UP Board 10th and 12th compartmental results 2020 declared

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October 21, 2020

Providing relief to students, the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UPMSP) has officially announced the UP Board 10th and 12th Compartmental Results 2020. Students who have appeared for the compartmental exams can now check their results at upmsp.edu.in.

Around 33 thousand students received their UP Board Compartmental Results 2020. As per the pre-exam data shared by UPMSP, a total of 33,344 students appeared for the UP Board 10th and 12th Exam 2020 held on 3rd October 2020. Of this number, around 15,839 students appeared for Class 10 Compartmental / Improvement Exam while the rest 17,505 students appeared for Intermediate Compartmental Exam 2020. From 2020 session, UP Board stated holding compartmental exams for Class 12 students as well.

Also read: UP Board declares Class 10 Results 2020

Steps to check UP Board 10th and 12th Compartmental Results 2020:

-Visit official website i.e. upmsp.edu.in

-Find links for Class 10 and Class 12 compartmental results

-Select the district and exam year from drop-down menu

-Enter 7 roll number in provided field

-Enter the security captcha displayed on the screen

-Click on result button at the bottom to get results

MBBS seats in West Bengal increases to 4,000

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October 20, 2020

Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee has announced that the number of seats in the MBBS course had been increased to 4,000 in the state medical colleges after the addition of 250 seats. The CM had earlier impressed upon the idea of increasing the number of medical seats in the state.

Mamata Banerjee took to her Twitter handle to inform the students of the increase in seats. “I am pleased to announce that we now have 4,000 MBBS seats for Bengal’s vibrant medical students with the initiation of the first MBBS batch in Purulia Govt MCH consisting of 100 seats & the addition of 150 MBBS seats in Gouri Devi Medical College,” she said.

Also read: 4,800 MBBS seats reserved for economically weaker section, says Harsh Vardhan

In 2019, the minister of state for health Chandrima Bhattacharya had informed, “the assembly that the number of MBBS seats in West Bengal was 1,355 when the Trinamool Congress government came to power in the state in 2011.”

Candidates who have qualified for the NEET 2020 examination with the minimum required percentile would be eligible to participate in the counselling round. DGHS has been entrusted to conducting NEET counselling 2020 for 15% seats of the total intake from all the government colleges (except for colleges of Jammu and Kashmir state) for All India Quota candidates.

Class 10 students can apply for ICAI CA foundational course

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October 20, 2020

Good news for class 10 students as now, they are also eligible to apply for CA foundational. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) claims to have received approval from the government for amending the entry requirement for the Chartered Accountancy (CA) courses. Under the new requirement, class 10 students can apply for the foundation courses of ICAI. Until now, students who clear class 12 were eligible to apply for the course.

Atul Kumar Gupta, President, ICAI said: “The Institute has recently got the approval of Government of India for amending the Regulations 25E, 25F & 28F of Chartered Accountants Regulations, 1988 which now enables a candidate to provisionally register in the Foundation Course of ICAI after passing class 10 examinations. However, provisional admission to Foundation course will only be regularised once the candidate clears class 12 exams.”

Also read: ICAI re-opens correction window for candidates

Students who provisionally register in the foundation course after passing the class 10 exam will have more time during class 11 and 12 to acquire requisite techniques to appear for CA foundation exams. However, only those students will be allowed to appear for the foundation exam held in May/June, who appeared in the class 12 exam in February or March, as per the official statement by ICAI.

The early entry will allow students to complete the CA course and become Chartered Accountant, six months in advance, due to early admission, claims ICAI.

NTA corrects NEET Result blunder after category topper flags discrepancy

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October 20, 2020

According to reports, the NEET 2020 results of the NEET 2020 topper in the ST Category was shown ‘Failed’. The agency rectified its mistake after the category topper raised the issue with the NTA over the marks shown in the results.

The NEET 2020 Results were declared by the National Testing Agency on October 16, 2020.

Seventeen-year-old Mridul Rawat from Rajasthan was shown a result of 329 out of 720 whereas according to the calculations based on the answer key Mridul secured 650. The same was then challenged based on the recorded response OMR sheet and answer key. The same was also pointed out in a tweet by Mridul following which the NTA rechecked the results and it was found that he secured 650 on 720 on the NEET 2020 exams.

Also read: NTA releases protocol for JEE Main, NEET 2020 exams aspirants

Mridul has secured a rank of 3577 under the general category ranking.

