Education and Career

The Calcutta High Court Friday issued a contempt notice against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is the chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, and other officials in the incident where a class 5 student of a varsity school was asked to lick her urine as punishment for bed-wetting.

The direction was given by the bench of Chief Justice J.N. Patel and Justice Sambudha Chakraborty while hearing a public interest litigation which claimed that the Visva-Bharati, by inflicting corporal punishment, has violated the court’s earlier directive against the form of punishment.

Coaching for the entrance test of Unani Course BUMS (BUMCET) is being jointly organised by Mahboob Husain Jigar Career Guidance and Siasat daily for the past 2 months at Abid Ali Khan Eye hospital.

Hakeem Syed Ghousuddin course coordinator has told that mock test for the students who have attended coaching classes will be conducted on Tuesday, July 17, from 8 to 11 am, at Abid Ali Khan Eye hospital. All the students who are obtaining coaching from Siasat daily are advised to be on time. Further details can be had from Mr. Syed Hameeduddin convenor on phone no 9246196958.

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The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has started the admission process for three courses in visual arts with an aim to develop creative and aesthetics sensibilities of the students, an official said Thursday.

The three visual arts certificate programmes in painting, applied art and sculpture can be pursued by those who have passed their 10th standard board exam, said the varsity.

Hyderabad Zakat and Charitable Trust has announced scholarships to students who have passed UPSC (Central Civil Service) prelims. Apart from this students who have completed APPSC Group I service and are preparing for mains will also be given scholarship.

Candidates with income less than Rs 10000 can apply along with the details at feedcivilservices@gmail.com

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Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda Wednesday constituted a five-member team to hold talks with villagers protesting against the acquisition of 227 acres of land for building educational institutions on the outskirts of state capital Ranchi.

The Jharkhand High Court Tuesday directed the government to hold talks with the villagers to acquire land for three institutions – an Indian Institute of Management (IIM), an Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) and a law university – and submit a report before next hearing July 16.

Seventeen government school teachers have been found to have allegedly got their jobs using fake documents at Chilkhana in Saharanpur district.

A case of cheating has been registered against these teachers, police said.

The principal of the BTC training centre Sanjay Upadhye told reporters here today that during verification educational certificates of 17 teachers were found to be fake.

The education department is also considering dismissal of these teachers from service, he added.

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Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) has approved two Journalism courses in the Mass Communication Department of St. Joseph’s Degree and PG College, King Koti, from the 2012-13 academic year.

In a pressnote here today, College principal Dr V.K. Swamy stated that APSCHE has approved 3-year B.A. (Journalism, Psychology and English Literature) and two-year Master in Communication Journalism (MCJ). The department is already running a three-year under-graduate course BA (Mass Communication and Journalism).

Bihar will no more engage school teachers in non-teaching assignments like survey and data collection works, an official said Saturday. The decision comes after protests by thousands of teachers and experts that such tasks take a toll on the quality of teaching.

Andhra Pradesh EAMCET 2012 Results and ranks were declared on Friday (June 29, 2012) at 6 pm.

The Andhra Pradesh state council of Higher education made elaborate arrangements to help candidates check their results in a seamless manner.

Minister for Higher and Technical Education Damodar Raja Narasimha declared the results at JNTU- Architecture and Fine Arts University.

AP EAMCET Results 2012 can be checked on http://www.apeamcet.org.

EAMCET 2012 results will also be available through Automated Voice Response System (AVRS).

Aspirants aiming to study medicine in AIIMS-like institutes have reasons to cheer now as 300 more MBBS seats will be available from September this year.

The bonanza comes in the wake of the government’s decision to make the much-awaited six AIIMS-like institutes in the country operational and start MBBS admissions from September.

Schools should not teach difficult subjects like mathematics and physics to children on Thursdays because it was “the hardest day of the week”, Russia’s chief sanitary doctor has said in a recommendation.

“Children have their own bio-rhythms and Thursday is the hardest day of the week,” RIA Novosti quoted Gennady Onishchenko as telling the Ekho Moskvy radio station in an interview.

“Therefore, it is not recommended to teach difficult subjects like mathematics and physics on Thursdays because those subjects require a heavier load on the brain,” he said.

GITAM School of Architecture (GSA) is offering spot admissions in B.Arch. program on its Visakhapatnam Campus, Prof. G.V.S. Sai, Director stated in a pressnote on Thursday. GSA (AP11) is also an approved NATA Test Centre.

A minimum of 50% aggregate marks with Mathematics as a subject at Higher Secondary or equivalent (10+2) level from a recognized Central/State Board are eligible to apply for B.Arch.Program. A pass in National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) or AIEEE (B.Arch) is must. Fee waiver for top 10 AIEEE rankers is available, it added.

The compromise between the human resource development ministry and IIT Council over the entrance exam pattern for admission to the engineering institutes Wednesday garnered mixed reactions from the IIT alumni.

