EDMC to implement ‘Mission Buniyaad’ & ‘NIPUN Bharat’ programmes in all its schools

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April 14, 2022

New Delhi

The East Delhi Municipal Corporation is planning to implement ‘Mission Buniyaad’ and ‘NIPUN Bharat’ programmes in all its schools. This was stated by the EDMC officials on Wednesday.

The Delhi government in February 2018 had announced the launch of ‘Mission Buniyaad’ for improving learning skills of children studying in state and municipal-run schools. National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN Bharat) was launched in July 2021 under the aegis of centrally sponsored scheme of ‘Samagra Shiksha’.

Municipal Commissioner Vikas Anand, senior officials, and principals from different schools were present in the meeting. The commissioner said due to the pandemic and consequent closure of schools, there has been a “huge gap” in the education of children in the last two years.

“EDMC is going to implement ‘Mission Buniyaad’ and ‘NIPUN Bharat‘ programmes in all EDMC schools,” the civic body said in a statement. Under the ‘Mission Buniyaad’ programme which will run from April to June for classes 3 to 5 in civic schools and classes 6 to 8 in government schools, children undergo a reading level assessment based on which they will be enrolled in specialised ‘Mission Buniyaad classes’.

The commissioner added that special classes will be organised for children under ‘Mission Buniyaad’ even during summer vacations. Similarly, ‘NIPUN Bharat’ programme is specially designed for children in the age group of 3-9 years. He said in this direction, a mega parent-teacher meeting is being organised in all schools of the corporation on April 16 in which parents will be informed about the two programmes in detail.

The Department of School Education and Literacy had launched the National Mission on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy called NIPUN Bharat in July 2021. The mission aims to achieve universal foundational literacy and numeracy in primary classes. Anand said study material for ‘Mission Buniyaad’ has already been distributed by ‘Samagra Shiksha’ to all EDMC schools.

Get ready to delve into the intricacies of the Edtech world with Gupshup presents Elets Edtech Summit

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April 14, 2022

The year 2021 marked a paradigm shift towards EdTech and the trend is just strengthening in 2022. The pandemic has made people realise that traditional offline players do not have the capability to provide the support needed in these hyper-competitive times.

Online education has only contributed to accelerating the globalisation of education. A student from any part of the world can learn from several different mentors at the same time, giving them a bigger scope and sphere of knowledge.

Understanding the significance of Edtech and to ponder upon the future of Edtech in India, Elets Digital Magazine is organising the first Elets Edtech Summit 2022, presented by Gupshup. The summit is being organised virtually on 15 April and brings together the biggest and the best names from the EdTech industry to decode the future.

Reports say that India has the second-largest market for online education, right after the US. This means that the nation is going in the right direction as per the recent Nation Education Policy (NEP) passed in 2020. With proper planning and execution, the online medium has the power to meet all the four policy parameters of NEP — Access, Equity, Quality, Affordability, and Accountability.

Right now, the challenge faced by Indian Education is not the lack of consumers (students) but the lack of qualified and willing suppliers (educators.) And the summit will be not only exploring the Edtech sector in length, but also look at the best practices and the challenges. Some of the topics that are being delved upon include how rapid technological advancements are driving up demand for digital skills, Opportunity for modifying content based on feedback, Up-skilling and re-skilling for career growth and more.

Be a part of this summit and get answers to all that you wanted to know about the Edtech world.

Register now: https://avtaar.eletsonline.com/edutech/registration

YUGMA presents first-ever MBA mentorship career fest for students

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April 14, 2022

Mumbai, Maharashtra

VMentor.ai, the “tech-enabled, human-intervened” mentorship platform that accelerates business growth will be hosting its first-ever mentorship fest, “Step Up”, starting from the 8th of April, under its vertical – YUGMA.

“Step Up” will bring together over 25 industry mentors, many of whom are campus recruiters. The attendees (aspiring and current MBA students) will get the opportunity to interact with and be mentored by trail-blazing CXOs from key industries such as BFSI, healthcare/pharma, IT, FMCG, FMCD, market research and consultancy, and retail. Students will gain insights into specialisations from industry veterans with decades of experience in these segments.

The career-mentoring event will be a one-stop shop for MBA aspirants and B-school students for taking the next leap. Students preparing for the CAT or CET entrance exams will get a better grasp on which colleges to apply to, what specialisations to choose and industry roles that await them when they graduate from a B-school.

B-school students looking for summer internships or preparing for their final placements will be able to deep-dive into career tracks, gain invaluable insights on roles to target and specific industry-tailored requirements.

Meenu Bhatia, Co-founder, VMentor.ai says, “At YUGMA, we have been bringing together corporates and academia through meaningful interventions to improve employability and build a pipeline of future leaders. YUGMA does this by leveraging technology and its pool of 200+ industry mentors. “Step Up” will strengthen this process by bringing corporates and CXOs closer to the academia and equip students to build a foundation for a strong career.”

“Step Up” will also digitally showcase YUGMA’s skill enhancement courses that equip students with an edge in final placements.

