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Delhi to have 10 new specialised schools of Excellence soon

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New Delhi

The directorate of education (DoE) has made an announcement that ten new schools of specialised excellence (SoSEs) will soon be opened in the academic session of 2022-23. Also, Armed Forces Preparatory School (AFPS) will also be made operational in the Jharoda Kalan area of Delhi. With the opening of ten new SoSEs, total of 31 SoSEs will be operational in the state.

According to a senior DoE official, “Ten more schools across four specialisations (four STEM, two humanities, two performing and visual arts and two high-end 21st-century skills) are being added, while the AFPS will be operational in Jharoda Kalan. Thus, the total number of SoSEs in the academic year 2022-23 will be 31.”

He further added “All SoSEs shall be affiliated to the Delhi Board of School Education (DBSE) operating in partnership with the International Baccalaureate (IB). Admissions will be offered in Class 9 in all the schools and in Class 11 in the STEM SoSEs and the AFPS through an aptitude test or on the basis of a child’s demonstrated interest in earlier classes.”

The specialised schools were launched by the government of Delhi as choice-based schools. The schools focus to provide world-class infrastructure, facilities, the best possible use of technology, and a defined curriculum. The schools were launched with the idea of experiential learning through projects, field visits, and internships in the choice of field of students.

The online application process will begin soon and an aptitude test will be conducted for selection around March 15-30. Interested students should be residents of Delhi and can be students of any government-aided school. 50% of seats are reserved for students from government schools while the remaining seats are open for students from other recognised schools in Delhi.

Banaras Hindu University re-opens for offline classes

Banaras Hindu University re-opens

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

The Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has decided to reopen the campus for offline classes barring first-year batches from some faculty. Following a meeting of directors of institutes, deans of faculties and senior BHU officials, it has been decided to open the campus for offline classes.

The University will be opened in offline mode for all PhD students with immediate effect. All the classes of the Institute of Medical Sciences will (IMS) continue to be conducted in offline mode. All the classes in the faculty of agriculture, faculty of veterinary science, faculty of management studies, and institute of environment and sustainable development will also be conducted in offline mode. For these institutes, the final year classes will be conducted in offline mode with immediate effect and for the other years, they will be conducted from February 21, 2022.

Also read: Banaras Hindu University introduces course In Hindu Studies

All the classes, with the exception of first year in the Institute of Science, Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences, Law, Education, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Commerce, SVDV and MMV, would be conducted in offline mode.

However, the first-year classes for all courses in the Institute of Science, Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences, Law, Education, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Commerce, SVDV and MMV will continue to be conducted in online mode.

DU Executive Council Meeting Today To Discuss Undergraduate Curriculum Framework

DU Executive Council Meeting Today

New Delhi

The Delhi University’s Executive Council (EC) is meeting today to discuss the Draft Undergraduate Curriculum Framework (UGCF). The UGCF was passed at a meeting of the Academic Council (AC) of the university held on Wednesday.

According to an official press release from the Delhi University, “The Council resolved and accepted the Undergraduate Curriculum Framework 2022 based on National Education Policy 2020 (Annexure-1) with minor suggestions to be implemented from the Academic Session 2022-2023 and recommended to the Executive Council for approval in super session as the UGCF 2022 covers all the aspects referred in the above resolution of the Academic Council meeting dated August 24.”

Earlier, at the Academic Council (AC) meeting on Wednesday, eleven members gave a dissent note against the framework, stating that the UGCF 2022 must be sent for a discussion to all statutory bodies which includes the committees of courses, staff councils and faculties, before taking it to the council.

The university has approved the implementation of the NEP and the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP) from academic year 2022-23.

Over 10,000 seats vacant in IITs, says Dharmendra Pradhan

says Dharmendra Pradhan

New Delhi

The Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has said that over 10,000 seats across all Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have been vacant in the span of the last two years. 8700 seats were vacant in the National Institutes of Technology.

The Union Minister gave this information in response to a query in the Rajya Sabha. The information was based on the information provided from the various IITs and NITs across the country. 5484 seats were unfilled in IITs in 2020 and 2021. Out of which, 476 seats were vacant in undergraduate courses BTech and 3229 seats in postgraduate programmes. 1779 in Ph.D. courses. In the year 2021-22, there were 5296 vacant seats in IITs which was lower as compared to the last year. 361 seats were vacant in B Tech courses, 3083 seats were vacant in post-graduate courses, and 1852 in Ph.D. courses.

The minister said “The premier engineering colleges like IITs, NITs, and IIITs impart education and research in science and technology subjects and are categorised as Institutions of National Importance. The admission to various programmes in these institutions is strictly offered only to deserving candidates based on the ranking/ other parameters, who fulfill the required eligibility criteria.”

Madhya Pradesh to have 10 new medical colleges soon

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Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

The Madhya Pradesh government is planning to open 10 new medical colleges in the state. This was stated by the state’s medical education minister, Vishvas Sarang. Sarang said, “We are planning to open 10 new medical colleges in the state. We are also mulling opening medical colleges through public-private partnership (PPP) PPP mode.”

