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COVID 19: NEET PG counselling postponed

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NEET Counselling PG

In the view of COVID-19 outbreak, the HRD ministry has decided to cancel all stages of NEET PG counselling till further notice.

The government officials have asked all the state units to postpone their counselling as well.

Aspirants are advised to keep in touch with the official websites – www.mcc.nic.in, www.intramcc.nic.in for any information regarding their revised counselling dates.

According to an official, the new dates will be announced soon after the lockdown.

The registration for first round of counselling was done from March 12 to 23, 2020 and the seat allotment was supposed to done on 25 and 26 March 2020. But the officials have stopped all the activities regarding NEET PG.

The result of first round of counselling was supposed to declare on March 27, 2020. All the activities have been stopped till further notice.

Innovation in HR: SkillSoft Perspective

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The coronavirus outbreak, is impacting all sectors – with companies in the best of interest of their workforce, extending ‘Working From Home’ (WFH), deferring official meetings; and moving to virtual office settings.

Like any other functional area – Sales, Marketing, Administration, Finance, etc. which are taken to remote locations with employees working from Home, the role of Human Resource – involving hiring, assessments, training, appraisals, etc cannot lose pace, hence companies are harnessing various technology tools and platforms to maintain continuity in their HR functions. .

I am enclosing below the quote from Mr. Krishna Prasad, Head HR – APAC – Skillsoft.

Hope you find the insights shared useful and will consider it for your story, if you are planning around impact of Coronavirus outbreak – how companies are working their way around restricted movement, yet trying to ensure continuity in business operations.

“Amidst the COVID-19 situation, Skillsoft’s talent acquisition function has taken a decision to conduct all interviews via WebEx and avoid in-person interviews for the safety of both candidates and our team members. This helps the candidates attend interviews from their home or any remote location. This decision was taken after consenting with the leadership and managerial teams whether they were ok to make hiring decisions over WebEx. The talent acquisition team can stay connected with the candidates through the entire interview by video calls and still can connect on a real-time basis with the candidates. This approach helped us get into a mode where there is no physical exposure between the candidate and interviewer. WebEx also gives us the ability to record these interviews (with candidate’s consent) so that we can audit how the interviews are going on. The usage of our online assessment test has been increased as part of the hiring process especially for the IT & Tech roles, to quickly filter and move candidates to the next level. As a proactive measure, we’re also continuously looking out for new ways to smoothly conduct the hiring process without any delay.” – said, Mr. Krishna Prasad, Head HR – APAC – Skillsoft

About Skillsoft

Skillsoft helps companies unlock the potential in their most valuable asset – their people – by delivering engaging content and powerful technology that drives business impact for modern enterprises. Skillsoft comprises three award-winning systems that support learning, performance and success: Skillsoft learning content, the Percipio intelligent learning experience platform and the Sum Total suite for Talent Development.

Skillsoft provides a comprehensive selection of cloud-based corporate learning content, including courses, videos, books, and other resources on Leadership Development, Business Skills, Digital Transformation, Technology & Developer, and Compliance. Percipio’s intuitive design engages modern learners and its consumer-led experience assists in accelerating learning. The SumTotal suite delivers measurable impact across that entire employee lifecycle via award-winning technology that powers talent acquisition, learning management and talent management.

Skillsoft is trusted by thousands of the world’s leading organizations, including 65 percent of the Fortune 500. Learn more at www.skillsoft.com.

Dr Geetha Venkat, Principal, Geeta High School, Telangana: E-learning will create new ways

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Dr Geetha Venkat

The COVID-19 Coronavirus contagion has led to large scale school closures in India and the rest of the world. While the students have an off from school, few of the respondents are excited to spend this time with friends and family, almost 35% of the students are bored at home during this break.

While numerous schools in the country have tied up with different platforms to offer online learning to students, our school follows the path however and introduces online learning to students and parents seeking assistance for their academic queries. Though, mylstone app which is introduced while taking the books for the academic year. We scheduled the syllabus with the dates for these holidays till 31/3/2020 n shared it in PTA What’s app group.

This platform facilitates an extensive network of peers, parents, teachers, and co-ordinator to empower students with a collaborative, flexible, and comprehensive learning experience. On the back of its value-proposition, especially in the current scenario, such app has emerged as an indispensable learning platform for students in the school, in India n around the globe.

TCS iON Digital Class Room

In the wake of the nation-wide lockdowns, TCS is offering schools and colleges, access to a virtual learning platform, free of cost, so students can continue learning at home through this unprecedented period.

