End-to-end software in all state universities by 2013: Edu minister Hemali
Chhapia TNN
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Mumbai: In all probability, students will be able to fill their exam forms
online, hall tickets will be generated online and question papers will be
automatically generated from a bank that would be set up. After the exam,
every answer script would be scanned from start to end, a software would
mask it to protect the student’s identity and every examiner will be
allotted answer booklets online.
Minister for higher and technical education Rajesh Tope said, “An
end-to-end software will be put in place in all universities of the state
by 2013. This will reduce the turn around time for declaring results and
also cut down the cost of various examination processes.”
To date, five software firms have met Tope and presented two kinds of
technologies to him — a web-based one and a portal one.
“So they can evaluate the answer booklets any time at home. Each
faculty would have a log in identity. Also, as soon as an answer booklet is
corrected, the marks would automatically go to a ready proforma of a report
card,” added Tope.
“With this, we will be able to declare results in about eight to 10
days,” he added.
The board of governors of the Maharashtra State Board for Technical
Education, the body which oversees all the diploma institutes across the
state including polytechnics, has given a green signal for outsourcing
their examination work to a tech company this year.
Meanwhile, the University of Mumbai has forced the government to look
out for help. It has decided to outsource examination work to a private
firm. So come 2013, and university faculty will merely be involved at the
evaluation stage; all else, including the ultra-sensitive job of setting
question papers will be outsourced.
It is unclear whether the decision has been taken following the recent
spate of slip-ups that have caused embarrassment to the state or if there
is now a tacit acknowledgement by the government that the Maharashtra
Knowledge Corporation Limited is incapable of ushering technology in the
universities.
online, hall tickets will be generated online and question papers will be
automatically generated from a bank that would be set up. After the exam,
every answer script would be scanned from start to end, a software would
mask it to protect the student’s identity and every examiner will be
allotted answer booklets online.
Minister for higher and technical education Rajesh Tope said, “An
end-to-end software will be put in place in all universities of the state
by 2013. This will reduce the turn around time for declaring results and
also cut down the cost of various examination processes.”
To date, five software firms have met Tope and presented two kinds of
technologies to him — a web-based one and a portal one.
“So they can evaluate the answer booklets any time at home. Each
faculty would have a log in identity. Also, as soon as an answer booklet is
corrected, the marks would automatically go to a ready proforma of a report
card,” added Tope.
“With this, we will be able to declare results in about eight to 10
days,” he added.
The board of governors of the Maharashtra State Board for Technical
Education, the body which oversees all the diploma institutes across the
state including polytechnics, has given a green signal for outsourcing
their examination work to a tech company this year.
Meanwhile, the University of Mumbai has forced the government to look
out for help. It has decided to outsource examination work to a private
firm. So come 2013, and university faculty will merely be involved at the
evaluation stage; all else, including the ultra-sensitive job of setting
question papers will be outsourced.
It is unclear whether the decision has been taken following the recent
spate of slip-ups that have caused embarrassment to the state or if there
is now a tacit acknowledgement by the government that the Maharashtra
Knowledge Corporation Limited is incapable of ushering technology in the
universities.
Each faculty would have a log in identity. Also, as soon as an answer
booklet is corrected, the marks would automatically go to a ready proforma
of a report card. We will be able to declare results in 8 to 10 days
*Rajesh Tope | MINISTER FOR HIGHER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION*
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*Source: The Times of India, April 1,2012 {Pune}*
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booklet is corrected, the marks would automatically go to a ready proforma
of a report card. We will be able to declare results in 8 to 10 days
*Rajesh Tope | MINISTER FOR HIGHER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION*
**
*Source: The Times of India, April 1,2012 {Pune}*
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