Government receives 100 applications for World Class University tag

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December 13, 2017

The Central Government has received 100 applications for the Ministry of Human Resource Development’s ambitious project of setting up/upgrading 20 world class institutions in India.

“Overwhelming response to the idea of Institutions of Eminence, which will become World Class Universities, is a validation of the vision of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi for improving the quality of Higher Education in India”, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said.

The Government had approved the enabling regulatory architecture for of 10 public and 10 private Institutions of Eminence so as to enable them to reach amongst top 100 of world institutions ranking.

Under public sector, 10 Central Universities, 25 State Universities, six Deemed to be Universities, 20 Institutions of National Importance and six Standalone Institutions have applied. Under Private Sector, 9 Private Universities and 16 Deemed to be Universities have applied in brownfield category and 8 Institutions have applied in greenfield category.

“All lovers of education will welcome this development. This is how World Class Universities were built in various countries. The same thing will happen in India”, Shri Javadekar said, adding that “the selection of Institutions of Eminence will not only improve the quality of education, but also propel competition in the entire education sector,” Javadekar added.

The 20 institutions selected as “Institutions of Eminence” will have freedom to choose their own path to become world class institutions. “They will be provided with greater autonomy to admit up to 30 per cent foreign students, to recruit up to 25 per cent foreign faculty, to offer online courses up to 20 per cent of its programmes, to enter into academic collaboration with top 500 in the world ranking institutions without permission of the UGC,” a senior HRD Ministry official said.

No job offers for 80% of students in B-schools: Assocham

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December 12, 2017

Around 80 per cent of the students in the business schools are not getting jobs. The current placement year seems the most challenging one in recent times for Indian business schools, reveals Assocham.

According to the The Associated Chambers of Commerce of India, demonetisation, lacklustre business sentiment and stalling of new projects, are the reasons of job opportunities for business school (B-school) students are drying on.

The campus hiring in B-schools of India has gone down severely (around 30 per cent) this than last year.

“The salary packages which are offered at B-schools and engineering colleges are also being curtailed by 40-45 per cent as compared to last year,” Assocham said.

The Assocham Education Council (AEC) said, “Many parents and students are re-thinking on investing three-four years and several lakhs in a course.”

Lack of student enrollment in B-schools has made over 400 institutions defunct, said the chamber.

As per the findings of the report, a large number of B-schools and engineering colleges are not able to attract students that caused over 250 B-schools to closed down since 2015 in major cities including Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Dehradun etc. Another 99 are struggling for their survival, the report added.

“The biggest reason for the gap is the rapid mushrooming of tier-2 and tier-3 management educational institutes that have unfortunately not been matched by the uplift in the quality of management education,” said the chamber.

Suggesting the solutions to the problem, the Assocham stated to improve the infrastructure, train their faculty, work on industry linkages, and spend money on research and knowledge creation and making students employable rather than employed.

Indian parents keen to send their children study abroad: HSBC Study

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December 12, 2017

Indian parents’ wish to make their children study abroad has shown a jump of around 15 per cent, a report of HSBC claims.

HSBC’s report – Value of Education, Higher and Higher revealed that the number of Indian parents wanting their children to study abroad has jumped from 47% in 2016 to 62% in 2017.

After the United Arab Emirates (UAE), India ranked second in the list of 15 countries where parents were surveyed. The 15 countries include: India, China, Australia, Canada, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States.

The US, Australia and UK, are the top three foreign destinations where Indian parents want their children to study. Parents in China also prefer the destinations in the same order.

Over 8,000 parents have participated in the study of which 42 per cent would consider their wards to study abroad, compared to 35% in 2016. 82% Indian parents would even consider an online university degree for their children.

The trend has seen a big percentage-point (pp) increase from the last year among the parents of Asian countries: India (62%, +15pp), Indonesia (61% +1pp), China (59%, +15pp), Malaysia (51%, +8pp), and Singapore (47%, +4pp).

Around half of these parents (47%) would consider their child to study in the universities of the US, making it the most popular choice overall. The US is the most favoured destination for parents in Taiwan (70%) followed by China (61%) and Canada (61%).

The second most popular choice is Australia (40%) and is the most favoured country for parents in Malaysia (67%), Indonesia (65%) and Singapore (63%).

