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Mamata lambasts Left parties for attack on school children
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday lambasted the Left parties for their supporters alleged attack on vehicles ferrying school children during the two-day nationwide strike called by central trade unions. She condemned the attack on vehicles ferrying school children during the strike and termed them as "shameful". "In the name of bandhs, the CPI(M) hurled bombs at school students. It is shameful. Despicable. Must be condemned. They destroyed Bengal for 34 years," Banerjee said addressing an administrative meeting here during the foundation stone laying of Kanyashree University. Reports said that two nursery students were injured when a group of alleged strike supporters attacked a car ferrying them to school in Kolkata on Wednesday. In Howrah protesters had allegedly pelted stones at a school bus injuring the driver. Though nobody was arrested in connection with the incidents, the matter evoked lot of protests among the people.
'Segregated' classroom photo sparks race row in South Africa
A South African primary school teacher was suspended on Thursday after a photograph appeared to show black children sitting separately from white children in a classroom, sparking a storm of racism accusations. The pupils were attending their first day at the Schweizer-Reneke school in North West province when the teacher took a photograph to send to anxious parents. It rapidly spread on social media as it showed about 17 white children sitting around a large table, with four black children around a small corner table in the background. "From the information I got from the meeting, it seems that there are a lot of cases here of racism," provincial education minister Sello Lehari said after visiting the school. "I will send a team to do an investigation into all schools... to deal with issues of racism in totality." Race relations remain tense in South Africa 25 years after the end of white-minority apartheid rule, with fierce racist controversies erupting regularly on social media and
Arunachal govt committed to improve education sector: Khandu
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Thursday reiterated his government's commitment to improve the education sector and said the Centre has sanctioned seven new Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) for the state because of continuous efforts of his administration. Speaking at a function at Yingkiong in Upper Siang district, Khandu said the new KVs would come up at Kurung Kumey, Dibang Valley, Namsai, Upper Subansiri, Anjaw, West Siang and Upper Siang districts of the state soon. The chief minister also visited the under construction building of Vivekanada Kenra Vidyalaya at Ramsing village, near Yingkiong, the district headquarters, a CMO release said. Khandu thanked the villagers for donating the land for free for the school, the building of which is being constructed with an estimate cost of Rs 3 crore. The chief minister said the school needs more infrastructure such as principal's quarter, staff quarters, boundary wall, science lab and auditorium for which, he ...
JKLU Launches Institute of Design: Creating a New Paradigm in Design Education
/ -- - JK Lakshmipat University's (JKLU) new Institute of Design will offer 4-year, full-time Bachelors of Design degree recognized by UGC, Government of India - Created by the well-known Prof. A. Balasubramanian, the course will offer specialisations in product design, interaction design and interdisciplinary design - The new Institute of Design will help bridge and fuse the core JKLU disciplines of Institute of Engineering & Technology and Institute of Management - First Design Entrance Test scheduled on 2nd 2019 Strengthening further its portfolio of excellent higher education offerings, JK Lakshmipat University (JKLU) has launched its Institute of Design, which will offer Bachelors of Design (B.Des) degree, providing a lucrative avenue for the many high school graduates who have a passion for arts and design and dream of shaping their career in the domain. The B.Des at JKLU is a 4-year full-time, graduate degree programme, recognized by UGC, Government of India. The Programme
IIT KGP to launch 6-month Artificial Intelligence course
The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur will launch a six-month Artificial Intelligence (AI) course at three centres in the country, a top official of the institute said Thursday. IIT-KGP, Director, Partha Pratim Chakrabarti told a press meet here that the certified programme is aimed at strengthening India's talent pool in Machine Learning and AI. Chakrabarti said the courses, which will begin from March this year will be offered at IIT KGP's Kolkata facility, at IIT KGP's Kharagpur campus and at a rented premise at Bengaluru. He said thousands of new jobs were being created in AI sector every year with AI growing at 10-15 per cent on annual rate and there was need to have more skilled people in the AI sector. "AI is the future which will more invade our lives in the coming days," Chakrabarti said. Head, Centre for Artificial Intelligence, IIT KGP, Prof Sudeshna Sarkar said, the course with 300 students will consist of 16 modules - each having 12-hour ...
Vigilance sleuths arrest education department official
An Education department official was arrested here on Thursday by Vigilance sleuths while accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 from a woman teacher for payment of salary. According to Deputy SP (Vigilance), Gopal Paswan, a complaint had been received from Shagufta Naz Fatmi, who taught at a government school in the district that she had not received her salary for about a couple of years and Block Education Officer, Sono, Rama Shankar Sahu had demanded a bribe to release her payments. "A trap was accordingly laid and Sahu was arrested while accepting the bribe at his residence. After interrogation he will be produced before the designated court in Patna before being sent to jail", Paswan told reporters.
