Education and Career

New Delhi, February 09: Palestinian children are extremely motivated about getting an education as they feel this would give them a better life away from violence, says M.B. Menon, the education chief of UN Refugee Welfare and Advocacy (UNRWA).

“The UNRWA-run schools encourage children to attend school 365 days a year, in the hope that it will keep them away from the clutches of religious fundamentalists,” Menon said at a lecture organised by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) here.

Hyderabad, February 08: Describing it as “unsustainable”, the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday rejected the Muslim Quota Bill which proposed 4% reservations for Muslims in educational institutions and government jobs.

A seven member bench of the High Court rejected the bill by 5 to 2 votes and observed: “The recommendations of the backward caste community is not sustainable so the enactment is also not sustainable.”

Allahabad, February 08: A Bill is on the anvil to ensure greater empowerment for Indian Institutes of Information Technology by conferring on them the status of institutes of national importance.

“The Centre is planning to bring the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIIT) Bill, 2010 in the Parliament,” Director of IIIT-Allahabad M.D. Tiwari told PTI here.

He said a meeting to discuss the final draft of the Bill was held in New Delhi last week in which top officials of the Union HRD Ministry and directors of four IIITs took part.

Mumbai, February 08: The CBSE will, this year, for the first time have flexible timings for Class 9 students writing their final exams. Students can take between three to three and a half hours to complete their exams. “In order to cater to the difference in pace at which students respond to questions, schools will give flexible timing to students for attempting question papers.

Mumbai, February 08: In an ambitious plan to bring tribal children into mainstream, the state government will start dedicated English-medium schools in 16 tribal districts in the state from next academic year.

“The department has approved 82 English-medium schools from the next academic year in all 16 tribal districts,” Tribal Development Minister Babanrao Pachpute said. The government is expecting about a lakh students to benefit from the project, Pachpute said.

Kapurthala, February 08: Six Education Guarantee Scheme teachers, who had climbed atop a 100-foot high water tank and threatened to immolate themselves if they were not allowed to re-appear in an exam, climbed down this morning after authorities agreed to their demand.

A teacher identified as Kiranjit Kaur of Faridkot district, who had climbed the water tank along with her colleagues, had set herself afire last evening.

London, February 08: Days after Britain suspended issuing student visas in north India, Home Secretary Alan Johnson has announced new measures intended to cut the number of student visas issued abroad and prevent abuse of the immigration system.

In a statement, Johnson said Britain will continue to welcome genuine foreign students, but will come down heavily on those who use student visas to come to Britain mainly to work and abuse the system.

Karanataka, February 07: KPSC (Karnataka Public Service Commission) has published the notification for the post of Gazetted Probationers(Preliminary Examination)-2010.

Online application has been invited from the eligible candidates by KPSC. Candidate should submit online application form and download fee challan on or before March 3, 2010.

Payment of fee only be made at the notified Branches of SBM & SBH . Application forms will be rejected if paid in any other branches/banks.

Last Date For Payment of Fee is March 04, 2010.

Chennai, February 07: University of Madras, Chennai has announced the results for graduate courses on February 6, 2010.

Madras University results 2009 for BA/B.Com(CS), B.Music/B.Com (Coop)/B.A (LM) exam has been available at its website and Indiaresults.com.

The exam for abovesaid courses were conducted in Nov 2009.

Students can visit the direct link to view their results i.e. http://www.indiaresults.com/.

The University of Madras has been one of the reputed institutions in South India. It offers quality of education and research in various fields.

—Agencies

Khammam, February 06: Over 200 inmates of the Social Welfare residential girls’ hostel at Nelakondapalli village fell ill after having lunch Friday.
As many as 50 of the seriously ill girls were shifted to the Khammam Government General Hospital .

According to sources, the hostel inmates had vomittings and stomach pain after lunch due to food-poisoning. Potato curry and ‘sambar’ were served to them along with rice. They were shifted to the Nelakondapalli Government Hospital. Later, 50 of them were shifted to the Khammam Government Hospital .

New Delhi, February 06: After making the Class-X board examination optional from next year, the CBSE has decided to set questions for Class-IX test, presently being conducted by affiliated schools, to bring uniformity in the system and ensure better assessment of students.

To have standardisation in examination system, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has designed the question papers for examination in Class-IX.

London, February 05: The University of Cambridge is all set to welcome the first three outstanding Indian students who have been awarded scholarships named after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who graduated from the university in the 1950s.

The three Indian students are Neal Duggal from Mallya Aditi International School, Bangalore; Jesika Haria from Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai, and Rudrajit Banerjee from The Cambridge School, Kolkata.

