Industrial Revolution 4.0 to transform our working methodologies: Navin Mittal

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“We are presently at the threshold of Industrial Revolution 4.0 wherein the new tools like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and Robotics will be implemented jointly to improve the outcomes. These technologies will be embedded with already existing equipments/technologies to transform our working methodologies,” said Navin Mittal, Commissioner, Department of Collegiate & Technical Education, Government of Telangana.

While addressing the 13 th World Education Summit Mumbai last year, he highlighted and discussed various topics relevant and important for improvement in education sector.

During his speech, Mittal discussed how industrial revolutions were started and how it impacted the human life. In this regard he started with very first industrial revolution and said, “Industrial Revolution 1.0 happened in 18 th century in the Europe when the steam engine was invented. The use of steam has helped the industries to boost their product outcomes multifold. The use of steam has helped the industries to boost their product outcomes multifold.”

“Second industrial revolution happened in Europe and the US in the later years of 19th century when electricity, communication, magnetism and combustion engines were invented. The combination of all these technologies has helped in transforming the line of production across the world,” Mittal further said.

Also Read: Technology Paving Way for Quality Higher Education in Telangana

He also shared the details of the countries that drove the various industrial revolutions across the world. In the context of Industrual Revolution 3.0, Mittal said, “Third Industrial Revolution happened in the US and Japan but it is expected that the Industrial Revolution 4.0 will happen in India and China. These two countries will drive the next Industrial Revolution and that’s why we have a tremendous opportunity.”

“Industrial Revolution 3.0 was just around 50 years back when Information Technology (IT) came in. The use of miniaturised electronic circuits has felicitated the IT revolution across the world. It transformed the large computers into very small machines and also changed the way world works,” he added.

Explaining about how Industrial Revolution 4.0 will facilitate the better connect between human and techonology, the senior bureaucrat said, “Now the likely Industrial Revolution 4.0 through the cyber physical connect is also likely to transform what we do completely in the coming years.”

Referring the Gurukul system which used to be followed in India, Navin Mittal highlighted some key aspects of it. He said, “The Gurukul system was not just about learning a subject or two, it was about the holistic development of students. At a very young age, students used to start living with their Gurus so that they can learn the skills needed to be successful in every sphere of life.”

Along with technology, Mittal also highlighted the importance of extracurricular activities. According to him, “While on one hand extracurricular activities help students to develop holistically, on the other, it is important for the present education system to collaborate with edu-tech industry for bringing innovation in teaching-learning processes.”

Essentials for a Daycare Classroom

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The motive of early childhood education is to develop life skills in a child. The major brain development happens from 0-8 years. So, it becomes very crucial the kind of daycare set up your child is going, writes Jyoti Sharma, Assistant Centre Manager, Little Big World, for Elets News Network (ENN).

As the term, daycare in early childhood education signifies it is all about taking care of very young group of people. In this context, a question pops out that how should be my class setup. We are dealing with very sensitive humans so the class should be in a way that boost and help their overall development. In the classroom, everything should be at the reach of the child. As we have to work on their overall skills the class environment need to be safe and child friendly.

First and most important thing in a class set up is that it should be educational, hygienic and engaging for the children. Have you ever entered a daycare and observed how pleasing a classroom looks to you. Is the class enough attractive and mind stimulator that child will be happy while you are away for so long time. Here, I am sharing some important tips, with you how to make classroom set up child friendly.

In order to teach them different life concepts divide classroom into different corners. The benefits of dividing different corners in a class are to build discipline in them and motivate them to be more organized, and self-dependent in their life.

THE STUDY CORNER: The study corner should be designed in a way that grabs attention of a child. It should look interesting and should ooze a positive vibe for the child. At this tender age, we cannot force children to sit and study and we need to do it in a playful way. We need to ensure we are rich in our resources and everything is easily approachable to them. All the materials in the class should be at the children level. The corner should have sufficient study material in the form of books, pencils, colors etc. In order to encourage a child for their independent behavior child should be given freedom to use the resources. Although they need to understand concepts, so we just need to guide and supervise them.