Delhi Skill University launches residential course in software programming for women, trans women

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April 13, 2022

New Delhi

The Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University (DSEU) launched its residential course in software programming on Tuesday. The course has been launched to make skilling aspirational, accessible and inclusive for women and trans women. The programme, with 84 students in its first batch, was inaugurated by Atishi, Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Education and MLA from Kalkaji constituency.

The fully-funded residential 20-month advanced diploma course in software programming will be run in collaboration with non-profit organisation NavGurukul, the university stated in a statement.

“We are in the 21st century surrounded by technology where Google answers all our questions in mere seconds and yet we are to spend 14 years in the formal education system. Those 14 years tell us what one can and cannot study. With this programme in coding and programming, the effort is to challenge these notions by encouraging students with strong logic to pursue a career in the tech world,” Atishi said.

The residential course will provide girls and trans women an opportunity to learn and grow in the technical world through a six-month-long training period, the statement said.

UP government constructs inter colleges, ITIs in Minority concentrated districts to boost education

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April 13, 2022

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

In a bid to provide the best facilities to all the citizens of Uttar Pradesh and support their holistic development, the Yogi Adityanath led state government has identified 47 districts with over 25 percent minority population that will be developed under the Pradhanmantri Jan Vikas Karyakram. Kick-starting the development in these districts, the state government has constructed Inter Colleges in these districts to ensure education for all. The funds for the arrangement of furniture and construction in all the Inter Colleges was issued by the Central government.

The Yogi government is not only aiming to complete the projects, but is also emphasizing on running them smoothly in the public interest. Methodical teaching work is going on in all the Inter Colleges, where the students of that area are getting educated.

Over 13 new Industrial Training Institutes have been constructed under the PMJVK for skill development and in addition to them, 12 ITIs have also become operational. The state government has broken all barriers of regional and social imbalance in terms of development and connected all the backward areas of the state with the mainstream development process.

A total of 3400 new units have been established/approved in the Minority concentrated areas including 3 Government Polytechnics, 52 Government Inter Colleges, 9 Junior High Schools, 20 Upper Primary Schools, 136 Primary Schools, 18 Government ITIs, 1 Government Nursing College, 9 Government Degree Colleges, 2433 Smart Classes, examination hall in 2 Inter Colleges, 9 hostels, 31 ‘Sadbhav Mandap’, 160 Anganwadi centres, 2 working women hostels, 1 marketing shed, 3 science labs, 187 piped drinking water scheme, 747 portable water supply, 1 sewer scheme, 47 toilet blocks, 27 common service centres and 1 Unani Medical College.

Last year, proposals for new projects worth Rs 1549 crore were made available to the Government of India. In the current year, proposals for new projects worth Rs 898 crore have been sent to the Government of India.

UGC to allow students to pursue two full-time academic programmes together

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April 13, 2022

New Delhi

The University Grants Commission (UGC) announced on Tuesday that students will now be able to pursue two full-time academic programmes in physical mode. The commission has put together the guidelines for the same, which have been put up on the official website of UGC.

Earlier, the UGC regulations did not allow students to pursue two full-time programmes and they could only pursue one full-time degree along with online/short-term/diploma courses. The guidelines will apply to all the programmes available across the country. Students can either choose a combination of a diploma programme and an undergraduate (UG) degree, two master’s programmes, or two bachelor’s programmes. If a student is eligible to pursue a postgraduate (UG) degree and also wants to enrol in a bachelor’s degree in a different domain, he/she will be able to pursue a UG and PG degree simultaneously. The class timing for both the programmes must not clash.

“In the last commission meeting held on March 31, it was decided to issue guidelines which would enable students to pursue two academic programmes together because the NEP 2020 emphasises the need to facilitate multiple pathways to learning involving both formal and non-formal education forms, in the sense that a combination of the physical model, as well as the online form, should be used to provide more freedom to the students to acquire multiple skills,” the UGC chairman, Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar said.

Following the new guidelines, students will be able to pursue two degree programmes across domains such as sciences, social sciences, arts, humanities, and a wide variety of disciplines. Adopting these guidelines is optional for universities and can be implemented only after the approval of the universities’ statutory bodies. The eligibility criteria for each of the programmes will remain unchanged and admissions will be conducted based on the existing UGC, university norms.

“A student can pursue two full-time academic programmes in the physical mode provided that in such cases, class timings for one programme do not overlap with the class timings of the other programme. Universities will have the flexibility to decide if they want to offer such a scheme of programmes or not. The guidelines will only be applicable to lecture-based courses, including undergraduate, postgraduate, and diploma programmes. MPhil and PhD programmes will not fall under the same scheme,” Kumar added.

MOE to fix maximum and minimum fee for engg, tech institutes

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April 12, 2022

New Delhi

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has sent a revised fee structure, including a proposed minimum fee limit, for the engineering and tech institutions, to the Ministry of Education. The recommendations will be taken into consideration while deciding a cap for the free structures.

The revision comes seven years after an expert committee first recommended an upper limit that the institutes can charge as tuition fee, but there was no lower limit, or minimum fees, until now.

