Education and Career

New Delhi, March 24: The grant of minority status to Jamia Millia Islamia University by the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI) on Wednesday came under the scanner of the Delhi High Court which has sought responses from the Centre and others on a PIL.

“Issue notice to Human Resources Development Ministry, the Ministry of Minority Affairs …. for February 22, a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna said.

Aligarh, March 23: All important activities in the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), including admissions and examinations, remained paralyzed Tuesday on account of the forced locking of the central offices by the students’ union a day earlier.

Vice Chancellor (VC) P.K. Abdul Azis constituted a committee to talk to the students’ union, which locked the administrative block and registrar’s office. But president of the union A.A. Farooqui rejected the offer.

Kolkata, March 22: Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi today said that central and other paramilitary forces would not be allowed to camp inside schools where booths would be set up for the upcoming polls in West Bengal.

“The central and other paramilitary forces will not be allowed to camp inside schools for days since this will affect the functioning of the educational institutions”, Quraishi said at an interactive session at the Merchants’ Chamber of Commerce here.

Hyderabad, March 22: Hall tickets of B.A and B.Com first, second and third year annual examinations of Professor G. Ram Reddy Center for Distance Education, Osmania University, have been dispatched to the candidates, a press release said here.

Candidates who have not received the hall tickets can apply for duplicate hall tickets by submitting two passport size photographs and a demand draft of Rs. 50 drawn in favour of the Register, OU Exam Fee fund Account.

—-Agencies

England, March 21: British teaching union ATL (Association of Teachers and Lecturers) says thousands of school staff will lose their jobs due to the government’s spending cuts.

ATL campaigners warned that education would inevitably be privatized under the Conservative-Liberal Democrats’ cuts initiative, which imposes the squeeze on school budgets and axes the local authority education services.

As a result, large corporations would run chains of taxpayer-funded schools without any accountability, they added.

Hyderabad, March 21: “There are a lot of Indian students who go to the UK or other countries for further studies but we are looking to encourage British students to come to India because this place definitely has some great universities,” said Rob Lynes, director, British Council at a national alumni network meeting that kick-started yesterday. Lynes added, “We have around 110 UK alumni networks and we want to ensure that like-minded individuals across the globe get access to these networks without any hindrance because they can also be used for social networking.”

Hyderabad, March 21: After almost a decade of bull run, the much sought-after IT stream is being dropped by several colleges for want of takers. With the number of students opting for IT in the past two years nose-diving, about 500 colleges from the state have decided to close down their IT classrooms for good. This would mean that just about 200 engineering colleges in the state will be offering IT education in the academic year 2011-12.

Hyderabad, March 19: The Union Service Public Commission will hold the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2011 on June 12, 2011 for recruitment to the Indian Administrative Service, Indian Foreign Service, Indian Police Service and certain other Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’ Central Services/Posts. The examination will be held at various centers across the country.

Hyderabad, March 19: Ministry of External Affairs invites applications from Muslim doctors and paramedical staff (Government servants only) for temporary deputation to Consulate General of India, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to render medical assistance as Doctors and Paramedics (Allopathic) for Haj – 2011. The period of deputation will be 2-3 months.

Applicants are required to send six passport size photographs along with their application. The last date for receipt of applications in the Ministry is 31st March 2011.

Selected candidates will be issued official passports.

Rajkot, March 19: A city boy has become the youngest student to equal the world record of obtaining full 1,000 marks in an online computer exam conducted by US-based multinational Microsoft Corporation.

Akshit Jayesh Dhruv, a Class V student, appeared in the exam on March 16 and obtained full marks, said Chirag Kothari, Centre head of Inside Tomorrow Computer Academy, where the 11-year-old studied.

Nearly 17,000 candidates, from as many as 119 countries and studying from Standard III to post graduates, appeared in the exam in which Akshit was ranked first, Kothari said.

New Delhi, March 18: Delhi’s directorate of education (DoE) Friday informed the Delhi High Court that notices have been sent to 25 private schools in the city over fee hike.

The notices come after the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in its report to the high court termed as ‘unreasonable’ the fee hike by 25 private schools, including Modern school and Delhi Public School (DPS), and indicted them for accounting irregularities.

New Delhi, March 18: Even a little bit of training in the field of tourism will contribute to employment, which is why every state must realise the worth of this sector, Minister of Tourism Subodh Kant Sahai said here Friday.

He was addressing the day-long national seminar on Skills Development in Tourism and Hospitality sector in India organised by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).

‘In the tourism industry, even if we spend meagre amount, the returns are enormous. By training even school drop-outs, IGNOU is doing a great job,’ said the minister.

Aligarh, March 18: No act of charity is bigger than providing a fellow being with an opportunity to attain education and to make a respectable living with dignity, Salma Ansari, Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari’s wife, has said.