READING CORNER: This corner should be a comfortable place for children where they can relax and read books. This corner is the peaceful place of the class with the main motive of increasing vocabulary and life skills with the help of books. The selection of the books should be age appropriate, as infants need more of picture books while grown up need books with rich source of vocabulary. The teacher can do picture talk and can ask open-ended questions to the children. As infants and toddlers are in their sensorimotor stage, so it is important to keep touch and feel books in the class. This corner can be used to keep stuffed animals to give them a cozy feel.

BLOCKS OR MATH’S CORNER: This corner can involve toys and other resources that are helpful to boost their mathematical concepts for example they can use blocks to learn counting and concept of tall/short etc. The duplo blocks, stacking rings, knob puzzles, toy cars etc. all are powerful learning tools for children. They help to build spatial reasoning, enhance their fine motor and engineering skills. This corner needs to be stuffed with manipulative and open-ended toys to help children boost their creativity and imagination.

ART CORNER: The art corner should have all the stuff related to artwork. The aim of this corner is to develop their artistic skill. This corner should be full of artistic things like crayons, colors, pencils, papers etc. We need to give them freedom with their art as they try to represent their emotions and experiences through art. They are naturally curious people and their bucket is always full of questions.

They can use their self-directed unstructured art as a language to depict their experiences. This corner serves as an important tool to enhance their pincer grip and overall cognitive development.

DRAMATIC CORNER: The children love to do role-play. They follow the actions of adult and try to imitate it. This corner can involve dresses related to different professions, animals, dolls, mask, telephone, kitchen corner etc. Children learn a lot from dramatic play and that help them understand their world better. It is an important part of class to increase their social-emotional skills. The children generally start pretend to play from 18 months and we need to encourage it.

The class should be well organized and clean with all the necessary things in it. As infants and toddlers love to explore world through their mouth due to their sensorimotor developmental stage. It is important to keep only non-chokable items in the class. The children need safe place to crawl, jump and hide so they need room to push, pull, ride and run. By keeping, plenty of toys will give them opportunity to enhance their gross motor skills. It is important to keep in mind do not over stuff your classroom set up as child will not be focused due to so many options available. All the stuff needs to be labeled with name and pictures on the label so that it will be easy for children to understand during clean up time. The children should be given freedom and opportunity to use their skills instead of showing them end
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Delhi Govt allows 59 private schools to hike fees by 5-10%

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Delhi Government has reportedly granted permission to 59 private schools to increase their fees by 5-10 per cent. These schools are operating on the DDA land in the national capital.

According to the rules, the schools operating on the DDA land need to take permission from Directorate of Education before considering any fees hike.

Notably, there are 301 schools in the city which fall under this category. Out of these 267 had approached the DoE regarding the increase in fees.

Speaking on the latest development, a senior DoE official said, “After detailed audit of the schools, 59 of them which were in deep shortage of funds have been allowed to hike the fees by 5-10 per cent. The fee hike will be limited to tuition fees only”.

Interestingly, last year AAP government withdrew the DoE’s order – which allowed the schools for “interim fee hike” up to 15 per cent in accordance with the recommendations of seventh pay commission. However, the DoE had put the condition to schools to get their financial accounts audited by the government in a fixed period of time.

The Delhi government, opposing the decision, had said that the schools would have to obtain prior permission from it before increasing their fees and any hike would be permitted only after an audit of the schools’ accounts.

Thereafter, the Delhi schools moved the High Court on the matter. They were able to secure a stay on the order by a single bench. On the other hand, Delhi government had approached a double bench, which ruled in its favour on the issue.

