DoE extended the last date of application for the disabled kidsThere is a good news for the children with disabilities who did not secure admissions as Directorate of Education (DoE) is inviting the fresh applications under the category. The move came after the Delhi High Court ordered the department to reserve 3% of the 25% EWS/DG category seats for the differently-abled under the Rights of Persons with Disability Act, 2016. The orders were issued after a PIL was filed by the father of a differently-abled child. The plea claimed that the guidelines issued under the RTE Act completely ignored the interests of the children with special needs. The court then asked that why there is no reservation for the differently abled students and was issued on court’s order. According to the courts orders, those who had applied under the mentally and physically disabled qualities are required to apply again and the neighborhood criteria will not apply to these admissions. The last date to submit the application is August 13. source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/doe-extended-the-last-date-of-application-for-the-disabled-kids-8558
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AIADMK demanded that respective states should hold JEE and NEET examsOn Monday, AIADMK opposed the JEE and NEET exam and demanded that state governments should be given authority to hold such exams. The AIADMK member M Thambui Durai said “the National Testing Agency will hold entrance tests twice a year, students would spend more time preparing for it than concentrate on their Class 12 syllabus. Such joint or combined tests only help elites get through”. He also mentioned the fact that the shortage of the doctors in the rural areas is because states are not allowed to hold the tests. Meanwhile, HRD minister Prakash Jvadekar said that JEE and NEET will be held in the computer based mode. Also due to lack of internet everywhere, these tests will not be in online mode and government is also considering the option of paper-pen exam during the first transitional year. He also said that students can take training to appear for the computer-based test. source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/aiadmk-demanded-that-respective-states-should-hold-jee-and-neet-exams-8557 Institute of Eminence tag | Funds are only for the government institutesAmid the controversy of granting the ‘Eminence’ tag to the Jio Institute of the Reliance Foundation, the HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar clearly stated that the funds of INR 1000 crores are meant only for the public sector institutes, who have received eminence tag. He also clarified that only letter of intent was issued to the proposed institute of the Reliance foundation. Javadekar argued that before giving the tag of ‘Institute of Eminence’ several factors such as - 15-year vision and five-year implementation, academic, recruitment, research, and administrative plans, etc were comprehensively considered by the committee. “Let me once again clarify that no greenfield university, which is not in existence but has a plan to come up in future, has been given the status of Institution of Eminence. They have been only issued Letter of Intent with a clear guideline of what they should do for three years, complete the process, and then only they will be granted status after verification and inspection,” Javadekar said in Lok Sabha in reply to a question raised by the TMCʼs Prasun Banerjee. The minister said that 114 applications were received for the ‘Institution of Eminence’ tag - 74 from public institutions, 29 private universities, and 11 in greenfield category. He also replied to TMC’s Saugata Roy question by saying that LoIs have been issued to Jio Institute and Manipal Academy of Higher Education with the condition that they will submit their report indicating their readiness under the IoE tag within three years of getting the LoI. “The government is giving Rs 1,000 crore only to public institutes – that is, the IITs (Delhi and Bombay) and the IISc (Bengaluru). Not a paisa is given to private institutes,” Javadekar said. source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/institute-of-eminence-tag-funds-are-only-for-the-government-institutes-8556 51 people arrested in UPSC cheating caseOn Sunday, police arrested 51 people who were trying to rig the UPSC exam scheduled to held on the same day. Police cleared that the question papers recovered from the accused were fake and their attempt to derail the exam was failed. An STF official said “34 persons were arrested from Lucknow, 12 from Allahabad, four from Kanpur and rest from Agra. Among the arrested persons are 11 solvers, nine candidates, 31 middlemen and gang leaders which includes two private doctors, two pharmacists of a government hospital, a teacher and a police constable”. STF SSP Abhishek Singh said that the accused are in judicial custody as of now and police are on the lookout for the other three. Police also claimed to have recovered the following: 63 cellphonesOver Rs 1 lakhSeveral Adhaar cards and ATM cards among others “During questioning, accused told police that candidates who were interested to use solvers were asked to pay hefty amounts. Other candidates who asked for question paper had to pay