Janet G. Johnson: August 2017

Thursday, August 31, 2017

NEET 2017: Navodaya students recorded high success rate

Seeing the excellent performances of the students of Navodaya Vidyalaya (NV) in 10th and 12th board exams and particularly in JEE Advanced and NEET exams Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar applauded their performace. The minister noted that out of 14183 NV students who appeared for the NEET 2017 exam, 11875 successfully qualified the exam and out of the qualified students more than 7000 have already been placed in the medical colleges. A statement from the HRD ministry said "Navodaya Vidyalayas have already become a brand for quality education and the recent successes have further enhanced its brand". NEET exam is conducted for the admissions to medical and dental colleges of the nation and JEE advanced is one of the toughest exams in the nation for getting admissions into the BTech courses in IITs, NITs and IISCs. Applauding the performance of the NV's children in the national level exam Javadekar also directed the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) to take appropriate measures to adopt the solar energy in the all NVs and suggested that they should seek the help of the Ministry of Power in the process.He also directed the Samiti to conduct a study of positive impacts of Student-Teacher living togetherTeachers living together in school campusHealth improvement of children He also appreciated the efforts of the Samiti in filling up all the vacant posts of the teachers in north eastern region.

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Mumbai University to upload gazetted mark sheets in 3 day time

The Gazetted mark sheets of the students whose result have been declared will be uploaded on the website within three day time, University of Mumbai told the Bombay High Court on Thursday.University further told that within five day time hard copies of the mark sheets will be made available to the students from the respective colleges.Rui Rodrigues, the counsel on behalf of the university told the high court that university has already declared most of the results. “Of the 153 exams conducted for Arts courses, results for 151 have been declared. In the BSc. stream, of the 47 exams, results of 43 have been declared. Of the 175 exams held in the technology stream, results of 170 have been declared. In BCom, results of 30 out of the 50 exams have been declared,” Rodrigues informed the court. Rodrigues also told the court that due to bad whether the university server crashed as a result of which the university had to outsource the server in order to make the portal functional again.Commerce results were made available on Saturday but students complained that the server was functioning only partially. Listening to the complaints of the students, University outsourced the server and the results were made available on new portal at http://www.mumresults.in.Assessment of the answer sheets was slowed down due to heavy rains and Ganpati festival but, now the work is picking the pace again, Rodrigues told the court. The next hearing of the case will be done on September 6.

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GATE 2018: Application process begins today

The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE 2018) begins from today i.e. September 1 and candidates can apply for the same by filling the application at the official website of the gate at gate.iitg.ac.in.The exam is conducted by the any one of the IIT and the candidates who wish to pursue the post graduate courses in engineering at the IITs, NITs and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) should apply for the GATE online exam.This year, IIT Guwahati will conduct the exam in 23 different subjects for admissions into the various PG courses. The exam in 2018 is scheduled for February 3 and 4, and February 10 and 11.The GATE exam is also compulsory for the candidates who wish to have a successful carrier in Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) as several PSUs uses the GATE score to shortlist the candidates for the employment opportunity.Few of such organizations are: Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL), Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Power Grid Corporation of India.Steps to apply online Visit the official website of the Gate examUse a valid e-mail id and phone number to register as a new candidate.After successful registrations candidates will get the enrollment id and passwordLog in again to fill the complete application processUpload your photograph, signatures and other documents and detailsPay online feesDownload the application form and take the print out of the same for future reference.

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Virtual inauguration of the ePGP first batch by IIM-A

On Tuesday, the IIM-A inaugurated the first batch of the ePGP 2017-19. The program was inaugurated by the Prof. Ashish Nanda, Director IIMA, from the Hughes e-Learning Studio located at IIMA New Campus.ePGP is an e-mode post-graduation diploma program with a duration of 2 years and with added flexibility of the completing the program in 3 years.This program will help the IIM-A to expand its reach across the entire nation and participants in any city can pursue the program.Technology partner for IIM-A in this program is Hughes Education India Limited. The session for the program will be conducted by the IIMA faculty from the Hughes studio located at IIMA and the program is for working professionals and entrepreneurs having minimum full time work experience of 3 years. There is a growing demand among working professionals for a program which they can pursue without leaving their existing assignments, said the IIMA statement.The first batch of ePGP program has 53 participants and these participants are from 13 different cities of the nation.Majority of the participants of the first bath are from IT Services, Oil and Gas, Healthcare and Financial services sectors.For the next batch, IIMA will consider scores of CAT/GMAT exam for the ePGP program. Therefore, all the candidates are advised to register for the CAT 2017.

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UP government scraps interviews for the government jobs

As a Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath has completed five months and has been in headlines for various decisions such as giving 70 lakh jobs, launching whatsapp number for registering the complaints about cheating in exams etc.And, now in a landmark decision the UP government has decided to end the process of holding the interviews for selecting the candidates for the government jobs in all non-gazetted posts of Group B, C and D categories.Official statement "Keeping in mind the system followed by the Government of India, it has been decided to end the interview process for the government jobs in all non-gazetted posts of Group B, Group C and Group D," an official statement said in a recent PTI report. The decision to remove the interviews was taken in a meeting chaired by the Yogi AdityNath.Now, all the aspirants will have to appear only for the written exams for UP government jobs.According to the reports, if, any department considers interviews necessary for the post then it can send the proposal to the personnel department, which will make the final call.Uttar Pradesh Health Minister Siddharth Nath Singh welcomed the move and said that it will help in putting an end to the corruption in the nation.

