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NEET to be conducted in 150 cities this year: Javadekar
The government has increased the number of cities where the NEET examination would be conducted this year, from 107 to 150, to make it easier for the students to reach the venues, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said today. "Forty-three new centres granted for #NEET2018 exam. For the first time NEET exam would be conducted in 150 cities. In 2017 NEET exam was conducted in 107 cities," he tweeted. "All the cities from where 4,000 and more candidates have applied and which were not the centres in 2017 have been added as centre cities for #NEET2018 exam," the minister said. New centres have been set up in Andhra Pradesh (5), Assam (2), Gujarat (3), Maharashtra (6), Odisha (4), Tamil Nadu (2), Kerala (5), Telangana (2), West Bengal (3), Uttar Pradesh (3) and one new centre each in Chhattisgarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Karnataka and Uttarakhand. This year, NEET will be held on May 6. Online application process began on February 8, and March .
Schools under RTE to prevail over commercial complex, parking: HC
The Delhi High Court today said that construction of schools under the Right to Education (RTE) would prevail over building parking or commercial complexes. Directing maintenance of status quo on 2,400 square metre of land allotted for public utilities in the national capital, the high court asked the authorities to consider if the piece of land could be given to build a minority school, which has been functioning from tents after it was demolished during the Emergency over four decades ago. Observing that children needed schools to get education, a bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar said the piece of land, which the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has allotted for making parking and commercial complex, would not be used for the purpose till further orders. The high court, which had earlier asked Delhi government and the authorities concerned to explore the possibility of allotting land for the minority school which was functioning from ..
HC allows sale of non-NCERT books, uniform in CBSE schools
The Delhi High Court today quashed a CBSE circular and allowed the sale of non-NCERT books and uniforms at the tuck shops set up at affiliated schools across the country, holding that the sale of such items does not amount to "commercialisation" of education. It said the availability of books, both NCERT and non NCERT, stationery items and uniform in the school premises would only add to the convenience of the parents and the students. A single judge bench of Justice Rekha Palli quashed a circular dated April 19, 2017 issued by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) advising the schools not to indulge in any commercial activity by way of selling of books, stationery, uniforms and school bags within the premises and to adhere to the provisions of affiliation bye-laws of the Board. The schools were also directed by the CBSE to desist from the unhealthy practice of coercing the parents to purchase books/uniform from shops within the school premises or from selected vendors ...
TISS students call for financial autonomy
The Student Action Committee of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad, on Tuesday drafted a 'Charter of Demands' for the authorities of the institute, calling for financial autonomy, better infrastructure and accountability on part of the authorities among other demands.Students began protest after the scholarships for students from marginalised communities were revoked, without informing the said students, requiring them to clear dues which otherwise would have been pardoned.In the light of this issue, the students demanded an independent authority to be set up in the campus that will be accountable for all the scholarship matters of students of TISS Hyderabad.Lack of infrastructural facilities was also emphasised upon by the charter."The administration, for considerable time now, has made repeated assurances regarding the status of a unified campus to the students of Hyderabad. These assurances have clearly not been backed by appropriate action, nor has there ...
Students protest against metro fare hike
A group of Delhi University students were detained when they were marching towards Rashtrapati Bhavan today to press for rollback of metro fare hike. The protesting students, who were bundled up in a bus by police, snapped the wires of the vehicle's doors and forced it to stop before staging another demonstration on the road. Delhi University's All India Students Association(AISA) had called for a protest march today from Central Secretariat Metro Station to Rashtrapati Bhavan at 1.30 pm demanding rollback of metro fare hike along with a slew of others. Delhi Police, however, detained over 40 students and took them in a bus from Gate 3 of Central Secretariat Metro Station. The students cut the wires of automatic doors and forcibly stopped the bus near Chelmsford Club. They got down from it and continued their protest demanding rollback of metro fare hike, a demand they have been raising for over two months now. AISA Delhi vice-president Madhurima Kundu alleged molestation by an ...
