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Reopening of school: States planning to start classes from 21st Sept

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Reopening of school

In a major development, the Central Government has confirmed that it is not compulsory to reopen schools from September 21. The Unlock 4.0 guidelines, as released by Ministry of Home Affairs, allows schools to partially open for teaching and non-teaching staff. It has said voluntary attendance of students of classes 9 to 12. The final decision, however, to open or not to open the schools and allow students, even voluntarily, to go to school to seek guidance, rests soleley with the State Governments.

In pursuance to the same, many state governments have announced their decision to allow or not to allow. While most of the state governments have deferred re-opening of schools, Haryana and Delhi Government have allowed students of classes 9 to 12 to attend school to clarify doubts or seek guidance.

Also read: Delhi govt directs schools to observe “dry day” once a week

Most of the states including Goa, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Odisha, Maharashtra have decided not to reopen the schools until next month. However, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Chandigarh, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand are the only states which has decided to open its schools with SOPs from September 21.

The Haryana has made compulsory for teachers to go under COVID-19 test before resuming. Many other states in the country are still undecided to open the schools or not reopen the schools.

The schools across the country are closed from mid-March due to Corona pandemic across the country.

Pokhriyal confers Second Utkrisht Sansthan Vishwakarma Award

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Pokhriyal confers

Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ virtually confers Second Utkrisht Sansthan Vishwakarma Award in 14 categories to the Institutions under AICTE on Vishwakarma Divas Celebration.

The Utkrisht Sansthan Vishwakarma Award is being organized by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) since 2019, which aims to motivate, recognize and honor the AICTE approved institutions to raise their performance in the specific domain leading to significant contribution for the growth and development of the society.

Also read: Pokhriyal: Survey conducted by NCERT to understand online learning

India is facing an extraordinary challenge to protect citizens from the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic all around the globe, Pokhriyal said. Since the technical education community in the country is well-capable of serving the community by utilizing its vast knowledge and ample resources. Therefore, in order to motivate and honor technical institutions, AICTE under its Utkrisht Sansthan Vishwakarma Award (USVA) 2020 has proposed the theme of the year as “INDIA FIGHTS CORONA”, he added.

The Minister informed that Institutions who have initiated steps to ensure that the spread of coronavirus is slowed down and have helped their society by providing their helping hand in fighting COVID-19, have sent their nominations. He further informed that more than 900 institutions were registered for the award this year. 535 applications were considered for the first round of evaluation. These applications were scrutinized by a Committee of experts nominated for the purpose of evaluation, who shortlisted 103 institutions under 14 categories for the next round of evaluation conducted at Regional Offices. Out of 103 institutions, 34 were selected for the awards.

Pokhriyal: Survey conducted by NCERT to understand online learning

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Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank

Union Minister of Education Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said that the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has recently conducted a survey to understand the scenario of Online Learning of school students amid COVID-19 pandemic.

He stated in a reply to a question over the NCERT survey on online learning amid COVID-19 posed by Jyotiraditya Scindia in the Rajya Sabha.

“ The National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) has conducted a survey in the month of July, 2020 with the help of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS), Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) and CBSE to understand the scenario of Online Learning of school students in COVID-19 pandemic situation..

Also read: Country celebrates Hindi Diwas; Pokhriyal extends greetings

The guidelines suggest models for the following three types of scenarios:-

1. Learning Enhancement during COVID-19 students without digital services.

2. Learning Enhancement during COVID-19 for students with limited access to digital devices.

3. Learning Enhancement during COVID-19 for students with digital devices.”

Nishank’ on Tuesday released an alternative academic calendar for secondary classes for the next eight weeks as schools continue to be closed in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. This calendar contains class and subject wise in a tabular format. The activities mentioned in the calendar are related to four languages as subject areas–Hindi English, Urdu, and Sanskrit.

Elets Technomedia & Dell Technologies to organize webinar on higher education

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Dell

Technology can play a critical role in the education sector, and if used wisely and artfully, can help to accelerate innovation and change. For institutions to change as quickly as they need to, they need a solid core infrastructure, wired and wireless networks that enable ubiquitous connectivity, collaboration tools that provide seamless and robust communications, and new social collaboration platforms that support and extend the interaction of multiple communities, and ultimately, create a coalesce higher education society. The usage of technology will help in creating an environment for learner-centric education and highlight creative thinking.

