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Govt renews appointment of Prof Sahasrabudhe as AICTE chairman
The central government has renewed the appointment of Prof D Sahasrabudhe as the chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved renewal of appointment of Sahasrabudhe till he attains the age of 65 years, an order issued by the Personnel Ministry said. He was appointed to the top post of the country's technical education regulator in July 2015. Prof Sahasrabudhe has in his illustrious career of over 30 years held several important academic, research and administrative positions.
Honeywell Science Experience programme launched in Hyd
Agastya International Foundation and Honeywell India today announced the expansion of their experiential science education programme to cover government schools in four more cities, including Hyderabad. The Honeywell Science Experience for students and teachers of government schools would now cover schools in Hyderabad, Chennai, Madurai and Mysuru. The programme had earlier been launched in Bengaluru, Gurugram, Delhi and Pune, a release said. As part of the programme, Honeywells not-for-profit entity, Honeywell Hometown Solutions India Foundation (HHSIF), is supporting 25 science centres, 35 mobile science labs, and 3,000 student mentors, benefiting more than 1,35,000 students and 783 teachers across all these cities. Agastya International Foundation Chief Operating Officer K Thiagarajan said here that "Today we are reaching out to more than 200 schools through our diverse set of programmes. We are aspiring to set up a Creativity Campus in Telangana in the next 2-3 ...
Delhi schools to get over 12,000 new rooms
The Delhi cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal for building 12,478 new rooms in schools in the national capital.
Student ends life after being pulled up over a quarrel:Police
An 18-year old student of a government polytechnic here has allegedly committed suicide upset over being reprimanded by a part-time staff, triggering a protest by 200 students today, police said. Sanjay Prasad was found hanging in his hostel room yesterday, they said. He was said to be upset after the staff had pulled him up for having a quarrel with another student and asked both of them to bring their parents. The students staged a demonstration on the campus of the institute, demanding immediate action against the part-time staff. Authorities declared a holiday today for the polytechnic and assured the students that their demand would be looked into, following which the agitation was given up, police said.
Help end Manipur varsity impasse: Student leaders urge Governor
Student leaders on Tuesday urged Governor Najma Heptulla to intervene to help end the Manipur University impasse even as many student bodies extended support to a 48-hour general strike called by Manipur University Students Union from midnight.
Delhi govt to build over 12,000 rooms in its schools in one and half years: Deputy CM
The Delhi government will build 12,748 new rooms including around 10,000 classrooms in its schools in the next one and half years, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said today. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in a tweet, dubbed the move a "massive infra boost" for the education sector of the national capital. According to a government statement, the entire project will incur a cost of around Rs 2,892 crore. The cabinet sanctioned construction of a total 12,748 rooms in Delhi government schools, including 9,981 classrooms, 106 multipurpose halls and 328 laboratories, Sisodia told reporters. It also includes 204 libraries, principal, vice principal and staff rooms, as well as 1,067 toilet blocks. Construction of these rooms will incur an estimated cost of Rs 2,892.65 crore. This will include Rs 1,300 crore in the current financial year and Rs 1,562.65 crore during 2019-20 fiscal. The PWD is the executing agency for the project, according to a government statement. "These rooms .
HC directs JNU to declare admission results for M.Phil, Ph.D courses
The Delhi High Court today directed JNU to immediately declare the admission results for M.Phil and Ph.D courses for the current academic session, barring the five per cent unfilled seats for students with disability. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar said it had earlier stayed the admission for the M.Phil and the Ph.D courses to the unfilled seats for students with disability only and not the entire process. "Why have you not declared results. We had not restrained the university from declaring other results. You are bound to declare the results. The authorities are directed to declare the results on the website forthwith," the bench said. The court was hearing a petition filed by the National Federation of the Blind challenging the admission policy of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) for the 2018-19 academic session, saying it stipulates 100 per cent weightage to the viva voce examination which is unfair. Today, an intervention application ..