Third most favoured destination (39%) is UK and is the top destination for parents in Hong Kong (67%), France (52%) and the UAE (48%).

Mental Health Project to benefit over 2 Cr students with learning disabilities

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December 11, 2017

Rupantar – A comprehensive mental health project christened to upskill the teachers of the government schools has been launched by the Sri Aurobindo Society. The project has been initiated aiming to create and provide students with uniform opportunity for education.

For the very first time, the project has been launched in South India. The project is already being implemented in all districts of Uttar Pradesh, engaging more than four lakh teachers and 1.7 lakh schools. Interestingly, the project will eventually benefit more than two crore children of the state of whom more than 70% are in rural areas.

Speaking on the initiative, Pradeep Narang, Chairman of Sri Aurobindo Society stated, “For the last decade or so, we have been on a quest for providing children with an equal opportunity for education. The Sri Aurobindo Society has introduced its comprehensive mental health education program for government schools in Puducherry. In South India, this project will be the first of its kind.”

With such initiative, society seeks to address the growing health, behavioural and other mental health needs of students.

The main objective of the project is to establish an education system that is based on deeper human values and empower children to be life-long learners and fulfilled and happy beings highlighted Narang.

He also said, “Its approach is to harness the potential of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship to develop scalable, sustainable solutions focusing on refining the existing processes rather than creating altogether new systems.”

Now, an app to provide free content to Marathi medium students

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December 11, 2017

Maharashtra Education Minister Vinod Tawde has launched Global Education Trust’s “Robomate+ Education App”. The app will provide digital lessons on SSC coursework for Marathi medium class 100 students free of cost.

The app is for the students of class 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, and 12th of Maharashtra State Board. The minister was impressed with the App and highlighted its features and advantages in a very lucid manner.

Launching of app is a step towards fulfilling the Government’s promise of providing quality education to each child in Maharashtra to strengthen the education system of the system.

Teachers and Students of Marathi Medium can now access online video lectures and tests – anytime and anywhere – at no cost. This initiative has been taken by Global Education Trust to help the underprivileged students who usually do not have access to quality education to secure high marks.

Global Education Trust (GET) is a charitable with a mission is to make available good quality education to each & every student. The trust is engaged in imparting education in Maharashtra, Assam, Punjab, Gujarat and Karnataka.

Delhi Government to provide free entrance coaching to SC/ST students

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December 11, 2017

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has launched a scheme last week to provide free entrance coaching for Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) students preparing for civil services, judicial services, banking, engineering, medicine, and other competitive examinations.

Under the “Jai Bhim Mukhyamantri Pratibha Viskas Yojana”, the State Government through renowned coaching institutions will provide free coaching to SC/ST students to qualify various entrance exams.

Initially, the project will assist 100 students that will be extended to 5,000 students.

Students will be provided help on the basis of their family income. Students with family income up to Rs 2 lakh will get 100 per cent assistance, while students with families’ income of Rs 2-6 lakh will get 75 per cent assistance.

Monthly stipend of Rs 2,500 will also be provided by the State Government apart from the free coaching.

Launching the scheme, Kejriwal said the government is “translating dreams of Baba Saheb into action by making education accessible and available to poor, SC/STs, OBCs, minorities and other vulnerable sections of the society”.

UP Government’s draft bill to regulate fee in state’s private schools

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December 9, 2017

Uttar Pradesh Government has unveiled a draft of “Self-financed Independent Schools (Regulation of fees) Bill-2017”, with an objective to regulate private schools’ annual fee.

The bill will make it mandatory for all the private schools to submit their fee statement online by December 31 every year. The government will also track the fee structure and provide relief to students.

“The draft bill proposes Rs 1 lakh penalty on schools flouting provisions for the first time, Rs 5 lakh for the second and de-recognition in case they do the same for the third time”, said Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma.

“The aim is that there should not be any capitation fee and that the admission fee is not charged every year, and is charged only in class VI, class IX and class XI,” Sharma said.

“For the last six months, we have been studying the fee determination proposals and objections raised in states such as Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi and Tamil Nadu. We have consulted parents’ associations, roped in experts from the Union HRD Ministry and also studied Supreme Court guidelines before coming out with this draft bill,” he added.

