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The state council for higher education in Karnataka has prepared common PhD norms which will be applicable for all the state universities. The norms were announced by Higher Education Minister V S Acharya. The council made it mandatory for candidates pursuing PhD to do a six-month course work and clear three theory papers and an interview.
There will be three theory papers of 100 marks each and 50 marks for viva voce for the course, which consists of research methodology, core subject paper and field of specialisation
The state council also introduced minimum and maximum time limit to complete the PhD. A candidate registering for PhD needs to submit the thesis after three years and before five years. The thesis will be put on the website to rule out plagiarism.
"There will be a doctoral committee which will conduct pre registration and pre submission of thesis collegiums for each candidate. Candidates should have published at least two research papers in the journal of repute before becoming eligible to submit the thesis," informed Acharya.
Adjudication of the thesis is by the two adjudicators/ one chosen from within Karnataka and other from outside Karnataka including foreign adjudicators. Both the adjudicators shall recommend the award of degree to enable the student to face the PhD viva, Acharya added.
Meanwhile, the council has also decided on the common admission formula for all UG and PG courses. It is must for the UG students to finish the course in six years and PG course in four years (double the duration). Also, as per the recommendations by NR Shetty panel a vice-chancellor's term is restricted to at all the universities.
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Dept. of Higher Education of
Dept. of Higher Education of Karnatak Govt. has been taken the right step for obeying the UGC norms for persuing Ph. D. degree. Other states should do accordingly. It is the way by which we can manage the quality in higher education.
Good step to ensure that
Good step to ensure that quality people go ahead and contribute in the concerned field. This will create a system which has higher inclination to progress and grow. And will subside any tom dick and harry to come in the business. At the same time the universities which have made it a money making affair should be barred.
commendable step. The similar
commendable step. The similar steps should be taken by other states and the norms should be uniform throughout. I hope a system may be put in place in this manner.
What is great in this? Old
What is great in this? Old wine in new bottle. Just look at this"Candidates should have published at least two research papers in the journal of repute before becoming eligible to submit the thesis". This is the biggest loophole in Ph.D education. What do you men by journal of repute although it is having ISSN. We are very well aware of the kind of journals in circulation. Most of the Indian journals (90%) are paid journals. Double blind peer review and scholarly manner are for name sake. Why do not you make it mandatory/compulsory to publish research papers from his/her thesis in the list of selected journals that are ranked top ten from India as well as foreign. Then only quality of research will be enhanced and seriousness towards research will be increased. Through this we can fix unaccountability for the scholar as well as research guide. Otherwise, you have left one window opened for misuse and abuse Ph.D degree. People manage effortlessly to get published papers in journals having ISSN in India. Hence not to comprise with publications. This should be a real yardstick for becoming eligible to submit thesis in any discipline.
New norms by Govt. of
New norms by Govt. of Karnataka are welcome. They may not be adequate still the message is clear. Now similar steps should be taken by other states and the norms should be uniform throughout the country.
Some universities still continue distributing Ph.D degrees to non-deserving candidates for the sake of their business which should be ceased by any means.
The regulations seem to be
The regulations seem to be restrictive.It will destroy the innovative young minds to avoid PhD course.For heavensake let education be in the hands of Educationists.
The following suggestions
The following suggestions will be suitalbe for publications criteria.
Candidates should have published at least two research papers in the journal with good impact factor, before becoming eligible to submit the thesis
Department of Higher
Department of Higher Education has taken a good decision regarding Ph.D degree. In Indian education system how to get Ph.D is more important than make a sincere effort. So many Ph.D scholars they are not even eligible to work as an attender. But money, muscle power and caste system these worst factors are playing very important role in higher education like Ph.D. Who are suffering here? this is the question of million dollar.
Excellent step. It is proper
Excellent step. It is proper to have a well-structured course work followed by an examination, quality control system before submitting a Ph.D. thesis and there after its evaluation. There is no point in stone-walling the entry of a candidate to Ph.D. programme by eligibility test. It is dificult to formulate a common entrance test for various disciplines as every discipline or research area demands a specific prerequisites in a candidate.
These norms are really
These norms are really excellent. As per the norms mentioned above, 2 SCI Indexed journals are essential. what i suggest is that among the 2 one must be an indian journal. This will surely help to increase the impact factor of the indian journal.....
