Telangana Social Welfare and Tribal Welfare Residential Education Institutions Society (TSWREIS) will be able to impact the lives of students in rural areas of Telanagana at large, says Dr R S Praveen Kumar, Secretary, Telangana Social Welfare & Tribal Welfare Residential Education Institutions, Government of Telangana, in fireside chat with Sudhakar Rao, Director-Branding, ICFAI Group, during 9th Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave Hyderabad.
What is the inspiration that helps you keep running the mission of catering to the dire educational needs of children hailing from the remote areas of Telangana?
There is an urgent need to include children belonging to the backward sections of the society to the mainstream. It is necessary to make them the part of problem solving exercises.
What inspired you to choose social welfare despite being an IPS officer?
Firstly, during the Telangana agitation I came across incident of several students committing suicide due to lack of education and correct role models in their lives. Secondly, it was due to my mother. One day when I visited our village after becoming an IPS officer, my mother said “should I feel proud as my son is an IPS officer or should I feel ashamed as still most of the persons in his village are either labourers or stone-cutters”. This is when I thought to spread my learning among backward sections of the society.
While enabling students to become globally competent, how your teachers have been managing a work-life balance?
Our teachers enjoy what they do. They find a sense of purpose by contributing to this noble cause. One of the significant things that changed the outlook of our teachers is that the kind of teachers’ training provided to them. We don’t do our teachers’ training programmes within the institutional settings. A significant portion of our teacher’s training happen among the communities. We take them to villages and encourage them to immerse between the communities. It helps them to understand our students’ needs.
A lot of schools are focusing on entrepreneurship to have fresh ideas from students, what steps have been taken by the TSREIS Schools in this regard?
We are focusing on the practical aspect of entrepreneurship. We have established sanitary napkin stores and canteen in our schools where the supplier or the contractor is not a renowned person of these fields. Pass out students of our schools are the suppliers for these stores or canteens. So, this is the one such step to nurture entrepreneurship. We also call renowned industrialists to our schools regularly for interactive sessions with students so that they tend to understand an entrepreneur’s life.
“The present teaching system involves lectures, readings, demonstrations, and audio-visuals but we have understood that it doesn’t help in enhancing grasping power of a child. Instead, hands on learning, teaching others, group discussions have a higher retention rate. And this has been proven as well that by involving kids in learning process balances education and enjoyment simultaneously,” said Pravesh Mohey, Regional Manager – Marketing & Sales, Butterfly Edufields.
He was speaking at the 11th School Leadership Summit 2019, Chandigarh, on the topic: ‘Bridging the Learning Divide – Experiential Learning is the Way Forward’. The summit was organised on April 12, 2019 by Elets Technomedia, a premier media and technology research organisation.
Explaining about his company’s narrative in providing hands-on learning experience to students, Mohey said, “We at Butterfly intent to address and bridge this learning gap by offering affordable Hands on Solutions in Science & Math. This might not answer all the whys but will surely bring out the fear of ‘why’ among children”.
As per the National Training Laboratories, Maine, USA – the average retention rate among students is highest with Hands on Learning – 75% whereas with discussion it is 50%. On the other hand, it is 30% with demonstration and 20% with audio visual whereas shockingly it is lowest in reading and learning with just 10% and 5% respectively. The data was revealed in an industry presentation given by Mohey during his address at the summit.
Explaining the reason for the name ‘Butterfly’ and his company’s vision, Mohey said, “We know the evolution of caterpillar to a butterfly. Every child has that potential and should get that opportunity to evolve like a butterfly from a caterpillar. We want to develop every child in a way that he gets a chance to learn from different formats”.
“Just like caterpillar every child has the potential to transform into a unique individual. Our vision is to make learning more enriching, engaging and fun for all sections of children in developing world and around. When children apply what they learn, they become doers and that’s what we want in the world right now. Doers are the ones who succeed in their chosen fields in the future,” he added.
