Odisha Govt to upgrade schools for science education of SC/ST students

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September 13, 2018

To provide science education to SC/ST students in the State, the Odisha Government has decided to upgrade an additional 21 high schools to higher secondary schools.

Odisha’s minister for ST & SC Development and Minorities & Backward Classes Welfare Ramesh Chandra Majhi said, “The new upgraded higher secondary schools will come up in Gajapati, Kandhamal, Sundergarh, Nabarangpur, Koraput, Rayagada, Malkangiri, Kalahandi, Mayurbhanj and Balangir districts.”

The newly upgraded higher secondary schools will majorly focus on teaching science stream, Majhi stated.

“For the current academic session 2018-19, the Government has decided to upgrade 21 more high schools to higher secondary schools,” Majhi further said. It is expected that the Classes in these schools will commence from the current academic year for which the Government has appointed 154 junior lecturers.

Earlier, the State Government had upgraded 26 High Schools into higher secondary schools in the science stream till 2017-18. The schools were located in Mayurbhanj, Gajapati, Kalahandi, Sambalpur, Keonjhar, Sundargarh, Rayagada, Malkangiri and Nabarangpur districts.

These schools are run by the SC/ST development department, officials said.

UP Govt to appoint retired professors to meet shortage of teachers

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September 12, 2018

The Government of Uttar Pradesh has given go ahead on Tuesday for appointment of retired professors of government medical colleges on contract basis to meet the shortage of senior teachers for upcoming super-specialty blocks in four hospitals.

The teachers will be appointed at the under construction paediatrics hospital at BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur and the Super Speciality Cancer Hospital in Lucknow on a monthly remuneration of Rs 2.30 lakh which is equivalent to that of AIIMS.

The super speciality blocks are to be established at four medical colleges in Gorakhpur, Meerut, Jhansi and Allahabad under the Prime Minister Swastha Suraksha Yojana. In addition to that an indoor patient facility is also proposed at the Super Speciality Cancer Hospital at CG City in Lucknow this year.

A 500-bed paediatric hospital is being established at the BRD Medical College to cater to encephalitis-affected regions of Purvanchal and Terai.

The proposal was made considering that medical teachers in Uttar Pradesh retire at the age of 65 while the Medical Council of India allows 70 years as the retirement age.

In an another significant decision, the proposal to implement 7th Pay Commission benefits for employees of Industrial Development Authorities in the state from January 1, 2016, was also cleared.

Aadhaar not mandatory to register for JEE Main: NTA

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September 12, 2018

The National Testing Agency (NTA) in one of its notification has instructed that Aadhaar number is not mandatory to register for JEE main 2019.

NTA, an agency under the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, has started the registration process for JEE Main and UGC NET recently and the process will end on September 30.

The JEE Main 2019 will be held from January 6 to January 20 next year.

The NTA has clarified about the 12 digit unique identification number issued by UIDAI about after receiving some queries about mandatory filling up of Aadhaar Number in the Application Forms of UGC-NET 2018 to be held in December.

A statement from NTA said, “it is hereby clarified that while filling in online Application Form and as per the ‘Replica of Application Form’ given in Annexure VIII (page 39-40) (UGC-NET Bulletin December 2018) in the drop down box regarding ‘Identification Type’ and as also given on page 11, the Aadhaar number is only one of the types of identification and is not mandatory”.

“The note on page 11 of UGC-NET Bulletin December, 2018 clearly provides that the candidates can also enter Passport number, Ration Card number, Bank Account number or any other valid Government identity number,” it added.

NTA also stated that the online Application forms which are being filled in currently have clear instructions to enter any valid government identity number.

The registration process for both JEE Main 2019 and UGC NET 2018 are going on the official website of NTA: nta.ac.in.

IITs, IIMs to help in Higher Educational Institutes’ accredition: Javadekar

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September 10, 2018

To fast track the assessment and accreditation of Higher Educational Institutes (HEIs), the IITs and IIMs along with National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and National Board of Accreditation (NBA) will be roped in, Union Minister for Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar has said.

He said that the NAAC and NBA will be expanded and the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) will all together form an accreditation agency to expedite the process.

Currently, only 15 percent of all the higher educational institutes across the country are accredited.

“We have asked IITs and IIMs to come together and create an agency which we can use to expedite the process of accreditation,” the minister said.

