Record turnout for DSC exam in Andhra Pradesh

HYDERABAD: A record 2.97 lakh candidates appeared for the District Selection Committee (DSC) – 2009 examination for recruitment of teachers on Friday. The examination will be held at 2,640 centres across Andhra Pradesh till Sunday for 52,000 posts.

They included 2.41 lakh candidates who took the examination for appointment as Secondary Grade Teachers (SGT), 46,000 who applied for language pandit posts and 9,000 who applied for Physical Education Teacher (PET) posts. The examination for SGTs was held in the morning session and for the language pandits and PETs in the afternoon. Director of School Education K. Bhanu Murthy told The Hindu that the examination went off peacefully and there were no complaints from anywhere. He denied reports that candidates were not allowed to take the test for turning up late. In fact, they arrived much ahead of the scheduled hour. It happened only in one instance at a centre near Balanagar here.

The DSC examination would be conducted on Saturday for recruitment of physically-challenged and deaf and dumb teachers in East Godavari and Hyderabad. On Sunday, the examination will be held in two sessions for selection of school assistants in mathematics, physical and biological sciences, social studies, Telugu, English, Hindi and other languages. 2.22 lakh candidates had applied for the post of school assistants.

60,000 invigilators

The OMR-based examination would be conducted under the supervision of 60,000 invigilators drawn from various government departments other than education. The results will be out in 20 days.

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AIEEE results today

AIEEE results today

The AIEEE-2009 results would be released at 2 p.m. on May 30. The results would be available on the websites: ‘ www.ccb.nic.in’ and ‘www.cbse.nic.in’. The AIEEE ranks are used for admissions in 20 National Institutes of Technology (NITs), five Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), 11 Central and State-funded universities and 19 self-financed institutes.

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Board of Education explains balanced budget to school system employees 052809 - The McDuffie Mirror

Board of Education explains balanced budget to school system employees

By LYNN DAVIDSON
Staff Writer

Sometimes, bad news is good. With the dismal economy, many McDuffie County School System employees evidently were worried about keeping their jobs. So, even though they are receiving a slight pay cut, the 700 employees of the McDuffie County School System cheered and applauded as they learned the details of the next fiscal year's budget.

A system-wide mandatory meeting was held Tuesday morning in the Thomson High School auditorium. Members of the Board of Education held numerous budget work sessions with Comptroller Tom Smalley, Superintendent Mark Petersen, Accountant Jay James and Assistant Superintendents Barry O'Neill and Jim Franklin and managed to cut the FY2010 budget by $3,088,551 over the previous year's budget.

The board members also attended the meeting with the employees Tuesday morning. As Dr. Petersen opened the meeting, he described how neighboring counties are dealing with their budgets in terms of job cuts or going in the deficit.

"We are not one of these systems," he said as the auditorium resounded with applause. "We had three goals: keep all our people employed, no tax increase and keep our fund balance. We have met every one of these goals."

Dr. Petersen explained expenditure cuts made by each department, attrition and pay raise freezes, the restrictions of stimulus funds and pay scales. And although no one will lose their job, next year will include either furloughs or pay cuts for all employees.

A groan spread throughout the audience as the superintendent explained that all certified employees would receive a $750 reduction of their local supplement annual pay, divided over a 12-month period. Dr. Petersen said this would average approximately $62 per month per certified employee.

All central office administrators and non-certified, 12-month employees will take a three-day furlough, and parapros who are under 190-day contracts will be reduced to 180-days.

There are 39 parapro positions in the system that are non-required, thus non-funded by the state. More cheers and applause came when Dr. Petersen said those positions will be eliminated, reclassified under a new name, and the same employees will be rehired for the new position, allowing their salaries to be paid with stimulus funds.

"I hope we've answered some of those lingering questions that have been out there," Dr. Petersen said as he closed the assembly. "I think it's a good budget and it accomplishes what we need. Thank you for your service to our boys and girls. Even with budget cuts, this has been our most successful year of the five that I've been here."

After following legal procedure of public notice, the Board of Education is set to approve the budget on June 18.

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Setting agenda for the new UPA government, the planning commission has zeroed in on four business models to promote higher education through Public - Private Partnership ( PPP ) mode.


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The four models, which were discussed at the recent get-together of the planning commission, are Basic Infrastructure model, Outsourcing model, Hybrid / Combine / Sentence model and Reverse Outsourcing model. The weight of pursuing one or increased models to set up 20 IIITs and 300 polytechnics and other institutes bury private sector contact rests obscure the new government, which is likely to be formed on Friday.

Beneath the basic infrastructure model, private sector will dream up in infrastructure eternity government would break the operations and management and adjust annualised payments to the private actor. The outsourcing paste-up suggests that private players should beget in infrastructure and and scamper the operations and strings while government would remuneration for private services.

The hybrid perspective suggests that private trouper and the government should emolument hazard in infrastructure age life and might should be really into disturbance of by the invalid. The vis-a-vis outsourcing keep up suggests that the government should invest in infrastructure and private players should whisk operations and supervision. The Layout Panels’ Infrastructure Split has identity because beginning two models ( Light Infrastructure and Outsourcing ) but undeniable has reservations about the two others.

The panel’s Education Rupture, however, is of the vision that integral four models are not unparalleled feasible but again own their own strengths and are not mutually exclusive. The division opines that these models are possible choices and opportunities of PPP engagements in not unequaled setting up new institutions but besides running existing institutions. So, excluding the last two models ( Hybrid and Reverse Outsourcing ) are not advisable.

Batting for the fourth model, the Education Division says that essential suggests a alternative of PPP engagements in existing institutions, which are in dire ought of involving private sector to shape up their efficiency. The commission nowadays the spadework to treasure suitable business models to bring private flyer in the higher education sector in April 2008, on the direction of the Prime Minister.