Further, highlighting the importance of answering questions of kids, Mohey stated, “We cannot make a kid understand something by simply telling it – Ye Aisa hi hota hai (it is like this only) rather it is important to explain ‘why it is so’. So at butterfly, we make sure to appropriately explain “why” to the kids.”
“Interestingly, so far, Butterfly has been able to impact the lives of 11, 00,000 students, touched 9,000 schools, covered 18 states and expanded in 3 countries. Skills like scientific temperament, observational and critical thinking, curiosity and perseverance have been inculcated by the students while involved in hands on learning,” he added.
In Butterfly Edufield’s presentation – it was reported that an improvement of 40 percentile in Science was recorded in schools where Butterfly Edufield’s Hands on Activity related to Conductivity, Electric Circuit was done whereas a 25 percentile improvement was measured in Maths subject in which Hands on Activity related to geometry was conducted.
The Delhi University (DU) is most likely to kick-start the admission process from May 30, 2019 (Thursday) onwards. According to the officials, this is the most delayed admission session of DU till date.
The university officials, reportedly, held a meeting on May 27 and decided to commence the registration process from May 30 and it is likely to go on for next 15 days.
The report further says that the University will announce the cut-offs almost a week after the registration process ends.
Varsity’s admission portal will showcase all the relevant details to the candidates like: no of seats available in the college and the course they are applying for. Further, it will also carry details about how many students have applied for those seats and how fast the seats are filling up.
However, the Delhi University is yet to finalise on the test agency that will be conducting the entrance exam for admission to various courses. It has been the major reason behind the delay in admission.
Reportedly, the National Testing Agency (NTA) is almost finalised for the same. However, the official confirmation is yet to come on the same.
Notably, in 2018, DU began the registration process on May 15, days before the CBSE results were announced.
But this year, CBSE, following the High Court directive, announced the results of Class 12 examination on May 2. This was done in record time of 28 days. Traditionally, the Class 12 results are announced in the third week of May.
Maharashtra Board 12th result has been announced by the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) today i.e. on May 28 around 11 am. The result is now available on the official website by 1 pm.
The students can check the results on the websites: maharashtraeducation.com, mahresult.nic.in, and mahahsscboard.maharashtra.gov.in.
MSBSHSE HSC 12th result: steps to check
Step-1: Visit any of the aforesaid website
Step-2: Click on the download now result link
Step-3: Enter the required details like registration number and roll number
Step-4: Results will appear on the screen
Step-5: Download it, and take a print out for further reference.
In 2019, Over 14 lakh students registered for the class 12 exam in Maharashtra. The board appointed 30,000 to 40,000 teachers to work as an invigilator and participate in the evaluation process. Maharashtra boardhad also taken a slew of measures to curb cheating in the exam including CCTV monitoring and impose section 144 on the day of the examination.
WB HS Result 2019 | West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) has declared the Higher Secondary or Class 12 examination results on May 27, 2019 (Monday). The results were announced by WBCHSE President Dr. Mahua Das in a press conference.
86.92 per cent students have passed in the West Bengal Higher Secondary Examination this year.
Students can check the West Bengal HS Results on the board’s official website: wbchse.nic.in and wbresults.nic.in.
West Bengal HS Result 2019: Follow the steps below to check!
Step 1: Go to WBCHSE official website: wbchse.nic.in or wbresults.nic.in
Step 2: Click on the HS Result link.
Step 3: Enter required details.
Step 4: Submit and view your result.
Step 5: Download the file for future reference.
Apart from this, candidates also have the option of viewing results via SMS, and mobile app.
This year the Class 12 board examinations in West Bengal started from February 26 and commenced on March 13. In which, a total of 8, 16,243 candidates had appeared for the
examination. The number of girl aspirants was 63,413 more than the number of boys this year.
Notably, WBCHSE had imposed some stringent restrictions to prevent Question Paper leakage through Whtsapp. The authority even issued guidelines restricting students to bring any kind of electronic gadgets in the examination hall, disobeying which can even result in cancellation of the registration of the respective candidates.
