New Delhi, July 26: Shouting slogans and singing self-composed songs, holding banners and marching together, nearly 100 students, teachers and others came together here Sunday evening for a peaceful rally, demanding justice for slain Ujjain professor H.S. Sabharwal.
Organised by the slain professor’s son, Himanshu, the protest at the India Gate evoked a lot of interest, especially from the student community.
Hyderabad, July 26:Ending uncertainty over the date of commencement of counselling for admission
into engineering, architecture and pharmacy courses through Eamcet, the AP
State Council of Higher Education has decided to stick to the July 28 schedule
announced earlier.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the officials of the APSCHE held here today.
The development assumes significance in the wake of the HRD Ministry’s
suggestion that the counselling should be delayed to accommodate more new engineering
colleges for the academic year 2009-10.
Kathmandu, July 25: Indian ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood on Saturday handed over two newly constructed school buildings worth Rs 1.96 crore to the local communities here.
The school buildings for Sri Amar Singh Model Higher Secondary School in Pokhara and Nilkantha Campus in Dhading Besi district west of Kathmandu were built with Rs 1.96 crore grant provided by government of India under its educational infrastructure upgradation programme.
New Delhi, July 25: If learning Urdu and understanding the rich literary heritage written in the language was on your mind, then here is your chance — the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Friday announced a certificate programme to popularise the language.
Launched by Minister of State for Corporate and Minority Affairs Salman Khurshid, the course is meant for those who want to know how to read, write and speak correct Urdu.
Bangalore, July 25: The Department of Pre-University Education will announce the PUC results soon.
The results will be available on official website of Pre-University Education.
Students can approach following website for results: http://pue.kar.nic.in
PUC supplementary results of July 2009 examination have also been available on the above website.
—Agencies
Bangalore, July 25: Till a few months ago, IT professional T.V. George was earning Rs.70,000 per month, plus perks. But after losing his high-paying job, and being unemployed for three months, George, 31, has started giving tuitions in mathematics and physics to aspiring engineering students in his neighbourhood.
Muzaffarnagar, July 25: The UP Board of High School and Intermediate Education has cancelled the candidature of a class XII student and barred him from appearing in future board exams for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Chief Minister Mayawati in his answer sheet, official sources said.
Two Principals and five staff have also been suspended in this connection, they added.
The incident came to light when the answer sheets of Kayamuddin Ansari, a student of Inter College in Devariya district, was being evaluated here in April.
Pune, July 25: It was only on July 21 that Abhinav English Medium School, the first in Pune, closed down after 17 of its students tested positive for H1N1 virus. The pressure was mounting from parents, health officials and the civic administration for the closure of Abhinav Marathi Medium School too and the school authorities acquiesced on Friday. Though none of its students was infected, the Marathi medium school was closed down as a precautionary measure.
Pune, July 25: Abhijit Shripad Joshi, the Class XII student whose RTI application was instrumental in bringing the SSC/HSC answersheets under the purview of the RTI Act, could see his mathematics answersheet but could not get it reassessed though his answers had matched with the model answers.
The efforts proved futile, as the 32-year-old rule 104 (3) of Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) says the candidate cannot demand reassessment.
Pune, July 25: The SSC students who have failed in two subjects but got 40 per cent marks in science subjects will be allowed to take admission in science stream this year.
The state government has decided to implement the ATKT (allowed to keep term) scheme for SSC students from this year itself. The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education has declared that the ATKT will be applicable to students who have failed in one or two subjects.
New Delhi, July 24: Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Friday said the government is considering setting up autonomous colleges independent of universities.
Addressing a meeting of principal secretaries and secretaries of higher education from various states here, Sibal said: ‘The government is thinking in terms of allowing the setting up of autonomous colleges.’
The minister’s day-long interaction with the officials was his first initiative to evolve a consensus of the states for reforms in the education sector.
New Delhi, July 24: A day after Delhi government opposed the closure of any school fully or partially due to the swine flu threat, a senior central health ministry official Friday said the government will send an official circular to the state governments on the issue.
‘There is no logic behind closing down the school for a few days,’ the official told IANS.
Patna, July 24:Five people, including the headmaster and two teachers, were arrested in Bihar’s Nalanda district after a lizard was found in the mid-day meals served to school children, officials said Friday. In the last three weeks various such cases have been reported in the state.
Bihar’s Human Resource Development Minister Hari Narain Singh said that the headmaster and two teachers of a middle school in Basniawa under Harnaut block have been arrested after a lizard was found in the mid-day meal. They were also suspended on charge of negligence of duty.
