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Karnataka Janapada Academy to be country

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Karnataka Janapada Academy, to be set up in Haveri district, is going to be the country's first folk varsity. The varsity will be spread on an area of 560 acre, B S Channabasappa, Chairman of the Karnataka Janapada Academy said. While briefing reporters about the four-day All India Folklore Conference to be held in Bidar in Karnataka from April 22, he said that all necessary documents have been submitted to the State Government and ''in the month of June, the process of launching the university will start.'' He also added that the All India Folklore Conference had attracted 54 scholars from different parts of the country, including those from Jammu and Kashmir. Over 300 folk artistes would be participating in the conference. Chief Minister B S Yedyyurappa would inaugurate the conference. The conference will have nine sessions in which folk scholars would discuss about the development of folklore in their respective States, he said. The Academy had been organising conferences, workshop, seminar, training sessions, folk exhibition, documentation and cultural festivals related to folklore for the last 25 years, he added.

Gandhian non-violence course in Vidyapith

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A course on Gandhian non-violence has been launched by Gujarat Vidyapith to cater to international participants who have been trying to understand his philosophy and looking towards institutes in India to get a formal training in Gandhian non-violence. According to the vice-chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapith Dr Sudarshan Iyengar, a course of this kind has been launched after a gap of 13 years; the last batch was in 1998. “Gandhian non-violence has always influenced people across the globe. This course is one step forward in spreading it more systematically,” he added. The course will focus specifically on the non-violence aspect rather than covering general aspects of Gandhian philosophy, which was taught in earlier batches. According to the registrar of Vidyapith, Rajendra Khimani, this four-month course is meant only for international students and it will commence on September 15, 2011. “Vidyapith won't charge any tuition fees from them. They have to just bear the travel costs to India and back. “Local hospitality and internal travel costs will be taken care of by Vidyapith” he said. Course modules will include subjects like defining features of Gandhian non-violence, correlation between truth and non-violence, meaning of non-violence, non-violence as soul force, non-violence as 'the law of our being', non-violence – the moral equivalent of the law of gravitation, principled and strategic non-violence, and more. For better understanding of the Gandhian philosophy of non-violence, participants will be taught theory for two months and then will be taken to Gandhian institutions and ashrams. According to officials of Vidyapith, the first two months of the programme will be held in Gujarat Vidyapith and Kochrab Ashram. Then, they will be taken out to stay in Gandhian institutions like Sampoorna Kranti Vidyalaya at Vedchi, Gujarat, Sewagram Ashram at Wardha, Maharashtra, Institute of Gandhian Studies, Gopuri, Wardha , Lok Bharati Gramvidyapith, Sanosara, Bhavnagar, and others. “Apart from that, participants will visit one naturopathy centre and one organic farming place for 10-15 days” said Iyengar. He also said while the current intake capacity for the course is 15, it may be increased after scrutinising the applications. There will be no end-semester examination. Instead, there will be an open house with a select group of teachers and activists for further clarification.

Punjab govt schools to close admissions, chaos among parents

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If you think that the admission scene in private schools is terrible then you are wrong. Not just high-end private schools, but the admission crisis is prevalent in the government schools as well. The Punjab government schools are closing admissions for class XI closes on April 30 and a chaos of sorts has spread with the number of available seats falling short of the demand by a large margin. Applications amounting to twice the number of available seats have been filled. Parents are using recommendation letters from politicians, bureaucrats and VIPs to get their wards through. The admission process is most chaotic at Government Model Senior Secondary School. There are 450 seats up for grabs and around 1700 applications have been drawn. Out of 450, 350 seats will be given to students of the same school and the rest 100 are for outsiders.

Integrated M.Sc to freshers by PAU

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A new integrated Master of Science (M.Sc) in chemistry is to be introduced by the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) for freshers from the upcoming academic year. Students should have a minimum of 50 per cent in class 12 board, applicable for students from both medical and non-medical streams, to apply for this course. PAU will also allow students lo leave the course after three years with a B.Sc degree. Speaking to Dainik Bhaskar, Dr RS Siddhu, Dean College of Basic Sciences, said, “The new course will throw open avenues for students in pharmaceuticals, food processing and fermentation industries as well as teaching.” The last date for applying for the course is May 12. PAU had also offered a string of new courses in the last academic year including M.Sc in Microbiology, Biology, Botany and Zoology.