Why it is called new Ph.D
Why it is called new Ph.D rule? These rule is already given by UGC & MHRD, Govt. of India in 2009 and it has been published in the Gazzete of India in 2009. The rule is in active and applicable for all kind of Ph.D.
Ph.D. degree norms of
Ph.D. degree norms of Karnatak Universities is an eye opener for all universities, in other states too.
It is really a bold, necessary and much needed step taken, however late.
Higher education Minister V S Acharya deserves praise for this note worthy step of implementing the rule and he will be remembered for a long time in the education field for this.
I hope other states will follow.
A humble suggestion is that, all universities should make the thesis submitted in the last 5 years to be made available on the internet, subject wise. This will check piracy from older thesis and shall be useful to researchers.
Dr. Satya Sheel
MN NIT Allahabad
It is a very positive move by
It is a very positive move by the Hon'ble minister Sri Acharya. Let's hope this helps improve the quality and quantity of research and there is some control over recycling of the so called contribution to knowledge.
It is a sincere attempt to
It is a sincere attempt to curtail the dilution of standards in awarding Ph.D. Thanks to the one and all involved in preparing and bringing it in to force. Our duty is to stick on to it improve the quality.
Dr.S.S.Patil, Kuvempu University
GGSIP university in delhi is
GGSIP university in delhi is the one which is most standard one and do not play around with Ph.D degree. First entrance then course work then research with progress monitoring every six months. Candidates file contains systamitic progress reports by the guides as well as Scool of Research Committee(SRC) members. Thesis submission elligibility is only after two research publications in the top impact factor journals listed by the university. Only after the regourous pre ph. d Viva oc with SRC candidate can submit thesis with the approval of SRC. The thesis will then be sent to two reviewers selected by VC. One reviewer from abroad and the other from india. Reccamendation from both the reviewer is amust. Candidate then have to defend the thesis with board of examinors. Maximum duration for Ph . D thesis is six and minimum is three.
Dear All, Let us know,
Dear All,
Let us know, wherether these norms are applicable for already registered candidates or who is going to register for research.
Thanks to all those who
Thanks to all those who brought this new rule in the process of Ph.D awarding.
It should have been done long back. The potential instituitions of higher learnings, it may be a unversity or a college and the committed research oriented scholar be given recognization produce Ph.D and M.Phil as against the present system confined to only universities.
The following points are very
The following points are very essential before submitting the Ph.D thesis.
1. Candidates should complete the course-work papers with minimum 70% marks
2. Candidates should have published two papers in reputed international journals compulsorily with good impact factors.
Dear All, Let us know,
Dear All,
Let us know, wherether these norms are applicable for already registered candidates or who is going to register for research.
Pl. reply some one....
1.The research guide should
1.The research guide should not retire from their professional excellency after they attain retirement at the age of 60 or 62, They should be allowed to guide students officially. If they are eminent in their area of research the depth of knowledge would benefit to students as well as to the country.
2. Before implementing the new guidelines universities should ensure proper library facility to researcher and instrumentation facility. If these facilities are centralised it is much better. Country should not expect extrordinary inventions from students unless provide the proper facilities to students.
3. The entrance exam is not a solution alone to improve the quality, rather Ph.D is creation of new knowledge therefore interst for doing research should be the criteria and training the student is the responsibility of guide.
Congradulations to Higher
Congradulations to Higher Education Minister V.S.Acharya for introducing PhD norms including course work in Karnataka state.This can be viewed as the first step in improving the research quality and output. There is an urgent need to introduce similar norms in all state universities by Higher Eduction Departments.
New PhD norms in Karnataka
New PhD norms in Karnataka state universities.
It is very sad to know the news as it will make troubles to those teacher scholars who apply for part-time research in Universities in Karnataka.Teacher scholars join for part-time Ph D by an undertaking in writing to the concerned governmnt thatpart-time Ph D programme in no way affect the work load and any additional financial burden to exchequer,but how do the teacher scholars can attend the six month course work.
Moreover teachers can apply for FIP programme under UGC norms only after registering for Ph D in a University.
But the present Ph D norms insist that registration begins with course work...it is after all anti research and anti-academic decision.It will not do any good to research and quality improvement in higher education scenario.
The Karnataka state council for higher education should immediately find a solution ...?what is the way out ?