‘I owe everything to this great institution for whatever I am today,’ Salma said late Thursday night at the launch of Himani Verma’s book ‘Colours of My Rainbow’ at the Women’s College, Aligarh Muslim University.

The book was released by Zakia A. Siddiqui, secretary, female education, and former principal of the Women’s College.

New Delhi, March 18: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Thursday has in a report to the Delhi High Court termed as ‘unreasonable’ the fee hike by 25 private city schools, including Modern school and Delhi Public School (DPS), and indicted them for accounting irregularities.

‘The schools did not follow the accounting standards while preparing their final accounts. There was no prescribed accounting format,’ said the CAG report, which runs into 64 pages.

Chandigarh, March 18: Panjab University officials here were left red-faced after they discovered that a Delhi-based company, which conducted campus interviews at its School of Communication Studies (SCS) department for public relations jobs, was bogus.

Panjab University officials Thursday said the managing director of New Delhi-based Laj Group of Companies had visited the department Tuesday and conducted a written test and one-on-one interviews.

Panaji, March 18: Blackboards will soon be replaced with interactive digital screens in Goa with Chief Minister Digambar Kamat saying that smart classes would be introduced in all the colleges across the state on a priority basis.

“The concept of smart classes is a digital initiative, new age technology driven movement that is fast becoming imperative for schools and colleges,” Kamat said in his budget speech before the state Legislative Assembly yesterday.

Hyderabad, March 17: Engineering is no more a favourite course and medicine is regaining its popularity, if the sale of Eamcet-2011 applications is any indication.

About 25,000 seats will remain vacant in engineering even in case all students who applied for Eamcet get qualified for admission. The Eamcet 2011 examination is scheduled to be held on May 8 across the state.

On the last day of submission of Eamcet applications yesterday, the university authorities received 2.51 lakh applications in engineering stream and 56,331 in

Hyderabad, March 17: The chief superintendents and departmental officers of Nirmala Hryudaya Junior College and CSI Junior College in Nizamabad district were removed from Intermediate examination duty following allegations.

The RIO of Intermediate Board replaced them today following a complaint from the DRO of Nizamabad stating the officials concerned were not vigilant in duty.

Hyderabad, March 17: According to the press note of District Minorities Welfare officer Hyderabad, training in various trades is going to be held by department of youth services Hyderabad district for unemployed youth of minority community at Swami Ramanand Teerth Rural institute, Jalalpur Village Pocham pally mandal, Nalgonda district.

Candidates should be between the age of 18 to 35 years. Candidates undergoing the training will be provided free food and accommodation. However they will not be paid conveyance. They will have to reach training place Jalalpur on their own expenses.

London, March 16: Learning a foreign language literally changes the way you see the world, says a new study.

Panos Athanasopoulos, of Newcastle University in Britain, has found that bilingual speakers think differently than those who use only one language.

His research showed that it is language use, not proficiency, which makes the difference, the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition reports.

Agra, March 16: Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal will inaugurate the year-long golden jubilee celebrations of Agra’s Central Hindi Institute in the national capital on March 28.

The Central Hindi Institute was established in 1961 as an educational arm of the then union education ministry to promote Hindi globally.

K. Vijay Kumar, the director of the institute, told mediapersons here that Sibal would release books, magazines and also launch a portal at the inaugural function.

Hyderabad, March 16: Tremendous strides have been made in the field of Biomedical research & this branch of scientific exploration will definitely dominate the remaining part of the century. Prof. S. E. Hasnain, eminent Biologist & Vice-Chancellor, University of Hyderabad, expressed these views yesterday while delivering Science Day Lecture at Maulana Azad National Urdu University. Prof. Mohammad Miyan, V.C. MANUU presided over the function.

Chandigarh, March 15: Demanding a pension scheme, revised salaries, and revocation of ban on recruitment, hundreds of teachers from over 160 professional colleges in Punjab and Chandigarh Tuesday went on mass casual leave.

The teachers held a rally in Sector 25 here, at which they criticised the Punjab government for its failure to implement its own election manifesto promise of a pension and gratuity scheme for teachers of privately managed colleges across Punjab.

The call for the protest was given by the Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union (PCCTU).

Hyderabad, March 14: Relay hunger strikes and protests rocked the English and Foreign Language University (EFLU) campus today with the students accusing the registrar of misusing his position in appointing staff members.

The protesting students alleged that when the matter was brought to the notice of the adminstration, they were threatened by the police who had entered the campus at the behest of them.

Jaipur, March 14: Alarmed over the staggering number of children who are not attending schools, the Rajasthan government has directed that each government principal be given a target to bring back students who have dropped out.

According to a child tracking system (CTS) survey conducted by the state’s education department, 1.2 million students are out of schools in Rajasthan. And the state’s Directorate of Primary Education in Bikaner moved last week to rectify the situation.