Publishers body welcomes HC order lifting non-NCERT book ban
The Association of Publishers in India (API) on Tuesday welcomed the Delhi High Court order which stipulated that sale of non-NCERT books must not be disallowed in CBSE-affiliated schools, calling the practice "discriminatory".
iChamp launches interactive maths testing App, raises seed funding
The revolution in education is here with the launch of iChamp - The Maths Learning and Testing App. iChamp, short for "India Champ", is an interactive mobile application for kids of Classes 1-8 to test and practice their mathematics skill.The online testing app provides a platform to students to compete with friends and students across India through a gamified testing platform.iChamp is the brainchild of RNM E-Services, founded by Mohit Bansal, Serial Entrepreneur, IIM-A Alumnus and Ex-Director VidyaMandir Classes. Mohit brings on board his experience in the test prep business with this revolutionary ed-tech app that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to adjust to various skills and modules.Bansal announced the launch of iChamp on the Google Play store with more than 2500 active users within weeks of its launch. iChamp has been seed funded to the tune of Rs 5 Million by friends and family.iChamp is a Free learning app, that allows students to Take LIVE Tests, against ...
Would've run into Florida school shooting even without weapon: Trump
US President Donald Trump today said he would have run into Florida school to save the students from a gunman even without a weapon. "You know, I really believe -- you don't know until you test it -- but I really believe I'd run in there, even if I didn't had a weapon. I think most of the people in this room would have done that, too, because I know most of you. But the way they performed was really a disgrace," he said during a meeting with governors from across the country at the White House. He was criticising an armed sheriffs deputy who did not confront the shooter at the school early this month who killed 17 people, mostly students. "We have to take steps to harden our schools so that they are less vulnerable to attack. This includes allowing well-trained and certified school personnel to carry concealed firearms. At some point, you need volume. I don't know that a school is going to be able to hire a hundred security guards that are armed," he said. Ridiculing deputy ...
TISS students and alumni protest near HRD ministry
The Tata Institute of Social Sciences students and alumni today staged a demonstration near the Human Resource Development Ministry against the withdrawal of scholarships for SC and ST scholars. The students of all the campuses of the institute have been protesting since February 21 against the administration demanding tuition, dining hall and hostel fees for scholarship students. They have been protesting against the withdrawal of financial aid given to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) scholars. Over 30 students along with their counterparts in Delhi colleges and universities today demanded not to burden the students through fee hike and fund cuts. One of the almnus, who requested anonymity, said the fees per semester had surged over 100 per cent in just two years and the students were forced to become indebted to the banks through loans. "We appeal to you to immediately roll back withdrawal of Centre's Post Matric Scholarship (GOI-PMS) in TISS and reinstate all ...
MEA to set up India corner in educational institutes abroad
The external affairs ministry is planning to set up "India corners" at educational institutes abroad that will provide reference material about India to students, the ministry's spokesperson said today. "We are soon setting up India corners in educational institutes abroad. We are in the process of identifying libraries in the institutes abroad where this can be set up. The India corner will comprise a set of books on different aspects of India which we will be presented to that library and it will be displayed there," MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said while responding to questions #Askthespokesperson series. He said that the idea behind this initiative is to provide the students good reference material to know more about India. Several questions were posed to Kumar by people through Twitter on a wide range of topics from India's policy towards Maldives and Pakistan to his job as the MEA spokesperson. Questions were also asked about how a Memorandum Of Understanding is signed ...
Students disrupt train services on Sealdah-Barrackpore route
Train services were disrupted in the Sealdah-Barrackpore section on Monday for two-and-a-half hours as students protested the fee hike for railway recruitment examinations, a senior Eastern Railway official said.
J-K govt asks Jammu University to immediately start UIET classes
The Jammu and Kashmir government today asked the Jammu University to immediately start the classes for the students of University Institute of Engineering Technology (UIET) at the varsity campus to avoid any loss of their studies. Yesterday, the government gave go-ahead to the university to start its own engineering college and Rs 2.50 crore were provided to it as an initial grant. While chairing a meeting, Education Minister Altaf Bukhari said, "There will be no compromise on the career of the students and I will personally oversee the functioning of UIET. The UIET would continue to function at the Jammu University campus as a constituent college of the varsity and the class work should be resumed immediately purely in the interest of academic career of the students for the current session, the meeting decided. The minister asked the Jammu University to hire a building in future to meet the accommodation needs till the permanent building is established. However, it was resolved that .
School director remanded in police custody
A court here today remanded to police custody Peace International school Director M M Akbar, arrested in connection with a case of allegedly spreading animosity among religious communities. Akbar was detained by intelligence bureau officials when he arrived at Hyderabad airport yesterday for onward journeyabroad and was handed over to Kerala police, sources said, adding, there was a lookout notice issued against him. He was brought to Kochi last night and was today produced before the First Class Judicial Magistrate court which remanded him to police custody till March 3. The case against him was that the school run by the organisation used textbooks with contents that went against the country's secular fabric. The state government had in January ordered the closure of the school at Kochi. The government order for the school's closure under the Right to Education Act, had said it was highly necessary to stop the operation of such institutions "to prevent the Muslims from joining IS ...