Teaching students of tomorrow with teachers of yesterday is the biggest challenge: Chocko Valliappa

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“Technology based education is becoming more and more prevalent. So how do we adopt that, especially, from the quality assurance perspective? How do you teach the students of tomorrow with the teachers of yesterday? How do we equip the teachers to move to the future? So these are the challenges that we all face,” said Chocko Valliappa, Founder & CEO, Hiremee, while speaking at the 11 th Higher Education & Human Resource Conclave Pune 2019.

Valliappa was speaking during the conclave in a panel discussion on – Changing Dynamics of Higher Education in a Globalised Context: Envisioning Strategies for Future.

Talking about the need of changing education system with change in nature of jobs, Valliapa said, “The world is heading towards Industry 4.0 and the amount of metamorphosis the world is going to see is enormous. One million jobs are going to be displaced; one million people are going to be displaced. New jobs are going to come. It is considered the around 600 different types of jobs will be introduced. So, how our education system will be in sync with that changed world? No one knows the kind of jobs likely to be available in the future”.

Elaborating his opinion, Valliappa said, “Today, we are talking about Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) but how these technologies are going to change the manufacturing scenario. If manufacturing industry changes, what manufacturing engineers will be doing? They may need to be into robotics. Similarly, how electrical engineers will work in smart grid environment?”

Referring the Bill Gates, Principal Founder, Microsoft, who talked about nuclear gas cylinder in one’s backyard that will power the complete household energy needs for next 20 years, Valliappa raised various issues relevant for energy usage and management. He said, “How energy resources and energy management are going to change? We are now talking about electrical cars, so, how is that going to make things different? We are talking about smart mobility, so how’s that going to happen.”

He also talked about future needs of Civil Engineering jobs, saying, “There are talks about Mumbai and Pune being linked with Hyperloop. If that happens what is going to be the Civil Engineering requirement because it is going to change in that. If talking about textile engineering, how’s smart textile engineering is going to happen and how it is going to support the world for its betterment.”

Citing the example of his own company, Vallipa explained how people rejected HireMee when it was introduced two years ago. HireMee is a mobile-based online assessment platform providing fresher’s jobs linking corporates, students and colleges.

“Recruitment is changing. So when we came with Hiremee model two years ago, we said that every student must be accessed through mobile phones sitting in the comfort of th eir home. People said unless companies come to campus it will not succeed.

“Today large IT companies have allowed the applications anywhere like TCS, Cognizant. If you pass the Cognizant exam you will get employment. That’s how it is changing,” he stated.

Talking about hiring packages in the industry, Valliapa said, “Today students who have no soft skills means only education and no employability, the package is one lakh, with employability it comes to 3 lakhs and with technical skills it comes to 4 lakhs. If they know programming it comes to 6 lakhs but if they know algorithm it comes to 14 lakhs.

He concluded saying that there is an urgent need to bridge the gap between education and employability and that’s what industry is asking the educational institutes to do. Further, he highlighted how educational needs a lot more liberalisation in the country and with International Universities coming to India the competition will increase.

Underprivileged must be taken care, suggests Prof Kripa Shankar

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“Now this has to be understood, at the school level as well that we need to care, we need to worry about underprivileged (that’s our definition of underprivileged) and perhaps take some of the lessons from our earlier ways of imparting education – not only in India but all over the world. There is no need to become critical that this culture is great or that,” said Prof Kripa Shankar, Former Deputy Director of IIT, Kanpur and Ex Vice Chancellor of AKTU, Lucknow.

He was speaking at the 10th School Leadership Summit 2019, Lucknow. Prof Shankar along with other key dignitaries inaugurated the summit.

Talking about his experience as the vice-chancellor, Prof Shankar said, “When I became the vice chancellor – Uttar Pradesh, the State with 75 districts and 22 crore population, had 750 technical institutes but only one technical university. Moreover, these 75 districts collectively contribute to the growth of the nation through the university – Uttar Pradesh Technical Universoty (UPTU) much more than the premier technical institutes of India.”

