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Delhi University teachers appeal to voters in Karnataka to defeat BJP

A section of Delhi University teachers today appealed to Dalit and minority voters in Karnataka to defeat the BJP in the May 12 assembly election, alleging the government led by the party at the Centre took steps to end reservations in appointments of faculties, privatise education and make the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act toothless. In a press conference, Delhi University Forum for Social Justice Convener Suraj Mandal said, "There is an atmosphere of hatred in the country and the Modi government has stopped all the means of employment, pushing the youth towards the path of religious frenzy and caste prejudice. In the garb of a court order, the Modi government on the one hand has turned the SC/ST Act toothless and disabled its spirit and on the other reservation in appointments of the faculty positions has been done away with in all the universities of the country." Delhi University teachers have been fighting against a circular of the University Grants Commission (UGC), dated

Australia's Monash College, TimesPro come together for undergrad biz programme

Australia-based Monash College and TimesPro today inked a pact to launch a programme for students planning to pursue undergraduate studies. TimesPro, part of Times Professional Learning (TPL), offers courses in various sectors, including banking, management and analytics. Under the new programme, students would study for eight months in India and rest of the course can be pursued at Monash University in Australia or Malaysia. Students admitted to Monash College International Pathways programme would be able to pursue part of their course overseas based on a grading system, according to a joint statement. Jo Mithen, board member and CEO of Monash College Pty Ltd, said it is proud to partner with TimesPro in the quest to impart quality education to Indian students. Times Professional Learning (TPL) President Anish Srikrishna said the pathway programme offers parents and students quality guidance to make their international education dreams come true.

5,000 Atal Tinkering labs to be set up by March 2019

To promote innovation among students, the NITI Aayog will set up 5,000 Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) by March 2019 covering all districts in the country, NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar said on Thursday.

UGC's visit to St. Stephen's College opposed by teachers

The Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) on Thursday protested against the UGC team's visit to St. Stephen's College to assess the latter's bid for autonomy status, calling it a violation of the law under which the university was established.

Chinese Consul General for increase in Indian students in

Chinese Consul General in Kolkata Ma Zhanwu today said the number of Indians studying in China and vice-versa still remained smaller as compared to students from other countries on study trip to China, and called for a rise in the numbers. Zhanwu was addressing the Higher Education Expo, organised by the Chinese Consulate in cooperation with the School of Chinese Language here. "Around 5.5 lakh students from China go abroad every year for study. And on the other hand, 4.5 lakh foreign students visit China every year to study in our institutions," he said. In this backdrop, 18,000 Indians study in educational institutions in China while 2,000 Chinese students study in India in a year, Zhanwu said. "So these figures of Indian and Chinese students visiting countries of each other are not enough and we need to work on it. Hope this expo will be successful in providing the right information about the education opportunities in China and lead to rise in numbers," he said. The

Bureaucrat reunites with classmate while meeting foreign team

For Maharashtra Chief Secretary D K Jain, it was a routine official meeting, till a member of the visiting Bangladeshi delegation jogged his memory: They were classmates in a Rajasthan school in the early 1970s. The chance meeting of the two school buddies, after over four decades, took place last evening at Mantralaya, the state secretariat building in south Mumbai, an official said. The meeting was part of efforts to strengthen mutual ties between the two countries, the official said. Soon after the meeting began, Altamas Kabir, editor of Dainik Sangbad, who was a part of the delegation, went up to Jain and told him that they were classmates from class 6th to 11th during 1971-76 at the Mayo Secondary School at Ajmer. Sangbad is a Bengali language daily newspaper, founded in 1951 and published from Dhaka. "Hello friend, I am Altamas Kabir. We are childhood friends. We were not only in the same school but in the same class," Kabir told Jain, a 1983-batch Indian ...

NEET: Girl student files police complaint against observer's

A girl student, who had to remove her innerwear to appear for NEET here on May 6, has filed a police complaint alleging that an external observer had stared at her 'inappropriately.' Based on her complaint, a case was registered under IPC sect 509 (eveteasing by word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and investigations have begun, police said. The student who appeared for the National Eligiblity-cum-Entrance Test conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) at the Lion's school at Koppa here, had to remove her brassieres along with some other girls as it contained metal hook before writing the test. According to the complainant, she was not comfortable writing the examination as a male external observer kept staring at her 'inappropriately.' "The invigilator came and stood before her several times. He did not look at her face.. but at her chest. she tried to cover herself with the question paper," her sister told television ...

'Teachers responsible for nation building'

The role of teachers is not only to build the character of students, but also nation building, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today. He was here to address the inaugural function of an annual teachers' conference. Stating that values are the guiding force in life, he said, "Knowledge in life is not everything. Along with knowledge, values are also needed. There are many who became terrorists after getting technical degrees." He referred to an article of author Thomas Friedman and said, "Friedman has written that there are many similarities between Infosys and Al-Qaeda. In both the organisation, educated youngsters work. The role of one of these is destructive while the other is welfare-oriented. The only difference between the two is that of values." The home minister said the role of teachers is not only to build the character of the students, but also nation building.

Entrepreneur 101: To nurture job growth, U.S. universities seed start-ups

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A decade ago, Devin Jameson might have chosen to drop out of college and work on Eversound, a wireless headset start-up for senior communities.

18 injured in chemical explosion in US school

At least 18 people were injured in an explosion during an improperly conducted science experiment at a high school in the US state of Tennessee.

