New engg colleges face vacancy woes

With thousands of engineering seats remaining vacant this year, the ministry of human resource development (HRD) has finally taken a step to check this worrisome scenario.
The All India Council for Technical Education ( AICTE) has been asked by the ministry to seek the opinion of state governments on whether the Council should temporarily stop extending approval to new engineering institutes.
The number of vacant seats at engineering institutions across the country this year has made headlines and was also raised in the Parliament during the last session.

“ The directive ( to AICTE) to seek the opinion of state government was given about two weeks ago. The letter hasn’t been sent to the state governments as yet. It will be done within the next few days,” said a ministry official, who did not wish to be identified.
“ The letter will go to the states where more than 10 per cent of the total seats have found no takers. Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh figure on that list.
“ The idea is to ask them if they want the AICTE to stop extending approval to new engineering institutes for the time being,” said another ministry official.
The AICTE is the only authority empowered to grant recognition to technical courses run by different universities and institutes in the country. The number of engineering institutions which got the Council’s nod has been steadily increasing over the last three years.
The Council approved 2,388 engineering colleges in 2008, 2,942 in 2009 and 3,241 colleges in 2010. In 2010- 11 AICTE recognised the highest number of engineering institutes in Karnataka ( 159) followed by Uttar Pradesh ( 105).

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Forensics: Make a career out of solving crime

Who was the world’s first known forensic scientist? History says it is Archimedes. A new crown had been made for King Hiero II. Had the goldsmith added some silver or was it solid gold? Who could solve this mystery without dissolving the crown?

It was Archimedes who solved it. He had noticed that water rising whenever he stepped into a bathtub. He solved the problem based on volume of the crown and the amount of displaced water.
But it was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation of Sherlock Holmes in the late nineteenth century that popularised the usage of science in solving crimes. It is the scene of the crime that often leads to the culprit. Enter the forensic scientist; it’s his job to collect evidences at the crime scene.
Though the field has existed for years yet, it is still not a career option for many despite being exposed to a TV series like CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) and plethora of detective stories.
But, have you ever thought of exploring the field as a career? Riddhi N. Parekh had the opportunity to participate in ‘Awareness week’ at her college during graduation. She was inspired to enter the world of Forensics for PG studies.

“It is challenging, the non-availability of crime scenes as part of study, being the only sad part,” expresses Riddhi, a second-year student of MSc Forensic Science. But this didn’t stop her from showing up at the scene of a robbery committed near her house, where she helped collect firsthand forensic evidence.

More : http://campus.yahoo.com/news/yeducareers360/forensics-make-career-out-solving-crime-20110929

Leadership Lessons from M.S. Dhoni

The story of Mahendra Singh Dhoni is nothing short of a fairy-tale.

It's about an ordirnary man who went on to do extraordinary things owing to his sheer grit and “intelligent” daredevilry. And, as they say that fortune favours the brave, luck, too has been on his side.

You don't need to be a cricket fan to take stock of his leadership skills. True, that Team India lost humiliatingly in the test and one-day series against England but this does not place his leadership skills under scrutiny. His rare quality of extracting benefits from criticism had made India win matches and he himself won the hearts of millions of people. Managers and entrepreneurs can learn so much from him and then apply it to their real life situations.

Some Inspirational Quotes by Dhoni

“I never predict what will happen in cricket. We believe in each other and we believe in the process.”
“We are not thinking about what may happen if we achieve or what may happen if we don't succeed because those two things are beyond our control.
“We take each game in the right frame of mind”
“We don't rely on one specific individual. We expect everybody to contribute.” (Worklife, MensXP.com)


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