“It’s a fact that the in terms of people involved with different organisations in the country, UPTU has contributed more than any IITs in the country. But for the reasons very obvious, we do take pride in being associated with any of the IITs,” he added.

Further elaborating about the present education system and what needs to be changed, he said, “This elitism is one issue in our society, be it IIT or anything else. Since education, unlike any other community does not belong to a particular class but it belongs to all – poor, rich. Therefore, one of the issues that remain for the education – school as well as higher education – is that we are talking about something for the masses.”

“The point is we need to create something not for the consumption of tomorrow or day after. We need to create, at the school level, the citizens of the society for the years ahead. So the life cycle of a school’s output is not to be measured in line with an electronic appliance or a building,” he added.

Talking about the Government’s concern about employability and the possible solutions for it, Prof Shankar said, “At present, we hear from the Government about people being able to have the employment or jobs. In other words, they should be able to earn the breads. The one way to do this is to transform the resources into products and services, which will be accepted by the society. If the appropriate transformation of resources happens in India, the employment ratio will increase.”

Thereafter, Prof Shankar drew the attention of the audience at the event towards the un-proportionate transformation of resources, “I would like to draw your attention that somehow transformation of resources in the country is not proportionate. It’s not up to the mark. That’s why the instrument that we use 24 hours/day is not created here. Who’s responsible for this?”

“In my opinion, IITs are responsible for this. But remember the string doesn’t begin at IIT neither ends at IIT. The string goes even to the school level. The creativity in a human being cannot be and should not be taught at IIT level at the age of 17 years. The creativity in person needs to be cultivated at the level when a child is born,” he asserted.

Concluding his speech, Prof Shankar highlighted the utmost significance to understand the school education system and said, “So, a synergy between the parents, school and higher education appears to be our main agenda. However, irrespective of the education, we all go through the same process of coaching – then some are selected some are not – suicides happen. We need to stop all this.”

CBSE to Delhi University: Align admissions as per board’s schedule

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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has requested the Delhi University (DU) to align the admission process as per the schedule fixed by the CBSE. The CBSE has written a letter to Registrar of Delhi University in this regard.

The CBSE revaluation process, as per the dates announced, will start on May 24. On the other hand, Delhi University is all set to start the admission process. This has caused tension among students of CBSE appeared in class 12 this year and are looking to apply for revaluation process.

It has happened after confusion erupted regarding CBSE revaluation schedule and its possible effects on
Delhi University undergraduate admission, which are expected to begin soon.

Notably, CBSE, in a first, had announced the Class 12 results on May 2, much ahead of the schedule following a High Court directive which asked the board to complete the revaluation process before the DU admissions begin.

When the results were announced, a CBSE released a statement clearing board’s stance on High Court directive, “CBSE will be completing its re-evaluation process also at the earliest. Now, Delhi University has to fix the last date of submission of application form for admission in Delhi University in such a manner that the work of re-evaluation is over prior to the last date of Delhi University admission process”.

The board had also kick started the exams 15 days earlier this year, as compared to its traditional dates.

On the other hand, other major boards like, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar have announced the Class 12 results in last one month.

Gujarat 10th Result 2019: Gujarat Board Announced Class 10 SSC Results at gseb.org

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GSEB 10th Result 2019 — GSEB 10 th Result 2019

Gujarat 10th Result 2019 Announced| The Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, GandhinagarGSHEB declared the Gujarat 10th Result 2019. The Gujarat Board Result 2019, Gujarat 10th Result 20219 is available on the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board’s official website gseb.org

The GSHEB conducts the class 10 board examination for the academic year 2018-19. The Gujarat 10th Result 2019, GSEB SSC Result 2019, GSEB 10th Result 2019 will be available online once declared. Candidates can frequently visit the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board’s webpage and check their Gujarat 10th Result 2019, GSEB 10th Result 2019 once the hosted URL is activated.