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Students protest and locked school for the new school building in MP

Angry over the lack of proper building and infrastructure, the students of Madhya Pradesh government school locked the institute and started protesting demanding for a bigger school building and better infrastructure.This is the story of Naharpur Higher Secondary School located in Gaurihar block in MP. The school has just four rooms despite its status shows 'upgraded' on official papers.From the last 30 years the school is running with just 4 rooms in it. "The school was initially up to Std. 8. It was upgraded as a high school (till Std. 10) in 1987 and later as a higher secondary (till Std. 12) in 2013. But it has just four rooms and all our requests for constructing a proper building has gone unheeded all these years" said local sarpanch Jairam Patel yesterday. "Miffed over the lack of a proper building and other necessary infrastructure, a group of students put a lock on the school's gate and launched an indefinite sit-in on Monday in front of the institute," Patel said.“The dharna will continue till our demands are met. “We submitted a memorandum through the sub-divisional magistrate to the collector five days back, but nothing happened. This forced students to launch the agitation,” he asserted.The state government has acknowledged that many schools in the Madhya Pradesh are running without proper building and infrastructure.“We admit there is a shortage of school buildings in the state. We have earmarked Rs 85 crore in the budget for developing infrastructure for such schools. I will soon look into the demands of agitating students at Naharpur,” Minister of State for School Education Deepak Joshi told PTI.“The students had been demanding a proper school building since the last 30 years, but nothing has happened. In just one room, students of three different classes study,” Shivam, a Class 10 student, said.“There is no proper drinking water facility, no adequate teaching staff and laboratory. Students from nine villages situated in the area are studying in the school,” the sarpanch said.Block education officers and other officials rushed to the school after getting the information that agitated students have locked the school and assured the students that administration will look into the demands of the students.

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Supreme Court extends the deadline for the NEET final counseling as more than 5000 seats are still vacant

The date for the final round of counseling for NEET 2017 exam for the session 2017-18 has been extended by the Supreme Court till September 7 and the court also made clarification that no further extension will be granted.The mop-up round is the last step in the NEET counseling process and all the students who registered for the counseling but were not allotted any colleges in first two rounds are considered in this round.Initially, the last date for the mop-up round was August 31. “Time for mop up round counseling is extended till September 7, 2017. This extension shall only be applicable to the deemed universities and none else. Any application by any other college or institution seeking extension shall not be entertained,” the bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said. The Director General of Health Services (DGHS) informed the court that there are still 5,500 seats vacant in the deemed universities. The court ordered to fill these seats from the qualified pool of 55,000 students to maintain the ratio of 1:10. “As long as, for the seats which have fallen vacant, the ratio is maintained at 1:10, we do not perceive any difficulty. If 1;10 ratio is not sufficient, the Director General of Health Services is granted liberty to get into the larger NEET list. We order accordingly,” the bench said.NEET is a single window exam for the aspirants who wish pursue their higher education in MBBS and BDS across India.

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More than 200 nominations filed in the JNUSU polls

A total of 205 nominations were filed by the various student political outfits which now will contest in the upcoming JNU Students' Union polls on Tuesday.The alliance formed by the Left-wing outfits AISA (All India Students Association), SFI (Students Federation of India) and DSF (Democratic Students Federation) has chosen Geeta Kumari for the post of President. Duggirala Srikrishna from SFI's has been chosen for the post of general secretary and Subhanshu Singh from DSF's for the post of Secretary.Vrishnika Singh, first year PhD students from the School of Social Sciences has been chosen by the congress affiliated NSUI for the post of president.Three candidates from ABVP namely, Abhijeet Dwivedi, Lalit Pandey and Nidhi Tripathi have filed their nominations for the top JNUSU post.“One of the three will be finalized tomorrow,” said a spokesperson of the ABVP.The final list of the students contesting on behalf of each body will be announced soon.The elections for JNUSU are scheduled for September 8 and final results will be declared on September 11.

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CBSE allowed schools to sell NCERT books and stationery inside school campuses

In a recent circular, CBSE allowed its affiliated schools to sell NCERT books and stationery items inside the school premises. It amended its own circular and allowed the schools to open tuck shops inside the premises. “Schools are allowed to place indent for purchase of NCERT books directly through its website for distribution among their students and for this purpose, a tuck shop may be opened inside the premises of the schools,” the CBSE said in a fresh circular. In an old circular the CBSE has said "The Board, time and again, has issued advisories to all its affiliated schools not to indulge in commercial activities by way of selling of textbooks, notebooks, stationary items, uniforms… The Board has taken serious view of the above violations. Hence, once again your attention is drawn that educational institutions are not commercial establishments and their sole purpose is to provide quality education. Therefore, the schools are directed to desist from the unhealthy practice of coercing parents to buy textbooks, notebooks, stationary, uniforms, shoes, schoolbags, etc. from within the premise or from selected vendors only".Many schools protested against the CBSE's move and said that children require quick access to textbooks and stationery items.

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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

GATE 2018: All you need to know

Gate 2018 will be conducted by the IIT-Guwahati in February next year. Candidates who wish to pursue the master's and direct doctoral programs in engineering, technology, architecture and in other branches of science at various IISCs and IITs are required to clear the GATE 2018 exam.Candidates can submit their application forms from the official website of the at gate.iitg.ac.in.Important dates Application process begins- September 1, 2017Application process ends- October 5, 2017Admit cards- January 5, 2018Exam date- February 3, 4 and February 10, 11, 2018 (9 am to 12 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm)Results- March 17, 2018 EligibilityThere is no age limit for the GATE 218 but the candidate must be graduate of BE, BTech, BPharmacy, BArch, BSc (Research), BS, MA, MSc, MCA, Int MSc or Int BSMS in 2018. Documents required for the application Personal information (name, age, date of birth, mobile number)Address of communicationDetails of the degreeCollege name and addressGATE subject and choice of examination centerScanned candidate's signatureScanned eligibility certificateScanned certificate for the reserved categoryID proofOnline fee payment Exam pattern MCQs will have negative marking for the wrong answers while there will be no negative marking for the fill in the blanks type questions.The questions in the exam will be MCQs and fill in the blanks type.The exam will contain questions on general aptitude (15 marks), engineering mathematics (10-13 marks) and questions from the core engineering area of the candidate.The exam will have two sections and 65 questions in total. The exam will be of 100 marks and time allotted to complete the paper will be 3 hours. Application fee UR- Rs 1,500Women- Rs 750SC/ST/PwD- Rs 750International- $ 50

