowship for pursuing research for Ph.D will be Rs.12000 per month and for Post Doctoral research it will be Rs.18000 per month.

How to apply: The Application Form can be obtained from the University or downloaded from the University website www.ipu.ac.in.

Application processing fee of Rs.250 and US$ 25 prescribed for all eligible Indian Nationals and Foreign Nationals/ NRI’s or their wards respectively, must be sent along with the application form in the form of Bank Draft/ Demand Draft in favour of `Registrar, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi’, payable at Delhi.

Interested candidates may visit University website www.ipu.ac.in for further details regarding eligibility, application form, fee structure and other terms & conditions.

The last date for submitting duly filled Application Form along with the prescribed fees is 12th September, 2008.

NEW DELHI : A whopping 15,000 teachers in Information Technology and Computer Sciences are not up to date with their knowledge, affecting the quality of teaching in technical institutes, Nasscom has said.

In its blueprint on National Faculty Development Programme, the National Association of Software and Service Companies has said teachers need special training to update their knowledge in emerging areas.

As teachers are poor in their own field, quality of teaching is affected in majority of the technical institutes of the country, it said.

The blueprint says about 15,000 teachers from IT and Computer Sciences, all from tier-II and tier-III institutes, need to be provided special training.

“In the tier-II and tier-III institutes, the faculty members are not in touch with industry. They are not updated on the emerging areas. These teachers need special training,” Nasscom Vice-President Rajdeep Sahrawat told media on Tuesday.

As per the AICTE data, there were 1,668 engineering institutes in the country in 2006. About 15 to 20 per cent of these institutes come under tier-I category which have all advanced facilities and good teachers.

The standard of teaching is a matter of concern in these institutes. Nasscom has prepared a three-pronged strategy which emphasises on first-time education, off-line material and mentoring and refreshers’ programme.

Nasscom will submit the blueprint on National Faculty Development Programme to the government soon, he said.