The TCS iON Digital Glass Room is a mobile and web education platform for schools and colleges, that empowers educators to engage with students in real time by sharing lessons, videos, worksheets, assignments and assessments, using interactive methods like polls, debates, quizzes, surveys and many more tools. As an add-on, the platform also provides an embedded live classroom, which simulates live classroom teaching.

TCS iON Digital Glass Room is available to educational institutes of all types, irrespective of the medium of instruction, Board/University affiliation, or size.

Harsh Malhotra who is gearing up for NEET said, “The lockdown obviously affects the preparation, but thanks to digital learning platforms provided by major institutes, the situation is under control.

Free Online Tools to study

Many educational institutions are facing or planning for closures due to COVID-19 (Coronavirus pandemic). In view of this, Google for Education is providing distance learning solutions, training and resources to help them stay connected.

Today Google supports schools around the world by providing G Suite for Education. It’s a free range of productivity tools to enable teaching & learning. These cloud-based tools are currently used by more than 100 million teachers and students. They are using Google Classroom, Gmail, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms and more. Conveniently, these can be used from any device in more than 40 languages.

Additional resources to support learning

Here are some additional resources around our recent effort to support educators and students globally during the outbreak of coronavirus.

Sign up for G Suite for Education :

Schools can sign up for G Suite for Education (for free). They will get access to Gmail, Calendar, Classroom, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms, Sites, Jamboard and Hangouts Meet, and many more to help with distance learning.

Distance Learning resources: Resource page, series of blog posts, as well as webinar series discuss tips and best practices for distance learning. Google is collecting and sharing additional stories and strategies through Teacher Center and social channels including Twitter and Facebook.

Information on how to send school Chromebooks home for distance learning: As school admins prepare contingency plans, Google comes forward to help. Schools can visit Help Center to quickly and securely prepare their Chromebooks to go home with students. Refer to the article: “How to prepare Chromebooks for e-learning days at home.” at the Help Center.

YouTube Learning Hub: Google has partnered with education-focused content creators on YouTube. They have launched the Learning Hub which is a destination for safe, curriculum-relevant learning content.

Teach From Home: Teach from Home (g.co/teachfromhome) is an initiative to create a hub of information, tips, resources and tools. It helps teachers keep teaching during the school closures.

Dr Geetha Venkat, Principal, Geeta High School, Telangana

 

Seema Negi, Principal, Sanjeevani World School, Mumbai calls to use lockdown productively

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Seema Negi, Principal, Sanjeevani World School, Mumbai

In the wake of one morning, all of a sudden, the morning wasn’t one of the usual rigmarole. Suddenly people were asked to cover their mouths, suddenly people were being made aware of hygiene, suddenly people were asked to stay indoors and suddenly the term ‘social distancing’ spoke to humanity loud and clear. 

Mankind across the globe is facing a crisis; a catastrophe! From ‘panic-buying’, ‘work from home’ to ‘doomsday’ these are fears that have gripped many hearts across the hemispheres. Students are anxious about examinations, parents concerned about childrens’ academic progress and the biggest question causing havoc is “What will kids do at home all day?” While the working class is anxious about how to get going with ‘work from home’, businessmen entrepreneurs worried about how they would sustain their business, and not to forget the daily labourers, for provisions to make it through the day.

These have left many minds cause to think, have we as humans gone wrong somewhere? Has humanity failed? Have we as mankind lived lives erroneously and now we need to mend our ways? Vivid questions are many racing through hearts, right from a child to senior citizens. Amidst all the chaos, some feel, nothing could touch them, no disease could harm them, and no harm could befall them. Medical experts and government bodies have given safety guidelines to follow; yet these are the ‘thick-headed’, ‘know-it-all’ beings that go about doing everything they aren’t supposed to do, especially in dire times like these. 

And then the day came we were separated from the lifeline of our school; our students, the school indeed looked lifeless, but we, Team Sanjeevani were determined to flip the situation and make it the most interesting one. It all started with change in the mindset and extraordinary support from the parent fraternity through PTA members. So, the work began and we decided to become clean slate to ULEARN, RELEARN, LEARN….the process is still going on.

The first challenge was uncertainty….will it be days, weeks or months we were not sure. The pertinent question was how can we take this current global situation into our stride and not let the learning get hampered? What we as educators need to do? The answer was very simple. Take the resources available to you and make good use out of it. It’s the world of technology, the world of digitalization. All across the globe, great institutes provide distance education through online and offline learning. Though, at first we tried we failed, we tried again and the wheel of learning and mastering the new skills started.

