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Jammu University eyes NAAC's A++ rank

Newly-appointed Vice Chancellor of University of Jammu Manoj K Dhar has asked the varsity officials to work towards attaining A++ rank of National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). Dhar held his maiden interaction with the university community here, yesterday. He called upon all varsity stakeholders to contribute wholeheartedly to enhance academic standing of the varsity institutions. "We should impart quality education and focus on research. These are the two crucial factors for achieving institutional excellence", Dhar told the varsity officials. At the beginning of the interaction, university registrar Dr Meenakshi Kilam welcomed the new vice chancellor. The gathering included university deans, directors, heads of departments, faculty members, officers, representatives of students and scholars. Over the years, challenges have increased manifold, especially in the wake of the recent ranking and grading. Expectations are high," the vice chancellor said. Dhar stressed on ...

Career choices may hamper fertility

Turns out, career choices can leave a significant impact on fertility in males and females, as per a recently-conducted study.Researchers at Taylor & Francis conducted a study based on a large-scale survey of students, the results of which showed that having children before a significant decline in fertility occurred was equally important to male and female students. However, they also expected to achieve many other life goals before becoming parents.Most students underestimate the impact of female and male age on fertility. Less than half could correctly identify the age when a woman's fertility declines and even fewer knew when male fertility declines.In an anonymous online questionnaire about their intentions and expectations for parenthood and knowledge of fertility, researchers found that 38 per cent of men and 45 per cent of women correctly identified 35-39 years as the age at which female fertility declines significantly. However, only 18.3 per cent of men and 16.9 per cent

France bans smartphone use in schools

In order to curb digital addiction among adolescents, the France government has voted in favour of a ban on the use of smartphones during school hours.

Kerala IT administrator gets global recognition

K. Anvar Sadath, vice chairman and executive director of Kerala Infrastructure and Technology For Education (KITE), has become the first Indian to receive The International Contributions Award.

France to ban smartphones in schools

Putting an end to selfies in the classrooms, French lawmakers have passed a law that prohibits the use of smartphones in schools.Once into effect, students will be required to either keep their phones switched off during school hours or leave them at home, Cnet reported.The law will go into effect this September and apply to students as old as 15.

65% of Delhi government schools are headless

Nearly 600 of Delhi's government schools are running headless -- some of them for the past six years -- according to an RTI reply, and the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) blames the central governments neglectful attitude for this "serious issue".

IT officers provide financial aid to govt school in Bhopal

Since last one year, a group of Income Tax officers from Bhopal have been donating a part of their salaries for the education of the students of the Shaskiya Prathamik Primary School in Shahpura area.The officers have apparently taken a pledge to visit the school regularly and makes sure that the basic needs of the students were met. Not only this, they also provide the kids with basic necessities like shoes, books, pen, and pencils.Rohit, a student at the school, told ANI: "Officers from Income Tax Department came and provided us with books, shoes and other facilities. They also read stories and poetries for us."A teacher at the school said that the respective officers have been doing this since last one year."The Income Tax officers have been doing this work since the past one year. Apart from providing the kids with necessities, the officers also organise big events that help the students to enjoy extracurricular activities," said Aruna Dubey, who is a teacher at the Shaskiya ...

Chhattisgarh: Govt schools complain of obscene pics on tablets

A few government schools in Chhattisgarh have complained that the tablets given to them by the Government to track the attendance of teachers and students online show obscene photographs on the screen when the devices are started."Since last few days, we had received complaints from different schools regarding the malfunction of the tablets given to them by the government. While checking it was found that tablets show obscene photographs whenever somebody tries to log in. Similar incidents have been others schools also in the state. We are working on this and the problem will be rectified soon. Till then, we have asked the schools to work offline," Garun Mishra, Cluster Resource Coordinator, told ANI.The Ministry of Human Resource Development had earlier distributed tablets in schools across Chhattisgarh to help teachers to record routine details.The move was taken to enable better assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of a school, which in turn will help the authorities to ...

AISA protests outside Kejriwal's home over students' pass on AC buses

The left-wing All India Students Association (AISA) organised a six-hour-long sit-in outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence today to urge the government to make students' pass valid on air-conditioned buses. Students from different colleges of Delhi University gathered outside the chief minister's residence. Later, a delegation of six students met Kejriwal who assured them that measures would be taken. After meeting the students, Kejriwal tweeted about allowing student pass on AC buses. "Directed Transport Minister to expedite the proposal to allow student pass in AC buses also," he said. "The non-AC buses are so crowded that women students become an easy target for sexual harassment and molestation in these buses. The number of buses needs to be increased and our passes need to be made valid in AC buses too to ease out the crowd," a student said.

JNUTA calls one-day strike

The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers' Association (JNUTA) today called a one-day strike against the policies implemented by the varsity's vice-chancellor, a statement said. They said the strike was a huge success as majority of teachers as well as students joined the strike in support of demands of the teachers' association. They also participated in a protest march around JNU campus during the day. The decision to lodge protest, as the new semester commences in the university, was taken by the General Body Meeting of the JNUTA that was held on July 24. Teachers were carrying placards and wearing black badges expressing their resistance to the policy decisions of the present vice chancellor, it said. The march was as the teachers of the university had been facing an "overbearing administration under the leadership of the current vice chancellor for over the last two years", it said. "The academic environment in the university campus, which it was well known for, has been vitiated .