So far, the Gujarat Board has released the GSEB 12th Science result 2019, GSEB HSC Result 2019 on May 8 and GUJCET Result 2019 on May 9. However, the schedule for 2019 GSEB 12th Commerce Result 2019 and GSEB 12th Arts Result 2019 is yet to be announced.

Gujarat 10th Result 2019: With these steps check your GSEB SSC Result 2019

At the official website of Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, candidates can check their scores by taking these steps-

Step 1: Go at the GSEB’s official website gseb.org
Step 2: On the homepage, click on GSEB SSC Result 2019 link
Step 3: Enter the required details like roll number and date of birth to Gujarat 10th Result 2019
Step 4: Submit the details to check your Gujarat 10th Result 2019
Step 5: You can view your GSEB 10th Result 2019 and scorecard. Download and take a print out.

The GSEB SSC Result 2019, Gujarat 10th Result 2019 can also be accessed at these two portal examresults.net, indiaresults.com

The Gujarat board class 10 examinations for the 2018-2019 academic sessions were held from March 7 to March 19. In this year, approximately early 7.5 lakhs students appeared in the exam.

For the previous year, GSEB 10th Result 2018 was declared on May 28.

Source: News18

BSE Odisha 10th Result 2019 announced

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The Board of Secondary Education (BSE) Odisha declared the results of Class 10 (Matric) board examinations on Tuesday, May 21, 2019.

The students who appeared for the Odisha Matric exam can now visit the official website of the Board to check and download their result online.

The board had confirmed the result date and timing of the Odisha class 10th result at a press conference held on Monday, May 20.

President of Board of Secondary Education, Odisha, Jahan Ara Begum said that the Odisha Matric results 219 will be published on May 21.

The Board released the Odisha Matric Results 2019 on its official websites – bseodisha.ac.in and orissaresults.nic.in.

The candidates who appeared for the class 10 state board examinations 2019 are advised to visit the BSE Odisha websites to check and download their result and scores.

This year, Odisha Class 10 results is delayed due to the disruption caused in the state by the onslaught of Cyclone Fani.

The students are advised to download the results from official websites only. The step by step guide to check the result is provided below:

BSE Class 10 result 2019: Here’s how to check

1) Open the official website – bseodisha.ac.in and orissaresults.nic.in

2) On the homepage, you will see ‘BSE Class 10 Results 2019’ link, click on it

3) It will redirect to results page where you need enter your name, registration number

4) Your results will be displayed on the screen

5) Download and take a printout for future use

Source: (Times of India)

Develop infrastructure for differently-abled: DOE asks Delhi Govt schools

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The Directorate of Education (DOE) has issued a directive asking all heads of government schools to maintain, provide, renovate, and repair existing infrastructure to make sure they are friendly to the differently- abled. The decision has been taken in wake of promoting inclusive education in all Delhi government schools.

The directive says, “This shall be done through Public Works Department by generating EOR (extra ordinary repair)”. It further stated that no construction should be done without ensuring the same. And that, any leniency or non-compliance of this circular/order will be viewed seriously.

Notably, the directorate has compiled a handbook mentioning the specifications for such infrastructures in the school. Such handbooks are being distributed across Delhi government schools by the education department. It has been done in order to ensure barrier-free accessibility in the school buildings for children with disabilities.

As per media reports, 200 government schools under Directorate of Education (DOE) have received the handbooks.

“The principals and teachers need to be sensitised. They need guidelines on how to counsel the children, their parents and how to care for them,” stated an official while explaining the reason behind the distribution of such handbooks.

These specialised handbooks contain information about different types of disabilities. Further, it mentions about rights and entitlements for children with disabilities and the penalties for offences committed against persons with disabilities.

The handbook also specifies the space to be allocated for people using mobility devices as well as those walking with assistance. It also gives specifications on toilets, walks and paths, tactile pavers, corridors and ramps, door hardware, dropped kerbs, staircases, and drinking water fountain among other things.

