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Trespassing fox henpecked to death on a French farm
Chickens in a poultry farm in northeast France are suspected of killing a fox who tried to sneak into their coop. The young predator is thought to have entered the henhouse at an agricultural school at dusk last week and become trapped inside by light-controlled automatic hatch doors that close when the sun goes down. Students at Le Gros Chene school in Brittany discovered the body of the animal when making their rounds to check on the chickens the following morning. "There, in the corner, we found this dead fox," Pascal Daniel, head of farming at the school, told the AFP. "There was a herd instinct and they attacked him with their beaks." The free-range, organic farm where the incident took place has a chicken coop that is open all day, and the hens spend most of the daytime outside unless they're laying eggs. The last time a fox visited one of the school's chicken coops, more than a year ago, it turned out much worse for the hens, said Daniel.
Authorities direct pvt schools in J-K's Kishtwar to enrol students of all communities
Authorities in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday directed private schools to ensure enrolment of students of all communities, an official said. "If any private school is found involved in breaching of the government norms in vogue, strict action will be initiated against the erring school, including cancellation of the recognition," Kishtwar Deputy Commissioner Angrez Singh Rana said. Rana was addressing a meeting with heads of all private schools and representatives of religious organisations in the town. "A detailed discussion was held pertaining to the prevailing declining ratio of students of different communities studying in different schools in the district," the official said. He said the participants gave some meaningful suggestions which can help the students of Hindu and Muslim communities gain quality education in the schools across the district. He impressed upon all the officials concerned to uphold the value of communal harmony, brotherhood and peace in ...
7 prisoners complete basic computer course in JK's Kathua
Seven inmates of the Kathua district jail in Jammu and Kashmir successfully passed and completed their first 45-day crash course in basic computer, an official spokesman said on Tuesday. The course was launched some time back in the district jail as part of the reformative and skill development activities of inmates by utilising the services of a qualified inmate as a teacher, the spokesman said. He said the course focused on teaching basics of computer including both theory and practical. "A syllabus was, thereafter, designed for the course. The syllabus included basic computer knowledge, hardware and software, windows and operating system and MS word," the spokesman said. He said 12 inmates were enrolled for the first batch of whom nine appeared in the examination recently. Seven of them passed the examination successfully and were awarded course completion certificates by the jail superintendent, the spokesman said, adding another batch of 12 inmates are presently taking the
Malaysian university ties up with Globsyn for MBA programme
The Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST), an institute set up by the Malaysia government in 1997, Tuesday signed an MoU with Globsyn Business School for offering full time post-graduate degree in MBA. The faculty of the MUST will visit the Globsyn campus during the second year of the 2-year-long course to take classes, MUST president Prof Premkumar Rajagopal told reporters here after singing the MoU. Certain segments of the teaching will also be delivered on live streaming on Net where a student will log in at the appointed hour from his/her location and participate in live classes. The process of physically attending certain segments of the lecture and attending live online classes for other segments is called 'blended learning'. Globsyn Business School trustee Rahul Dasgupta said 60 students will be enrolled in the first batch in the programme which will start classes from July this year. "The students will be doubly benefited by getting the degree of .
Embassy Group Signs MOU With the Government of Karnataka Department of Education
/ -- The scope shall provide infrastructural support and educational programs to 16 Government Schools Embassy Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Karnataka Department of Education for the all-round development of children in Bangalore. The scope of the MoU is to provide infrastructural support and educational programs to 16 Government Schools to improve academic skills and to provide holistic learning experiences to students. (Logo: http://mma.prnewswire.com/media/546244/Embassy_Logo.jpg ) (Photo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/834263/Embassy_Group.jpg ) The MOU, signed for the next two years, was exchanged between the Government of Karnataka Department of Education and Embassy Group's Managing Director and Chairman, Jitu Virwani. Embassy Group, in association with their NGO partner in education, Colours of Life, have worked closely with the Education Department since 2014 towards upliftment of underprivileged children by assisting Government ...
DU to set up control rooms to receive complaints from students during Holi
Delhi University has asked students to desist from playing Holi in a rowdy manner with wet colours, balloons or pistons in any of its educational institution and decided to set up control rooms in north and south campus to receive complaints from students during the festival. The university in its advisory said anti-ragging and anti-eve-teasing provisions would be applied in case students are harassed during the festival, which falls on March 21. "The principals, head of the departments and Provost of halls and hostels may form committees of teachers, students and 'karamcharis' to prevent the entry of outsiders into the colleges and departments. "Security guards should be posted at the gates to check the identity cards of visitors and students," the varsity said. Control rooms jointly manned by Delhi Police and DTC authorities and the university officials at North and South Campus would function to deal with any untoward incident, the varsity said. All anti-ragging and ...