Kidovators unveils 'Future of learning: Unconference
The 21st-century skills and competencies education organization, Kidovators, is getting the world and India's finest school leaders and educators to a single forum to discuss and deliberate on the new age learning methodologies, spaces and environments across India.The event will be held on 11th January 2019 at JW Marriott Hotel, Bengaluru, Karnataka. 'Future of Learning: Unconference' will focus on building and proposing 21st Century Education Development Policies, Frameworks and Future of Learning in K-12 segment.Kidovators will also award and felicitate schools & educators, and student achievers under award category of 'World 100 21st Century Education Awards' and '18 under 18 Awards' respectively.The Unconference 2019 will facilitate a stage for global educators with futuristic vision from across the world to step ahead and share ideas to develop future human capital and inculcate 21st-century skills. The event will witness a keynote from Mr. Anil Swarup, Former Secretary - ...
Team Satyam Batch Nail CAT 2018 Yet Again
/ -- It was a proud day for Team Satyam's Centre of Excellence (COE) Batch 2018, located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Just like the pilot year for COE batch 2017, where all the 14 students managed to get 90+ percentile, the current batch nailed CAT 2018. Three classroom students from the COE Batch bagged perfect scores in CAT 2018. (Logo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/806681/Team_Satyam_Logo.jpg ) The star mentor of COE Batch, Rahul Sharma, who scored 99.99 percentile in CAT 2018, became the role model to many aspiring candidates in Lucknow. Pulkit Sachan, who scored 99.90 percentile was leading the list of toppers, followed by Rahul Anant with 99.74 percentile and Prateek Garg scoring 99.6 percentile. These toppers were among many others from the COE batch who scored more than 90 percentile in CAT 2018. The CAT 2018 examination was conducted on November 25, 2018. Nearly 2 lakh candidates sat for the computer-based Combined Aptitude Test examination. CAT was held in two sessions ...
Thadomal Shahani Centre For Management Surpasses Leading Institutes for Offering Global Business Courses
/ -- ~TSCFM ranks amongst the top in India for offering an MBA course with International affiliation~ The Thadomal Shahani Centre for Management (TSCFM), one of India's premier management business schools, recently surpassed several prominent institutes to emerge as one of the top choices for aspiring management students from India. TSCFM offers a globally recognised UK MBA programme from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and University of Northampton (UK), for which, in just seven years, it surpassed even the likes of India's numero uno in management institutions, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), to rank third on a list of Indian colleges offering global business courses. With a singular focus on an institution's ability to prepare its students for global employability beyond a simple certification, the list featured 15 of India's top management colleges. It also took into consideration, the on-the-job training and industry exposure provided by the institutions, to make ...
Not making Hindi language compulsory in New Education Policy: Javadekar
Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday denied reports of making the Hindi language compulsory in the New Education Policy."The Committee on New Education Policy in its draft report has not recommended making any language compulsory. This clarification is necessitated in the wake of mischievous and misleading report in a section of the media. @narendramodi @PMOIndia," Javadekar tweeted.Javadekar's clarification comes in the wake of a media report suggesting that the Central government is planning to make Hindi compulsory for students till Class VIII in the New Education Policy.
No plans to make Hindi compulsory: Javadekar
Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday countered media reports on government's intention of making Hindi compulsory, saying that no language is being given a compulsory status in the new National Education Policy (NEP).
Vidyashilp Community Trust Adopts Government School at Byatarayanapura
/ -- A student from the Govt. Higher Primary School situated in Byatarayanapura is very excited to speak in English. It was difficult for her to say one full sentence in English before, but after the spoken English and reading classes, she is able to talk very easily and is now thinking of becoming a teacher. She is one of the 250 students benefitting from the education development programme conducted by Vidyashilp Academy. (Logo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/766744/Vidyashilp_Academy_Logo.jpg ) In their endeavour to give back to society, Vidyashilp Community Trust (VCT) in association with Vidyashilp Academy (VSA) has recently adopted the govt. school with the vision to enhance both interpersonal development and teaching skills so that the school can impart quality education to the students. With time, VSA plans to introduce co-curricular activities into the government school's academic curriculum and also monitor the quality of academics, attendance of students, the parent ...
Expert committee to be formed to examine changing syllabus in
: Karnataka Higher Education Minister G T Devegowda Wednesday said that an expert committee would be constituted to look into changing the syllabus for highereducation courses in the state. Stating that government was making all efforts to increase enrollment in higher education courses, he also said his department was mullingholding online examinations for the Common Entrance Test (CET). During the meeting of Vice-Chancellors of all universities here tomorrow, discussions would be held on changing the syallbus in accordance with the need that exists today in the fast changing world, Devegowda said. "Syllabus inhigher education has not undergone any change for a long period now...additional subjects can also be added undercourses like BA. In accordance with changing times, a lotof changes have happened and we need to bring in programmesthat train our youngsters accordingly," he told reporters here. "We will however continue with things in the syllabus that exist and ...
DU teachers protests outside V-C's office
Delhi University teachers staged a protest outside the vice-chancellor's office on Wednesday over the demand of absorption of ad-hoc teachers in the varsity. "To express the collective anger at the failure of the government and the vice-chancellor to resolve their long-standing demands, thousands of teachers turned up in large numbers outside the gate number 1 of V-C office on Wednesday," Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) president Rajib Ray said. The success of the shutdown is a testimony to the fact that the teachers are unwilling to tolerate the government's "single-minded agenda" to destroy public-funded education, Ray said. Elaborating about the reason behind the protest, professor Neenu Kumar from Aditi Mahavidyalaya, said, "We have three main demands. First, we are demanding the absorption of all ad-hoc teachers. Second, there are many teachers who are waiting for their promotion as they did not get promotion since 2007, 2008 etc. And third is that the retired ...