New Delhi, July 24: Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Friday asked all the states to prepare a vision document within the next three months on the targets to be achieved in the higher education sector by 2020.
Lucknow, July 24: The Academic Council of the Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU) decided to hold special examinations for the 7,200 students who had failed in BTech first-year.
Out of a total of 12 papers, these students had failed in five to seven papers and were demanding special examinations. On Thursday, over 200 of them staged a dharna on the campus.
UPTU Registrar U S Tomer said, “To qualify for the second year, these students will have to aggregate at least 24 out of the total 42 credits. The special examinations will begin from August 8.”
New Delhi, July 24: Human resource development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal has found a simple solution for the perennial faculty shortage in the nation’s premier educational institutions.
Sibal has suggested that top colleges such as the IITs should ‘share’ their faculty by making use of the Information Communication Technology (ICT).
The former science and technology minister has for long championed the use of the ICT in education. But the IITs doubt the viability of the minister’s idea.
Dehra Dun, July 23: Urdu is all set to get boost in the hill state with the Uttarakhand government today saying in the Assembly that an Urdu teacher will be appointed at government schools, where more than 25 students express their willingness to study Urdu language.
Replying to an adjournment motion moved by BSP member Taslim Ahmed, Minister of state for Education Govind Singh Bist said that there are 115 posts of Urdu teachers in the state. Out of 115, only 12 posts are vacant and they would be filled as early as possible.
Lucknow, July 23: The Uttar Pradesh government Thursday instructed all privately-run engineering and management colleges to resume reservation of seats for students from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other backward communities.
A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the state technical education ministry late Wednesday night.
The reservation was suspended when some private college owners approached the Allahabad High Court May 2009 for a stay after initially agreeing to reservation in 2006.
Bhopal, July 23: In a major crackdown on alleged tax evaders, the Income Tax Department today raided premises of private institutions in five cities.
Raids were being carried out at People’s College, RKDF group of institutes, Globus and LNCT college, which offer various professional courses, official sources said.
Forty premises of these institutes in Bhopal, Mumbai, Delhi, Rewa and Jabalpur were covered under the raid conducted by a team of nearly 350-400 Income Tax officials, they said.
Lucknow, July 23: The state government has directed the Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU) to start its counselling for admissions in various courses from July 26, official sources said here today.
The counselling scheduled earlier for July 10 was deferred following the High Court stay order on a petition filed by private institutes, which opposed quota system.
In its order issued yesterday to the UPTU, the state directed it to conduct admissions as per reservation norms. It will continue till September 3.
Chandigarh, July 23: Once considered the leading college for boys, the DAV College in Sector 10 and the Government College in Sector 11 are seeing an increasing number of girls taking admission.
The colleges were made co-educational two years ago.
In the DAV College, girls this year comprise 40 per cent of the total students, up by 20 per cent than last year. College authorities say if the trend continued, the college soon would have girls in majority.
Pune, July 23: The ongoing college teachers’ strike is likely to affect around 35,000 students of BSc, BCS, BA, BCom and other non-professional courses who have applied for revaluation.
The results of the examinations held for them in March-April, which were scheduled to be declared by July-end, will now be delayed by at least a fortnight.
Usually the students get enough time to decide whether or not to appear for the examination taking place in October/November and fill examination forms accordingly.
New Delhi, July 22: The Delhi High Court Wednesday said it is the responsibility of schools, which got land at throw away prices from the government, to fill up 15 percent seats with students from economically poor background.
A division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Manmohan warned the schools not to admit other students under this quota and, if they do so their admissions will stand cancelled.
The court said that if schools cannot fill up the seats on their own, they could inform the Directorate of Education and it will send them students.
Hyderabad, July 22: The Andhra Pradesh High Court has come to the rescue of a boy who secured ninth rank in a medical entrance exam but was denied admission for falling 15 days short of being 17 years.
In its interim orders Wednesday, the court directed NTR Health University to allow A. Sairam to participate in counselling for admission into medical colleges. It, however, said the admission would be subject to the final orders in the case.
New Delhi, July 22: When availability of quality teachers is a national concern, over Rs.87 million in central funding for teachers training has been lying unused for around 14 years in Bihar, according to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG).
The latest CAG report says: ‘Failure of the (human resource development) ministry in monitoring the utilisation of grants released to the Bihar government for establishing District Institutes of Education and Training (DIET) and Colleges of Teachers Education resulted in retention of Rs.8.73 crore.’