“Economy and education are very closely interconnected. It is impossible for any country to be developed without allocating highest possible expenditure for development of education and human resource,” Dr Ganesh Rao, Director, MITCON Institute of Management, Pune.
He was among the key speakers at 11th Higher Education and Human Resource Conclave who shared their thoughts to improve the higher education sector of India. He suggested various measures that may help the country’s youth and economy to grow simultaneously.
He emphasised on nurturing the students without confused minds saying, “Unemployable, globalised curriculum and globalised context are among the key buzzwords among the education fraternity nowadays. It is creating doubts in the minds of young students.”
Questioning the media’s role in improving the education ecosystem across the country, Dr Rao said, “With a population of around 140 crore of which 50 crore — a bit less than half of the population belongs to the age group of 5-24. We have got 900 universities; 40,000 colleges; nine lakh faculty members; and 3.5 crore students out of 140 crore. Nowadays, it is very common in media publications and news papers to create panic about Indian education sector.”
Suggesting the measures for improving the current scenario, Dr Rao suggested that the educators can play major role in that. He said, “It has been done by publishing the stories like: Engineering colleges are closing down!!! Is there a problem and others? It is very important for us as educationist to come together and reveal the truth that there is no such crisis, only a mismatch. This mismatch has to be tuned right without being panic.”
He also defines that what exactly are the changes required for education sector. Emphasising that not the basic education rather we need to change the practices, he said, “Another very common thing we hear nowadays is that the education system needs to be changed. It is important to note here that we need not to change the education basics rather we just need to change education practices and adopt latest technologies. We need to inculcate confidence among the youth so that they don’t get stressed due to ridiculous stories.”
With effect from academic session 2019-20, completing an undergraduate course in Delhi University colleges will be a bit heavier on the students’ pockets.
As per the reports, many colleges under the varsity have revised their annual fee structure thereby making a hike ranging from Rs 2000 to Rs 8000.
The information regarding the change in fee structure was provided in the new bulletin published by the University on its official website.
Notably, most of the colleges have given “insufficient funds” as the primary reason behind the revision in the fee plan while many others have termed it a ‘routine revision’.
The fee structure of Gargi College has witnessed a hike of Rs 2,500 to Rs 3,000 for most of the courses. However, for BA (Hons) Business Economics, the course fee has gone up by over Rs 14,000. Last year, it was Rs 26,875 but now it is Rs 41,220.
On the other hand, the average fee hike in colleges like: Aryabhatta College, Delhi Collegefor Arts and Commerce, Bhaskaracharya College for Applied Sciences, Deshbandhu College, Hindu College, Miranda House, Indraprastha College for Women Motilal Nehru College and Ramjas College, is between Rs 1,500 and Rs 3,500.
For instance, at Hindu College, the fee structure for most courses including BA (Hons) in English has been revised from Rs 14,790 to Rs 17,310. On other hand, the fee of several courses offered by Ramjas College has witnessed an upward movement from Rs 10,395 to Rs 13,495.
According to the new bulletin, the fee of courses offered at Ramanujan College and Institute of Home Economics (W) has been increased by Rs 8,000 from last year. Admission to courses such as BSc (Hons) in Home Science and Microbiology used to cost Rs 19,675 but now it has been revised to Rs 28,890. Further, at Janki Devi Memorial College (W) and Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women (W) the revision in course fees varies between R 4,000 and Rs 5,000.
NEET 2019 Counselling: The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on behalf of Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) will begin the NEET 2019 Counselling from today.
Candidates who qualified the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2019 are eligible to appear for the NEET 2019 Counselling to be conducted in online mode.
The registration process for NEET counselling will be held from June 19 to 24, 2019. On June 25, the candidates will be able to lock their choices for the first round while the seat allotment process will take place on June 26. The result of the first round of seat allotment will be released on June 27, 2019.
NEET Counselling 2019 will be conducted for the admission to 15% All India Quota candidates seats of the total intake from all the government and private colleges and deemed universities (except for colleges of Jammu and Kashmir). For the rest 85% State quota seats, the counselling will be conducted by the respective State authorities.
