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.
Thiruvananthapuram, November 11: Kerala’s first private college of architecture will take 80 students for the five-year Bachelor of Architecture degree course from the academic year 2011-12.
The Rs.18 crore College of Architecture – Trivandrum (CAT) will offer research facilities in areas like green building technology, construction management and infrastructure planning, said veteran architect N.Mahesh, chairman of the Narayanan & Vaidyanathan Charitable & Educational Trust – the promoters of the college.
New Delhi, November 11: Vice President Hamid Ansari today said unless universal access to elementary education is matched with quality teaching, right to education would merely become a right to schooling.
Ranchi, November 10: President Pratibha Patil will attend Ranchi University’s silver jubilee convocation here Dec 10, a government statement said Tuesday.
Jharkhand Governor M.O.H. Farook directed university Vice Chancellor A. Khan to make preparations for the convocation, it said.
The convocation is scheduled to be held in the Basic Science Bhavan of the university which has received applications from 3,000 students for participating in the ceremony.
–IANS
New Delhi, November 10: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has launched a programme to train medical graduates in treating diabetes, it was announced here Wednesday.
The programme will be open to medical graduates looking to enhance their knowledge and skills in the area of medical diabetology.
IGNOU’s School of Health Sciences (SOHS) signed a memorandum of understanding with Hansa Med Cell, a company working in providing medical education, to launch a PG diploma programme for medical graduates in diabetes mellitus.
Hyderabad, November 10: Two senior students of a private engineering college on the outskirts of the city were today caught red-handed while ragging their junior at a bus stand near the college.
Kiran Kumar and Ramaswamy, both third year engineering students of JB Institute of Engineering and Technology at Moinabad were forcing the junior, 20-year-old first year engineering student Ratnakar, to pretend as if he was putting on clothes and recite a rhyme 10 times.
Hyderabad, November 07: The state government is all set to crack the whip on nearly 3,000 non-existing colleges which claimed crores of rupees under the fee reimbursement and scholarship scheme fraudulently. Chief minister K Rosaiah today directed the officials to identify these colleges and recover the amounts claimed by them.
The government has also decided to initiate criminal action against people who are involved in floating these colleges.
Hyderabad, November 04: With the city skyline being fast occupied by multistoried buildings and trees being cut in the name of road widening, one rarely gets to see birds amidst the concrete jungle that our city has become today.
As a result many children have never seen more than a few kinds of birds. To acquaint students with the different types of birds, the Zoology Department of Madina Degree College recently organised an exhibition showcasing different types of birds titled Psittacula.
Warrangal, November 02: The headmaster of a girls’ high school in Mulug mandal headquarters was confined in a room by her colleagues and 30 students on the school premises on Monday.
They were protesting against the headmaster’s high-handedness.
On information, police reached the place and released the headmaster.
Mulug police registered cases under Section 109 and 308 of IPC following a complaint by headmaster Sumati.
Hyderabad, November 02: The final list of eligible candidates under ‘Central sector scheme of scholarships for college and university students’ for the year 2009-10 has been sent to the colleges concerned along with renewal applications for the year 2010-11.
More than 25,200 candidates including 12,637 girls have been selected for scholarships under the scheme.
New Delhi, October 31: Around 11,485 candidates today appeared for the online Common Admission Test (CAT) 2010, the highest so far since the start of the exam on October 27, with the organisation conducting it claiming that the sessions ended “successfully”.
The first edition of the online CAT exam was marred by technical glitches last year.
“11,485 candidates registered for the CAT today and both sessions have concluded successfully,” Prometric India, which conducted the online exam, said at the end of day four of the test.
New Delhi, October 31: Suggesting that work of the artisans should be included in the school syllabus, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today said different nodal departments should join hands for skill upgrade of the craftsmen and providing them with technical know-how.
“Artisan work and their activities should be included in the school syllabus,” he said while distributing artisan credit cards to about 70 craftsmen from Vikas Nagar in Delhi at a function here.
Hyderabad, October 31: Appointment of 30,830 secondary grade teachers (SGT) selected under the DSC recruitment exam will begin from today.
These posts will be filled in the ratio of 70:30. 30 percent quota will be provided to BEd candidates.
Pronouncing an official announcement about the decision secondary education Minister Mr. D. Manikya Vara Prasada Rao said that recruitments for DSC 2008 would be made according to the High court’s decision and state’s involvement in this matter is minimum.