But for us apart from taking care of academics, keeping a check on the emotional quotient of our learners was important. We took to technological platforms, making use of all the resources available, like Google Classroom, Google Hangout, Zoom, shared presentations, videos to reach our learners; at the same time we ensured to make WE CONNECT videos, by class teachers for their students. We connect videos became students delight, we got overwhelming response from the parents, small children even kissed and hugged the screen, while the teacher was talking to them.  Feedback from parents made us realize it’s neither the white board nor the black board, but the teachers who can create magic. 

Academically speaking, we’ve been putting up videos every alternate day, related to our curriculum to make sure that the time and opportunities we have don’t go to waste. In times like these we have to find a way out rather than sit around with nothing to do. This is also a great way for our students to learn about time management which will help them in their future endeavors. While curriculum is going on smoothly, but still our priority is the mental wellbeing of our children, we are trying to reach out to our students as much as we can.

Today, Coronavirus  dominates the news. India is under strict lockdown period. It has been classified as a pandemic. Extreme actions are being taken by the government to contain the spread of this disease. It has driven the stock market down. It’s now a political dialogue. It has affected commerce, entertainment, travel, sports and almost everything. 

The current situation has definitely created panic. So what are some of the practical steps we need to take in the face of the current pandemic?

  1. We should be more diligent than usual about washing our hands, wiping them off with sanitizers and avoid touching faces after touching public facilities.
  2. We should minimize exposure to large crowds when practical.
  3. We may have to cut down on our entertainment activities, avoid/limit unnecessary travel.
  4. Carry on with normal lives; but simply need to use common sense.
  5. Medical experts have advised that we need to keep 3- feet distance from others when in public.
  6. Eat at home more than ordering from restaurants.
  7. If we experience flu-like symptoms, it’s advisable to consult a doctor.

Apart from these, there are two ‘P’s that are extremes to be avoided:

  1. Presumption: We need to act with prudence and not presumption. Presuming it won’t affect you, is somewhere a sign that pride is exercising in you. And pride leads to downfall. Therefore it is rightly said, “Better late than never; bettersafe than sick!”
  2. Panic: Panic is fear and fear is the absence of faith. Having faith in our medical experts, doctors including the government will in many ways take care of panic. Above all have faith in God. God has given each one of us a ‘spirit of boldness and not fear’. 

So remember, 

  1. Exercise prudence and common sense.
  2. Seek God.
  3. Trust in Faculties (Doctors, Government, and God).

Finally, in conclusion, I would like to add a simple yet profound analogy f life. The Moon has taught us that ‘It’s okay to go through phases’. And the Sun has taught us, ‘no matter how many times we go down, keep rising!’ With this I end it by saying, ‘We shall overcome!’

At the end, let me share what we got in return…it’s priceless and will be treasured for years to come and it will make us remember TOGETHER WE CAN.

(Seema Negi, Principal, Sanjeevani World School)

Manju Lakhanpal, Principal, DPS Shaheed Path: calls to face the phase with courage

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Keeping in view the critical scenario of lockdown,DPS Shaheed path is fully committed to motivate and support the students to stay calm and keep their Spirits high .We urge them to face this challenging phase with courage.

At the same time,our educators to continue with their onus of teaching are putting their best optimal efforts to ensure effective teaching learning by assisting the learners with online support, assignments on daily basis ,easy to learn content, useful links for senior students and proper guidelines instructions . In so much our educators are always in connect with the students to solve their queries.

“WE CARE FOR THEM ,SO WE ARE THERE FOR THEM”

The world has come to a grinding halt!!The Biggest Crisis of our times has been defined by the Coronavirus Pandemic. DPS Shaheedpath took the early initiative of shutting the school down completely, keeping in mind the well-being of its students, teachers, administration and all support staff. The Management has always kept the best interest of DPS Shaheedpath family in mind. The example was set again by closing down the school completely but at the same time keeping in mind the importance of education and connection of students with the teacher, evolving into an enormous teaching learning process, being implemented beautifully. Amidst this imposed yet very important existential crisis where we don’t know for how long the lockdown will last our teachers are continuing with their teaching by creating online classrooms where in, through videos, well explained topics are reaching students. Assignments are being given and the students are working on it. Plans are being written, assignments are being created and being implemented.

Manju Lakhanpal, Principal, Delhi Public School, Shaheed Path, Lucknow

 

COVID 2019 delays for Students’ lives: Manoj R Thakkar, Chairman, IIMT Studies Ltd., United Kingdom

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Manoj R Thakkar

It is an extremely baseless statement that the COVID 2019 delays are a threat to the students; except if they are infected or come in contact with someone infected by the Corona disease. We must also understand that the country lockdown or any such delay causing action by the government is not an academic growth loss for any student. It is instead a challenging time as spending the whole lockdown time at home is difficult to pass for students who are extremely busy the entire day in their daily routine.