CMCH principal falls sick; students' fast enters 8th day
The principal of the state-run Calcutta Medical College and Hospital was taken ill in his office today, even as the hunger strike by six senior students of the hospital entered eighth day. Principal Uchhal Bhadra fell sick in his chamber and he was taken to the emergency section of the hospital and treated, a medical college spokesman said. Bhadra is now stable but under observation, he said. The students of second, third and fourth year were on hunger strike outside the principal's chamber to press for their demand for accommodation in a new hostel which is allotted only for first year students. Earlier in the day, the principal made a fresh appeal to the students to withdraw the agitation saying as per guidelines of the Medical Council of India (MCI), freshers and seniors cannot be accommodated in the same hostel building to prevent incidents of ragging. Meanwhile, 20 former students of the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) joined the hunger strikers in a ...
Deadline extended in CU colleges to fill vacant seats: Partha
The last date of admission has been extended in some Calcutta University-affiliated colleges to fill up the vacant seats, West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said today. Talking to media persons, Chatterjee said the deadline was extended from July 10 to August 20 to accommodate as many students as possible in these colleges. "Wherever there are vacant seats, be it in pass or degree courses, the admission process will continue in till August 20," he said. To a question about the number of seats lying vacant in the CU-affiliated colleges in the city and its neighbourhood, the minister said, "I won't comment on figures, just based on media reports. But there are enough seats for students. Hence, we took the decision to extend the admission deadline," he said. In the past, too, Chatterjee had said students should not crowd a few educational institutions for admission. Asked about his response to the reintroduction of admission tests in Jadavpur University, ...
Muskaan Dreams gets impact funding from Hindustan Zinc Limited
Muskaan Dreams, a youth-driven Non-profit social start-up has received funding worth 15 million from Hindustan Zinc Limited (part of Vedanta Group), India's only and world's leading integrated producer of Zinc-Lead-Silver.With an aim to transform 100 rural schools into digital learning spaces, Muskaan Dreams will set focus on government schools in MP through E-learning classrooms for the students with this amount.This initiative will help students in better understanding of subjects specially Math, Science and English with the help of audiovisual content and internet support. This will create a significant impact on 15000 rural students, 300 Teachers and 100 villages across Madhya Pradesh.Rural Education in India is lacking due to insufficient teachers in government schools. Basis, a few reports and surveys government schools, are urgently in need of 1 million teachers specially for Math and Science. Government schools are drastically failing due to lack of trained teachers, ...
Retd HC judge should head inquiry committee: BJP delegation
A BJP delegation from Manipur has urged Union minister Prakash Javadekar to review the composition of a committee set up by the HRD ministry to probe allegations of administrative negligence and misutilisation of funds by Manipur University vice-chancellor(VC). The 30-member delegation, led by Chief Minister N Biren Singh, met the Union HRD minister in the national capital yesterday, and apprised him about the ongoing impasse at the central university. During the meeting, the delegation stressed the need for appointing a retired judge of a high court to head an independent inquiry committee to probe the allegations against the VC, a statement issued by the chief minister's office here said. The HRD ministry had on July 12 announced formation of a fact-finding committee, comprising a representative of the University Grants Commission and the Union ministry, to probe the allegations of administrative negligence and misutilisation of funds by the VC, Aditya Prasad ...
Universities need to evolve to adapt to changing times, says Australian educationist
Amid warnings that about 40 per cent of existing university degrees will soon become obsolete, a leading Australian educationist has said that much shorter courses, with more online ones, would have to be the focus of future education with emphasis on "life-long learning" to continuously upgrade skills.
J-K: Students dangerously cross Tawi river to reach school
Students of four villages risk their lives every day in Udhampur district in Jammu and Kashmir by crossing Tawi River to reach their respective schools.This comes after the footbridge at Kugaini near Jakhed, Dudu had washed away a month back due to the high water-levels and force of the flow.It can be seen in the video that the students were forced to walk in knee-deep water, risking their lives, to reach their schools located in another village.Locals help these students by tying a rope from one corner to another in order to give them a support while crossing the stream.Not only the students but the locals of these villages also cross the river in the same way to meet their needs. The villagers, in order to conduct their daily business, have no other means but to cross the river.Speaking to ANI, one of the students said, "We face lots of problems. At times we can't reach school on time. We request the government to build a bridge. Police deployed here help us to cross the river."The .
