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Haryana Board Open School HOS 10th result 2020 declared

Haryana Board result

Board of School Education Haryana, Bhiwani has declared the HOS 10th Result 2020. Haryana 10th Open school result 2020 is available online on results.bseh.org.in.

A total of 16,915 students appeared for the Haryana Board open school exams. Out of which 2,862 students passed while the remaining 14,053 students will have to re-appear.

Due to the lockdown induced because of the coronavirus, only four exams of the Haryana Open Board class 10 could be conducted. In the fresh exams, only 16.92 per cent candidates could clear the exam while in re-appear the pass percentage was 39.65 per cent, as per the data released by the board.

Also read: Haryana Board declares BSEH Class 10 Results

In the fresh HOS 10th exams, a total of 11,545 make candidates had appeared of which 2032 have passed delivering a pass percentage of 17.60 per cent. While among females, only 829 girls out of 5,369 who appeared could pass it delivering a pass percentage of 15.44 per cent.

As many as 18.27 per cent of students from rural area cleared the exam while the pass percentage of urban students is at 13.23 per cent, as per the data shared by the board.

Telangana to commence Engineering academic year from August 17

K Chandrashekar Rao

In the light of Corona pandemic , Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has announced that the academic year for the Engineering Colleges across the state will begin from August 17, 2020. The final decision for reopening, the schools will be taken in the state soon.

The CM said that the academic year of engineering course will commence from August 17 and the government will soon be making a decision on the date for reopening the schools in the state and the issues related to examining the centre guidelines, methods adopted by other states.

The state government is preparing to combine the entrance exam schedule so that the students will not lose their academic year. The government will also take responsibility for the education of orphans girls studying until class 10 in Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya for which a policy decision will be announced shortly.

Also read: Telangana private teachers protest against non-payment of salaries

The state government has also decided to follow the UGC and AICTE guidelines issued for conducting the university examinations for the final year students while the other course students will be promoted to the next term without any exams. The chief minister has also announced a long term strategy being prepared and executed to strengthen the government institutes in the state.

JAC Board declares Class 12 Results 2020; check details

JAC Board Class 12th Result 2020

Jharkhand Academic Council declared the JAC Board Class 12th Result 2020 for science, commerce and arts stream. Jharkhand Board released JAC 12th result 2020 online- jacresults.com. The Jharkhand Board 12th Science and Commerce Stream Result 2020 has been declared online on the official website of the Board like every year.

For 2020 session, the Jharkhand Academic Council held the Intermediate Exams for nearly 2.3 lakh students in the month of February. The Exams commenced on 10th February 2020 and concluded on 28th February 2020. While the exams were held prior to the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country, the evaluation work and checking process was heavily hampered due to the lockdown announced in March and April 2020. This caused a delay in the declaration of JAC Class 12 Results 2020.

Also read: JAC Board Examination 2020: Class 10th admit card released

Steps to check the JAC Board Class 12th Result 2020:

-Visit the official website: jacresults.com

-Click the link of JAC Class 12 result 2020 to check results

-Enter roll number and roll code in appropriate fields.

-Click on the ‘Submit’ button and JAC intermediate result 2020

West Bengal Board declares WBCHSE Results 2020; check details

WBCHSE Results 2020

After much delay and wait, West Bengal Board has declared its Class 12 Results. Students can visit the official site to know their WBCHSE Results 2020-wbresults.nic.in. West Bengal Council of Higher Education declared the HS Results 2020 formally in a press meet.

The Pass Percentage for Science, Commerce and Art streams are 98.83pc, 92.22 pc and 88.74 pc respectively.

With over 8 lakh students vying to check their WBCHSE HS Results 2020 online, the official websites may display technical problems, hampering the result checking process.

Also read: West Bengal Board to declare class 10 Results by August

The WBCHSE has ensured that all the students awaiting their West Bengal 12th result 2020 are able to access the same without any delay. As such, the Council has released the West Bengal Class 12 result 2020 in the online mode as well.

Steps to check WBCHSE Results 2020:

-Visit official website i.e. wbresults.nic.in

-Click on link for HS Results– March 2020 exam

-Enter exam roll number and other details asked on the website

-Verify the details against the hall ticket and submit them

-Submit to get results

Manipur Board announces Manipur HSE Results 2020; check details

Manipur HSE Results 2020

After long and anxious wait, the Council of Higher Secondary Education, Manipur – COHSEM, has declared Manipur HSE Results 2020 for 12th Class students. COHSEM Results 2020 have been declared for all three streams of students i.e. for Arts, Science and Commerce Streams. Students can log onto official result portal-manresults.nic.in to check results.

