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MHRD issues order for revision of allowances as per 7th pay commission
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) on Monday issued order for revision of allowances of teachers, equivalent academic cadre, Registrars, Finance Officers and Controller of Examinations in the Universities and Colleges as per the Recommendations of Seventh Central Pay Commission.The order will also be applicable over centrally funded Deemed to be Universities.As per MHRD, the orders came into force with immediate effect.The revision of allowances is likely to benefit 30000 teaching and equivalent staff in Central Universities and 5500 in Deemed to be Universities.The Central government on Jan 15 had approved a proposal to extend the 7th Central Pay Commission to the teachers and other academic staff of the state government and government-aided degree level technical institution in the country, which will have additional Central government liability of Rs 1241.78 crore.
Kejriwal, Sisodia seek votes for AAP after laying foundation stone for 11,000 classrooms
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia on Monday laid the foundation of building 11,000 new classrooms for Delhi's government schools and used the event to seek votes for their Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Lok Sabha battle.
India emerged as educational hub for world: Sushma
India has emerged as educational hub with institutions like IITs, IIMs, NITs and universities attracting students from all over the world, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Monday.
UP DyCM Sharma advises class 10, 12 students to not be afraid of examinations
Ahead of the UP board examinations for class 10 and 12, UP Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma Monday advised students to not be afraid of examinations. In a message to students, Sharma said, "The class 10th board examination is the first milestone in a student's life, while the class 12th board examination is the second one. Both these examinations decide the future, and hence they are extremely important." "Learning is a continuous process, and the aim of the examination is not to ascertain 'pass' or 'fail', but to know the extent of learning. Hence, the examinations should be welcomed, and not be afraid of," he said. He said for success in examinations, the first requirement is self-learning and time management. The second requirement is hardwork. Referring to the book 'Exam Warriors' written by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sharma said, "Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his book Exam Warriors had written that examinations should be taken as a festival. The way in which we celebrate
Duke medical school apologises over complaint about Chinese
Duke University's medical school has issued an apology and launched a review after an administrator admonished students over speaking Chinese in a school building. Megan Neely, who served as graduate studies director in the biostatistics master's program, wrote an email Friday urging students to "commit to using English" in the building housing the program. She said in the message to an email list for the program's students that two faculty members came to her to complain about students loudly speaking Chinese in a common area. She wrote that both were disappointed the students weren't working to improve their English and "wanted to write down the names so they could remember them if the students ever interviewed for an internship or asked to work with them for a master's project". After screengrabs of the email sparked an outcry on social media, Neely stepped down as the programme's director of graduate studies, according to a letter from Dr Mary Klotman, the medical school dean. A ..
29 girl students return to school hostel
Twenty nine girl students of a state run residential high school in Gajapati district, who fled from the hostel on Saturday have returned to their school on Monday, officials said. The girl students had fled from the Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste Development run school at Antaraba under Mohona block of Gajapati district on Saturday night and remained untraced for about 20 hours till they were located on Sunday night, the officials said. The 29 girl students returned to the school on Monday. District Welfare Officer (DWO), Gajapati, Santosh Rath said the students were rescued from a house located near Tikilipadar village and were brought to Chandragiri girl's high school. They were later shifted to their school. Rath said that preliminary inquiry indicates that the girls had fled from the school hostel due to differences between then and some teachers and the headmaster. Police sources said the girls were located by tracking the mobile phone of one of the missing ...
