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HC quashes law faculty notice's applicability on students before 2017
The Delhi High Court today quashed a Delhi University Law Faculty notice which said that only fifth and sixth semester students will be allowed to sit for supplementary exams after their regular tests, as it applied retrospectively to students who were admitted before the academic year 2017-18. The court clarified that it has not interfered with the applicability of the October 9 last year's notice to students who had taken admission after the academic year 2016-17, since they had adequate notice and ample opportunity to plan their academic and examination schedules as per the changed rules regarding supplementary examinations. Justice Rekha Palli said the notice, which was applied retrospectively to the students who took admission prior to the academic year 2017-18, was "wholly arbitrary" and was quashed it to that extent. "In my opinion, the students who had taken admission before the academic year 2017-18 deserve at least one opportunity to take their supplementary examinations as .
UGC grants deemed to be varsity status to national rail institute
The University Grants Commission (UGC) today approved a proposal for granting deemed to be university status for the National Rail and Transport Institute, Vadodara. "The UGC today granted Letter of Intent for first Railway University. Will fast track defence university also," Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar tweeted. "The proposal to grant deemed to be university status to the institute was sent to the ministry for consideration and issuing of letter of intent," a senior HRD official said. The Union Cabinet had approved the establishment of India's first national rail and transportation university at Vadodara on December 20, 2017. Christened 'National Rail and Transport University (NRTU)', the institute is expected to have 3,000 full-time students.
HRD seeks ideas from pvt sector for redifining pre-school edu
The HRD Ministry has sought ideas from private sector for redifining pre-school education in the country, a top official said today. "The government or private sector alone cannot solve the humongous task of redefining the pre-school education system in India. The volume or size can come from government, but quality will come from the private sector," HRD's School Education Secretary Anil Swarup said. He was speaking at the conference 'Re-imagining Pre-school Education' organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). "Today, one of the most challenging task in pre-school education is the lack of trained teachers. Those from private sector to submit, should submit ideas to government with a focused approach," he said. "The idea has to be politically acceptable, socially desirable, technologically feasible, financially viable and administratively doable," Swarup added.
CBSE schools to promote art& culture among students
CBSE schools in Kerala and Lakshadweep will soon be promoting art, culture and creativity among students and helping them showcase their talents. The board envisions a robust system which focuses on Academics and holistic development of children, a top official said. "Co-curricular activities supplement and complement the curricular or main syllabi activities.These are very important to develop the students' personality as well as to strengthen classroom learning", Tarun Kumar, CBSE Regional officer, Thiruvananthapuram, told PTI. Letters in this regard were sent today to 1,350 schools in Kerala and the Union Territory of Lakshadweep, which comes under Thiruvananthapuram division. The schools have also been asked to start video channels in their websites or use any free video sharing app to provide a platform for students to exhibit their skills. Some schools have already started such video sharing websites like Youtube or vimeo, in which users can upload their activities
PPP crucial for pre-school education format: Anil Swarup
Union Education Secretary Anil Swarup on Friday stated that the role of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is vital for a robust pre-school education format.Addressing the FICCI ARISE 'Re-imagining Pre-school Education' conference here in New Delhi, Swarup noted that the PPP model is crucial for building a strong education infrastructure."The government or private sector alone cannot solve the humongous task of redefining the pre-school education system in India. Volume or size can come from government, but quality will come from the private sector," he added.As per Anil, one of the most challenging tasks in pre-school education currently is the lack of trained teachers. In this regard, he recommended that the private sector to submit ideas to the government with a focused approach, keeping in mind that the idea is politically acceptable, socially desirable, technologically feasible, financially viable and administratively doable.Meanwhile, FICCI Assistant Secretary-General Shobha ...
Delhi HC allows students of open schools to sit for NEET
The Delhi High Court on Friday allowed students of open schools to appear in National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) examination.The court, however, dismissed the plea challenging Central Board of Secondary Education's (CBSE) decision to fix the upper age limit as 25, for general category students appearing in NEET 2018.The CBSE that conducts the NEET issued the admission notification on February 9. The eligibility criteria of NEET 2018 was slightly modified from the NEET 2017 eligibility criteria.The lower age limit for NEET 2018 is 17 years. Candidates must have completed or complete the age of 17 years on or before 31 December 2018. This means candidates born on or before January 1, 2002.The upper age limit has been implemented at 25 years for the general category with a relaxation of 5 years for candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC category and persons entitled under Rights of Persons under Disabilities Act. That is, candidates who are 25 years or less as on May 6, 2018, are ...