AICTE stuns AP colleges with surprise raids

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All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is creating ripples all over Andhra by its “surprise raids” in the engineering colleges. Notices were issued to over 100 colleges for various offences like violation of land rules, collection of capitation fee and donations and student cheating. The managements of 106 engineering colleges have been summoned by AICTE to its headquarters in New Delhi on April 21 for their explanations before the 'hearing committee' on the violations detected during the raids. Prominent engineering colleges like Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (CBIT), Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology (MGIT), Sri Nidhi, Gurunanak, Bharat, Sultan-ul-Uloom, Bharat, Aurora and so on figure in the list of colleges which were issued notices by AICTE. While the AICTE has issued notices to some colleges based on the 'deficiencies' detected during its surprise raids, some colleges got notices based on the CBI raids that were conducted following the arrest of then-AICTE member secretary, Mr Narayan Rao, in July 2009 while accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh to grant approval for an engineering college. The AICTE has threatened to issue a 'closure notice' to those colleges which fail to provide a satisfactory explanation. Sources in AICTE maintained that the CBIT and MGIT, which figure in the list of top-10 colleges in the state, and both, owned by the same management, violated land norms. It was learnt that the management registered the land in Gandipet in the name of one society, secured approval and later transferred the colleges to another society, but ignored the land transfer, which is considered a major offence as per AICTE norms. Additionally, some parents and students lodged specific complaints against the management with the AICTE, for collecting capitation fee and donations. Also, the Sultan-Ul-Uloom Educational Society, which runs Muffakham Jah Engineering College in Banjara Hills, has not produced valid land documents till now, despite being in operation for several years.

India educationists to modify learning processes

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For an accurate assessment of the current learning methods education experts from Indian syllabus-based CBSE schools in the GCC and India are taking initiatives to ensure that students clearly understand core concepts while learning. Recently a discussion was led by GEMS Education, a leading international education company, and the India-based Educational Initiatives (EI), an internationally renowned organisation in the field of child psychology and student assessment methods. Research by Educational Initiatives shows that while children today respond to rote-based questions relatively well, they fail to answer unfamiliar or application-based questions due to unclear core concepts Dr Wasil, Director of GEMS Education, said, “Assessments carried out with the right spirit and approach is a sure-shot path to empowerment and school leadership has to be ever on the learning curve to ensure this.” Sridhar Rajagopalan, Managing Director, Educational Initiatives, said EI and GEMS share the same philosophy of providing an improved system in the region.

P&G

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P&G's signature CSR Program “Shiksha” has come up with more than schools all over India after it was launched a few days back with Rani Mukherjee as its brand ambassador. Shiksha has, so far, impacted lives of 150,000 children till 2010, aims to take number to 200,000 in 2011 By this initiative P&G has given its consumers a simple yet powerful way to participate in building India's educational future. Every time a consumer buys P&G products such as Tide, Ariel, Pampers, Whisper, Olay, Vicks, Gillette Oral-B, Head & Shoulders, Pantene and Duracell in the month of April, May & June, Shiksha contributes a portion of the proceeds towards children's education. Now in its 7th year, Shiksha is back with an even stronger commitment – to take its current impact of 150,000 children to the 200,000 mark. In 2010, Shiksha took initiative in building over 20 schools all across India, supported 100+ existing schools and now aims to build at-least 20 more in the coming year. This year, Bollywood megastar Rani Mukherji came on-board to extend her selfless support to Shiksha, encouraging consumers to help Shiksha lead more and more on the path to education. Rani was delighted to hear that Shiksha is also building a school in the state of West Bengal and helped build a model for a play-school that will be presented to the children at RTI Shiksha Begampur High School. At the Shiksha launch event Rani said “It's truly commendable that with your support, Shiksha has been able to impact 150,000 children and begun building 20 schools across India. I am proud to be associated with Shiksha and felt very happy to be creating this playschool that will be built for the children at RTI Shiksha Begampur High School, West Bengal. I urge you to remember that the next time you walk into a store to shop for something basic like a shampoo, a toothbrush or a detergent – you can help educate a lesser-privileged child by making a simple brand choice” Present at the launch, Sharat Verma, Marketing Manager, P&G India said, ''Shiksha is not just an initiative, but a passion that we as an organization strongly believe in. After touching the lives of 150,000 children, we are now helping build the future of India's children “Brick by Brick” by building 20 schools this year and an aim to build another 20 in the coming year and take Shiksha's impact to 200,000 children. After all, “Padhega India, tabhi toh Badhega India”