“Most of the concerns have been addressed which is a good thing, and I think the IITs will be able to maintain their autonomy,” IIT Faculty Federation secretary Atul Mittal told IANS.

“This is a step in the positive direction,” he added.

The human resource development ministry and IIT Council Wednesday arrived at a consensus over the entrance exam pattern for admission to the prestigious engineering institutes with an agreement on a new entrance test formula proposed by the IITs.

The agreement was reached at a meeting of the IIT Council convened in the capital to discuss the proposed common entrance test after opposition from some of the IITs. The meeting was attended by directors of all IITs.

A non-governmental organisation (NGO) Wednesday launched a mobile learning centre for slum children in Delhi. The school-on-wheels was flagged off by east Delhi Mayor Annapoorna Mishra.

Launched by NGO ‘Save the Children’, in collaboration with Aviva Life Insurance Company, the centre comes equipped with trainers, teachers and counsellors. The Mobile Learning Centre (MLC) will work with underprivileged children in slum clusters in and around east Delhi’s Subhash Nagar.

The Bihar government plans soon to bring information technology (IT) to the state’s madrassas for modern education, Minority Welfare Minister Shahid Ali Khan has said.

“It’ll help madrassa students to learn about the benefits of IT in day-to-day life,” Khan said.

He said the government would spend Rs.28 crore on the project.

Though the union government began the process of modernising madrassas in 1994, the state government introduced the process in Bihar in 2002.

The Delhi University on Monday announced its first cut-off list, amid anxiety in the Class 12 passout students who are hoping to get admissions in the prestigious University.

However, unlike last year DU colleges did not announce 100 per cent cut off percentage following much hue and cry over the issue.

The prestigious Hindu college put a ceiling of 99.25 per cent to its cut-off range.

Al-Saffah Model High School, Tadbun, is offering Inter, B. A., B.Com, English and Urdu medium from Aligarh University through distance mode for the year 2012-13.

Nafees Ahmed Ansari, Prof. and director Distance Education Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh has issued notification for 2012-13 admissions.

Chairman Al-Saffah Educational Society Sheikh Jaffer, has requested students and parents to admit their children into the prestigious university. For details call on phone no. 9848559288.

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A P State Minority Finance Corporation Hyderabad district has sanctioned Pre matric scholarship for the year 2012-13 for the minority students of I to X class studying in government, aided or private recognized schools whose parents’ annual income is below 1 lakh.

Eligible candidates can submit application online pre matric scholarship through website. Notification has been published in this regard, in major Urdu, Telugu and English dailies.

State government has issued orders to postpone DIET-CET 2012 till July 15. In a statement issued to media, convenor Surendar Reddy told this and said that the test is being postponed since the teachers are busy evaluating SSLC papers.

DIET CET 2012 was scheduled to be held on July 8, 2012.

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According to the coordinator, Institute of public Enterprise, Dr. S K Mathur, admissions are in progress in the institute in regular two year courses, i.e. PG diploma in management and international business programme.

After the completion of course dual job opportunities will be available in India.

For admissions and other details call on phone nos. 9849644860 or 939132129 or log on to www.ipeindia .org.

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As part of the Rajiv Yuva Karnalu, Mega Job Mela will be orgnaised on Thursday at Ajanta Padmanabha Swami Degree College.

Nearly 4000 jobs of various companies will be provided to the selected candidates.

Spot selection will be held in 22 companies. Besides these training will be given in 16 other companies.

IV to X class, intermediate, ITI, polytechnic, graduation and PG pass candidates aged between 18 to 30 years can attend.

Interested candidates can attend job mela along with biodata, photo copy of ration card, certificates and two passport size photographs.

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According to Chairman Hyderabad Zakat and Charitable Trust Mr. Ghyasuddin Babu Khan, such candidates who have passed APPSC preliminary exam and are preparing for mains will be given scholarships from the trust.

For details call on phone no 9866556903.

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According to Syed Nazimuddin president Aman Educational and Welfare Association, secretary APPSC invites applications for the 159 vacant posts of accounts officer category I, junior accounts officer category II and senior account category III.

There are 10 posts of accounts officer category I, 46 posts of junior accounts officer category II, 103 posts of senior accountant category III.

Candidates must posses bachelors degree and must be aged between 18 to 36 years as on July 1, 2012.

For details log on to apspsc.gov.in.

Siasat news

Giving in to the IIT faculty and alumni, the government is understood to be considering accepting some of their demands like not taking plus-two board results into account for preparing the merit list under a new common entrance system for admission to undegraduate engineering courses.

Sources in the IIT faculty said that the government is considering this proposal to break the logjam over the proposed common entrance test.

They said that the ministry is actively considering not taking board results into account only for 2013 when the new system is implemented.