Lucknow, November 26: A first year engineering student of a government-run polytechnic here was allegedly assaulted by a group of senior students on the institute’s campus after he refused to bow his head before them, police said Friday.
Navneet Gaur, the student of Hewett Polytechnic, was Thursday evening roughed up by around 10 of his seniors for not following their directions.
Hyderabad, November 25: Lalit Kala Akademi invites application from Artists, Art critics and Art Historians for its scholarships. Candidates less than 35 years of age as on 1st January 2011 are eligible to apply. Monthy 4 thousand rupees scholarship will be granted. Those who have applied in the year 2009-2010 can also apply.
Applications should reach Lalit Kala Akademi Ravindra Bhawan, 35 Feroze Shah Kotla Road New Delhi, before 31st December 2010.
Hyderabad, November 24: Intermediate first and second year students of regular and private streams who have not paid their examination fee for March 2011 exams before the due dates can pay the fee under Tatkal Scheme from November 24 to December 12.
Tatkal fee Rs 500, 1st year exam fee Rs 220, 2nd year exam fee Rs 220, 1st and 2nd year examination fee Rs 440, practical exam fee as prescribed, attendance exemption fee (Arts only) Rs 500 and cost of exemption and exam application from Rs 10 + Rs 10.
Puttaparthi, November 23: Prime minister Manmohan Singh has called for systematic promotion of value-based education in the country to ensure that the present day youth become responsible citizens tomorrow.
Delivering the 29th convocation of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning at Prasanthi Nilayam here today, Singh stressed the need for students to attain academic excellence coupled with human values like self-knowledge, realisation, sacrifice, unity and fraternity.
Kochi, November 23: Sixty teams from across the city took part in the multi-city inter school quiz organised by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Tuesday.
IGNOU vice-chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai said the university was promoting school education in its silver jubilee year, with outreach events like a science olympiad and special awards.
The IGNOU Kochi regional director, K.S. Divakaran Nair, said that ‘Ignite’, the quiz show, was organised to increase awareness about distance learning method among school students.
Hyderabad, November 23: An Army recruitment rally will be conducted by Army Recruiting Branch, Trimulgiri for the posts of various trades for the eligible candidates from the Telangana Districts of Adilabad, Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Warangal, Khammam, Medak, Mahbubnagar, Nalgonda, Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy from 1st to 6th December at Ambedkar Stadium, Karimnagar.
Eligible candidates should be between the age group of 17 years and six months to 23 years. Their height should be not short of 162 centimeters and weight not less than 48 KGs.
New Delhi, November 23:Schools granting nursery admission on the basis of parents’ professions will not have it easy this year.
Several institutions in the Capital found guilty on this count were let off with just a warning last year. But this time erring schools will have their admission process cancelled.
This will find specific mention in the fresh admission guidelines to be issued by the state directorate of education to all the schools around the first week of December.
Hyderabad, November 21: With protests rocking Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions over the postponement of the written examination for SI recruitment, the State government has launched measures to bring back normalcy in the regions. Ministers from the regions convened an emergency meeting in the chambers of revenue minister D Prasada Rao to discuss steps to calm down the protestors and cooperate with the State government to maintain peace and order besides charting out a plan to ensure smooth conduct of the written examination.
Hyderabad, November 21: Home minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy today declared that the written test for recruitment of sub-inspectors of police will be conducted only after ensuring peace in the State. She defended the State government’s decision to postpone the examination stating that the government acted responsibly and took the decision respecting the sentiments of people in the Telangana region.
Hyderabad, November 21: Putting an end to the two-day stir, the B.Ed candidates selected under DSC 2008 climbed down the Directorate of School Education building at Saifabad here tonight. They came down after panchayat raj minister B Satyanarayana promised to take up their demands with chief minister K Rosaiah and resolve them at the earliest.
Ahiran (West Bengal), November 21: Classes in the Aligarh Muslim University’s (AMU) campus in this rural belt of Murshidabad district will start from January, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here Saturday.
‘The classes will begin from this academic year itself in January. The AMU will initially work out of a big rented building which also has residential facilities for students,’ Mukherjee said after laying the foundation stone of the campus here, about 60 km from district headquarters Bahrampur.
Chandigarh, November 21: The All India Management Association (AIMA), the apex body for the management sector, has launched a Management Aptitude and Skills Test (MAST) to evaluate management students across the country, a senior AIMA official said here Saturday. The first test will be held Feb 20, 2011.
Punjab Technical University (PTU) vice chancellor Rajneesh Arora said that the MAST was important for management students.
Raipur, November 19: A day after the apex court asked the state government to remove security forces from schools, Chhattisgarh Friday chose to remain tightlipped about when it will begin the process.