Due to the currently prevailing condition, the Manipur Board or Council of HSE, Manipur, has decided to publish the COHSEM 12th Results 2020 online only via the official result website manresults.nic.in.

Also read: Manipur Board declares BSEM Class 10 Results

Council of Higher Secondary Education, Manipur conducted 12th class board exams from February 14 to March 23, 2020. This year, COHSEM 12th Result 2020 is delayed due to lockdown in the country.

Steps to check Manipur HSE Results 2020:

-Visit official website i.e. manreuslts.nic.in

-Click on Link for COHSEM HSE Result 2020

-Enter exam roll number and other details asked on the page

-Verify the details and summit to get results

UP govt to conduct final year exams under UGC guidelines

UP govt

In the light of Coronavirus pandemic, the Uttar Pradesh Government will be conducting the final year in all the state universities. The state universities are expected to follow the UGC and the HRD Ministry guidelines released for the universities across the country.

The UP government has decided to cancel the intermediate (first and second year) examinations instead due to the pandemic.

Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma said that all the UG and PG examinations except the final year examinations have been cancelled. Sharma further added that the students from other classes will be promoted based on the internal assessment marks. He also added that the final year exams in the state universities will be completed by September 30, 2020.

Also read: UP Govt issues guidelines over next academic year for Universities

Sharma further added that in case any student cannot appear for the final exams a second chance will be given and as per the convenience of the universities another exam will be conducted for such students. The Undergraduate and Postgraduate results will be declared by October 15 to 31, 2020.

The UGC has earlier released the revised guidelines on July 6, 2020, for the universities to conduct the examinations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The UGC has made the final year examinations mandatory for the students in all the universities.

The guidelines were however opposed by the teachers association, student bodies, and the states including Punjab, Maharashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, and Rajasthan.

SC asks NIOS to declare Class 10 and 12 Results 2020 by August 7

SC to NIOS

In a major move, Supreme Court has directed National Institute of Open ensure (NIOS) to declare Class 10th and 12th Results 2020 by 7th August 2020. The direction came after NIOS issued a notification confirming cancellation of NIOS Board Exams 2020 for both 10th and 12th Class students, after multiple postponements due to COVID-19.

The judgement was delivered by Justice A M Khanwilkar who was hearing the matter filed by two petitioners with regards to NIOS Board’s decision to hold the 10th and 12th Class Board Exams.

Earlier, NIOS had planned to hold the NIOS 10th and 12th Class Exams 2020 from 17th July 2020 onwards; however, this decision was retracted later. Prior to the hearing, on July 10, the NIOS Board issued a formal notification confirming cancellation of NIOS 10th and 12th Class Exams 2020 which were pending and postponed owing to the COVID-19 outbreak in the country.

Also read: NIOS declares assessment scheme for cancelled exams

The bench noted that “Considering the fact that…NIOS has already issued a notification on July 10, 2020, after the institution of these petition(s), nothing survives for consideration in the present writ petition(s) except to observe that…NIOS must ensure that the result for the current academic year is declared not later than August 7, 2020.” The bench further clarified that.

Vedantu raises $100 M from Coatue

vedantu

In a major development, Live tutoring startup Vedantu has raised $100 million from US-based hedge fund Coatue. The valuation has risen in just a couple of months to $600 million.

The lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic has boosted online education as students have been unable to step outside.

Founded by Vamsi Krishna, Pulkit Jain, Anand Prakash and Saurabh Saxena in 2011, Vedantu currently provides live coaching classes for K12 students, including for entrance exams such as IIT JEE Main and Advanced for engineering and NEET for medical colleges.

It also provides classes for CBSE and ICSE, as well as various state boards, along with sample question papers, revision notes, mock tests and previous year’s papers.

Also read: All-India private school body urges PM for funds

Vedantu said it has grown 220 percent during the lockdown with over two million students attending live classes and teachers delivering over eight million hours of live classes.

Vedantu has raised over $200 million in funding, most of it in the last 12 months, from investors such as Tiger Global Management, Westbridge Capital, Accel and GGV Capital.

