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Scaling new heights: 10 Maha tribal students to start their Everest trek tomorrow
Come tomorrow and ten tribal students from Maharashtra will embark on a challenging journey to scale the world's highest peak -- Mount Everest. The students, who are in the age group of 17-21 years, are all packed to leave for Kathmandu and start the expedition to live their mountainous dream. These students belong to different ashram schools (residential schools for tribal children) in Chandrapur district in Vidarbha region and the expedition is a part of "Mission Shaurya" undertaken by the Tribal Development Ministry of Maharashtra, an official statement said. The exercise is being carried out by the Integrated Tribal Welfare Project and the Chandrapur district administration. The ten students, identified as Manisha Dhurve, Pramesh Aale, Umakant Madvi, Akash Madvi, Akash Atram, Shubham Pendor, Kavidas Katmode, Vikas Soyam, Indu Kannake and Chayya Atram, come from ashram schools in Borda, Devda and Jeevti -- all remote tribal blocks in Chandrapur. The preparation for the project ...
Rajasthan school gets Railway themed classrooms
Keeping up to its name, Alwar's Government Senior Secondary School, Railway Station, has renovated its classrooms like a railway station.The train which is called - 'Education Express' has classrooms painted like passenger compartments.Principal of school Purushottam Gupta said that they have transformed the school into train to increase the number of students as most of the students opt for private institutions due to lack of facilities in government schools.The principal's office looks like an engine and the veranda is transformed into a platform where students can play."The students are always fascinated with the idea of travelling in a train. Government school buildings are often considered boring, leading to lack of interest in kids. That is why we thought of renovating our school into a colourful train like the exterior," Gupta told ANI.The person, who was behind this idea, was a junior engineer of the district Rajesh Lawania."We wanted to give students a unique factor about ...
Nursery student thrashed for not paying fees, 3 arrested
Three people were arrested on Monday after a nursery student in Meerpet town of Telangana was allegedly thrashed by his school teacher for a delay in payment of fees.The parents of the four-year-old boy studying in Krishnaveni Talent School are demanding justice following this incident."A case has been registered. The teacher, principal and director are arrested. They'll be produced before the court. We've intimated this to the education department," SHO Meerpet, A. Manmohan said.A case was registered against the accused under sections 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 506 (Punishment for criminal intimidation) of Indian Penal Code and also under section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act.Manmohan further said, "On Monday night we have received a complaint from the parents of a four-year-old boy stating that their son was thrashed with a stick by school teacher, Swaroopa, for not paying fees.
March to promote scientific temper among people
Top scientists and academicians of Bengal will join the rest of the country in organizing 'March for Science' rally here on April 14 to promote scientific temper among people. The Kolkata Organizing committee and the Breakthrough Science Society, two non-government organisations, will host the second edition of the rally in the city. On April 22 last year, more than a million scientists, technologists, teachers and students took part in the rally in over 600 cities across the world. "The March for Science champions robustly funded and publicly communicated science as a pillar of human freedom and prosperity," a statement from the organisers said here today. The signatories to the statement included former vice chancellor of Calcutta University Asutosh Ghosh, former professor of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics Bikash K Chakrabarti, faculty member of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Soumitro Banerjee and Jadavpur University professor Samaresh ...
Flat math and reading results in national report card
The results of the latest Nation's Report Card are in and the news isn't good. Fourth-graders made no improvements in math or reading, while eighth-graders' scores were flat in math and only slightly improved in reading, according to results released today on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Overall, only roughly a third of American eighth-graders are proficient in reading and math along with about 40 per cent of fourth-graders. The figures are in line with recent trends. Students made big gains in the 1990s and early 2000s, but there have been no major improvements since then. The results show that racial disparities persist. African-American students were out-performed by their white peers at both grade levels. "There is still much work to be done to close achievement gaps and ensure that our young people are ready for success in college, careers and life," said Carissa Miller, executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers. "It is clear we as a ...
Pearson India launches a Series of Preparatory Books for JEE-Foundation
Pearson India, the world's learning company, launched the "Pearson IIT Foundation Series" which continues to be a source of comprehensive and reliable content for competitive preparations.This series includes course book and practice books for Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics from class 6th to 10th. Starting with class 6th Science and Mathematics course books, this foundation course gets divided into separate books on Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics for class 7th to 10th, where the contents and theories are gradually moving from simpler to complex levels. The structure of the content is designed in such a manner that it motivates students to go beyond the usual school curriculum and act as a source of higher learning to strengthen the fundamental concepts.Key highlights of the bookKey concepts explained in a student-friendly mannerSolved examples presented in a logical and step-wise manner after every conceptApplication based problems, graded by difficulty, for conceptual ...
