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Google signs MoU with Telangana government to skill up youth and women

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Hyderabad, Telangana 

Google signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Telangana government on Thursday to bring benefits of the digital economy to the youth and women entrepreneurs in the state. Apart from signing this MoU, Google also started with the development of its three million square foot building in the city. The MoU was exchanged in the presence of Telangana IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao.

“A 3.3 million sq ft energy-efficient campus built with sustainability will stand as a landmark for Hyderabad for decades to come. Thanks to Google for their continued support,” Rama Rao shared on his social media handle Twitter

According to an official statement by Google, Rama Rao unveiled the building design at the ceremony held onsite. The three million square foot building showcases sustainability and energy efficiency throughout its design, it said.

Under the new initiative, Google will collaborate with the government through its various arms to extend scholarships for Google Career Certificates to Telangana’s youth, support women, entrepreneurs, through digital, business, and financial skills training, and strengthen the government’s school modernisation efforts with digital teaching and learning tools and solutions, it added.

As part of the joint effort, the US-based company will also support the state government’s efforts to improve public transportation and the use of digital technologies in agriculture.

AICTE launches portal to attract international students to study in India

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New Delhi 

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has launched the EducationINdia portal (educationindia.gov.in) aiming to showcase India as a global study hub. The portal is expected to boost international student intake, as it gives all related information about Indian institutes available on a single platform .The portal has developed the basic profile of the institutes that admit international students by importing data from the AISHE (All India Survey on Higher Education) portal.

According to official information, “In the first phase, registration is open for institutions which can be found as per AISHE data. Login will be the AISHE code and password provided by the EducationINdia team at the email id of the HEI registered with AISHE. In the second phase, registration will be open to all those institutions keen to register and are otherwise eligible to admit foreign students. Registration of such institutes will be confirmed after a verification process. Once the Indian HEIs update their data, the portal will be opened to international students in another seven to 10 days to search the institution and programme of their choice.”

According to the norms, the registration of a student will be optional for browsing through the portal. But at the time of issuing the offer of admission to any international student, the institution would ask the student to register on the portal, if not already registered, and generate a unique EducationIndia portal ID. The student will have to register on the portal only once even if he/she has got multiple offers from various HEIs. “We are going to issue unique IDs to the students which in future can be used when visas are granted to them. This will help in real-time data of international students, and bring their admission processes under a common platform,” a senior AICTE official stated.

UP CM lays foundation for Tech Faculty at National Rehabilitation University at Lucknow

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Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

“People should not be evaluated by their physical appearance, but by their level of thinking, intelligence, prudence and courage… “ This was stated by the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, while laying the foundation stone of the Engineering and Technology Faculty building that will be established at the Dr Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University in Lucknow, on Thursday.

Speaking at the event organised by the Divyangs Empowerment department of the university, the CM said, “I am happy that today the foundation stone of the building of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology of the University has been laid at Dr Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University.”

The CM also distributed smartphones and tablets to 868 students and said, “Every youth of the state will be smart. We are working towards providing all youth with a smartphone and a tablet in their hands. We have instructed the officials to execute this goal in a phased manner across the state.”  He also congratulated the students associated with the university.

Heaping praise on Dr Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University, the CM said, “It is working vigorously for the rehabilitation of Divyangs or specially abled in the entire state. The speciality of this university is that it has both normal and differently-abled kids. Now, the Faculty of Engineering and Technology is also going to be established here.”

Stating that this innovative scheme of tablet distribution was started last year in the state, CM Yogi said, “Till now, we have distributed over 1.61 lakh smartphones and tablets in Lucknow itself. Today again we have distributed tablets and smartphones to 868 children including differently-abled children and final year students.”

The CM said that with an aim to take India towards being a global superpower, smartphones and tablets are being distributed among 1 crore students in the state, which will enable them to have access to digital content for free.

It is to be mentioned that the CM also laid the foundation stones of Mamta Mandir, School for Deaf and Dumb and Mentally Retarded which will be established in Chandauli and Sanket Junior School in Chitrakoot.

 

GUJCET 2022 answer key is released by the Gujarat Board on gujcet.gseb.org

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GUJCET 2022 answer key for all the subjects such as Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology, has been released on April 28, in pdf format along with a response sheet so that the candidates can match their responses with the answers given in the GUJCET Answer Key 2022.

The students, who had appeared for the GUJCET 2022 on April 18, now can check the GUJCET 2022 Answer Key and calculate their probable score. In the notification, the Gujarat Board has allowed the candidates to raise objections by April 30 (4 PM). To download the GUJCET 2022 Answer Key, the candidates are not required to use any login credentials. According to the guidelines, to raise objections the board said that each objection will need a separate form and have to be supported by documents and the fee per challenge is Rs 500. Candidates can email with the grievance to gujcetkey2022@gmail.com.

To raise any objection, the candidates will have to download the form and enter the question number along with the correct answer. Moreover, they also need to send the correction form via email and also attach their account number, bank name, IFSC code, and branch name in the mail.

Union Education Minister to launch NCF mandate document today

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Union Education Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan will be launching the mandate document of National Curriculum Framework (NCF) on April 29, 2022. The National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 endorses the development of National Curriculum Frameworks (NCF) in four areas namely school education, Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE), teacher education, and adult education. For involvements for the development of these, four curriculum frameworks, and 25 themes based on the perspectives of the NEP, 2020 are categorically divided as curriculum and pedagogy, cross- cutting issue, and other important areas of NEP, 2020 that will focus on systemic changes and reforms.