Elets Technomedia and digitalLEARNING Magazine in association with Dell Technologies will be organizing a webinar on “Fostering Digital Innovation for Higher Education” on 18th September, 2020. The webinar will highlight the challenges and opportunities of usage of technology in higher education. It will also show the role of educators’ in HEIs. It will the second part of the series Dell Technologies will be organizing with Elets Technomedia.

Dr Ravi Gupta, Founder & CEO of Elets Technomedia will welcome the panelists. Eminent names from the education industry will be the part of webinar, including Venkat Sitarm, GM & Leader for education vertical Dell Technologies, Dr Indu Rao, Director, Vellore Institute of Technology, Prof MM Pant, Founder, LMP Education Trust, and Dr Ketan Kotecha, Director, Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune.

Teachers in Haryana to undergo COVID test

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Haryana to undergo COVID test

The Haryana government has decided to go ahead with the partial reopening of schools from 21st Sept 2020. As part of preparation process for the same, the Directorate of School Education, Haryana has issued orders to District Education Officers to facilitate reopening of schools for 9th Class and above students from next week.

Earlier in the month, Health ministry also issued strict guidelines and SOPs for reopening of schools nearly 6 months after they were closed in March 2020.

Also read: Haryana government to recruit over 5,000 computer teachers

From 21st Sept onwards, teachers and non-teaching staff of the schools have been allowed to visit the school premises with upto 50% of strength. However, during the partial reopening of schools from 21st Sept, only doubt solving sessions will be held by teachers and no regular classes will be held for students.

Moreover, teachers will also have to undergo COVID-19 tests before the partial reopening of schools. In addition to this, teachers are advised to download the Aarogya Setu App on their mobile phones. This is, again, not mandatory and private schools may continue to remain closed, should they so desire.

As per the letter written to Directorate of School Education, Haryana to the DEOs across the state, school administrators and principals have been instructed to start making the necessary arrangements for reopening of schools.

Aditya Birla Education Academy launches online community Educator Meetup

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Aditya Birla Education Academy

Aditya Birla Education Academy (ABEA), India’s leading teacher training institute identified pressing needs of the teaching fraternity in this pandemic. In this unprecedented health crisis, teachers have emerged as the real superheroes working tirelessly to facilitate transfer of knowledge in various forms.

With this objective in mind, ABEA launched a new initiative on Teacher’s Day called ‘Educator Meetup’ – a virtual meeting space for teachers to come together once a month and discuss strategies to teach, solve problems and share experiences related to a certain topic or subject.

Also read: Ministry of Education: Rs 818 cr allocated for online education

The meetup will consist of a 15-minute talk by an Expert on any subject followed by 45 minutes of insightful interactions, moderated by a faculty from ABEA.

Taking the lead, ABEA has already empanelled 12 experts for these meetups for the next one year. Each of these experts will focus on any one subject area right from Pre-primary to Grade 12covering all major subject groups and boards – CBSE, ICSE, IB, IGCSE.

Neerja Birla, Founder and Chairperson, Aditya Birla Education Trust, said, “In last few months, everything has gone virtual and school life is no exception to it. Teachers had to roll up their sleeves and quickly adapt to the challenge of online learning. Cooped up in their houses, they seamlessly did the balancing act between their students and family commitments.”

Prodipta Hore, Program Director, Aditya Birla Education Academy (ABEA), said, “After interacting with educators via our various initiatives, we identified the need for a platform where educators can come together to learn, share and grow together. The Educator Meetup gives educators an opportunity to learn from an Expert, upskill themselves, discuss how classroom situations can be best dealt with and most importantly share their knowledge and expertise of a particular subject with each other.”

Sisodia claims DU colleges diverting teachers’ salaries

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Sisodia claims DU colleges

In a major development, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said huge misappropriation of funds has been found in the audit of six Delhi University (DU) colleges who are not paying salaries.

The State Education minister said “The Delhi government has provided enough funds to these colleges for paying the salaries but in their initial observation report, the auditors have found that those funds are being directed elsewhere rather than paying the salaries to the teachers.”