Shimla: Parents protests against school fee hike
Several parents under the banner of 'Students-Parent Forum' on Monday protested outside the Deputy Commissioner's office in Shimla, demanding the state government to regulate fee in private schools.The parents alleged that the schools hiked fee without consulting them. They also pointed out that the sudden increase in fee is against the norms set by the authorities.The forum has planned a sequence of protests to pressurize private schools in Shimla and other parts of the state.After the protest, the forum submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner. Another protest will be carried out on Wednesday outside the Education Directorate.As per reports, if by March 16 the fee hike is not rolled back then they would carry out an aggressive protest in the town and in other parts of the state.
Protesting teachers say manhandled, assaulted by police during march to Delhi BJP office
Protesting guest teachers alleged that they were manhandled and assaulted by Delhi Police personnel on Monday while they were on their way to the BJP's Delhi unit office to demand extension of their contracts. As many as 25,000 teachers are staring at uncertainty after their contracts ended on February 28. The Delhi Cabinet last week approved a policy to allow guest and contract teachers to continue in the job till they attain the age of superannuation so that schools can avail of their services uninterrupted. The guest teachers have been sitting outside Delhi BJP office over the last two days to seek a meeting with Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari. On Monday, they alleged while they were on their way to Delhi BJP office on Pandit Pant Marg, they were detained and taken to Parliament Street police station. The guests teachers alleged that when they tried to resist, they were manhandled and even female teachers were assaulted. "Congress leader Kiran Walia came to the police station and ...
IBM to train over 1 million female students in India in 3 years
IT company IBM Monday said it will collaborate with with Central and state governments to upskill around one million female students in science technology, engineering and maths fields over a period of three years. "We can see 100 per cent jobs are going to change. You need more women in workforce. We are announcing for 200,000 from grade eight to twelve, we are going to prepare them for STEM over a three year period," IBM Chairman, President and CEO Ginni Rometty said at a company event. She said the program is not about conducting technical training session, but to focus on basics of critical thinking, life skills, among others. "All of us are capable of teaching our employees sort of hardskills. It is softskill, in technology world that we have to learn. Collectively our programs are doing one million in numbers and helping four million teachers," Rometty said. The company will collaborate with seven state governments across India to prepare over 200,000 girls and women in ...
J&K Guv wants students to return to colleges outside valley
Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik Monday ordered that a team be constituted to ensure that students from the valley, who had returned home after the Pulwama attack, go back to their respective education institutes across the country. The team of officers from the J-K government would hold consultations with the managements of the educational institutions of Dehradun and Uttrakhand and other states where a large number of students from Kashmir are studying, a Raj Bhavan spokesperson said. The team would look into various issues like safety of the students, timely completion of courses, matters relating to attendance and missed lectures by the students. "After reviewing the whole scenario, the team will submit a report to the Governor about the overall situation including steps being taken to ensure safe return of the students and catching up with scheduled academic calendar of the respective educational institutions," the official said. Fearing for their safety, several ...
CBI inquiry finds ghost patients in hospital; SC bars it from admitting students
In a real life plot resembling the Sanjay Dutt starrer film Munna Bhai MBBS, a medical college in Bhopal allegedly admitted fake and ghost patients to comply with minimum requirements of Medical Council of India, a CBI inquiry has found. On the basis of the findings of the agency, the Supreme Court has barred RKDF Medical College Hospital and Research Centre from admissions in its first year MBBS course for the next two years 2018-19 and 2019-20. The apex court has also directed its Secretary General to initiate prosecution against the Dean of the college S S Kushwaha and imposed a penalty of Rs 5 crore for playing fraud on it. The apex court has directed the college to refund the fee paid by the students for the academic year 2017-19 along with a compensation of Rs one lakh to each student. The inquiry found that the college misled the Supreme Court by manipulating and filing of fabricated records. "The assertion made by the college regarding the genuineness of the patients in the ...
Did JNU in past insist on individual poll expense bills from elected JNUSU members, asks HC
The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) whether it had prior to 2018 insisted on individual poll expense bills from elected members of the varsity's student union after their election. Justice Yogesh Khanna posed the query to the university while hearing a plea by Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) challenging the varsity's decision to not notify the elected office bearers and barring them from performing their duties for not providing separate bills of their individual poll expenses. Stressing that the JNU should have followed the laid down procedure, the court said that the matter should have been first placed before the grievance redressal committee which would have heard the students' side and taken a decision but instead the decision was taken by the Dean of Students. "Verify your (JNU) records with regard to situation in previous years and let me know," the judge said and listed the matter for further hearing on March 14. The ..
