Education and Career

Hyderabad, October 29: It’s official now. The state government has resolved to fill vacant posts of Secondary Grade Teachers (SGT) providing 30 per cent reservation to D Ed candidates.

Orders to this effect are likely to be issued in a day or two. Secondary education minister D Manikya Vara Prasad said here on Thursday that the file had been forwarded to the department of school education for further action. However, it is not clear as of now whether all the posts will be filled immediately or not.

New Delhi, October 27: The Common Admission Test (CAT) for admission to prestigious Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) and 150 other business schools in the country begins on Wednesday when over two lakh candidates are expected to appear.

The test will be conducted online in about 78 centres across 33 cities in a staggered format beginning today and ending on November 24.

This time only nine thousand computers will be used as compared to the 17 thousand used last year.

Hyderabad, October 26: The B Ed candidates, who have been agitating against 30 per cent quota in DSC 2008 Secondary Grade Teacher (SGT) posts for D Ed candidates, temporarily suspended their agitation following an assurance from the state government that it would do justice to them.

Five candidates who are on an indefinite hunger strike at Gandhi Hospital called off their strike but made it clear that if the government did not do justice to them, they would resume their agitation.

Lucknow, October 26: Over two lakh candidates have registered for the online Common Admission Test (CAT)-2010 starting Wednesday for admissions in 10 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other business schools, an official said Tuesday.

The responsibility of organising the test is with IIM, Kolkata, and IIM, Lucknow.

Hyderabad, October 25: The state government has responded positively to the B.Ed candidates who qualified in the DSC-2008 for Secondary Grade Teacher (SGT) posts.

About 400 qualifiers from the B.Ed stream have been protesting against allocating 30 per cent of the posts to D.Ed candidates. A final decision on the issue will be taken on Monday.

Meanwhile, the fast by five candidates entered the sixth day on Sunday even as the condition of three of them deteriorated.

New Delhi, October 22: An orientation programme for madrassa (Islamic seminary) teachers was held recently by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), a university official said Friday.

The programme for teachers belonging to Nagaon and Morigaon districts of Assam was held at the Kampur college, Nagaon under the aegis of IGNOU’s Institute of Professional Competence Advancement of Teachers (IIPCAT) at Guwahati.

New Delhi, October 22: Jamia Millia Islamia’s India Arab Cultural Centre is set to organise the second Arab Film Festival in the university Oct 25-27.

The three-day film fest aims at promoting cross-cultural communication and understanding between Arab countries and the wider academic community, said a press release of the university Friday.

Nine films representing the diversity of the Arab people and their perspectives will be showcased at the fest.

It will be inaugurated by Khaled El Bakly, the ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt, in the capital Monday.
–IANS

Mumbai, October 20: Maharashtra Government is considering a plan to provide E-Library facilities in medical colleges in the state. Minister of State for Medical Education Varsha Gaikwad said the E-Library will help students easily avail educational references.

There are presently 14 medical colleges, three dental and four nursing colleges in the state. Since June this year,a new course Bachelor of Paramedical Technology (BAPMT) has been introduced.
The minister said her department had increased the number of seats for post graduate courses from 500 to 700.

New Delhi, October 20: After a long time, a meaningful campaign to create social awareness for Indian children’s right to education was launched by the UNICEF on Monday. Awaaz Do, the project, is timely, direct and uncomplicated, notes Sheela Bhatt.

The campaign came about because the Union government passed the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 recently. For the first time in India’s history, children will be guaranteed their right to quality elementary education by the State with the help of families and communities.

New Delhi, October 20: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has announced admissions for the January 2011 session, a university official said Wednesday.

Aspirants can apply for Master’s, Bachelor’s, Post-Graduate Diplomas, Diplomas, Post-Graduate Certificates and Certificate programmes.

“The students can obtain the common prospectus for Rs.100 at the IGNOU campus or can get it by post through a demand draft/cash order of Rs.150 in favour of IGNOU,” said the varsity official.

Bhopal, October 19: The changes being introduced in the Union Human Resources Development (HRD) Ministry may not be necessarily good, veteran Congress leader and former Union Minister Arjun Singh said today.

“No one can say that changes of all kinds will always be good,” the former HRD Minister said in an informal chat with reporters here when asked the reforms being initiated in the key department.

He did not elaborate.

Lucknow, October 14: A first year nursing student of a private college here received multiple injuries after he was ragged by his seniors outside the campus for refusing to collect money from strangers by touching their feet, police said Thursday.

Mayank Kumar, a student of the G.S.R.M Memorial Degree College, was assaulted by four senior students of the institute Wednesday in the Sarojini Nagar town.

A police complaint was filed late Wednesday evening by Kumar against the four third year nursing students.

Aligarh, October 13: Aligarh Muslim University Vice Chancellor P.K. Abdul Azis Wednesday held talks with agitating students who launched a sit-in Oct 4 demanding restoration of the students’ union, among other demands.