Students of Assam varsities & colleges boycott classes over citizenship bill
Students of two state-run universities and over 15 colleges across Assam decided on Wednesday to boycott their classes indefinitely to protest against the passage of the citizenship bill in the Lok Sabha. The Dibrugarh University students' union also banned the entry of any member of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party into the campus. The student bodies at Tezpur University, Jorhat Medical College, Pub Kamrup College, JB College, DCB College and others have held protests in their campuses, although no decision to boycott classes has been taken. "We have appealed to all our affiliating unions to start protesting in their campuses against the bill. We have asked our boys to mobilise as much students as they can," All Assam Students' Union (AASU) central committee member Uddipjyoti Gogoi told PTI. In a statement, Cotton University Students' Union general secretary Pranjal Kalita said the student community was against the Centre's move to pass the bill, which would eventually "destroy" the
No physical verification for college admissions: WB minister
Students seeking admission in colleges will be able to skip the physical verification process from the next academic session as the entire exercise will be carried out online, West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee has said. Going by reports of irregularities in the admission process last year, all vice-chancellors (VC) and registrars of universities have been asked to take e-route for filling up forms, document verification and fee payments, the minister told reporters Tuesday. "Some stray incidents of irregularities in certain colleges have caused concern among the students and the parents. The government does not want a repeat of last year's experience," Chatterjee asserted. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader also said that the VCs have been asked to ensure that the process passes of smoothly, with each educational institution choosing a specific bank for its transactions. "The students will pay admission fee online and not at the college office counter," .
Javadekar grants 7 days leave to primary teachers for conference
Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar has granted seven days' leave to primary teachers to attend Akhil Bharatiya Prathamik Shikshak Mahasangam in Panaji, Goa, which will be held on February 4-11.Lok Sabha MP from Palgarh Rajendra Gavit, Shivajirao Patil, president of All Teachers' Union and Rajaram Varute, president of Maharashtra wing, All India Teachers' Union, on Wednesday met Javadekar at his residence where the minister agreed to their request for granting leave to primary teachers.Patil said: "The seven days long conference will focus on digital education and how to adopt new techniques in teaching medium. The Minister has granted seven days leave to the primary teachers so that they can attain the conference."Union Minister Prakash Javadekar and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will also attend the conference which is likely to be attended by nearly two lakh teachers.
Tirunelveli Collector sets precedent by sending daughter to
Fancy play schools may be the buzzword for those in upper echelons of society to enroll their wards, but the District Collector here seems to have set an example by opting for an 'anganwadi' for her little daughter to make friends with. A 2009 batch IAS officer, Shilpa Prabhakar Satish is the first woman Collector of this district and bats for anganwadis, saying they are "integrated child development areas" that keep track of the children's health. "We (government) are the ones who promote anganwadis no," was her quick reply when asked what prompted her to admit her daughter to the state-run anganwadi close to her house. She wants her child to rub shoulders with all sections of the society and also pick up the Tamil language quickly. "Our anganwadis have all the facilities. This (centre) is located right next to my house and she (her daughter) meets people and plays around," she told PTI Wednesday. "We have few thousands of anganwadis in Tirunelveli and each one of them ..
St Xavier's College to set up finance lab for data collection
St Xavier's College in Kolkata will start a finance laboratory over the next six months to help students undertake research in finance and accounting, college Principal Rev Fr (Dr) Dominic Savio said Tuesday. All major databases in finance and accounting will be available in the lab, the first-of-its kind in the country, he said. St Xavier's College in Kolkata is the second oldest Jesuit institution in India, founded in 1860. "There will be a state-of-the-art centre, housed in a room in the college campus, which will serve as the finance lab," he said. The finance lab, will preempt the possibility of the students going anywhere else for collecting data. All the information required for research will be available at the lab and facilities will be there for direct interaction with stock exchangesm, the principal said. About the other important projects of the institution, Savio said to inculcate library going habit among the students who are weaned away by smartphones, the .
Indian culture, Bollywood attract Americans, foreigners towards Hindi language
Rich Indian culture and Bollywood movies are attracting a growing number of Americans and other foreigners to learn Hindi language, according to Indian embassy in Washington DC. As many as 110 people registered themselves for the free Hindi classes started by the embassy, it said in a statement. In addition to people of Indian-origin and American nationals, students include citizens from the UK, Germany, Brazil, Oman, Ukraine, Belarus and Bangladesh among others, it said. Following an overwhelming response, the students are now divided into two class and are taught twice a week. Teacher of Indian culture Mox Raj (spelled Moksharaj in Hindi) said 90 per cent of his students were non-Indians and come from different professional backgrounds including scientists, engineers, businessmen, yoga instructors and researchers. While everyone has their reason to learn Hindi, interest in Bollywood movies and the rich and diverse Indian culture are the two main prime motivational factors, the ...