Najeeb case: JNU students protest at CBI headquarters
A day before the Najeeb Ahmed case is to be heard in court, students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and other universities demonstrated outside the CBI headquarters here on Monday demanding answers about the scholar's disappearance.
Dabur launches WASH initiative for school children
FMCG major Dabur India Ltd today expanded its Community Development agenda in Assam with the launch of WASH (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene) awareness initiative targeting school children in Tezpur. As part of the initiative, a camp was organized at two government primary schools to raise awareness about clean drinking water, proper sanitation and hygiene in households and schools, Dabur head of Corporate Social Responsibility A Sudhakar said. Special training sessions were also organized at both the schools for parents of children studying in these schools, its teachers and School Management Committee members to bring about a behavioural change and promote hygiene. "We believe that access to safe and hygienic sanitation is a basic human right, and dissemination of knowledge about best hygiene and sanitation practices is equally important, particularly among school going children," Sudhakar said told reporters. Dustbins will be distributed in rural schools and children
Cong MP conducts surprise inspection at govt college
Congress MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla today conducted a surprise inspection of a government college at Ajnala town here. The college is one of its kind in border area of Amritsar, but it was learnt that the college was not delivering good results, said Aujla, adding that he personally visited the college in order to get the first hand information. The college was established in 1974 and awarded with a Grade 'B' institution in 2016 by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council. A total of 285 students are pursuing B.A, B.Com., BCA, PGDCA for which 39 teaching/non-teaching posts were approved but 21 are still vacant, the MP said. Even the post of principal is vacant along with 12 posts of professors/assistant professors out of 14 total posts. 12 posts of non-teaching/class 4 out of 24 posts are vacant. Aujla further said that other than filling the vacant posts, the college infrastructure also needs to be revamped. "The entire campus needs renovations, repairs and installation of ...
'NCERT syllabus to be reduced in 2-3 years'
The government is going to reduce the syllabus of NCERT textbooks in the coming two to three years, Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar announced on Monday.
HRD to seek suggestions for NCERT curriculum to reduce burden on students
The HRD Ministry has decided to seek suggestions from various stakeholders on which portions of the NCERT curriculum can be done away with to reduce the burden on students as the current syllabus was only making them examination driven, minister Prakash Javadekar said today. The reduction of syllabus to up to half will be done in the next two to three years and the curriculum will be revamped to include physical education, value education and life skills education, the Union Human Resource Development Minister said here. "We have asked NCERT to evaluate the present curriculum and decide what can be done away with and what can be retained. "The Ministry will put out this week on its website the request for suggestions from teachers, parents, educational experts, students and all concerned stakeholders in the field of education on reducing the syllabus," Javadekar told reporters. The minister said that after two months he will review the suggestions and take definite measures to reduce
ESS Global and Rising Phoenix International sign MoU
Leading consultancy firm catering to students wishing to study abroad, ESS Global, on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Rising Phoenix International, a Canada based one-stop platform dedicated to improving the quality of educational experiences for students and institutions.Earlier last week, when Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had visited India, he had said that Canada should become the number one destination for Indian students wanting to study abroad. With this deal, ESS Global will become one of Rising Phoenix International's premier partners to help launch their operations in India.The MoU between the parties was signed at the Indian Business Forum on February 20 2018, organised by the Indo-Canadian Business Chambers."We are excited about working with ESS Global. Their extensive reach in India and in other markets and their operating philosophy are a perfect complement to our student-centered focus. Our Canadian institutional partners are looking ...
Indian & international institutions to showcase their courses through Education Worldwide India Fairs in India & Nepal in April & May 2018
GEEPL (Global Events and Expositions Private Limited) proudly announces the newest and the biggest edition of their prestigious flagship event Education Worldwide India Fair - Spring 2018 Series.GEEPL has in the last 15 years organized 236 successful Education Worldwide India Fairs and has maintained its leading positioning in the Education Fair industry.The upcoming edition of the show, Education Worldwide India (EWWI) - Spring Series 2018 will be held from 6th April 2018 to 6th May 2018 which would cover 10 cities of India and Nepal.The registration is open for the students on the website (http://www.eduworldwideindia.com).EWWI is a platform that enables both education fraternity (national and international) and students seeking advice and consultancy for a selection of the right university.It provides the industry a world view on study in India, study in abroad, global curriculum, teaching pedagogy, new systems and forecasting the trends in the future of education, both from ...