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Nine out of ten students concerned about online privacy: Ireland Survey
Alarmed over the recent data breach incidents like the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica, nine out of 10 Irish students are worried about their online privacy, a survey suggests.
AMU sports instructor suspended for 'felicitating' Hindutva leader
The Aligarh Muslim University administration has suspended its sports instructor Mazharul Qamar for felicitating a Hindutva group leader at a function in D.S. College here, an official said here on Monday.
ICSE, ISC results declared; girls outperform boys yet again
The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) today declared the results for Classes 10 and 12, with girls once again outshining boys. Class 10 results recorded a pass percentage of 98.5 per cent, while 96.21 per cent of the students passed Class 12 exam, said Gerry Arathoon, CEO of the Council. Mumbai's Swayam Das was the Class 10 all-India topper with a score 99.4 per cent. Seven students have topped the Class 12 exam with an identical score of 99.5 per cent, he said.
TNAU counselling to go online from this year
Counselling for under-graduate courses in agriculture and science and technology offered by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) will go online from this academic year. Of the 3,422 seats, being offered by TNAU, its 14 constituent colleges and 26 affiliated privates colleges across the State, 65 per cent will be filled through state quota, TNAU Vice-Chancellor, Dr K Ramasamy told reporters here today. The rest of the seats would be filled by colleges from the list of students who apply online on the TNAU portal, he added. The university had been receiving application online for the past four years, he said adding from this year counselling would go online. This would be beneficial for students, as they would not need to come here from various parts of the state to participate in the counselling process, the vice-chancellor added. The online application process will begin from May 18 and go on till June 17 and verification of documents for special reservation will .
Be fearless: Apple CEO Tim Cook tells graduates
Addressing the class of 2018 at Duke University, Apple CEO Tim Cook encouraged students to follow their vision and learn from the example set by late Apple founder Steve Jobs.He encouraged students to try something different and dare to think different, Mashable reports.In his tweet following the commencement ceremony, Cook congratulated the students and encouraged them to be fearless.Cook also used the opportunity to touch upon issues including user privacy, climate change, social inequality, and gun violence.
Standard of education in TN improved after vacancies filled:CM
Tamil Nadu chief minister K Palaniswami today said the standard of education in the state has improved after government filled up vacancies of teachers. He stated this at a function at a school here today. the chief minister said upgradation of elementary schools to high schools and the latter to higher secondary schools has reduced the number of dropouts in the district. The chief minister said the number of state highways in the district would be converted to four-lane roads. Among them were the Mettupalayam-Sathyamangalam, Gobichettipalayam-Chitode, Bhavani Mettur-Thoppur, Erode-Karur; and Erode- Tiruchengodu roads, he said. He also said the ruling AIADMK has been giving a lot of importance to agriculture. A total of 1,519 tanks and ponds would be desilted so water could be stored for irrigation. The Chief Minister announced the birth anniversary of Kongu leader Kalingarayan would be observed every year as he was instrumental in developing 20,000 acres of dry land to ..
AMU alumni brave rough weather to protest against attack on varsity
Braving the dust storm and rain that hit the national capital today, the alumni of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) gathered here in the evening to protest the attack on the students of the institute, allegedly by members of the right-wing Hindu Yuva Vahini group. Despite the rain and strong winds, close to 100 former students of the university staged a sit-in in a lane opposite the FICCI auditorium at Barakhamba Road. Members of the alumni association of the Jamia Millia Islamia as well as the Jawaharlal Nehru Unversity (JNU) also joined the "silent protest". Holding placardsm, denouncing the attack on the university and its students, the AMU Old Boys' Association (AMUOBA) and others alleged that the incident was politically motivated to disrupt communal harmony. AMUOBA president Irshad Ahmed, while speaking to mediapersons, sought a judicial enquiry into the attack earlier this month over a portrait of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah on the university campus. They also ...
Rs 4 cr grant for Centre of Excellence at AMU
The Central government has approved a grant of Rs 4 crore to establish a "Centre of Excellence" for research on Bioinspired Nanomaterials and Drugs at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).
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.