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Happiness curriculum in Delhi govt schools from July: Deputy CM

A day after it ended its sit-in at lieutenant governor's office, the AAP dispensation today announced introduction of a "happiness curriculum" in Delhi's government schools from the coming academic session. The "happiness curriculum" is ready and it will be launched by the Dalai Lama on July 2, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said. "The curriculum will be taught to around eight lakh students from nursery up to class 8 students of all the Delhi government schools from July," he told reporters. The final draft of the curriculum was approved at a meeting chaired by Sisodia, who is also the education minister in the Kejriwal government. The curriculum will include meditation, moral values and mental exercises and its core idea is to produce "sarvagun sampann" (versatile) "professionals and human beings who could serve the society with happiness", the Deputy CM said. "After ten years or more, these children will become professionals like doctors and engineers filled with happiness and

Govt school teachers can directly send nominations for National Award

Teachers of government schools from across the country can now directly send their entries for National Award, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar announced today. Till last year, entries for the award were selected by the state governments. "In the new system, government school teachers or principals can nominate themselves online. Three teachers will be selected from every district and ultimately six teachers will be selected from every state. An independent jury at national level will select 50 outstanding teachers/ heads of schools for the National Award. Teachers can also upload the videos of their work done," Javadekar told reporters here. The jury will select the best teachers for the award on the basis of their style of teachings and innovations and revolutionary changes in education system.

Fake teacher recruitment gang busted in UP, 16 arrested

The Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh police has arrested 16 people for their involvement in a fake teacher recruitment racket in Mathura, police said. Those arrested included the kingpin of the gang, Mahesh Sharma, 9 government teachers, four brokers and two computer operators of Basic Siksha Adhikari (BSA), Prabhakar Chaudhary, SSP, Mathura said. He did not rule out the arrest of more people involved in the racket. "One computer, four lakh cash and nine bogus appointment letters were recovered in the raid conducted at their office in Mathura, he said. The process of recruitment began in Mathura after an alleged order from the Director, Basic Education, Lucknow stated that those who couldn't join their duty earlier, on the basis of an appointment letter, may be allowed to join now. On the basis of media reports, Mukesh Agrawal, Principal of District Institute of Education and Training (DIET), Mathura took suo motu cognizance and inquired about the matter. In spite of my ..

Teacher booked for proposing, touching class 10 girl

A school teacher in Jajpur district was today booked on the charge of proposing a class 10 student of the school and touching her inappropriately during private tuition sessions, police said. The 45-year-old teacher of a government run school in Barachana block had asked the girl's parents to send their daughter for tuition to him separately so that he could focus on her, police said. The parents agreed as she is class 10 and the teacher was from the school where she studies, Inspector-in-charge of Barachana police station Sarat Chandra Patra said, quoting from the FIR lodged in this connection. But during tuition classes, the teacher who is father of two children, proposed the 15-year-old girl several times and she turned down his proposal every time. "On Monday last, the teacher promised her help during examinations if she accepts his proposal. But she again rejected him," Patra said adding that he also allegedly touched her inappropriately that day. The girl narrated .

Human rights conference resolves to respect rights of others

A four-day conference on Human Rights has resolved to respect rights of others. The conference, which was held from June 15 to 18, was attended, among others, by TNCC President Su Thirunavukkarasar and well-known film-maker Bharathirajaa. "The participants, including school and college students, among others, resolved to respect rights of others," conference organiser S K Saamy, Chairman, World Human Rights Commission, said in a release here today.

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Charity commissioner urges Ganesh mandals to fund education of

The Charity Commissioner of Maharashtra has appealed to the Ganesh mandals to bear the educational expenses of children from economically weaker sections of the society. "I held a meeting with the Ganesh mandals here yesterday, wherein I appealed to them to bear the educational expenses of students from economically weaker sections. There are large number of students from the farming community as well," Shivkumar Dige, Charity Commissioner of Maharashtra told PTI today. "Similar appeals will be made in every district by the district-level officials of the Charity Commissionerate. This should benefit at least 300 students in every district in the state," he said. When asked about the potential beneficiaries, Dige said, "Students of families who hold marginal agricultural land, BPL families and peasants among others will benefit from this." In case any Ganesh mandal evinces interest, the students will have to apply to the district-level officials and the beneficiaries ...