The Professors who are
The Professors who are pursuing their Ph.D prior to 2009 , are facing doubts as to the applicability of UGC Regulations On PhD to registrations prior to 2009 regarding course work. Whether the benefit of 2010 regulation of 3 additional increment will be denied to them if their PhD is without course work. I request the IER to immediately inquire about this and clarify the position with the UGCsince both the researchers and academicians of this country are in utter confusion on this issue.
The meaning of distance
The meaning of distance education is itself lost if the six-month course work is made mandatory and the PhD aspirant is asked to attend the coursework. However, examination for the minimum number of papers can be conducted, followed by publication in journals of repute prior to submission of thesis. Let it be known that there are thousands of employees/ teachers/PhD aspirants who cannot attend course work due to various work pressures at their Organisations.
Excellent Norms! Except
Excellent Norms! Except examination Instead Three Jornal Papers Two International & one National Publications Can be sufficient.
Course Work is totally
Course Work is totally confusion for the Karnataka University Dharwad on going Research students those who have already complited twenty months and sumbitted three progress Reports and started the chapter writing..what about them...?
please anybody can answer for this...waiting for the reply......
Six months course work for
Six months course work for ph.d in Karnataka has created several problems for aided college peramanent lecturers those who have registered their names for ph.d in November 2009 and working accordingly.everybody knows that peramanent teachers will not be given any special leaves for it.
but the question is whether six months course work is must for them ? or they will be given relaxation. if so or if not please give clear cut Idia about this . consern people will be greatful to you.
Thank you.
Injustice happening in the
Injustice happening in the selection of Ph.D candidates in the dept., of Applied Electronics, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga since from the year 2004-05 till date.I hope your goodself will look into the selection process, intimation to the candidate details and complaints since from the year 2004-05 in the said dept., and university. Thank u.
i cleared my NET & JRF in
i cleared my NET & JRF in Commerce, but i have done my PG in management (MBA-HR).
now, i am very much worried about the acceptability of this combination for Phd Admission as well as for the post of Asst. professor.
Kindly guide me on this soon.
I wish to get a positive and tension free response from your end.
Thank you so much
I have done BE in Madurai
I have done BE in Madurai Kamaraj University.In Vinayaka Missions University(2007)I did my ME Through Distance mode.But I was denied PhD Eligibility in Anna University. If this is the case why Vinayaka missions University offers ME (CSE) through distance. Both the Universities have no answers regarding the issues .Inspite of 10 years experience and inclination towards research and Teaching ,Anna Universities and some other univesities decline to have Distance education degree holders.We need to improve the education system.It is not shouting and getting attention through media that Women should be encouraged to do research.They are insulted by these universities.
Let me know reputed universities offering admissions for research for distance education ME degree holders.
There is a confusion in
There is a confusion in preparing examiner panel for the award of the Ph.D degree
Is the panel should be prepared in consultation with the supervisor or not.
In consultation with the supervisor helps in selecting the examiner in the filed where the candidate worked. If the BOS chairman prepare the panel of exminers without the supervisor, then there will be a unnecessary delay in awarding the degree. So my earnest request is to send any written document wherein the panel of examiners should prepare in consultation with the supervisor.
Plz, can u tell me in details
Plz, can u tell me in details about Ph.D. for computer science field.
please tell me about p.hd
please tell me about p.hd registration in computer science
I think that the joint
I think that the joint supervision under a Dotoral Committee is a good reform. With more and more universities opting to drop the M Phil programme, the corse work together with a Comprehensive examination in chosen ares will certainly enhance the value of the average Indian Ph D.
I have completed MSc. in
I have completed MSc. in Fashion Design from MS University. I would like to do Phd. I like to know about the procedures, kindly help


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Max Pacioretty feels the career-threatening injury he suffered in a collision with a Bell Centre stanchion may have made him a better player.
The Montreal Canadiens winger certainly looks like he has evolved into a first-rate goal-scorer.
Pacioretty's goal in a 4-3 shootout loss to the Boston Bruins on Wednesday was his fifth in his last four games and his 12th in the last 15. He leads the NHL team with 24 for the season.
"Looking at life and hockey, an experience like that makes me a better person and a better player because I had to overcome all that adversity," Pacioretty said Thursday.