“When we talk about creativity & innovation, we don’t bring it to the classroom. For example: History happens to be one of my favorite subjects but I studied History only after I went to College /University. For me school history ended at 1947, what happened after 1947 was not history. No one talked about 1971 or 1965 and no one talked about Kargil. But we were expected to know all this come examination time. Somewhere there has been a discord in our set up and as well as what the expectations are,” said Kanak Gupta, Vice President, Seth M R Jaipuria Group of Schools.
He was among the key speakers at 11th School Leadership Summit, Chandigarh, which was held on April 12, 2019. Gupta inaugurated the summit along with other key dignitaries present at the event.
Further elaborating his vision on the matter, Gupta said, “So when we talk about creativity and innovation, we don’t do that in real sense, in the classroom. We don’t even talk about the real issues in the classroom. I support a social cause. It’s called ‘My Right To Breathe’. It’s one of the largest air pollution movements there in the country. You know one thing we found from My Right to Breathe is that nobody wants to do anything about air pollution. We don’t want our kids to actually understand the harms of air pollution.”
Giving the example of his own school chain, Gupta shared why change in mindset and curriculum is the need of the hour.
“When we started our venture, the first thing that we started was that we introspected. And we said let us see what we are doing and what needs to be done. The first though that collectively came to us – what Dr. Manna was talking about – the mindset and curriculum change is required. And that’s what we did. The reason for that is we are still living in the past, we are still talking about the curriculum that we have 60-70 years ago. This is not our legacy, this legacy has come from outside. And we say that, we need to break this, we need to go back to our roots,” he stated.
Underlining the role of educationists in the present day education scenario, Gupta said, “We need to make this change. Today, we as educationist when come to these platforms, I think we need to learn from each other. I think we need to discuss more. Pick up best practices. I strongly believe every institute has its own character.
“I strongly believe every college and every school will build its own personality. Copy pasting doesn’t works; what works is trying to understand and internalize processes. So when we come to platforms like these, I strongly recommend as an educationist that we shall talk to each other about best practices in schools. We talk to each other what’s working well in your school and try to make that difference to the society,” he added.
Rooting for the need for a massive change, Gupta concluded saying, “This is not just once school or one city or district that we talk about. It is the country that we are talking about. And we are talking about a massive change. Slowly but surely, we as educationist would be able to make that change. Because we are preparing the kids for a generation that we don’t know of. For jobs and businesses that have yet not been created. But they will be facing the world for sure and we cannot depend on the education system that came from 70 years back”.
Every industry across the globe is witnessing transformations especially in terms of technology and improving the processes. Seeking this, it is very important for the education sector to be in line with the growing demands. But, it is also true that for education sector it is not possible to take the lead alone. It will be needing support from industry as well as the Government.
In line with this, at 9th Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave Hyderabad, a session on the above topic was held where eminent leaders from all the three sectors: Government, Industry and Education participated to discuss the challenges and opportunities.
There has been a demand for academia-industry collaboration since long and now the Government is also becoming important to decide the future of youth. It is now common to hear from industry that there is lack employable youth. At the same time, educational institutions have their constraints in not doing so. They sometimes blame Government for not making such policies and sometimes the industry for not collaborating with them.
Talking on this, Navin Mittal, Commissioner, Collegiate and Technical Education Department, Government of Telangana suggested a solution during the panel discussion which may help all the three sectors to overcome the challenge. He said, “With continuous demand of employable youth, the onus now lies on both the industry and the academia to collaborate mutually so that both can work in sync to nurture industry-ready youth. Here, Government can act more as a facilitator by implementing policies relevant for the same.”
Dr Narsimha Reddy, Executive Director, Sreenidhi Institute of Science & Technology was also having the similar thoughts on the topic. He said, “As far as adoption of latest technology is concerned; colleges require greater collaboration with the industry convened by the Government. It will not only help the institutions to know the latest trends but also take steps to meet them.”
During the discussion, industry experts and educationists have come up with various solutions that may help the Government, academia and industry t bridge the gap.