It is noteworthy that on March 10, the executive committee of the AICTE approved the report of the National Fee Committee chaired by Justice (retd) B N Srikrishna and forwarded it to the Ministry of Education, which is examining it. The committee has proposed that in case of undergraduate engineering disciplines, the annual minimum fee cannot be below Rs 79,000 while the maximum has been capped at Rs 1.89 lakh. In its previous report, submitted in April 2015, the committee had suggested that the maximum fee for UG four-year engineering courses be fixed at Rs 1.44 lakh to Rs 1.58 lakh per annum.

The revised fee slabs need the Ministry’s as well as the state governments’ nod for implementation. In the absence of a minimum fee, over the years, many private engineering colleges had been petitioning the AICTE to set a lower limit for tuition fee, accusing state authorities, including that of Tamil Nadu and Telangana, of fixing impractical minimum fee thresholds, causing difficulties in day-to-day functioning. Accordingly, the government had requested the Srikrishna committee to take a fresh look at the fee structure, along with coming up with a ceiling on minimum charges. The fresh recommendations also prescribe maximum (Rs 1.4 lakh per annum) and minimum (Rs 67,000) fee for engineering (diploma), and for applied arts and design (see box). In the case of post-graduate engineering programmes, the maximum and minimum fee have been proposed at Rs 3.03 lakh and Rs 1.41 lakh respectively.

UGC tells higher educational institutions to award degrees within 180 days of result declaration

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April 11, 2022

New Delhi

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked all higher education institutions to award degrees to all successful students within the prescribed period of 180 days of eligibility. Candidates can read the UGC regulation on awarding of degrees at the official website — ugc.ac.in.

In a letter to all vice-chancellors of universities and college principals, the UGC also stated that it will take punitive action against universities that fail to award degrees in accordance with UGC regulations.

“The degree award date/s shall be within 180 days of the date/s by which the students are expected to qualify and become eligible for them,” according to the official notice. The commission made the decision after receiving a large number of grievances regarding the delay in awarding degrees to students enrolled in various programmes of study offered by Higher Education Institutions.

“Needless to say, receiving a degree in a timely manner after successfully completing a programme is an inalienable right of a student,” said the UGC letter. UGC requested that all higher education institutions follow UGC regulations and award degrees to eligible students within the time frame specified, as well as provide students with provisional degrees and final year transcripts.

DU to set up two not-for-profit firms to raise money from alumni

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April 11, 2022

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The Delhi University (DU) is planning to set up two not-for-profit companies to seek funds from its alumni and to promote innovation. This has been stated by the DU Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh.

“In the centenary year, we should come towards policy reforms to make DU a better place. We are doing investments and have asked for a loan from HEFA,” he said in a statement.

The university’s Executive Council last month had approved a loan of over Rs 1,000 crore from the Higher Education Funding Agency (HEFA) for infrastructure development and the creation of capital assets.

Also read: Delhi University conducts COVID-19 vaccination drive for students, staff

The VC said that they are creating a Section 8 company for generating funds for the university. “The Section 8 company will ask for funds from alumni and from companies under their CSR activities. It will be an independent company of DU and will have a professional CEO. The funding will be used for developing the university,” he said.

“The second company will work on incubators and promote innovation. The forms for the companies are going to be submitted soon. We will advertise for the posts of CEOs for the two companies after the approval,” he said.

Singh also mooted the idea of organising a ‘funding mela’ on the lines of a ‘job mela’ to raise funds.

“We are working to improve the research culture in the university. The recruitment process is underway and interviews for various teaching posts are going on. For the rankings to improve, our target is to increase the quantum of research,” said Singh.

“Our target is to bring the university out of ‘adhocism’ in the next one to one-and-a-half years. We are conducting interviews and ad hoc teachers can participate,” he said.

Asked about the demand in the university for a one-time absorption of ad hoc and guest teachers, he said the matter isn’t easy and is something that “plagues not only DU but other places too”.

BHU launches scholarship scheme for international students

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April 11, 2022

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

The Banaras Hindu University has introduced a new scholarship scheme to “promote and motivate international students”. Through this programme, BHU aims at attracting overseas students. Under the programme, foreign students will receive Rs 6000 per month.

The decision to launch ‘Scholarship to International Students’ was taken in the meeting of Governing Body of Institution of Eminence, BHU, under the chairmanship of vice-chancellor Sudhir K Jain. Jain said that the university has constituted a three-member committee for smooth implementation and monitoring of the scheme. All the applications under the scheme shall be submitted to the Institution of Eminence Cell of BHU.

The university claims to attract hundreds of international students every year who are admitted in various disciplines of agricultural sciences, arts, social sciences, performing arts, visual arts, law, commerce and sciences in undergraduate, postgraduate, PhD and diploma courses.

The total intake of foreign students is up to 15 per cent of the total seats. These seats are of supernumerary nature. Currently, 431 students from nearly 40 countries are enrolled in Banaras Hindu University. These include 261 male and 170 female students from the United States, Brazil, France, Russia, Ireland, Australia, Yemen, Iran, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia among others.

“The scheme is expected to draw more international students to BHU. Besides, it is also in the spirit of National Education Policy 2020 which puts a greater focus on internationalisation of the Indian Education System, by way of having more students from abroad on Indian campuses,” said the official statement released by BHU.

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