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Digital recording facilities in schools: Tenders invited
Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) has invited tenders to equip all secondary schools in the state with digital recording and video conferencing facilities as part of the ambitious Hi-Tech School programme. Under the unique programme, 45,000 classrooms in 4,775 schools are in the process of being upgraded as hi-tech. There will also be an array of 'Student Reporters' from all schools with their own web-based school televisions that will be interconnected. As part the state government's Public Education Rejuvenation Mission, KITE has begun the process for deploying video recording devices for digital content preparation at schools along with video conferencing systems, a KITE press release said. KITE has released the national tender for 4,775 numbers of multi-function printers, HD DSLR camera, HD webcam and 42-inch LED TVs, the deployment of which would be completed by June. It has already provided laptops, multimedia projectors, projector ceiling ..
MP will register gurukuls, treat them equivalent to mainstream schools: Shivraj
While speaking at the inauguration of the three-day International Virat Gurukul Sammelan in Ujjain on Saturday, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that the state will register 'gurukuls', which will be treated like mainstream schools."The state will register gurukuls and treat them equivalent to mainstream schools. Every district will promote the gurukul system and the government will help trusts to open new gurukuls," said Chouhan, during the conference.According to reports, about 900 gurukuls from India and Nepal are attending the event and planning to bring gurukul education into the mainstream.On the same day, Union Human Resource Development minister Prakash Javadekar had stated that the government is planning to revive the ancient Vedic system of education because only vedic learning can turn the upcoming generation into patriots.The minister also indicated at forming a new education policy and making a draft for the same within three months.
Education should create job providers, not job seekers: President Kovind
President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday said that education is not only a way to gain knowledge or find a job, but also plays a major role in making people self-reliant, while addressing the 27th convocation of Dr. Harisingh Gour University in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh."Universities should focus on the kind of education that creates job providers and not job seekers. He added that education must mould students' attitude and behaviour to help in nation building," he said.The President further appealed to the students to take advantage of the government schemes, which are aimed at creating better self-employment. He also conferred degrees and medals to meritorious students.The program was also attended by Madhya Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel and Union Ministers Satyapal Singh and Virendra Kumar. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan also graced the event.
Noida administration orders inquiry into RTE admissions
The Noida administration has ordered a probe into the admission process in schools after complaints were received that parents were submitting fake income certificates to get their wards admitted under the Right to Education Act. Noida District Magistrate B N Singh said he has ordered the probe which will be supervised by the city magistrate. The admission process for the new session, however, will continue, he said. He said the district administration has so far admitted 229 students in various private schools in the city but he was getting complaints that several parents have procured fake income certificates for admission of their children under the Act though they have annual income more than one lakh rupee. The DM has directed the city magistrate to send notices to parents and check the authenticity of their income certificates. He has also appealed to the public to provide information of persons having higher income whose names appears in the RTE Act beneficiaries.
Gujarat universities to have common academic calendar
The Gujarat government has decided to introduce a common academic calendar for state universities to ensure uniformity in their activities during an academic year, a Minister said on Saturday.
Gujarat University Professors deny campaigning for Congress
Nine professors of Central University of Gujarat (CUG) have denied campaigning for the Congress during last assembly elections.Their reaction has come after the university issued show cause notice to them for canvassing for the anti-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates during last assembly elections.Sony Kunjappan, President, Central University of Gujarat Teachers' Association, says that the professors are being targeted."I think we are being targeted. The university should have first sought a clarification from us before issuing show cause notice," Kunjappan said.He is among the nine professors who were served a show cause notic"Notice has been issued to us that we as teachers campaigned for a political party (Congress).We have denied this," he added.The teachers' representative told ANI that the notice has been issued reportedly on the complaint of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) but it has denied giving such a complaint.The CUG Vice-Chancellor Syed Abdul Bari ...
IIT Kharagpur to launch courses to bridge Engineering, Medicine
The School of Medical Science and Technology at IIT Kharagpur on Saturday said it will launch new academic programmes from the upcoming academic session, spanning the realms of biology, medicine and engineering.
