Panaji, June 26: The Goa government Friday decided to launch an adult education programme intended to take the state, ranked as India’s fourth most literate, to the top of the list.
Chief Minister Digambar Kamat said that the state education department had been authorised to embark on a new adult education mission which will push the 82-84 percent literacy rate to 100 percent.
New Delhi, June 25: To make education loans cheaper, a scheme was finalised today to provide full interest subsidy on the loans taken by students with annual family income below Rs.4.5 lakh to pursue technical and professional courses.
The format for the scheme was finalised after a meeting between the Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry and the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA).
“The scheme provides interest subvention to students for the period of their course. The interest for this period will be paid to the banks by the government,” a ministry official said.
New Delhi, June 23: Delhi University, India’s premier university, Wednesday began admitting students for undergraduate courses, with thousands crowding the sprawling main campus and its affiliated colleges.
Anxious students stood in queues as they filled up forms and paid the annual fees after the university issued its first list Tuesday giving the minimum percentages needed for admission into various colleges.
London, June 22: A coroner said on Friday that anti-bullying policies at his school failed to protect an Australian teenager driven to take his own life by persecution on- and offline.
The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that Deputy New South Wales Coroner Malcolm MacPherson recommended that schools with more than 500 students should have fulltime counselors. The state needs clear policies on when police should be informed about school violence, he said.
Alex Wildman, a student at Kadina High School in Lismore, was 14 when he killed himself in July 2008.
New Delhi, June 21: Unaided self-financing institutions can now get grants from the University Grants Commission (UGC).
The UGC has decided to provide grants to institutions that were unable to get the assistance for the last few years, official sources said.
The commission in its recent meeting decided to extend the grants to the unaided self-financing institutions. At present, there are nearly 28,000 colleges in the country. Of them, 7485 are getting grants from the UGC as they have been found eligible.
Hyderabad, June 20: Shift system in engineering colleges might come to an end from this year. The state government has decided not to allow polytechnics which function from engineering colleges to admit students from this year.
Interestingly, the evening classes for polytechnics were introduced in 33 engineering colleges with All India Council for Technical Education’s (AICTE) permission last year.
Varanasi, June 19: Jail inmates will now get lessons in human rights here.
The Indira Gandhi National Open University has got the green signal to open a centre at the Central Jail at Shivpur, IGNOU’s Regional Director Manorama Singh said.
Among the 10 course offered are certificate courses in human rights, rural development and teaching primary mathematics, Bachelor’s Preparatory course and B.Com.
The classes will be held on jail premises, she said.
However, the inmates will have to get themselves registered at IGNOU’s Lucknow centre.
–PTI
Mumbai, June 18: In an affidavit filed in support of SSC board’s newly introduced ‘best of five’ system, Maharashtra government has said that Indian School Certificate Examination (ICSE) board can adopt similar system if it wants.
The best of five system has been challenged by some parents of ICSE students and the High Court last week stayed the admission process for Standard XI.
Class Xth results of SSC board were declared yesterday, but the stay continues as the court hearing was today adjourned to June 22.
New Delhi, June 18: Soon there could be a common entrance examination for medical and engineering courses to ease the pressure on students.
Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Friday that the All India Pre-Medical Test and All India Engineering Entrance Exam would be combined as both have common subjects.
“Physics and chemistry are the common subjects for the entrance exam. Depending on their choice, students can give maths or biology,” Sibal said.
The minister was speaking after a meeting of state education ministers in the national capital.
New Delhi, June 18: Critical about holding of multiple entrance exams for admission into higher educational institutions, human resources development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal today pitched for uniform entrance test.
To start with, the CBSE, a premier school education board under the HRD ministry, will merge the All India Engineering Entrance Exam (AIEEE) and All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT), Sibal said.
Lucknow, June 18: To improve the job prospects of madrasa students, the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madrasa Education has changed its syllabus and made English, Hindi, Urdu and computers compulsory.
The Board felt change in syllabus was needed to provide more opportunities to the madrasa students, who have to compete with students of English medium schools once they are out in the job market.
Lucknow, June 18: To improve the job prospects of madrasa students, the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madrasa Education has changed its syllabus and made English, Hindi, Urdu and computers compulsory.
The Board felt change in syllabus was needed to provide more opportunities to the madrasa students, who have to compete with students of English medium schools once they are out in the job market.
Hyderabad, June 18: (Siasat News) Mohammad Ghouse Jani son of an auto driver Mohammad Ameer overpowering poverty with strong determination and high ambitions bagged 2nd rank in the state in EAMCET engineering stream and has set an example for Muslim students.
