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  • Inter practical exams from today

    HYDERABAD: Intermediate practical examinations will be held from February 3 to February 23 across 2,573 centres in the state. A total of 5,92,904 students will appear for the exams to be held between 9 am to 12 noon and 2 p.m to 5 p.m.

    The Board of Intermediate Education has charted out a list of measures to be taken to ensure smooth conduct of the examination. Among them are forming of district examination committees, increase in the number of examiners and constituting a high power committee with collector as its chairman. The committee comprising SP as vice-chairman, and district vocational educational officers as ex-officio members is vested with the power to order re-conduct examination wherever malpractices are established. Also the number of examiners this year have been increased and will not be allowed to conduct practical examination in their own college or another junior college of the same management.

    Flying squads will also be deployed like the theory examinations. Departmental officers have been appointed to all private unaided college practical examination centres and they will be changed every five days. Also examiners at a centre will be changed every three days. Provision for re-verification of the practical answer scripts of candidates in any college (where 25 percent of the candidates) score 100 percent marks in practical examinations have been made. Also the BIE can re-verify answer scripts of students who score between 27 and 30 marks in practical examinations.

    The theory exams would commence from March 7. The board has conducted orientation programs for senior lecturers for strengthening the valuation system.

    “We are requesting students and political parties to cooperate for the smooth conduct of the examinations. It is mandatory to have appeared for the Intermediate exams for students to be eligible for competitive exams like AIEEE, IIT and AAIMS,” secretary of the Board of Intermediate Education G. Balaramaiah said in a press release.

    Source : Indian Express

  • Life skills set to be part of tech courses

    NEW CURRICULUM TO COME INTO FORCE IN JUNE Lack of inter-personal skills has been affecting the employment prospects of most engineering students.

    Inter-personal and life skills will be made part of the curriculum for engineering students from this year. At present, the curriculum for engineering courses is confined to making students “technologically sound” with no focus on developing their inter-personal skills.

    Sources point out that lack of inter-personal skills has been affecting the employment prospects of most engineering students and employers are having to spend 25 per cent of their expenses on training these students on inter-personal and life skills after recruiting them.

    The AICTE has appointed an 11-member committee to examine the issue and devise the new curriculum.

    JNTU-Hyderabad Vice Chancellor, Prof D.N. Reddy, is one of the members of the committee and is also heading the sub-committee on engineering sciences. The committee will draft the new curriculum by March, which would be approved in April. The new curriculum will come into force from the new academic year in June.

    From this year, for the first time, there will be a uniform curriculum for the entire country and all engineering colleges will have to adopt a semester and grading system for exams.

    “Ten per cent of the new curriculum will comprise humanities like inter-personal and life skills. The other 15 per cent will be in basic science subjects like mathematics, 25 per cent in engineering sciences and 40 per cent on core subjects.
    The objective is to integrate humanities into engineering curriculum and to make engineers well-rounded individuals apart from making the course interesting,” said Prof. Reddy.

    He said unlike management students, who are taught inter-personal skills as part of curriculum, engineering students are usually known for their lack of communication skills.

    “During campus placements, most companies complain about the poor communication skills of engineering students though they are technically sound.

    The new curriculum will bridge the gap between the academia and industry,” Prof. Reddy added.

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