Nurses in Software & IT Skills

A great demand for Nurses in Software & IT Skills: Due to the dedication in services of the Nurses from North East, there is a high demand of nurses from the North-East within India and abroad. But due to lack of Communication and IT Skills displayed by nurses from the North East, the Nurses face problems in their working environment and getting a job. Expertise in computers would greatly enhance nursing recruitment and would prove to be the ultimate solution to problems of adaptability that nurses from the North East face outside their home states.

About The Course:

A syllabus for training the Nurses has been developed by DOEACC Centre, Aizawl with feedbacks from leading health care institutions. The course aims to tackle six domains that have an influence on patient satisfaction with nursing care:

• Socio-demographic (cultural) background of the patients.
• Patients expectations regarding nursing care.
• Physical environment.
• Communication and information.
• Participation and involvement.
• Interpersonal relations between nurse and patient.

The syllabus for the proposed training programme includes topics/domains that have been found to be the main reasons for the inability of nurses from the North-East to function as efficient health care professionals both within India and abroad. The programme also includes training on Information Technology (IT) and familiarization of computers within the Health Industry.

Course structure and duration:

The Course consists of classroom and laboratory sessions for the technical subjects, and interactive sessions in developing the soft-skills. The duration of the course is 160 hours spread over eight weeks (2 months).
Each day’s training will be a mix of classroom and laboratory sessions.

CBSE Students Engineering Admissions

CHENNAI:

CBSE students who wish to apply for engineering admissions in the State could be in for a busy and stressful weekend on May 24 and 25.

With their Class XII board examination results expected around that time, and Anna University closing its applications on Monday, May 26, they will be racing to meet the deadline. Sources in the CBSE said the results were likely to be out during the last week of May.

Last year, the Class XII results for Ajmer and Chennai regions were declared on May 23.

Anna University officials involved in the admission process say that the dates may be extended after discussions with the State government and the CBSE. “We will make sure there are no problems for students …Even State Board schools will only be giving mark sheets on May 21, so we may have to extend dates,” said an official.

The original dates for submitting applications had been announced after consultation with the State Board officials.

“They expected to declare results by May 10, so we set the dates as May 10 to 16. We have not had any interaction with the CBSE,” said an official.

Admission Guidelines For Arts and science

The State government has revised the admission guidelines for arts and science colleges from this academic year (2008-09) in view of the introduction of Choice Based Credit System (CBCS).

A G.O., dated May 10, was issued citing the procedures for admission of students to undergraduate/postgraduate courses in Government, aided and unaided arts and science colleges, an official in the Department of Collegiate Education here told The Hindu on Tuesday. Under the new system, colleges will have to prepare a rank list for admission to undergraduate courses out of 800 marks in subject components in the Plus Two examination.

“Colleges have been told to follow the revised guidelines in letter and spirit, and the particulars of how admissions should be made for various courses like B.A., B.Sc. and B.Com. have been sent to them by the Directorate,” said V. Swaminathan, Regional Joint Director of Collegiate Education.

Admission to Government colleges will be through counselling like last year. The general rule of calculating marks for the subject component for candidates who apply for undergraduate courses is mentioned in the latest guidelines.

The GO also cites the subjects that a student should have studied in Plus Two for becoming eligible for admission to a particular undergraduate course.

According to the GO, the last date for receipt of filled-in applications by colleges should be fixed as the 10th working day from the date of issue of Plus Two mark statement.

Fee For Government Quota Seats

An amicable settlement has been reached for the long pending issue of fee revision for unaided engineering colleges in the state. While the government stuck to its stand of not changing the tuition fee for government quota seats, the bureaucrats consented to allow an annual development fee of Rs 2,500 per student. This was based on the condition that the development fee should be used for strengthening, computing and teaching infrastructure.

Enquiries on both sides revealed that the government had given consent to the managements to collect Rs 65,000 as annual fees for their quota. The consensus basically means the government has met the college managements’ demands for differential fees structure. The government said it could consider the demand for another fee revision in case the sixth pay commission is implemented.

The government had five to six rounds of negotiations with the managements of unaided engineering colleges. All stakeholders in Tamil Nadu engineering scenario have been eagerly waiting for the announcement over the revision of fees chargeable by unaided colleges in the state. The delay has a lot of stress to parents and students, who say that they were left in the dark about the issue.

Private engineering college managements have been seeking a 100 to 150 percent increase from the present Rs 32,500 fixed by the government four years ago. The managements had contended that they need at least Rs 60,000 as fees considering that not only provide education, but also they complete training in soft skills, which makes give students employable.

A chairperson of a private engineering college said, “Industries recruit students with at least three types of skills (computing, soft skills and problem solving capability). Several managements spend at least Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000 per student the third and fourth year to provide these value adding skills. Other than this, the cost of software has phenomenally gone up, although hardware cost has come down significantly.

Marking scheme took into account difficulty level of exams

Chennai

The pass percentage of Class XII students, who took the All India Secondary School Examination conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), has gone up to 90.71 this year.

With a 7.71-per cent point rise from last year’s 83 per cent in the Chennai region, this year’s results are all the more significant as they reflect students’ High Order Thinking Skills (HOTS).

Earlier this year, the CBSE announced that this year’s public examinations would shift from testing More of The Same (MOTS), which was based on repetition and stereotypes, to Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) that emphasise interpretation and synthesis of knowledge.

Announcing the results for the Chennai region here on Wednesday, CBSE’s regional officer for Chennai Region V. Nagaraju said the pass percentage of students who appeared through schools alone was 92.84. When private candidates’ performance was included, the pass percentage was 90.71.

The Chennai region includes schools in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Daman and Diu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, Kerala, Puducherry and Lakshwadeep. Among these, Puducherry recorded the highest pass percentage of 97.75.

As many as 48, 632 students from 1,510 schools in these regions appeared for the examinations this March.

Promise kept

Students and teachers from city schools had earlier expressed apprehension about the marking scheme for the mathematics and physics papers, which were largely considered difficult. However, the CBSE had then promised that students would not stand to lose and that experts would prepare the marking scheme keeping in mind the difficulty level of each paper.

“We have kept our promise,” CBSE’s Controller of examinations M.C. Sharma told The Hindu after the results were declared.

After the examinations are held, the CBSE circulates an ‘observation schedule’ among all affiliated schools.

In this, teachers could put down their observations, suggestions and feedback on difficulty level, for all subjects. The feedback is consolidated and the points made are noted by the expert committee working on the marking scheme. “The scheme is decided taking into account all these points,” Mr. Sharma said. In TamilNadu, where the Common Entrance Test has been abolished, entry into most professional colleges in the State would depend on where the CBSE students stand in comparison to their State Board counterparts during the normalization of marks. Candidates who wish to have their answer sheets checked again could apply for the same.