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Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan To Be Chief Guest At 67th Convocation Of IIT Kharagpur

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Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will be the chief guest at the 67th Convocation of IIT Kharagpur to be held on December 18.

“For the first time, IIT Kharagpur will bestow a Lifetime Achievement Award to Professor M A Ramlu, who served as the founder head of the Department of Mining Engineering. He retired as the officiating director of the institute,” the institute said in a statement recently.

Business tycoon Sanjiv Goenka and also the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the institute will be present during the event, the institute added.

In addition to it, five people will be felicitated with ‘Life Fellow Awards, the institute added further in its statement.

Mumbai Schools to reopen for Classes 1 to 7 from tomorrow

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Mumbai Schools

Schools in Mumbai will reopen tomorrow from Class 1 to 7 as the Municipal Commissioner has approved to open schools in the state.

“As per government of Maharashtra circular dated November 29 with approval of Municipal commissioner, vide circular no. EOG/2234 dated 30.11.2021 instructions to start schools for standard 1st to 7th from December 15 have been issued,” Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in its statement mentioned.

The schools have reopened for classes 8 to 12 already from October 4 onwards.

The schools will have to follow strict Covid 19 protocols as it is necessary to be safe. After the new Covid 19 variant ‘Omicron’ has emerged, Maharashtra has already detected 20 cases of new covid variant recently.

73 per cent of students bagged jobs at IIT-Madras in phase one of the placement season

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IIT-Madras in phase

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Madras) has witnessed high job offers from the companies. Around 73 per cent of students opted for campus placements during 2021-22 and by the end of phase 1 that concluded on December 10, everyone got placed in reputed companies.

A total of 1,085 offers were made by 226 companies in phase one of the placement drive. There were 45 international offers from 14 companies and 62 startups offered 186 jobs during the placement season.

The sectors that witnessed the highest placement offers are Core Engineering and Technology (42 per cent), Data Science and Analytics (19 per cent) and Information Technology and Software Development (18 per cent).

Also read: IIT Madras re-introduced MS In Entrepreneurship Programme

Companies like American Express and Microsoft India Pvt. Ltd offered 16 jobs followed by Bajaj Auto Ltd and EXL Service that offered 15 jobs.

Recruiters like Rakuten Mobile, Inc, Glean, Micron Technologies, Honda R&D, Cohesity, Da Vinci Derivatives, Accenture Japan, Hilabs Inc., Quantbox Research, MediaTek, Money Forward, Rubrik, Term Grid and Uber were among the international companies.

With the 231 Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs), the total number of jobs offered to students stands at 1,316 at the end of phase one of the placement drive. A total of 1,500 students registered themselves for the campus placement.

Karnataka Govt. to recruit 15,000 school teachers across the state

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15,000 school teachers

The Karnataka Government will recruit 15,000 school teachers across the state to overcome the shortage of teachers at government schools, said Primary and Secondary Education Minister BC Nagesh on Saturday.

Nagesh said that 10,000 teachers will be appointed and recruited for Classes 6 to 8, and 5,000 educators will also be hired for the Kalyana-Karnataka region.

Also read: COVID-19: Help Desk launched for safety of govt school teachers

A notification on the appointment process will be released soon.

In addition to it, the state government had appointed 23,000 guest teachers. Around 4,000 guest teachers will be given appointments in the new recruitment process.

Edtech company Byju’s acquires Austria’s GeoGebra

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Byju’s-a homegrown Edtech company has recently acquired Austria-headquartered GeoGebra.

The acquisition will help Byju’s to offer new products and services as GeoGebra has 115 million students on its learning platform. Byju’s will implement new concepts by integrating GeoGebra’s capabilities and new learning formats into its existing mathematics portfolio.

The company in a statement said the new acquisition is aligned with Byju’s overall product strategy. Byju’s aims to make mathematics interesting and bring potential learning outcomes. In fact, the company did not reveal the monetary details of the deal yet.

GeoGebra’s platform is interactive, collaborative and dynamic for learning.

“The GeoGebra team has built a powerful and stimulating platform that complements Byju’s mission of providing impactful learning for students. Designed to improve mathematical understanding, it offers significant features that provide interactive resources that adapt to every child’s style and pace of learning,” Byju’s Chief Strategy Officer Anita Kishore said. “Together with our combined strengths, we will have a wider reach and the best resources to build innovative and exciting next-generation learning formats,” she said.

GeoGebra has 100 million learners across over 195 countries and provides easy-to-use formats for mathematics.

Four districts in Bihar see transformation in the education sector: Niti Aayog

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A recent Niti Aayog report revealed that Muzaffarpur, Aurangabad, Banka and Sheikhpura have ranked among the top four districts in Bihar where education has improved recently.

These are the most ‘Aspirational Districts’ in the field of education and they have been ranked by the Niti Aayog scheme for October 2021.