For the 15% of All India Quota seats, NEET counselling 2019 will be conducted in two rounds while for the Central & Deemed Universities and ESIC colleges will be conducted in three rounds. After final allotment of seats, candidates will be provided a seat allotment letter which will be required for the admission process ahead.
To qualify in the NEET UG exam, candidates are required to secure a minimum of 50th percentile (45th percentile for General-PwD candidates and 40th percentile for SC/ST/OBC candidates).
NEST 2019 Results | The National Entrance Screening Test (NEST) 2019 result has been released today, i.e. June 18, 2019 (Tuesday). Earlier, it was scheduled to be declared on June 17 but due to some technical issues it was delayed.
The official notice reads, “Due to some technical reasons the result could not be published on 17.06.2019. Inconvenience is regretted. NEST 2019 result will be out on 18.06.2019 (before 5 pm).”
Candidates who appeared for the examination can check the results by visiting the official NEST portal nestexam.in.
NEST Result 2019: Follow steps below to check
Step 1: Visit the NEST’s official website nestexam.in
Step 2: Click on the link that reads NEST Result 2019.
Step 3: Enter the required details.
Step 4: The results will be showcased on the screen.
Step 5: Take the printout for future reference.
Notably, the National Entrance Screening Test (NEST) 2019 was conducted at multiple centres pan India on June 1, 2019 (Saturday) over two separate sessions.
For the uninitiated, NEST is a mandatory online entrance test for students aspiring to take admission to the 5-year Integrated MSc Program offered by National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) Bhubaneswar and University of Mumbai – Department of Atomic Energy Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (UM-DAE CEBS) Mumbai.
The University of Delhi (DU) has extended the application date for admission to undergraduate courses for academic session 2019-20. With this latest development, students will now be able to apply for the admission till June 22, 2019.
This decision from Delhi University has come after a High Court order which directed the varsity to do the same. Notably, High Court passed the order after hearing pleas against the varsity for effecting change in eligibility criteria just a day before the registrations were to commence.
Observing the case, the court commented that the changes in eligibility criteria have to be made in accordance with law – “which would require a minimum of six months of public notice to the public at large”.
Following the order, varsity extended the date and is now set to release the admission brochure with revised eligibility criteria and other relevant information on its official website. It is highly expected that the brochure will be updated on the website by 5: 00 PM today, i.e. June 17, 2019 (Monday).
Now that the last date of submitting application has been extended, the varsity has also postponed the date for release of first cut off list. It is now expected to be out on June 20, 2019 (Thursday).
Considering the exceptional Class 12th exam results this year, the cut off is expected to be high. In CBSE alone, 94,299 students have scored more than 90 per cent marks. Out of this 17,693 students have scored above 95 per cent marks.
In 2018, Lady Shri Ram College recorded the highest cut off for an undergraduate course, which was 98.75% for B.A. Programme course.
Among the B.Sc. courses, the highest cut off was for B.Sc. Physics (H) at Hindu College at 98% whereas for B.Sc. Computer Science (H) the cut highest cut off was 98%, set by SGTB Khalsa College.
The Jaipuria family has made its presence felt in the education sector for the past 75 years in India. Seth Anandram Jaipuria group has been expanding and now has established many K-12 schools in States like Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. We also operate two renowned business schools, Jaipuria Institute of Management and Jaipuria School of Business in Ghaziabad.
Shishir Jaipuria, Chairman, Jaipuria Group of Educational Institutions
The vision and the objective of the founders were to leverage education as the most powerful instrument of empowerment in the independent India. The group brings together a great learning community striving to build independent and responsible global learners. Our learner-centric teaching practices, blending traditional deep-rooted values with the 21st century skills are the gateway to the future. It imbues use of modern resources, developing young minds to think, question and create, encouraging the 3 C’s – Curiosity, Critical thinking and Clarity by continuously integrating leading edge technology with latest pedagogical innovations provides a diverse collaborative platform to our students.
Problem solving through Project-based Learning (PBL), Mutliple Intelligence (MI), STEAM, ATAL Tinkering labs, Robotics, Math Labs, language Labs, Microsoft Education, along with various activities focused on environmental issues and community service catering to cognitive, socio-economic and linguistic diversities helps in preparing socially responsible citizens.
