“And so, where is Rhode Island, the island you go?” The young companions at the airport in Mumbai-Check-in counter asked me with a smile, when she submitted my passport and me It was not in facetious.

“This is not an island.” I Répondit. “It is a state of the East Coast of the USA!”

They have been we have not yet acted negligently. Protects against ignorance, the sentence can not monopolized by a single culture.

Eighteen hours later, when I’m in the field of luggage were transported to the airport TF Green, January 18, I wondered if I had done what the right to expect.

Last year, after several laps, I was bi-national Fulbright Commission announced that the USA Educational Foundation in India (USEFI). With the award of Fulbright, I went to each school to the USA, wanted me.

And yes, Rhode Island College, why?

A friend has recommended: A better name would be known more about my curriculum vitae impressive

For me, however, is the decision to teach in a school of small size, rather as a “brand name”, everything seemed normal. I teach at one of the most famous Indian universities, but I have always pointed out small communities. I started my career, teaching in 1980 at a college in a temple in Orissa City, Province of my house, on the east coast of India.

Ideally, Fulbright - made in an act of Congress in 1945 - has prompted scientists to promote mutual understanding through education and cultural exchanges. In this sense, Rhode Island College, an institution supported by the State of Rhode Island on the restoration of the middle and lower income people, appeared to offer challenges.

The teaching of Indian literature in such a group of students would be difficult and interesting. I have new exchange, as attested by the recent publication on the international scene. Furthermore, a former teacher myself, Amritjit Singh, professor, teaches at the RIC and has always been positive. Amrit and his wife, Prem, treat me as their brother.

But this was not the bourse, the first in my head on January 18. A huge snowstorm was brewing RIC Daniel’s got me Scott Green Airport. It was extremely disturbing - I come from a region where we have touted for three seasons: hot, hot, hot!

When I left India, my father was dead in his bed, Pondicherry. He was in his insistence that I stuck to my plan march to Providence. “Go ahead, my son,” he invited me. “The college can not have a back-up plan!” He died on February 4

First, stay with Subas and Jhuna Mohanty, the first generation of Indian Orissa, I soon in the Hillside Terrace Apartments, a fruit Hill Avenue, near RIC. It is quiet, residential area, I would have to walk to school and my students for the next five months.

My stay stretched from the harsh cold winter (so inexplicable spring) on a pleasant season, when the rain.

All intercultural learning activities in the context, it is exciting. And what was also the particularity of Rhode Island in my experience?

I found my students interested articulate, clear and attentive - even if it is something insular. Education has always been accompanied by a plethora of questions about the evils of India, real and imaginary: poverty, inequality, widow burning, delay, the caste system, tsunami.

Technical Education is an important complement to economic development. It is estimated that in the world nearly 50% in economic development due to technological progress. Linked to the rapid industrialization of liberalization and globalization for the country’s economic development, a request for provision of appropriate technologies as a man of power. No doubt, the technical capacity of the education system has varied in recent years, but it is less than 1% of total enrolment of students in higher education. The main reason for this gap is that until there is unwilling technical training was supervised by the central and state governments through the support of them.

The number of institutions of higher technical education for engineering and technology degrees and diploma levels in the country of 7000 has been accompanied by an increase in the contribution of approximately 1000 to 3.00000. In addition, we have more than 80 training institutions in the architecture of the Undergraduate level with a capacity of 3500 and 500 other institutions, education pharmacy with an outlet 25000

From management training in 500 establishments with an outlet 45000th But the forces working in this sector, as there are about 0.3 per thousand inhabitants compared to nearly 40 per thousand in developed countries. Even if we have a broad base of science and technology with the creation of appropriate infrastructure and qualified personnel, it happen that whenever we make a step forward, the global scenario hop 5 to 10 stages. Accordingly, the number of scientists and engineers to remain in the country remains poor, large, considering the population.

Similarly, in the overall context of population dynamics, our printing, our problems more complex. We have shown significant achievements in the fields of agriculture, energy, electronics, telecommunications, aerospace, missiles, bio-technology, but we measure the world performance standards and technology in many achievements and rely heavily on imported technology. Loan-out-of-date technology from abroad is more and more to ensure that we are doing.

With the liberalization of the economy, the protection enjoyed by the industry is rapidly disappearing. Global Player are able to keep their gains on the market through continuous innovation by In-house R & D lead to improved performance in addition to new features and a reduction of production costs and other operations.

