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Bulletin No.121 Date: 1st December - 15th December Announcements CONTENT ASERF has instituted Dr Stya Paul Young Educationist Award’ for honouring Young Educationists who have demonstrated Aspect their potential by making an impact on Indian education. Youth in Asia Pacific face serious employment issues Applications from the eligible scholars are invited for the Award of the year 2011. Click here to download the prescribed format News along with the terms and conditions. 1. Pratham-LA Raises $850,000 at Annual Gala 2. Ragging in Educational Institutions 3. Affiliation for private engineering colleges on yearly basis Apeejay Stya University announces admission for 4. Institutes convert students' scores on PSU request the session 2011-12 5. ISB Hyderabad becomes first Indian b-school to be AACSB accredited Apeejay Stya University is offering diverse catalogue of 6. Levin refutes plans for India campus technical, scientific, management and liberal arts courses for 7. Education key area for enhancing India-Australia ties' the academic session 2011-12. Applicants for admission 8. CMAT - 2012 for Admission in All Management Programs 9. China to Train 450,000 Teachers from Vocational Schools accepted on the basis of comprehensive merit, judged by their 10. Promotion of Scientific Attitude academic excellence, their extracurricular achievements, and 11. Missing faculty leave engineers unemployable their utilization of the resources they have had available. As 12. Ratio between Boy and Girl Students part of the application, the University recognize a number of 13. Schools for Implementation of RTE Act, 2009 examination scores to establish academic excellence, 14. Common Management Aptitude Test must for MBA from 2012 including AIEEE, GMAT, SAT, SAT-II. For more, click here 15. Promotion of Indian Culture 16. Govt. has no info about foreign varsities operating in India Apeejay Stya University announces Founder's 17. Indo-US Edu. Conclave 2011: Successful, Historic & a Huge Step Forward 18. Reduction in the Cost of Education Scholarship 19. Fate of bill on private varsities in limbo On the Death anniversary of our beloved founder Dr. Stya 20. Action Taken Regarding Unfair Practices Adopted by Students in IIT-JEE Paul, Apeejay Stya University (ASU), Haryana announces a 21. Defence Studies in Universities and Educational Institutions Merit - Based Scholarship Scheme for Undergraduate, Post 22. B-School body EPSI opposes AICTE move to make CMAT mandatory Graduate and MBA Courses 23. Public-Private Pertnership Scheme 24. Concurrent Assessment of SSA Please visit our website for more: click here 25. Greater Access to Education 26. Promotion of Yoga Get Involved 27. MHRD higher education survey training held Fellowship opportunities 28. Jobless youth acquire vocational skills 29. Teacher Absenteeism Fellowships for six months to two years in variety of fields. 30. Tribal Education Loan Scheme Workshops/Guest Lectures 31. Share of Centre-State Funds for RTE Act Regular workshops and lectures on a variety of subjects. 32. De-Recognition of Deemed Universities 33. Indo-US Higher Education Summit Scholarships 34. Challenges Facing the Early Childhood Development Workforce Need-based financial aid to deserving student Faculty Sponsorships Analysis/Opinion/Innovative Practice By seeding a named faculty seat or fellowship 1. Rethink higher education 2. Comprehensive Policy for Protection and Education of Internal Migrant Children in India Internships/Mentoring 3. Fund infusion won’t help education without correcting deficiencies The University has many students looking for opportunities to 4. Education matters: Country making great strides in race to the bottom put their skills to practical use. Internships can be in diverse 5. Indian MBAs: less attractive areas from services, government and nonprofit. 6. Technology: educational divider or equalizer? 7. Wearing the IIT tag Please visit our website for more: click here 8. Inequality linked to education’ Also discover the Apeejay Edge: click here 9. Primary education: Light at the end of this dark tunnel? 10. Indian varsities should be seats of learning, humanism & tolerance’ Partnership 11. What ails our Universities? 12. No country can prosper in isolation to rest of the world Dear Partners, 13. US graduate schools attractive to foreign students 14. Are vocational degrees a better path to employment? In the short run. The Apeejay Stya Education Research Foundation 15. Scientist suggests steps to make India knowledge hub (ASERF) invites news, articles, resource material, 16. Education is pseudo-teaching, says Prakash Nair opinions and analyses on relevant educational issues 17. Is education still the best route to take? 18. Untouchable’ in the classroom that can be highlighted in our by-monthly e-bulletins and 19. Funding public colleges, universities on the ASERF portal. 20. India, US need to work together on higher education 21. Higher education: is it worth it? We request if you could spare a few moments of your 22. 