Lead life of integrity, Titan MD Bhat to students at TAPMI
People who put institution ahead of themselves have always progressed faster than the ones who put themselves ahead, Titan company limited Managing Director Bhaskar Bhat has said. "Always live your life as a responsible citizen, be self aware and lead a life of integrity," Bhat said in his address at the 32nd Annual Convocation of the T.A. Pai Management Institute here yesterday. The convocation saw over 450 students from the three PG Diploma streams: Post Graduate Diploma in Management, PGDM in Banking and Financial Service and PGDM in Healthcare Management graduating. Prof. Madhu Veeraraghavan, Director of TAPMI, told the graduating students, "for all of you, the next 3-5 years is crucial. Because that is when you face numerous challenges and go through self discovery." TAPMI reported 100 per cent placement for the 30th consecutive time where many students from PGDM (Healthcare), PGDM (BKFS) and PGDM (General) had global offers in hand before graduating, according to .
Gorakhpur's Madrasa teaches Sanskrit, among other subjects
In a display of communal harmony, students at a Madrasa here are learning Sanskrit in addition to Hindi, English, and Urdu.Students of Gorakhpur's Darul Uloom Husainia Madrasa said they have enjoyed learning the subject so far, and are being taught well by their teachers and students."We feel good to learn Sanskrit. Our teachers teach and explain things very well. Even our parents help us in learning," a student told ANI.Meanwhile, the principal of the Madrasa, Hafiz Nazre Alam, noted that being a modern establishment under the Uttar Pradesh Education Board, languages like Arabic are being taught as well."Subjects like English, Hindi, Science, Maths, Urdu and Arabic are taught here. Sanskrit is now being taught to all students above Class 5. The parents of the students are also very happy and have never raised any objection to this," he added.Education in Madrasas has been modernised in the recent past for the benefit of those studying there.In October last year, Uttar Pradesh Deputy .
The impossible challenge of reforming Kerala's higher education (Book Review)
Title: Education of an Ambassador: Reflections on Higher Education Reform in Kerala; Author: T.P. Sreenivasan; Publisher: Konark Publishers Pvt Ltd; Pages; 248; Price: Rs 800
Jharkhand govt to give jobs to one lakh skilled youths
Jharkhand government will be providing employment to one lakh youths through skill development this year focusing on the six most backward districts of the state, Chief Minister Raghubar Das has said. Human resource is the most valuable asset and the state government is investing on scaling up the talents of youths for a better tomorrow, an official release said quoting the chief minister. By training the youths and giving employment to them, there will be qualitative changes in their lifestyle and it will bring prosperity to Jharkhand, he said. Das directed senior officials of the Jharkhand Skill Development Mission Society (JSDMS) at a meeting here yesterday to set up the skill development centres in the backward districts and start the curriculum at the earliest. The chief minister also asked the officers to ensure placements of students from ITIs, polytechnics and engineering colleges. Subsidy in fees would be given to the students doing courses in private ITIs, ...
'UP govt has chalked out roadmap to implement scheme on aspirational districts'
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today said his government had chalked out a roadmap to implement the Transformation of Aspirational Districts programme. Speaking at the Yojana Bhawan here today, Adityanath said, "For the success of the programme, all the persons concerned have to work with a positive frame of mind. With public co-operation, the targets of the programme can be achieved and for this, there is no paucity of resources." He added that of the 115 such aspirational districts in the country, eight were from Uttar Pradesh -- Balrampur, Bahraich, Shrawasti, Siddharthnagar, Sonbhadra, Chandauli, Fatehpur and Chitrakoot. "After deliberating with the Niti Aayog, 49 indicators have been finalised to measure the progress of the districts. These include health, nutrition, education, agriculture, water resources, financial inclusion and skill development," Adityanath said. Speaking on the occasion, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said, "Uttar Pradesh is the most ...
JNUSU to protest at one particular spot to avoid disruptions caused to students
Days after a JNU student approached the Delhi high court flagging his inability to attend classes due to continuous protests, the students' union, in an emergency council meeting today, decided to demonstrate at a particular spot on the campus instead of at multiple locations. "After due deliberations, the union calls for a protest at the Freedom Square next week. Taking into consideration the concerns of the students as expressed to the JNUSU, there is a need to reassess the present mode of agitation," one of the resolutions unanimously passed during the meeting said, and added that the union hence decided to hold protests at one spot inside the JNU premises. Ever since the administration made 75 per cent attendance compulsory to all students, students community have been holding various forms of protests on campus to register their protest against the move. The students even allegedly locked down the schools and centres. Three days back, a final year PhD student had approached the ..
