Crash course for Karnataka class 10 students before exam

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April 7, 2020

According to a report, Karnataka’s Primary and Secondary Education Minister S. Suresh Kumar said that Class 10 students from the state will be given a crash course for a week before the SSLC or Class 10 annual examination.

Last week, minister said, the school education department has decided to promote class 7 and 8 students without any exams in the wake of lockdown aimed at controlling the spread of corvid-19.

The minister also said, Class 9 students will be promoted based on formative and summative assessment during their class tests.

The minister said, “There will be too much of a gap between classes conducted and the exam now. So we have decided to have a review of subjects for a week or so. This will help students revise the subjects and be better prepared for the exam.”

The Karnataka SSLC exam was scheduled to be held between March 27 and April 9, and over eight lakh students had registered for the exam.

Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) postponed the SSLC examinations as a preventive measure for coronavirus outbreak.

Karnataka has also postponed the Common Entrance Test for vocations courses, which was scheduled to take place on April22 and April 23 in view of the prevailing COVID-19 and lockdown.

UGC sets up panel to report on exams

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April 7, 2020

Amid coronavirus outbreak, the University Grants Commission (UGC) will submit its report on the impact of COVID-19 on the academic calendar to MHRD ministry on April 13, 2020.

The HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ had suggested setting up an academic calendar panel to contemplate measures to deal with the impact of delay on the academic cycle. The UGC secretary Rajesh Jain informed the authorities concerned that a seven-member expert committee headed by the vice-chancellor of the Central University of Haryana, RC Kuhad, was formed to suggest measures in this regard.

“The expert committee, under the guidance of the chairman, UGC, will discuss and submit the report at the earliest and preferably by 13th April 2020,” Jain said in the letter.

The other members of the committee included the vice-chancellors of Banashtali Vidyapeedh, Panjab University, Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeedh Vishwavidlyala, director of Inter University Accelerator Centre and two joint secretaries of the UGC.

All exams related to higher education institutions have been either cancelled or postponed after the lockdown from March 25. The MHRD and the UGC instructed the institutions to maintain teaching-learning processes through online platforms.

Meghalaya govt to close schools till April 30

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April 7, 2020

In the wake of COVID-19 outbreak, the Meghalaya govt has decided to close all schools, colleges and educational institutes till April 30, 2020. The order was released by the state government after assessing the situation of Coronavirus outbreak.

The Meghalaya Government has also announced that all the government offices and transportation would resume operations from April 15.

While neither other state governments nor the central government has shared its plan to extend the school and college lockdown, there have been various reports of considerations.

The state government has released its latest order regarding extension of lockdown – as far as schools and colleges are concerned. Apart from this, the government has also stated that it would allow MGNREGA activities in respective villages.

Furthermore, wages & material components to tune of Rs 534.6573cr was sanctioned & released to respective BDOs for wages’ payments & clearing materials bill.

Across the country, schools and colleges were shut down as early as March 14 and most of the board examinations from March 19 were postponed. The new dates were expected to be announced on March 31 but were held back after a National Lockdown was announced PM Narendra Modi.

Fears of the lockdown extending, however, have increased over the past week when India has seen a surge in number of Coronavirus cases.

Abhishek Bagchi, Principal, RMPS International School, Ankleshwar, Gujarat: Need to engage students in lockdown

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April 7, 2020

It is April 2020 and over 290 million students are out of school all over the world due to a virus outbreak. It all started in Wuhan, China and spread like a wildfire before you can realise. The Europe and USA neglected this deadly infection as they were overconfident of their medical ability. India, I must say got lucky due to late infections and also some precautionary steps like lockdown taken by our Government, comparatively witnessed lesser effect at the time I am writing this article.

But the schools went into a halt. Exams postponed, sessions failed to start and students stayed restricted at home facing serious mental disruptions. As a whole, just like many other industries, Education is hit badly. Incidentally, the educators all over the world never gave up. They refused to get bogged down and started their own battle of taking school into the homes of the students.

RMPS International School, one of the fastest growing schools in Gujarat, leads from the front. Having the opportunity of being the principal of that school and with enough exposure to technology in education for past 25 years, I and my team designed a framework what we called RMPS School-At- Home.

