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Educating girls first step towards empowerment: Kareena
Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor Khan on Sunday said educating girls should be the first step towards empowering women.
Women's sleeves snipped off as disciplinary step before exam
Women appearing for a competitive exam in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district were in for a shock when the invigilators snipped off the sleeves of their dresses in "full public view" as a disciplinary measure, an official said today. The footage of yesterday's incident was flashed on regional news channels, sparking outrage by local people and the parents of the women, he said. The female candidates, who enrolled for the nursing entrance exam of Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board (BCECEB), were advised against wearing full-sleeved dresses, but some of them failed to adhere to the norm, District Education Officer Lalan Prasad Singh told PTI over phone. "The footage showed that the staff members of the examination centre at a public school were cutting off the sleeves of candidates with scissors and blades," he explained. The education department conducted an inquiry into the incident and barred the school from holding competitive exams in future, Singh said. "The ...
Bengal varsity to honour Bangladesh PM with D. Litt
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be conferred an honorary Doctor of Literature degree by the Kazi Nazrul University in West Bengal's West Burdwan district.
Maha moving towards permitting cluster universities: Tawde
The Maharashtra government was moving towards giving permission to "cluster universities" in which students would be able to get degrees in multiple disciplines, state Education Minister Vinod Tawde today said. "The Maharashtra government is now heading towards giving permission for cluster universities. About 10-12 cluster universities would start functioning in the state in the near future and students would get multi-disciplinary degrees," Tawde said while addressing the media at the Shivaji University-Kolhapur campus here. As per the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development's Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA)- National Higher Education Mission, a cluster university is one that gets created after converting colleges in close proximity to form one unit. The minister said that one of the distinctive features of these cluster universities would be a choice-based credit system (CBCS). As per the Union HRD ministry, the CBCS will enable students to take ...
ICSE class 10, ISC class 12 exam results to be announced tomorrow
The results of the ICSE class 10 and ISC class 12 examinations will be announced tomorrow, an official said. The Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CICSE), which conducts the exams, will announce the result at 3 pm, CISEC chief executive and secretary Gerry Arathoon said. "The council will announce the results tomorrow at 3 PM. The results will be made available through CAREERS portal, the website of the council and through SMSes," Arathoon said. For results through SMSes, candidates will have to type ICSE or ISC followed by their seven-digit unique ID code and send the message to 09248082883. In 2017, class 12th saw a pass percentage of 96.47, while 98.53 per cent students passed class 10th. In the class 12th examination, the pass percentage of girls was 97.73 per cent while that of the boys stood at 95.39 per cent. From this year, the CISCE has decided to reduce the pass per cent for class 10, 12 annual board exams. While ICSE students need 33 per cent to qualify, ..
'Daily Mile' could boost children's health, fitness: study
The Daily Mile - a popular initiative in the UK which involves children taking a 15-minute break from class to do physical activity - improves fitness, body composition and activity levels in school students, a study has found. Researchers from University of Stirling and University of Edinburgh in the UK said that policymakers should consider introducing The Daily Mile to improve the health and fitness of schoolchildren around the world. The findings indicate The Daily Mile can help combat global problems such as low physical activity, high sedentary behaviour, declining fitness levels and high levels of obesity. "Our research observed positive changes in children who participated in The Daily Mile intervention, compared to our control school where the scheme was not introduced," said Colin Moran from University of Stirling. "It suggests that The Daily Mile is a worthwhile intervention to introduce in schools and that it should be considered for inclusion in government policy, both at
KNU to confer honourary D Litt on Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be conferred with honorary D Litt at the 3rd convocation of Kazi Nazrul University (KNU) on May 26 in West Burdwan district. According to the university's vice-chancellor Sadhan Chakraborty, the convocation will be held at the university campus. Renowned physicist S M Yusuf of Bhaba Atomic Research Centre will also be conferred with honorary D Sc, he said. Veteran actor Sharmila Tagore has also been selected as the recipient of honorary D Litt, he added. Since Sharmila Tagore will not be able to be present on the appointed date, the 73-year-old actor will be handed over the honour - a citation, a scroll and a memento - on a later date at a place of her convenience, the KNU VC said. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be the chief guest at the convocation and West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi will deliver the address as the chancellor of the institution, he said. The KNU VC also said that West Bengal Higher
AMU students' union leaders on indefinite relay hunger strike
The Aligarh Muslim University Students' Union (AMUSU) leaders began their indefinite relay hunger strike late last night demanding judicial enquiry into the violence on the campus over the portrait of Pakistan's founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The protesters, however, announced that they would not disrupt the holding of annual and entrance examinations that began yesterday. Today, the protesters allowed the opening of the main AMU gate, Baab-e-Syed, which had been locked for the past 11 days to facilitate the movement of those students who are appearing in the engineering entrance. Earlier, several AMU students sat on an indefinite dharna after a clash with the police on May 2 when they were demanding action against the right-wing Hindu activists, who had entered the campus and shouted slogans against Jinnah's portrait. They are asking for a judicial probe into the alleged police inaction and the manner in which the row erupted after Bharatiya Janata Party MP Satish Gautam had objected .
