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Weather impacts schooling, make hybrid learning plan: Atishi to officials

Noting that schooling gets affected due to weather conditions such as heat wave and fog, Delhi Education Minister Atishi on Saturday directed officials to prepare a hybrid learning plan for schools. They were directed to make it by bringing together the Delhi Model Virtual Schools (DMVS) programme and the physical school model of the Delhi government, an official statement said. Through DMVS, the Delhi government aims to make all schools hybrid so that students' education does not get affected due to weather conditions, the minister said. "Schooling in Delhi gets frequently disturbed due to adverse weather like heat waves during summer and fog in winter. Through DMVS, we will make all Delhi government schools hybrid so that our children's education does not suffer from vagaries of weather," Atishi said. "For those children who cannot reach school, the Delhi government is taking the finest education to them through DMVS," she said. Started in 2022 by the AAP government, DMVS curren

No intake of students below 16 years: Govt's norms for coaching centres

Coaching centres cannot enrol students below 16 years of age, make misleading promises and guarantee rank or good marks, according to new guidelines announced by the Ministry of Education. The guidelines for regulating coaching institutes have been framed to address the need for a legal framework and manage the unregulated growth of private coaching centres. It comes following complaints received by the government about rising cases of student suicides, fire incidents, lack of facilities in coaching incidents as well as methodologies of teaching adopted by them. "No coaching centre shall engage tutors having qualifications less than graduation. The institutions cannot make misleading promises or guarantee rank or good marks to parents for enrolling students in the coaching centres. The institutes cannot enrol students below 16 years of age. Student enrolment should be only after secondary school examination," the guidelines said. "The coaching institutes cannot publish or cause to

NCL Recruitment 2024: Apply for 150 Assistant Foreman posts at nclcil.in

From January 15 to February 5, interested and qualified applicants can submit their applications for the 2024 NCL Assistant Foreman recruitment through the official website at nclcil.in

UGC NET Result 2023: December exam results to be announced on website

NTA will declare UGC NET December 2023 test results today. Applicants can look at their scores on the official site at ugc net.nta.ac.in. Tests was held from Dec 6 to Dec 19, 2023 nationwide

ED arrests 5 people in money laundering case linked to Rajasthan paper leak

The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday said it has arrested five people as part of its money laundering investigation into an alleged teacher recruitment exam paper leak case in Rajasthan. Suresh Kumar alias Suresh Sau, Vijay Damore, Peeraram, Pukhraj, and Arun Sharma were taken into custody under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on January 11, the agency said. They were sent to three-day ED custody by a special PMLA court in Jaipur, it said in a statement. The probe pertains to alleged paper leak case of senior teacher 2nd grade competitive examination, 2022 in Rajasthan. Former Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) member Babulal Katara and two other persons identified as Anil Kumar Meena and Bhupendra Saran were earlier arrested by the ED in this case. Arun Sharma provided 29 candidates (for whom leaked papers were arranged and who were appearing for the said competitive examination) to Anil Kumar Meena in lieu of Rs 2 lakh per candidate, th

UGC NET December 2023 Result: NTA revised final result date, check details

UGC NET December 2023 Result: NTA revises exam data, the testing agency will now release the final result on January 17, 2024. Here's all you need to know

Rajasthan Board Class 5, 8 board exam 2024 registration to begin today

The Board of Secondary Education, Rajasthan, released the exam registration for class 5th and 8th board exams 2024. Here's all you need to know

Pariksha Pe Charcha 2024; Registration to close on Jan 12, check details

MoE will close the registration window for Pariksha Pe Charcha (PPE). Interested students, parents and teachers can register online by visiting the official website, innovateindia.my gov.in

NEET 2024 notification: Fake registration date viral, FAIMA issues notice

The fake registration date for NEET PG 2024 is viral on social media. FAIMA chairman, Dr Rohan Krishnan, requested candidates not to trust WhatsApp, Telegram notices

ICAI CA Result November 2023: CA Inter, Final result announced today

ICAI has released the CA Inter and Final results today. Candidates can check their results on the official website, i.e., icai.org or icai.nic.in

