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India: Reach for the stars

Asia/India/Agosto del 2017/Noticias/http://www.thehindu.com/

The world’s lightest satellite, designed by an Indian student, has been launched by NASA.

When talent, dream and team work come together, age is just a number. With his invention, Mohammed Rifath Sharook has proved that today.

A lead scientist in Space Kidz India, Sharook, an 18-year-old student from Pallapatti in Karur district, Tamil Nadu, has created the world’s smallest, lightest and low-cost nano satellite along with his team. The satellite was launched by NASA’s Langley research centre, Virginia, on June 22, this year. Sharook explains his invention, “It was a sub-orbital flight — a space flight that doesn’t complete the orbit of the earth but goes to space and lands in a parabolic trajectory.”

Inspiration

Sharook developed an interest in space science while he was studying in Class VIII because of his father who was a space research scientist. “We would always talk about space and the universe when I was a child. I used to tell him that I will design a satellite one day,” said Sharook. This passion for space research has made him one of the leading scientists in a Chennai-based space organisation called Space Kidz India (SKI).

After his father’s death in 2008, he garnered support to realise his dream. “My greatest supporters are my mother, uncle and Dr. Srimathy Kesavan, CEO of SKI, who constantly supported me,” he adds

Sharook participated in a space challenge contest, ‘Cubes of Space’, for young inventors. This challenge was organised by an education company called ‘I doodle Learning’. He led the project and created the satellite along with his team Vinay Bharadwaj, Tanishq Dwivedi, Yagna Sai, Abdul Khasif and Gobinath. He named it as KalamSat to demonstrate his admiration for renowned space scientist, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

The satellite can be used as a radio reflector and as backup communication during disaster. It is made of reinforced 3D-printed carbon fibre polymer. “This carbon fibre is used to reduce the size of the satellite and make the launch more cost-effective,” says Sharook. “We created the satellite from scratch. We did a lot of research on different cube satellites from all over the world and found that ours was the lightest,” he added. How hard was it for them? “Well, the biggest struggle we had was to fit all the things in a 3.8 cm cube as the weight of the satellite could not be more than 64 grams.”

“Creating a private space research agency such as Space X India is our next aim,” says Sharook.

Fuente: http://www.thehindu.com/education/reach-for-the-stars/article19479862.ece

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India: SFI sweeps student union polls

Asia/India/Agosto del 2017/Noticias/http://www.thehindu.com

Mridula Gopi becomes the first girl chairperson at Maharaja’s College

The Students’ Federation of India (SFI) claimed a major victory in the college union elections held in institutions affiliated to the Mahatma Gandhi University in Ernakulam on Tuesday.

The organisation said it had won 47 of the 51 colleges in the district. The autonomous Ernakulam Maharaja’s College witnessed the election of its first girl candidate as chairperson of the union. Mridula Gopi of the SFI defeated Fuvad Muhammed of the Fraternity Movement by a margin of 121 votes. Ms. Gopi won 884 votes while Mr. Fuad got 763 votes. Seven girl students from the SFI panel won the election. It also won 13 of the total 14 seats.

Fraternity Movement bagged one seat when its candidate Ishaq Ibrahim won as the representative of the third year degree batch. A release issued by the Fraternity Movement said that it had also won the union at HM College, Muvattupuzha.

A release issued by the SFI claimed that it had won all the seats in 31 colleges. It regained the college union at Al-Ameen College, Edathala, from the KSU-MSF combine after nine years.

Mridula Gopi, who was elected chairperson of the union at Maharaja’s College.

The federation also defeated the Kerala Students Union to win all the seats at U.C. College, Aluva. Seventy-seven of the 86 university union councillors also belonged to the SFI, it said.

The colleges in which the SFI panels won all seats include Gujarati College, Kochi; RLV College, Thripunitura; SS College, Poothotta; St. Thomas College, Puthencruz; H.M. College, Ranarkara; Eldho Mar Baselius College, Nellikuzhi; Indira Gandhi College, Nellikuzhi; Mar Elias College, Kottapadi; St. Mary’s College, Allapra; Al-Ameen College, Edathala; BMC Law College, Choondi; SNGICT Arts College; SNGICT Engineering College; Mata College, Manakkapadi; and KMM College, Thrikkakara.

A release issued by the KSU said that it won the union at Cochin College. The combine of KSU and MSF won all seats at Jai Bharat College.

Fuente: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/sfi-sweeps-student-union-polls/article19541436.ece

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India: Raghuram Rajan pens book on RBI stint in ‘turbulent times’

Asia/India/Agosto del 2017/Noticias/http://www.thehindu.com/

Raghuram Rajan explains economic concepts and talks of issues like tolerance and connection between political freedom and prosperity in his new book, which is a collection of essays and speeches during his stint as RBI head.