Make Sanskrit compulsory subject in schools: Swamy
Sanskrit should be made a compulsory subject in schools along with the mother tongue, BJP MP Subramanian Swamy said here today. "Sanskrit should be made compulsory in my opinion.... Mother tongue and Sanskrit should be made compulsory, third (language) is optional," he told reporters on the sidelines of an event here. He claimed that Sanskrit was the only acceptable language for storing knowledge for artificial intelligence in a computer. India, he added, possessed sound knowledge of different subjects such as mathematics and science. "We were the people who were on top in mathematics, science, medicine and surgery. We even had manuals on how to build an aeroplane," he said. "But later on you will find out after reading it that it was a substantive manual; which is now being translated... Recently found," Swamy said. The Western world was beginning to accept the efficacy of yoga and meditation, said Swamy, who delivered a talk on 'Future of India in the Emerging World' ..
New Commonwealth initiative to boost digital education skills
To create an enabling environment and culture of lifelong learning, an intergovernmental organisation created by the Commonwealth Heads of Government has launched an online platform that can help both teachers and students to improve their digital education skills.
Open schools' students eligible for NEET examination: HC
The Delhi High Court on Friday ruled that students of open schools are eligible to appear in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) but dismissed the pleas challenging a CBSE notification on age restrictions for medical aspirants.
Over 27,000 students flunk Punjabi exam in PSEB results
Just when the Punjab government was contemplating of introducing the Chinese language Mandarin in state schools, over 27,000 students of Class 10 of the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) flunked in Punjabi paper.Being the mother tongue of the residents of Punjab, is a compulsory subject up to Class 10 being the official language of the state.In the budget session of the state assembly in March this year, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had announced that Mandarin would now be introduced as an optional subject in government schools at the senior secondary level.According to the educationists and experts of Punjabi language, the condition of Punjabi as a subject is deplorable in rural as well as urban areas.Educationists feel the state does not seem too serious about the survival of Punjabi language.They stated that the government has standardised the syllabus, but failed to standardise the teaching. The language has to be viewed as a subject not as a mother tongue because the common .
HC upholds CBSE's upper age limit of 25 years for NEET
The Delhi High Court today dismissed pleas challenging the CBSE's notification laying down the upper age limit of 25 and 30 years for general and reserved categories respectively to apply for National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET)-UG, a pre-qualification for pursuing MBBS course. The high court, however, struck down a clause in the notification which bars students from open schools or those who have studied privately from appearing in the test. A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and Chander Shekhar said that the proviso to the clause of the CBSE's January 22 notification prescribing upper age limit of 25 years in case of general category candidates and 30 years in case of reserved category candidates is "legal and valid". "To this extent, the writ petitions challenging vires of proviso to clause 4 of the Regulations are dismissed," the bench said. The court also said that the proviso to a clause of the regulations disqualifying recognised open school board candidates is "struck .
IIT-Roorke ranked 4th among IITs in Times Emerging Economies University Rankings 2018
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, has been ranked 4thamong the IITs in the 2018 Times Higher Education (THE) Emerging Economies Universities Rankings, one of the world's influential university rankings. IIT-Roorkee has also been ranked 5th among all national universities/institutes, coming next only to Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Kanpur, an IIT-R press release said here. The overall ranking of IIT Roorkee has improved to 56th position from last year's 62nd, it said. Speaking about the performance of IIT Roorkee in the rankings, its Director Ajit K Chaturvedi said he was happy that the work of his colleagues and students was getting recognized globally.
JK govt to accredit schools on performance, infrastructure
The Jammu and Kashmir government is planning to accredit state-run educational institutions on the basis of their performance and available infrastructure. School Education, Haj and Auqaf and Tribal Affairs Minister Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali said the step was being taken to earmark appropriate funding for developing the requisite infrastructure for the students. "Authorities have been directed to constitute a high-level committee to assess and accredit government education institutions in the state on the basis of available infrastructure, logistics as well as their performance," he said during his visit to a school here. "The state government also contemplates to earmark the institutions according to the academic streams so that they emerge as seats of excellence in that particular stream and students get advanced learning," he said. The minister directed the authorities to ensure that bio-metric attendance of students and staff was maintained and connected to main server of the ...
