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HC seeks report on order banning homework for students
The Madras High Court today sought a compliance report from the Centre and the CBSE on the implementation of its order banning homework for students of Class I and II. Justice N Kirubakaran was hearing a petition filed by advocate M Purushothaman seeking direction to CBSE schools to purchase books published by the NCERT and to adopt its prescribed syllabus. Assistant Solicitor General G Karthikeyan produced a June 29 communication issued by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, directing state governments, Union Territories and the CBSE to comply with the May 29 high court order and file a report within two weeks. CBSE's counsel G Nagarajan said a circular on the compliance of the order was yet to be issued, but assured that it would be done within two weeks. The judge then posted the matter for further hearing after two weeks. On May 29, the high court had directed the authorities to reduce weight of satchels of school children, do away with homework for classes I and II, and .
Constructive discussions needed on lapses in education system: Amartya Sen
Constructive discussion is the key to identifying and rectifying the lapses within the education system and many of the flaws continue to exist due to lack of discussions, Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen said here on Tuesday while releasing a report on West Bengal's primary education.
Delhi govt to send 400 teachers to Singapore for training
The Delhi government will send 400 teachers to the Singapore-based National Institute of Education for training, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said today. Two hundred teachers of Delhi government-run schools underwent training at the premier institute last year. Sisodia said that the Cabinet approved a proposal for sending the teachers to Singapore for training. "Delhi govt will be sending 400 teachers for training to Singapore based National Inst. of Education. 200 teachers have already got trained by this worlds top educators-training institute last year. Proposal approved today (sic)," Sisodia tweeted. Commenting on the same, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted, "The future of any country depends upon its teachers. They shape our kids. Del govt is committed to providing best training to its teachers (sic).
PIL filed in Cal HC seeking action against agitating Jadavpur University students
A PIL seeking action against Jadavpur University students who are on a hunger strike over the new admission procedure and a return of normalcy at the educational institution was filed before the Calcutta High Court today. The university was embroiled in a controversy over changed admission norms for some undergraduate courses and a group of students were on hunger strike demanding a return of entrance exams for courses in six subjects. The petition was likely to come up for hearing on Thursday. The petitioner, Rama Prasad Sarkar, claimed that the agitation was hampering educational activities at the university prayed that action be taken by the authorities to ensure a return to normalcy. Making the secretaries in the education and home departments of the West Bengal government respondents in the petition, Sarkar also prayed for marking of a designated area in the campus for students to hold any demonstration or meeting or dharna. He prayed that a police outpost be set up at the ...
Delhi government teachers to undergo skill training at NIE Singapore
Under an initiative chalked out by the Education Department, Delhi government will be sending its school teachers to the National Institute of Education (NIE) in Singapore for skill training and education, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Tuesday.
VCs being held on graft charges is a case of fence swallowing
Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit today expressed concern over Vice-Chancellors being arrested on graft charges, saying it was a case of "fence swallowing the crop." "I am sure that all of you in the auditorium are as disturbed as I was, when we found sitting vice-chancellors and former vice-chancellors being raided and arrested for serious acts of graft and impropriety," he said at a function here. "It is clearly a case of the fence swallowing up the crop that it is meant to protect," said Purohit, who is also the Chancellor of State universities. In February, the governor had suspended Coimbatore based Bharathiyar University vice-chancellor A Ganapathi who was arrested on graft charges. Ganapathi had allegedly demanded Rs 35 lakh from an aspirant for the post of an Assistant Professor. Vice-Chancellors and professors by their conduct should serve as "beacon lights" to guide the younger generation so as to achieve the goal of progress and prosperity in society, ...
Chinese court sentences man to death over school stabbings
A Chinese court sentenced a man to death today for a knife attack that killed nine children and wounded another 11 as they returned home from school in northern China. Zhao Zewei, 28, was arrested in April following the killings that he said were in response to a long-held grudge against the school. The attack was "premeditated murder," the Yulin Intermediate Court said in a statement, adding that the circumstances warranted the death penalty. "The goal of the crime was clear, the murderer's methods were despicable, and the consequences were extremely grave," it said on a statement on its website. After his arrest, Zhao said he had been bullied when he attended the school, "hated" his classmates and decided to use a "dagger" to kill people, the court said in its verdict. In preparation for the crime, he purchased five knives online. He carried three of them to the school, where he waited outside the gate for classes to finish before "rushing headlong into the stream of students and ...