The research and development for the industry can be divided into three categories: basic or exploratory research, research and development.

Scientists and Indian doctors have studied and practiced abroad to return to their countries of origin, seeking ways to back growth and professional development, says a new study.

More and more medical professionals of the mission of lucrative jobs to the USA and other countries adopt to return to India and research institutes and hospitals, study shows the Charities Aid Foundation of India (CAF).

The statistics are revealing. Of the roughly 250 researchers working at Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, 20 have returned from foreign shores. They are a new medicine research.

On Lupin Laboratories, four researchers from the USA in search of chemicals in nature. Ten of the 80 researchers at Nicholas Piramal, come from abroad and Wockhardt has weaned away from 10 scientists from the biotechnology, research new medicines, chemistry and pharmacology.

According to the FCA, a resident in the UK public believes that staff with donors for Corporate social causes, is proof of “the intensity of the reverse brain drain”.

The largest number of specialists from the USA, where Indian doctors are the largest foreign health professional group.

This influx is supported by the powerful American Association of Physicians of Indian d’origine (AAPI) consisting of 35000 doctors regularly for interaction with the Medical Council of India.

Non-resident Indian (NRI), medical care for health care facilities and leads to India, including Apollo Hospitals, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Vera Laboratories, Medwin hospitals and the International School of Imaging Technology, and vaccination campaigns, polio and tuberculosis.

The salaries offered, as doctors in India NRI fired up, to facilitate the return. Some major Indian groups engagement abroad with packages from $ 250000 to $ 400000 per annum.

The study notes: “In India, they can afford luxury items, it did not have been the USA. The main living conditions here are improving, research opportunities for drug trafficking and companies invest more in research. ”

In addition, the work environment in India is much more flexible. Wockhardt Deputy Chief Research Scientist N.V.S. Rama Krishna was quoted in these terms that unlike India, scientists functioned in watertight compartments to the USA.

A steady decline is being witnessed in courses which were popular earlier as the trend shifts towards job-oriented, professional and specialised courses, which are mesmerising the youth in comparison to courses that offer little in terms of career or financial benefits.

Languages are bearing the brunt of this shift. The inclination can be gauged from the fact that only 22 students were admitted for courses in Urdu, Persian and Arabic against an aggregate 162 seats in various certificate, diploma and Master’s courses in these subjects at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.

Other languages are faring no better. Professional courses like MBA, MCA, law, architecture and physiotherapy are getting an overwhelming response. With sports having become a hot choice, degrees in physical education are in great demand.

A great rush is being seen among NRI applicants, who pay more than double the amount to attain a professional or specialised degree. However, the amount is nearly one-twentieth the sum they pay in foreign universities.

Even distance education programme, pitched at 30 per cent less than regular courses, are catching on with the time-constrained youth of today.

Many university departments are running less popular language courses out of compulsion. Merely nine students applied for Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit for its aggregate 66 seats in Master’s, certificate and diploma courses. Sources said the admission of nine students was a positive signal compared to previous years.

While English and French boasts of hundreds of applicants, the global trend towards French has propelled the department to increase its seats in comparison to other languages like German, Russian and Japanese offered by the university.

However, barring economics, mathematics, English and Punjabi, the response was far from satisfactory in other courses such as political science, sociology, psychology and philosophy.

Interestingly, women are excelling in almost all courses, including professional and specialised. The male-female ratio continues to drop. Only 35 per cent students comprise boys.

Specialised fields like computers zoology, microbiology, food sciences, sugar technology, electronics, pharmacy, and environmental sciences are giving a big boost to the career-oriented youth. As research fields, these are a great draw among students aiming at greener pastures in developed countries.

Among rural women, skill-development training courses are a big attraction. Courses like dress designing, cutting and tailoring and textile designing are popular. Electronics and computers are finding significant takers among rural boys.

Recognising the potential of professional and specialised courses, the university started integrated five-year courses in MBA, MCA, law, M. Tech (IT). However, Bachelor’s degree courses in its affiliated colleges in the same subjects consequently suffered a setback. Recent additions like BA LLB (Hons) on the pattern of the National Law School, Bangalore, endeavors to impart socially and practically relevant instructions in the form of ‘mock’ courts. The latest entrant is the Bachelor in Social Sciences (hons). This course is aimed at preparing students for different competitive examinations. Course curriculum covers all subjects.