It was on March 8, 2011, that Pacioretty was carried off the Bell Centre ice on a stretcher after he was hit along the boards by Bruins captain Zdeno Chara. Colliding with a stanchion, Pacioretty suffered a severe concussion and a fractured vertebra in his neck.
The New Canaan, Conn., native spent two nights in hospital, and his season was over. But he was able to resume training in the summer, and was back to full health to begin this season.
Pacioretty said he did some growing up while interacting with other patients at the hospital, including a boy who had been in a coma. He realized others were far worse off than himself. The same boy was Pacioretty's guest at the game on Wednesday.
"He was so thankful for everything I've done for him but I told him, 'You've done so much more for me,' " Pacioretty said. "I'm not just saying that.
"After the game he came in the room. A couple of guys heard the story and said 'I can't believe we complain abut the food we get for lunch when people have to deal with something like that.' "
The 23-year-old launched a campaign this season to raise funds for equipment to help diagnose serious spinal injuries for a Montreal hospital.
Pacioretty's life also changed last summer, when he married tennis player Katia Afinogenova, the sister of former NHL forward Maxim Afinogenov.
Pacioretty had a decent start to the current season, but that stalled on Nov. 26, 2011, when he was suspended three games for a blind-side open-ice hit on Pittsburgh Penguins defenceman Kris Letang, who ended up missing 21 games with a concussion.
Pacioretty played tentatively on his return, unsure just how far he could go with his physical game, and the scoring dried up. Through last December, he had one goal in 13 games.
Since finding a balance, he has been on fire.
It had also helped that head coach Randy Cunneyworth found the right linemates in Erik Cole, who, like Pacioretty, is a big, quick-footed winger, and diminutive centre David Desharnais. They are now the team's top three point-getters.
"We've seen inconsistency from him early in the season, but he's more consistent now," Cunneyworth said. "And the confidence he has with the puck.
"He has weapons. His speed, his shot, his release. And the chemistry he has with Desharnais and Cole. He has an excellent centreman who finds his stick quite often. Desharnais can bring people to him, take people away from Pacioretty, and can get it to him. His last couple of goals were scored like that."
Cole has emerged as an on-ice leader since he as signed as a free agent from the Carolina Hurricanes last summer. The 6-foot-2 winger has great speed and is fearless in driving to the net.
That has also helped 6-foot-2 Pacioretty develop his game.
"We have a similar skill set," he said. "We're big and fast and play a similar games.
"It just so happens we have good chemistry as well. On and off the ice, he's been a great mentor for the whole team but especially for guys like me and Davy that get to play with him every night. He's been huge in my development this year."
Cole has 14 points and Desharnais has 15 in the last 15 games.
They hope to continue their hot run as the Canadiens visit the Sabres in Buffalo on Friday, before returning home to face the New Jersey Devils in a rare Sunday night game in Montreal.
A handful of players, including Cole, opted to rest after a physically punishing game against Boston. Only 15 players practised on Thursday.Report Typo/Error
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Who can design the coolest T-shirt for the Stew Contest?
If you have an idea for a "cool" T-shirt, then submit it to the Chamber for the 42nd Annual World Champion Hopkins County Stew Contest, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 22.
1. The design must be received no later than Friday, Sept. 16.
2. All designs become property of the Chamber of Commerce.
3. It must be e-mailed to the above email address (if you don't have a computer, bring it to my office and we will scan it for you).
I will enter all of them on a specific website and we will have the community vote on it.Voting will begin on Sept. 19 and run through Oct. 7. If you have questions, please call the Chamber at 903-885-6515.
Business After Hours for the Fall Festival, Thursday, Sept. 8, at Civic Center
Please make plans to attend the Business After Hours hosted by the Fall Festival on Thursday, Sept. 8, from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Civic Center. This is a great opportunity to meet and mingle with lots of people from our community, hear about the Fall Festival events, eat yummy food and possibly win a door prize!
Ribbon cutting for Flesher Coaching & Consulting
Thank you to all who attended the ribbon cutting for Flesher Coaching & Consulting. Pictured in the photo from left to right are: (front) Dairy Festival Queen Lindsay McCormack; Dr. Richard Flesher and his wife, Mary; Fall Festival Cover Girl Tori Cotton and Linda Mobley; (back) Scott Brown; Lynda Hager, Dana Wilhite and Gary Stribling. Dr. Flesher will be offering the following workshops in the next few weeks. For more information, please call 903-468-2151 or 972-979-7783.