“It’s a very complex issue and I can’t comment on it… vacating these schools needs a lot of thought,” a senior official at the police headquarters who co-ordinates anti-Maoist operation in the state, told IANS.
Hyderabad, November 17: With corporate hospitals offering meagre salaries and promising little career growth, doctors it seems are now desperate to return to government service, if the response to recruitment of doctors in government hospitals is any indication.
Hyderabad, November 16: About 7,000 B.Ed candidates who qualified in the DSC-2008 but lost an opportunity to get a job because of 30 pc quota given to D.Ed candidates received support from various political parties today.
At a public meeting organised by the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) and the AP B.Ed Students Association here on Monday, leaders from political parties pledged to fight along with the B.Ed candidates till they received the appointment orders.
Rohtak, November 16: P. Rameshan, from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode, Tuesday took over as director of the newly established IIM-Rohtak in Haryana.
A Ph.D. in Economics from IIT, Kharagpur, Rameshan was coordinating the activities of the Centre for Strategic WTO (World Trade Organisation) Research at IIM-Kozhikode. He had earlier served at IIM-Lucknow.
Interacting with faculty members after taking over, Rameshan expressed his commitment to develop the newly established business school into a world class management institution. Rohtak is some 70 km from Delhi.
Aligarh, November 16: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will lay the foundation stone of the Aligarh Muslim University’s first outstation centre at Murshidabad in West Bengal Nov 20, an official statement said.
The AMU centre at Murshidabad, 182 km from the Kolkata, will be spread over 300 acres.
The proposed centre will focus on minority education, women’s education, technical education, vocational education, medical, nursing and management courses, the university statement aid.
New Delhi, November 16: A new programme on watershed management has been launched by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), an official said Tuesday.
The one-year diploma programme will commence Jan 1, 2011.
‘The objectives of the programme are to develop human resource in watershed development and management, introducing the principles of watershed management approach and the value of working in watershed,’ said an official.
Hyderabad, November 15: A first of its kind in the country, the Jawahar Bala Arogya Raksha (JBAR) scheme, a revitalised health programme for 85 lakh children studying in 42,000 government and government-aided schools in the state, was launched across the state by chief minister K Rosaiah at Narsingi in Rangareddy district today.
The government took up the novel scheme to detect diseases in children and treat them at an early stage. ”Our aim is to ensure that no student drops out of the school because of ill health,” Rosaiah added.
Bhopal, November 15: Students of a city-based school had a field day Monday interacting with former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, who too received a pleasant surprise when the children told him that they wanted to be astronauts.
Kalam addressed students at the Model Senior Secondary School here, and asked them about their career choices.
Most of the students, of classes X to XII, said they wanted to be scientists and engineers.
‘How many of you want to go to moon and space?’ he asked. Everyone in the hall raised his hands, to his delight.
New Delhi, November 11: Delhi Government today warned private schools not to start the process for nursery admissions before issuance of relevant guidelines and said punitive action will be taken against the violators.
Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said the schools will have to comply with Right to Education Act and government was drafting comprehensive guidelines for admissions into nursery classes incorporating provisions of RTE.
He said strict action will follow against schools which have started the process for nursery admission.
New Delhi, November 11: Calling for a paradigm shift in the education sector, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Thursday said a framework was needed for investment for expansion of higher education.
‘We need a policy framework to invest in education if we have to increase our gross enrolment ratio to 30 percent by 2020,’ Sibal said at a function to mark National Education Day here.
The HRD minister also stressed on the need for change in the pattern of education.
‘Education should be child-centric, not exam-centric,’ he said.
New Delhi, November 11: Despite the Right to Education Act, access to education is an everyday struggle for many Indian kids because of challenges like inaccessibility to schools and unavailability of teachers.
At a conference organised by child rights group, CRY, in the capital Thursday, six children from rural areas of states like Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh spoke about the everyday challenges they have to face to go to school.
Sunil Chandelkar, a 12-year-old boy from Madhya Pradesh, said the biggest challenge for him to go to school is the distance.
New Delhi, November 11: British Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts arrived here Thursday on a week-long visit to India, during which he will attend various education seminars and also co-chair the India-UK Education Forum.
‘Our prime ministers have put education at the top of our shared agenda. Collaboration in education between the UK and India goes back over many years, but is also constantly changing and innovating,’ said Willetts in a press statement issued by the British high commission.
New Delhi, November 11: Even as the government prepares for the implementation of the Right to Education Act, Vice President M. Hamid Ansari Thursday said the quality of education still remains a major concern.
Addressing a function to mark the National Education Day here, Ansari said issues like teacher absenteeism, single teacher schools and multi-grade teaching need to be resolved.