New York: India in second place among the 10 countries most in nine Certified Professional qualifications, including information technology, finance and health, says a new study.

The USA ranking on the list of more than 2.39000 skills certifications for the year 2002, said Brainbench, an online test.

Despite much less than certifications earned in 2001, its domination of India in South Asia, with 38195 professional certifications, said a release by the company.

In Pakistan in 4970 with certification was ninth at the head of 10 countries and second, behind India in South Asia. Nepal, 105 certifications were third in South Asia.

The nine main categories studied in the report include software; essential qualifications, including the most important to read and write, mathematics, interpersonal communication and basic computer skills, finance, health care; branches of know-how, information technology, language and communication, hotel and the office of communication. The report said that although certifications in the computer world, who still have a depressed information technology sector, computing and information technology Certifications still lead all other categories. Office of knowledge, skills and basic software, computer monitoring, “he said.

Among the main findings are large concentrations of certified professionals in emerging markets outside the USA, including India and Russia.

Russia is the clear market leader among its brethren in the former Soviet Union, with 15242 certification in 2002. It is followed by Ukraine and Belarus. During 2002, Romania, United Kingdom overtaken Europe as a leader in the field of certification.

Bulgaria has maintained the number three on the ground in 2001. In the Pacific, Australia is clearly the market leader in certified professionals with the 7025th It is followed by Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore, given the importance of technology capabilities continue to play in these countries economies .

In South America, Brazil remained the largest number of certifications. Despite the weak economy - and in the case of Colombia, continued social unrest and political - Argentina and Colombia won the number two and three spots, respectively.

Sangeeta here diploma in interior design, but also a degree. Anjali is now married, and as a degree of B. Com wondered if this is a course they can do if you get a good job. Nitin is not able to get into a good school, his marks were low. So what can they do?

The answer is simple - Connecting to a distance education. The freedom to learn, to select the subjects of their own choices and stress tests without strong competition distance makes the program very attractive to young apprentices. Distance from the need to respect the latter is unable to regular classes. This gave rise to a huge change in the country’s education system. Suddenly, with the help of modern communication technologies in the context of information-Super-Highways, thousands of learners who are in a distance, have access to higher education. You now have the opportunity to acquire qualifications for employment.

If you belong to those who want to go for higher studies, but it can not in formal classes, then sign up for a course at a distance. The conveneience system, it is possible that it is unable to compete in the highly competitive selection system for regular courses of another route. Students, working and missed opportunities for the attainment of higher education because of social or economic constraints, those wishing to supplement their training, or those who do not benefit from access to higher education this option. In addition, cost-effectiveness of distance training programs, coupled with the flexibility inherent in him, he was a factor in the popularity of what is meant by “classroom without walls”.

Today, several universities, whose fifth place in the world, Indira Gandhi National Open University, offer a variety of courses by distance learning for school and interregional level, and graduate studies Post-Graduate . They cover a wide range of running the economy of education, the economy and vocational education to all science courses in education, law, library science, journalism, science, biotechnology, agriculture and linguistics, and so forth.

With the availability of correspondence courses, Sangeeta students now have more opportunities for access to vocational training and supply-oriented courses, for example, fashion design, hotel management, Multi-Media, Travel and develop tourism and so forth options work faster, as they can now follow at the same time graduation by correspondence.

Otherwise, there is a growing popularity of professionals such as courses of Auditors, of course, Company Secretary, of course, Chartered Financial Analysts, of course, financial planning and other programs to supplement regular programs graduation . He regularly BA or B. Com, which is unlikely you an offer you can consult one of these programs and more responsive to the labour market, if you qualify.

With environmental issues, gathering momentum, multinational companies, India, as Coca Cola, TetraPak Cairn India and have taken up initiatives for a country that respects the environment with the participation of Commons.

Oil exploration and production company Cairn India has projects in Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan. At the AP, he is developing a green belt along the coast and the setting up of rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems, in Rajasthan.

Beverage maker Coca-Cola, India has also RWH several projects in partnership with government, NGOs and local communities across the country. It has installed more than 300 RWH structures in 17 countries.

In the meantime, processing and packaging solutions providers Tetra Pak hands with the World Wildlife Fund launched in India and “Young Gespart climate” for a series of workshops on climate change in schools throughout ‘India with the goal of education lakh more than 2 children over a period of three years.

He also another programme in Mumbai, in conjunction with an NGO, is helping to raise rag-pickers uses Tetra Pak cartons and sell the paper mills for recycling purposes.