He further mentioned, “The state will get five imported genome sequencing machines from the Centre, while the Madhya Pradesh government will purchase four such machines on its own. These machines will be put to use in different medical colleges in the state.”

‘Mareej Mitra Yojana’ will be introduced by the state government in which interested persons can volunteer and help the patients. Recently the minister inaugurated the new building of the post-graduate department. He also inaugurated the new OPD and academic block of the government dental college.

LU V-C to play lead in implementing NEP in Central zone universities

Lucknow University

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Giving a lead role to the Lucknow University in the implementation of New Education Policy, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has given Lucknow University (LU) a big role in implementation of the New Education Policy in universities of the Central Zone.

Vice Chancellor of Lucknow University Prof Alok Kumar Rai has been given the responsibility of being the lead coordinator of the central zone universities. These include universities of Chattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Other members of this zone include the vice-chancellors of Vikram University Ujjain, Shiv Nadar University Gautam Buddh Nagar, Guru Ghasiadas University Bilaspur, Banaras Hindu University Varanasi and Graphic Era Deemed to be University Dehradoon.

In an official statement, Prof Rai said that “it is a proud moment for the University of Lucknow to be recognised for its achievements and an honour for me to be given this responsibility.”

LU is recognised for being the first to implement the NEP structure initially at the post-graduate level from 2020-21 session followed by the under-graduate level from 2021-22.

Rai said that team work and right intent was a major factor and without the support of the faculty, achieving a feat like this would not have been possible.

CBSE term-2 board exams for Class 10 & 12 to commence on April 26

CBSE term-2 board exams

New Delhi

The Central Board of Seconday Education (CBSE) will conduct the term II board examinations for classes 10 and 12 from April 26. The exams would be held in offline mode at the allotted exam centres. A detailed timetable will soon be released by the board on the official website – cbse.gov.in

The board had earlier released the term II sample papers for both classes 10 and 12. The exams will be conducted in a descriptive model with long and short-form questions.

As soon as the date sheet for the term II exams is finalised, CBSE will release the dates on these official websites and on official social media accounts of the board. Students can also reach out to their school officials to confirm any information about the term 1 result or the term 2 exam date sheet.

Mumbai’s Universal Business School organises case study teaching workshop for management students

Case Mania 2022

Mumbai, Maharashtra

Mumbai’s Universal Business School organised ‘Case Mania 2022’- a business management case study teaching workshop for management students to mark the first anniversary of the Universal Case Research Centre on the occasion of World Case Teaching Day on 2nd February 2022.

An initiative of Universal Case Research Centre, the virtual workshop was attended by over 40 students mentored by faculty members. The participating students were exposed to broadened perspectives from the professors of their respective team while drafting and unridding a case, improving their problem-solving abilities and the capability of handling pressure of dealing with cases based on topics that might be new to them.

“The primary objective of this case study teaching workshop is to provide the participants an opportunity to draft and solve caselets on different academic areas, under the guidance of our professors. Case studies is an excellent way of engaging the students by bringing real life experiences to class. It helps in building their analytical skills,” said Dr Asha Bhatia, Director- Universal Case Research Centre.

Tarun Anand, Founder and Chairman, Universal Business School believes that the case study method of teaching in higher education management programs has helped students and teachers to achieve learning objectives along with achieving higher student engagement. “This kind of a workshop is an endeavour to develop a case writing culture in Indian B schools,” shared Mr Anand.

While talking about her experience, Aakriti Kushwaha, a senior year management student pursuing Global MBA said, “It was a great opportunity for all of us to write a caselet as we were continuously mentored by the professors. We could show our creativity, managerial and problem solving skills.”

Launched in February 2021, Universal Case Research Centre is a not-for-profit initiative of Universal business School that works in the area of research, case writing, industry-academia collaboration and teaching methods in business education. The Centre is focussing on Indian and Asian case studies in areas such as business, operations, innovation, finance, marketing, organisation culture, ethics, family owned business, social enterprises, corporate governance, and e-commerce.

AICTE has created several platforms for advancement of education : Prof Rajive Kumar

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National education policy and this pandemic have opened new gates and avenues not in the country but worldwide. A lot of technological inventions have been done in the pandemic with respect to education.” This was stated by Prof. Rajive Kumar, Member Secretary, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), who was delivering the inaugural address of the 22nd World Education Summit, organised by Elets Technomedia at New Delhi recently.

Prof. Rajive mentioned the platform AICTE has created in the pandemic. He said, “A lot of technological invention has been done in the pandemic. The source material is available in the market. We created a platform at AICTE from the Ministry side i.e. National Educational Alliance for Technology. All the ed-tech companies are invited to be on the platform.” He further elaborated on the importance of sharing expertise with the masses. “The new initiative AICTE has taken is a unique type of initiative i.e. volunteerism. We have created a portal. If you wish to volunteer your expertise in the nearby school and college, but you are unable to connect with them this portal will help. The portal is called Vidyanjali for higher education. The idea is to take this portal to all school levels.”