Personal Safety Source ribbon cutting ceremony
Thank you to all who attended the ribbon cutting for Personal Safety Source. Pictured in the photo from left to right (front) are Lynda Hager, Dairy Festival Queen Lindsay McCormack, Gracie Weston, Kim Jones, Dana Wilhite, Tracy Irby, president, and Linda Mobley. Also shown are (back) Bradley Edge, Mike Patterson, Gary and Vicky Stribling, James Hulen, Laura Brannon and Armand Yates. Tracy Irby offers a wide array of personal safety items such as Tasers, alarms, pepper spray, hidden cameras, surveillance systems and more. For more information, please visit the website at personalsafetysource.com.
Get a Great Night's Sleep Sept. 8 at Hampton Inn
This workshop being held Thursday, Sept. 8, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Hampton Inn is designed for the person who has difficulty falling asleep or who wakes up in the middle of the night and can't fall back asleep. The presentation includes practical techniques to reset your "sleep cycle" and a guided imagery process of relaxing your body and mind to encourage deep sleep. The registration fee of $30 includes a CD to guide you into a deep, restful sleep.
'Weight Loss Without Dieting: You are What You THINK' Thursday, Sept. 29
This workshop is designed for the person who is frustrated with the routine of dieting-following a particular diet, using will power to be disciplined, then giving in and gaining back all or more than the weight that was lost. The result is a feeling of guilt, frustration and an "I give up!" attitude. The presentation explains why we indulge in "mindless" eating, how to find the unconscious reasons for it, and specific techniques to eliminate will power from the process and allow extra pounds to melt away easily and effortlessly — just the way they went on! Registration fee is $30. The workshop is Thursday, Sept. 29, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Hampton Inn.
Help welcome Phoenix Promotional Marketing to the Chamber at noon Wednesday, Sept. 14
Please make plans to attend the ribbon cutting for Phoenix Promotional Marketing. Debbie and Tony Hildenbrand would like to show you the wide array of innovative marketing products they can offer for your business, so please join us on the 14th at Noon at the Chamber.
Dr. Temple Grand into address cattlemen and educators Oct. 5-6
The Northeast Texas Beef Improvement Organization (NETBIO) is bringing Dr. Temple Grandin to Sulphur Springs for two speaking engagements on Wednesday, Oct. 5, and Thursday, Oct. 6.
Dr. Grandin is a designer of livestock handling facilities and a professor of animal science at Colorado State University. She has designed facilities all over the world. In North America, almost half of the cattle in processing plants are handled in a center track restrainer system that she designed specifically for this industry.
She has appeared on television shows such as 20/20, 48 Hours, CNN Larry King Live, PrimeTime Live, The Today Show, and many shows in other countries. She has been featured in People Magazine, the New York Times, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, Time Magazine, The New York Times book review, and Discover magazine. In 2010, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people. Her life story has also been made into an HBO movie titled "Temple Grandin." The movie portrays her life as a teenager and how she started her career.
Dr. Grandin is also well known by educators for her work and insight into helping autistic children. Because of her own unique experiences in dealing with autism on a personal basis she is one of the most respected and sought after speakers on this subject.
On Wednesday evening, Oct. 5, Dr. Grandin will address cattlemen and other guests during the NETBIO annual meeting at the Hopkins County Civic Center. Tickets for this event are currently on sale at Texas Heritage National Bank, Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce and Sulphur Springs Livestock Auction or may be obtained by mail by calling 903-449-6079.
On October 6, Dr. Grandin, along with Alex Plank, will be addressing an estimated 1,500 educators and parents from school districts in Education Service Regions 7, 8 and 10 in an Autism/Aspergers Conference at the Hopkins County Civic Center Auditorium.
Tickets for this event may be obtained by going online to register for the conference through the Region VIII Educational website at www.reg8.net.
Raffle to Benefit Meal-a-Day
Barbara Ann Boudreau of Panama City, Fla., daughter of Glenna Durr of Sulphur Springs, heard about the Retired Senior Volunteer Program's 9/11 Project-Food and Donation Drive for Meal A Day.
