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Interview Jacob Tharu (JT) talks to Geetha Durairajan (GD) and Lina Mukhopadhyay
No full textA student of psychology with a special interest in educational assessment, Professor Jacob Tharu retired
after thirty years of service in the Department of Evaluation, CIEFL, (now known as EFL University). Post-
retirement, he has been working with various NGOs in the education sector, and has also been associated
with assessment-linked programmes of the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT),
some state SCERTs and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA).
Geetha Durairajan and Lina Mukhopadhyay jointly transcribed and edited the interview
Digital and remote models of mentoring
No full textGeetha Marcus - ORCID: 0000-0001-5610-5344
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5610-5344https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780429356957/mentoring-teachers-scotland-jane-essex-sandra-eady-margaret-mccoll-kay-livingstonhttps://www.routledge.com/Mentoring-Teachers-in-Scotland-A-Practical-Guide/Eady-Essex-Livingston-McColl/p/book/9780367405991pubpu
Against White Feminism by Rafia Zakaria [Book Review]
No full textGeetha Marcus - ORCID: 0000-0001-5610-5344
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5610-5344AM replaced with VoR 2023-07-07.https://www.lectitopublishing.nl/feminist-encounterspubpu
Analysis of the cost of international education in selected countries / Ershad Ali , Geetha Subramaniam
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ANALYSIS OF THE COST OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION IN
SELECTED COUNTRIES
Ershad Ali
Auckland Institute of Studies, New Zealand
Geetha Subramaniam
Universiti Teknologi MARA and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Abstract
This paper examines the cost of education for international students in selected
countries: New Zealand, Australia, USA, UK, Canada and Ireland. These countries
export education since long and each one is a competitor for another one. The
study defines the cost of education as the total cost that a student has to bear for
obtaining a degree. Total cost includes annual tuition fee, living cost, and other
costs such as insurance premium. The study collected data from official data
sources of the respective countries. The study compared costs and found that cost
of education is varied for a specific program from one country to another. It is also
varied from one university to another within a country. However, the most costly
education is in USA while the cheapest one is in New Zealand. The findings of this
study might be useful for researchers, policy makers and educationists
Caste, gender, power, and impunity: an interview with V. Geetha
No full textV. Geetha is a feminist activist, scholar and publisher based out of Chennai. In this interview she explores the intertwined concepts of caste, gender and power, their significance in determining the socio-political capital of persons and groups, how they decide access to education and employment (hence, class), and the ability to interact with the state, assume power or be delignated from it. She elicits several examples of violence, massacres, sexual assaults against Dalits in which caste positionality allowed serious crimes to go unpunished, even unrecognized. Drawing upon the rich tradition of Dalit scholarship and Dalit feminism, V. Geetha elaborates on the culture of civic and state sexual impunity in South Asia
Data privacy in knowledge discovery
No full textThis thesis addresses data privacy in various stages of extracting knowledge embedded in databases. Advances in computer networking and database technologies have enabled the collection and storage of vast quantities of data. Legal and ethical considerations might require measures to protect an individual's privacy in any use or release of the data. In this thesis, we address the problem of preserving privacy in the two following cases: (1) in distributed knowledge discovery; (2) in situations where the output of a data mining algorithm could itself breach privacy. We present results in two different models, namely secure multiparty computation (SMC) and differential privacy. The first part of the thesis presents privacy preserving protocols in the SMC model. Secure multiparty computation involves the collaborative computation of functions based on inputs from multiple parties. The privacy goal is to ensure that all parties receive only the final output without any party learning anything beyond what can be inferred from the output. Within this framework we address the problem of preserving privacy in the preprocessing and the data mining stages of knowledge discovery in databases. For the preprocessing stage, we present private protocols for the imputation of missing data in a dataset that is shared between two parties. For the data mining stage, we introduce the notion of arbitrarily partitioned data that generalizes both horizontally and vertically partitioned data. We present a privacy-preserving protocol for k-means clustering of arbitrarily partitioned data. We also develop a new simple k-clustering algorithm that was designed to be converted into a communication-efficient protocol for private clustering. The second part of the thesis deals with privacy in situations where the output of a data mining algorithm could itself breach privacy. In this setting, we present private inference control protocols in the SMC model for On-line Analytical Processing systems. In the differential privacymodel, the goal is to provide access to a statistical database while preserving the privacy of every individual in the database, irrespective of any auxiliary information that may be available to the database client. Under this privacy model, we present a practical privacy preserving decision tree classifier using random decision trees.Ph.D.Includes abstractVitaIncludes bibliographical referencesby Geetha Jagannatha
Challenges Faced By Nursing and Dialysis Staffs during COVID-19 Pandemic - Tanker Foundation a Model Organization
No full textTamilnad Kidney Research Foundation (TANKER Foundation) which was established in 1993 to support kidney disease related care to underprivileged people. It has now eleven dialysis units in the state of Tamilnadu, India.