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IIM-A to develop the matrimonial portal for the HIV positive people

A team of researchers from Indian Institute of Technology Ahmedabad is working on developing an online marriage portal for the people living with HIV.The IIM-A team is being led by the faculty of Centre for Management of Health Services (CMHS). For the project, the IIM-A has collaborated with the Gujarat State Network of Positive People (GSNP+) which is currently maintaining the file of about 500 PLHIV people who are looking forward to get married. IIM-A will complete the development phase of the website soon and after that it will hand over the management and launch of the website to the GSNP+.“I wish the PLHIV marriage portal project success. It will have a positive impact on the lives of individuals living with HIV, as also on the communities within which they live. This project demonstrates the direct impact on society of some of the work being done at IIMA,” says Ashish Nanda, professor at IIMA.The current scope of the project is very small because of the small number of people registered. But institute is hoping that the project will gain pace once it is launched online.“Marriage bureau is one of the ways to contribute to the society for positive prevention through PLHIV as well as to encourage positive living. It will enable the PLHIV in enjoying life with a life partner, where they easily disclose, care for each other, act as support system,” said Daxa Patel, formal secretary of GSNP+.

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Suggestions from Niti Aayog: Less regulations and more autonomy in education

Niti Aayog recently released its three year action agenda for education sector in which it has stressed on the providing more autonomy to educational institutes in order to have a successful high education sector in nation.To indicate the need of quality in the education sector Niti Aayog quoted an assessment of the 150,000 engineers done by the Aspiring Minds in 2016 in which only 18% of the engineers were found employable in a functional role in education sector, 41% in non- functional Business Process Outsourcing and only 4% in software engineering start-ups.Following are the five major actions which the Niti Aayog suggested to complete in the coming three year:World class universitiesNiti Aayog suggested to identify 20 universities (10 public and 10 private) which can be moved out of the regulatory system. "Creating world-class universities requires autonomous governance, focused funding, and oversight based on independent outcomes like world rankings. Instead, we should adopt the tiered funding model for public universities whereby the two best public universities are provided significantly higher funding (with commitment to deliver correspondingly large improvements in performance) than the remaining eight chosen public universities," it said. Autonomy to top colleges and universities"More established colleges should be brought under the autonomous colleges scheme to take them out of the centralized control of their university and provide greater flexibility in academic matters," it suggested about giving autonomy to top colleges and universities.Doing this will allow colleges to establish their brand name and will be able to compete more effectively for the good students and teachers.Changes in the regulatory systemThe report also said that the UGC's position as the regulator in every aspect of the higher education hold back the education system from responding to the changes of the fast evolving world."Various professional councils further complicate the regulatory environment in higher education," it added.The report suggested introducing a regulatory system which focuses on information disclosure and governance and not on the micro-management of the institutions.Research specific grants "A system of public funding for research in specific areas of public importance has driven much of the innovation in science and technology in other countries. A similar system should be set up in India with funding to specific scholars, thus, providing both maximum flexibility and accountability for results," it said. Focus on the vocational educationThe report also suggested establishing the norms and standards based on the skills which are closely related to the employment."We should also include vocational subjects in mainstream universities to allow for greater acceptance and utility for vocational learning. We can focus more in particular on those skills that are expected to be in high demand from the public sector in the coming years," the Niti Aayog report said.

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Mumbai University result crisis: Portal inactive for the second day

Owning to various technical glitches and faults the result portal of the Mumbai university remained down for the second consecutive day on Tuesday. However, officials claimed that the portal worked fine throughout the day. The result portal of the university has been down since last Saturday when the university released the results of the Commerce stream leaving the students in anxiety. “The website was working for some time during the day but has been down again. The problem is yet to be identified but prima facie appears to be a server connectivity issue,” said an official from the university.Apart from this issue the assessment process has also gone slow at the university due to heavy rains in the city. As a result of heavy rains, only 145 teachers turn up for the assessment on Tuesday and only 5,847 papers were assessed.With around lakhs of papers yet to be assessed, the university is most likely to miss the 31st August deadline. In yet another problem, the results of the thousands of students were hold by the university due various reasons such as untraceable answer sheets and un-assessed answer sheets. “For those students whose results are on hold, there are more than one reasons for it. We are solving these cases individually on a case-to-case basis,” said an official, adding the reconciliation process was time- consuming.The university issued a notice in which it said that the withheld results will be declared within 10 days.

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There is still hope for the 55000 students who failed the class X exams

Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Manish Sisodia said on Tuesday that more than 55,000 students of Delhi who failed the class X exams will be enrolled under the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS).He further said that Delhi government will set up these new centers for the purpose of teaching the students. He further said "There will be more centers for girls so they do not have to travel too far from home. There is no rule that a student who fails twice in Class X will not be given admission; most of them drop out. This is prevalent in both private and government schools". The government said that NIOS was selected for the move in order to reduce the drop-out rates of the children from the schools as the curriculum in NIOS is relatively easier than those in the private and government schools.The government also announced that they are going to expand their education loan scheme to the Delhi students which are currently studying outside the capital.“Delhi students who later enroll in colleges and universities outside Delhi will also be eligible for the loan guarantee scheme and can take loans up to Rs 10 lakh,” Sisodia said.