Barbara is an accredited jewelry professional. She wanted to use her talent and do something for the Meal A Day Program. Barbara makes beautiful jewelry and decided that she could donate some of her pieces to the Meal A Day Program to be raffled off to help raise some money. She has made and donated two necklaces.
One is a 43-inch amethyst and quartz ice crystal, and one is aquamarine and sterling silver. The necklaces may be seen at the Senior Citizens Center. Tickets will be $1 each or six for $5. The tickets can be purchased at the Senior Citizens Center, Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce and the local banks. The drawing will be held on Friday, Nov. 4, at noon. The winner of the raffle will get his or her choice of the two necklaces.
Be cool – cook stew in October!
Finally, the opportunity to cook stew in cooler weather — this year's World Champion Hopkins County Stew Contest will be on Oct. 22 at Buford Park! If you cooked stew last year, the time has come to start preparing for this year's competition. Entry forms are in the mail and stew sites are open for "reclaiming" until Sept. 23. If you have never cooked stew before, but would like to, you may register now, and the remaining stew sites will be available for selection on September 26! For more information, please call the Chamber at 903-885-6515.
We need your business cards!
If you are a member of the chamber of Commerce and we don't have your business cards in our office to display, please bring some to our office. This is a great opportunity to showcase your business to the many visitors that visit the Chamber of Commerce daily!
Don't Miss These Opportunities
Aug. 27 — Hot August Nights, Civic Center
Sept. 8 — Business After Hours at Civic Center, 5-6:30 p.m.
Sept. 10-17 — Hopkins County Fall Festival
Sept. 14 — Ribbon Cutting for Phoenix Promotional Marketing at noon at the Chamber
Sept. 29 — Business After Hours at Heritage Outreach Ministries
Oct. 5 and 6 — Temple Grandin to speak at Civic Center
Oct. 22 — World Champion Hopkins County Stew Contest
Business of the Week postponed due to rain (and the lack thereof)
We will resume selecting a Chamber Business of the Week as soon as we get some rain — I can't get the sign in the ground to showcase the business that was selected!
That's all for now…have a GREAT week!
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text: Learning to push the wireless boundaries in schools04 Dec 2012 02:41 PM New College Swindon has taken a giant leap for wireless connectivity by running its PCs, laptops, phones and photocopiers, as well as guest access for students, on a Xirrus system. ICT manager Phil Quinn explains the thinking to James AtkinsonNew College Swindon in Wiltshire is one of the largest campuses in the UK for A-Level and GSCE students. Back in 2005, it installed a basic Wi-Fi network using HP ProCurve 420 wireless access points running on the 802.11b Wi-Fi standard. It was initially designed to provide Wi-Fi access for around 100 staff laptops, but the students soon started asking for access too. The student body includes approximately 3,000 16-18 year-olds and 10,000 adults on full-time and evening courses.The college responded by starting a pilot and adding guest access for students. Everything was running fine, reports ICT manager Phil Quinn, until demand reached the point where the system couldn't cope. 'We went from no more than 50 devices on the network at any one time to about 200 to 300,' he says. 'So, the real push for our Wi-Fi upgrade came from the students – it was led by demand.'Quinn notes that coverage wasn't really the issue, but density was. 'We have 600 staff using 200 to 300 laptops; a stock of about 1,300 physical PCs and laptops on site; and then all the devices the students bring in.' Tender processThe college was due to build a new annexe building, so money was set aside for a wireless refresh as part and parcel of the build. The tender went out through one of the education purchasing consortia and was won by US Wi-Fi equipment manufacturer Xirrus. Price is always a factor in choosing an equipment provider, but it isn't the easiest thing in the world to compare one set of Wi-Fi equipment with another.'You have to rely on lab tests, publications and networking with colleagues who have installed Wi-Fi systems to find out what has been put in,' says Quinn. 'All the systems we looked at were all out there and working. You also talk to vendor sales and technical people. But I would say that purchasing is the hardest part of any project.'Yes, money is important,' he continues, 'but it is value for money that you are after. Some things may be more expensive, but may be the better product to put in.'Quinn adds: 'Managing density is one of Xirrus' main selling points, so it just fitted our needs here.' Another benefit of the Xirrus system is that it is very easy to scale up the network as demand rises, as more radios can be added to the ceiling-mounted chassis without having to rip and replace the arrays or redesign the network by having to install new cabling and add new physical points.'The problem with the HP arrays was that we couldn't do that,' says Quinn. 