lesser,” said Abhishek. “Om Sahay, who was arrested in Allahabad, was leading the gang who had arranged solvers for the candidates. Om Sahay had called solvers from Bihar,” said Singh. source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/51-people-arrested-in-upsc-cheating-case-8555 CAT 2018 exam | Check important datesThe date for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2018 has been released and this year the exam is scheduled for November 25, 2018. IIM Calcutta will conduct the exam this year across 147 cities of the nation in two shifts. The online registration process for the same will begin on August 8 and the last date for registering for the exam is September 19, 2018. The admit cards for the same will be available from October 24 on the official website, iimcat.ac.in. Exam pattern The exam will be 180 minutes long and candidates will be allotted sixty minutes for answering each section. Candidates will not be able to switch from one section to another. The exam will be divided into the following three sections: Verbal Ability and Reading ComprehensionData Interpretation and Logical ReasoningQuantitative Ability Candidates who will clear the exam will be eligible for the admission in management courses such as PGP, PGDM, PGPEM, EPGP, PGPBM, PGPEX at the IIMs across the nation. The results of CAT are declared in the second week of January. In 2017, the results were declared on January 8 in which 100 percentile was scored by 20 candidates of which only two female candidates three non-engineers were in top 20. source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/cat-2018-exam-check-important-dates-8554 Lisbon Physics Olympiad |India won five gold medalsIndia gave its best performance ever at the 49th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO 2018) in Lisbon, where it bagged five gold medals. The Olympiad was held in Portugal, between July 21 and 28 and this was India’s best performance ever at the IPHO in 21 years. A total of 86 countries participated in the event and India and China each won five gold medals in the Olympiad. According to a statement from Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), the national center of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and the nodal center in the country for all science Olympiads a total of 396 students took part in the event from around the world. HBCSE, which selects the teams and train them for the Olympics said that Two boys from Kota (Lay Jain and Pawan Goyal), one from Mumbai (Bhaskar Gupta), one from Rajkot (Nishant Abhangi) and one from Kolkata (Siddharth Tiwary) bagged the gold medals. The exam consists of theoretical and experimental exams, each of which is of five hours duration and this year, the theory exam had questions from: LIGO detection of gravitational wavesThe ATLAS instrument at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)The physics of blood flow in living tissues and growth of tumors. source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/lisbon-physics-olympiad-india-won-five-gold-medals-8553 For better education quality, teacher training is important: TFI chairpersonDuring the 7th convocation of Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) more than 320 students graduated from the institute and 47 of them were given awards for excellence in various categories. The chief guest of the convocation was Anu Aga, chairperson of the non- profit organization Teach for India (TFI) and she stressed on the need to invest in the teacher’s training for improving the quality of education in India. She said, “The RTE Act focuses on inputs — having buildings, toilets — which is essential but that is not education. Quality of education does not depend on infrastructure. You can have a good school under a tree and learn a lot. At the same time, the quality of the education at a very fancy school can be bad. Focussing only on good infrastructure will not improve the quality of education.” “The enrollment, thanks to RTE, has gone up a lot but quality of education has not improved because our teachers’ training institutes churn out really bad teachers. Teaching is not an aspirational profession. The majority of teachers are those who can not do anything better,” she said. She further said that once a teacher joins the school, the schools do not invest further in the teachers to improve their skills and knowledge. “We have programs like District Institute of Education and Training (DIETs) but they are defunct. There are some good teachers in the system but nobody is investing in them. Training them is equally important. We do not make learning fun. If you make learning fun, children would love to come to municipal schools, where at present, students only come for midday meals,” Aga said. She also spoke about the majority of parents sending their children to the English medium schools. She said that this is happening due to the government’s ignorance. “Parents want their children to be taught English so they spend a lot of money in sending their children to horrible private schools. These schools teach them neither Marathi, Hindi or English properly.” She also urged the graduating students not to settle for the mediocrity in their education and