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Murthy: Students must be encouraged to think independently

N R Narayana Murthy, Infosys co-founder, said that the schools and colleges in the nation must be free from government interference as this will help the students to think independently and to find scientific solution to the country's problems. “…children have to be encouraged and equipped to become contributors to solving huge problems that confront us every day. India probably has more problems facing its citizens than any other country in the world,” Murthy said while delivering the first Professor MGK Menon Memorial Lecture last evening. He further added that the huge population base of the nation also puts a big burden to provide children with the basic education and health care system.Citing the examples he said that in terms of health India is placed lower than most of the South Asian country and African states and ranked somewhere around 130 on Human Development Index among 193 nations.“I believe that we can find appropriate solutions to our problems if we educate our children and youth to think independently to find scientific and technological solutions to our problems,” he said.Murthy added "bureaucracy also needs to be much more responsive while schooling and college systems have to be made “totally autonomous".He also regretted the fact that at present there are no attempts made by the present education system to access whether the students have gained the skills and independent mindset to recognize the problems on pro-active basis and solve them.

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Tuesday, August 29, 2017

The Social Learning Revolution in e Learning

The eLearning industry is on a steady growth path. In fact, according to the eLearning market trends, the worldwide revenue for last year reached over $46,000 million. And it is not hard to understand the reason behind such success. Learning suitable to each pace drastically increases a student’s knowledge retention rate by up to 60%. Not to mention the 72% rise of the company’s competitive edge and 42% of increased revenue within the corporation. As more organizations see the benefits from switching to this modern way of employee learning approach, the bloom in social learning is a natural...

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GSHSEB's math supplementary exam: Only 11 students cleared the exam

Only 11 students out of the 670 students cleared the math test conducted by the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB).These students (670) were the one who scored nearly perfect marks in the math objective exam and zero or minimal in the subjective test of the math. Of the 11 passed students, six were able to pass the exam only after they were given 5 marks as grace.GSHSEB conducted a hearing over such variations in the marks in objective and subjective paper in which many students revealed that the answers to objective questions were dictated by the teachers. After listening to the students, GSHSEB asked the education department and respective district education officers (DEOs) in written to take action against the errant teachers. “There are nearly ten examination centers in Dahod, Mahisagar and Tapi (all tribal-dominated districts) where blatant malpractices have been reported,” said GSHSEB chairman A J Shah.It is the second consecutive year in which such a huge difference in the marks in subjective and objective exams have been reported due to the malpractices in the exams.“In the previous year, 79 teachers were identified. Eventually, nothing happened since the board can only seek action and not act being a toothless body,” shared a board member.

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Monday, August 28, 2017

Notification released for the IIT JAM 2018

Notification for the Joint Admission Test (JAM) has been released by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.Candidates who are interested in pursuing their Master's from IITs and IISCs can apply from the same from the official website.The registration process for admissions into MSc (two-year), jointMSc-PhD, MSc-PhD dual degree and other post-bachelor's degree programs will begin from September 5 and will continue till October 10. After the registrations begin, candidates are advised to apply as early as possible in order to avoid the last minute glitches.The JAM exam for 2018 will be conducted on February 11 in two sessions.Candidates who looking to get admissions into biotechnology, chemistry, geology and mathematical statistics will be required to clear the session 1 exam of the JAM which will be conducted on Feb 11 from 9 am to 12 pm and those who are looking to get admission biological sciences (BL), mathematics (MA) and physics (PH) will be required to clear the afternoon session of the exam which is from 2pm to 5pm.Steps to apply for JAM 2018 Visit the official website for the JAM at jam.iitb.ac.inClick on the link for the application forms. The link will be available from September 5.Register for the exam by entering the details in the form in the prescribed format.Download the copy of the application form an save it for the future reference.

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IBPS RRB VI prelims admit cards released

Admit cards for the Regional Rural Banks (RRB) VI exam 2017 have been released by the IBPS on their official website at ibps.in.The online prelim exam for the post of officer scale-1 is due on September 9, September 10 and September 16 (if required) at the various test centers across the nation. Steps to download the admit card Log into the official website of the ibps at ibps.inClick on the link to download the preliminary exam call letter for the RRB-VIEnter the registration number and password in the space providedEnter the captcha and click on the loginAdmit cared will be displayed on the screenDownload the admit cared and take the printout of the same Important notes No hard copy of the admit card will be send to the candidateAdmit cards will be available till September 16Candidates are advised to check the information handout for CWE RRB officer scale-I About IBPS IBPS recruitment for the PSBs has two or three tier system. IBPS RRB and SO has two tier process and IBPS PO and Clerk has three-tier process. The first phase consists of a CWE written exam, followed by an interview and final placement.

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More than 150 schools in Delhi are refunding excess fees

Few weeks ago, in order to protect the interest of the children and their parents Delhi government issued a show cause notice to 449 schools in Delhi and gave them two weeks to refund the extra fees they have charged. As a result of this many schools issued public notices in the newspapers in which they asked the parents to come and take the refund. "These schools have been sent notices in the past, yet they are not complying. We have two options as per rules. Either take over the school or de-recognize them. The second option will leave hundreds of students without a school so the government has decided to take them over," said Atishi Marlena, adviser to education minister Manish Sisodia in a recent HT report. Some of the city's top private schools were also included in the 449 schools. As of now 150 schools have refunded INR 300 crore to the parents, Marlena said. According to the report published in Outlook, many other schools such as Sardar Patel Vidhyalaya in Lodhi Estate, Oxford Public School in Nehru Nagar, Heera Public School in Gurgaon and Smt Misri Devi Gyan Niketan School in Deenpur have also issued public notices and have asked the parents to collect the refund latest by September 5. Around 70 other schools have submitted the excess fee in the Delhi High Court.According to the reports from TOI, few big schools such as DPS Mathura Road and Springdales Pusa Road approached the court separately in a matter related to fee refund and are waiting for the decision before they make the payments."There is a PIL that we have filed in court and are waiting for a decision. We have the amount ready with us. The hearing is next month, and action will be taken on the direction of the court," said Principal Manohar Lal in a recent TOI report."Some of them are doing good work. But if they don't implement the recommendations of the panel's report then we will take them over as a last resort," said Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Kejriwal.