Education tops 12th five-year list

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The 12th five-year plan will put more emphasis on education, health and infrastructure, according to the Planning Commission deputy chairman, Montek Singh Ahluwalia. The plan will also propose 'drastic action' to fix problems in the power sector. He said on that it was “probably overambitious” to aim at a double-digit growth in the five-year plan beginning next year. Though, he hastened to add that the exact growth target was yet to be fixed. He said it would be good if 9 per cent GDP growth could be achieved annually as the global economy was not doing well. “Looking forward, the world economy is not doing well. If India grows at an average of 8.5 per cent in 12th plan period, it would be counted as a very good performance. If we do 9 per cent, it will be excellent. I should add that to get 9 per cent growth or a little over 9 per cent a lot of work has to be done. If we try to take it up by 1 per cent from the 11th plan achievement, it will be 9.2 per cent,” told Ahluwalia. Though the Planning Commission had projected 9 per cent annual growth during the 11th plan, it would end up with average 8.2 per cent. “This is an exceptionally good performance compared to rest of the world,” he said. Commenting on the IMF observation that India with 10.3 per cent growth would overtake China (10.2 per cent growth), Ahluwalia said one should not get carried away by these numbers as China had been growing much faster for 30 years. Their per capita income was now much higher than that of India. “Even if India grows at 9 per cent and China at 7 per cent in next 20 years, India would still have a lot of catching up to do,” he said. Ahead of full the Planning Commission meeting on April 21 to be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the approach paper to 12th plan, Ahluwalia said the government proposed to introduce the public-private partnership (PPP) model in education and health for the first time. “The human resources development ministry is now considering how to introduce PPP in school education. Of 6,000 model schools, about 3,500 are to be set up in backward areas where we cannot attract the private sector. The remaining 2,500 are to be set up in PPP mode. We will start this year, but 95 per cent of the work will be done in 12th plan,” he said. This proposal will go to the cabinet soon, he said. A cabinet note prepared by the HRD ministry is already with the Planning Commission. Ahluwalia said the PPP schools should be viewed as a pilot project of the centre. If successful, it could be replicated by state governments as school education was basically a state subject. In the past the centre had set up 900 Navodhya schools as model residential schools all over the country. These have done exceptionally well. The PPP schools would not necessarily be residential schools. Turning to the difficult power situation, Ahluwalia said, “More drastic measures were needed. We need to push five or six key issues

Teachers

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Concerned about the quality of education imparted by the teachers, the National Council of Teachers (NCTE) has decided to recruit teachers nationwide after clearing the Central Teachers Eligibility Test (CTET). Despite the recruitment being a mammoth task after the implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, the quality of the education imparted is something with which the Centre doesn't want to compromise at any cost. It is necessary to ensure that persons recruited as teachers possess the essential aptitude and ability to meet the challenges of teaching at the primary and upper primary level.The CTET, to be held on June 26 by the Central Board of Secondary Education, will be conducted in Tamil Nadu in Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai. The NCTE is including a pass in the TET as a minimum qualification. While teachers applying to central board schools, including Kendriya Vidyalayas and Navodaya Vidyalayas, will have to take the test state governments have been given the option of adopting it as a minimum requirement for teachers in schools run by the state, local bodies and aided schools. Sources say that in Tamil Nadu, where teachers are taken in batches by the Teacher Recruitment Board on a seniority basis, the offer has not been taken up. A senior official said, “Some states are known to take in unqualified persons as teachers. The TET is applicable in these states. In Tamil Nadu we only take in trained and qualified teachers so there is no need for a TET.” Only candidates who have passed or are appearing for the final exam of the two-year diploma in elementary education, or four-year bachelor of elementary education, one-year bachelor in education can take the test. I P Kanagasundaram , former principal of a District Institute of Educational Training in the state, said, “A large number of private teacher training institutes have mushroomed in the state. Instead of only depending on the results of a test to verify the eligibility of a teacher, the government should monitor these training institutes to see if they have qualified principals and faculty. Checks should be conducted to see if the institutes provide instructions on how teachers should interact with children and cater to their needs, and on the importance and essence of being a teacher.”

Pawar on for erasing financial burden on educational institutes

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With a promise made to look after the financial conditions of the various educational institutions, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) big-shot Sharad Pawar recently met a group of office bearers to discuss the financial burden faced by the institutes. Assuring a role of playing a mediator between the education minister, secretary of the department and the office-bearers, Pawar suggested setting up a forum involving education minister, secretary of the department and office-bearers for a dialogue. The meeting which lasted for over one and half hours revolved round the financial burden faced by the educational institutes, the staff crunch and other issues. For last 10 to 15 years, the institutions have not got non-salary grants from the government. Even if they have got a few grants, those were inadequate. They met Pawar as the higher education department is with the NCP.

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