Indian-origin academic goes on strike over 'racist' staff at UK college

A leading Indian-origin academic has gone strike against tutoring students from King's College London after its staff members allegedly refused to address her as "Doctor". Priyamvada Gopal, a Cambridge University fellow specialising in post-colonial literature, described the incident as part of "consistently racist aggression and profiling" from porters at King's College. She declared on Twitter, after the incident on Monday, how she told one of the porters: "Please address me as Dr Gopal", to which he responded: "I don't care who you are." The 50-year-old academic said it was not just a case of her arrogantly insisting on her proper title being used instead of the term "madam", but that the term was being used mockingly and dismissively. "He then launched into a tirade about how people treat him. I am sorry but my brown body isn't taking the hit for that. He'd never talk like this to actual white men who behave badly," she said on Twitter. Gopal declared, "with deep regret", that she

33 New initiatives have been taken by the Government to strengthen education sector

Highlighting the new initiative on learning outcomes, Mr. Javadekar said that Learning Outcomes benchmark student's capabilities to be achieved in each subject and class every year. This will bring in accountability of schools, teachers and students, as well as parents will improve the quality of school education. The Minister disclosed that 103 new Kendriya Vidyalayas and 62 new Navodaya Vidyalayas have been opened during the last four years.

India, France to boost student exchange programme

India and France will work on strengthening their student exchange programme, confirmed the External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj.The two countries aim at increasing the number of students through such programmes by 2020."We remain committed to work upon set agreements and aim at doubling up the number of student exchanges by 2020," Sushma Swaraj said on Tuesday while addressing the Indian students studying in France at Maison de l'Inde in Paris."Student community is always at the heart of our efforts. A large number of Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) have been signed between educational institutes of India and France. Almost all the branches of the Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) have collaboration with the French management institutes and business schools," she added.Swaraj used the occasion to propose a hostel which would be run by a person of Indian origin, adding that the hostel be named as "India House".Prior to the commencement of the address, Sushma Swaraj also

Dropout rate in schools reduced to 1% in Chhattisgarh: Raman Singh

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh stated that the dropout rate in schools has dipped to less than one per cent in the state.Addressing a rally on Tuesday, he said, "Earlier in schools, 12 out of 100 children did not progress to the middle school after junior school. Now the dropout rate has reduced to one percent from twelve percent. This is a huge achievement for us."He said the reduction is percentage of school dropouts shows that children are getting better environment and resources for education in schools."It is a major national-level achievement and this has led to significant improvement in quality of education," he said.The Minister further said how children from all the poor, middle-class and rich families are also studying in government schools now."Yesterday I felt nice to see a collector's child taking admission in a government school. I myself have studied in a government school, and my kids have followed the same," said Singh.Singh further announced agriculture ...

Bihar 10th result 2018 postponed; steps to check marks at biharboard.ac.in

BSEB Class 10 result 2018 will be declared on June 26 on biharboard.ac.in. For updates, track Business Standard

Technical glitches hamper DU admission process

Several students faced difficulties in completing their admission formalities as the Delhi University's server came under severe pressure and the DigiLocker, a government-owned public cloud storage where certificates and documents were stored, was not integrated with the varsity portal yet. The website was inaccessible for quite some time, forcing the students to flock to colleges and seeking help from professors in generating forms. According to the admission rules, applicants need to study the cut-off list, select courses and colleges on the university website, take printout of the admission slip and finally approach the respective colleges with the slip and required documents. While some students and professors claimed that the website was inaccessible, a senior Delhi University official said that there was heavy traffic on the website but said that it was functioning properly. A Delhi University professor said that students were quite hassled after they were not able to generate ..

Over 42,000 answer sheets disappear ahead of Bihar Board results

As many as 42,000 copies of the Class 10 examination have disappeared from one of the evaluation centres in Bihar's Gopalganj a day before the declaration of results by the Bihar School Examination Board.The principal of S. S. Balika Inter School, Pramod Kumar Srivastav, was held in connection with the same.216 bundles, amounting to approximately 42,000 answer sheets, went missing on Tuesday.The information about the disappearance of the answer sheets surfaced when the Bihar School Examination Board sought to examine the answer sheets of some students.The principal of the school was summoned to Patna for investigation in the case, upon the completion of which, he was held and handed back to the Gopalganj police for further investigation.Srivastav had earlier lodged an FIR in connection with the incident in the city police station against a guard and a peon who worked at the school. He also blamed a conspiracy against him to be behind the disappearance of the answer sheets."This has ..