Describing about the deciding factors for any institute’s accreditation, Javadekar said, “From now onwards learning outcome and quality of education will be the key parameter for determining the standard of an institute. 80 percent of the weightage for accreditation will be given on learning outcome and peer reviews, while the physical verification of the campus and infrastructure could be done through the use of satellites.”

“An institute which maintains quality will only survive and those who fail to do so will be out of business,” he added.

In August, the University Grants Commission (UGC) cleared a proposal to allow more accreditation agencies to enhance the existing capacity.

Pranab Mukherjee to teach at IIM Ahmedabad

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September 10, 2018

Former President Pranab Mukherjee is all set to serve as the faculty for new courses at the JSW School of ‘Public Policy for Inclusive Development of India’ at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA).

The new course deals with a broad overview of the interrelation between the desired end of inclusive development and the system of parliamentary democracy in India.

Students pursuing Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM), Food and Agri-Business Management (FABM) and Post Graduate Program in Management for Executives (PGPX) at IIM Ahmedabad will be attending a course called “Public Policy for Inclusive Development of India”.

For the new course, the former president will be the faculty for at least 12 out of 22 sessions.

Other sessions of the course will be handled by Professor Vijaya Sherry Chand, Chairperson of JSW School of Public Policy and Professor Anil Gupta.

The pedagogy of the course is designed to use the experiences of former President to throw light on the importance of the theory and practice of public policy for the inclusive development of India.

“During the last five decades, Shri Mukherjee has not only had a ringside view of Indian politics and governance, but has shaped many public policies and triggered off institutional innovations to execute many of these. The course provides a unique opportunity for students to learn from the deep insights that Shri Mukherjee alone can share with complete authenticity and conviction,” a statement by IIM Ahmedabad stated.

The ex-president will be delivering lectures on themes like Constitutional Provisions for Socio-economic Inclusivity: Theory and Parliamentary Practice; Policy and Institutional Intervention for Financial Inclusion: A Legacy to be Built Upon and Articulating Policy and Institutional Agenda for Future Transformation of India.

“Listening to Shri Pranab Mukherjee, our students should develop a better understanding of the politics of inclusive development,” said Prof Chand about the course.

“In a complex democratic society such as ours, technically ideal solutions to public problems have to be balanced by the management of conflicts that are inevitable when there are multiple and contradictory pulls,” he added.

Rajsthan Govt’s new scheme aims to keeps students bag free

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September 10, 2018

The Rajasthan Government has launched a new scheme – Joyful Saturday under which students of government schools will need not to carry their bags instead various recreational and learning activities would be held in schools students on second and fourth Saturday of each month.

The activities will support the students from classes 1 to 12 to improve their communication skills, creativity, critical and logical thinking.

A circular from Rajasthan School Education Council has recently been issued to all the district education officers and district coordinators of Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, informing them that the “Joyful Saturday” programme is approved.

Activities to be held in government schools will include debate, poetry recitation, storytelling, puzzle solving, display of scientific magic tricks, toy making, and arts and crafts. The activities will also improve communication skills of students by making them communicate with police, doctors, nurses, and bank staffers. Plantation works, road safety, child rights’ club activities, display of motivational videos, gender-based videos (good touch, bad touch), games, etc, will also be held under six segments of expression or communication skills — creativity, critical thinking and logic skills, community skills, social sensitivity skill and physical skills.

“Students will be divided into three batches from class 1 to 5, 6 to 8 and 9 to 12. Under the scheme, Rs 1,000 are also allocated to every school for the purchase of items required to organise the fun activities,” said the circular issued by Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan’s State Project Director Shivangi Swarnkar.

Students need to be encouraged into startup culture, says AICTE Chairman

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September 8, 2018

There is a need to bring students into startup culture and to provide them a platform where they can convert their bright ideas into innovation, said AICTE Chairman Prof Anil Sahasrabudhe while addressing a gathering at 51st annual day of the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research (NITTTR) on Friday.

Explaining about the role of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Sahasrabudhe said that the AICTE is not just a regulator but also a facilitator committed to improving the quality of technical education. “We should create a support system for students, including more internship or skill programme, to hone their skills,” he added.

Referring unemployability as one of the major problems among students in present times, he also suggested that startups can be one of the solutions to the problem. He said, “The lack of resources and unemployment are the major challenges. We should focus on startups. The AICTE has made its own startup policy through which universities and colleges along with their normal courses will start entrepreneurship courses.”