Before we designed the programme, we considered few valuable information. What are changes we need to address in related to the teachers’ mindset? What mindset change is required among our parents? What is the existing technology we have? What is the expertise level of our teachers? What is the technology available in our demography? What is the average or minimum bandwidth available to us and our parents? What kind of capacity building programme we need to implement with our teachers, students and parents before we start online teaching learning? How to modify the already designed curriculum and make it e-learning ready? How to collect the above information from parents and scaffold them to cope with the new system of learning? How to choose the right tool for online training that will optimise all the above asked questions? How to measure the success ratio of the programme designed? How to trap student engagement? How to record student performance? How to provide remedial to the less engaged learners using online resources?

So, as you can see, questions were many and we decided to design our RMPS School-At-Home only after we have done enough research. Therefore, the research was done, each and every stakeholder were communicated and interrogated. The data gathered is analysed and we came up with a robust yet simple design. After going through an extensive capacity building and survey, we launched our programme in three phases, Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3.

In Phase 1, we made scheduled circulation of engaging activities among our students using the most basic and popular mode of communication, the WhatsApp. This ensures touching 100% of our students digitally and providing them with enough material to work with on daily basis. We also launched a credit-earning and rewarding system along with this to encourage maximum participations.

In Phase 2, curriculum-based recorded lesson videos from our teachers are circulated among students also using WhatsApp. We also ensured an efficient synchronous teaching-learning as in this phase we developed our already existing Learning Management System platform, EDMODO.

In Phase 3, we started true synchronous teaching learning by using Google Meet. Due to our Google for Education partnership we integrated G-suite and took the video calls to a new level.

The next initiative is to trap the student’s engagement and performance in a dashboard and plan further steps.

Dr Ashwini Kumar Sharma, Pro Chancellor, Vijaybhoomi University: Digital India initiative and challenges in the age of a pandemic

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April 7, 2020

Digital India vision of the Government of India seems to be an instrument in present scenario, where we all are pandemic because of COVID-19.

The education institutes are put to shutdown because of 21 days Lockdown (May further increase depending upon situation) and this is putting lot of pressure on students / youths for their education, admissions to career making courses, skilling enhancement, employment opportunities etc. The lockdown period is watching that school and educational institutions go into hibernation all around the world at the same time. Given the time on hand, it is a great opportunity for students and youth to finally get things of their perennial to-do-list, a chance of getting more efficient, productive and develop new and improve on professional skills/ knowledge by learning online as well as assessing Online.

The lockdown has accelerated adoption of digital technology. The business houses, education institutes, educationist, Analytics, computer power, data management methods, Online education solutions etc are forced to work in tandem and improve upon in quality, delivery time etc , so as to handle such situations. The outbreak has presented new roadblocks for the Indian workforce and especially for the daily wage and contractual workers. In these bleak times, it is more important than ever before, to be up-skilled and be prepared to prove yourself again; as the saying goes “ when the going gets tough, the tough gets going’

It is also a fact that the technology use for education is resulting into different concept in education system i.e. from teacher centric education to student centric education.

We have been talking about virtual classroom but in fact the engagement between teacher student is real. This is making student connection throughout life on 24X7 basis, may be keeping all physically distance i.e. social distancing to fight with COVID-19.

Pedagogy of education in the digital education is an important link between course contents, educationist, technology and course taker in a Classroom education is different from technology based education.

Democratization of technology is now an important issue in present scene which include internet connectivity, telecom infrastructure, affordability of online system, availability of laptop/desktop, software, education tool, online assessment tools etc. But it is a fact that technology-based education is more transparent and does not make difference in front vs back bencher or girls vs boys.

Looking to this challenge of Colleges/Schools shutdown, Govt of India as well as State Governments, Private players have been publishing regularly in last 7-10 days on various initiatives being taken by ministries like MHRD, Department of Technical education, NCERT etc on various initiatives/support by all stackholders for the benefit of youth/students.

The few of the initiatives are SWAYAM i.e. on line course for teachers, UG/PG MOOCs for non-technology courses, e-PG Pathshala e-content containing modules on social science, arts, fine arts, natural and mathematical science, CEC-UGC you Tube channel, Vidwan a database of experts who provide information about experts to peers, prospective collaborators, NEAT an initiative by AICTE based on PPP model to enhance the employability skill among students by collaborative approach with Education Technology Companies, National Digital Library(NDL) where repository of learning resources with single window facility is available. The more details can be seen on MHRD, AICTE, NCERT websites. Many more noteworthy initiatives have been taken like Spoken Tutorial, Free and Open Source Software for Education (FOSSEE), e-Yantra, Google Class Room etc..