Understanding industry needs:
Teaching theoretical concepts only is not going to help a youth in getting a job in today’s scenario. The educational institutions now need to focus on the skills which will help youth in becoming a productive employee. It can only be done by understanding what industries are looking for in their employees.
Explaining the same, Chief Human Resources Officer of Karvy Fintech Pvt Ltd, Pradipta Sahoo said, “While hiring a person from any campus the things that matters to us the most are aptitude and attitude. We look out for how soon the person can achieve the organisational objective in terms of productivity in future. We also try to figure out the person’s zeal towards learning new things.”
Becoming Innovative:
Nowadays, it is not only about becoming an industry-ready employee. Industries are looking for the skills more than that among its employees. The most in-demand skill from industry perspective is becoming innovative in their ways of working. Following the traditional methodologies are not what companies are looking rather they want the employees who can improve the productivity and processes through their creativity. So, colleges need to focus on the same as well.
Talking about the same, Pratyusha sharma, Senior Director – HR, Cognizant India, said, “At this point of time, what we look in a person is the efforts for innovate, incubate, and decision making other than the knowledge of domain, process, what they learn on the floor and for the client. It took us three to six months to train them in skill like communication.”
Mutual support among colleges and industry:
Initiatives from the industry only or from the education sector only are not going to help any of the two rather it should be collaborative in nature. The two should try the ways which can help them improve mutually. Reputed colleges can help small business in terms of infrastructure and may gain a lot in return.
Suggesting the same, Industry expert GR Reddy, Founder, Husys Consulting Ltd, said, “One practice that reputed colleges can follow is to provide the infrastructure to new businesses, start-ups or small businesses. It will increase the communication between the industry and students as well as help students to inculcate business sense among them.”
Learning life skills:
Institutes also have undertaken various initiatives not only in line with the industry demands but also to provide their students world class education. It seems necessary to train students in life skills and organizational skills so that they can not only be successful in professional life but also in the personal life.
Describing about the same, the senior bureaucrat Dr A Ashok who is also Commissioner & Secretary – Intermediate Education, Government of Telangana and Vice Chancellor, IIIT, RGUKT, Basar, Telangana, has said, “So far, the institutions have focused on Intelligence Quotient (IQ) but now it’s time to focus on Emotional Quotient (EQ). It will help in inculcating industry required skills like communication, leadership, inter personal relationship, and team player etc.”
Suggesting the methodology to inculcate creativity among students and also fetching innovative solutions for any problem, Dr T G Vijaya, Director, PSG Institute of Management, Tamil Nadu, said, “It is important to foster creativity among students. As far as my institute is concerned, we create at least 10 groups of students who work separately on the same topic or project. It helps us to get different perspectives as well as 10 innovative solutions for one problem.”
Prof V K Rattan, Vice Chancellor, GNA University said in this regard, “In line with industry demands, it is important for all the institutions and universities to start courses that may train students in the required skills. We have started several such initiatives which are helping students to be industry-ready.”
It can be said, Government and industries role can’t be ignored as far as building the future of youth is concerned. Any one of the three not playing their role up to the significant extent will lead to the similar challenges and also the problems derived due to it. The three have to collaborate not only for building employable youth but also for developing a strong economy.
The result for Gujarat HSC General and Vocational streams has been declared by Gujarat School Education Board (GSEB) on May 25, 2019 (Saturday). Students who have appeared for the examination can view the results on GSEB’s official website: http://www.gseb.org/.
The overall pass percentage is recorded as 73.27 pass per this year. It is an improvement of 4.3% from last year when 68.96 per cent regular students had passed.
Girls, once again, have remained ahead of boys in terms of pass percentage. The pass rate of girls was 79.27%, while that of boys was 67.94%. Notably, this year about 5% more girls had cleared the examination.
Gujarat HSC Exam Results 2019: Step below to check result
Step 1: Go to GSEB’s official website: http://www.gseb.org/
Step 2: Enter the six digit seat no.
Step 3: Click Submit.