Being a proud group which has given seven “All india toppers” in both its CBSE and ICSE schools in grade x and xII for two consecutive years and with several 100% scorers in various subjects, we have proved beyond doubt that our students are upholding our legacy.
However, these results generally do not happen in a day. These are the outcome of continuous perseverance of all the school stakeholders with a focused objective to excel. Modern society demands high quality teaching and learning from teachers. Understanding that it is crucial to keep teachers knowledge up to date, so they can deliver high quality teaching, we conduct regular faculty development programsmes. The training curriculum is designed to update domain knowledge, subject matter mastery, upgrade skills and provide hands-on experience to the teachers under the guidance of experts empanelled with CBSE, NCERT, CIET, NIIT etc.
We have to align our pedagogical practices towards Education 4.0. In order to prepare for it, we must revisit the educational paradigms, and focus on the areas that need rethinking. The teachers are trained to be IT-enabled and we are proud to say that all our schools have Smart Classrooms and our school in Lucknow has been awarded with Microsoft certification. It has the distinction of having a tie up with Japan’s largest on line programming learning service, PROGATE, giving opportunity to learn coding and several languages like Ruby, Python Javascript etc.
Seth Anandram Jaipuria roup believes in shaping its students well for future challenges. This strong idea is embedded in the enrichment of students’ experience through all-round participation and sculpting opportunities in academics, cultural and sports activities, as well as leadership programmes.
Our well-balanced curriculum emphasises on co-scholastic activities and encourages every student to learn beyond subjects and brings out social skills, intellectual skills, moral values, which helps in personality development and character building among students. “Sangeet 4 All” has been introduced for the primary classes which has greatly enhanced joyful conceptual learning in literacy and numeracy. The students not only participate enthusiastically in sports, cultural events, library activities, CSR, creative arts etc but have brought laurels by winning awards.
In this global world, opportunities for communication and collaboration have expanded substantially. The schools have stepped up their International Linkage through student exchange programmes, NASA visit, on line learning programmes etc.
Our schools have been conferred with various prestigious awards in diverse fields like innovative curriculum and pedagogical techniques, innovation and global collaboration learning, environmental sensitisation, Microsoft certification, ISO certification, ISA, excellence in social and public service, All India Council for Robotics & Automation (AICRA) under the category of “Most Emerging School as Robotics Education Provider” to name a few!
We strongly believe in service with pride, lead with confidence, inspire to impact others and the philosophy that education is the prime contributor to the development of self, an extension of the society and diverse human enterprise. Continuing our commitment to contribute to the society, Seth Anandram Jaipuria School Kanpur, runs a special education programme for the underprivileged. We also run Charitable Guest Houses in Haridwar, Chitrakoot, Vrindavan and Seth Anandram Jaipuria Eye Hospital, nawalgarh, Rajasthan.
The Jaipuria family has contributed to the society immensely by planning, constructing and managing the beautiful Ramdarshan Mandir in Chitrakoot. The group leads in contributing towards nation building by joining hands with groups like GOONJ and CRY to help the nation during natural calamities. The students of each school are encouraged and motivated to participate in CSR activities.
The group is committed to expand in the field of quality education and shares a common goal and vision to ‘Empower, Enthuse and Excel’ by helping individuals realise their true potential, through quality education and development. The group has many franchise schools and has also ventured into preschools with a brand ‘Little one’.
With more than 20,000 students the journey is challenging yet definitely exciting and motivating. There is nothing better in this world than seeing a student succeed and knowing that you helped. We plan to have 50 schools by 2025 across India. Constantly updating, inventing and equipping with latest methodologies, Seth Anandram Jaipuria group believes in shaping its students to handle future challenges with aplomb.
VR education is a new era of personalised learning. VR technology has a long way to go and has a bright future in the education sector. VR has already given reason to the industry to embrace it, as it is revolutionising every sector, writes Dave Dolan, Chief Knowledge Officer, Veative Labs, for Elets News Network (ENN).