The NCF is being drafted through a collaborative and consultative process, starting from district to state level and then National level. The ‘Guidelines for position papers for the development of the national curriculum framework’ is an integral part of this mandate document.

Odisha Board of Secondary Education reschedules Class 10 and open school board exams

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Odisha

The Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha has announced the revised schedule for conducting the Madhyama exams and the State Open School Certificate Examination (SOSCE). The exams have been rescheduled in view of the heatwave condition prevailing across the state.

According to an official statement issued by BSE, there would be no afternoon shift for these exams. BSE president Ramashis Hazra has stated that the SOSCE and Madhyama examinations, which were scheduled to begin from 11.30 am on May 2 and 4 respectively, will now be held in the first sitting from 8 am on May 9 and 10.

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Meanwhile, there is no change in the schedule of the High School Certificate (HSC) examination, slated to begin on April 29. The HSC examinations will be conducted from 8 am to 10 am. It may be noted that 5.85 lakh students will appear for the HSC examinations at 3,303 centres. More than 35,000 teachers will be supervising the examinations. The Board has also set up 38 special squads and 65 flying squads to check malpractices during the examination.

Delhi University to organise webinar on Friday to address admission process issues

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New Delhi

The University of Delhi (DU) would be hosting a public awareness webinar on Friday, April 29. This webinar will be a tool to address issues on reservation policies, and other aspects associated with undergraduate (UG) admission. According to an official statement issued by the university, this webinar aims at helping candidates belonging to reserved categories with the application process.

“This webinar has been scheduled to help candidates belonging to reserved categories, namely Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Classes Non-Creamy Layer (OBC-NCL), and Economically Weaker Section (EWS). Aspects related to Reservation Policies in CUET and the University of Delhi will be shared in the webinar,” the DU statement stated.

The statement also shared about the key points of the webinar. Topics that would be discussed in the webinar include understanding reservation policies for students belonging to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes. Other Backward Classes (Non-Creamy Layer) and Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and their registration process and what are the documents that will be required during CUET 2022 application.

The university has also provided a link so that applicants, who are desirous to get admission at DU, can register for the webinar. To participate in the webinar, the candidates may register at https://tinyurl.com/7sxhsp9r. The DU webinar will also be streamed live on the official YouTube Channel of the University.

The registration process for the postgraduate programme has also started on April 6, 2022. Admissions to PG Programs, as per past years’ practice, will be done through DUET 2022.

Karnataka DCTE signs MoU with Infosys to alter ways of technical learning

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With the purpose to change ways of learning in higher education, the Department of Collegiate and Technical Education (DCTE), Karnataka under its “Help Educate” initiative on Wednesday entered into an MoU with IT major Infosys. This MoU was signed on Wednesday at Vidhana Soudha in presence of state Higher Education Minister Dr CN Ashwatha Narayana.

The minister said that this will benefit about 5 lakh students and faculty belonging to higher education. He also added that the move will facilitate blended learning and industry readiness of learners as per the aspirations of National Education Policy (NEP) – 2020. As per this MoU, Infosys will tie up with the DTCE to train the faculty on a regular basis, and to begin with, training of 200 teachers will be conducted at the Mysuru Infosys campus soon.

“The MoU includes three components of providing access to Infosys Springboard which has more than 4,900 courses and 1.6 Lakh learning resources, providing faculty development program and supporting the government in setting up digital infrastructure by donating 15,000 debonded computers,” concludes Narayana.

West Bengal’s CM Mamata Banerjee calls for announcing summer vacation in schools from May 2

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Due to the prevailing heat wave conditions, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has urged the state education minister to announce the onset of summer vacation in schools and colleges from May 2.

She stated that the move would also protect children from chances of contracting COVID-19, if there was a surge in infections in Bengal, as was the case in some other states.

During an administrative review meeting at the state secretariat, she said, “I will urge education minister Bratya Basu to announce May 2 as the date for the onset of summer vacations in schools, colleges and universities. Ask the private schools to implement this, too,”. She also added that her office has received reports of several incidents falling ill due to the scorching heat.

Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurates IIM Shilong’s satellite centre

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New Delhi

The union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated the satellite centre of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Shillong in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang. According to an official statement, the newly established satellite centre would help in the capacity building of the state’s administrative officers, particularly in the management skills and necessary policy interventions. Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu was also present at the inauguration.

Congratulating IIM Shillong from New Delhi, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan termed the occasion ‘historic’.The official statement stated that this is a big step towards professionalism in governance and public delivery.

Talking about this historic moment, the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said, “With the expertise of a reputed institution like IIM Shillong, capacity building of administrative officers will pave the way in successful governance, which is the objective of the government.” He further added that the newly established centre will eventually become a hub of learning and developing skills that would convert job searchers into employment providers.

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu said that IIM Shillong will provide critical managerial interventions to help the state government implement its flagship projects, as policymakers and administrators will be trained to improve efficiency and leadership skills.

He remarked, “Through this collaboration, we also expect training and entrepreneurship development programme to promote startup ecosystem in the state.”

“As a think tank to the government of Arunachal Pradesh, I am sure that IIM Shillong will provide quality inputs for a more inclusive sustainable development in the state,” added the chief minister.

Chief Minister Pema Khandu further informed that this centre will function through a temporary set-up in Tawang while a permanent campus and building will come up soon. Both district MLAs have been requested to work with the local authorities to establish a permanent facility for the centre.

 

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