Albert Einstein once said: Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. The Covid 2019 delays can provide the farthest opportunity for all students to learn out of the school, college, university or any academic institute they are studying in as we have a full lockdown in the country for a long period. Instead of being on a negative side, we must think on a positive note for our children’s learning during this period.

Below are the significant reasons to realise this opportunity.
1. All the families are together in this lockdown.
2. It is not a “SUMMER VACATION.” where a student can travel anywhere.
3. Students will have no tuition trauma, outdoor activities like tennis and swimming. They all will restart once the COVID2019 threat ends.
4. Students are super stress-free during these days to learn something new and innovative.

I consider this as a moment to capture as such time hardly comes once in many decades. I and millions of us didn’t get such a golden period in our school/college life where we could be alone with our families, and our parents didn’t have any work to do other than paying attention to us.

How do COVID2019 delays can be a golden period for students?
1. The students get the most valuable time of their family members and will get the full attention of their parents. (If a student has grandparents, he/she is the luckiest).
2. Parents/grandparents can become amazing teachers by telling them the history of their parents, ancestors, family and positive sides of their roots. They can tell them the family stories.
3. They can come closer to their parents and enjoy private moments which they never get/hardly get. Students can also realise the importance of parents in their life, which is ahead of giving their tuition fee, making them delicious lunch-box or permitting them to party out.

4. They can also experience the world beyond the mobile phone, computers and tabs, play games with their families.
5. A student can also learn through eLearning courses widely available in the market, which are market updated and well recognised worldwide. Parents can learn with them together. All can become one class.
6. Papa and Mumma can become teachers to their children, making them learn to cook the food in “such a critical time”.
7. Students can learn to clean the house, garden area, furniture, walls and the curtains too. They can enjoy new learning of doing house-hold work.
8. Gardening can be a fantastic experience.
9. Exercising with Papa and Surya namaskar with Mom can be a super enriching experience during this time. It can also help their parents improve their immunity and reduce the chances of gaining excess weight during this time of staying at homes.

By the time we come out of the lockdown, a student will be completely new and might have experienced a new life.

If I talk about IIMT Studies, since we are an eLearning institute, we ensure all our classes are taken virtually. Our faculties and CSR team members are standby-working from home to support all students’ lecture and academic needs. We may slow in this lockdown considering the limited availability of the resources, but we have not stopped. IIMT Studies never stops.

I urge all the parents, not to panic for their children’s future and academic growth. The Government is equally concerned for their children’s future because your children are the future of our country. But, do utilise this time to educate your children in a non-academic way. Get them close to you, become their friends and enjoy this extra learning cum fun period.

Stay home; stay safe!

With love,
Manoj R Thakkar, Chairman, IIMT Studies Ltd., United Kingdom

NEET admit card not to release tomorrow, exams likely to postpone

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Amid coronavirus outbreak, the examination date for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Under Graduate (NEET UG) likely to be postponed. The exam was scheduled on May 3, 2020.

Meanwhile, the NEET will not release the admit card from Friday as scheduled.

The new date of admit card issuing will be decided after 14th April 2020, an official confirmed.

The HRD ministry is reviewing the lockdown situation and mulling to postpone the NEET exams further.

With 21 days lockdown in country, all the exams including CBSE, ICSE, NIOS and competitive exams are going to be affected. After the lockdown, the JEE Mains exams may also postponed.

According to an official, the new days of exam and admit card will be declared after the lockdown is over.

HRD ministry directs CBSE, NTA for alternative calendar

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HRD ministry

Amid coronavirus lockdown, the HRD ministry has asked various agencies to work on revised schedules of exams. The directive has been given will to Central Board of Secondary Education or CBSE, National Institute Open Schooling and National Testing Agency or NTA.

Various examinations are postponed in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak in the country.

The autonomous bodies are also asked to draft alternate academic calendars for students.

Earlier, the CBSE had postponed its exams scheduled till March 31 and revised dates will be announced later after analysing the situation.

The HRD ministry had also postponed the JEE Main exams which was scheduled for April.

“The HRD ministry has also directed that CBSE, NIOS and NTA should work on revised schedule of exams. Autonomous bodies and NCERT should draft alternate academic calendars,” the HRD ministry said.

The HRD ministry has also said that in compliance of the order issued by Ministry of Home Affairs, all offices of Ministry of HRD and its autonomous institutions and subordinate offices will remain closed for 21 days across the country.