'Shatrughan Sinha calls for end to animal dissection in PG courses'
The PETA today said former Union Health minister and senior BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha has written to the Medical Council of India (MCI) and urged it to replace animal dissection and experimentation with non-animal training methods in all postgraduate medical courses. Calling animal dissection a "vestige" of a "crueler, less enlightened time", Sinha said computer-assisted learning (CAL) and human-simulation techniques are among the methods that can replace animal use in postgraduate medical curriculum, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals quoted him as saying. "Ultimately CAL programmes save money because unlike programmes that use animals they can be used repeatedly, allowing students to duplicate each step till they are proficient and confident," he was quoted as saying in a letter by the PETA. "Every medical school in the US and Canada, including those at Harvard, Yale and Duke universities, now use an animal curricula," he said. Sinha said the MCI would be doing right .
One killed, three injured in wall collapse
An eight-year-old girl was killed and three others were injured when the mud wall of an abandoned house near a school collapsed and fell on them in Bhadrak district today, police said. The children all students of Binayakpur Upper Primary school in the district were collecting black berry from a tree during tiffin break when the wall of the abandoned thatched house adjacent of the school fell on them, killing the girl on the spot and injuring three others, they said. The villagers and guardians of the students locked the teachers of the school in a class room in protest. The deceased was identified as class III student Manasi Malik, of Binayakpur village. All the injured students were admitted in Basudevpur hospital. But they were later shifted to SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack as their condition turned critical, they said. Meanwhile, Braja Kishore Malik, the deceased's father alleged that his daughter died due to the carelessness of the teachers. The ...
Foundation stone for country's 32nd plastic engineering institute laid
Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Ananth Kumar today laid the foundation stone for a plastic engineering and technology institute here in noting that it will generate new jobs with 100 per cent campus placement prospects. To be spread across 4.5 acres, the country's 32nd Central Institute of Plastic Engineering and Technology (CIPET) will be built at Doiwala at an estimated cost of Rs 51.32 crore-- shared by the Central and state governments in a 50:50 ratio. Students trained at the CIPET are likely to get 100 per cent campus placement with a minimum salary of Rs 30000 per month, said Kumar who also inaugurated a Centre for Skill and Technical Support in the hill-state. Stressing that despite great demand, there was a shortage of expertise in plastic technology used in making aeronautical parts, the minister said that the initial batch of 1500 students will subsequently be doubled. The Centre has trained about one lakh youngsters in plastic technology over the last four ...
Rahul backs petition for recalling Jayant Sinha's Harvard alumni status
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday termed as disgusting Union Minister Jayant Sinhas action of felicitating seven convicted cow vigilantes after they were released on bail and sought support for a petition that seeks withdrawal of his Harvard alumni status.
Children detained in school for not clearing fee
Several students of primary section in the city's Hauz Qazi area were allegedly detained by school authorities on Monday after their parents failed to clear the school fees.The parents alleged that the school authorities had detained their children in the basement of the school building from 7:30 am to 12:30 pm, even as the temperature touched 40 degree Celsius.They claimed that when they reached the school at 12:30 pm to pick up their children, they were told that the children were locked in the basement.The head mistress was informed about the issue, parents claimed.An FIR has been registered by the police under Section 342 of IPC and Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act.
MAHE celebrates institution of eminence tag
The decision to pick Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal as an "Institute of Eminence" was received with jubilation here in the University.From the Chancellor to the students, all waiting with baited breath for the announcement by the University Grants Commission, broke into celebrations on getting the news in a tweet from the Union HRD Minister Prakash Javedekar on Monday morning. MAHE is highest ranked among private Indian universities in the QS Ranking. Indeed, a Red-Letter Day for the University.Chancellor, Dr Ramdas M Pai was extremely happy with Union HRD Ministry's decision to select Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal as an Institute of Eminence. "The status thus acquired will serve as an inspiration for us to move forward with greater confidence and resolve to raise the standard of teaching and research to higher levels," he said and added, "This development is a stepping stone for our University to earn prestige of being one among the top 200 universities ..
