Showing posts with label Developments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Developments. Show all posts

Is tuition really needed for students?

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The aforementioned title is really a debatable issue and an issue that really needs an attention from the concerned authorities. I have been thinking and analyzing about the issue for so long. I could find both advantages and disadvantages from such practice. The society will be divided into sections who feel the good and bad about the issue. Nevertheless, this type of trend has become really rampant in Thimphu city.

Tuition is a good practice to guide the students to sharpen their saw, so that they can brighten their future.  However, I feel that the trend is decreasing the quality of education in the schools other than the benefits gained from tuition. Recently, I met with some students who were going for their tuition classes. I always had keen interest to interact with the young friends, so I asked them the reasons for going for tuition classes.

Half of the group argued me that; they are going for tuition classes because of the influence of their parents and relatives. The parents and the relatives of the student wanted the student to perform better in their studies whereby he/she can lead a better their lives better. In this case, I have no any arguments as I feel that parents care and love their students. No matter what the student feels, he/she will be able to grasp something.

However, another half told me that; they have no any other option as they will be equally competing with thousands of students in the country. They said that their teachers don't teach them well in the classes. They said their teachers are taking the tuition classes whereby they teach extremely well. I was shocked to learn these things from the students. However, this is not to insult and go against the teachers who are taking tuition classes and helping the students.

I was worried and had to think about the issue. I also discussed with my friends with the issue. My friends were surprised too about the issue and the trends of tuition in the country. They said me that the tuition has been banned in the country. However, the tuition business has been operating in the country for years. If the latter  is true and the truth lies in the comments of the students I met, I feel that the issue must be given attention. It is wrong on my part to base my understanding of the issue on the few groups of students I met. Nevertheless, I feel its the issue that must be given better attention than at present.

If the truth of such tuition practices lies in the say of my second group of students I feel there is strong and urgent need to be looked upon by the Ministry of Education and the concerned authorities. The Ministry must either ban the tuition classes or concentrate on the quality of education in the class room itself. In the other sense the teacher who takes the class of that particular student in the day time must not take tuition for that student in the evening. The other option may be to ban the tuition classes for the teachers and if need be let others who have the potential to guide take the chance. In this manner, I feel that the market will not get distorted. In the current trend of such practice, the families who could afford may not feel any pinch; however the poorer sections find very difficult and  challenging to meet the expectations of their students.

The post here as I said earlier is what I vividly feel and got some information from my young friend who go to the tuition classes. the post is not meant to complain anyone.

RTC Online Admission System - My Project

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Bachelor of Computer Applications in Royal Thimphu College as per the course syllabus prescribed by the Royal University of Bhutan demands us to do the real-time project which is of 300 credits and is equivalent to three modules. The IT department of the college in the Fourth semester i.e. when the BCA students are about to get into their final year go to organizations, institutes, agencies, Non-Government Organizations and Corporates to get the projects which will be taken as our project client. In my batch, we are 3 in number and we have nine projects in total. Our clients are Bhutan Power Corporations, Bhutan Telecom, Druk Holding Investments (2 projects), Department of Information and Technology, Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan National Bank, Athang Pvt. Ltd and Bhutan Herbal Bath Pvt. Ltd. We were divided into nine groups for which group comprises of 3-4 members each.

In case of my group we have selected to work for our college, Royal Thimphu College. We have learned and observed that the college Student Service Department and applicants are struggling during the admission process. We thought why not we can help the college in our own small ways that we could. My group started the development works in December 2012 and worked whole winter including weekends. Having worked for the live project for the first time of its kind we enjoyed a lot, though we faced some problems. Before starting the project we sat together for almost three to four days and planned our schedule. 

RTC Online Admission System is an online application through which students from different locations can access college information and take admissions. Using this system, time for application process will be reduced and students who are located geographically can fill admissions forms. Cost of traveling for students will be reduced; man power for university will be reduced.


