John Brumfield

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Now a Software to keep an eye on cheating during the exam

This year, more than 58 lakh students have registered for the UP board exams which are scheduled to be held in February next week. Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma said that exams will commence on February 7 and will be conducted in the 16 working days. He also said that the government has taken a lot of measures to prevent cheating during the exams. Minister told that a new software has been designed to check the menace of copying in UP board class 10th and 12th exams. He also said that the exam centers which had reported the maximum cases of cheating in year’s exam will be monitored more strictly. "At sensitive exam centers, Aadhaar of students has been linked with registration. However, not every centre across the state has been linked to Aadhaar. A district-wise list of suspicious centres has also been prepared," he said. Talking about the incidents of copying, Mr. Sharma said that in past years copying was so rampant in the state that students from specific states were kept at one exam center. "At these centers, stringent measures have been initiated to ensure that use of unfair means does not take place. Last year, a strict vigil was maintained on suspicious centers. As a result, 67 persons were arrested from a place. A press printing answer sheets were unearthed in Jaunpur, while a gang involved in the leakage of question paper was busted in Hardoi. Impersonators were caught in Kaushambi and Aligarh," he said. "There were large-scale irregularities involved in setting up of an examination centre. Now schools desirous of becoming exam centers have to apply online and submit details of facilities. The software will choose the centre while keeping in mind laid down parameters and criteria,” said Sharma. "Owing to efforts of the UP government", Mr Sharma also said, "use of unfair means has stopped, and the number of students studying in government schools has increased by 18-20 per cent".

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Kerala government postponed the plus one and two exams; Check the revised schedule below

Kerala’s Directorate of Higher Secondary Education (DHSE) has postponed the exams which were scheduled to be held from December 11, 2018. In a new notification released by the DHSE, it has mentioned that the exams will now be held from December 21, 2018. With this, the Plus one exam for subjects -- Chemistry, History, Islamic History and Culture, Business Studies and Communicative English and Plus two exam for subjects -- Languages and Computer Information Technology will be held on December 21, 2018. The rest of the examination schedule will remain as it is, said the notification. The notification further said that the schools will observe regular classes tomorrow instead of second terminal exams. Kerala Plus one revised timetable for exams 12/12/2018: Geography, Music, Social Work, Geology, Accountancy 13/12/2018: Mathematics, Part - III - Languages, Sanskrit Sasthra, Psychology 14/12/2018: Sociology, Anthropology, Electronic Service Technology 15/12/2018: Home Science, Gandhian Studies, Philosophy, Journalism, Computer Science, Statistics 17/12/2018: Biology, Electronics, Political Science, Sanskrit Sahithya, Computer Application, English Literature 18/12/2018: Physics, Economics 19/12/2018: Part-II - Languages, Computer Information Technology 20/12/2018: Part I - English 21/12/2018: Chemistry, History, Islamic History & Culture, Business Studies, Communicative English Kerala Plus two revised timetable for exams 12/12/2018: Part I - English 13/12/2018: Chemistry, History, Islamic History & Culture, Business Studies, Communicative English 14/12/2018: Home Science, Gandhian Studies, Philosophy, Journalism, Computer Science, Statistics 15/12/2018: Sociology, Anthropology, Electronic Service Technology 17/12/2018: Physics, Economics 18/12/2018: Biology, Electronics, Political Science, Sanskrit Sahithya, Computer Application, English Literature 19/12/2018: Geography, Music, Social Work, Geology, Accountancy 20/12/2018: Mathematics, Part - III - Languages, Sanskrit Sasthra, Psychology 21/12/2018: Part-II - Languages, Computer Information Technology

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Police registered FIR after IGNOU’s exam question paper leaked

Talking about the IGNOU’s paper leak incident, an officer on Monday said that the Delhi Police has registered an FIR in the case and has also interrogated around 20 students from the university. On the complaint of IGNOU Registrar, S.G. Swami, the police had registered an FIR on charges of cheating and criminal conspiracy after university’s C++ question paper was leaked in Dabri Police Station of Dwarka district in New Delhi. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Anto Alphonse told IANS: "We are investigating the case of IGNOU question paper leak and trying to locate the starting point from where it originated on WhatsApp." The news of the question paper leak first reached the Registrar of IGNOU on December 5 after the paper was sent to him on WhatsApp. He confirmed the fact and came to know that the origin of the question paper leak was the exam center in Dwarka which falls under Dabri Police station. "Since the matter was highly sensitive, we informed the Chairman about the leak. During the inquiry, we found the same question paper on mobile phones of several candidates," said Vijay Pal, the observer of Dwarka center. During the investigation, it was found that a group of students studying in a coaching center in Dwarka, shared the paper on Whats App from where it spread among other students and eventually reached the registrar of the university.