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A healthy mind is a secret behind your childs success

A healthy mind is a secret behind your child’s success

Everything is in our mind. A healthy mind can observe, investigate and question itself. It is the way to happiness and inner peace. Humans are the most intelligent species on earth due to its eternal mental ability. A healthy body is the gift of a healthy mind. Swami Sivananda has reminded us “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” Our state of mind defines us as persons. Therefore, we must be conscious of our children’s mental health and give them the full support to nourish it in every aspect. It will bring out the best of them. We h...

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Patriotic rock band competition in IITs and Central Universities to be held soon

Students of IITs and central universities will soon be grooving on the patriotic songs but in rock style. With Indian government planning to organize 'Yeh India ka Time hai' program, HRD ministry has asked the IITs and central universities to host rock band concerts in the institutes. However, this time these rock bands will perform the patriotic songs in their rock style.The patriotic songs to be performed will also include several patriotic hits from the Bollywood films. A senior official from the ministry said that they have already booked a private entertainment firm which will make the selection of such bands for the performances. As of now, the firm has identified several rock bands and is planning to organize the concert in various institutes over the span of next month.The program is being organized to celebrate 70 years of Independence of India. This will also mark the 75 years of Quit India Moment.Earlier this month, on the occasion of Independence Day, the government had asked the schools and colleges to organize the trip to the memorials of freedom fighters and directed the educational institutes to organize the oath ceremony to make the nation "terrorism-free, caste-free, corruption-free, uncleanness-free and poverty-free".

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5th and 6th semester result of TYBCom of Mumbai University declared

Results of the three year integrated Bachelors of Commerce (TYBCom) exams for the 5th and 6th semester have been declared by the University of Mumbai. With these results, the university has successfully declared 432 results out of 477 and the candidates who appeared for these exams can now check their results on the university's official website- mu.ac.in A total of 79,823 students appeared for the fifth and sixth semester exams out of which 65,992 appeared for semester 6 and 13,831 appeared for semester exams.The pass percentage for this year for semester 5 is 60.92 per cent and for semester 6 is 65.56 per cent.From semester 6 about 384 students achieved outstanding (O) grade while 7,868 students achieved the “A” grade and more than 19000 students failed to clear the exams.From semester 5, only 3 students achieved outstanding grades, 119 achieved 'A' grade and more than 5000 students failed to clear the exam.Students of the third and fourth year of the five year LLB course can also check their results.Steps to download the results Go to the official website of the universityClick on the link to the results pageClick on the link for your semester resultEnter the details in the field providedClick on the submit button and result will be displayed on the screenDownload the result and take the print out of the same for the future reference

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Study Abroad: Thailand's Chulabhorn Graduate Institute's PG scholarship program

Chulabhorn Graduate Institute from Bangkok is inviting the applications from the Indian Nationals for the 'Chulabhorn Graduate Institute Post-Graduate Scholarship Program'.The scholarship is for the Master's degree in the applied Biological Sciences: Environmental Health, Environmental Toxicology, and Chemical Biology.The last date to submit the application is October 31, 2017.In order to complete the application process candidates are required not only to send the soft copy of the application but also, the hard copy of the application to the institute.Eligibility criteriaCandidates interested in applying for the scholarship must fulfill the below written criteria: Upper age limit: 30 yearsA Bachelor degree with minimum GPA 3.0 in science streams disciplines, medical science or pharmacy and pharmaceutical scienceOne year of experience in the scientific laboratoryTOEFL or IELTS score Application processApplicants are required to download the copy of the application form and send the scanned copy of the complete application form along with other required/supporting documents through e-mail to cgi_academic@cgi.ac.th.After sending the soft copy, candidates are also required to send the hard copy of the application form along with the documents at:The Chulabhorn Graduate Institute (CGI Scholarship Program)54 Kamphangphet6 Road, LaksiBangkok 10210 ThailandThe application form and the medical format can be downloaded from the HRD ministry's website.Candidates are also required to submit a statement of purpose for the field they are interested in studying.Awards of the scholarshipThe scholarship will cover complete tuition and other academic fee, round trip airfare, visa fee, first settlement allowance, relocation allowance, accommodation, monthly stipend, book allowance, health insurance and others.

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IIT not in favor of Joint Counseling with IISER; Continue to resist the idea

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are against the proposal which suggests that the seven Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) join the counseling process of the JEE Advanced.In a meeting held on August 20 by the Joint Admission Board (JAB), the matter was considered again in great details.According to the sources, in the meeting, the decision remains inconclusive but most of the IITs are not convinced about sharing the counseling platform with the IISERs. Currently, the counseling process is shared by both IITs and NITs for admissions into the B.Tech courses but the students in the IITs are admitted based on their rakings in the JEE advanced exam while in the NITs the ranking in the JEE main exam is considered. According to the IITs, the counseling process based on the JEE advanced exam exist only to cater the admission needs of the IITs and if any other institute wants to joing the process the idea must be put before the Senate of IITs.The Senate is an apex decision making body in every IIT and is responsible for maintaining the standards related to examinations, infrastructure and education.“They want the IISERs to participate in the counseling process through JEE (Main). There is a feeling that permitting IISERs to admit students along with the IITs could dilute the JEE (Advanced) brand and, maybe, a few candidates might opt for an IISER over, say, one of the newer IITs,” said a source in the government who did not wish to be identified.With HRD ministry pushing the IITs to accept the proposal, JAB has decided to form a committee with the representatives from both IITs and IISERs to work out a possible solution, if any.

