Pokhriyal reviews implementation of NEP 2020; suggests forming taskforce

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January 13, 2021

Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal held a high-level meeting with senior Ministry of Education officials at his residence to review progress in implementing the new 2020 education policy and suggested setting up a task force and two committees to facilitate its implementation.

Officials said the education minister reviewed progress in implementing NEP 2020 during the hour-long meeting.

During the meeting, the NEP 2020 goal of universalizing education from kindergarten through high school was discussed.

The Union’s cabinet approved the new education policy in July last year, which has several objectives, including the universalization of education from preschool to high school. Pokhriyal also urged that the National Educational Technology Forum (NETF) and the National Research Foundation (NRF), two key elements of the 2020 NEP reform agenda, be established between 2021 and 2022.

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According to a statement from the ministry, Pokhriyal called on stakeholders to ensure synergies between NEP implementation and existing government policies. He also noted that he allows connections between industry and science for better results. In July last year, the Union Cabinet approved NEP-2020, which replaced the 1986 education policy, with the aim of universalizing education from kindergarten through high school. NEP 2020 calls for the creation of a large multidisciplinary institution of higher education (HEI) in or near each district by 2030.

The policy also calls for doubling the gross enrollment ratio (GER) in education. higher, from 26.3% today to 50% in 2025.

Odisha govt exempts fees for students appearing in board examinations

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January 13, 2021

Given the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, on people’s livelihoods across Odisha, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced that the state government will not impose tuition fees on Class 10 exam fees from students.

Patnaik has decided to waive the cost of the annual exam organized by the Council on Secondary Education for the benefit of students. The state registration exam is scheduled to begin on May 3, 2021 of this year.

“The state government will pay Rs 27 crore for this account and more than 6 lakh of students will benefit,” the chief minister said in a statement. Each candidate who has taken the annual high school end-of-school exam is supposed to pay Rs 420 to complete the forms.

Patnaik said the education sector was one of the hardest hit by the pandemic, as students were unable to attend classes for nine long months, affecting their studies.

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“No student is denied the opportunity to take the annual board exam for Class 10 for financial reasons,” said Patnaik.

The state government, which is monitoring the drop in the reporting of new COVID-19 cases in Odisha, reopened schools for students in the final year of Standards X and XII as of January 8. Previously, the Odisha government had arranged for free transportation and accommodation for students who appeared in the state late last year after the coronavirus outbreak on NEET, JEE exams.

AICTE joins hands with Cyberpeace to train 5 Lakh students & faculty

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January 13, 2021

AICTE announced the launch of two programmes to help the students to utilise positive energy in the Nation Building process. A Cyber Security Training programme designed to educate 5 lakh students and faculty was unveiled by Chairman of the AICTE, Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe.

On this occasion, Prof. MP Poonia, Vice Chairman, AICTE emphasised upon the enormous potentials of the youth and their proactive role in bringing out innovations in the country.

“On his birth anniversary, I would like to mention Swami Vivekananda’s famous quote, and urge the students ‘Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached,” said Prof Poonia.

Prof Rajive Kumar, Secretary, AICTE listed out several schemes/initiatives of AICTE to support the educational empowerment of the youth towards bringing out holistic development of the students and overall development of the society.

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The results of AICTE-Pupilfirst Corona Safe Engineering Fellowship (Internship) Programme were also announced by Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe.

Cyberpeace and Pupilfirst have joined hands with AICTE to start these two programmes which will play a pivotal role in empowering youths of the country. We are delighted to launch these two programmes on the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda Ji which is celebrated as National Youth Day.

“AICTE always works towards utilising the positive energy of youths in the Nation Building process. These two programmes which AICTE launched today will play a pivotal role in empowering youths of the country. The faculty members have to make the classes more interesting so as to ignite the power of creativity and lateral thinking of the students Prof. Sahasrabudhe added further.

Khan Academy gets $5 Million from Musk Foundation

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January 12, 2021

Business mogul and the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, recently donated $ 5 million to the American non-profit educational organization Khan Academy through his Musk Foundation to promote online education.

