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Azim Premji Foundation announces fellowships for 2017-18

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The Azim Premji Foundation has announced its annual fellowship programme for the next academic session, under which monthly stipend of Rs 28,800 will be given to post-graduates in any discipline with 3-10 years of work experience.

“The two-year programme offers ground experience in educational and social space, with teaching in state-run schools and participation in our field institutes in the first year and capacity building and preparation for teaching roles in the second year,” the foundation said in a statement.

The selection criteria involves an online assessment test and personal interviews. Candidates should also be willing to relocate to the districts where the foundation operates.

The fellows can be posted in any district of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Tajasthan, Telangana and Uttarakhand after attending a two-week induction programme in Bengaluru.

“We know there are people working in organisations with a heart and mind for social change. This is an opportunity for them to know first-hand about the working environment, challenges and the satisfaction one can get while working to improve the quality and equity in school education in India,” said the not-for profit organisation’s Chief People Officer Sudheesh Venkatesh.

The foundation has been working in eight states across the country to improve quality of education in 350,000 schools.

Pratham partners with IITian’s NGO to promote girls education in India

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India’s largest educational NGO Pratham has partnered with WHEELS Global Foundation (WGF), a voluntary organisation started by an Indian Institutes of Technology alumnus in the US, to promote girls’ education in India. The two organisations will target underserved communities across five states of India.

Through this partnership, WGF will assist Pratham in enhancing its ‘Second Chance’ programme. The programme assists female school dropouts over the age of 14 in completing their secondary school education.

Under this programme, girl students will earn their 10th standard diploma through the provision of digital learning resources.

Sharing his views on the partnership with Pratham, WGF President Hiten Ghosh said, “Using digital teaching tools allows the young adults to learn at their own pace, which is important.”

WGF focuses on applying technology to uplift rural communities. It also provides technological solutions to global challenges in areas like water, health, education, energy, lifestyles, and sustainability.

Pratham has 33 centres in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan and Telangana to support female school dropouts.

The partnership will introduce digital learning solutions in five of these states.

At Pratham learning sites, students will be able to access pre-loaded Pratham content in the areas of science, maths and English as well as ‘Spoken Tutorials’ through laptops and tablets

Renu Seth, Head of Pratham’s Second Chance programme, said, “By augmenting the girls’ education programme with access to interactive and engaging digital content, we hope to provide them with a more robust learning experience and improve outcomes.”

Class 10 board exam to be reintroduced for CBSE schools: HRD Minister

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Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar has said that the Class 10 Board examinations will be reintroduced from the next academic session for students studying in schools affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).

“The decision to conduct class V and VIII board examinations will be left with the state,” Javadekar said in an informal conversation with reporters in Jaipur recently.

Javadekar added that to reintroduce Class 5 and 8 Board examinations, respective state governments will be authorised to take the decision. A proposal regarding this will be presented in the Cabinet and then in the Parliament.

He said the HRD Ministry is focusing mainly on improving the quality of school education, specifically of government schools.

He praised initiatives taken by the Rajasthan government in improving the quality of education in government schools. He also said that government schools were called “Bimaru” 25 years ago.

He also informed that enrolment in government schools in Rajasthan has increased by 15 lakh where Utkarsh Adarsh schools have been opened at panchayat level

President honours 42 kids on Children’s Day

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The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee addressing the Nation on the eve of the 64th Republic Day, in New Delhi on January 25, 2013.

President Pranab Mukherjee presented 42 awards on the eve of Children’s Day, acknowledging various projects undertaken by kids from across the country. The President also awarded various child welfare institutions for their exceptional achievements on the occasion.

The awards were divided in three categories — National Child Awards for Exceptional Achievements, National Awards for Child Welfare and Rajiv Gandhi Manav Seva Award. The recipients were categorised as paralympics swimmer, a chess player, an equestrian, students with keen interest in music and those with several technological innovations under their belt.

Shubhendu Kumar Sahu from Odisha was awarded National Child Award for ‘Exceptional Achievement’ on November 14 at Rashtrapati Bhawan. The boy recently made it to the zonal-level science exhibition held in Kolkata for his science project, ‘Gift for Farmers’. He was also ranked first in a state-level creative writing competition organised in Bhubaneswar last year.

In the award ceremony, all deserving candidates were given a gift cheque along with a medal.

PSUs make a beeline to recruit from IITs after two years

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Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) have returned to IITs after the Madras High Court lift a two-year-old recruitment ban that was ordered to provide a level-playing field to students from other engineering institutes eyeing PSU jobs.

Out of 300 companies registered so far at IIT Bombay for placement, six are PSUs, sources said. At IIT Madras, of the 263 companies registered four were PSUs. IIT Roorkee, too, saw five PSUs approaching its placement cell with request for facilitating recruitmentments.

Even as the number of start-ups coming for placements has dropped this year, core companies seemed to be flocking to the premier institutes for placements.

“A few new core companies such as Vedanta Group, Toyo Engineering, Faurecia, etc, and some new FMCG recruiters are expected to come this year,” said Tom Mathew, Professor In-charge of placements at IIT-Bombay.