When Mr. Rajan took charge as governor of the Reserve Bank of India in September 2013, the rupee was in free fall, inflation was high, India had a large current account deficit, and exchange reserves were falling.

As measure after measure failed to stabilise markets, speculators sensed a full-blown crisis and labelled India one of the Fragile Five economies.

Mr. Rajan’s response was to go all out, not just to tackle the crisis of confidence, but also to send a strong message about the strength of India’s institutions and the country’s ongoing programme of reform, publisher HarperCollins India said.

Mr. Rajan’s commentary and speeches in “I Do What I Do: On Reform, Rhetoric & Resolve” convey what it was like to be at the helm of the central bank in those turbulent but exciting times, it said.

The book will hit stores on September 4.

“Rajan outlined a vision that went beyond the immediate crisis to focus on long-term growth and stability, thus restoring investor confidence. Boldness and farsightedness would be characteristic of the decisions he took in the ensuing three years,” the statement by HarperCollins said.

“Whether on dosanomics or on debt relief, Rajan explains economic concepts in a readily accessible way. Equally, he addresses key issues that are not in any banking manual but essential to growth: the need for tolerance and respect to assure India’s economic progress, for instance, or the connection between political freedom and prosperity,” it added.

This is not Mr. Rajan’s first book. He co-authored “Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists” with Luigi Zingales and wrote “Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy”, for which he was awarded the Financial Times-Goldman Sachs prize for best business book.

Fuente: http://www.thehindu.com/books/raghuram-rajan-pens-book-on-rbi-stint-in-turbulent-times/article19546543.ece

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EEUU: 3-day open innovation hackathon from Aug. 29

América del Norte /Asia/EEUU/India/Agosto del 2017/Noticias/http://www.thehindu.com

Chief Minister to present awards for best prototypes during the event

Students of University of California (UC) Berkeley will work together with the students of Indian universities on ‘UC Berkeley-Andhra Smart Villages’ programme and an agreement has been made in this regard.

The US university has partnered with Koneru Lakshmaiah University (KLU) and other Indian universities to evaluate and find solutions to the problems in the rural areas, according to Solomon Darwin of University of California and chairman of Open Innovation Forum.

As part of the project, the open innovation hackathon would hold a convention for students, entrepreneurs, businessmen and heads of different global banks on KLU campus at Vaddeswaram in Guntur district from August 29 to 31, said Darwin at a press conference held here on Tuesday. “The hackathon designing team has identified categories, including agriculture, education, health, aquaculture, digital technology, transportation, entrepreneurship, skill development, communication, safety and security, proposed to develop in villages.

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu will present awards for best prototypes in each category,” said Prof. Darwin. The theme of the programme was to empower rural India with digital technology for economic development by creating a platform to converge knowledge centres, academicians, administrators, researchers and students, said KL University Vice-Chancellor L.S.S. Reddy. Chief Advisor of Berkeley-Andhra Smart Villages Project I.V. Murali Krishna said as many as 22 students worked on different technologies and challenges would share their ideas with the Indian students. KLU Registrar T. Uma Maheswara Rao and university open forum chairman M. Kishore Babu said arrangements were on for the event.

“As many as 2,300 student teams from different institutions got registered for the three-day open innovation forum, of which 30 best teams were selected for the meet, in which representatives of various technical institutions in India, professors from UC-Berkeley and Stanford Universities, corporate executives of Silicon Valley and other firms will address the delegates”, Mr. Murali Krishna said.

Fuente: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/3-day-open-innovation-hackathon-from-aug-29/article19543789.ece

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Estudio de impacto de Educación Infantil en la India

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El estudio sobre el Impacto de la Educación en la Primera Infancia de la India (IECEI) es un estudio de investigación en colaboración que reúne elementos de investigación cuantitativa y cualitativa para comprender la ECE en la India rural. Concebido como un estudio longitudinal de cinco años (2011-2016) de una cohorte de cuatro años de edad en tres estados principales de la India, el estudio propone ver el impacto de aprendizaje temprano, la socialización y las experiencias de preparación escolar en preescolar en los resultados educativos y de comportamiento A lo largo de las etapas primarias. El Informe de Estudio de Impacto de Educación Infantil de la India fue publicado por UNICEF y lanzado el 28 de julio de 2017.

