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Bengal colleges not to retain original certificates of students

Giving an affirmative nod to the notification issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC), West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee on Thursday said an educational institute cannot retain the original certificates of students who apply in various courses.

Police detain two students outside Beijing Apple store

Police detained two students in Beijing on Thursday who were part of a group protesting outside an Apple store about alleged worker exploitation, according to one of the demonstrators. The students were protesting in response to allegations made last month that one of the US company's suppliers was exploiting student workers in southwest China. The two students detained were from Renmin University and Peking University -- two schools that have seen a surge of student-led labour activism this year. One of the other protesters, a 21-year-old from Renmin University, told AFP that a group of police ordered the students to show their IDs shortly after they finished taking photos in front of the Apple store. A total of 10 students participated in the protest. "They said we were disrupting the order, disrupting law and order, and asked to check our IDs," said the student, who requested anonymity. After the protesters initially refused to show their identification cards, the police took two ..

Project to help migrant population's children join schools on

: A project was being implemented to make children of migrant population enrol themselves in schools and also check the dropout rate among the most backward sections in Ernakulam district of Kerala, Collector of the district K Mohammed Y Safirulla said here Thursday. The project 'Roshni' has support from the district panchayat, education department, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, which is a programme aimed at universalisation of elementary education, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), he told PTI. There were around 2,500 migrant children in over 18 schools in the district, and their school dropout rate was high, the Collector said. The pilot project was successfully implemented from October 2017 to February 2018 in four selected schools in which the highest number of migrant children study and it was extended to 14 more schools this academic year, he said. A survey conducted by Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan indicated that over 2,500 migrant children mostly from Tamil Nadu, ...

J-K govt to issue guidelines to regulate prices of textbooks, uniforms of private schools

The Jammu and Kashmir government Thursday said it will issue guidelines to regulate prices of textbooks and uniforms of private schools in the state. The decision comes after questions were raised about sale of textbooks and uniforms at exorbitant rates by private schools. Advisor to the governor Khurshid Ahmed Ganai has issued directions to the directors of the School Education, Kashmir and Jammu, to immediately examine the complaints about sale of textbooks at exorbitant prices by private schools in the state and recommend measures to regulate the rates, an official spokesman said. Taking cognisance of the reports published by a section of media, Ganai, who also holds the charge of the Education Department, said the government will issue guidelines to regulate prices of textbooks and uniforms of private schools in the state on the analogy of regulation of fee structure of these schools. He assured of strict action against those who resort to "extortion and illegal profiteering" by ..

THE WUR 2019: IISc, IIT Indore top Indian institutes for physical sciences

No Indian institution finds spot in top 200 globally

Ker's great granny gets laptop as giftafter topping literacy

: Days after expressing her wish to learn computers, Kerala's great granny, Karthyayani Amma, who had secured 98 per cent marks in a literacy exam at the age of 96, has got a laptop as gift from the government. Amma was the oldest candidate and top scorer in the 'Aksharalaksham' programme, a flagship initiative of the state-run Kerala State Literacy Mission Authority, with 98 marks out of 100. As a gesture of appreciation for the achievement, state Education Minister C Raveendranath Wednesday handed over a new laptop to Amma after visiting her at her home in coastal Cheppad village of Alapuzha district. Clad in a traditional Kerala saree, Amma received the Minister, who himself is a retired college professor, with her trademark innocent smile. Asked whether she wanted to learn computers, she was quick to reply: "I will study if I get one." To her amazement, the minister soon gave her the "surprise gift" of the government- a laptop. He also found time to initiate the ...

Kerala's 96-year-old topper gets laptop

96-year-old Karthiyayani Amma, who created history after becoming the oldest women to top Kerala's literacy exam under 'Aksharalaksham' scheme, was gifted a laptop by the state education minister C. Raveendranath on Wednesday.Last week, the nonagenarian had expressed her desire to learn computers. To fulfill this, Raveendranath visited her home and gifted her a laptop.The 96-year-old, a native of Alappuzha district, was facilitated by Kerala Chief Minister Pinyari Vijayan for scoring 98 marks out of 100 in the state's literacy programme.Reading, writing and basic mathematical skills are tested in the examination, which was taken by 43,330 candidates.The literacy programme was launched on Republic Day this year in order to achieve 100 per cent literacy in Kerala.

Indians most positive about teaching as a career for their kids: Study

Indians are the most positive about their children taking up a career in teaching, a new global study has revealed. The UK-based Varkey Foundation's Global Teacher Status Index (GTSI) 2018' was released on Thursday and is described as the most comprehensive study of how society views teachers across 35 countries around the world. It revealed that over half (54 per cent) of Indian people polled said they encourage their children to become teachers more than in any other country surveyed, including China (50 per cent). By comparison, under a quarter of British people (23 per cent) would encourage their child to become a teacher, while only 6 per cent would encourage their child to become a teacher in Russia, the lowest of any country surveyed. Overall, India ranks eighth among the 35 countries surveyed in the 'Global Teacher Status Index 2018', in which China is the highest-ranked country and Brazil the lowest. The index reveals, for the very first time, that there is a direct link ...