Some former students and Samajwadi Party leader Nafees Ahmed, a university alumni, have also extended support to the students.

Chief spokesperson for the students’ struggle committee Mushtaq Ahmed told IANS: ‘We began our dharna (sit-in) Oct 4 with a set of four demands – restoration of the students union, and sacking of the dean, finance officer and provost.’

Hyderabad, October 12: A Somalian student in the city stabbed his friend over an argument about the country in which they should pursue higher studies.

Mahammad Ahemed and Abdul Rasheed, both from Somalia were studying in the city. “On October 5, the duo met at their friend’s place in Dilshad Nagar colony and began discussing about whether they should pursue their higher studies in a European country or an Arabian country. While Rasheed insisted that they go to a European country, Ahemed argued for the

Hyderabad, October 12: MICROFINANCE institutions (MFIs) in the state have once again come under the scanner in the light of reports of distress deaths and suicide attempts by borrowers unable to bear the burden of high interest rates and default penalties.

New Delhi, October 12: Looking for long-term partnership in academics and research, India and Scotland Tuesday signed four memoranda of understanding (MoUs) which will facilitate student and faculty exchange and encourage joint degree development.

The MoUs were signed in the presence of Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal and Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond.

‘The agreement with Scotland advances our sweeping reform agenda for higher education. We intend to empower our students by providing access to the finest university education the world has to offer,’ said Sibal.

Hyderabad, October 12: A whopping 46,574 seats remained vacant under convener quota after the allotment of seats in various engineering and pharmacy colleges in the state on Monday.

Not more than 10,000 seats were filled at the end of second phase of web counselling giving jitters to many private engineering and pharmacy colleges even as many students continued to complain about getting seats allotted in colleges which were not marked in their options.

Hyderabad, October 11: Chief minister K Rosaiah said teachers seldom used to beat students during his school days and both students and parents used to respect them a lot.

“Education used to be completely different about 50 years ago,” Rosaiah recalled at a programme on ‘Dandanaleni Vidyabodhana’ at the Jubilee Hall here on Sunday. The programme was organised by HMTV channel.

“About 20 to 30 years ago students used to be content with pass marks of 35 and feel great when they get 50 or 60 marks out of 100. But now students want at least 70 or 80 marks,” he observed.

Bhubaneswar, October 11: Orissa has extended the dress code deadline for its high school women teachers – maroon saris with Sambalpuri borders – till the beginning of the next academic year as adequate fabric is not available, an official said Sunday.

The state school and mass education department had asked the high school teachers to follow the dress code from this month. The male teachers were to wear white shirts and black trousers.

Johannesburg, October 11: As children, they never had the chance to get an education. But for many elderly people in South Africa, the opportunity has finally come even if they have now become grandparents.

As part of the education department’s “Kha ri Gude” (”let us learn” in South Africa’s Tshivenda dialect) literacy campaign, 16 elderly people who never went to school are learning to read and do basic mathematics in the afternoons at a primary school in Acornhoek town in the Limpopo region, BuaNews, the national news agency, reported.

Aligarh, October 09: The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a writ petition against the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) decision to set up two new centres at Malappuram in Kerala and Murshidabad in West Bengal, a varsity official said Friday.

New Delhi, October 09: Meenakshi Gopinath, principal of Lady Shri Ram College, may be the first woman vice chancellor of Delhi University. But the veteran educationist, who is also an India-Pakistan peacenik, said Thursday that she was not aware of the development.

Deepak Pental’s five-year term as vice chancellor has ended, a senior university official said. ‘From what we know, Meenakshi Gopinath will take over this month. It’s not official yet.

Hyderabad, October 08: Jawahar Bala Arogya Raksha, a health programme for schoolchildren will be launched on November 14 across the state. Chief minister K Rosaiah is likely to launch the health programme aimed at conducting screening tests for nearly 85 lakh schoolchildren studying in all government schools for illness. In case any student is detected with a disease, he/she will be sent to nearby government hospital/primary healthcare centre (PHC) for further treatment.

Allahabad, October 08: Carrying a sack on his shoulder, Bhola, 12, a ragpicker, enters the hostel of Allahabad University. He is there not to collect discarded items but to become literate under the guidance of a group of students there.

Students of the Hindu Hostel in Allahabad University have started a virtual school in their rooms for teaching poor children. Like Bhola, there are around 30 other impoverished children who visit the Hindu Hostel regularly to attend classes.

Hyderabad, October 07: The Human Rights Forum (HRF) will organise a meeting to commemorate the first death anniversary of the late civil liberties activist K Balagopal at the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram here on Oct. 8. Former Union energy secretary E A S Sarma will deliver the keynote address on ‘Paradigm of destructive development’ and HRF vice-president Prof Burra Ramulu will speak on ‘Balagopal’s contribution to the human rights movement’. Human Rights Forum president S Jeevan Kumar will preside the meet.