“Education is the key to champion the cause of an AatmanirbharBharat! Presenting, the top 5 most improved ‘Aspirational Districts’ in the sector of Education for October 2021. Congratulations, ChampionsOfChange!” Niti Aayog tweeted on December 10.

Muzaffarpur, Aurangabad, Banka and Sheikhpura have been in an order of second, third, fourth and fifth.

“The Bihar government’s education department remarked that this recognition by the Niti Aayog is ‘important,” said Sanjay Kumar, Additional Chief Secretary, Bihar’s Education Department to a daily news portal.

Kumar further said, “This is the result of the work undertaken with regards to quality education on the instructions and under the leadership of chief minister Nitish Kumar.”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Niti Aayog’s Aspirational Districts scheme on January 18, 2021. The motive is to transform 112 most under-developed districts in the country through the implementation of the scheme.

 

IIT Delhi’s Research And Innovation Park wins Façade Project of the Year Award 2021

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IIT Delhi’s Research And Innovation Park

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi’s Research and Innovation (R & I) park has been awarded with the Facade Project of the Year 2021.

The park will focus on product development and innovation. In fact, institute researchers, corporates, government agencies and startups will interact and implement advanced technological solutions.

“The R&I Park is slated to become a prominent centre for research and innovation leading to advanced technology platforms and deep-tech start-ups. The Park is expected to strengthen the techno-entrepreneurship ecosystem and contribute to regional economic development”, Anil Wali, Managing Director, FITT, IIT Delhi said.

V Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi added with R&I park in place it will support the institute, industry and help in government collaboration.

IIT-Patna witnesses 162.5 per cent surge in placement offers in 2021

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The 2022 graduating batch had seen an increase of 162.50 per cent job offers as compared to 2020. Around 96 job offers were given to the students last year.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna witnessed the highest domestic package of Rs 61.3 lakh per annum offered to 9 students from the firm Oracle.

However, Accenture, Japan offered the highest international package of Rs 47.9 lakh to three students.

“We have seen a significant jump in pre-placement offers extended to the graduation students of BTech and MTech. In 2021 IIT Patna has received 37 PPOs (pre-placement offers), while it was 24 in 2020, which is 54.16 per cent higher in comparison to the previous session. A surge in PPOs is the testimony of our students’ resilience and commitment during summer internships,” said Prof Jose V Parambil, Professor In-charge Training and Placement.

252 offers have been received from various national and international reputations during the first phase of the annual placement season.

Companies like Zomato, Plutus Research, Oyo Rooms, Texas Instruments, Housing.com, Tata Electronics, Netapp, Unacademy, Searce, Flipkart, Qualcomm, Paytm, Tata Digital, and Sterlite Technologies have participated in the placement offer.

DU to start BTech Programmes in academic session 2022-23

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Delhi University

Delhi University will start B Tech programmes in computer science, electronics, communications and electrical engineering for the academic session 2022-23.

The details and schedule for the B Tech programmes will be announced soon. The students can check the official website-www.du.ac.in.

“The syllabi of these programmes would be devised taking into consideration the contemporary requirement of the programmes and its synergy with the industry and other premier engineering and technology institutions offering similar programmes of study at this level to make the students globally competitive both in terms of development of trained manpower as well as their acceptability for conceptualisation and implementation of successful startups through innovations,” read the deliberations of the committee.

Also read: Delhi University begins classes for UG first-year students today

50 percent plus weightage will be given to the major subject and the rest will be given to minor subjects.

A committee under Professor D S Chauhan, former Vice-Chancellor of Uttar Pradesh Technical University and Uttarakhand Technical University to establish the Faculty of Technology in areas of engineering and technology.

The committee will also look into the scope and feasibility of setting up departments under the Faculty of Technology. It will figure out the structure of departments, their structure, requirement, faculty members qualifications for the smooth running of the departments.

Gorakhpur to become ‘Special Education Zone’: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

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Union Minister for Education, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan has announced today that Gorakhpur will become a ‘Special Education Zone’.

While addressing the concluding programme of the 89th Founder’s Week celebrations of Maharana Pratap Education Council on Friday as the Chief Guest, the education minister mentioned that Gorakhpur had developed as a Knowledge City with the establishment of three functional universities.

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur and Mahayogi Gorakhnath University are the functional universities.

Also read: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan laud UP for implementing National Education Policy

The Ayush University is currently under construction and it is estimated that the state government will spend Rs 815 crore on the construction of the university. Around 52-acre land has been acquired near Pipri and Tarkulhi villages for its construction.

The state government is focusing on prioritizing education, which will give a major boost to education in UP.

The education minister added that the idea is to groom students and make them capable. It will address the problems of the world through academic pursuits.

He mentioned that the new National Education Policy under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been prepared to align with the strategic changes in the global scenario.

The education minister wants to involve the students of Gorakhpur in education and make them globally aware and competitive.

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