To promote innovation among students, Sahasrabudhe said that lab and research centres should be opened for 24 hours for students so that they can do research and draw their ideas.

“The Indian students have a lot of potential, we just need to identify and channelise their ideas in the right direction,” he further added.

While sharing his views on the challenges faced by technical education in the country, he appreciated the new initiatives and innovations being undertaken by NITTTR for technical teacher training to improve the quality of technical education. He assured the support of the AICTE to the institute towards qualitative improvement of technical education in the country.

JEE Main merit list to be based on percentile scores

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September 7, 2018

Joint Entrance Examination-Main (JEE-Main) 2019 merit list for admission to IITs and other engineering colleges will be based on percentile scores and not on marks. The percentile score to be used for the JEE Main will be based on the format adopted in NEET – Undergraduate MBBS entrance test.

JEE Main is the qualifying exam for the aspirants of JEE (Advanced) conducted for admission to Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). The score in JEE Main is also considered by NITs, IIITs and various other CFTIs (Centrally Funded Technical Institutions) across the country for admission to their undergraduate programmes.

In addition to this, starting 2019, the JEE (Main) will be conducted by National Testing Agency (NTA). Previously, it used to be conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Aspirants can now appear for the exam twice in a year. JEE (Main) tests to be held in January and April in multiple sessions from next year.

Ranking and Marking Process for JEE Main

All sessions will have its own NTA percentile score with the highest score as 100 percentile
An overall NTA score will be prepared by including the scores of all the sessions for a final ranking
The top-ranked candidate in the final ranking will be the 100 percentile
The tie-breaker in between any percentile rank will be the highest percentile in mathematics, physics and chemistry in that order
If scores are tied even after this, the older person will be ranked higher
Final merit list will be announced after JEE Main-II exam
For candidates who take both the cycles of the exam, the better percentile will be count in the final merit list
There is no change in pattern and difficulty level of test, candidates will have different questions

Elets’ World Education Summits: The Legacy, The Vision

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September 7, 2018

In an endeavour to enhance awareness and build knowledge-sharing platforms highlighting the growing significance of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in education, every year, Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd organises the World Education Summit (WES), Elets News Network (ENN) explores its legacy.

In a consistently expanding horizon of education and changing market scenarios, the approach and purpose of imparting education requires a fresh look at fixed intervals of time.

In this light, the World Education Summit (WES) organised by digitalLEARNING, an initiative of Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd., have emerged as quintessential platforms of knowledge-exchange and highest level of engagement in India and different parts of the world over the years.

Taking the meaning of imparting education to a new level, redefining the objectives and approaches to perceive meaning of literacy, knowledge, and skills in sync with the modern-day trends and making them relevant as per market demands, these summits today hold an unprecedented significance.

Since education’s diversified horizon is narrated in terms of preschool, school, higher education, and skill & vocational training classification, the Information Communication Technology (ICT) is influencing all, playing a key role in reinventing teaching-learning processes.

Even though the traditional chalk and talk methods have held their own significance at different stages of development, the need and reach of ICT cannot be underestimated by any breath of imagination in the present times.

Its importance is further boosted most importantly when taking education to the last-mile has also turned a collective mission of the Government and the private sector.

Every day, there are new innovations related to lecture delivery methodologies, curriculum and pedagogy. These innovations and ICT are supporting schools, colleges/universities, and skill & vocational training institutes to deliver the knowledge swiftly and precisely.

In an endeavour to highlight and deliberate upon the innovations, initiatives and best practices being followed across the globe, the 11 editions of WES held in India and abroad mainly in Dubai (UAE), Bahrain (Bahrain), Denver (US), and New Delhi — hold a distinct significance. These have enabled underlining the best happening developments on the international education landscape.

It is a matter of pride that since 2011, the WES has brought together top decision makers, edu-leaders, industry leaders, thought leaders and practitioners annually. Today, it exists as a premier international platform dedicated to innovation and creative approach in education where top decision-makers share insights with on-the-ground practitioners and collaborate to rethink concept of education.

12th World Education Summit, Delhi

The Grand Conference

World Education Summit is the congregation of some of the leading thinkers in the education world from across the world. The latest edition of World Education Summit going to be organised in Delhi will inspire one and all, making them understand the challenges and opportunities of the rapidly evolving education world through a new prism.