It is fact that Government of India as well State Governments through their Various Ministries/Departments have involved / planned for infrastructure also, the second most important pillar of e-Education. This mainly include National Knowledge Network (NKN), National Project on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), National Mission on Education Through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT), Akash Tablet PC, National Academic Depository (NAD) etc.

The online assessment agencies/Private business houses are also improving the product considering the limited bandwidth, and social distancing by managing remotely proctored examinations/skilling assessment.

Thus, the basic requirement like Good Education delivery platform, IT infrastructure, PC/Desk Top/Mobile for end delivery and assessment tools have been planned and more improvement is going on.

In present scenario this article id devoted to Covid Warriors.

Author: Dr Ashwini Kumar Sharma is an Engineering and Postgraduate in Computer Science with more than 35 experience in IT Industry/Education Institutes. He also worked as Director General for NIELIT, Govt of India. Presently, working as Pro Chancellor after working as VC of Vijaybhoomi University, Karjat, near Mumbai.

NIFT postpones release of admit card

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April 7, 2020

In the wake of coronavirus outbreak, National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) issued notification stating the examination cell will notify the revised date for the new admit card and schedule for situation test. The notification can be seen on official site- nift.ac.in.

Earlier, the concerned authorities scheduled the NIFT situation test from May 2 to 4, 2020. The exam has been postponed till further notice.

After the NIFT situation test, the concerned authorities will announce the final result of NIFT after which the counselling process will be started. The shortlisted candidates will have to register for the NIFT counselling 2020.

Steps to download the admit card for the situation test are as follows.

-Visit the official website-https://nift.ac.in

-Click on the link Download call letter

-Enter Date of birth, Registration number, Application form

-Click on the Submit button

-Download the admit card

CBSE issues immunity boosting advisory for students

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April 7, 2020

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued plan for students to boost immunity. CBSE in collaboration with the Ministry of Ayush has released a detailed plan to boost immunity system using Ayurvedic remedies for students, teachers and parents.

With the rising number of Covid-19 cases, people are prone to get depressed while quarantining inside their houses.

Ministry of Ayush recommends certain self-care guidelines for preventive health measures and boosting immunity with special reference to respiratory health.

Ayurveda’s immunity-boosting measures for self-care during Covid 19 crisis

1. Drink warm water throughout the day.

2. Daily practice of Yogasana, Pranayama and meditation for at least 30 minutes.

3. Use Haldi (Turmeric), Jeera (Cumin), Dhaniya (Coriander) and Lahsun (Garlic) in cooking.

Measures to promote immunity

1. Take Chyavanprash 10 gm (1tsf) in the morning.

2. Drink herbal tea/decoction (kadha) made from Tulsi (Basil), Dalchini (Cinnamon), Kalimirch (Black pepper), Shunthi (Dry Ginger) and Munakka (Raisin) – once or twice a day. (Add jaggery, natural sugar, and/or fresh lemon juice to your taste if needed)

3. Golden Milk – Half teaspoon Haldi (turmeric) powder in 150 ml hot milk, once or twice a day

Simple ayurvedic procedures to fight Covid-19

1. Nasal application – Apply sesame oil/coconut oil or Ghee in both the nostrils (Pratimarsh Nasya) in the morning and evening.

2. Oil pulling therapy – Take 1 tablespoon sesame or coconut oil in mouth. Do not drink, swish in the mouth for 2 to 3 minutes and spit it off followed by warm water rinse. This can be done once or twice a day.

During sore throat/dry cough

1. Steam inhalation with fresh Pudina (Mint) leaves or Ajwain (Caraway seeds) can be practiced once a day.

2. Lavang (Clove) powder mixed with natural sugar/honey can be taken 2-3 times a day

UPSEE admit card to be released on April 27

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According to notification, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University will be conducting the UPSEE 2020 examination on May 10, 2020.

According to the official website, the last date to submit the online applications for UPSEE2020 was April 6, 2020 and the correction window for applications will be open until April 9, 2020.