The National Testing Agency committed a mistake in the result sheet of Mridul in which the mark tally was shown as 650 but the marks under the word column stated three Hundred and Twenty Nine Marks. Mridul then approached the NTA to make the corrections and later on the agency released the corrected mark sheet with the marks in the work column having the correct marks.

According to the rank list released, Soyeb Aftab and Akanksha Singh topped the exams with 720 marks out of 720.

Pokhriyal: NEP will help restricting brain drain

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October 20, 2020

Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said the new national educational policy will help arrest brain drain and give a boost to research in higher education institutes.

The minister was addressing through video conference the 8th convocation ceremony of the Indian Institute of Technology Indore.

“Between 7.5 lakh to 8 lakh Indian students are studying abroad and this drains out Rs 1.5 lakh crore from here to foreign countries. We are going to strengthen parameters under our ‘stay in India’ campaign for which research will be put on the fast-track under the new education policy,” he said.

Also read: Pokhriyal: India becoming global education hub

He said those who had studied in India were leading some of the big corporations in the world.

Under the new education policy, some 100 top international universities would be invited to India for “knowledge exchange”, the minister said.

He said the Centre wants to make higher education institutions an international brand under its ‘study in India’ campaign.

He said 50,000 foreign students had registered for admission in institutes in the country but the move has been stalled currently due to the coronavirus outbreak.

KVs and JNVs may reopen schools from Nov 2 for classes 9 to 12

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October 20, 2020

After a long wait of 7 months, schools in India have finally started to reopen. According to reports, Kendriya Vidyalaya’s (KVs) and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya’s (JNVs) are planning to reopen schools across India from November 2, 2020. The process to assess the situation has started and reports are being collected. The schools would initially reopen for students of classes 9 to 12.

With the nod received from the Central Government, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education, the central schools have started collecting feedback from the stakeholders. There are a total of 1250 KVs and 650 JNVs in the country in which about 15 lakh students are enrolled.

Also read: UP, Punjab, Sikkim reopens schools for classes 9 to 12 students

After the Unlock 4.0 Guidelines approved the reopening of schools on voluntary basis for students of classes 9 to 12, the KVs had decided to reopen the schools from September 21, as per the permissions. However, the parents had been unwilling and the plans were shelved and schools continued to offer online classes.

States of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Assam, Himachal Pradesh have already reopened their schools. The attendance is, at present, strictly voluntary and has seen only a few students. However, the signs have been positive and reassuring. Mostly the student of classes 9 to 12 have been permitted by the states, with consideration of the board examination. Haryana, on the other hand, has permitted reopening the schools for students of classes 6 to 12.

NoPaperForms acquires Intelliadmissions, eyes to strengthen UniApply in Maharashtra

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October 20, 2020

Country’s enrolment automation giant, NoPaperForms has announced its acquisition of Mumbai-based Intelliadmissions in an all cash deal for an undisclosed amount. Intelliadmissions is an online school admission platform that bridges the gap between parents and schools. With over 200 schools under its belt, it has a strong presence in over six major cities of Maharashtra. This would enable NoPaperForms’ UniApply to catalyse its expansion to Maharashtra and neighbouring states: a major boost to the team’s plan to scale UniApply to 100 cities in a record time.

Talking about the acquisition, Ronald D’Souza, Founder and Director of Intelliadmissions said that since 2013, he has been committed to using technology to improve the overall effectiveness of the school admission landscape. Intelliadmissions was a step in that direction and its recent acquisition by NoPaperForms would yield synergistic effects for both the enterprises.

“Our goal is to support schools and parents to help their children become the best that they can be. We can now leverage the advanced tech stack of NoPaperForms to provide a delightful experience to schools and parents alike. We will look into expanding our services to better enable our existing client base, hand in hand with the #Zabardast team of NoPaperForms,” he further added.

UniApply is a Common Application Platform. With its revolutionary “One Form, Many Schools” approach it makes it possible for Parents to apply to various schools in one go. With over 30,000 verified parents visiting the site daily, UniApply is fast replacing the ever tiring and outdated school admission process. This can be gauged from this observation by Amit Ranjan, Former Co-Founder of SlideShare. He tweeted “This was needed SO BADLY! Few years back, I had to apply to 18 diff schools for my daughter’s nursery admission (this is par-for-the-course in Delhi)!” sharing a picture of the front-page advertisement of the UniApply Delhi NCR Launch.