7-step AICTE plan to join the workplace valuable time to have a look at our website and guide 23. JRE gets award for best pedagogy in management studies us on our regular initiatives. 24. Our role as educators is in question' 25. It’s a crime to dream small: Kalam tells students 26. Over regulation keeps foreign universities out of India Editor 27. Castes and Higher Education 28. Reforms in higher education be linked with global changes Dr. Mithilesh Kumar Singh Resources 1. Growing Demand For A Skilled And Educated Global Workforce 2. KPMG releases report on Indian Higher Education 3. India faces shortage of over 4.6 lakh classrooms 4. Punjab needs to tackle unemployment: PHD Chamber Study 5. US no more a preffered study destination for PhD students: Survey 6. India Inc least prepared to face leadership challenges: Study 7. Condition of Education for Girls in Rural Areas 8. Two-fifths of high school graduates are unprepared for college or the workforce: Study Apeejay Stya Education Research Foundation Apeejay Stya House 14 Commercial Complex, Masjid Moth, Greater Kailash, Part – II, New Delhi - 110048 Tel. No. (91 – 11) 29228296 / 97 / 98. Fax o. (91 – 11) 29223326 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.aserf.org.in ASERF E News Bulletin on EDUCATION ASPECT studying, that they did not have a work ethic or that they did not know English. Youth in Asia Pacific face serious While both sexes faced challenges, women were employment issues worse off, and faced many issues, such as lack of Mismatch between potential and experience public transportation and discrimination, Ms. Alturki confounds many a job-seeker, say managers said. As a result, women were seeking jobs in the private sector. Things were changing. “Since the Mun Ching Yap had gone as a journalist to an time I joined [the company] in 2006, I see lot more airline company to interview its executive official, job opportunities and it's a very exciting time to talk but her excitement, passion and ability to learn about employment in the Arab world.” earned her a job as the head of the company's strategic planning department. However, Ms. Alturki said one was faced with a Catch-22 situation — if you have the skills, you Ms. Mun, now a columnist and entrepreneur from don't have the experience. Malaysia, was 28 years old then. “Interviewers should recognise people who have “In Malaysia, the median age of the population is potential, train them and provide them with the 27, we are talking about 110 million young people skills they need,” she said. in Indonesia and Malaysia alone. Employers here are constantly complaining that there is no talent Xiaoshan Huang, 25, an entrepreneur and PhD and that university graduates are unemployable. student from China, said his was the post-80s Boys are expected to be engineers and girls are generation, which was now entering the labour expected to be accountants. Attitudes towards market. In China, 75 per cent of the job-seekers women are very stereotypical. Employers have to were under 35. give young persons a chance. If companies have to While enrolment was increasing in colleges, there survive, they have to be innovative and they can't was a mismatch between the skills you learn at be that unless they hear the voice of the young,” school and the requirements in the labour market, Ms. Mun says. Mr. Xiaoshan said. A special Leaders' Forum on Youth Employment at To overcome this, the career coaching programme the 15th Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting in schools invited resource persons as coaches for (ARPM) of the International Labour Organisation students — an exchange that created special (ILO), which opened on Sunday in Kyoto, raised relationships between teachers and students. the crucial issues of the prevailing mismatch Innovation is the key issue, and young people are between the available skills and the demands of the main driving force behind innovation, he feels. current employers and the severe lack of options Promoting entrepreneurship will increase for the youth, who are left out of decision- and employment and bring about benefits to economic policy-making. growth. Moderator Paranjoy Guha Thakurta from India said Pranav Shagotra, youth-wing president of the the challenges before the youth were huge; close International Trade Union Congress (ITUC), Asia to 60 per cent of the young people in the world Pacific, said policy-makers should understand the lived in the Asia Pacific region, which accounted for problems of young people and involve them in 45 per cent of all the unemployment on the planet. policy-making decisions. Vocational training Vocational and skill-level training was low. Women According to Ms. Mun, the Malaysian government, did not get jobs and in the Asia Pacific, he said, now looking at promoting vocational education for while the youth were highly qualified, they did not students, had set up institutions, with Japanese get the jobs they studied for. and German help, to provide youth with actual The industries need something else and children of work experience.