Record number of students take govt quota engineering seats in Tamil Nadu

Academics have predicted that at least 50,000 engineering seats in the government quota are likely to go vacant in 2012. They will probably be spot on, but more students are opting for government quota seats this year than ever before.

Officials in charge of the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions said that they expect 1.25 lakh seats to be filled through the single window counselling system this year, the most since the process was introduced in 1997.

Till Friday, 1,17,507 candidates were allotted seats through the government quota, compared to 1.04 lakh students in 2011 and 1.1 lakh students in 2010.

Higher education experts said the large number was not a pointer to a sudden surge in demand for engineering seats. "It is just that more students have more confidence in single window counselling. There is greater awareness of the benefits of securing admission through the system," said professor Rhymend Uthariaraj, secretary of Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA).

Many students opted for admission through single window counselling because the tuition fee for those opting for management seats was much higher than the fee that students have to pay if they take government quota seats. The tuition fee students who take a non-accredited BE or BTech government quota seat is set at 40,000, while an accredited course costs 45,000 under the government quota. The tuition fee of a management course has been set at 70,000.

Another reason why students are choosing government quota seats is that banks are refusing to offer education loans to students for management seats. Students said from this year banks have started to demand proof that the student has opted for a government quota seat.

Many students hope to be able to pay for their course through an education loan, said education consultant Jayaprakash Gandhi. "They have been forced to opt for a government quota seat even if the college is not their first choice," he said. But students still have a choice of colleges.

"Many groups have three or five colleges and between 500 and 1,500 vacant seats," Gandhi said. "Quality matters and students are making more informed choices."

More than 50% of the students who applied to take part in the single window counselling system were first generation graduates, for whom the government had ordered full tuition fee waiver.

Academics expect 1.25 lakh seats to be filled by August 22, when the month-long engineering counselling ends on Saturday. After that the TNEA will conduct phase 2 of the vocational counselling on August 19 and 20. This will be followed by supplementary counselling on August 21 for candidates who failed the Class 12 exam, wrote the supplementary exam and are eligible to take part in the counselling process. The counselling will close on August 22 when SC students will be allowed to take up unfilled seats reserved for SC Arunthathiar students.

Jetking to Go Cloud Way with Its Training Courses !

First of its kind initiative in the computer hardware training segment. 

Jetking Infotrain Ltd, India’s No. 1 Computer Hardware & Networking Institute has done it again ! The institute will soon change its traditional method of training in flagship courses like JCHNE and JCHNP to a digitized and cloud platform in its 100 plus centers across the country. With cloud computing based training ‘JCHNE’ courses become all the more powerful with adapting latest technology.

The Cloud technology based training at Jetking has multiple advantages such as:

• Further improvement in Students’ learning and memory retention.
• Standardisation in syllabus and teaching method in all centres across the country.
• Uniform Curriculum ensuring nothing is missed out.
• Making student the latest technology savvy thus most sought after in the job market.

While commenting on the use of Cloud platform in the training Mr Suresh Bharwani – Chairman & Managing Director, Jetking Infotrain Ltd said “The digital push here aims to go far beyond whiteboards, power points, computers and other gadgets. It aims to transform the very nature of the classroom, turning the teacher into a guide instead of a lecturer, guiding and helping students who learn at their own pace on a digitized platform. Equipped with audio video content along with graphical tutorials makes learning fun, faster and easier. A lot of time and skill has been invested to set up the necessary infrastructure to make the complete transition from traditional method to the Cloud based digitized training. With all the necessary softwares and infrastructure tried and tested we are now fully ready to roll out cloud technology based training in our flagship course ‘Computer Hardware & Networking’at our all centres so that the students joining in this academic year can reap the benefits of it”.

“Jetking’s JCHNE course of a one year becomes all the more powerful and effective in achieving our objective : To create maximum number of employable youths with an exposure to the latest technology like Cloud Computing . This new development has certainly taken Jetking at a different level thereby hopping to attract the cream of the industry during our placement season next year” added Mr Siddarth Bharwani – Head, Marketing at Jetking Infotrain Ltd.

Jetking Infotrain Ltd. listed on BSE is  well-known for innovations and has always been pioneer in adding new features to its courses that make students job ready in the market on the completion of the course, for example JetEdge – Smart Learn English Program introduced two years ago has benefited students immensely in securing the desired jobs. Then added ‘Genuine 100% Job Guaruntee’to its course.

JCHNE course now with Cloud technology based training covers four prime modules:
Module 1: Basic Electronics and Office Tool (138 hours)
Module 2: Computer Hardware (166 hours)
Module 3: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Technician (196 hours)
Module 4: Network Administrator (124 hours).   

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Engg students clueless even after Mumbai University lifts 8-yr pass policy

Several hundreds of engineering students,who were affected by the University of Mumbai's mandate to clear their course within eight years,are still in the dark.Despite universitys management council lifting the mandate two months ago,students have still not been informed about their examination schedule.In a recent circular issued by the university,the norm which makes it mandatory for students to clear it within eight years of enrolment has been lifted.

A student from a Navi Mumbai college,who was not allowed to appear for his exam in November last year due to the sudden implementation of the rule,said,We have been approaching the college authorities regularly.But they have not received any communication from the university.We have already missed an attempt in November.If they do not declare the exam dates now,we will miss a whole year. Students claim colleges are not even aware of the circular,which was uploaded on the varsity website on February 29.Another student said,Exam dates for regular students have already been announced for the May-June schedule.When does the university plan to conduct the examinations for us. 

An official from the examination board said the universitys registrar office is yet to decide on the exam schedule for students who were affected by the policy last year.However,S K Ukrande,dean of technology,said colleges have already been informed about the decision.Students will be allowed to appear for the exam in the May-June session.Exam dates will be announced soon, said Ukrande.