India to participate in PISA in 2021
India will participate in the International Student Assessment (PISA), which tests the learning levels of 15-year-old students, in 2021. The HRD Ministry signed an agreement with the OECD, which conducts PISA every three years, on Monday, confirming India's participation in the triennial international survey that assesses students in reading, mathematics, science and collaborative problem-solving. Participation in PISA allows benchmarking performance against a wide range of countries. PISA uses test items aligned with international benchmarks. Test items are adapted to the local context and language, pilot tested and validated. "India will participate in PISA in 2021. The participation will assess the health of the education system and motivate other schools and states in the subsequent cycles. "This will lead to an improvement in the learning levels of children and enhance the quality of education in the country. The OECD has agreed to asking some questions based on Indian context. I
Kejriwal lays foundation stone for construction of 11,000 new classrooms in Delhi schools
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday laid foundation stone for construction of 11,000 new classrooms in over 200 government schools in Delhi. This is the second phase of infrastructure expansion by the Delhi government after construction of 8,000 new classrooms between 2015 and 2018. "Building infrastructure isn't rocket science, but the way how confidence has been instilled in the teachers of Delhi government schools, through exposures at the most reputed institutes of the world like Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard," Kejriwal said. "It's unbelievable that 300-350 students of Delhi government schools got through IIT-JEE last year. I am from IIT, I know the hard work it takes," he added. The foundation stone was laid at the Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya in New Friends Colony. "25 new schools have been built, 31 are under construction and the blue prints for 78 new schools have been decided," Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said at the event. "We have no illusion that having built the ..
Indian students to participate in PISA - 2021
The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry on Monday signed a pact with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for the participation of students from India to take the PISA-2021, a competency-based test, which tests the learning levels of 15-year-old students in reading, mathematics and science.
School evacuated over bomb threat in Jaipur
A hoax call about a bomb in a school here created panic among students and staff on Monday, police said. According to the school administration, they received a call about a bomb being planted at the campus, police said. Soon, the school was evacuated and the bomb disposal squad reached the spot and thoroughly checked the area but no explosive was found, Station House Officer (SHO) of the Sanganer police station Lakhan Singh said. "After much chaos, the school went on to commence the scheduled programme of the day," he added. A case has been registered and the matter is being investigated, the SHO said.
Kejriwal, Sisodia use school event to seek votes for AAP
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia on Monday sought votes for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Lok Sabha elections at a function in a school here when they asked students to urge their parents to vote for a party which is building schools for them.
ISB ranks 24 in FT Global MBA rankings
Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) of the Indian School of Business (ISB) has been ranked at 24 worldwide in the Financial Times Global MBA Rankings 2019 released on Monday.
AICTE chief moots industry-institute interaction
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Chairman Anil D Sahasrabudhe has underscored the importance of industry-institute interaction. Sahasrabudhe, who was addressing a workshop at a private engineering institute here Sunday, said the council encouraged more industry-institute interaction and innovation in entrepreneurship. The AICTE chief also recommended mandatory internships and mandatory induction programmes in industries for engineering students. As part of the effort to support technical education in the country, the council effected major changes and modifications in the AICTE-approval process handbook 2019, he said. The handbook was for inviting applications for approval from all the existing and new technical institutions for conducting technical programme, including management courses for the academic session 2019-20. Regional Officer and Assistant Director, Eastern Regional Office, AICTE Dr A V Salunkhe was present at the workshop.
TCY's Unique Methodology Quietly Changing the Entire Exam Prep Sector
/ -- With the CAT results out two weeks back, the TCY headquarters at Ludhiana received a lot of appreciation calls. These were not only from students, but also from coaching centres preparing students for CAT. (Photo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/814173/Kamal_Wadhera_TCYonline.jpg ) It all started in 2012 after fierce brainstorming sessions at TCY headquarters. The IT, Content, Academic Research teams and the faculty members were proud of the tremendous strides that they were taking due to their Unique Methodology which made sure that the company could match the unpredictability of the CAT, to enable students in large numbers to taste success in their first go. After all, it had taken them years to develop and refine this methodology. However, Kamal Wadhera, Founder & CEO, TCYonline, decided to take a tectonic shift from a proven expansion strategy that was already giving the company fast growth and dominance in the region. Kamal and his team decided to see other coaching ...
