50 percent of schooling hours should be spent in outside activities: Vice PresidentOn Saturday, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu said that should spent 50 percent of their schooling hours in outside activities and parents and teachers should give equal importance to sports education as well. Mr. Naidu was addressing the students of Jubilee Hills Public School on the occasion of their annual day function and said, " Studies are important but equally important are sports, fine arts, dance, music, art and culture. In fact, I have been advocating that students should spend 50 per cent of their schooling hours outside classrooms and that sports education should be accorded greater importance by educationists and parents." The Vice President said that school curriculum should inculcate rational and independent thinking among the students. He also urged to revamp the school education system completely so that students enjoy going to school and become life long learners. "The education system needs to focus on making a child curious, creative, caring, communicative, confident and capable. It should prepare each child to be an active, caring citizen ready to participate in the world of today and capable of shaping the world of tomorrow. Such an environment will instill confidence in children, apart from inculcating a spirit of tolerance and accommodation in them," the Vice President said. Pointing out that education was the foundation for all efforts to improve the quality of our lives, Mr Naidu said, "Our life is multi-faceted and so must education be." source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/50-percent-of-schooling-hours-should-be-spent-in-outside-activities-vice-president-8980
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NDA 2019 notification to be released in January second weekUnion Public Service Commission (UPSC) is expected to release the official notification for the NDA & NA exams in the second week of January and the exam is expected to held on April 21, 2019. Candidates who are interested in appearing for the exam can register for the exam by visiting the official website of the UPSC -- upsc.gov.in. The last to register for the exam is February 4, 2019. The exam is conducted for admissions in Army, Navy and Air Force wings of the National Defence Academy (NDA) and Indian Naval Academy Course (INAC). Students who have passed 10+2 exams are eligible to appear for the exam and candidates who are appearing for the class 12th exam under the 10+2 pattern or equivalent are also eligible to appear for the exam. Candidates will have to appear for the written exam which is conducted by the UPSC. Candidates who will qualify the written exam will have to appear for the interview. The interview is conducted by the Services Selection Board of the Ministry of Defence. The final result of NDA & NA (I) 2018 exam was declared on November 27. A total of 379 have been declared qualified for admission to the Army, Navy and Air Force wings of NDA for the 141th Course and Naval Academy for the 103rd INAC. source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/nda-2019-notification-to-be-released-in-january-second-week-8979 Time table for the fourth D.El.Ed. Exams released by the NIOSThe fourth edition of the Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed) exam will be held in February by the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS). The exams will be conducted for three subject modules: Learning in Art, Health, Physical and Work Education at Elementary Level (508), Learning Social Science at Upper Primary Level (509) and Learning Science at Upper Primary Level (510). The exams are scheduled on February 14 and 15 in the afternoon shift (2.30 pm to 5.30 pm) and the hall tickets for the same will be released one week before the exam. The D.El.Ed program was launched by the HRD Ministry in October 2017 to train the in-service untrained teachers working in primary and upper primary schools. All the teachers, who have enrolled for the program were given the deadline of March 2019 to complete the program and considering the objective of the NIOS-D.El.Ed program this might be the last exam. A special public exam will be held for the teachers who could not qualify the previous exams. The exam will be conducted in 5 subject modules and teachers can register for the exam till until January 10. source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/time-table-for-the-fourth-deled-exams-released-by-the-nios-8978 CBSE board exams: CBSE announced class 10th and 12th date sheetsThe date sheets for class 10th and 12th board exams have been released by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). According to the date sheet, class 12 board exams will be held from February 15 to April 3 and Class 10 board exams from February 21 to March 29. This year, the board has taken special care of the fact that none of the exam dates coincides with the dates of the various competitive exams. And to provide students with the sufficient time, CBSE has released the time table seven weeks before the commencement of the exams. Links for the time table Class 10th time table -- cbse.nic.in/newsite/circulars/2018/Class-X_datesheet.pdf Class 12th time table -- cbse.nic.in/newsite/circulars/2018/Class-XII_dt_sheet.pdf The exam will be held from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm. Answer sheets will be given to the students at 10:00 am and question paper will be distributed among the students at 10:15 am. CBSE offers 40 vocational subjects in class 12 and 15 in class 10. The exams for the various vocational subjects will be held earlier. "While preparing the date sheet, the admission schedule of Delhi University has also been considered and results will be declared by the first week of June"said Dr Sanyam Bhardwaj, Controller of Examinations. The exams for the core subjects will commence in March. source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/cbse-board-exams-cbse-announced-class-10th-and-12th-date-sheets-8977 West Bengal state-run schools to have English medium teaching from next academic year“Now the state-run government schools will also offer English based education from the next academic year starting March/ April 2019,” West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee told indianexpress.com. Chatterjee said that the initiative was taken by the government two years ago to benefit the students from the lower income background. “The English medium education will start in fifty to sixty state-run schools initially in Kolkata and other districts of West Bengal. The government will introduce in other schools gradually,” Chatterjee said. An official from the West Bengal board of secondary education said that the government has already made the list of the schools where English medium will be introduced. “The list has been prepared on the basis of the Madhyamik (Class 10) and Uchha Madhyamik (Class 12) results of the previous years. The government has given preference to the best performing schools,” said the official. The names of the schools will be announced by the board in January. Some of the top state-run schools such as Ballygunge government school, Hare