Deakin University Partners With Indian Organizations to Offer High Value Scholarships to Indian Students
/ -- Deakin University, Australia, today announced four High Value Scholarships in partnership with Indian organisations. These high value scholarships are available as 100% tuition fee waivers for the entire duration of the study at Deakin University, Australia. The four scholarships being awarded are across the key thematic areas at Deakin that are futuristic and will help in solving global challenges, making a positive impact on the world. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), in association with Biocon, India's largest biopharmaceutical industry Sports Scholarship, being offered in collaboration with Rajasthan Royals, an IPL team Creative Arts Scholarship, being awarded in collaboration with a leading media group Deakin's Undergraduate and Postgraduate scholarship (Logo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/713572/DeakinUniversityLogo.jpg) (Photo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/833552/Deakin_University_Scholarships.jpg) "The Deakin-Biocon scholarship aims to ..
betterU Announces New Partnership With Pearson
/ -- betterU Education Corp. is pleased to announce its partnership with Pearson, a digital learning company. To help working professionals update their skills and progress in their careers, Pearson India offers Pearson Professional Programs (PPP) in partnership with leading higher education institutions, faculty and content providers from around the world. This partnership will allow betterU to offer the courses by Pearson Professional Programs, on the education-to-employment platform. Pearson Professional Programs has partnered with leading educational institutions, faculty and content providers like Columbia University, London School of Business and others from around the world to help working professionals update their skills and progress in their careers. The blended executive education programs offered by PPP span a variety of functions and industries, for participants of varying seniority levels (top, senior and middle management). It offers courses that are relevant to the ...
LS poll clashes with exams, 2 Maha varsities defer schedules
The Lok Sabha election schedule in Maharashtra has forced two universities to postpone some of their examinations overlapping with polling dates, officials said on Wednesday. Elections will be held in the state in four phases on April 11, 18, 23 and 29, as per the Election Commission. In view of this, the BA and and BCom exams of the Mumbai University scheduled on April 22, 23, 24, 29 and 30 have been postponed, an official from the varsity's examination department said. "The new examination schedule will be uploaded on the university's portal soon," he said. A similar communication has been issued to students by Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University in Aurangabad district of the state. The examinations scheduled by the university on April 18 and 23 will now be held on some later dates, the details of which will be declared soon, an official from the institution said.
Tripura to appoint 'Academic Leaders' to improve quality of education
It's not exactly carrying coal to Newcastle, but Tripura will appoint "Academic Leaders" and arrange special training of teachers by national and regional institutions to improve the quality of education in the state, Education and Law Minister Ratan Lal Nath has said.
ABVP to highlight issues of off-campus colleges' students
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad will organise a march on Monday to demand better transportation facilities for students of off-campus colleges. The RSS-affiliated ABVP will take out the march from ITO Metro station to Delhi Secretariat. The main demands will be starting U-Special bus services, construction of new bus shelters, and better connectivity to other campuses and colleges.
UN pays Yemen teacher wages as millions out of school
The United Nations children's fund is paying some 100,000 teachers in Yemen, the UN said Sunday, as two million children go without education in the war-torn country. UNICEF has disbursed the equivalent of USD 50 per month to more than 97,000 eligible teachers and school staff, and aims to increase that figure to 136,000. The UN estimates that out of seven million school-age children in Yemen over two million are not being educated as infrastructure has been destroyed or repurposed to house those displaced by the four-year conflict. Salaries for teachers were suspended in 2016 as the war between the country's rebels and a government backed by a Saudi-led alliance brought the economy to a halt. Schools in some areas have since reopened. "The situation of Yemen's education sector is daunting," said Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF's regional director for the Middle East and North Africa. "Without a regular salary and due to the conflict and the ongoing economic crisis, teachers have been unable
Dialogue Commission sets up high-level panel to reform higher education in Delhi
The Dialogue and Development Commission (DDC), a premier think-tank which advises the Delhi government on key policy issues, has set-up a 17-member high-level committee on reforming higher education in the national capital. The panel, to be chaired by DDC vice-chairperson Jasmine Shah, will recommend goals, metrics, policies, and actionable plans for reforming Delhi's higher education system within a year. "Nalanda 2.0, a non-profit policy think tank with a mission to make India's higher education system world class, is the knowledge partner of DDC on this initiative," a government official said. The other members of the committee are Pramod Bhasin, founder Genpact and co-founder Ashoka University; Arindam Bhattacharya, senior partner and Director, BCG; Abhishek Gupta, skill development expert; Pankaj Jalote, Founding Director, IIIT Delhi; Devesh Kapur, Director of Asia Programs and Professor, Johns Hopkins University; Gaurav Khanna, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC San Diego; ...
Women with outstanding achievements presented 'Freedom Awards'
Women with outstanding achievements were presented 'Freedom Awards' at an International Women's Day function held by an non-profit group at Peeragarhi here on Sunday. The event organised by Buddha Education Foundation was attended by scores of women, said a statement by the group. BJP MP Udit Raj, chairman of the foundation, said India cannot become a developed country, unless women's participation in various fields increased. "The contribution of women in India's gross domestic product is 17 per cent, which is very low. The percentage of women in the labour force of the country was 34 per cent in 2004, it has reduced to 25 per cent. This is a worrisome situation," he said. A conference on the topic "Freedom of Women-A dream" was held as part of the event. Around 60 women were presented 'Freedom Awards' for their achievements in various fields during the event.
