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Delhi private school told to reimburse Rs 2.09 cr to students

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi on Saturday ordered a private school in the city to reimburse the Rs 2.09 crore it collected from the students as extra fees within 30 days.

Jatragachi School reign supreme in All India School Rowing

Jatragachi Pranabananada High School won the junior boys title for the third consecutive year in the the 47th All India Invitation School Rowing Championship at Lake Club course here Saturday. G D Birla High School, South Point, and Ashok Hall were the other winners of the meet in their respective categories. New Town-based Jatragachi School represented by Rejayan Karim, Gautam Bairagi, Afridi Ali and Rejaul Molla lived up to the expectation as they beat Tollygunge Adarsha High School with a timing of two minute six seconds in the junior boys category. In the senior girls division, Atriya Dasgupta, Debanjali Mazumdar, Priyadarshini Dutta and Niharika Saraf regained the title after three years, defeating Sushila Birla High School by two seconds. In the senior boys final, South Point comprising Arunava Das, Prateek Gupta, Aritra Basu and Kushal Mundra produced the best timing of the by meet finishing the 500 metre course in one minute 58.22 seconds to beat Khalsa High School B for their

Board exams: Celebrating the second best in an era when 90% means nothing

The examination season - and results - represent enormous pressure, both for students and parents. How can parents, teachers and children cope? Sneha Bhattacharjee finds out

Telangana opposition to meet President over results fiasco

The opposition parties in Telangana on Saturday decided to meet President Ram Nath Kovind over the goof-up in the results of Intermediate examinations, which led to the suicide of at least 22 students since last month.

Telangana: Leaders seek compensation for kin of dead students, Education Min's suspension

Several senior leaders of opposition parties and relatives of the students who failed allegedly due to an erroneous evaluation in Intermediate exams staged a protest at Dharma Chowk here on Saturday, demanding justice and removal of Education Minister G Jagadish Reddy.The protesters also demanded compensation to the kin of the students who committed suicide since the declaration of faulty results by the Telangana Board of Intermediate Education (BIE).Telangana Janasamathi state president Kodandaram told ANI: "We demand that TRS government re-evaluates answer sheets and take action against the officials responsible for the lapse. Education Minister Jagadeeshwar Reddy should be suspended.""The government should also give compensation and job to a member of the families of the students who committed suicide," he added.Speaking to ANI, senior Congress leader V Hanumanth Rao said: "The government gave the contract to Global Arena Company to conduct the exams. Due to the company's fault, so

Cracking the test

Schools should focus on learning, not examinations

Handshake or hug for students by Principal before classes

A handshake or hug to students before the start of morning classes by the principal of a social welfare school to boost their morale has made them happy and confident and won her plaudits from officials. The Principal, S Rupa, was inspired by a YouTube video, in which a teacher greets primary school children in this manner. However she is not sure of details in the video of where these children or teacher are from. Rupa, principal of Telangana Social Welfare Residential School/Junior College (Girls) at Addaguduru in Yadadri-Bhongir district, then decided to try out the gestures at a summer camp. She greeted her students, belonging to backward sections of society, with either a handshake, a hug, a high five or a fist bump. She then took printouts of the signs and pasted it where they could see it. To add to the surprise element, the children were not told what it was for and were asked to select the signs they liked. "We asked them to select any. We did not tell them what

Raj varsity chairman, bouncers booked for manhandling students

Police have registered an offence against the chairman of a private university in Rajasthan, his bouncers and other staffers for allegedly assaulting and manhandling several students from Thane, an official said on Saturday. The incident had occurred on May 6 at the office of OPJS University chairman at Churu in Rajasthan, police said. Anil Prajapati (21), who is pursuing a diploma in pharmacy course from the university, has lodged a complaint against the chairman of OPJS University, Dr Joginder Singh, and others. As per the complaint, Prajapati and other students had taken admission for the pharmacy course in the university and attending classes in Deep Paramedical Organisation's NETT College at Kasarvadavali in Thane. "The students had given the first year examination at NETT College and cleared it. For the second year exam, the head of the college asked the students to go to Churu," a police officer said. Accordingly, Prajapati and around 150 other students went to ..