school, Hindu school in Kolkata, Barasat government school in North 24 Parganas, Raiganj Coronation High schools are expected to be on the list. source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/west-bengal-state-run-schools-to-have-english-medium-teaching-from-next-academic-year-8976 IIT-B students demonstrated protests as they demand hike in fellowshipStudents at IIT-Bombay demonstrated a protest at the Institute on Friday as they alleged that there has been a drastic increase in the living expense and fees of the institute while the fellowship amount for the research scholars has remained the same. Hundreds of Ph.D. and masters students participated in the rally, which began from the hostel 12 and concluded at the main gate. “We had sent a letter to the MHRD and the department of science and technology. We also sent representations, including 2,000 signatures, with a cover letter. But there was no response or acknowledgment… forcing us to protest,” said a research scholar. Some of the demands of the scholars were “timely disbursement of fellowship through the portal, simpler process to avail fellowship, HRA money to be at par with the actual expense of living in a modest accommodation in Mumbai, a proportional increase in contingency grant and a centralized regulatory body for evaluation of fellowships.” “The scholars have to pay a semester fee of around Rs 17,000, along with mess fees of Rs 27,000, which have been raised by Rs 7,000 in the past one year. This high lump sum payment of around Rs 45,000 every semester often becomes troublesome when the fellowship is minimal and paid very irregularly (except institute fellowship). There are instances when CSIR fellows do not receive their fellowship for six to 12 months,” the research scholars said in a statement. source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/iit-b-students-demonstrated-protests-as-they-demand-hike-in-fellowship-8975 HPTU postponed December 27 exams on account of PM Narendra Modi’s rallyHimachal Pradesh Technical University has postponed its MBA and MCA exams scheduled for December 27 as PM Narendra Modi will address a rally in Dharamshala to mark the first anniversary of Jai Ram Thakur government in the state. HPTU assistant registrar said “the MBA examinations will now be held on January 9, while the MCA exam on January 4.” He said that the examination dates have been revised due to administrative reasons. In addition to this, all the educational institutions in Dharamshala block will remain closed on Thursday. Kangra District Magistrate Sandeep Kumar said “the decision to keep the schools and colleges closed on December 27 has been taken to avoid inconveniences to the students on the day due to possible traffic snarls due to the security arrangement for the prime minister’s rally.” source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/hptu-postponed-december-27-exams-on-account-of-pm-narendra-modis-rally-8974 Delhi Police file charge-sheet is CBSE paper leakThe Delhi Police has filed its charge-sheet into the CBSE’s class X and XII board examination paper leak case this year. Police claimed that the leak originated from Himachal Pradesh, where two students wrote class X mathematics and class XII economics question paper after receiving the instructions from the accused and later leak them on WhatsApp. According to the police, the leaked papers were handwritten by a female Class XII student and a male Class X student. “The accused chose the two because he favoured them… the male Class X student was given the question paper by the main accused, Rakesh, who was at the time employed as a Trained Graduate Teacher (TGT) at DAV Public school,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (crime) Dr Ram Gopal Naik. Police further said “the son of Rakesh’s relative had also appeared for the Class X exam that time, adding that both the papers were written in his private residence in Himachal Pradesh”. The charge-sheet is 482 pages long and was submitted by the police on Thursday at Karkardooma court. In the charge-sheet, the police have named ten people as accused. “Four of the accused are from the convent school in the capital, while other six are from Himachal Pradesh,” said Naik. source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/delhi-police-file-charge-sheet-is-cbse-paper-leak-8973 NTA’s NET exam ends today: Results are expected soonNTA started conducting UGC NET exam on December 18 and the schedule for the same will end today with the last exam shift ending on 6:00pm. According to the reports, more than 9 lakh candidates registered for the NET exam this year and the exam was held for a total of 85 subjects. To make the exam fair and transparent and the curb the elements of cheating NTA used CCTV cameras for the live streaming of exam halls from the exam centers. To prevent any unauthorized use of mobile phones during the exam, the agency used 40,000 mobile phone jammers. The agency is expected to declare the results of the exam on or before January 10, 2019. On several occasions, UGC NET exam has been questioned by the candidates as the right criteria to judge the ability of a candidate to teach in the university classroom. It was argued that because of the objective nature, the exam fails short in testing the aptitude for the subjects such as Humanities and Arts which require subjective approach. In the past the exam has also been criticized for its arbitrary time limits and patterns. For the first time, the UGC NET exam is conducted online and the reaction of the aspiring teachers of the nation remains to be seen. source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/ntas-net-exam-ends-today-results-are-expected-soon-8971 DU not to conduct entrance exam for 2019 session: Prakash JavadekarHRD Minister denied any reports of DU conducting online entrance exam for the 2019 session and said that admissions in the university will be done as usual. He also added that it is not final yet if JNU will hold an online admission test in collaboration with NTA for the 2019 academic year. “There will be no entrance examinations in Delhi University. It will be as usual in 2019-20, meaning based on marks secured in class 12,” Javadekar told reporters. However, JNU is a press released on December 7 said “the Vice Chancellor informed the members of the (Academic) Council that the NTA has agreed to conduct the Computer-based JNU Entrance Examinations.” When reporters asked about the same from Mr. Javadekar, he said “This hasn’t been decided.” When told that the university has made an announcement regarding the same on its website, he said they have decided but the university is still in talks with the NTA regarding the feasibility of the same. Noting is final yet. Reacting to Javadekar’s comments, JNU Rector I Chintamani Mahapatra said, “The minister is right that the agreement is in process. We have already spoken to them (NTA) and they have agreed. It’s all in the pipeline, it will be done. He (Javadekar) didn’t say that nothing is going to happen.” source https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/du-not-to-conduct-entrance-exam-for-2019-session-prakash-javadekar-8972 |
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