“UniApply is our answer to the perennial problem of a messy, unstructured school admission process. Intellinects has an advanced vertical product stack ranging from School Admissions to the Student Lifecycle Management, which fuses very well with what we offer. The talented team and the unique competencies they bring to the table will add tremendous value to the UniApply offering ” said Naveen Goyal, the Founder and CEO of NoPaperForms.

Also read: Unacademy acquires UPSC preparation platform Coursavy

“We began with transforming admissions in the Higher Education vertical and have been quite successful and now our new mission is to replicate the same, in the much messier School Admissions, with UniApply. I am sure the acquisition will significantly speed up the process,” he further added.

Sharing his plans for UniApply, Naveen said that the team is all ready to swoop in to opportunities and bring UniApply “to over a hundred cities, its first milestone.” He also hinted that there might be more news coming in very soon.

Ed-Tech Start up Genius Teacher raises $2 million

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October 19, 2020

Mumbai-based ed tech startup Genius Teacher, has raised a $2 million angel fund from Whiteboard Capital and VKG Venture LLP. The quiz based firm is founded by Housing.com’s co-founder Advitiya Sharma.

The company aims to use this funding to create products for teachers and onboard more than a million students on its platform in the next 12 months.

The company focuses on the K12 segment and creates personalised interest-based engaging content to enhance the learning experience for students. It uses strong interests like food, movies, sports nature and more to make learning maths, science and English more enjoyable.

Also read: Ed-tech start up Winuall raise Rs 14.7 cr fresh funding

The company has created over 5K quizzes on its platforms and nearly 10K interest-based personalised videos. The company also claims to have onboarded more than 100 schools, 2,000 teachers, and 70,000 paid students with a record 100% renewal rate.

Genius Teacher, which is registered under the name Genius Learning Labs Pvt Ltd, supports over 10+ curriculums and provides real rewards like scholarships and internships with big companies like Whatsapp, Mahindra & Mahindra, Singapore University, IIT(M) and many more.

PM Modi: Lot of focus on structural reforms in higher education

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October 19, 2020

While addressing the centenary convocation of the University of Mysore, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted that the Central government has established a number of higher education institutes, including IITs, IIMS, IIITs and AIIMS across the country.

“A total of seven new IIMs have been established in the last five to six years. Before this, there were only 13 IIMs in the country. Similarly, for seven decades only seven All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) were serving the country,” the Prime Minister said.

He said that there were 16 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the country till 2014, even after so many years of independence.

Also read: PM Modi: NEP 2020 will make India a global leader in science and tech

“In the last 6 years, on average, a new IIT has been opened every year. One of these is also open in Dharwad, Karnataka. As of 2014, there were 9 IIITs in India. In the subsequent 5 years, 16 Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) have been established,” he added.

PM Modi further said that a lot of focus has been put into the development of infrastructure and structural reforms in higher education.

“National Education Policy is a huge initiative to bring a fundamental change in the education setup of the country. To make our capable youth even more competitive, a multidimensional approach is being focussed on. An effort is to make youth flexible and adaptable for changing nature of the job,” he added.

UP, Punjab, Sikkim reopens schools for classes 9 to 12 students

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October 19, 2020

After months of deliberations, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and Sikkim have reopened schools in their respective states from today. The schools have been open in these states in a graded manner for Classes 9 to 12. However, Haryana has not shared the date for reopening of schools.

As informed earlier by the Punjab government, students of classes 9 to 12 would be allowed to attend classes with parental consent today onwards. Schools would be functional for 3 hours every day However, attendance would not be compulsory for the students. The decision on the school reopening date, however, would be taken after SOPs are given by the Health Department.

The government of Punjab had also issued new SOPs for reopening of schools that guided not to permit more than 20 students per section.

Also read: State to reopen schools with new SOPs; check list

As for Haryana, the students from classes 6th to 9th standard could visit their schools to consult the teachers from October 15 onwards.

A fortnight before, the Directorate of School Education, Haryana had issued a letter to district education officers, allowing for the schools to open from September 21, 2020, for classes 9-12 students. While teachers and non-teaching staff have started going to school, no regular classes are being conducted for students.

Schools in Uttar Pradesh would reopen for classes 9 to 12 students of all boards outside containment zones from October 19. Students of classes 9 to 12 will be allowed to attend the classes only after getting written permission from their parents or guardians.

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