Haryana govt to start 31 govt colleges for girls

Haryana government has decided to start 31 government colleges for girls from July, said Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma. The minister said this at an event here yesterday, adding that all the 31 colleges, till the time their construction is complete, would function from "vacant buildings of government schools or other organisations" starting July 2018. "Till the construction of college buildings gets completed, these colleges would run in vacant buildings of government schools or other organisations so that girls would not have to travel far places for education," Sharma said. Sharma further said that the government has been making concerted effort to promote education for girls in the state.

3 injured in clashes between 2 groups of BHU students

At least three Banaras Hindu University students were injured after two groups from the Birla and Lal Bahadur Shastri hostel clashed among each other during which stones and petrol bombs were also hurled, police said. The incident was fallout of a recent attack on a BA second year student, Ashutosh Maurya, who lives in Shastri hostel, by a group of students from the Birla hostel, with whom he had some enmity, they said. The clashes occurred shortly after midnight today, following the police force deployed in the campus was withdrawn, finding that the situation has improved, police said. The students pelted each other with stones and hurled petrol bombs, damaging vehicles and public property near their hostels in the university campus, they said. The police soon reached the campus on receiving information and had to face tough opposition from the students. The clashes could be stopped and situation was brought under control around 4 AM, police said. Vice Chancellor Rakesh Bhatnagar met

450 DU student not allowed to write exams due to short attendance

As many as 450 students of Delhi University's Law Faculty will not be allowed to write exams due to attendance shortage, according to a notice issued by the varsity. The students detained (not allowed to appear in the exam) belongs to the Law Centre 1 and Law Centre 2 (Under the Faculty of Law) studying in various terms, the notice said. On the notice, All India Students Association's Delhi University president Kawalpreet Kaur, who is also a student of Law Faculty, said, "The attendance have been given in an arbitrary manner." "In January and February very few classes took place and only in March classes took place properly. Permanent recruitment happened and many teachers were changing. There was lot of confusion. It is not right to put the blame entirely on students," she said. This is the case every year, many students get detained. This is a serious issue which the Faculty has to address, she said. The ABVP today staged a protest Campus Law Centre in front of Dean's office against

We are hopeful our demands would be met: AMU protesters

The students protesting at the Baab-e-Syed gate of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Wednesday said that they were hopeful that the local administration would meet their demands.

Haryana to start 31 colleges for girls this year

To promote higher education among girls in smaller towns and rural areas, the Haryana government will start 31 new colleges from the academic session starting July, state Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma said here on Wednesday.

9 public schools fined by Education Department

The Education Department slapped a fine of Rs one lakh on nine public schools today for allegedly running classes without affiliation, police said. Notices were issued to the management committees by education officer of Razapur block to close down their schools, Besik Shiksha Adhikari Vinay Kumar said. The notices have been served upon the management committees. Theschools were being run even after receiving notices of closure. These schools were not following the norms of right to education, Kumar said. The schools which were served the notice were Jyoti Public School, Inder Garhi, D N Public School, Mayur Vihar Dasna, Basheer Memorial Public School, Bhoor Garhi, Tushar Public School, Nangla, Ghaziabad Minority Girls School, Dasna, Ikra Public School, Nidauri, Sunrise Public School Masuta, Bright Future Academy, Dasna and Tanvi Public School, Jalalabad. PTI CORR http://ptinews.com/images/pti.jpg We bring the World to you" Disclaimer : This e-mail message may contain proprietary, ...

Guj: students can now change course to get into MBBS

In a relief for the students who fail to secure admission to MBBS in the first attempt and settle for some other course, the Gujarat government today said such students can get into the MBBS course if they get the required score in the 'second trial' of the NEET. The norms were changed to give a second chance to "bright students" who want to pursue MBBS but fail to do well in their first trial of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel said. Several students can not secure admission to the MBBS course in the first trial for various reasons, such as a death in the family or illness at the time of NEET, he said. "As a result, such bright students have to settle for other streams, such as Homoeopathy or Ayurveda," he said. As per the existing rules, such students could not switch over to another branch of medicine once getting admission after the first trial, he said. "We have decided to change this rule. Now, students admitted ...

Delhi orders two schools to roll back fee hike

The Delhi government has ordered two private schools in the city to roll back their "arbitrary" fee hike after parents complained to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, an official statement said on Wednesday.

HC dismisses PIL against probe panel set up by guv into sex scandal involving woman lecturer

The Madras High Court today dismissed a PIL challenging the appointment of a committee by Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit to inquire into the alleged attempt by a woman college teacher to lure students to extend sexual favours in return for higher marks. Justices S Govindaraj and G R Swaminathan of the Madurai Bench held that the governor has the powers as the chancellor (of state-run universities) to order such an inquiry. Dismissing a PIL seeking to declare as null and void the order of the governor appointing the committee headed by retired IAS officer R Santhanam, the bench said the court cannot interfere with the powers of the governor. Purohit had on April 16 appointed the one-man committee to look into "certain immoral" happenings surrounding an assistant professor of Aruppukottai-based Devanga Arts College, affiliated to the Madurai Kamaraj University. The decision was taken in his capacity as the chancellor of the university, he had said. After opposition parties ...

Defending champions DAV enter All India School Regatta quarters

True to expectations, champions DAV School from Chandigarh, St Xaviers Kolkata and Jatragachi Pranvananda "B" from North 24 Parganas district sailed into the knockout stages in the senior and junior boys group at the All India Invitation School Regatta at the Rabindra Sarovar here on Wednesday.