It is an automate the system whereby it pre-checks the inclusion of all required material and automatically ranks each student’s application based on a number of criteria. The data used by the system is stored in a database that will be the center of all information held about students and the base for the remainder of the process after the initial application has been made. This enables things to be simplified and considerably quickened, making the jobs of the people involved easier. It supports the current manual process but centralizes it and makes it possible for decisions to be made earlier and easier way.

We have developed the system using PHP and the programming language in Eclipse working environment. We have used Xampp for the MySQL database. We have incorporated JQuery, Javascripts, HTML5 and other plugins are used for graphical display in case of reports generation for the administrators.

The Project was led by Mr. Somnath Choudhuri as the project guide and Mr. Yeshi Samdrup as the Team Leader. My self and Sangay Dema were the co-developers in this system. We may be soon hosting it in RTC website for the admission for 2014-2015 cohorts' admission.
 



Google @ RTC

We all know what is Google. We all use this search in all cases. We use it to solve our doubts. We use it to learn what we don't know. We use it to compare with our ideas and ideologies. We use it to lend help to do our assignments and projects while in the school and college. We use it in day to day life activities. Today, we the students of Royal Thimphu College had a golden opportunity to interact and listen with ten Google volunteers from different parts of the world. 

The workshop-like session started in our college auditorium where the Dean of the College welcome the ten volunteers for their work. Then they started with their mission of coming to Bhutan and explained their mission of "Googliness". Almost all volunteers explained it in their own terms. Maximum of them said that Googliness is helping and letting others know what they know without expecting anything in return. They were happy with the packed audience in the auditorium.

A group consisted of Marketing experts, Management professionals, Software Engineers and Leadership professional. After having attended the first general session for one hour in our auditorium, we were then let to go to our classroom to listen to two of the volunteers about Google's recent developments like Google Apps, Google Docs,  Google Glass, etc..

Out of which we were so much interested to know about Google Glass. We enjoyed watching video about the Google Glass where saw a man wearing that Glass can order or command the glass and it tells everything information about distances, location of his friends, takes images, etc.

Other interesting thing was an automatic Google Car which can travel without a driver. All the audience were surprised to know that a car traveled more than 10000 Kilometers without an accident. Later after lunch we had a session on developing web in the latest technology available. We were taught to develop simple website with Ruby on Rails. Nikita, one of the volunteers and Software Engineer in the company covered the whole stack from MySQL to JQuery.

We enjoyed and learned a lot. Thumbs up to the volunteers and the RTC management for organizing such event for us.

What a bless in disguise!

Chopper carrying transformers
The sun has set below the mountain as usual. I came back from my class and laid down on my bed. I then opened my laptop as usual and started to surf the net as usual. I clicked on different tabs on the browser and clicked on the Kuensel website. As I go down the lines I found a post titled "Gongdue, Silambi to be lit up in July"  which really impressed me. 

I, on behalf of the people living in these two geogs would like to pay respect and thankfulness to Bhutan Power Corporations for their hard work and  dedicated benevolent service for the people of Kheng region. I understand in and out of the difficulties being faced by the people in this region without the electricity. First of all people had to spend whole of their winter timings in collecting firewood from far flung places. They had to keep piled up woods for the summer where it would be very difficult to collect in monsoon seasons. 

Secondly, it is very difficult for every family to maintain cleanliness in absence of electricity. Although people were supplied with solar facilities, the fire with the wood darkens all the utensils and the house as a whole creating so many dirt. While cooking and dealing with the fire; hands and other parts of the body get covered by dirt impacting the the health of the people. In this very remote villages with an absence of good health facilities, people get so many types of diseases. Now, with this improvement I am pretty sure that the lifestyle of people will change. 

Moreover, people can work for other developmental activities instead of wasting their time collecting firewood. They can do some purposeful works that will benefit the society as a whole. I wish I was their in my village to see all those developmental activities with my own eyes so that I may be able to contribute to my community in later years.

SO, lastly my wish here is that BPC would keep their promise to lit the homes in my community by July and the people to be happy for this developmental activity. THANKS A LOT.....