Mumbai, February 05: Maharashtra government is planning to introduce biometric system of attendance in schools to keep a check on teachers and students as part of rural management programme, minister for rural development Jayant Patil said here today.

Biometric system of attendance will also be extended to all government staff who render service in the rural areas, Patil said.

This kind of vigil will help improve the attendance of both students and teachers, Patil said while inaugurating a two-day seminar Gram Sabha 2010

New Delhi, February 05: The ministry of human resource development (MHRD) is planning to introduce a flexible system that will allow students to change courses, and even institutes, midway.

Kolkata, February 05: The annual and half-yearly mode of examinations in schools will soon be over. Days after the Union HRD ministry asked schools to dump the archaic system and switch over to continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE) mode up to Class VIII, the CBSE wants to take it forward.

Schools under the CBSE have introduced the CCE up to Class X replacing the board examination from the 2010-11 session. The board now proposes to extend the new system to Class XI from the coming 2011-12 session. The proposal awaits a go-ahead from the HRD ministry.

New Delhi, February 03: The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked parents having problems with the ongoing nursery admissions in the capital to approach the grievance cell of the Directorate of Education.

Justice G.S. Sistani suggested that the parents approach the grievances
cell of the education department first regarding their complaints. The court posted the matter for hearing Feb 8.

London, February 03: Amidst major funding cuts in British universities, a top US academic has told a London audience that India and China could soon build institutions that match Oxford and Cambridge.

Professor Richard Levin, president of Yale University, said increasing focus in India and China on higher education means that institutions there would be ranked alongside Oxbridge within 25 years.

Kolkata, February 03: The worldwide economic slowdown has led to a fall in the placement of engineering graduates in the country with only a handful of technology schools having reported cent per cent placement.

There has been an average decline of 11 per cent in the placement of engineering graduates from 111 technology schools in 2009 compared to the previous year, except for 16 of them which recorded cent per cent absorption, according to the 5th IDC-Dataquest T-School, 2009 survey.

Chandigarh, February 03: Some have paid their tuition fees, others have their acceptance letters in their hands. But now hundreds of Indian students may not be able to study in the UK thanks to a sudden decision to temporarily stop accepting student visa applications at its three centres in north India.

As there is no guarantee of getting their tuition fees back, which students have already paid in some cases, the fear of losing lakhs of rupees is looming over their head.

New Delhi, February 03: Union Public Service Commission is going to hold the Engineering Services Examinations 2010 from June 26 at various centres across the country.

The details regarding the eligibility conditions, the syllabus, scheme and others have been made available on the UPSC’s website, said a press release.

The online submission of application forms could be made between February six and 22, while the candidates who wish to apply offline could do so on or before March two, 2010, it added.

—-PTI

New delhi, February 02: Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibbal blamed the parents for the students’ suicide, accusing them of embedding their high expectations into psyche of their children.

The HRD minister the children live under pressure always eyeing to meet the parental expectations. “They are told to secure more than 90%; they are asked to do this and to do that.

It’s the parents who share the onus of pushing their kids to limits,” he remarked candidly. He was replying to queries about rising suicides by students in the technical and medical institutions.

Mumbai, February 02: Out of the 11,000 CAT aspirants on the second phase list, only 4,800 took the test. The admission criteria for the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), CAT went online for the first time in December 2009 but virus attacks in centres across the country disrupted the exam.

New delhi, February 02: Top educational institutes in the country could soon be converted to ‘Innovation Universities’ – complete with huge funds, unbridled academic freedom and linkages with foreign institutes.

Revising its views on the much-discussed 14 Innovation Universities and keeping in mind the long inception period involved in setting them up, the HRD Ministry has decided that it will alongside upgrade worthy institutes to Innovation varsities. The plan is said to have found PMO’s approval.

New Delhi, February 01: In an initiative to improve the state of forensic science in the country, the Home Ministry has appointed a two-member team of consultants to examine the facilities of training and condition of laboratories.

Addressing his monthly press conference, Home Minister P Chidambaram today said state of forensic science as well as the state of the Central and State Forensic Science Laboratories “leave much to be desired” hence the year 2010 has been declared as the “Year of Forensic Science”.

Pune, February 01: The education department of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will send a warning letter to 350 schools in its jurisdiction, against conducting entrance examinations for class I admissions.

The move follows an agitation launched by the Maharashtra Navnirman Vidyarthi Sena (MNVS) against St Vincent’s and Loyola Schools conducting entrance test for class I admissions.