BSF's 'Bharat Darshan' tour marks colourful closing ceremony
A tour organised by the BSF for the students of Jammu and Kashmir's remote border areas to various historical and cultural places in the country marked a colourful closing ceremony Monday. The 'Bharat Darshan' tour is organised by the Border Security Force (BSF) as part of the confidence building measures. A group of 40 students, including 22 girls and 18 boys, all from border areas of Jammu region, participated in the tour which was flagged off on January 22, officials said. The Inspector General (IG) BSF, Jammu, N S Jamwal, along with other officials, welcomed the students and interacted with them during the event at the frontier headquarters here. Jamwal asked students to try and bring positive change in the society through experiences they have gained during the tour. The capacity building tour was flagged off by the IG on January 22 during which the students visited places like the Rashtrapati Bhawan, Lal Qilla, Qutub Minar and the India Gate in the national capital. The students
14 school children injured as bus plunges into culvert in AP
Atleast 14 school children were injured, three of them seriously, when their school bus fell into a culvert in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh Monday. The seriously injured students have been shifted to the Government General Hospital in Guntur for better treatment, according to the local Sub-Divisional Police Officer. An official release here said the bus was carrying about 50 students belonging to a private school and was on its way to Macherla town when it lost control and fell into a culvert on a rivulet. Driver of the school tried to avoid another vehicle coming in the opposite direction and steered to the extreme right, leading to the accident. The injured students were first rushed to the Government Hospital in Macherla town. Macherla MLA P Ramakrishna Reddy visited the hospital and consoled the students parents. The three students who sustained major wounds were later shifted to Guntur, according to the SDPO. "Their condition is fine and they are recovering. ...
ISB, IIM-C, IIM-B improve positions in FT Global MBA rankings
:Premier B-schoolsIndian School of Business-Hyderabad,Indian Institutesof Management-Calcutta and Bangalore have improved their positionsin the Financial Times (London) Global MBA Ranking-2019, while IIM-Ahmedabad slipped by 16 points to 47. ISB was ranked 24thas against the 28th position in 2018, IIM-C was at 49thposition from the 78thrank in the previous year. IIM-B stood at 33rdposition, improving from 35thin 2018, FT said. Stanford Graduate School of Business continued to top the FT Ranking chart while Harvard Business School was ranked number two, it said. Responding to the FT Ranking, ISB in a statement said the post-graduate programme of the B-school, is ranked 24th among the top 100 global MBAs and is the only institution in India to figure in the top 25. "ISB was established with a vision to be a globally top ranked, research driven, management institution. After 12 years of the school's consistent top performance in the FT Global MBA Rankings 2019 we can be ...
Andhra Pradesh: Bus carrying 50 students turns turtle, 2 critically injured
Two students were seriously injured while 15 suffered minor injuries after a school bus turned turtle in Guntur district on Monday.The two students who have suffered major injuries have been shifted to Guntur government hospital whereas the others have been taken to a private hospital by their parents, informed the police.The driver of the school bus who identifies himself as SK Tajuddinis is being questioned by the police.Veldurti police station's ASI Srinivas Rao told ANI, "A bus of Krishnaveni talent school was taking almost 50 children to the school this morning. It was travelling from Macharla town. When the bus was near a stream at the outskirts of Mandadi village, it accidentally turned turtle."Furthermore, Rao assured that an FIR will be filed in this regard shortly.
Professor removed over 'Speak English' email
A US university professor has been removed as director of a graduate programme, amid a furore over an email she sent urging students not to speak Chinese, a media report said.
Pariksha Par Charcha 2.0: PM Modi to interact with 2,000 students, parents and teachers on January 29
The second edition of 'Pariksha Pe Charcha 2.0' will see Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacting with a total of 2,000 students, parents and teachers on January 29 in the national capital.The interaction will revolve around issues related to examinations and the stress connected to them.For the first time, students from all over India and also Indian students residing abroad are participating as the last year only Delhi/NCR students had been called for participation.Indian students from countries like Russia, Nigeria, Iran, Nepal, Doha, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore will be participating in the interaction.According to a statement of Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, the participants also include college students from 24 States and Union Territories. Already, 675 students from different States and Union Territories have arrived in Delhi.This year a cultural programme of 10 minutes has also been included in which bright student winners, for example, dancers and ...