JNUSU accuses administration of trying to 'demolish' students' union
By making it optional for students to join the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU), the varsity administration was trying to "demolish" the students' body, its members alleged today. Slamming the new rule that makes it voluntary for the students to join the JNUSU, the students' body claimed that it was the "first step to demolish students' union in JNU". According to the union, the University has done away with the earlier practice of including the JNUSU membership amount in the students fee and will now provide them the option of not joining the students' body. "The administration has suddenly brought a new form where students can give declaration whether they want to pay the Rs 15 for the union," the union said. The new forms are prized Rs 175 for MA and Rs 187 for MPhil/PhD.
Primary school teachers write to PM, demand pending salaries
A total of 12,000 primary school teachers in Assam today sent as many letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his intervention for payment of salaries not realised after being given appointment by the state government between 1991 and 2001. Teachers in service, retired ones and the families of those who died sent the letters individually, said All Assam Salary Deprived Assistant Teachers Association general secretary Ramen Saikia. The lower and upper primary school teachers were given appointment letters by the state government with proper financial sanction, but in 2006, they were declared to be appointed illegally, Saikia claimed. Till 1996, the teachers were receiving their salaries regularly, but it stopped and again resumed between 2001-06, only to be stalled again following the illegal appointment declaration by the Assam government, he said. The teachers, however, have been regularly taking classes in the schools without salary till now and also acquired
HEC should make higher education accessible to poor; dy CM
The Higher Education Commission of India, proposed to be set up by the Centre in place of the University Grants Commission (UGC), should make higher education accessible to the poor, Telangana Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister K Srihari said today. The reforms being contemplated by the Centre should improve the standards of universities in the country to global level, he said. However, the commission proposed by the Centre appears to hurt the autonomy of universities, a state government release quoted him as saying. Srihari was speaking at a brain-storming session organised here on the proposed commission. The Centre has sought the views of states on the move, it said. Srihari said the state government would submit its views to the Centre in consultation with Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao before July 20.
Army Law College comes up in Pune
A law college for children of serving and retired Army personnel has come up near here in Maharashtra. The Army Law College, a residential institute offering five-year BBA-LLB course, was today inaugurated by Lieutenant General D R Soni, General Officer Commanding-in-chief, Southern Command, at Kanhe, 45km from here. Children of serving and retired Army personnel are being given admission in the college from the current academic year, Soni told reporters on the sidelines of the event. In the future, the Army will consider giving admission to children of civilians as well, he said. The college, affiliated to the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), is being run under the aegis of the Army Welfare Education Society (AWES). The college, set up on a piece of land gifted by the Radha Kaliandas Daryanani Charitable Trust, aims to prepare students to pursue a career at bar, in judicial services, Armed Forces Civil Services, corporate houses and other organisations of ...
Pradhan lays foundation of skill institute in Odisha
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today laid the foundation of National Skill Training Institute in Barang, Bhubaneswar, aimed at meeting the rising demands for skilled manpower. The institute will be set up at a cost of Rs 160 crore, on a 5 acre land and will be equipped with state-of-the-art facilities to impart skill development courses to the trainers and assessors along with training of candidates in new age courses. "This institute will also impart training to the trainers who are teaching students of various ITIs and other skill based education. NSTIs are being envisioned as a one stop shop to supplement the training activities in the country. We aim to have one NSTI in each state very soon, Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Pradhan said. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed with National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) for starting a temporary campus of National Skill Training Institute Bhubneswar in their premises at Mancheswar Industrial Area, .
Court directs JNU not to take coercive steps on attendance
The Delhi High Court on Monday directed Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) not to take coercive steps against the students with regard to any matter arising out of the policy of mandatory attendance till the pendency of the plea.
Rs 2,500 fine for public drinking in Goa from August 15: Parrikar
Beware Bacchus worshippers who can't resist a tipple in public places, for those caught drinking thus in Goa will have to shell out a fine of Rs 2,500 from August 15.