After Cairn India Corporate Communications Director David NISBET: “The company operates in many areas, face economic, social and environmental faced.

We have a responsibility to understand what Corporate Social challenges, the potential effects of our activities and cooperation with interest groups, seeking ways to mutual benefit.

Enseignantes et des enseignants au Sri Lanka, la guerre détruit le Nord et les régions de l’Est a commencé il ya un malade, cette campagne, le 5 25 octobre créances. Ils veulent des prestations encore à l’école occupées dans les zones de haute sécurité de l’armée Sri lankaise, l’abolition de l’armée bunker à proximité des établissements scolaires, Vaunia campus est de l’Université, une institution d ‘ enseignement et tous les postes de service. Ils sont une menace à prendre en grève à durée indéterminée le 24 Octobre, si leurs revendications ne sont pas accordées.

Dans un autre litige, des centaines d’enseignants et les formateurs travaillent picketed principes de l’éducation Battaramulla Ministère de la banlieue Colombo, le 6 Octobre est la journée mondiale des enseignants. Vous souhaitez un professeur de l’entraîneur ordinaire et l’action du service des principes de postes à temps plein.

Asia

Government workers protest in the Philippines on jobs and wages

Thousands of government employees mobilized in Manila on February 14 on the rationalization plans dismissal are not less than 420000 workers, employees of the City transfer of regional offices and freeze wages. Several demonstrations were organized, particularly in the downtown area, where a number of workers wore black T-shirts in protest on the place of layoffs.

Department of Labor and Employment workers gathered outside their office and staff mobilized for the health of the Division of Budget and Management offices to pay a call longstanding Cost of Living Allowance and 3000 pesos ($ US58.80) in-the-board monthly salary increase. The government asserts that 10000 of workers’ health must be rejected for financing these increases.

The school teachers protested outside San Sebastian College require compensation legal Peso 1000, in their base pay.

The protest was by the Confederation for Unity, Recognition and Advancement of Government Employees.

Korean path of demand for workers job security

The Korean Railway Workers’ Union (KRWU) announced February 14 it possessed a national strike next month. Workers are against South Korea Rail Road Cooperation (Korail) refusal of the implementation of a period of five days a week and ensure a safe workplace. The union also calls for the resignation Korail proposed job cuts, still about 70 laid-off workers and end management of non-discrimination of regular workers.

The KRWU hold a joint event with three transport unions Taehangno, Seoul, February 18 on the same issues. Seoul Railroad Workers’ Union, as well as taxis and truck drivers unions will be involved in the protest.

Korail management has promised that emergency measures when the strike is ahead, including employment of retired workers for military personnel and operation of the railway system.

Nearly 600 scientists and technologists, different industries are converging, the participation of Sunday “Prithvi 2005,” taking a comprehensive approach to sustainable land, environment and development lifestyles, which is a essential element of food influence on Earth. More than 3000 delegates expected to attend the event.

Ten international seminars will be simultaneously in five games sites 20 and 25 February. “People have their lives and careers on the development of alternative technologies to share their experiences on the spread and eco-frinedly live,” said Dr C Suresh Kumar, secretary of the Prithvi 2005.

Major luminaries specially invited presentations include Kapila Vatsyayan (expert on cultural heritage), Anil K Gupta, IIM Ahmedabad, Ferri Lumambo G (Approtech Asia-Philippines), Suman Sahai (anti-GM-combatants), KL Thappar (Asian Institute of Development of transport policy, New Delhi), E Sreedharan (President, Delhi Metro), Professor Dinesh Mohan (Transportation expert, IIT Delhi), Dr SP Jain (Director, NIRD, Hyderabad) Ms. Megan Epler Wood, President of The International Ecotourism Society, KV Peter (Vice-Chancellor, Kerala Agricultural University), Prof. Arockiaswamy, IIT Delhi, Eric Britton, France, Dr. Sukumar Devotta, NEERI, Nagpur, AP Mitra, former director general of the Council for Industrial Research and Scientiifc, Vipul Shah N, School of Planning, Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, SK Dube (PTC India Ltd), Manju Sharma , Former secretary of the department of biotechnology, among others.

Hold consultations on nine major themes of the event: lifestyles environmentally friendly, non-conventional energy, sustainable agriculture, sustainable land use and waste management, water protection, transportation environmentally friendly, nutrition, health and pharmacy green and eco-tourism.