Pb:Teachers observe 'black' Diwali over govt's refusal to regularise their jobs without pay cut

Agitating teachers in Punjab Wednesday observed a "black" Diwali and held protests at several places across the state over the government's refusal to regularise their jobs without pay cut. Donning black dresses and carrying placards, the teachers took out protest marches at various places, including Bathinda, Patiala, Ludhiana, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Amritsar, Mohali, Faridkot and Jalandhar. The teachers are against the state government's decision to fix their monthly salary at Rs 15,000 during three years of probation period for regularisation of their services. They are demanding regularisation with full pay. At present, contractual teachers in the state are getting Rs 42,300 per month. Shouted slogans against the Congress-led Punjab government, the teachers also blocked roads at a few places. In Patiala, teachers clashed with police when they were approaching towards the residence of Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh. They were stopped at barricades installed near the ...

Classmates of slain Army officer send Diwali sweets for unit

Classmates of an Army officer from Maharashtra, who laid down his life battling militants near the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir's Kupwara district in 2015, have sent 250 kg of sweets to soldiers in his unit. Col Santosh Mahadik, the Commanding Officer of 41 Rashtriya Rifles, was critically injured during the operation in Haji Naka forest area of Kupwara near the LoC in Kashmir in November 2015 and succumbed at a hospital later. "The mithai boxes, weighing just over 250 kg, landed at Srinagar airport from Chandigarh and reached the 41 Rashtriya Rifles Wednesday, for distribution among the soldiers Mahadik once commanded," one of his classmates, involved in this initiative, told PTI. Col Mahadik was a student of Sainik School, Satara in Maharashtra. "This Diwali, we thought of his comrades-in-arms, who suffer harsh climes and the enemy from across the border, as well as some within. We thought this would be a nice gesture for soldiers who spend Diwali away from ..

After success in the South, HireMee plans national expansion

City-based start-up HireMee, a digital portal and mobile application, said Wednesday it plans to expand its operations nationally after its success in the South, assessing 191,718 students in 2,050 colleges within a year. HireMee is a job-matching platform that assesses graduating students on general key skills and specific subject knowledge that help employers identify the most suitable candidates and provides the results to prospective employers for their recruitment needs. Within a year of the signing of an MoU between All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and HireMee in September 2017, the Bengaluru headquartered startup has assessed 191,718 students in 2,050 colleges in five South Indian states and in Puducherry, the company said here. During the one-year period 1,700 companies with over 80,000 job opportunities, drawn mainly from technology, IT services, manufacturing, banking and financial services sectors, accessed candidates results and profiles on .

79 abducted pupils freed in troubled Cameroon region: Minister

Seventy-nine school pupils abducted by gunmen this week in a troubled English-speaking region of Cameroon have been freed, the country's communications minister told AFP Wednesday. "All 79 students have been released," said Issa Bakary Tchiroma, without giving details of the circumstances under which they were set free. The kidnappings on Monday were the first such mass abductions seen in Cameroon and coincide with an upsurge of political tensions in the majority French-speaking country. The students were enrolled at the Presbyterian Secondary School in Bamenda, capital of Cameroon's Northwest Region -- one of two areas where surging anglophone separatist militancy has been met with a brutal crackdown by authorities. Their release comes a day after Cameroon's 85-year-old President Paul Biya was sworn in for a seventh term in office. Biya has promised to pursue policies of decentralisation to address "frustrations and aspirations" in English-speaking regions. A six-minute video seen by

Cameroon school kidnappings: Authorities suspend vehicular movement

A day after the abduction of 79 children from a boarding school in Cameroon's Northwest region, authorities on Tuesday restricted the movement of all non-emergency vehicles from the area, where the pupils were kidnapped.The suspension of vehicle movement took place in few districts in Bamenda, in an effort to aid search and rescue operations for the kidnapped children, local authorities said, CNN reported.The armed men had entered the Presbyterian Secondary School in Bamenda late on Monday night, overpowered the security guard and forced him to take them to the children, who were sleeping. They then kidnapped the pupils and three others, including the principal of the boarding school.Although no one claimed responsibility for the abductions, authorities did not rule out the role of separatists, who are waging a war with the Cameroonian government in the country's English-speaking provinces. Several secessionist groups have denied their involvement in the kidnapping.The armed ...