VR in the classroom is a hot topic these days, fresh on the lips of enthusiastic instructors and neophyte teachers alike. However, this new-ish device is fraught with a painful and potentially expensive learning curve, and an industry pointing teachers in one direction. Is that direction, a teacher-centric, teacher-lead model of classroom usage, the right way to go? Let’s take a closer look.
The teacher of today has been bombarded with a slew of “new tech” in the past two decades, ranging from PC’s in the classroom, to tablets, robotics, coding programs and so on. They have also been introduced to a new, four letter word… just. The edtech industry thrives on this word, with a deep-seated feeling that if teachers would just learn a bit of coding, they will be fine. How often have weary teachers heard “you just need to sign up the class for this program” or “you just need to have each student buy this app” or “you just need to make learning objectives and assessments for this wonderful VR experience?” It can all be rather overwhelming, and rightly raises the guard of every well-intentioned instructor, looking for ways to bolster learning.
But let’s look at what the reality is for teachers the world over, regardless of VR or other tech options. Teachers, and schools, are often faced with the same challenges, everywhere:
Increased class sizes
Unmotivated students
Varying levels and abilities within the same class
Different learning styles within the same class
Limited time and resources
Managing a classroom, while also incorporating more individual learning
Prep time bleeding into evenings and weekends
Teachers just need to deal with these points, and more!
It is without a doubt that introducing the VR into schools can engage and motivate students to learn, but unfortunately that can never be enough. It is too valuable of a tool to be used as a teacher-led, passive experience, taken out of the box only when a teacher finds the time to set it up and feels motivated to work through an experience with the class. This is missing the point of the power of virtual reality, and the deeper dive into learning that it can promote: hence the need for personalised learning using the VR.
The VR is a uniquely personal experience, and should be used as such. If providing a distraction-free environment which promoted focused concentration on a subject was the only benefit to VR, then that alone might be enough to justify using this tool. But again, it must be used in ways far beyond these simple, yet important features. So how can the VR help teachers (yes, teachers!), and why should we approach VR as a necessary part of the educational process?
The VR is a device that students have a natural curiosity about, and a desire to use. We never have a problem getting them interested in using the VR. This very simple fact means that a young learner is coming into the device with an open and curious mind, which is the best starting point for learning to happen. An open and enthusiastic mind, in a distraction-free environment means that there is a far greater chance to get to higher order thinking skills (HOTS), which are always more difficult to learn, and to teach. When you add in experiential learning, learning by doing, then the process is that much more effective, and powerful. Interactive STEM modules promote such learning.
Why is this important for the teacher? Because managing large, varied classes often means generalising the delivery of content. When a student can go off on their own and discover new ideas and connect with complex concepts on their own conversely means that the delivery of content becomes much more personalised for that individual. As long as the teacher is connected with this learning, which she is through analytics, then there is power and agency bestowed upon the learner.
All of this is possible only if a system has been designed with the teacher in mind. At Veative, the teacher is not only included in the process, but is front and center. This can only happen if certain things are done, and championed:
A wealth of interactive content for students to delve into
Content which has the minimum requirements for teachers, which means it must possess: learning objectives, attention to a core concept and assessment (all within the environment)
Curriculum alignment
Localised to that region (voice and text in the native language)
A simple dashboard from which to glean student data, and class-wide results
Assessment questions, inside the VR environment, tagged all the way down to cognitive domain
The ability to run a classroom Lab (all students on one task), if desired
Self-paced, self-directed learning opportunities for all students
Useful for Spec Ed and the most challenging students (can be used as a reward)
This should constitute the bare minimum from the view of teacher expectations, when thinking about VR in the classroom.
We know that VR can take students to places they cannot normally go, such as the Eiffel Tower or Burj Khalifa. But more importantly, the VR can take learners into places that the teacher cannot, such as into a plant to experience photosynthesis, or to within centimeters of a working combustion engine. But the burden cannot rest on the shoulders of a teacher to just learn about VR, do the prep work and run a class using this tool. Agency is better given to students to work at their own pace, in a judgement-free environment, free from the prying eyes of fellow students, who don’t need to know that you needed to do the module on Charles Law three times before you fully understood it. That should be between the student and the teacher, where it belongs. A properly designed VR learning system would allow, and promote, such interaction.