“Projected salaries for the academic year is Rs 300 cr and the Delhi government has provided sufficient funds to the colleges under the pattern of assistance. Teachers are not getting their salaries despite the Delhi government providing timely grants,” he said.

Also read: Manish Sisodia: Wants to run Delhi school autonomously

“Few teachers came to meet me and shared their concerns about salary payment. They shared that there is a need of proper audit of the college funds and suspected that funds are diverted towards non-salary expenses,” Sisodia said.

The audit reports have pointed out that colleges have kept a huge amount of money as fixed deposits rather than paying the salaries of their staff, he said. Pointing out that Keshav Mahavidyalaya has

Rs 10.52 crores as fixed deposit, Sisodia asked if they have so much money, why are they not paying salaries to their teachers? “The salary grant paid to the college was Rs 10.92 crores in the year 2014-15 and last year the government paid Rs 27.9 crores.

Delhi University Teachers’ Association to not hold online classes over delay in payment

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Delhi University Teachers’ Association

In a major development, Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) has called for a three day strike to protest against the delay in payment of salaries. The teachers would not hold any online classes during this period.

Teachers of 12 DU Colleges have been repeatedly asking the AAP Government of Delhi to release funds so as to facilitate salary payment. The Government, in turn has responded that enough funds have been released. The teachers have also approached the Delhi High Court on Tuesday, seeking relief.

Eight teachers of Delhi University have filed the plea in Delhi High Court which is likely to be heard on September 17. Petition filed states that apart from these teachers there are other employees, teaching and non-teaching staff, who have not received their salaries for the months of May, June, July and August.

Also read: Delhi University launches integrated e-learning platform

The plea further adds that due to non-payment of salaries has caused mental agony.

Staff and teachers of 12 fully funded Delhi University Colleges have been seeking assistance from the AAP Government for over three months now. The matter has been brough to the attention of the government, which has in turn responded that sufficient sums have already been released. The matter remains contentions.

Delhi HC rejects plea to appear CLAT 2020 exam from home

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CLAT 2020 exam

In a major move, the Delhi High Court has refuted the petition to take CLAT 2020 exam from home. The HC said that it cannot rule out the possibility of the Common Law Admission Test 2020 being compromised by examinees. The plea seeking candidates to allow to take CLAT 2020 from home amid COVID-19 pandemic across the country.

The court also said over 78,000 candidates seeking to appear for CLAT 2020 might not have access to appropriate technology, internet connection, laptop or desktop computer.

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

The order was passed on 10th September 2020 itself but was made available on the official website of Delhi HC on 16th September 2020. The plea had been filed by the petitioner on medical grounds. The Delhi HC said that the plea does not hold enough merit and also said that the order of the Supreme Court would be binding in this regard.

CLAT 2020 has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic is scheduled to be finally conducted on 28th September 2020. CLAT 2020 is a centralised exam conducted by the Consortium of the National Law Universities for the screening of candidates admissions to undergraduate and postgraduate law courses offered by the participating NLUs.

Delhi govt directs schools to observe “dry day” once a week

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Delhi govt directs schools

In a major development, the Delhi government has asked all schools to observe “dry day” once a week. The schools were asked to check coolers, flower pots, bird pots, water containers, stagnant water and other possible sites to prevent mosquito breeding.

The awareness campaign for school students was taken against vector-borne diseases like dengue, malaria and chikungunya in the national capital.

The rainy season is most conducive for vector-borne diseases like dengue, chikungunya and malaria which spread during this time every year. These are all mosquito generated diseases and they sometimes gain epidemic proportions if preventive measures are not taken.

In view of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic all the schools are closed for students and hence all heads of schools are directed to utilize the facilities of social media and mass messaging to give instructions to students to follow at home.

Students were asked to wear full-sleeved clothing, using mosquito repellents, putting wire mesh on doors and windows to prevent entry of mosquitoes, covering all water tanks and containers with well fitted lids to prevent breeding of mosquitoes.

Also read: Delhi Government to bear ‘hiked’ board exam fees for its schools

All schools have also been directed to appoint a nodal officer who will be responsible for all activities related to the prevention and control of vector-borne diseases and monitor the activities being carried out.

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