Elon Musk, co-founded the private charitable foundation with his brother Kimbal in 2002, providing philanthropy in a variety of fields including education, renewable energy research, human space exploration, pediatric research and development of ‘Ensuring Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity.

“I just want to thank Elon Musk and all the members of the Musk Foundation. They recently donated $ 5 million to Khan Academy for their credible and generous support of Khan Academy,” said the founder of the Khan Academy, Sal Khan.

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He added that this donation will help Khan Academy and his team accelerate their content, software and learning for more than a million students and teachers around the world.

Founded in 2008, the Sal Khan Academy is focused on creating a variety of online tools that can be used to teach students by creating short lessons in the form of videos. The Khan Academy website also has additional practical exercises and educational materials that are available free of charge to users of the website and the application.

Thank you @elonmusk and @MuskFoundation for an incredible $5m donation to @khanacademy. Here is my thank you video:https://t.co/1LyABVmTyt

— Salman Khan (@salkhanacademy) January 12, 2021

JEE Main replaces UPSEE for admissions in Dr Abdul Kalam Technical University

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January 12, 2021

Admission into the First Year of the Engineering Courses offered in the Colleges of Engineering affiliated to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU), erstwhile Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU) for the session 2021-22 will be offered through Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Mains.

KIET Group of institutions, Delhi-NCR, Ghaziabad organized a Press Conference on 12 January 2021 to disseminate the information regarding the same. The conference was addressed by the Director of the institute.

In its endeavor to enlighten the students, across Delhi-NCR, about the change in the admission process of the University, they shared that the National Testing Agency (NTA) has been entrusted with the onus for hosting Joint Entrance Examination – Mains / JEE (Mains) for the session 2021-22 and admission of the shortlisted candidates to engineering colleges will now be conducted based on this examination score. JEE (Main)-2021 will be conducted in Four Sessions.

The dates of examinations are Session 1 on 23, 24, 25 & 26 February 2021!., Session 2 on 15, 16, 17 & 18 March 2021, Session 3 during 27,28, 29 & 30 April 2021 and Session 4, during 24,25,26,27 & 28 May 2021.

Also read: KIET Group of Institution calls for underpinning global challenges

The last date to apply for the first Session is 16 January, 2021. The candidate may apply for one or more sessions together or may choose to apply for either of them during 3- 4 days’ time when the application window will be opened after the announcement of results of each session.

The Examination will be held in “Computer Based Test” (CBT) Mode only, except that the Drawing Test for B.Arch. will be held in “Pen & Paper” (offline) mode. Also, drawing from the National Education Policy (NEP), the JEE (Main) 2021 will be conducted in various regional languages.

However, keeping in view the decision taken by different Boards all over India, NTA has decided that there will be a total of 90 Questions in the Question Paper and candidate will be required to attempt 5 questions only. There will be no negative marking for 15 optional questions.

The director of KIET, Dr A Garg, stated, “We truly appreciate the decision taken by our university regarding the replacement of the state-level entrance exam Uttar Pradesh State Entrance Examination (UPSEE) with the national level-engineering exam, Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main in order to seek admission at Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU), Lucknow. We believe that this modification in the admission process would certainly support the proposal of National Education Policy of introducing a single university entrance exam conducted by the National Testing Agency. This will also remove the hassle of conducting multiple exams for the recruiters thus helping in keeping the administration of test cost savvy and doing away with the burden of appearing for too many exams for the students as well. We extend our Best wishes to the future engineers for their success in the examination!”

It was also shared that the admissions for B.Tech/B.Arch/M.Tech integrated would be offered on the basis of the scorecard of JEE Main 3. For MBA, the candidate would appear for CMAT and admission in B.Pharm, B.Des, BFA, BFAD, MCA, MCA Integrated, B.Tech lateral entry, B.Pharm lateral entry, B.WAK, and MBA lntegrated would be on the basis of the exam conducted through NTA and there will be a separate examination for BHMT, named BHMCT. An App by the name the National Test Abhyas app has also been launched by the university that can be downloaded from Google Play store for free, to help students in preparing well and increasing their chance of admission.