The admit card will be released on the official website on April 27, 2020. Only those students who have submitted the UPSEE 2020 online application form will be eligible to download the examination admit card.

Candidates must note that they will be able to download the UPSEE 2020 exam hall ticket until May 10, 2020. However, candidates are advised to download the UPSEE admit card 2020 at the earliest.

The UPSEE 2020 is conducted for the admission to the different undergraduate and postgraduate Engineering, Pharma, Technical and MBA programmes offered in the colleges. Those students who wish to apply for the admissions in UP must make sure that they appear for the UPSEE examinations without fail.

The UPSEE 2020 examination will be conducted in the offline mode only. Candidates will be required to answer objective type questions apart from the Drawing Aptitude Test.

MP Board to conduct 10 and 12 class exams in 19 subjects

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In the wake of COVID-19 outbreak, Madhya Pradesh state board exams will be held only in 19 subjects after the lockdown.

Following the Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE), MP’s Madhyamik Shiksha Mandal announced that it will not conduct the remaining board exams for Class 10 and 12 in any subject barring the 19.

The MP board will hold exams for include Hindi, English and Sanskrit for Class 10 and biology, chemistry, higher mathematics, political science and economics for Class 12.

The notification said, “The board will hold exams only in subjects which are essential for admission into higher education”.

The board had announced it was postponing examinations as well as evaluation on March 25.

The board’s notification said “to reduce the anxiety of the examinees set to appear for board exams in 2020 and their parents, and keeping in mind their future.” The subjects students are not going to be tested on include biotechnology, physical education and range of skill-based courses.

Rajeev Gupta, President, IMS college and IMS LAW College: Need modern outlook in teaching & learning

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Crisis is the real big reason for an opportunity. As the wise men say “Real change takes place in deep crisis”, holds true in the current situation of pandemic caused by Coronavirus affecting billions to people to stay locked in their homes and pondering over what life actually is. Since, teaching and learning knows no boundaries, IMS Noida believes that, it is a great moment to explore new ways of technology to critically think, create, communicate and collaborate with each other to ensure that no stone is left unturned, to cater the creative minds of the current agile generation.

Teaching is not all about a room with four walls, benches and a board; it’s all about the relation between a student and a teacher to assist in a greater learning experience not only to pass a course but for an entire life. The COVID-19 has acted as a catalyst worldwide to look for innovative solutions in a very short span of time for the educators as well as no technology can out run the place of a teacher or better known in today’s scenario a guide or a facilitator.

Leaning anywhere and anytime is the call of the hour and believing the same the facilitators at IMS Noida, used standard asynchronous online learning tools like Google Classroom, AWS Educate Program, Android apps like Zoom, Gotomeeting to render a helping and comforting hand to the students to satisfy their urge for knowledge. Where Government of India focusing upon online medium of education through SWAYAM, National Digital Library, National Academic Repository, E- Shodh Sindhu, E- Acharya, E-Kalpa, E-Yantra, E-Vidwan and many more, IMS Noida in collaboration with Amazon has its AWS Educate Program for its students to complement its traditional teaching and learning with new learning modalities.

As they say teaching should not only be constrained to the course curriculum, IMS Noida takes an opportunity to host a Webinar on current trends like digital learning having experienced people all across the globe to share their insights and push up students to gear up for upcoming future challenges.

Evaluation being an integral part of the learning process is not left untapped and care has been taken by the IMS fraternity to let students evaluate their learning through online mode of examination with the help of Google forms, meant for all modes with minimal use of internet. It not only assists the facilitators to evaluate the performance of the students but also provides a chance to let students to take their first hand experience on new method of learning process.

Such modern pedagogy has been welcomed whole heartedly by the students and their parents for understanding the responsibility of a true Guru to enlighten the students even beyond the set boundaries and bringing about a change in their lives.

The pandemic gives us an opportunity to remind ourselves that certain management skills need to be developed in students across all streams including, informed decision making, creative thinking and moreover having greater adaptability to the uncertainty.

The whole IMS family fully determined in quality education since 20 years is paving ways for a wholesome quality time for each one. A place where one’s life is made, is truly understood by the entire family of IMS and they are doing every bit with a big smile as they say, “it takes 43 muscles to frown and only 17 to smile”.

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