Online teaching platforms are saviours: Dr Sayalee Gankar, Vice Chancellor, Dy Patil University, Pune

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Dr Sayalee Gankar

In the current situation of nation-wide lockdown, campuses are closed. classes are suspended, due to COVID-19 whereas D. Y. Patil Campus, Talegaon, Pune want to help students to continue their learning from home by various ways through the efforts taken by the teachers.

Online Teaching Platform, You Tube, What’s App Session and Virtual Classrooms are saviours

Work from faculty is on where they are engaged in academic delivery with the help of technology. Faculty has sent the soft copies of notes of the remaining syllabus, presentations, short videos by faculties at home are been uploaded on You Tube, class wise WhatsApp Groups are also made. In addition to this digital learning study material provided by National Educational Alliance for Technology (NEAT) a Public-Private Partnership formed between AICTE and the Education Technology Companies of India is shared with students for preparation.

MTUTOR (Mobile Tutor) is offering Engineering institutions across PAN INDIA the comfort to offer their students Digital e-Learning as per the AICTE Syllabus so that students can continue their learning uninterrupted during their stay home safe period free of cost.

MTUTOR an Online Digital eLearning platform which provides customized animated content for Higher Education / Engineering / Agriculture / Applied Science / Skill Development / Physical Education / Polytechnic domain space which focuses on conceptual and contextual based learning.

Students are instructed to register on both the above links and they are enjoying the learning from home taking classes online with classmates.

Lab practical is main challenge as it gives experiment experience and to overcome this challenge faculty have sent the experimental write up with explanation in performance based experiments.

Academic performance is ensured by sending tutorials and assignments and are prepared through google form.

Simultaneously journal submission is completed through the discussion at WhatsApp group class wise.

Students on projects are in touch with faculty to clarify their doubts which is happening through one to one discussion by project guides.

However, these efforts have their own limitations like availability of internet, data usage therefore once the campus is open classroom sessions and practical are required to be conducted with rigour.

Dr Sayalee Gankar, Vice Chancellor, Dy Patil University, Pune

UGC calls students to use lockdown period productively

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UGC

Amid coronavirus lockdown across the country, University Grants Commission (UGC), the national higer education regulator has released a list of initiatives. According to the notification of MHRD, UGC and its Inter University Centres(IUCs) , it has requested teachers and students to use this lockdown for online learning. The notification also said to use this lockdown period productively.

These resources, which are in the form of digital platforms, can be accessed by the teachers, students and researchers in Universities and Colleges.

Following is the list of some of the initiatives suggested by the ministry:

1. SWAYAM online courses:

https://storage.googleapis.com/uniquecourses/online.html provides access to best teaching learning resources which were earlier delivered on the SWAYAM Platform may be now viewed by any learner free of cost without any registration.

2. UG/PG MOOCs:

http://ugcmoocs.inflibnet.ac.in/ugcmoocs/moocs_courses.php hosts learning material of the SWAYAM UG and PG (Non-Technology) archived courses.

3. e-PG Pathshala: 9

epgp.inflibnet.ac.in hosts high quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-content containing 23,000 modules ( e-text and video) in 70 Post Graduate disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences.

4. e-Content courseware in UG subjects:

e-content in 87 Undergraduate courses with about 24,110 e-content modules is available on the CEC website at http://cec.nic.in/

5. SWAYAMPRABHA:

https://www.swayamprabha.gov.in/ is a group of 32 DTH channels providing high quality educational curriculum based course contents covering diverse disciplines such as arts, science, commerce, performing arts, social sciences and humanities subjects, engineering, technology, law, medicine, agriculture etc to all teachers, students and citizens across the country interested in lifelong learning.

6. CEC-UGC YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/cecedusat provides access to unlimited educational curriculum based lectures absolutely free.

7. National Digital Library:

https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/ is a digital repository of a vast amount of academic content in different formats and provides interface support for leading Indian languages for all academic levels including researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular form of access devices and differently-abled learners.

8. Shodhganga:

https://shodhganaa.inflibnet.ac.in is a digital repository platform of 2,60,000 Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access.

9. e-Shodh Sindhu

https://ess.inflibnet.ac.in/ provides current as well as archival access to more than 15,000 core and peer-reviewed journals and a number of bibliographic, citation and factual databases in different disciplines from a large number of publishers and aggregators to its member institutions including centrally-funded technical institutions, universities and colleges that are covered under I2(B) and 2(f) Sections of the UGC Act.

10. Vidwan:

https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/ is a database of experts which provides information about experts to peers, prospective collaborators, funding agencies policy makers and research scholar in the country.

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