'But we can with Xirrus, so I have something that should last for five to 10 years, is reliable and can cope with demand. We've planned for expansion and I want to push as much as I can onto Wi-Fi. We have a system that can do it and one that is nowhere near at capacity yet.'Guaranteed serviceOne of the big selling points for Xirrus was its guarantee, which promises that the college will have a network that provides guaranteed signal strength, throughput and coverage for the devices. Xirrus' selection was followed by a site survey to establish where the wireless arrays should be sited and how many would be needed. This was not the easiest of tasks, as the new annex wasn't yet built. Xirrus then installed the equipment, followed by a short 'bedding down' period, and then Xirrus undertook a further post-site survey.'If at that post-site survey stage you have gaps in your coverage, under the guarantee, they will give you more arrays free of charge – that's a nice comfort blanket and I had to use it,' says Quinn. This was largely because the walls of the new annex soaked up more of the radio signal than anticipated.'In certain areas there was not enough coverage,' says Quinn, 'and fair play to Xirrus, it gave us another array. So I know the guarantee works.'Network managementAs regards managing the network, the Wi-Fi does not have to have a controller, but Quinn wanted one. In particular, he wanted the management system to provide warnings if the system went down. Quinn wryly notes that he has a spare Xirrus XN8 array in his office to meet such a contingency.He also wanted his management system to get performance statistics. 'I want to know it is being used and that the college is getting value for money,' he says. The equipment includes 48 arrays installed around the site comprising a mixture of Xirrus XN8s and XN4s 802.11n arrays (the previous range to Xirrus' current XR arrays), which provide multiple access points housed in a single ceiling-mounted array. In the older parts of the campus the arrays are Ethernet powered. However, the new annex building is completely wireless with no fixed Ethernet connections and is running far more than just mobile laptops and mobile phones. Equipment on the networkAll the college's PC work stations run off it using wireless cards. The college phone system is also running off the Wi-Fi. The phones proved the trickiest bit, not because the Wi-Fi couldn't cope, but because it wasn't easy to integrate the QoS for voice over IP telephony software with the Wi-Fi system.Finally, the multi-functional devices (MFDs) are also using the Wi-Fi network. The MFDs are huge Konica Minolta photocopiers that work off the PaperCut MF system using FollowMe printing. This queues jobs up on the server and calls down the print job when you want it to print, thereby reducing traffic to the printer and making it more manageable.Quinn found there wasn't much evidence that MFDs could be run off Wi-Fi – some manufacturers even told him it wasn't possible. But Konica Minolta was game to try and supplied ZyXEL Wi-Fi bridges, so the Wi-Fi can talk to the photocopier.Access policyThe college has established a number of different levels of access for the Wi-Fi: a specific area for all college devices, although it will not let a non-college device run on the internal network, so all college laptops are separated from the rest of the areas.There is an area for the printers, so the traffic can be kept separate; one more area handles the phones. There is the guest Wi-Fi for bring your own device (BYOD) access. 'This is a challenge because our policy is to be inclusive,' says Quinn. 'The students can bring in any device that they are comfortable learning on to make their learning experience better. So, if it is your dad's secondhand six year-old laptap – as long as it has wireless, we'll try to get it to work.'This is a challenge, because the main college network operates in the 5GHz unlicensed Wi-Fi band, but many of the legacy devices being brought in by students will only work in the 2.4GHz Wi-Fi band. 'So that means we've got to put 2.4GHz in everywhere and you've got to be able to use the 802.11b/g Wi-Fi standards, so when we do upgrades we've got to make sure all the old devices still work,' says Quinn.The guest Wi-Fi access is designed to be easy to use. Students power up the device, connect to the wireless guest area, put in their student account details and they are in.Quinn says they are still obliged to log on each time as the college has not opted for automatic device recognition. 'We need to know what our users are doing and make them accountable for what they do, so access is on a per user basis.'The Wi-Fi system has been installed for nearly three years now and Quinn says it has met all expectations. New College Swindon has made a brave step moving so much functionality onto a Wi-Fi system. It is to be hoped that others will follow its example.Wireless magazineLeave a CommentPlease write code to prove you're humanMore on... 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