Education and Career

Bangalore, January 23: Just when students thought they had seen the worst in the deemed university crisis, there’s more bad news. The state government has decided to shut down 25 unauthorised academic institutions in Bangalore because they don’t haveaffiliations to any university.

The 25 institutions are part of 30 academic institutions in Karnataka identified by the state department of higher education as unauthorised, higher education minister Aravind Limbavalisaid on Friday.

He said these institutions will be closed down forcibly using the help from the police on Saturday.

New Delhi, January 22: There is a marked improvement in the basic education scenario in the country as most children get access to schools with exceptions to states like Arunchal Pradesh and West Bengal, which are lagging behind, a government survey released Friday said.

As per the survey, there is one upper primary school for every set of 2.27 primary schools as compared to 2.45 schools in 2006. In many states, the ratio is one each to two and all this “suggests that by and large schooling facilities have been created and are available across the country”.

New Delhi, January 22: There is help at hand for Delhi University (DU) students keen on unearthing facts through Right to Information (RTI) Act.

And it’s just a phone call away. Any queries about the Act and its use can now be addressed by a helpline launched last month for DU students.

“RTI is a popular tool to seek information on marksheets, examination and the moderation system. However, many don’t know that the key to get facts lies in asking the right questions,” Saurav Sharma, convenor of Youth Task Force, said.

Bangalore, January 22: The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) on Thursday put on hold the promotion of police officers from the Karnataka Police Service to the Indian Police Service (IPS).

A vacation bench of CAT stayed for 14 days the government’s recommendations for filling up six vacant IPS posts in the state. It was hearing a petition filed by Basavaraj Malagatti, deputy commissioner of police, north-east division, Bangalore city, and others.

Bangalore, January 22: The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA), which conducts the Common Entrance Test (CET) for professional courses in the state, is in a quandary. Dates for the examination have already been set: April 28, 29 and 30.

However, brochures cannot be printed until the government takes a final call on whether or not this examination will henceforth also be the criterion for admission to private colleges.

New Delhi, January 21: In a good news for students of the science stream, Government on Thursday decided to double the number of scholarships to 12,000 for doctoral studies in science.

The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, approved a proposal for increase in the number of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) through CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) in the country.

Hyderabad, January 21: Osmania University has decided to postpone the first and third semester examinations of all its post-graduate courses except engineering, pharmacy and hotel management indefinitely in view of the unfavourable atmosphere, but at the same time start the academic classes of second and fourth semesters from January 22.

New Delhi, January 21: Taking note of several incidents of harassment of students by teachers across the country, the Central Board of Secondary Education has advised all its affiliated schools not to mistreat any child or parent in the name of enforcing discipline.

“No school under the guise of enforcing discipline should mistreat any student or parent thereof.

Hyderabad, January 20: With racist attacks increasing on Indian students in various countries, particularly Australia, the US government assured that they would provide proper security and ensure safety of Indian students in US universities, US Deputy Chief of Mission Steven White has said.

Chennai, January 20: Students of Saveetha University, one of the 44 deemed universities whose derecognition has been sought, went on a rampage on its premises near here.

The students started damaging the property Monday night and continued their rampage Tuesday, fearing derecognition of their courses.

The university runs courses in engineering, medicine and dentistry, among others.

Top officials of Saveetha University were not reachable for comment while the office staff maintained that nothing went amiss.

New Delhi, January 20: In a bid to assuage students thrown into uncertainty, government Tuesday made it clear that not a single student of any failed deemed university would be affected and indicated scrapping of granting such status in future.

“Not a single child, not a single student will be adversely affected. Students of that university will get a university degree,” HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said addressing the Social Editors Conference in New Delhi.

New York, January 20: Lack of funds due to global economic crises would force 56 million children across the world to drop out of schools by 2015, a UN report said.

In a “collective aid failure”, rich countries continue to neglect basic education and exaggerate the amount of assistance they do deliver, according to the annual Global Monitoring Report released by Unesco here Tuesday.

New Delhi, January 19: The concept of deemed universities will be abolished in India, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal said on Tuesday, a day after the government moved an affidavit in the Supreme Court seeking de-recognition of 44 such institutions.

“It is a policy decision that all the deemed universities will finally go,” Mr. Sibal told reporters at the10th Editor’s Conference on social sector issues here.