According to an official IEB circular, the handbook was prepared by adopting the guidelines of Ministry of Urban development, Government of India and the handbook on barrier free accessibility by Central Public Work Department as well as in consultation with the Office of Delhi State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities.

The circular also mentions Section 16(ii) and Section 89 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016. It mandates government to make efforts to provide inclusive education in schools funded or recognized by it. Further, it also gives provisions for charging fees as penalty from any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Act.

Imparting ‘balanced’ education is the need of the hour: Dr Jagdish Gandhi

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“We must teach ‘God is one’ to our children as nowadays, people are fighting in the name of religion, caste, creed and colour. It is because of the fact that schools have become the place to teach only maths, science, physics and chemistry – giving material education. And that’s all. Parents are happy about it. They don’t complaint. They are happy saying – my child is getting good marks, he speaks good English, he is becoming smart. Though, it is important because every human being needs to earn his/her livelihood in life ahead. He should be well-versed so that he can get a good job,” said Dr Jagdish Gandhi, Founder Manager, City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow.

Dr Gandhi shared his thoughts while speaking at the 10 th School Leadership Summit 2019, Lucknow. For the uninitiated, School Leadership Summit is a flagship event of Elets Technomedia, organised by digitalLEARNING with an endeavour to bring together the education stakeholders under one roof to deliberate on finest practices and innovations empowered by technological interventions.

Dr Gandhi enlightened audience in the summit about meaning of true education and what can be derived out of it. “Education is a continuous and creative process. Its aim is to develop the capacities which are latent in human nature and coordinate their expression for the enrichment and progress of the society by equipping children with material, human and divine knowledge. The true education releases the hidden capabilities of human beings and helps in developing analytical abilities, confidence in oneself, willpower and goal setting competencies.”

Also Read: City Montessori School, Inculcating Human Values Through Education

During his speech, Dr Gandhi highlighted the importance of imparting balanced education to the students. Quoting Victor Hugo he said, “Victor Hugo once said, there is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. We know it’s time for a balanced education for all the three realities of life – Material being, human being and divine being. All the three realities are needed to be developed from the childhood by both the teachers and parents.”

Further elaborating his vision, he said, “All of us here are the teachers. Parents are the primary source of empowerment. Educators are the secondary source of empowerment and society itself is the third source of empowerment. The child learns from three places, home, school and society. They have to be sanctified. But unfortunately, at home, parents are only concerned about marks and not whether child is becoming smart or not. We need to make child a balanced human being.”

“What is good? Good means good qualities. And these qualities come from god. It is revealed in the books of God – Bhagvat Gita, Bible, Kuran Sharif, Guru Granth Sahib. These are the revered books of God,” he added.

Expressing concerns over the future of children, Dr Gandhi said, “In older times, schools were not only guiding the students but parents also. There were teacher who were guiding the society. We need to restore schools again because the things have gone so haywire. The life of our children has become endangered in this world.”

“The future of over 2.5 billion children and the generation which is yet to be born has become progressively more unsecure and unprotected during past seven decades. Since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, recent spread of global terrorism, global warming, environmental degradation, stock piling of arms and ammunitions, fear of third world war and nuclear holocaust, and ever increasing expenditure on military research, are among the major reasons behind it. In this situation, which kind of education should be imparted?” he further stated.

Thereafter quoting the great leaders of the world Dr Gandhi explained exactly what is lacking in the present education system, “Mahatma Gandhi said if we are to teach real peace in the world, if we have to carry war against war, we shall begin with the children. Nelson Mandela said Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Paulo Freire said education changes people and people change the world. “

“Let us make our children both good and smart. And teach this to parents and the society. Being good and smart in education is not going to help him, even if he tops in class. Blnaced education is important – of all the three realities of life – material, human and divine. It will make a child a good human being, useful member of the society. Whatever is hidden in their nature should be brought out and the society will be benefited,” Dr Gandhi said.

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