JEE Advanced 2019 result has been declared by the IIT Roorkee. Candidates appeared in the exam can check the result on the official website: jeeadv.ac.in.
JEE Advanced 2019 was conducted by the Indian Institute of technology (IIT) Roorkee on May 27 in the computer-based test format. This year, a total of 2,45,000 JEE Main candidates qualified for JEE Advanced.
Step-2: On homepage, Click on the tab reading ‘JEE Result 2019’
Step-3: After clicking, candidates will be redirected to a new page
Step-4: On new window enter the required details like roll number, email id, and phone number and then click on submit.
Step-5: The JEE Advanced Result 2019 can be viewed and downloaded
Step-6: Take a printout of JEE Result 2019 for future reference
Last week, on June 6, IIT Roorkee released the JEE Advanced 2019 Answer Key.
The counselling and seat allocation process for IITs will be taken care by the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) which has been set up by the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD).
“We don’t need technology geeks which are good teachers; we need teaching geeks who are good with technology. Because I firmly believe, no technology can replace a teacher but definitely good technology given to a good teacher will absolutely change the environment,” said Brijesh Karia, National Business Head, Robomate+.
He was speaking at the 12th School Leadership Summit Pune, organised by Elets Tchnomedia and powered by digitalLEARNING on May 18, 2019. Karia was among the key speakers who graced the inaugural session of the summit with their presence. In his address, Karia talked about certain pressure points students are facing and best practices being followed in the last 2-3 years.
Highlighting the fuss created around Class 10 board exams, he said, “I am working with 300 plus schools across the length and breadth of the country. We have been seeing a lot of changes. Everyone would agree that board has become the centre of a child’s life, especially Class 10 students. I was talking to one of my students recently and it made me realise that children are put under so much stress, pressure, and durance for no reason whatsoever”.
Sharing his personal communiqué with a child over the matter, Karia said, “When we talk to students, when we counsel them, we ask one question – “What is your biggest problem? Their biggest problem is lack of time. After spending 6 to 7 hours in school they are forced to go to tuitions for 2-3 hours. So, 10 hours of a day either they are sitting in the school or a coaching class plus 1-2 hours of travelling. Then after coming back home from coaching, they have to finish homework given at school as well as tuition. Moreover, the problem increases if any surprise test is there. Such a huge stress confuses all the students and eventually they end up studying nothing.”
Thereafter, he talked about what the schools pan India are doing to solve the problem of the students. Karia said, “One best practice that I have seen across the country is use of technology. Most of the schools are using technology in an excellent manner. I know about some schools which are doing flipped classroom pedagogy. They are telling the students in advance that tomorrow I am going to teach you certain topic, why don’t you read/watch that topic and come. So children know beforehand that this is going to happen.”
“Singhania School in Thane – which is one of the top ICSE schools of the country, has created an app for the students where teachers are giving recorded video lessons. So what happens is – students have learnt from the teacher, once they go home they don’t feel the need to go to tuitions. They open the app do the revision and their studies are done. So that’s what schools are doing,” he added.
“Another best practice is conferences like the one we are attending today. Schools must send their teachers here. There are certain wonderful discussions that happen in the panel. Believe me we have learnt a lot by just listening to some of the key industry speakers. This is one thing that I feel will help in changing the dynamics in the school,” Karia concluded.
JEE Advanced 2019 results will be released by the conducting authority Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee tomorrow i.e on June 14 at around 10 am.
The Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Advanced result will be released on the official website: https://jeeadv.nic.in. The exam exam is conducted every year for the admission to undergraduate engineering courses (B Tech) of 23 IITs. This year, only top 2,24,000 top rank holders of JEE Main 2019 were eligible to appear for JEE Advanced.
From 2018 onwards, JEE Main is being conducted by the National Testing Agency. The agency conducted JEE Main twice in computer-based mode only.
Candidates’ performance in both the JEE Main was the deciding factor for cut off to appear in JEE Advanced 2019. This year, the Cut-off of NTA Score for JEE (Advanced) 2019 based on Paper I was 89.7548849 for the students placed in the Common Rank List (CRL).
The counselling and seat allocation process for IITs will be taken care by the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) which has been set up by the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD).