careers. source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/for-better-education-quality-teacher-training-is-important-tfi-chairperson-8552 IIT Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) to increase its ties with the other engineering collegesIn an attempt to help the other colleges of the state perform better, IIT-Gn has decided to increase its association with the other colleges of the state. The decision was taken after the institute got the nod for the same during a meeting. So far, the college had associations with only Vishwakarma Government Engineering College in Ahmedabad. “Yesterday (Friday), the board decided to increase association with other engineering colleges. If there is a good institute then there should be talks between the institutes. Education institutes grow when they talk to each other. As of now, we have decided to call principals of all engineering colleges and conduct workshops for them,” said IIT-Gn Director Prof Sudhir Jain. The state has total 16 government, three grant-in-aid and 121 self-financed engineering colleges. Private engineering colleges of the state are having 55 percent of the seats empty. Denying any instructions being given by the state government in this regard, the director said, “We have a small corpus of Rs 50 lakh but we want to spend more (in this regard) and have been assured by the government that we can have more funds if we want.” The institute is also planning on increasing its students by 200 from next year onward. Jain also said that the intake of the students from the foreign countries is less but we are doing more efforts to increase the number. “Talks on this have been going on in the country and deliberations are on that if India needs to become a world leader then people from outside should come and study here. Even in Takshila and Nalanda people would come from outside and study. There are students from four countries (Nepal, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea and Turkey) who have come to IIT-Gn to study. We are gradually working on this and increasing this intake,” he said. source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/iit-gandhinagar-iit-gn-to-increase-its-ties-with-the-other-engineering-colleges-8551 West Bengal government seeking termination of the ‘No Detention’ policyWest Bengal’s education minister told that the government is waiting to inform the center about the recent amendments in the Right to Education Act (RTE) and is seeking the termination of the ‘No Detention’ policy in the schools. As soon as the Center send any orders in connection with the ‘No detention’ policy, the state will take its decision on the matter, he added. “We are ready with our idea. Once the central government sends any directive to us, we will hold a discussion with the Chief Minister and decide on our move,” Chatterjee told reporters at the state secretariat. The existing policy prohibits the schools from detaining the students until they complete their elementary education. Moving the “The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Second Amendment) Bill, 2017”, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar is seeking regular exams for class V and VIII students. “It is a very important legislation and a majority of state governments supported this Center’s proposal. It brings accountability in our elementary education system,” he said. “After the committee submits its report, it will be discussed with Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee and a final decision will be taken in the matter,” he had said. source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/west-bengal-government-seeking-termination-of-the-no-detention-policy-8550 Quality research and innovation are the biggest challenges for the Indian education: Prakash JavadekarOn Friday, HRD Minister, Prakash Javadekar said that lack of innovation and quality research are two biggest roadblocks which Indian education system is facing. “Lack of innovation and quality research is the foremost challenge before the country. Quality expansion and teaching reform is the need of the hour,” the minister said. The minister also emphasized the need and importance of creating a positive and lively environment for the students and to enhance the quality of education in all central and private universities. “It is time to show India’s prowess to the world in the field of education. The country hosts many world-class educators who are working in silos and they need to break walls and come forward to share their knowledge,” Javadekar said. “It has been found that many Indians, including few parliamentarians, are among the world’s top teachers and the country should make the best use of such resources,” he added. Flagging the issue of plagiarism in PhD thesis, Javadekar said, “A software has been developed which will be made available to all universities to stop plagiarism and will be available free of cost on the UGC website”. Javadekar was addressing a three-day national conference of the vice-chancellors and other renowned educationists of the country also attended the meeting. source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/quality-research-and-innovation-are-the-biggest-challenges-for-the-indian-education-prakash-javadekar-8549 |
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