Rising dominance of girls a good social change: President
President Ram Nath Kovind today hailed the rising dominance of daughters in the country as a positive social change. He was addressing the 27th convocation of the Dr Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya here. "The dominance of daughters in the country has started rising. This is a good social change. It is now becoming the order of the day. It will brighten the country's future," he said. "Due to this social change, people have started saying in jest that the reservation being provided to women for their empowerment would prove to be pointless in the times to come, and now boys might start demanding quota for themselves," the president said. "Out of the 53 students who were given medals today, the number of girls was more than the boys. A total of 32 girls got medals. Also out of 11 students who were given degrees (on stage), 10 were girl students," he said. On education, Kovind said it was not merely a mechanism to gain knowledge and employment, but a tool to make people self-reliant ..
Gujarat university professors get notice for Cong campaigning
Nine professors of the Central University of Gujarat (CUG) have been issued show cause notices for allegedly campaigning for the Congress during the recently held Gujarat Assembly polls. CUG Vice Chancellor S A Bari today said a professor, an associate professor and seven assistant professors were asked for an explanation on complaints received by the Union HRD ministry and the state education department. He said the notices were issued on the basis of a complaint received by the Chief Electoral Officer of Gujarat which alleged that the teachers were involved in campaigning for a particular party and its candidates. "Some of our teachers appear in the photographs that have been enclosed with the complaint as evidence and their names have been written in the letters. We have asked the teachers if the allegations are true or not," said Bari. The complaint was reportedly filed by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the students' wing of the RSS, on November 17 last year. An ...
SAD claims chapters on Sikh gurus 'expunged' from Class 12 history books, Punjab govt refutes
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in Punjab today claimed that chapters on Sikh Gurus have been "expunged" from Class 12 history books of the state education board, but Chief Minister Amarinder Singh dismissed as "malicious" the opposition party's allegation. SAD spokesman and former education minister Daljit Singh Cheema demanded a high-level probe and stern action against the alleged development in the Punjab School Education Board's Class 12 history books. "It is shocking that the state's own school board has expunged the history makers of Punjab from the history books of Punjab," said Cheema in a statement. There were 23 chapters carrying information about Sikh Gurus, Sikh warriors and historical facts about Punjab in the Class 12 history book, the SAD leader said, claiming the content has been replaced with a half-page description about the glorious period of the Sikh history. Lambasting SAD leaders for trying to spread "misinformation" on a sensitive religious issue, Chief Minister .
Class 10, 12 exam results will be declared on time: TN Edu Min
The results of class 10 and 12 board exams will be declared as per schedule and on time, Tamil Nadu School Education Minister K A Sengottaiyan said here today. There would not be any delay in announcement of the results, which would be received by students through SMS in seconds, Sengottaiayan told reporters on the sidelines of an awareness programme on online counseling for engineering 2018, here. To a query on the possibility of return of sidelined leader TTV Dhinakaran to AIADMK, Municipal Administration Minister S P Velumani, who was present, said that will be decided by Chief Minister K Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister,O Panneerselvam, who are also joint coordinator and coordinator of the party, respectively.
CM Mufti inaugurates new building complexes at Cluster University in Jammu
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today inaugurated multiple building complexes at the Cluster University here, hoping the infrastructure development would give academic activities at the varsity a new push. The state government had carved out two cluster universities, one each at Srinagar and Jammu, in 2016 to further strengthen the higher education. Mufti inaugurated two buildings of school of sciences, school of teacher education, school of humanities and liberal arts and school of engineering. An official spokesman said the chief minister, who is also the Chancellor of the University, hoped that the new complexes would give the academic activities at the varsity a new push. The spokesman said since its inception, the university, besides the routine academic activities, is running eight integrated honours courses while four more will be introduced this year. Among these, the two are being offered for the first time by any university in the state, he said. Earlier, ...
Entrepreneurship Development Clubs in Haryana universities, colleges: Govt
The Haryana government has decided to set up dedicated clubs in all universities and colleges in the state to inculcate 'entrepreneurial culture' among youth. The setting up of Entrepreneurship Development Clubs (EDCs) is aimed at equipping the youth with skills to act as "job creators instead of being job seekers" in future, the Haryana Higher Education department said today. Education minister Ram Bilas Sharma said the EDCs would be set up within the existing placement centres in all the higher educational institutions in the state, according to an official statement. "This would be a part of the department's drive to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in the state. These clubs would also facilitate campus-industry linkage on the higher education institutes of the state," he said. Sharma said that the vision to set up EDCs would be to develop in-house institutional mechanisms in the higher education institutes to create entrepreneurial culture among the stakeholders and ...