Thousands of Matric answer scripts go "missing" in Bihar

Thousands of answer scripts of candidates who took Matric examinations, conducted by the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) this year, went missing from the strong room of a school where these were kept after evaluation, the BSEB said today. The declaration of results for Matriculation, which was scheduled for tomorrow, has now been deferred to June 26, the BSEB said in a statement released here. The principal of the school - situated at Gopalganj district - was summoned here by the BSEB and later detained by police for interrogation. The latest episode has further tarnished BSEB image which had drawn widespread condemnation in the wake of "toppers scam" when non-deserving students were declared top rankers in Arts as well science streams out of materialistic considerations in 2016. "Pramod Kumar Srivastava, the principal of SS Girls's Senior Secondary High School had registered an FIR on Sunday stating that over 200 bags, containing more than 40,000 answer scripts ..

Algeria to block internet to stop high school exam leaks

Algeria's education minister says the Algerian government is taking the "extreme measure" of temporarily suspending the entire country's internet connection during national high school exams to stop cheating and the leaking of answers. Nouria Benghabrit today told Algerian national radio that the internet, including social networks such as Facebook, will be blocked during for the first hour of each baccalaureate exam during the June 20-25 exam period. The decision comes after massive online leaks of the baccalaureate, the last mandatory high school exam, in the previous two years. Benghabrit said, "We have put in place a technical device that consists of suspending the internet connection and block social networks from Wednesday to prevent the leaking of baccalaureate subjects." Cell phone jammers are also being installed at each examination centre.

JNU denies course on 'Islamic terrorism' in reply to Delhi Minorities Commission notice

In its reply to a notice by the Delhi Minorities Commission, the JNU administration has said no course on "Islamic terrorism" was proposed in the academic council meeting of the university, DMC chairman Zafarul Islam Khan said today. JNU registrar Pramod Kumar has said "there was no course on 'Islamic terror' proposed in the academic council," Khan said. Taking cognizance of media reports, the commission last month issued a notice to JNU asking for reasons to start the proposed course. The registrar provided DMC with a copy of a concept paper on the proposed 'Centre for National Security Studies' and said JNU has no knowledge if a course on "Islamic terrorism" is taught in any Indian or foreign university, Khan said. The registrar has provided DMC with a copy of the minutes of the 145th Academic Council meeting on May 18, where the concept paper was placed for discussion. "Contrary to the assurance given by the registrar of JNU, the concept paper does include 'Islamic terrorism' as ...

French fighter jets go quiet for school exams

French students may be suffering one of the most stressful weeks of their young lives as they take their high school exams, but at least they won't be distracted by fighter jets. France's cutting-edge Rafale military planes will be flying on adjusted schedules this week in a bid to minimise disruption for the students, the commander of a military base told AFP today. Commander Cedric Gaudilliere said his base at Mont-de-Marsan in southwest France had "adapted its take-off and landing procedures" so as not to bother the 3,773 students taking their exams nearby. Rafales will take off from the part of the base furthest from residential areas and carry out slower landings that involve less circling over the town, he added. Other military bases around the country will be following similar procedures, he said. France's high school baccalaureate exams, launched under Napoleon in 1808, kicked off yesterday with the philosophy test which this year included questions such as "Does culture make .

Initiative to be launched to foster US, India engagements in research and education

An initiative is being launched here to foster greater engagements in the field of research, education and innovation between the United States and India The US-India Knowledge Exchange -- an initiative of market entry specialist Sannam S4 and the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) -- will convene the leading minds from the two countries in academia, innovation, public policy, private sector and non-profit organisations. The purpose of the initiative is to facilitate greater cooperation and collaboration on a range of significant and mutually-strategic initiatives to the benefit of both nations, a media release said. The exchange envisions playing a valuable role in supporting these goals. USISPF president Mukesh Aghi envisioned it to "perform a role in matching demand for expertise in sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, technology, innovation, education and skills development, with the expertise and funding available to address these needs". Among the universities to .

Six boys of a school reported missing in Bengaluru

Six boys studying class IX in a school here have gone missing, sending the parents and police into a tizzy. The students of StLawrence School at Kamakshipalya left their homes last eveningsaying they were going for tuition, but have not returned, police said today. Among the six children only one was carrying a mobile phone,which too has been switched off, police said. Police said they suspected that the boys might have planned asecret picnic. An investigation team has been formed led by assistant commissioner of police Parameshwar Hegde to trace the children. Besides alerting beat police personnel at railway stations and busstands, information with pictures of the boys had been sent to all thepolice stations, especially in and around the picnic spots.