DUSU to beautify defaced metro stations
The Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) will hold a meeting in June with all stakeholders and volunteers to decide ways to beautify the 11 Delhi metro stations that were defaced during the varsity polls. Last month, the Delhi High Court had directed the students/candidates to work with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation(DMRC) to restore its defaced properties across the city. The DMRC had told the court that about 76 locations metro properties were found to be permanently defaced and restoring them would cost over Rs 16 lakh and take six month's time. "After the exams are over - on May 30 - we shall invite those candidates who have been identified by Delhi High Court for defacing metro stations and volunteers to chalk out a plan and creative ways in which we can beautify the metro stations," DUSU president Rocky Tuseed told PTI. The eleven stations identified by the DMRC are: R K Ashram, Kuhat Enclave, Vishwavidyalaya, Rajouri Garden,Vidhan Sabha, Shivaji Park, Civil Lines, and ...
Schools should ensure 50 pc of students getting scholarship pass or face blacklisting
Educational institutions covered under the centrally-sponsored post-matric scholarship scheme for Scheduled Caste students will have to ensure that at least 50 per cent of the beneficiaries pass and move to higher class, failing which they will be blacklisted. This is part of the revised norms notified yesterday by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. The revision of the norms is aimed at checking malpractice by educational institutions, said a senior ministry official. "There have been cases where educational institutes have pocketed large amount of scholarship amount under the post-matric scholarship scheme for SCs by showing fake admissions. Or the educational institutions would admit students and get the scholarship amount and not teach them properly as a result of which the students would fail. The revised norms will put an end to such malpractice," the official said. Also, as per the revised norms, the mandatory payment of maintenance allowance and non-refundable fees
Uttarakhand: Towards an 'open defecation free' district
Teachers of a government school in Uttarakhand's Udham Singh Nagar district helped the parents of their students to build toilets in their houses.This comes three years after the launch of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and a few months after Udham Singh Nagar was declared open defecation free (ODF).The teachers said that the idea of helping parents in making toilets at their houses came after they found out that the children don't have toilets at their houses and they used to defecate in the open.One of the teachers said, "Idea of helping parents in making toilets in their houses came after we found out that the children don't have toilets at their houses and they are not aware of cleanliness.""We used to see Kathua like incidents in the newspapers every day. We felt very bad when we went and saw that the children are defecating in the open," the teacher added.The teachers have also laid a condition before parents during admission that it is necessary to have a toilet in their homes and ..
Negative parenting can affect childhood friendships: Study
Negative features of parenting, such as depression and psychological control, increase the risk of breaking up childhood friendships, finds a study.
CBSE conducts separate board exams for 6 students representing India in global sports meets
In a first, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducted separate exams for six students of class 10 and 12 this year as they were representing the country in international sports championships during the regular schedule. Four of these six students, including Commonwealth Games hero Anish Bhanwala, bagged medals in their respective events. "The special drive of CBSE to promote talents in sports led to a departure from set practice of following the fixed exam schedule this year. There were six students who were to represent India at various sports events while other class 10 and 12 students were busy writing CBSE board exams," a senior CBSE official said. "We confirmed the same from the Sports Authority of India, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and gave special permission to two class 12 students and four class 10 students for appearing in board exams on later dates," the official added. While Amolika Singh, a class 12 student from Lucknow represented India at the ...
Last chance for unrecognised pvt schools in Delhi to prevent closure
The Delhi government has decided to provide a last chance for registration to unrecognised private schools in the national capital which were earlier directed to discontinue all educational activities from this academic session. The schools have been asked to furnish information including address, infrastructure, land area and number of students studying among other parameters, to consider granting them recognition. "In order to provide an opportunity to the unrecognised schools of getting themselves registered, the department has created a proforma seeking relevant information," the Directorate of Education (DoE) said in a communication to the unrecognised schools. The government also plans to use the information to "draw up a database for future policy decisions and monitoring by DoE". "Besides, the information sought is also necessary to identify the addresses of such unrecognised schools as well as to fetch the information of students studying in these schools with a view to ...