No change in academic session in Kashmir schools this year
The Jammu and Kashmir government today decided to continue with the existing system for conduct of examinations in November session for the current academic year in schools in the Valley. The education department had initiated a proposal for change of academic session from November to March on the demand of parents and the students. "The School Education Department has decided to continue with the existing system for conduct of examinations in November session for the current academic year," a notification issued by Director School Education Kashmir, G N Itoo stated. Itoo said a decision, if any, on shifting the examinations to the March session shall be taken in due course of time after thorough deliberations with the stakeholders, general public and the educational experts. "To take a considered view of the issue, an expert committee headed by Chairperson J K BOSE was constituted by the government with Directors of School Education Jammu/Kashmir and experts from University of ...
Gujarat University Professors deny attending Rahul Gandhi programme
Nine professors of Central University of Gujarat (CUG) have denied attending Congress President Rahul Gandhi's programme.Their reaction has come after the university issued show cause notice to them for canvassing for the anti-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates during last assembly elections.Sony Kunjappan, President, Central University of Gujarat Teachers' Association, says that the professors are being targeted."I think we are being targeted. The university should have first sought a clarification from us before issuing show cause notice," Kunjappan said.He is among the nine professors who were served a show cause notice."The notice has been issued to us that we as teachers participated and campaigned for a political party (Congress).We have denied this," he added.The teachers' representative told ANI that the notice has been issued reportedly on the complaint of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) but it has denied giving such a complaint.The CUG Vice-Chancellor Syed
TN CM announces solatium for deceased students' families
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Saturday conveyed his condolences to the families of three city school students who died in a dam near Pune and announced a solatium of Rs 100,000 to each bereaved family.
SMST of IIT KGP to launch new programmes
The School of Medical Science and Technology of IIT Kharagpur will launch new programmes from the upcoming academic session, a statement issued by the institute said today. The objective is to simultaneously train students and researchers on engineering and medical science, the statement said. The new courses will also include a 2-year M Tech in Biomedical Engineering. The school already runs a 3-year Masters in Medical Science and Technology, a unique programme of its kind with MBBS doctors being admitted in the domain of medical technology. There will also be a joint MSc-PhD programme with the Tata Medical Center, Kolkata from the coming academic session in the areas of molecular medical microbiology, nuclear medicine and medical physics. The head of the School of Medical Science and Technology, IIT Kharagpur, Prof Suman Chakraborty said, "These programmes would bridge the gap among medicine, biological sciences and engineering with a road map to develop world-class .
Rs 1 lakh ex-gratia announced for kin of drowned TN students
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Saturday announced Rs one lakh each for the families of three students who drowned in Mulshi dam near Pune.The trio, who was part of an excursion group of 20 students from ECS matriculation school, Chennai, drowned when they tried to swim in Mulshi dam.In an official release, the Chief Minister expressed his condolences to the families of the deceased students."I immediately ordered a relief of Rs 1 lakh for each of the families from the Chief Minister's relief fund," he said.The students, identified as Danish Raja, Sarvana Kumar and Santosh Ganesh, were all 14 years of age.
CM announces solatium to kin of city students killed in
The Tamil Nadu government today announced a relief of Rs three lakh to the families of three students from the city who drowned in a Pune dam recently. Chief Minister K Palaniswami condoled the death of S Saravanakumar, K Danish Raja and G Santhosh, who drowned in the Mulshi dam located around 50 km from Pune early this week. The three were part of a group of 20 students of Chennai's ECS Matriculation school who were visiting the dam along with their teachers on April 25. The incident occurred after all students entered the backwaters for swimming. While the body of Raja was fished out by the local police with the help of villagers, those of the two others were retrieved by a team of 26 personnel from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). Today, Palaniswami said he has directed providing a relief of Rs one lakh each to the families of the deceased boys, all aged 14. The amount will be given from the Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund, he said in a statement. He ...
School transportation: Safety first (Comment)
When a child goes to the school, one of the most crucial things that parents are concerned about is their security, be it in the school premises or while commuting. Even for a school, providing secure transportation is of utmost importance. Managing large transportation fleets is not possible for any school and therefore hiring external agencies becomes imperative.