He added, “Another thing AICTE has done is to revise the curriculum. We don’t want our students to sit in the classes all the time. The basic aim is that we want to bring our students out of the classes so they can think differently. Most of the universities in the country have adopted that curriculum.“

Highlighting the importance and use of technology especially post pandemic Prof Rajive said, “Another important initiative AICTE has recently taken is to make a prospective plan of the technical education in the country. As per the recommendation of Dr. BVR Mohan Reddy who is the chairman of IIT Hyderabad we should not start any technical institution in the traditional area, we accepted their recommendation.” He further added, “We have a Committee of academic experts. The committee said that starting a four year program will not be a feasible thing. So as per the recommendation from the committee, AICTE should start the concept of minors. The student can get a degree with a specialization in a particular thrust area.”

He also spoke about how there was a need to train the faculty and how AICTE conducted faculty development programs. “After the decision of giving approvals only in the thrust areas, the challenge was who will teach these thrust areas. The faculty took their degree 15 to 20 years back. So our task was to train faculty in these thrust areas. We started teaching training faculty and we took the help of institutes like IIT and NITs. We conducted faculty development programs in the thrust areas.” He added “In the second year, we could train 1,50,000 faculty members in the thrust areas which was a tremendous jump. The achievement was recognized by the World Book record and AICTE was awarded. Next year we trained 1,80,000 faculty members, again a World book record. Now, we are conducting faculty development programs in all thrust areas.”

Concluding the address Prof Rajive said, “We are supporting students in terms of fellowship, especially students who lost their parents during the pandemic. We are also supporting around 10,000 girls per year. Girls from Jammu and Kashmir and northeastern states are also eligible for this scholarship. The main aim is to increase the participation of girls in technical education.

Leading School in Online Teaching Practices

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MD International School, Bijnor was established in 2014 by Manorama Devi Memorial Charitable Trust whereas Late Mr. S K Jain as founder Chairman, Mrs. Samta Jain as President, Mr. Navneet Jain as Secretary and Ms. Naina Jain as an Additional Secretary played a significant role in helping the school reach the top. The teachers under the direction of Principal Mrs. Ritu Kochhar are motivating and continously guiding the students to use their full potential across all key learning areas.

As overnight schools around the world were closed due to COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers were scrambling to try and come up with ways to teach and connect with their students online. Those days, Students were simply flipping open a laptop, turning on a tablet or unlocking their phones. In order to provide the best practices of technology integration in the classroom, Our teachers were incorporating multiple strategies, following new trends and utilizing the strategies that they were the most comfortable with.

During the pandemic, technology has helped us with a lot of things today in education like learning at home, sharing ideas, research and having an app for everything. Many schools and coaching centres throughout the world have been closed due to this pandemic but because of careful planning and strategic initiatives by the MDIS team, we were “ahead” of the curve and had solutions for these unforeseen challenges.

School may have looked different during the pandemic but still, our students have participated in many virtual activities and competitions during pandemic. such as: Earth day activity, Mother’s day celebration, Morning assembly on different topics, Science projects, Father’s Day celebration, Rhyme competition, Dance competition, Singing competition, Educational webinars and Olympiads etc…. As an organization, we are incessantly looking for ways to improve our services. Since 2014, M D International School has made significant progress and investments for providing best Education and mentoring the staff members.

We are proud to announce that MDIS has successfully enrolled around 750 new admissions during the lockdown period and full salary was provided to all staff members. Also, the school has received many awards in the field of Academics, Cultural activities, Sports and Infrastructure from renowned education companies such as Education world, Education Today, NSA, AKS, Digital Learning, My brand better, BlueBerry and many more. We are committed to pushing ahead during the Corona virus shutdowns to make sure that our organization not only survives but comes out on the other side of this stronger than before.

Although many people believe that e-learning brings many negative effects to the society, there are actually many positive effects of e-learning. Firstly, E-learning can help to develop knowledge of the internet and computer skills that will help learners throughout their lives and careers.

At MDIS, virtual classes are being conducted successfully through Zoom and WhatsApp groups. This multi-platform approach ensures that no student suffers due to poor connectivity. To ensure academic excellence among our students, we have adopted a number of learning practices such as syllabus completion on time, written exams, maintaining discipline in online classes and emphasis on the holistic development of students.

Our teachers encourage and promote online research, send emails and messages to the students and parents through online portals, provide homework and assignments online . The teachers also encourage parents’ participation by updating them , involving them and connecting with them from time to time as it is essential for the holistic growth and development of the students. We are providing quality education during online classes at a nominal fee structure which is easily affordable by parents . We strongly believe that MDIS is providing best online teaching practices to the students.

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