“There is an increase in companies visiting for core profiles. Major recruiters include Schlumberger, RB, Bajaj Motors etc,” Bansal said.

Niti Aayog organises workshop on SEQI

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The Central government think-tank Niti Aayog recently conducted the first regional workshop on School Education Quality Index (SEQI) with an aim to improve the learning outcomes among school children.

The workshop was organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) with the vision of putting more emphasis on outcomes rather than inputs, providing objective benchmarks for improvements, encouraging state-led innovations and sharing of best practices.

Senior education functionaries from Delhi, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir and Chandigarh participated in the workshop.

Representatives from NUEPA, NCERT, NCTE and other autonomous institutions have also attended the workshop. Revealing its future plans, the Aayog said that it will organize such kind of workshops for all States in different centers across India in coming weeks.

SEQI is designed by Niti Aayog and the HRD Ministry as a composite index to report state wise annual improvements stats on key domains of education quality.

CBSE to scrap re-evaluation of answer sheet rule

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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will not allow the students of its affiliated schools to get their answer sheets re-examined after the upcoming Class 10 and 12 exams, the board of school education has announced.

The amendment was made by the board after a student challenged the re-evaluation policy in court. As per the amendment, CBSE will do away with the practice of re-evaluation of answer sheets and will only allow verification of marks.

The practice of re-evaluating the answer sheets was started in 2014. Under the system, if a student of Class 12 is not satisfied with his or her marks, the board provides re-evaluation facility for 10 of the roughly 250 subjects.

According to the notification uploaded on board’s website, rule 61 (iv) “for Senior School Certificate (Class 12) examination may also apply for re-evaluation in a manner prescribed by the board from time to time” has been revised to “no candidate shall claim or be entitled to revaluation of his/her answer book(s)”.

As per the notification, the rules have been changed as per the recommendations given by the examination committee after its meeting on May 13 and approval by the governing body on June 29.

In August, a student approached the Delhi High Court with a petition that the board is against the re-evaluation of his answer sheet of political science, even though verification of the answer sheet revealed mistakes. After that the court had directed the CBSE to re-evaluate the answer sheet.

Indian universities should aspire to be among top 100 globally: Modi

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made an appeal to Indian universities to aspire to be among the top 100 global universities, as he ensured special economic assistance to them to reach this goal.

Addressing the public on the occasion of the centenary celebrations of Karnataka Lingayat Education Society (KLES) at Belagavi recently, Modi said he felt “ashamed” as there is no Indian university among the world’s top 100 universities.

“I invite 10 public and 10 private universities to come forward and take a pledge to make a place for themselves in the top 100 universities of the world. Those who will come forward will get special economic assistance. They will be given relaxation from seeking various approvals. There will be an open field for them,” he said.

“Research and innovation are vital for us. In the 21st century, the youth will take India to new heights. For this, we need skilled youth,” he tweeted later.

In order to help 10 public and 10 private institutions to emerge as world-class teaching institutions, the Central government had promised to enable regulatory architecture at the time of announcement of Union Budget earlier this year. Rs 1,000 crore was set aside for higher education financing in the budget.

MPs suggested making education free and compulsory under New Education Policy

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Member of Parliament (MPs) have suggested that the Human Resource Development Ministry should make education free and compulsory up to Class 12 under the New Education Policy.

In a discussion with the ministry, MPs have also suggested that more emphasise should be put on skill-based learning and the needs of rural India be made a focus area. It has been learnt that the ministry may hold another such consultation with more MPs.

Later, addressing an event, Prakash Javadekar, HRD Minister said that during consultation, 40 parliamentarians expressed their views and some of them gave their suggestions in writing too.

The HRD Minister has also told parliamentarians that the draft of the committee led by T S R Subramanian is not final. The government will appoint a new committee “headed by an educationist” to draft the New Education Policy.

The discussion was initiated by Shashi Tharoor of the Congress and Satyanarain Jatiya of the BJP, C P Narayanan of the CPI(M), Dhananjay Mahadik of the NCP, oDerek O Brien of the TMC and Hussain Dalwai of the Congress party were also present during the discussion.

“Javadekar provided the members with suggestions from time to time and also took suggestions. He also explained that the draft is not ready yet and the suggestions would be considered,” a source said.

The MPs also suggested installing CCTVs in schools and colleges to make them more secure.

Chandrababu Naidu: Educational institutions need to have innovation chapters

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“Every high school should have an innovation chapter; every university should have an innovation chapter. What is innovation, what we are doing differently,” Naidu said.

Supporting his statement he added that from the largest IT companies to service provider giants, the companies have got their current status only due to innovation in their respective sectors.

He said innovations like utilising power infrastructure to carry fibre lines is applied by the state government to reduce costs.

The Andhra Pradesh CM said that in order to improve student faculty ratio (SFR) in higher education, the state government has taken steps like establishing premier national institutes and attracting private sector investments into higher education sector.

“Besides this, we have setup a 25-member State Knowledge Advisory Board with eminent educators, industrialist and academicians from across the globe to help formulate and implement a road map for higher education in the state,” he added

Naidu was addressing an event organised by FICCI.

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