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HRD Ministry to train 11 lakh teachers

HRD ministry is all set to start a biggest education program for the teachers of the nation on the coming Gandhi Jayanti under which it has planned to train around 11.09 lakh untrained teachers by March 2019.On the other auspicious occasion of teachers' day, the ministry is planning to kickstart its project of educating 2000 students of the Kendriya Vidyalayas using the tablets. These tablets will be used to teach students subjects like Science and Math.HRD minister, Prakash javadekar told TOI that teachers' education is an important for the development of the nation and currently there are more than 11 lakh untrained teachers, which are teaching in schools. Out of these 11 lakh teachers, six lakh are in government schools and remaining five lakh are in private schools.Under the rules of the RTE act, earlier, these teachers were supposed to complete their diploma in the elementary education by 2015. Javadekar said, "We have extended the time up to 2019 as untrained teachers are an injustice to students. So, for the first time, we are going to train them through Swayam and Swayam Prabha, not through DEd or BEd colleges. We expect more than eight to nine lakh teachers to register, but the actual figure will be available on September 15". He further added that there will be no more extensions for this and this is the last chance for the teachers to train themselves or they will lose their jobs ."We will start the courses on October 2 and will continue them till June 2018. Next year, it starts in July and it will go on till March 19, 2019. The program includes 1,080 lectures and nine courses in 10 languages. Apart from online training there will also be a total of 24 face-to-face workshops during school holidays. For the first time, we are having this kind of technology-enabled teacher training for lakhs of teachers".

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Sunday, August 27, 2017

NEET 2017: Supreme Court issued stay order on issuing 5 marks in the NEET exam

The Supreme Court stayed the order passed by the Allahabad High Court which directed the CBSE to issue 5 marks to all the candidates of the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) 2017 and revise the merit list due to wrong question.Allahabad High Court passed the order on August 10 after a petitioner appealed the court requesting that the authorities grant 5 extra marks to the students. NEET candidate Saumitra Ginodia found that she was awarded 4 marks in a question instead of five before finding that there was a mistake in the question. Upon listening to the petition, the Court ordered the board to grant marks to all the similar candidates and revise the entire merit list for the NEET 2017 exam.In this regard CBSE filed a special leave application before the Supreme Court which then issued stay order on the Allahabad High Court orders and asked the high court not to entertain any petitions in this regard.

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Registrations for the Korean Language Program open at Jamia Millia Islamia University

Certification course in Korean language is now available at the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University for registrations and initially only 30 students of the current academic session can enroll in the program.Vice chancellor of the university said that the course will prove helpful to the students in providing employment opportunities at the leading Korean companies.Apart from being available as a certificate course, the course in Korean language will also be available as CBCS (choice based credit system) for the students pursuing professional course in the Engineering and Management. On the occasion of inaugurating the program, Prof Talat Ahmad, Vice Chancellor of JMI University laid emphasis on the deepening relations between the India and South Korea and said that with this course not only students will become proficient in the Korean language but also, will find the course to be immensely helpful when looking for jobs in reputable Korea companies. He further said that the demand for the Koren Language can be gauged from the fact that nearly 400 students applied for the 30 seats of the course.Mr Hai Kwang Lee, Charge d'affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea, said "the program was a significant step in promoting Korean language studies in India. He said that South Korea-India relations are gearing for a major transformation and that his country hopes to play a leading role in accelerating India's economic development as its long standing developmental partner".

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District inspector of schools asked private schools of Noida to justify their fee hike

PK Upadhyay, the Greater Noida's District Inspector of Schools, asked the private schools in the area to justify their fee hikes by giving satisfactory explanation to the parents and said that any fee hike must be felicitated by the facilities in the schools. “If the schools do not do so, the district administration will take action on complaints by parents. Private schools are under the wrong impression that the district administration has no jurisdiction on them as they are self- financed institutions,” he said. He also said that the schools must dispel the disbelief that they are not under the jurisdiction.He also made it clear that these institutes require NOC (No Objection Certificate) from the state government.“Further private schools managements generally say majority of parents have paid the hiked fee. This does not justify the increase. Complaints by even few parents are enough to order an inquiry. The district administration can seek their balance sheet and investigate,” said Upadhyay.Some parent visited the office of the DIOS last week and alleged that schools are hiking their fees without any proper explanation and justification upon which Upadhyay assured that proper actions will be taken to check if the increased fee is in permissible norms.

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SSC CGL Tier 1 2017 exam: Answer keys to be released on September 18

The Staff Selection Commission announced that it will release the answer keys of the SSC CGL tier 1 2017 exam on September 18.Once the keys are released, candidates can check them on the official website of the SSC, which is www.ssc.nic.in.SSC CGL Tier 1 2017 exam was conducted by the commission from August 5 to August 23 on various test centers spread across the nation.In a notification released by the SSC, it informed that total of 15, 43,962 candidates appeared in the tier 1 exam which was conducted by the commission in 43 different batches across the nation.Steps to check the answer keys of SSC CGL tier 1 Go to the official website of the SSC, which is www.sssonline.nic.inClick on the link for the answer key for 2017 tier 1 examAnswer key will be displayed on the screenDownload the same and take the print out for future reference About SSCThe Staff Selection Commission works under the government of India and was established on the November 4 in 1975. One of the many duties of the commission is to recruit the staff for the several posts in various Ministries and Departments.Its main headquarter is in New Delhi and has seven regional offices which are present at Allahabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Guwahati, Chennai, Bangalore along which sub-regional offices at Raipur and Chandigarh.Regional director heads the regional office while the sub-regional office is headed by a Deputy-Director.