HRD Minister launches online training programme for teachers

HRD Minister launches online training

Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister, Ramesh Pokhriya Nishank today virtually launched the online version of ‘NISHTHA’. It is a new programme will provide training to 1,200 key resources persons (KRPs) of Andhra Pradesh.

Around 23,000 teachers KRPs identified by state governments and 17.5 lakh teachers and school heads have been trained under the National Initiative for School Heads’ and Teachers Holistic Advancement, or NISHTHA, programme. HRD minister said that for training the remaining 24 lakh teachers and school heads, NISHTHA has been customized for the online mode to improve the learning outcomes.

The minister also said that due to COVID-19 pandemic situation and the lockdown have affected the conduct of this programme in face-to-face mode. As per a MHRD statement, NISHTHA in online mode will be conducted through DIKSHA and NISHTHA portals by the National Council for Educational Research and Training, or NCERT.

Also read: AAP lawmaker urges HRD Minister to cancel DU online exams

Andhra Pradesh is the first state for which MHRD is launching online NISHTHA programme. Pokhriyal said: “These resource persons will help in the mentoring of teachers of Andhra Pradesh, who will take on-line NISHTHA training on DIKSHA later on.”NISHTHA focuses on the holistic development of children and hence includes curriculum and inclusive education health and well-being, personal social qualities, art integrated learning, initiatives in school education, subject-specific pedagogies, ICT in teaching-learning, leadership, pre-school education, pre-vocational education and other aspect of education.

Dr SP Singh, Founder Manager of Lucknow Public Schools & Colleges: Students must change their mindset towards online classes

S P Singh

We are also conducting online classes successfully. Not only in urban areas, students in rural areas are also attending online classes in large numbers says Dr SP Singh, Founder Manager of Lucknow Public Schools & Colleges in an interview with Arpit Gupta of Elets News Network (ENN).

How Lucknow Public School (LPS) executed the online classes and tackled the Corona pandemic?

Online classes cannot replace the physical ones by any means. But due to the Corona pandemic, all the schools across the globe are compelled to adopt online classes. We are also conducting online classes successfully. Our highly skilled faculties are teaching online classes with their utmost zeal. Not only in urban areas, but students in rural areas are also attending online classes in large numbers. There has been a change in the mindset within students and parents; they have accepted online classes gracefully. Recently, we have also conducted monthly tests online successfully.

We are also recording the online classes and sending them to the students on WhatsApp, so that they can access it anytime.

What are the digital tools LPS is using for students?

We are using WhatsApp, Google Meet and Snap Homework App to conduct online classes. The usages of applications are very successful. Our teachers’ are fairly tech-savvy.

What are the challenges students, parents and teachers faced during the online classes?

Usually, some parents face the stigma of being tech-savvy for online classes but these days’ children are very smart and quick to adopt the technology. Our students are tech-savvy and they know the usage of applications. We are even inviting parents to monitor online classes.

LPS has decided to reduce the annual fees in view of COVID. Please elaborate.

We have been giving concessions to parents if more than one child studies in our school. This year, we have surged the concession percentage due to lockdown. Until lockdown, the school will not ask for any convenience fees. We have also reduced fees in other heads, which can provide relief to parents.

Also read: Delhi Govt allows appointment of guest teachers for online classes

In this pandemic all the sports and extra-curricular activities have halted? How is LPS thinking to revive it within the students?

To provide much-needed relief to students from studies, we have conducted an online summer camp. We have also conducted many activities including poem writing, drawing, music, dance, art, craft and many others. We have asked students to participate in these online camps.

We request all the parents and students to stay home during this pandemic. Students must attend online classes. In the coming days, things will change and everything will become normal.

What are your initiatives in Higher Education at Lucknow Public Schools & Colleges?

We offer various courses including BBA, BCA, B.Com, B.Com (Hons), B.Sc. and BJMC in our Lucknow Public College of Professional Studies. In this pandemic, we have not increased the course fees. We are conducting online classes for them and the students are accepting gracefully. The online classes were conducted seamlessly in the last two months.

What are your initiatives in CSR activities during the COVID pandemic?

We have donated Rs. 21 lakh to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund. In many districts, we have started community kitchens and provided sanitizers and soaps to many poor people. To boost the immunity of people, we distributed homeopathic medicines, which helped thousands of people in this pandemic.

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