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Tamil Nadu schools to have facial recognition based attendance system

Tamil Nadu government has launched an attendance system for the schools that is powered by the artificial intelligence and soon attendance on registers will be a thing of past in Tamil Nadu. As of now, the government has launched the face reading based attendance system in a government high school for girls. Soon, the system will be implemented in all the schools in the rest of the state. School Education Minister K A Sengottaiyan said that it is a first time in the country that such an attendance system has been introduced in the schools that was vogue in nations like USA and Japan. "The newly launched Artificial Intelligence-enabled attendance system through face reading is being implemented for the first time in India," he told reporters here. According to the details, the facial recognition-based attendance will be done with the help of an application that will have photos of students and other relevant details of the students stored in the database. The teacher will click the picture of the students in a group and the app will automatically recognize the students that are present in the class and will store the details in the server.

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Monday, December 10, 2018

IIT Madras name recommend for the 'Institute Of Eminence' Tag

Names of 24 more higher education institutes have been recommended by the Empowered Expert Committee (EEC) for the 'Institute Of Eminence' Tag. The EEC committee is headed by the former election commissioner N Gopalaswami and consists of names 12 from each public and the private sector. If granted the tag then these institutes will receive a government grant of INR 1000 crore for the next five years. Along with the money, these institutions will be given greater autonomy in comparison to the other higher education institutes. The public institutes recommended by the committee include IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, Delhi University, Jadavpur University, Anna University, Banaras Hindu University, Tezpur University, Savithribai Phule Pune University, University of Hyderabad, Aligarh Muslim University, Panjab University and Andhra University. The private institutions include VIT Vellore (Tamilnadu), Jamia Hamdard University (Delhi), Shiv Nadar University (Uttar Pradesh), Azim Premji University (Karnataka), and Ashoka University (Haryana) among others. In the first list, the EEC committee recommended 8 public sector institutes of which three were given the IoE tag. The government also approved 3 private sector institutes for the same. On Friday, EEC submitted its second report in which it recommended 2 more institutions from the public category and 7 from the private category. EEC has identified 5 more institutions from each category which for now have been kept in the reserve list. A statement from Ministry of Human Resources Development said that EEC has recommended that all the 15 institutions from each category should be approved for the IoE status.

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IIT Kharagpur wins the award in the field of cybersecurity education

Recently, IIT-KGP has won the award given by the Data Security Council of India (a body set up in order to protect data by NASSCOM), at the Annual Information Security Summit 2018. The institute was felicitated with the award for its outstanding curriculum and research work in cryptography, hardware security, cyber security, Internet of Things (IoT) security, and network security. According to the reports from PTI, director of IIT-KGP, Professor Partha Pratim Chakraborty, said “Our research and coursework in cyber security, network security and cryptography are targeted towards delivering the necessary technologies and also creating leaders in research, industry, and governance This would bring forward such transformation in India which is undergoing the digital revolution right now as we talk”. At the institute’s department of Computer Science and Engineering, several research ventures led by Professor Debdeep Mukhopadhyay were primarily considered for the award. These ventures are as follows: The Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO)- funded projects on developing lightweight protocols for authenticating IoT nodesIC reverse engineering and the Trojan detection DST-funded 'Swarnajayanti' project on secure authentication protocols for smart grids

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Anna University exams: University released rescheduled exam dates

The rescheduled exam dates for the Anna University for cyclone-affected Thiruvarur, Nagapattinam and Pudukottai districts have been released by the controller of examinations office. Initially, the exams were scheduled to held on November 22, 23, and 24 but were canceled due to cyclone Gaza. According to the new dates released by the university, the exams will be held on December 18, 19 and 20. In a completely separate event, the university had also canceled the math exam due to alleged paper leak and according to the new dates, the exam will be held on December 12. Students from B.E/B.Tech students from all branches (except marine engineering) can re-appear for the exam and the hall tickets already available for the semester exams can be used by them to sit in the exam.

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