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Saturday, August 26, 2017

State norms should be applicable to the CBSE school fees: Chairman

CBSE chairman, R K Chaturvedi said that CBSE affiliated schools should charge the fees according to the norms fixed by the state government.“Our affiliation by-laws say the fee should be commensurate with infrastructure and facilities offered by the school. The quantum of fee should be on par with the (respective) state government's norms,” Chaturvedi said. Chaturvedi's statement comes at a time when CBSE have moved to the Gujarat High Court against the decision that state governments will regulate the fees charged by the private schools including the school which are affiliated to the CBSE. All these schools' fee will be regulated by the Gujarat Self-Financed Schools (Regulation of Fees) Act, 2017.“(Information about) Fee should be put in the public domain….logical explanation should be given as to on what basis the fee is charged,” he said.CBSE is also thinking about giving accreditation to the schools affiliated to it, he said.“We are discussing norms for accreditation. It will decide where the school stands in terms of quality, through a third-party evaluation. It will be then easy for parents to decide how one school is better than the other,” he said.“Results, quality of education, parents' and teachers' satisfaction, retention of teachers, index of happiness, infrastructure, fee, sports, all these parameters will form the basis to evaluate schools. We will begin the process from this academic year and implement it by next year,” he said.Chaturvedi was in the state to meet the representatives of the CBSE schools from the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra to discuss about the board's decision to do away with the school exams in class X and introducing "applied entrepreneurship" as a vocational subject in classes XI-XII.

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CBSE amends its circular: Tuck shops are now permissible inside school premises

In a most recent circular issued by the CBSE, the board allowed schools to open tuck shops inside the school premises to sell NCERT books, stationary and other items which students may need in their day to day school activities. In an earlier issued circular, CBSE strictly told all the affiliated schools not to indulge in any sort of commercial activity inside the school premises and that their only role is to provide quality education to the children and they should focus on doing so. This notification was issued by the CBSE on April 19, 2017.In an attempt to make NCERT books available to the students of the CBSE affiliated schools, CBSE told schools to register purchase the NCERT books through the NCERT website on the basis of the requirements. CBSE asked the schools to register and place their demand for the books for the current session on the NCERT's official site-- www.ncertbooks.ncert.gov.inFor the same, CBSE also issued a circular in which it said "the schools are allowed to place indent for purchase of NCERT books directly through NCERT website for distribution among their students and for this purpose, a 'Tuck Shop' may be opened inside the premises of the schools"."The stationery and other materials required by the students are also allowed to be sold from this 'Tuck Shop'. To this extent, the circular April 19, 2017 stands amended," said the circular.There are about 2000 schools in the nation which are affiliated to the CBSE board.

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IIT Guwahati to participate in the grand finale of the Sweden India Nobel Memorial Quiz 2017

Out of total 35 teams which participated in the qualifying round of the Sweden India Nobel Memorial Quiz 2017, IIT Guwahati emerged as a winner. The quiz was held on the occasion of the Sweden India Nobel Memorial Week at the cotton university. According to the reports from the Assam tribune, IIT Guwahati team consisted of Syed Masoom Mumeen, Yash Pote and Angshuman Das and all the three answered the brain teaser questions brilliantly, posed by the Kunal Savarkar. The winners will now represent the city at the national finals, which are due on October 11 at New Delhi. The quiz will also be held in Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Indore, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Delhi.A statement issued by the organizers read, "The winners of the national quiz will get an all-expense paid trip to Sweden, where they will visit headquarters of the partnering companies, Swedish universities and the Nobel Museum''.The partnering companies for the Sweden India Nobel Memorial Quiz 2017 are Atlas Copco, IKEA, Oriflame, SAAB, Sandvik, Scania, Tetra Pak, Volvo Cars and Volvo Group.

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MoU signed between ICAI and ICA Nepal

In the presence of Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of Nepal, Sher Bahadur Deuba, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nepal (ICAN) at New Delhi. At the event, President of ICAI and President of ICAN, CA Nilesh S. Vikamsey and CA Prakash Jung Thapa respectively, exchanged the signed copies of the MoU setting another milestone between the two nations in the field of Accountancy. The main aim of the MoU is to promote mutual co-operation for the advancement of the professional accounting knowledge.ICAI is present in Nepal and has a strong base of 5000 members and the MoU between the two countries aims at working together and sharing knowledge and best practices among the professionals of the both nations.ICAI played an important role in the establishment of ICAN in 1997. ICAI also played an important role in establishing the process related to examination.ICAI also helped the ICAN by extending the technical and expert manpower which helped the ICAN in establishing the educational and developmental functions related to profession of Accountancy in Nepal.

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Students protest as Environmental Science teachers are not from the stream

In 1991, environmental science subject was made compulsory in schools and colleges but, Delhi University introduced the subject in its curriculum after 23 years i.e. in 2014. Now, students who have completed their environmental science studies from DU are saying that the teachers teaching the subject are not from the stream.Now, teachers and students have come together and formed a body, All India Environment Science Student Union. According to the teachers and students not appointing the teachers from the relevant stream is also a violation of the guidelines issued by UGC and soon they will stage a protest against this at the Arts Faculty. The guidelines of the UGC states that teacher being recruited for the subject must be from the same stream.According to the union in only 23 colleges of the university, there are teachers who have an MSc, MPhil or a PhD in environmental science/studies.“Recently, a DU college held an interview for a teacher for environmental studies. Of the three candidates called, two of them were PhD in the subject. But the college declared that none of them were found suitable. This is happening after almost 23 years since the subject was started in DU,” said Sanjay Marale, the president of All India Environment Science Student Union.“This is going to hamper the future of students (who have taken up the subject). It is high time the university does a course correction. Despite having a department for environment studies, this is the situation in DU,” said Yashpal Singh Narwaria, a PhD in environmental science.