DUTA holds candlelight march against UGC move
The Delhi University Teachers' Association today took out a candlelight march outside the University Grants Commission (UGC) headquarters at ITO in protest against a March 5 UGC/MHRD circular instructing colleges and universities to make department-wise roster instead of the current system where the University/college is taken as a unit. The teachers raised slogans demanding that the circular be withdrawn. According to the circular issued by the UGC, all the universities, colleges and other grant-in-aid institutions and centres should prepare roster system keeping the Department / Subject as a unit for all levels of teachers as applicable. The circular also said that the department-wise roster should be applied to the total number of posts in each of the categories - Professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor -- within the Department/Subject. "There is unanimous agreement among teachers across the country that if the roster is made department-wise, and not taking college .
Abu Dhabi University launches its first 'happiness course'
Abu Dhabi, April 9 (IANS/WAM) Abu Dhabi University has launched a happiness course as part of its Public Health programme's core requirements across campuses in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain.
Plea in HC against CBSE decision not to hold Class 10 maths retest
The Delhi High Court today said it would hear a plea tomorrow challenging the CBSE's decision not to hold a re-examination for the Class 10 mathematics paper, the contents of which were leaked recently. The plea was mentioned before a bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar which listed it for a hearing tomorrow. The CBSE had on April 3 decided not to conduct the retest in Delhi-NCR and Haryana, the two regions where the leak reportedly took place. A day before the decision of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the high court had asked the board to inform it by April 16 about its plans, if any, for a re-examination. The CBSE told the court it was ascertaining the extent of the leak before announcing the date for a fresh test. The court had sought a response from the CBSE and the Centre on a plea for a court-monitored probe into the leaks of two papers -- Maths for Class 10 and Economics for Class 12. The CBSE has already announced that the Class 12 .
FSSAI launches initiative to address Vitamin D deficiency
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Monday launched 'Project Dhoop', an initiative aimed at shifting the school assembly time to noon to ensure maximum absorption of Vitamin D in students through natural sunlight.
JNU attendance stir: Classes on staircases upsets HC
The Delhi High Court today termed as "unfortunate and sad" the holding of classes in JNU on its staircases amid an agitation against a decision to make at least 75 percent attendance a must for all the students. Ruing the joint stir by the students and the teachers, the court said the manner in which the students, keen to attend classes, are being stopped is "very unfortunate." Observing that this is not the way a university functions, a bench of Justice Rekha Palli asked the counsel for several JNU teachers to look into the issue and ask the students and faculty members not to block the way to class rooms. "The manner in which students are being stopped is very unfortunate. This is not the way in which a university functions. Out of 8,000 students, 5,000 are not being allowed to enter. Its disturbing me," the judge said. The court said the mode of protest was wrong as other students were approaching the court and saying they wanted to attend classes but were not being allowed to do ..
Need to keep education away from Kashmir unrest: CPI(M)
The leadership of Jammu and Kashmir cutting across political ideologies needs to come together to ensure that students' education remains unaffected in the prevailing unrest in Kashmir, the CPI(M) said today. The appeal by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) comes even as Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi to apprised him of the overall situation in J and K, stressing the need to end the cycle of violence by addressing alienation among the youth. CPI(M) leader and MLA M Y Tarigami said, "We have a short academic session in Kashmir already which is further shrunk by public holidays, strike calls and curfews." Combining the number of shutdown calls, curfews, public holidays, winter and summer vacations, educational institutions in Kashmir remain open for less than 150 days, he said. "Education remains an indispensable social institution and remains to be a single most potent tool of development around the globe," Tarigami said, ...
HC admits student's plea seeking evaluation of answer-sheet based on question paper she got
The Kerala High Court today admitted a writ petition filed by a Class 10 CBSE student, who submitted that she was given a 2016 question paper for the recently held mathematics examination and urged that her answer-sheet be assessed based on the same. The student, Ameeya Saleem, submitted to the court that the question paper she had received for the mathematics examination was from 2016. The principal of her school, the Mount Carmel Vidyanikethan Senior Secondary School in Kanjikkuzhy, Kottayam, had already complained to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) regarding the mismatch of the mathematics question paper given to her on March 28. Admitting Ameeya's plea, Justice Shaji P Chaly observed that the pendency of the case would not be a bar for the CBSE to conduct a re-test for the petitioner alone. The case will be considered after the summer vacation of the court. In her complaint to the Regional Officer, CBSE, Thiruvananthapuram, the principal had stated that the student
No change in scholarship form: JNU administration
Countering the accusation of linking fellowship with the mess dues, the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Monday said that the clause which says pending mess dues will be deducted from the fellowship/scholarship amount is not new and that no new change has been made in the fellowship form.