India Informe de Estudio de Impacto de Educación Infantil  | Resumen de políticas

Fuente: http://www.asercentre.org/Keywords/p/306.html

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Number of Indian students in UK on the rise: Envoy

India/Agosto de 2017/Fuente: Zee News

Resumen:  El Alto Comisionado Británico de India, Dominic Asquith, dijo el jueves que el número de estudiantes indios en el Reino Unido está aumentando después de haber experimentado un descenso en los últimos años. Agregó que no hay ningún intento del gobierno del Reino Unido para detener a estudiantes extranjeros dispuestos a cursar estudios universitarios en su país. «Hubo una disminución en el número de estudiantes indios en el Reino Unido desde los últimos años, pero se ha recuperado un 10 por ciento en el último año.El noventa por ciento de esos estudiantes están llegando a la educación universitaria en el Reino Unido, «Dijo Asquith en una interacción con los estudiantes del Instituto del Patrimonio aquí.

British High Commissioner to India Dominic Asquith on Thursday said the number of Indian students in the UK is picking up after going through a decline in the last few years.

He added that there is no attempt from the UK government to hold back foreign students willing to pursue university education in their country.

«There was a decline in the number of Indian students in the UK since the last few years but it has picked back up by 10 per cent in the last year. Ninety per cent of those students are coming to pursue university education in the UK,» Asquith said at an interaction with the students of Heritage Institute here.

«If anybody has the perception that there is any intention to keep students away, it is not true. Around 90 per cent of the Indians who apply for higher education in the UK get the visa. It was 83 per cent in 2010 and has been going up since then,» he said.

Citing the example of Edinburgh University where 99.7 per cent of the total Indian applicants end up getting through, Asquith said some of the UK-based universities have a remarkable record of Indian students applying and studying there.

He said the drop in the number of Indian students in the UK was not because of the change in its student immigration policy but because a number of further education colleges were shut down by the government in 2010 as they were not offering any proper courses.

«In 2010 we found out a large number of further education colleges were a hoax. They were not educating anybody. They never had a course. So we closed them as they were not colleges at all,» Asquith said.

«Back in 2010, there were 19,000 Indian students in the UK of whom 50 per cent went to further education colleges while the rest went to pursue university education. In today`s time 90 per cent of the students go for university education while 10 per cent go to pursue higher education courses,» he added.

Fuente: http://zeenews.india.com/education/number-of-indian-students-in-uk-on-the-rise-envoy-2036027.html

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Arte y cultura para la educación básica de la población rural en India

India/21 agosto 2017/Fuente: Guía Ongs

La Fundación Vicente Ferrer está apostando por la cultura y las manifestaciones artísticas para transmitir a la población de las zonas rurales valores básicos para la convivencia y el avance de la comunidad. El teatro y la pintura están siendo dos de las herramientas más utilizadas por el equipo de la organización para alcanzar este fin de comunicar y sensibilizar a la ciudadanía en India, concretamente en Andhra Pradesh, el estado en el que están presentes con este tipod e actividades.

Por un lado está las puestas en escena teatrales. Se tratan temas como la violencia hacia las mujeres, los matrimonios infantiles, la importancia de la educación o la necesidad de mejorar los cuidados de la salud e higiene personal. Esto se ha recogido en algunas obras de teatro que están haciendo reflexionar a los aldeanos, alcanzándose algunos de los objetivos que se han marcado desde la Fundación. “Una representación teatral se comprende y se siente más que cualquier lectura”, apunta Samson Akumalla, que es coordinador de las actividades teatrales de la FVF.

El funcionamiento de estas dinámicas es el siguiente: primero se detectan cuáles son los principales problemas que presenta el lugar y después se estudia cómo solventarlos y de qué manera tratar unas situaciones que son cotidianas para la mayoría de ellos. “En ocasiones ves a algunas mujeres emocionadas con la representación teatral. Identifican el problema como suyo y les mostramos la solución”, especifica Doreen Reddy, directora del Sector Mujeres.

Reddy participa también de las manifestaciones de arte mural, un medio de comunicación muy efectivo para mujeres y hombres de la comunidad. Se presentan escenas que simbolizan una situación o que están representando algún suceso en concreto. Los murales tratan sobre la discriminación e información de la línea de ayuda telefónica que hay para proteger los derechos de los menores frente al trabajo infantil o a los matrimonios precoces. En las pinturas se recoge “paso a paso cómo denunciar abusos, la disponibilidad de este recurso los 365 días del año”, añade la directora del Sector Mujeres.

“El mural es un elemento de comunicación que perdura, que se ve todos los días”, dice Doreen Reddy. “Es como si alguien te informará acerca de prevenir la discriminación hacia las mujeres cada día”, sentencia.

Fuente: http://www.guiaongs.org/noticias/arte-cultura-la-educacion-basica-la-poblacion-rural-india/

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