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Friday, August 25, 2017

Teachers are being trained to identify behavioral pattern among the students

After several incidents of sexual abuse of the children, schools are now becoming more cautious of the fact and are becoming more proactive in dealing with such situations.Several schools are not only teaching the students about the good touch and bad touch but are also training their teachers to identify the behavioral pattern among the students.“Awareness among younger children between Classes I and III is more important as these children are not able to tell the difference between affectionate petting and inappropriate touch,” said Kalpana Dwivedi, principal of St Josephʼs School, Panvel.The schools are conducting annual sessions on 'good touch and bad touch' for students in preprimary and primary classes. A non-profit organization, The Early Childhood Association (ECA), is working towards protecting the rights of the children and has also issued advisories to the schools across the country teaching schools about how to create awareness among the children, parents and teachers. “The ECA has also chalked out protocols for schools to follow in case of complaints of child sexual abuse,” said Swati Popat Vats, who is the president of the ECA and heads the Podar Education Network.“Schools associated with the ECA regularly organize sensitization workshops for children, teachers as well as parents,” she said.The ECA advises about not leaving the children alone with the male staff members and ask them to make sure that female staff members are always around. It also insists on installing CCTVs and to check the footage on regular basis.

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Mumbai University Result Crisis: Activists to launch campaign against the university

Against the delay in declaring the results, activists Anjali Damania and Anil Galgali have decided to launch a campaign against the Mumbai University and are demanding the judicial enquiry into the matter.“We hope that the Bombay High Court constitutes an inquiry into the whole matter and penalizes the people responsible for jeopardizing the future of lakhs of students,” said Damania. “The delay in the results is a failure on part of the minister of education Vinod Tawde as well as Vice-Chancellor Sanjay Deshmukh. Both should be penalized for their serious lapses amounting to the loss of a precious year of the students,” said Damania. As an alumna of the university, she is now working on bringing all the prominent alumni members of the university together and starting a campaign for streamlining the problems of the university.As part of the campaign, activists will file multiple pleas under RTI in order to get the information on the process of appointment of third party agency, on-screen assessment, as well as on the entire assessment process of the university.“People responsible for the mess cannot get away without any penalties if they have not done due diligence on the evaluation process and the preparedness of the university for the change,” said Damania.

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Rajeev Kumar whistleblower professor from IIT-KGP reinstated at JNU

Rajeev Kumar, whistleblower professor from IIT-KGP, reinstated at JNU

JNU University has allowed professor, Rajeev Kumar to resume its duties in the Computer Science department.Rajeev Kumar is a former professor from IIT-KGP and is also a whistleblower.An official order by JNU said that he will: ”resume his duties in School of Computer and Systems Sciences immediately”. In 2014, IIT-KGP decided compulsory retirement for the professor Rajeev Kumar but the order were quashed by the president Pranab Mukherjee after Kumar approached Delhi High Court alleging bias against him. Kumar was lauded as an unsung hero by the Supreme Court in 2011 for his contribution in reforming the JEE exam and for introducing the JEE Advanced exam.During the same year, Kumar was accused by the probe panel of IIT-KGP of "damaging the reputation of the institute" as he alleged that students copied during the exam and laptops were purchased irregularly by the institute.The institute in 2014 decided to enforce compulsory retirement against which Kumar appealed in the Delhi High Court and approached the President as well.

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IGNOU to provide digital support desk; Signs MoU

The Indira Gandhi National Open University signed a MoU with Common Service Centers which will act as a point of contact for all the digital services and support. The main aim of the initiative is to reach out to the students in far and disadvantageous areas and to provide the urban students with a digital support desk.The partnership will create a platform for both prospective and enrolled students for the online courses, examinations and other online servicesStudy material will also be converted into digital format so that students can access them at any of the CSCs. IGNOU will also organize the workshops for the village level entrepreneurs (VLEs) so that they understand all about the digital support and services which students can use to their benefits. The workshops will be conducted by IGNOU in Lucknow, Patna, Jammu, Ahmedabad, Raipur and Guwahati in September.The university also signed MoU with the ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) in order to promote awareness and communication under the Digital India Program.

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National Education Policy: High Court seeks reply from private schools

The Delhi High Court has asked the center to reply on a plea alleging the non-representation of thousands of educational and charitable societies running unaided schools in a committee on National Education Policy (NEP).The committee is headed by a noted scientist K Kasturirangan. Ministry of Human Resource Development is given a final chance to file their reply against the plea filed by the Independent Schools Federation of India. In the plea they alleged "complete avoidance of private schools imparting elementary education in the newly constituted Committee". In the plea, the federation said that the government could not ignore the major stakeholders in the field of education because they are the final decision taking authority in the committee.“There is no representative of private schools when private educational societies are taking care of about one- third of students enrolled (8.9 crore) but are least consulted in matters of national educational policy,” the petition said.“Issue any appropriate order or direction commanding the Ministry of Human Resource Development to give proportional representation to all stakeholders like state governments, state, Central Boards and association of private educational charitable societies in the Committee so constituted under the Chairmanship of K Kasturirangan for framing national policy of education,” the plea said.The court will hear the matter on October 27.

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