Over 350 inspirational speakers from india and abroad are invited to deliberate on various topics and discuss various challenges during the summit.

Expo

Ed-startups, edu-tech companies and edu-corporate will showcase their products and services. The exhibition at the summit showcases unique yet effective teaching methodologies, networking and product interactions among different sections of the education landscape. Over 70 exhibitors are like to showcase latest and the best practices in education landscape during the 12th edition of the summit.

Awards

The 12th World Education Summit Delhi 2018 aims to recognise, highlight, honour and encourage leading models/projects/ processes of excellence and sustainable innovations in preschool, school, higher education, skill & vocational training, corporate, and Government sector.

The awards will also see entrepreneurs in the education space getting recognised. The summit has, in its past too, brought to fore unique initiatives and projects that have caused a paradigm shift in the education sphere within.

The Reflection on Past

Thought Leaders from across the globe have been part of Elets initiatives since last decade. Be it India, Asia or Middle East, Africa or Europe, policymakers have attended WES and shared their vision to create a developed knowledge based society. Be it preschool, school, higher or skill & vocational education, global thought leaders from these verticals have enriched Elets conferences with their presence as well as opened up new horizons for the visionaries.

Delhi 2011

World Education Summit 2011 created history by attracting representations from over 50 countries. Thought leaders and policymakers from countries of Middle East, Africa, Europe along with India congregated together to ideate, deliberate and discuss on new technological interventions for over all development of education world over.

Delhi 2012

Elets World Education Summit 2012 created a knowledge sharing platform to discuss various aspects of ICT for education ranging from School Education to Higher Education and Technical Education. Global Leaders like Minister of Education from Mauritius and other countries participated in the premier conference on education.

Delhi 2013

Harmonising Global Efforts: Strategies for steering the education sector – Keeping this theme as focal point of discussion, WES 2013 witnessed congregation of thought leaders under one roof to discuss various issues related to education. Member of Parliament, France and key policy makers from Indian Government shared their views for creating an effective education ecosystem.

Delhi 2014

The World Education Summit 2014 was more than a conference. It built a strong community around it and provided various business and networking opportunities for education leaders and industry leaders. The dynamics of education sector was then changing rapidly world over and WES 2014 provided an opportunity to all the stakeholders to come together and deliberate, discuss and explore the horizon.

Delhi 2015

From Canada to Australia- Global leaders from the world of education came together to deliberate upon different aspects of school and higher education and skill development in WES 2015. With the presence of ministers and key policymakers from India sharing their vision on education for all, the summit also created unique platform of knowledge sharing amongst the policy makers, eduleaders and industry leaders.

Dubai 2016

The sixth WES was organised in Dubai in collaboration with Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), Dubai. It witnessed presence of 100 schools and colleges from Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. World education awards over the years have seen top innovations from education sector in private and public space get highlighted and recognised at this global platform.

Delhi 2016

The seventh WES was organised in New Delhi in collaboration with NSDC, and witnessed presence of 200 Schools and 130 Universities from India. World Education Awards over the years have seen top innovations from education sector in private and public sector. These innovations were highlighted and recognised at this global platform.

Bahrain 2017

From Dubai to Bahrain, the World Education Summit organised on 8-9 March, was more than a conference. It has a strong community around it and provided various business and networking opportunities for education leaders and industry leaders.

Denver 2017

From Dubai to Bahrain, the World Education Summit organised on 8-9 March, was more than a conference. It has a strong community around it and provided various business and networking opportunities for education leaders and industry leaders.

Delhi 2017

The World Education Summit 2017 Delhi created another knowledge sharing platform to discuss various aspects of ICT for education ranging from School Education to Higher Education and Technical Education. Global Leaders like Minister of Education from Dubai, Sri Lanka and various dignitaries from other countries participated in the premier conference on education held in the capital.

Dubai 2017

A galaxy of edu-leaders from different parts of the world recently joined Dubai’s top-notch education experts and practitioners to deliberate upon the latest innovations, practices, strategies and challenges of the educational landscape of Dubai. The occasion was 11th elets World Education Summit (WES) 2017, Dubai, which witnessed an impressive congregationof key decision-makers including education ministers, top government officials, college/university directors and vicechancellors, school owners and principals.

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