JK govt removes Kathua CEO for transferring teachers despite ban
The Jammu and Kashmir government has removed and attached a chief education officer (CEO) to the Kathua DC office for allegedly transferring teachers despite a ban on such transfers, an official said today. Transfer and posting of teachers was banned by the state government through an order issued by the state education department on April 4, an official spokesman said. On the directions of the School Education Minister, the CEO was removed from his post and attached to the office of the deputy commissioner (DC) with immediate effect yesterday, he said. The charge of CEO has been assigned to the district education and planning officer, till suitable arrangements are made, he said. Taking serious note of reported transfer, posting and attachments made by the CEO in the mid-session despite a ban on such transfers, DC Rohit Khajuria yesterday inspected the CEO office, the spokesman said. The DC found that that the working of the CEO was not in conformity with procedures, he said. "All ...
Manipal ProLearn partners with Data Science Society for Datathon 2018
Manipal ProLearn, the professional learning unit of the Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE), has partnered with the Data Science Society (DSS) for Academia Datathon 2018.DSS is a not-for-profit data-driven community (based out of Sofia, Bulgaria) which aims to promote the field of quantitative research and accelerate ethical and open innovation in data science domain through better collaboration between science, education, and business.The weekend-long competition held online, was conducted during 27 - 29th April, 2018.It involved experimenting with cryptocurrency data and finding ways to hack the virtual exchange system through machine learning algorithms.The goal was to create, in less than 48 hours, an accurate prediction model of the major cryptocurrencies' prices, and layer it with an autonomous Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) for successful decision-making in investing/trading.The event's aim was to make the domain a more applied subject and more accessible by solving real ..
Indian students were largest group authorised to work in US under OPT: Pew
Indians were the largest group among the nearly 1.5 million foreign graduate students of the US colleges and universities who got authorisation to remain and work in America between 2004 and 2016, according to a study of government figures by the Pew Research Centre. Chinese students were the second largest group followed by the South Koreans. "Graduates from India made up the largest share of those authorised to work under the OPT (optional training program) programme during this period, with 441,400 (30 per cent of the total)," Pew Research Center said in a report based on the analysis of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which it obtained through a Freedom and Information Act request. More than half (around 56 per cent) of foreign graduates who participated in the OPT between 2004 and 2016 obtained their degree from a public college or university. Students from China came second at 313,500 (21 per cent), followed by South Koreans at 90,800 (six per cent). Four-in-ten (41 .
Delhi University announces admissions for 2018-19 academic session
Delhi University today announced admissions to Ph.D, M.Phil, postgraduate and undergraduate courses for 2018-19 academic session, and registration process for all categories and quotas will be online. Registration for undergraduate programmes will commence on May 15, postgraduate programmes and postgraduate diploma in cyber security and law on May 18, for Ph.D and M.Phil programmes it will commence on May 20, according to a statement issued by the varsity. Aiming to educate students and parents about the admission process, the varsity will hold 'Open Day' sessions between May 21 and May 29 (except Sunday) at Conference Centre near Gate number 4 in North Campus. "Open Days will have two sessions - 10 am to 11.30 am and 12 pm to 1.30 pm. On these days, information about registration, admission process, schedule and other related information would be provided," the statement said. After a short presentation, expert comments of panellists representing various departments of the varsity ...
DU to begin admission registration from May 15
Delhi University on Thursday announced its admission season will begin from May 15 for the various courses for 2018-19 session.
G D Birla, South Point schools reach semis of regatta
G.D. Birla "A" along with South Point High School and Ballygunge Siksha Sadan moved into the semi-finals of the senior girls division of the 46th All India Invitation School regatta rowing meet here on Thursday.
Protest outside St Stephen's College against visit of UGC team on grant of autonomous status
A section of St. Stephen's College teachers and members of the Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) staged a demonstration outside the college today to protest against a UGC team's visit over grant of autonomous status. The teachers alleged that the move would lead to self-financing courses, fee hike, "autocratic managements", "precarious service conditions of employees and decline in academic standards". "The committee set up to examine applications from colleges for grant of autonomous status visited today. The principal tried to keep many of the senior teachers away from meeting the committee today. A similar ploy was adopted for students as well as staffers," DUTA president Rajib Ray and St. Stephen's College Staff Association president Nandita Narain said in a joint statement. St. Stephen's College principal John Verghese confirmed to PTI about the visit by UGC team, but refused to comment further. Ray said a delegation of teachers, staffers and students of the college, ..