Step 4: Result will be displayed on your screen
Step 5: Download the file and take a print out for future reference.
Students are advised to confirm the result with their actual mark sheet also, which will be provided by the board soon after.
The pass percentage for students who appeared in Gujarati medium is 72.43 per cent, for students who appeared in Hindi medium is 69.90 per cent whereas 83.96 per cent students have passed from the English medium.
GSEB had released the Gujarat HSC result for Science stream on May 9 in which 71.90 per cent students had cleared the examination.
AHSEC HS results 2019: The Assam Class 12 or Higher Secondary exam results have been announced on May 25, 2019 (Saturday). As per the official data, nearly 2, 40,000 students were awaiting the results this year.
The Assam HS or Class 12 results are being declared by the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC) on its official portal: ahsec.nic.in. Besides, the results can also be viewed at the official results portal for examinations conducted in Assam: resultsassam.nic.in.
Besides, some private websites such as Indiaresults.com, examresult.net etc are also hosting the Assam Class 12 results.
Assam HS Class 12 Exam Results 2019: Follow the steps below to check:
Step 1: Go to AHSEC‘s official website or alternative websites mentioned above.
Step 2: Click on the HS result link on the home page.
Step 3: Enter roll number and any other required detail.
Step 4: Submit and view your result.
Step 5: Download the mark sheet and take a print out for future reference.
Apart from this, student can also view the Assam HS Class 12 results on ‘Upolobdha’ mobile app which can be downloaded from Google Playstore.
Last year, AHSEC released the Class HS results on May 31. The overall pass percentage was recorded as 56.04 per cent.
“The Education system is not static, it is quite dynamic. What works well today, may not work in near future. In context of education sector, the aforesaid is true as traditional chalk-and-talk method of teaching is now being replaced by digital ways of learning,” Dr A Ashok, Secretary & Commissioner, Board of Intermediate Education, Government of Telangana and Vice Chancellor, Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, Basar, Telangana.
As a Co-Programme Chair at 9th Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave Hyderabad, Dr Ashok has deliberated on various topics, issues and opportunities related to higher education ecosystem of Telangana. He was also among the key dignitaries who inaugurated the conclave.
Revealing about how the Government in Telangana is implementing various initiatives to improve the higher education in the State, he said, “Despite being the youngest State in the country, we are the pioneers in the education sector. We have set several landmarks in Indian education landscape. Telangana Government has taken various initiatives for different sectors with emphasis on education sector under the dynamic vision of our Hon’ble Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao.”
“We are heading towards ‘Golden Telangana’ to achieve a considerable development in the State with education as the key focus area. Since the inception of the State, huge investments have been made into education sector. Along with providing equal opportunities of growth for every domain of education sector including pre-primary, school, higher education, and skill and vocational training, the Government has also established several universities across the State,” he added.
Dr Ashok stressed on innovation in vocational training as well. According to him, “Similarly in vocational training, institutes can’t only rely on one teaching-learning approach. They have to be diversified and must be in line with the technology advancement to make knowledge delivery more effective.”
He also discussed how Telangana as a State is working on various models to ensure that the students are employable. He revealed, “There are two models nowadays we are talking about employability model and industry-ready model. Industry-ready model seems to be the most appropriate as employers require the workers having enough hands on experience on a technology or machine to work on.”
Referring quality education as the foundation for higher education, Dr Ashok described how his department is ensuring the quality school education in the State. He said, “Good intermediate education is the foundation for good higher education. We are maintaining the global standards for curriculum to prepare knowledgeable, resourceful and competitive citizens. At the same time, we have strict norms for every school to maintain good standards of infrastructure, teachers and certifications. We have around 2,600 junior colleges in Telangana. To maintain certain standards and streamline processes, we have started schemes like online affiliation, integration of all the services with the mobile platform, conducting examinations within time, among others.”
Along with 9th Higher Education & Human Resource Conclave Hyderabad, Dr Ashok has participated in various previous events organised by Elets where he shared valuable thoughts to impart quality education.