DU administration working at behest of ABVP: NSUI

After the administration cancelled its event at the last moment, the NSUI today accused the Delhi University (DU) officials of working at the behest of RSS-affiliated ABVP. The Congress backed student wing claimed that despite having the permission to launch the University's first magazine, they weren't allowed to go ahead with the event. "We had all permissions to hold the event at the conference hall of the University," National Students' Union Of India (NSUI) national in-charge Ruchi Gupta said. However, today the University officials refused that they had given us the consent for the event, she added. As a result, the NSUI was forced to hold the launch on the road with heavy police presence and barricading, she said further. "This is all that #ABVPThugs are capable off. NSUI on the other hand wanted to launch DU's first magazine. Denied permission last minute because of #ABVPkaGundaraj, we had to launch on the street in the presence of police. DU #SendThemHome," she posted on ...

Student pass to be allowed in DTC AC buses from September 1

After protests from university students, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday ordered that student passes would be valid in air-conditioned DTC buses too from September 1.

Goa govt developing app for teachers: CM

The Goa government teachers can soon hope for quick resolution of infrastructural issues in schools like leaking toilets or non-functional taps through an upcoming mobile application. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar told the Legislative Assembly today that Education department will launch a mobile app for the purpose. "The government had spent Rs 68 crore on infrastructure in schools in the last five years. We are developing a mobile application, which will be given to the government school teachers," he said. The chief minister said teachers could inform the Education department about a problem like leakage in toilets or non-functional taps in their schools through this app. "They will get a response within the 48 hours," he said explaining the utility of the upcoming app. The chief minister conceded that the government was facing infrastructure-related issues in rural areas, as the contractors are not ready to work there, especially in tribal areas. The government had .

Recruitment of contractual teachers not at par with regular teachers: Centre tells SC

The Centre told the Supreme Court today that the procedure followed for the recruitment of contractual teachers in Bihar was not at par with the mode followed to recruit the regular teachers. The Ministry of Human Resources Development submitted an additional affidavit before a bench of Justices A M Sapre and U U Lalit and said that no competitive examination was conducted for the recruitment for contractual teachers. "Procedure followed for the recruitment of Niyojit (contractual) teachers is not at par with the mode followed to recruit the regular teachers. There was no competitive examination conducted for the recruitment of Niyojit teachers. Niyojit teachers have not undergone any examination or selection process evaluating their respective merits," the Centre said. The affidavit also pointed out that the contractual teachers were appointed by civic bodies but the regular teachers were appointed by the state Education Department. "The Niyojit teachers are the employees of local ...

Goa students selling Cyberage scheme laptops online: CM

Instances of some student recipients of laptops under the Goa government's Cyberage scheme selling them online have come to light, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar disclosed in the Legislative Assembly today. The government is now mulling over to amend the ambitious scheme. The state government is now contemplating to upgrade computer labs in schools instead of handing over laptops directly to the students of class XI, the intended beneficiaries of the scheme, he said. "We are still thinking about amending the scheme. I can see the media sitting here and listening to me. Tomorrow they should not publish that the government will stop distributing laptops to the students. We are still thinking and we have not yet decided what to do," said Parrikar who also holds Education portfolio. The Cyber Age scheme was launched by Parrikar during his first tenure as the chief minister in 2001, when the government used to distribute desktop computers to students of schools. The ...

TN govt allots Rs 108 cr for sports village in Nellai dist

The Tamil Nadu government has allotted Rs 108 crore to set up a sports village on 175 acres of land, owned by Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, near here. A swimming pool would also built in the sports village by the Tamil Nadu Sports Development Authority and the university. State Higher Education Minister K P Anbazhagan today laid the foundation stone for the Rs 5-crore worldclass swimming pool. This would be the second worldclass pool, next only to the one at Velachery in Chennai. The project is to be completed in six months. Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said Tamil Nadu stood first among all States in the gross enrollment ratio for higher education. During 2017-18, the gross enrolment ratio of higher education in the country was 25.8 per cent while the State average was 48.6 per cent, he said.

Kejriwal seeks report on school fee hike rollback

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday asked the education department to submit a compliance report on whether private schools in the city have rolled back the fee hike as ordered by the government.

COL partners with UK varsity for distance learning conference

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL), an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government, has forged a partnership with Britain's Open University (OU) for an open, distance and technology-enabled learning conference next year.

Education reaches a new low in Jamora

If there happens to be six teachers for one student of Class VIII in a government school at Jamora in Samba district yet the education system fail to make the child learn the basic English alphabets then somewhere something is obviously amiss.The administration in an attempt to lift up the face of education of Jamora had appointed six teachers for Class VIII in a government middle school while only one student was enrolled in the class.In an extensive interactive session it came to light that the student, Chotu Ram, cannot name the English alphabets, names of the days or even the basic parts of the body. Chotu Ram told ANI, "I come regularly to the school. I am the only student in the eighth standard."Speaking on the issue, Chief Education Officer of Samba district, Ram Paul who was unaware of the Jamora school situation, said that since there were no other school in the district, extra teachers were deployed.He assured that the matter would be looked into and action would be taken. ..

Students' union elections to be held in two months: Khattar

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today said students' union elections will be held in the state's colleges and universities in two months time, ending a decades-long wait. The elections will be held in the last week of September or in the first week of October, Khattar said. Issuing directions in this regard through video-conferencing here to all deputy commissioners and superintendents of police, the chief minister told them to make all arrangements to ensure that the elections are held peacefully, an official statement said. The students' union polls were banned in 1997 by the then Chief Minister Bansi Lal following incidents of violence.