The government will be open to suggestions regarding the bill till December 22, following which it will be sent to the Assembly. The Act will include all the schools of Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Board, CBSE, ICSE and minority schools up to Class XII.

The bill may be implemented in the next academic session which depends on the suggestions and objections raised on the state government portal.

CISCE drops pass percentage for ICSE and ISC board exams

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December 9, 2017

Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has announced to drop minimum pass percentage for the ICSE and ISC Board exams.

As per the new rule, pass percentage for ICSE class 10 board exam will be 33 per cent and 35% for ISC class 12 board exam , it will be 35 per cent. The changes will be implemented from the academic year 2018-19.

CISCE in its notification said, “The objective of this is to bring about a close conformity with other Boards in the country.”

In an official letter addressed to the heads of all council affiliated schools, CISCE Chief Executive Officer and Secretary Gerry Arathoon has asked to implement the revised pass mark in the Internal examination as well from the academic year 2018-2019 onwards.

“There is a need to have same pass mark criteria among all boards in the country. The new changes are expected to bring about a close uniformity with other Boards in the country,” said Arathoon.

“There are a number of states going for assembly polls during the exam time. Therefore, we are waiting for the EC to declare the poll dates so that we can release our dates accordingly,” Arathoon said.

AICTE’s new ruling to bring transparency in fee charged by technical colleges

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December 9, 2017

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has asked all the technical institutions to publish complete details list of fees on their respective websites.

The step is supposed to bring transparency so that no student is duped and the colleges will not be able to charge students for any other costs. Colleges failed to adhere to the new rule, will be fined double the total fees collected per student by AICTE. In addition to this new rule, the council is likely to suspend approval for NRI and supernumerary seats given to any institution for an academic year.

The new rule also states that the institutes affiliated to AICTE are not allowed to have names in a way that the abbreviated form of their name matches the country’s premier institutes such as IIM, IIT, IISc, NIT or government bodies such as AICTE, UGC, MHRD, GoI.

The notification issued by the council, reads, “The applicant shall also not use the word(s) Government, India, Indian, National, All India, All India Council, Commission anywhere in the name of the Technical Institution and other names as prohibited under the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use), Act, 1950.” The notification also extends to foreign universities/institutions operating in India by opening their own centres or having entered into partnerships with domestic institutions.

According to a senior official, the purpose of this rule is to avoid confusion. He also added that the naming of institutes in similar lines that of the country’s premier institutes is often done to mislead students and to get more admissions.

Unemployment in India

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December 8, 2017

Unemployment is one of the major problems of India. Exploring the current situation of unemployment in the country, Dr Veni Nair, Assistant Director, ITM Business School, Navi Mumbai, also observes the reason of unemployment in the country for Elets News Network (ENN).

Unemployment is a situation where in the person willing to work fails to find a job that earns him/her a living. Unemployment has been considered as one of the biggest problems of India. A UN Labour report released in January reports that “Unemployment in India is projected to increase from 17.7 million last year to 17.8 million in 2017 and 18 million next year. In percentage terms, unemployment rate will remain at 3.4 per cent in 2017-18. It is impossible to imagine a better India with such a big number of unemployed youth in the country.

The reasons for this Unemployment scenario are: high population, defective education system, excessive burden on agriculture, low productivity in agriculture sector combined with lack of alternative opportunities for agricultural worker, unskilled workforce etc. Though education level in the recent years has improved, skill development is still a crucial issue. India has the largest population of youth in the world. Around 65 per cent population of India is under the age of 35, so the impact of declining financial market and the lack of job opportunities has the worst effect in India.

Apart from the usual solutions of controlling the rising population or increasing the quality of our education to include skill based learning. Governmen should also encourage and develop Industrialisation and agriculture based industries especially in rural areas so that the rural candidates don’t migrate to the urban areas.

But the best solution to the problem of unemployment is encouraging entrepreneurship among the youth of country. Entrepreneurs generate employments to many in a country. They also promote capital formation and employ resources leading to add the value to a specific industry. They don’t let wealth concentrate in a few hands, there is more equity in the distribution of wealth.

Since 65 per cent of the population is below 35 in age, and if this young population would get into entrepreneurship, then more than half of unemployed population of India will get employed. So, I would like to conclude that entrepreneurship not only creates wealth creating but jobs too.

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