J-K: Degree College students protest over fee hike in Udhampur, poor results

Students of the Government Degree College on Friday held a protest in Udhampur over 'rising examination and re-evaluation fee' among other demands."The students are protesting against Vice-Chancellor of Jammu University to show their resentment towards the poor result of the second semester as well as indifferent attitude of management towards them," Pardeep Jamwal Abvp Udhampur said while speaking to media persons here. In the wake of the protest, students boycotted their classes and reached the national highway to seek the attention of the management. They raised slogans against the VC and blocked the road to restrict traffic movement. They demanded roll back the fee hike decision and probe by an independent agency to see why the result was very poor. "The university has no foolproof system to ensure transparent checking of examination papers. The result of this semester was very poor due to the casual attitude of the professors and management," a student claimed.The protest was ...

BIE announces schedule for first phase of admissions

The Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education, which recently came under flak for alleged goof-up in declaring the exam results,Friday announced the schedule of admissions for the first phase, into the two-year Intermediate for 2019-20 academic year. As per the schedule, issue of application forms and commencement of admissions in the first phase would start from May 21 and classes would commence from June 1, an official release said. Admissions in the first phase should be completed by July 1, it said. The schedule for the second phase of admissions would be communicated in due course, it added. The intermediate examination results were announced on April 18. The alleged errors led to protests by students, their parents, students organisations and opposition parties. Some students and their parents claimed they got poor marks though they are meritorious and scored good marks in the first year examination. Errors, including in bubbling of OMR sheets by examiners ...

Setback to 4 lakh contractual teachers in Bihar as SC refuses to regularise them

In a setback to nearly four lakh contractual teachers in Bihar, the Supreme Court Friday refused to regularise their services and set aside the Patna High Court ruling that they were eligible to get equal pay for equal work. A bench of Justices Abhay Manohar Sapre and U U Lalit allowed the plea of the Bihar government challenging the October 31, 2017 high court order and declined to treat contractual teachers at par with regular educators. The top court said the Bihar government was justified in having two different streams or cadres for teachers and there has been no violation of the rights of 'Niyojit' (contractual) teachers nor has there been any discrimination against them. It, however, raised concern over the emoluments made available to Niyojit teachers at the initial stage and suggested that the state may consider raising the scales of such teachers at least to the level suggested by the three-member committee. "If a pay structure is normally to be evolved keeping in mind ...

SC says no to regularise contractual teachers in Bihar

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to regularise nearly four lakh contractual teachers in Bihar while setting aside the Patna High Court order that had ruled that contractual teachers in government schools were entitled to salary at par with regular permanent teachers working in various government schools in Bihar.

Telangana education department cautious over class X results

In the backdrop of the intermediate examination results triggering a major row, the school education department in Telangana is taking various precautions to ensure announcement of SSC exam results is a smooth affair. The results of SSC (secondary school certificate) public examinations held in March this year would be released on May 13, an official press release here said Friday. The department is taking precautions, including thorough check of the results and counselling for students and parents, a senior official told PTI. For example, if a student scores a zero, then it is thoroughly checked, he said. In another measure, pre-results and post-results counselling has been introduced, he said. The pre-result counselling, already completed in 70-80 per cent of government schools, focuses on informing the students and parents about various alternatives like supplementary examination in the event of poor performance, he said. Earlier, the results used to be announced hall

Jatragachi boys make consecutive final

Reigning champions Jatragachi Pranabananda High School defeated South Point in the junior boys section to storm into the final of the 47th All India Invitation School Regatta at the Lake Club Friday. The team of Rejayan Karim, Gautam Bairagi, Afridi Ali and Rezaul Mollah will take on their opponents Tollygunge Adarsha Hindi High School in the final Saturday. The Tollygunge Adarsha's Binay Kumar Rauth, Pawan Kumar, Ganesh Singh and Suraj Mondal beat Kalidhan Institution in the other semifinal. New Town-based Jatragachi Pranabananda are the only team this year to make a successive final. "It is the result of the hard work we put in during regular practice session. We are indeed grateful to Lake Club for providing us the opportunities," Jatragachi captain Rejayan Karim said. Hailing from daily wage labourer's families, the Jatragachi boys also do part time jobs to help their parents. "We have not even heard about many of the noted schools of the country participating here. But they ...