Disturbing to see VCs getting arrested for graft: TN Governor
Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Tuesday said he was disturbed seeing sitting and former Vice Chancellors being raided and arrested for graft.
GIIS opens Smart Campus in Singapore
The Singapore-headquartered Global Indian International School (GIIS) today inaugurated its flagship SMART campus to provide NextGen education for 21st century learning with most technologically advance facilities, largely for its students from the Indian expatriate community. The premises can accommodate 3,500 students and has 92 SMART classrooms, 47 SMART labs and studios for skills-based learning. It is the largest smart school in the world on a 10-acre complex with virtual classroom and unparalleled security systems in place including facial recognition facility, a highly efficient means through which students will be able to access the entire campus, said Atul Temurnikar, Chairman and Co-founder of GlIS. The facial recognition machines outside every classroom and access points are one of the fastest systems in the world to allow speedier access to users. The machines take less than one second to recognise a student's facial imprint, which also translates into 40 per cent faster ..
Bihar: Principal, teacher arrested for forcing students to watch obscene videos
The principle and a teacher of a government school in Darbhanga's Lalbagh area here were arrested on Tuesday for making students watch obscene videos.Police arrested accused teacher Kumar Anand Shankar and school principal Sujit Kumar Mishra after parents of two students registered a complaint with the police in this regard.A case has been registered against the accused.The school secretary has also been named in the FIR.The school has been sealed for seven days.Following this, the District Education Officer Dr. Mahesh Prasad Singh has constituted a committee to investigate the matter. It has also been instructed to investigate whether the school is recognized or not.
JU students continue hunger strike despite deteriorating health
The hunger strike by the Jadavpur University students demanding withdrawal of the decision to scrap entrance tests to six undergraduate courses, entered the fifth day on Tuesday, as two of the protestors were rushed to the hospital after their health condition deteriorated, an official said.
JU authorities urge students to end hunger strike
Two of the 20 members of a students' union of Jadavpur University who are on a hunger strike, over the past four days, in protest against the new admission procedure, have been hospitalised today, varsity authorities said. The authorities made a fresh appeal to them to withdraw the stir and called an emergency executive council meeting today. Registrar Chiranjib Bhattacharya said two students have been admitted to hospital and the varsity was concerned about the health condition of others. Accompanying the Registrar, Pro-VC Pradip Ghosh told the students, "I request all of you to withdraw the fast. We have already convened an emergency executive council meet to discuss the admission issue. The VC (Suranjan Das) and Chancellor (Keshari Nath Tripathi) have already requested you to withdraw the fast. Please do not endanger your lives." Turning down their pleas, general secretary of Arts Faculty Students' Union Debraj Debnath said, "There is no question of withdrawing our ..
DU admissions expose sorry state of ancient Indian languages
Five years and two degrees later, Pooja is unsure of what value her higher education in Sanskrit will hold in the future. How many times will she have to appear for the National Eligibility Test before qualifying as a lecturer? Will she ever get a job? Or will her efforts be rendered futile and she will have to sit at home? These are some of the many concerns worrying 23-year-old Pooja, who initially wanted to pursue a course in History, but took up Sanskrit after failing to make the cut in her preferred subject. As a fresh batch gets ready for Delhi University and other universities across the country, questions on usefulness, viability and the way forward also trouble those who want to pursue ancient and Indological languages like Pali and Prakrit. Pooja rues the limited number of career opportunities that follow a degree in Sanskrit but has also fallen in love with the language. "People keep asking me what I will make of a degree in Sanskrit in today's time. One can either become ..
CBSE to award 196 extra marks to Tamil NEET candidates
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court directed the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE) to award additional marks to students who wrote the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) in the Tamil language in 2018.As per the ruling, four marks each will be awarded for each of the wrongly-translated 49 questions, following which a new ranking list will be put out in two weeks.In the meantime, the CBSE will suspend the medical counselling.49 questions were wrongly translated for students who wrote the NEET in the Tamil language in 2018, after which a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed regarding the same.Speaking on the issue, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) leader and MLA D Jayakumar said that the CBSE will decide the future course of action on the matter."Madurai high court has said the same thing. As far as this is concerned the high court has given a verdict today that 196 marks will be awarded to the students and the list will be given out ...