COVID-19 pandemic has put enormous challenges for the dialysis staff. Here we describe how we face the challenges from March 2020 till now without interrupting or closing down the dialysis units. The no of dialysis staff who have got infected are 21% which required only home quarantine and symptomatic remedies. Our experience can be emulated by other charity organization which provide kidney care
How to bridge Scotland’s attainment gap
No full textMarcus, Geetha – ORCID 0000-0001-5610-5344
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5610-5344Item not available in this repository.We need to think outside the box when reimagining Scotland’s education system, writes Dr Geetha Marcus
The UK has one of the most socially segregated school systems in the developed world, with academic selection – where children are admitted to a school on the basis of ability – and parental choice at its core.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) believes this has a negative impact on social equality and a young person’s ability to earn a good income in the future. OECD evidence shows that segregated schools present children with two different perspectives of the world and affect their life chances.https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/how-to-bridge-scotland-s-attainment-gap-dr-geetha-marcus-1-4835747pubpu
Event calculus to support temporal reasoning in a clinical domain
No full textThis work concerns temporal aspects of a knowledge based system which holds information on patients as they progress through their treatment in a vascular surgery department. Representing and using knowledge about temporal relationships so as to provide decision support to a historical knowledge base of patient data is investigated. Event Calculus, in first order classical logic augmented with negation by failure, provides an effective framework for reasoning about time. From Kowalski and Sergot's original Event Calculus we arrive at a simple and flexible framework which can be used as a temporal support in a medical knowledge based system. We show how Event Calculus can be used to describe a simple model of the clinical pathway in vascular surgery. Patient information in the medical record is formalised in a structural framework to suit the Event Calculus. Medical knowledge about investigation and treatment options is added to the model so that the resulting system can recommend the options which are appropriate at any particular time. It is shown how these recommendations provide decision support by recommending what should be done next, and when to re-evaluate measurements that become unreliable. It is argued that there are advantages to be gained by adopting a general temporal reasoning framework because it can be extended to support various medical and administrative tasks. The extensions available to the Event Calculus, further its suitability as a temporal reasoning framework in the medical domain. A prototype system, essentially a research workbench over a realistic domain, is built using Prolog to illustrate the temporal reasoning capabilities provided by the Event Calculus framework. Using case studies it is demonstrated how the prototype system fulfils the decision support abilities we aimed to achieve in the knowledge base.</p
A dangerous but powerful idea - counter acceleration and speed with slowness and wholeness
No full textThe dangerous idea is that school reform, in India in particular, but across the world too, is impossible. Changing education, at the systemic level or at the institutional or school level, or educating teachers and school leaders in change can be classified as largely first order change - that of school improvement, which involves doing more of the same but doing it better (where the focus is on efficiency) and that of school re-structuring, which involves re-organising components and responsibilities (where the focus is on effectiveness). Geetha Narayanan is Principal Investigator with Project Vision at the Centre for Education Research Training and Development (CERTAD) within the Srishti School of Art Design and Technology in Bangalore, India. She has dedicated her career to finding and establishing new models of education that are creative, synergistic and original in their approach to learning. Read the article and listen to audio of the author discussing her ideas
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