TMCP to reach out to students on govt developmental policies

With an eye on next year's Lok Sabha polls, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) leadership has asked its students' wing to reach out to the student community highlighting the developmental programmes being pursued by the Mamata Banerjee government. TMC sources said the party is aiming to increase membership of its student wing, the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP). "We will organise the students and propagate about the developmental policies of the TMC government in the state. We feel that the achievements in the education sector would be enough to ensure our victory in the Lok Sabha polls," TMCP state president Trinankur Bhattacharya said. The TMC leadership has recently appointed a new state unit of the party's students wing. TMC secretary general and state Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said students units in colleges and universities will communicate with others about the pro-people policies of the state government and 'anti-people policies' of the Narendra Modi ...

Mali jihadists block schooling for 2,000 children

Nearly 2,000 children in Mali have stopped going to school after suspected Islamists warned they would only allow religious education, teachers and local officials said Tuesday. "Armed jihadists arrived in our village last week by motorcycle," said a teacher in the village of Toubakoro, about 140 kilometres northeast of the capital Bamako. "They told everyone to gather in a mosque. They told us to close all schools where French is taught, and to teach only the Koran instead," the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "They threatened to punish anyone who broke the new rule." Mali is struggling with a jihadist insurgency that began with an uprising by Tuareg separatists in the north of the country in 2012. The extremists were largely driven out in a French-led military operation launched in January 2013. But large stretches of Mali remain out of the control of Malian, French and UN forces, which are frequent targets of attacks.

CU meeting called to discuss CBCS modalities

The Calcutta University registrar has called an emergency meeting on November 8 to discuss the modalities of post graduate examinations under choice based credit system (CBCS), months after the Syndicate, the highest decision making body of the institution decided to introduce the format at all levels. A university official said on Tuesday that the meeting would take place in the backdrop of the PG Board of Studies given responsibility of preparing the schedule for semester-based examination under CBCS for the first time. The November 8 meeting will discuss the exam schedule in 2019, he said. The controller of examinations would prepare the PG exam scehdule on earlier occasions in consultation with other officials but the varsity gave the responsibility to the PG Board earlier this week as requested by a teachers' body, the official said. The syndicate had in April unanimously decided to introduce CBCS at the master's level in all disciplines after the UGC recommended ..

Ireland eduation fair to open in Delhi on November 17

The Ireland government will be organising a week-long education fair -- Education in Ireland -- across five Indian cities to familiarise aspirants here with higher education prospects in the European nation, an official said on Tuesday.

President accepts Motihari University VC Arvind Aggarwal's resignation: Sources

President Ram Nath Kovind has accepted the resignation of Mahatma Gandhi Central University (MGCU) Vice-Chancellor Arvind Kumar Agarwal who has been under the government's radar for allegedly giving false information while applying for the post, sources said Tuesday. The V-C of the Bihar-based central university had tendered his resignation last month over allegations that he fudged his academic credentials to get the post. The HRD Ministry had last week forwarded his resignation to Kovind, who is the Visitor to the university. "The President has accepted Agarwal's resignation and he is likely to be relieved by November 15," a source said. The ministry received complaints that Agarwal lied about a foreign education to get the job. He did not pursue his Ph.D at a German institute as claimed, and actually got the degree from the University of Rajasthan, it was complained. When contacted, Agarwal refused to comment on the issue. He was appointed as the first V-C of MGCU in Motihari by ...

Enterprise Ireland to organize Education Fair in New Delhi

With a sizeable portion of Indian students making Ireland a most preferred destination for higher education.Education in Ireland is an Irish national brand under the authority of the Minister for Education and Skills.The fair, which will kick start in Delhi on November 17, 2018, will be inaugurated at the Shangri - La hotel between 11:00 AM to 04:00 PM for students aspiring to pursue higher education in Ireland.The education fair will span 5 cities wherein prominent universities and educational institutes of Ireland will meet students under one roof. It will conclude in Chennai on 25thNovember 2018. In addition to Delhi and Chennai, the fair will be organized in Pune, Mumbai and Bengaluru as well."This education fair aims to provide a transparent and delightful opportunity for the students to grow personally and professionally. We aspire to help students and institutions to achieve their goals as efficiently and effectively as possible," said Barry O'Driscoll, Senior Education ...

Education fair for students aspiring to study in Ireland

As many as 20 leading Irish universities will participate in an education fair being organised in New Delhi on November 17, a senior education official of Ireland said on Tuesday. The fair, which will be held in another four Indian cities -- Pune, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai, is being organised by Education in Ireland, an Irish national brand under the Minister for Education and Skills. Organisers said the fair would serve as a platform for aspiring Indian students to get their queries regarding admission to Irish universities answered. "This education fair aims to provide a transparent opportunity to the students to grow personally and professionally. We aspire to help students and institutions to achieve their goals as efficiently and effectively as possible," Barry O'Driscoll, Senior Education Adviser, Education in Ireland said.