CU asks colleges to focus on modalities to implement CBCS
Calcutta University authorities today asked its affiliated under graduate colleges to focus on the modalities for implementing the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) in the first semester. Pro-Vice Chancellor (academic) Dipak Kar told the college representatives at a workshop here that that they should let the students know about the available combination papers in the college during admission while enforcing the CBCS in the first semester. "You should put the focus on the way of admission under CBCS mode and on the modalities for the first semester," Kar said at the Rajabazar Science College campus of CU when some of the college representatives raised the issue. Representative of a South Kolkata college told reporters later that they wanted to know how to enforce the CBCS which the CU had announced to implement from the coming academic session. The system enables a student to choose an elective paper from any discipline - science, humanities and commerce.
DAV, South Point, La Martiniere Girls among school regatta winners
DAV Chandigarh, Jatragachi Pranavananda School 'A' from North 24 Parganas district and city-based schools South Point and La Martiniere Girls 'A' bagged titles in their respective groups of the All India Invitation School Regatta which concluded here on Saturday.
Ansari supports AMU students' demand, says timing of incident raises questions
Breaking his silence, former vice president M Hamid Ansari today supported AMU students' demand for action against intruders who created ruckus on the varsity campus over Jinnah portrait issue on May 2, when he was present there for an event, and said their peaceful stir against the transgression is commendable. The event where Ansari was to be conferred the life membership of the Aligarh Muslim University Students Union was cancelled due to the alleged violence by right wing Hindu activists. Ansari, who has studied at AMU, said the disruption, its precise timing, and the "excuse manufactured for justifying it", raises questions. "The peaceful protest by the (AMU) students against this transgression is commendable. They must ensure that it does not in any way interfere with their academic pursuits. Their request that action be taken against the intruders and disruptors, after a judicial enquiry, is justified. The authorities of the AMU have made a similar request, he said in a letter .
Need to eliminate cheating in exams for reforms in edu system: Pb minister
Punjab minister O P Soni today stressed on eliminating cheating and copying in schools "to bring reforms in the ailing education system" and said that school education along with health was the top priority of the Congress government in the state. He said the results of class 10 and class 12 exams conducted by the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) were "really weak" and a lot of students failed. "To bring reforms in our ailing education system, the first step is to eliminate cheating and copying so that we may see the real picture of the situation," the state school education minister told a gathering here. "The mentality to cheat has to be abandoned if we need to bring reforms in our education system, teachers have to teach and students have to learn and parents have to be cooperative," Soni said. He informed the gathering that Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has ordered constitution of a core group of teachers from across the state to suggest reforms in school education ...
Drawing teacher of govt school in Bathinda suspended
A drawing teacher of a government school in Bathinda's Bhaini village was suspended for alleged indecent behaviour with girl students, an official said today. "Drawing teacher Ramesh Kumar has been suspended for indecent behaviour with girl students," Bathinda District Education Officer (DEO) Maninder Kaur said. The matter came to light when a Class 7 student informed her mother about Kumar and her parents lodged a complaint against him with the DEO. In an inquiry conducted against Kumar, over 60 Class 7 and Class 8 students of the co-education school complained of indecency, the DEO said. Some of the girls were even reluctant to come forward to lodge a complaint out of fear, an official said. Kaur said the teacher was earlier transferred from another nearby school on the same charges.
AMU students urge Kovind to intervene to end Jinnah row
The Aligarh Muslim University Students Union (AMUSU) has written to President Ram Nath Kovind, seeking his intervention to end the controversy over Muhammad Ali Jinnah's portrait on the varsity campus. In their letter to Kovind, the students alleged that no satisfactory action has been taken by the Uttar Pradesh government yet. They also said that the Aligarh district administration was yet to act against those who trespassed into the campus and indulged in acts of violence on May 2. The protest by the students against the trespass and violence entered its 11th day today. AMUSU leaders warned they would intensify their stir and start a relay hunger strike if their demands are not met. They are also demanding action against the police officers responsible for lathicharge on students on May 2. AMUSU leaders, including its president Mashkoor Ahmad Usmani, sought an appointment with Kovind over the issue. "We have high regard for the president and we hope his prompt intervention will ...