Thereby, after sharing the above information the Press Conference was concluded with a Vote of Thanks by the Joint Director of the institute, Dr Manoj Goel. He appreciated the physical presence of media persons and requested the media to promote and spread the information among all in the society specially 10+2 students. The Dean Academics of the institute, Dr Anil Ahlawat, the Registrar Anup Srivastav and Head lT Operations, Vinay Ahlawat witnessed the conference and answered the queries of media persons.

KIET Group of Institutions is one of the premier destinations for young minds, offering courses in Engineering, Management and Pharmacy. lt continuously strives for the welfare of its students providing them with best opportunities both on the national and international platforms.

Karnataka to resume colleges from Jan 15; Tamil Nadu to reopen schools from Jan 19

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January 12, 2021

Karnataka universities will start offering regular offline courses to students at all levels of undergraduate, graduate, engineering and postgraduate degrees from January 15, said State Education Minister CN Ashwath Narayan.

“Last year’s offline courses are already working successfully. Classes for first, second and third year will begin on January 15, “Narayan told.

The state government also decided to open student residences. Bus traffic resumes at the same time.

The minister highlighted that all preparations have been made as standard operational instructions of the Center to contain the spread of COVID-19.

Also read: Tripura to resume schools for class 5 from Jan 4

Tamil Nadu to resume schools

The Tamil Nadu government announced Tuesday that 10th and 12th grade schools will reopen on January 19.

A statement by Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami said that each class would have only 25 students to maintain social distancing standards and the state health department will provide vitamin and zinc tablets to boost your immunity.

The decision was made based on parents’ comments at school meetings. Most parents support the idea of reopening schools before the end of the school year in March.

The government previously planned to reopen schools on November 16, but this was postponed when parents resisted out of fear of a second wave of Covid-19.

Palaniswami’s statement noted that the number of Covid-19 cases in the state has steadily declined in recent weeks.

ISRO to adapt 100 Atal Tinkering Labs to strengthen scientific temperaments

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January 12, 2021

ISRO will launch 100 Atal Tinkering Labs across the country to strengthen students’ scientific temperaments and encourage them to innovate in space education and space technology. The decision was made by ISRO and Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, in a virtual meeting.

Through the collaboration, the Indian space research organization will facilitate the tutoring and mentoring of students in advanced technologies of the 21st century, including those related to space, according to an official statement.

Students will acquire not only theoretical, but also practical and applied knowledge of STEM and space education concepts such as electronics, physics, optics, space technology, materials science, and many more others.

Also read: AICTE hosts Online Mapathon with IIT Bombay, ISRO, FOSSE

Atal Innovation Mission and NITI Aayog have implemented more than 7,000 ATLs nationwide, enabling more than three million students in grades 6-12 to learn problem solving, crafts, and innovative thinking.

Scientists and engineers at ISRO centers, in close coordination with the training program office at the space agency headquarters, have been said to actively supervise children and interact with teachers at these ATLs to stimulate experiences. , develop ideas and raise awareness in space to disseminate activities.

ISRO President Dr. K Sivan invited students associated with these ATLs to witness the launch of one of their rockets from the Satish Dhawan Space Center, a spaceport in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.

In his speech, Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog, said that he is happy to work with ISRO to advance space technologies through Atal’s innovation mission and his initiatives.

“I am pleased that ISRO is launching 100 Atal Tinkering Labs in cooperation with its regional research centers to advance our future space scientists, where ISRO scientists and researchers personally lead and supervise young innovators in the field of training. STEM and space technologies, ”added Kant.

Nation Youth Day: PM Modi pays tribute to Swami Vivekananda

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January 12, 2021

On the occasion of Nation Youth Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid tributes to Swami Vivekananda on his birth anniversary and asked people to spread his thoughts and ideals.