Tiruchi, June 17: UNICEF recognition for a Plus-Two achiever of a child labour special school came in as another feather in the cap for the Child Labour Elimination and Effective Rehabilitation Society (CHEERS) here.
CHEERS runs 35 child labour special schools in Tiruchi district under National Child Labour Project.
Mumbai, June 16: Making internship of two years compulsory for medical students, Maharashtra Government has decided to increase fine up to Rs two crore for refusing to do so.
“The Government spends huge amount on medical students in the state run colleges. So, it expects the students to serve the state for two years,” a release from Medical Education Department said.
The Government has raised the fine from Rs 15 lakh to Rs 50 lakh for MBBS students and Rs two crore for students completing super-speciality courses for refusing to serve for the state, the release said.
Mumbai, June 16: Making internship of two years compulsory for medical students, Maharashtra Government has decided to increase fine up to Rs two crore for refusing to do so.
“The Government spends huge amount on medical students in the state run colleges. So, it expects the students to serve the state for two years,” a release from Medical Education Department said.
The Government has raised the fine from Rs 15 lakh to Rs 50 lakh for MBBS students and Rs two crore for students completing super-speciality courses for refusing to serve for the state, the release said.
Lucknow, June 16: The Lucknow University has decided to reserve 20 per cent seats for girl students in the varsity and its associated colleges, officials said today.
“The admission committee of the University has decided to implement 20 per cent reservation for girls in admissions to different courses at under-graduate and post graduate level,” University Registrar G P Tripathi said.
The decision was taken unanimously at a meeting held yesterday.
Mumbai, June 16: Shah Faesal, the first Kashmiri to top the Civil Service Examination, has attributed his success to the provision of equality for all enshrined in the Indian Constitution.
“Indian Constitution provides for giving equal rights to everyone irrespective of caste, religion, region and my success in the UPSC exam is a result of that,” he said at a felicitation function here on Tuesday night.
Faesal said people create controversies over petty things like caste, religion, region and language.
New Delhi, June 14: Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Monday termed corporal punishment as unacceptable in a civilised society and said it has been banned under the Right to Education (RTE) Act.
Sibal was reacting to the suicide case of Rauvanjit Rawla, a 13-year-old boy of Kolkata’s well-known school, La Martiniere for Boys. Unable to bear harassment in school, Rawla had allegedly committed suicide in February 2010.
Washington, June 14: Some literacy skills are greater in pre-schoolers with confident teachers than those without, U.S. researchers have suggested.
It has been reported that researchers at Ohio State University found pre-schoolers whose teachers had a high degree of confidence had greater print awareness, they could answer questions like, “Show me just one letter on this page.”
New Delhi, Jun 13:The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has decided to introduce a system that would enable students write the examinations in regional languages.
IGNOU’s student evaluation division (SED) is currently working on implementing the proposal at the ground level in its 60 regional centres spread across the country, IGNOU Vice-Chancellor V N Rajasekharna Pillai said.
Jaipur, June 13: Rajasthan Governor Shivraj Patil has appointed three Vice Chancellors to fill the vacancy.
The Governor appointed B M Sharma, I Trivedi and R P Yadav as Vice Chancellors of Rajasthan Technical University (RTU)-Kota, Mohan Lal Sukhadia University (MDS)-Udaipur and Kota University- Kota respectively, an official release said today.
Gandhinagar, June 13: Continuing its social initiative, Gujarat Police have again decided to adopt 500 meritorious poor class 12 students and bear the cost of their higher education.
Director General of Police S.S. Khandwawala, who will himself bear the educational expenses of three students, is hopeful of support from corporates for the initiative.
“Many corporate houses have evinced interest and I am hopeful that we will be able to fulfil this target that we have set for ourselves,” he said.
Lucknow, June 13: A college in Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh district Saturday criticized the Gujarat government for using without persmission a photograph of its girl students in newspaper advertisements projecting Narendra Modi’s pro-Muslim face.
The college is contemplating legal action against the Gujarat officials and the advertising agency.
New Delhi, June 11: In the series of meetings with states on implementation of the Right to Education Act, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Friday met education ministers of Assam and Rajasthan.
The meetings aimed at smoothening the implementation of the act.
In separate meetings, Sibal met Assam’s Gautam Borah and Rajasthan’s Bhanwar Lal Meghwal.
The HRD minister has already met education ministers from Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.