Winter vacation in Delhi schools extended till Jan 10 due to cold weather

Winter vacation in Delhi schools has been extended till January 10 due to cold weather conditions, officials of the Directorate of Education said on Saturday. The vacation was scheduled to end on Saturday and classes were to resume Monday. Delhi is experiencing extreme cold waves and the India Meteorological Department has issued a yellow alert due to dense fog, light rainfall and drop in temperature for the next few days. "Due to severe cold weather conditions, all government and private schools in Delhi will remain closed till January 10 (Wednesday). Accordingly, all the heads of schools of Delhi are hereby directed to disseminate this information among all the stakeholders," according to a statement from the Directorate of Education.

India to become intellectual leader of world by 2047: Minister Pradhan

India will become a developed nation and "intellectually lead" the world by 2047 and the responsibility to "interpret justice" will increase in such times, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said here on Saturday while speaking at the National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU). The minister addressed the second convocation ceremony of the institute. "We are committed to be a developed country by 2047. This task has been given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to all the countrymen. We are destined to intellectually lead this universe," Pradhan said. India never colonised any part of the world but looked upon the entire Earth as one family, he said. "When we are destined to be a developed nation in the next 25 years, we will have a sense of more brotherhood, transparency, and sensitivity in the world, because the people of India will lead in many aspects of social life. In times like that, the responsibility to interpret justice will increase," he added. While the NFSU ...

NEET-PG exam likely in first week of July; no National Exit Test this year

The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Postgraduate examination is likely to be held in the first week of July and the counselling in the first week of August, sources said on Saturday. They further said the National Exit Test (NExT) will not be held this year. "The NEET-PG examination is likely to be held in the first week of July. The counselling is likely to begin in the first week of August," a source said. According to the recently-notified "Post-Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023" which have replaced the Postgraduate Medical Education (Amendment) Regulations, 2018, the existing NEET-PG examination will continue till the proposed NExT becomes operational for the purpose of PG admission. The NEET-PG is an eligibility-cum-ranking examination prescribed as the single entrance examination for admission to various MD/MS and PG Diploma Courses under the National Medical Commission Act, 2019.

Delhi HC directs GNCTD to release amount to PWD for 6 new school buildings

The court's action came after a petition from the NGO Social Jurist highlighted that the buildings were not being used due to pending dues

CBSE revises date sheet for Class 10, 12 board exams in 2024; check details

The revised datesheet for the CBSE Board Exams 2024 has been made available by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Changes have been made to certain subjects for Class 10 and 12

UGC NET Answer Key 2023: NTA releases response sheets, objection window

The National Testing Agency has released provisional answer keys of the UGC NET Dec 2023 on January 3, 2024. Applicants can check it on the examination website at ugcnet.nta.ac.in

CM Patnaik approves hike in monthly stipend of nursing, pharmacy students

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday approved a hike in the stipend amount for students of nursing, pharmacy and other related categories, officials said. The move followed a request by the students in this regard, they said. Students of Diploma in Pharmacy students will now get Rs 500 per month from the earlier amount of Rs 250, ANM Rs 2,000 from Rs 1,000, B.Sc (Nursing) internship course Rs 5,000 from Rs 2,500, M. Phil in Clinical Psychology and M.Phil in Psychiatric Social Work Rs 10,000 from Rs 7,000, an official release said. The decision was made taking into account the importance of services being rendered by them, it said.

GATE 2024: Admit card to be released today at gate2024.iisc.ac.in

IISc Bangalore will release admit cards today for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE 2024). Once released, admit cards can be downloaded from the website i.e. gate2024.iisc.ac.in

CTET Admit Card 2024: Admit card to release soon, here's how to download

CTET 2024 admit card: The 18th Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) will be conducted by the CBSE. The exam will take place on January 21, 2024

Budget 2024: Highlights of education budget under Modi govt since 2014

The National Education Policy, introduced in 2020, states that 6% of the country's GDP should go towards education. Here is a look on how the country has fared in over a decade of education