Taking the social media, PM Modi shared a link to his app which lets people share Vivekananda’s thoughts. “Tributes to Swami Vivekananda on his birth anniversary. This Vivekananda Jayanti, there’s a creative effort on the NaMo App that lets you share his thoughts and a personalised message. Let us spread Swami Vivekananda’s dynamic thoughts and ideals far and wide!” he said.

Also read: PM Modi hails Aligarh Muslim University’s heritage

A towering spiritual philosopher, Vivekananda was born in 1863 in Kolkata and is credited for popularising the Vedantic ideas. PM Modi has cited Vivekananda as a key influence on him. He had recently installed a statue of him in Jawaharlal Nehru University. January 12 is the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda and is also observed as National Youth Day.

स्वामी विवेकानंद को उनकी जयंती पर कोटि-कोटि नमन।

This Vivekananda Jayanti, there’s a creative effort on the NaMo App that lets you share his thoughts and a personalised message.
Let us spread Swami Vivekananda’s dynamic thoughts and ideals far and wide! https://t.co/lMjQwqH0M2 pic.twitter.com/Nh4ZVtn3k7

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) January 12, 2021

Gujarat reopens schools; 31 teachers and students tested COVID positive in Odisha dist

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January 11, 2021

Gujarat reopens schools; 31 teachers and students tested COVID positive in Odisha dist

Schools in Gujarat have reopened for grades 10 and 12 after being closed for 10 months, as the country was forced to close following the novel Coronavirus.

The Ahmedabad District Commissioner of Education informed schools that they are reopening across the state in accordance with all government-issued guidelines.

He said, “Grades 10 and 12 will start classes today. Masks and disinfection are required.”

Around 10 to 15 teams have been trained to conduct inspection campaigns in schools to verify that COVID protocols are being followed regularly.

In another case, around 31 teachers and students tested positive for Covid after school reopened in Odisha in Gajapati district.

Schools reopened to 10th and 12th grade students in Odisha on January 8 after being closed for more than 9 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Also Read: Delhi HC asks state govt to consider nursery admissions representation

According to officials, around 31 new infections have been discovered in the Gajapati district and 90% of them are teachers and they would be banned from going to school.

Earlier, all teachers underwent the standard COVID-19 testing procedure before schools reopened. However, two students tested positive for the Coronavirus.

According to the decision of the government of Odisha, students in grades 10 and 12 are required to attend classes for 100 days without interruption, except Saturday and Sunday, to prepare for the exam preparation for the Council. However, students were invited to attend classes with the prior consent of their parents.

Delhi HC asks state govt to consider nursery admissions representation

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January 11, 2021

The Delhi High Court on Monday urged the State government to consider representing a lawyer, according to which the admission of children to kindergarten will be postponed until the next academic session of 2021-2022 in light of the COVID-pandemic 19 that prevails.

Judge Prateek Jalan recorded a statement from the Delhi government attorney that the information or opinions of the petitioner would be taken into account in representing him when formulating guidelines or making decisions regarding admission to kindergarten.

The High Court, which said it had not issued an opinion on the grounds for the guilty plea, dismissed the petition after the petitioner and lawyer Rajat Vats said they were satisfied with the order.

With this appeal, the Delhi government was asked for an instruction to issue guidelines or a decision to postpone admission to kindergarten for the 2021-2022 academic session on protecting 3- to 4-year-old children from the pandemic.

Also read: Delhi High Court stays neighbourhood criteria for nursery admissions

Vats said he made a representation to authorities on December 12, 2020, but has yet to receive a response. He then turned to the court.

During the hearing, Delhi government permanent attorney Ramesh Singh announced that the government has not yet released the kindergarten guidelines or entry-level guidelines for the upcoming academic term.

He also claimed that the request was premature as there could be no kindergarten admissions until the guidelines were published.

The petitioner informed the court that some private schools had already started the kindergarten admission process without guidelines.

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