Delhi HC issues notice to govt over denial of admission to students in govt schools

The Delhi High Court on Friday issued a notice to the Delhi government over a petition highlighting the mass scale denial of admission to students in government schools in Delhi.The petition filed by advocate Ashok Agarwal also challenged the validity of four circulars -- dated September 19, which had fixed the upper age limited, August 27, 2018, which had denied admission to students who had failed twice, February 27, 2019 and March 29, 2013, which had asked for the residence proof during the admission process -- of Directorate of Education (DoE).A division bench headed by Chief Justice Rajendra Menon, while posting the matter for hearing to July 8, sought a reply from the Delhi government over the validity of the circulars. The bench sought reply on the grounds that the circulars are "unconstitutional, violative of the fundamental right to education, arbitrary, discriminatory, barbaric, against the public interest, as opposed to public policy and against the best interest of the ...

Sack professor found guilty of plagiarism: Alphons to HRD minister

Union Tourism Minister K J Alphons has written to HRD minister Prakash Javadekar demanding action against Professor Neeraj Hatekar of the department of economics, Mumbai University over plagiarism charges against him. A probe committee of the University had last month found that Hatekar had copied substantial parts of his PhD thesis from his wife' Rajni Mathur's MPhil desertation. The University has sent the report to its Institutional Academic Integrity Panel for further action, officials said. A section of academicians had also written to the University Grants Commission last month demanding action against Hatekar. In a letter posted on social media after the enquiry panel found him guilty, Hatekar had said, "The university did not follow a set procedure in setting up the committee. Neither the documents presented by me to support my case were considered by the panel. This is all a set up to affect my promotion opportunities in a negative way." When contacted by PTI on Friday, ...

SC seeks Delhi government response on plea challenging CCTVs in classrooms

The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the Delhi government on a plea challenging a plan to install CCTV cameras in schools in the national capital citing an adverse impact on the privacy of students, especially girls.

Kota jail starts basic education facility for female inmates

A basic education school has been started for 44 female prisoners of Kota central jail, an official said Friday. The on-campus teaching and learning facility was started on Thursday to help the inmates with their courses and to enable them to study further, the official said. Several female prisoners here are enrolled into secondary, higher secondary courses affiliated to NCERT and few of them are also doing IGNOU courses, Kota jail superintendent Suman Maliwal said. This on-campus teaching will help the prisoners to understand and learn better, she added. The school will be managed and run by Sarvoday Education group, which will teach inmates of different educational levels and also those who are illiterates, she said. The females here are eager to learn and wish to resume their studies, Maliwal said. The school facility will help in eliminating illiteracy among some of the inmates and upgrade qualifications of the educated ones, Maliwal said. The jail is also upgrading its already .

C'garh Class X, XII exams: Girls beat boys in pass percentage

The Class X and XII examination results were Friday declared by the Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary Education (CGBSE), with girls outshining boys in the overall pass percentage. Announcing the results, CGBSE chairperson and secretary of school education department Gaurav Dwivedi said the total pass percentage in the Class XII exams was 78.43 per cent while it was 68.20 per cent for the Class X exams. "In the Class XII exams, girls have recorded a pass percentage of 81.08 per cent, while 75.53 per cent of boys have passed. In the Class X exams, 70.77 per cent girls passed while this figure for boys stood at 65.25 per cent," Dwivedi said. As many 2,62,492 students were registered for CGBSE Higher Secondary School Certificate Examination (12th) this year, but only 2,60,521 students, comprising 1,24,370 boys and 1,36,151 girls, appeared, he said, adding that results of 2,59,944 students were declared, of which 2,03,893 (78.43 pc) passed. Likewise, as many as 3,88,120 ...

Approach to college education needs relook: Scientist

Eminent scientist A S Kiran Kumar suggested a relook at the education system beyond school level, and laying emphasis on process of learning rather than content to prepare students to deal with rapid changes. The former chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation said upto the school level, it's fine to have certain common and fundamental things, like it's being currently done. "One of the things that's happening (beyond school level) ...trying to make it common...every body has to go through same kind of thing. Probably, what may be needed is some mechanism where different category of people with different aptitude and skill get into different modes", he said. "Beyond schooling, probably the whole mechanism needs to be changed", Kiran Kumar told PTI on Friday. He said as the world is changing at such a rapid pace, the task of getting students acquire skills needed not only for their survival but also for their progress, has become tough and there are no easy ...