New Delhi, January 19: The concept of deemed universities will be abolished in India, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal said Tuesday, a day after the government moved an affidavit in the Supreme Court seeking derecognition of 44 such institutions.

“It is a policy decision that all the deemed universities will finally go,” Sibal told reporters at the 10th Editor’s Conference on social sector issues here.

Washington, January 19: With students from India and China fast catching up in the fields of science and mathematics, president Barack Obama is set to seek from the Congress an extra $1.35 billion to expand his signature $4.35 billion education programme, making it one of the largest investments in school reform in the U.S. history.

Mr. Obama will shortly visit an Elementary school, where he will announce his plans to continue the ‘Race to the Top’ challenge, requesting the Congress to grant $1.35 billion more for the programme in his fiscal 2011 budget, the White House said.

Allahabad, January 19: Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Allahabad, which has been instrumental in harnessing the multi-dimensional facets of information technology and management, will organise a four-day First International Conference on Management and Information Security (ICMIS) from January 21.

Bhopal, January 19: Congress party general secretary Rahul Gandhi interacted with students of Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), one of the country’s leading engineering colleges, here Monday and urged the students to rise to the task of leading India to greater heights.

Gandhi criticized political institutions for nominating candidates rather than democratically electing them within the party. Gandhi said: ‘It is ironic that this is prevalent in such a great democracy as that of India.’ He also pointed out that politics today was a closed caucus.

New Delhi, January 19: The objective of the committee was to “review functioning of the existing deemed to be universities, and ensure that standards of higher education and research are maintained by such institutions as to justify their continuance as deemed to be universities”.

The panel invited all 130 deemed-to-be universities for “face to face discussions” during August-September 2009. Of the 130 invited, 126 attended the sessions, stated Upamanyu Basu, Director, HRD Ministry in the affidavit.

New Delhi, January 19: In what appears to be a indictment of UPA-I’s ‘education merchandise,’ the Centre has approached the Supreme Court with the recommendation seeking derecognition of 44 deemed universities. This status was conferred to these institutions during Mr Arjun Singh’s tenure as HRD minister.

New Delhi, January 18: Western officials are blaming a curriculum that glorifies violence and ignores basic history, science and math in Pakistan’s education institutions as the biggest hurdle in the war against terror.

The US, which has given a $7.5 billion civil aid, is now keen that part of these funds go to the education system in Pakistan.

A Washington Post report said that there is resistance to this proposals with institutions wanting to be run exactly the way they are. But education experts in Pakistan have been supportive of the idea.

New Delhi, January 18: Under the new grading system of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), a ‘heritage walk’ can get a student better grades.

Working towards preserving heritage structures in the country, the CBSE has directed higher education institutes affiliated to it to start a scheme to adopt heritage structures in their city.

In case of Chandigarh, schools are required to tie up with the Administration to adopt a heritage structure and involve students in looking after it.

New Delhi, January 17: Adding yet another plume to its cap of accolades gathered worldwide, the prestigious Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has now become the ‘Largest University in the World’ according to UNESCO.

Writing on its website — www.unesco.org — UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova said, ”Enrolments of nearly three million students and networks across the country, making the best use of Information Communication Technology (ICT), IGNOUs accomplishments are recognised worldwide.

Hyderabad, January 17: With an aim of improving quality technical education for undergraduates, the academic audit cell of the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University – Hyderabad (JNTU-H) is all set to grade the affiliated colleges from January 18 onwards.

The move appears to be in response to the several complaints being filed by students at both the University office and the AP State Council of Higher 1Education (APSCHE) stating that their respective colleges not having the adequate infrastructure even as the current academic year is half way through.

Mumbai, January 16: The online registration of Management Aptitude Test 2010 (MAT 2010) will be held upto January 24, 2010.

The can visit All India Management Association website for MAT online registration for February 2010. For MAT online registration visit following link: http://www.aima-ind.org/matfeb10/.

The MAT 2010 will be held online line as well as paper based. The last date of online registration is January 27, 2010.

Apart from online registration, students can also download sample questions for MAT 2010.

Nagpur, January 16: The Centre has decided to introduce a short-term medical education course at district level, in government-run schools, to reach out to rural population across the country.

“The Central government will soon launch a three-and-half-year medical education cadre and open district-level schools to impart it to produce doctors who will be later posted in rural areas,” Union health and family welfare minister Gulam Nabi Azad told reporters here today.