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Kumaon University opens cancer biology department

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To promote research in cancer therapy using medicinal herb, the Kumaon University of Uttarakhand in collaboration with US’ Rosewell Park Cancer Institute will set up a cancer biology department.

According to an official, this idea was endorsed by the chief secretary Subhash Kumar in order to utilize the medicinal herbs found in the hill state of Uttarakhand to fight the killer disease.

A presentation in this regard was made at the chief secretary’s office by the university. It said that research activities in cancer therapy at the university would be carried out with the help of USA’s Rosewell Park Cancer Institute which is popularly known for its achievement in the field of cancer therapy.

28 percent high school dropout rate in Goa

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Goa, being the small state in the country still does not show an impressive growth in the education sector. According to the planning commission’s data, the state ranks seventh among the other states and union territories of India. It has a dropout rate of 28 percent from class 1 to 10

Other states like Haryana and Uttar Pradesh have less dropout rate of 19 percent and 24 percent respectively as compared to Goa. Puducherry exhibits the best figure with just 6 percent school dropouts.

The statistics of the Planning Commission is based on the data of 2010-11. It is expected that there will be an improvement in Goa’s dropout rate with the Right to Education’s no-fail policy introduced in 2010 that prevents detention of students up to class eight.

India gives 200 Nepalese students scholarship

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In order to boost the human resource development in Nepal, the Indian government has provided scholarships to 200 Nepalese students on merit basis.

In a function orgainsed in Nepal, the Nepal’s Education Minister Chitralekha Yadav and Indian Ambassador to Nepal Ranjit Rao jointly handed the certificate of merit along with the scholarship amount to the 12th batch of the Golden Jubilee Scholarship recipients. This scheme was launched by the Indian government in 2002 to observe the 50th year of Economic Cooperation between India and Nepal. In the beginning, the number of scholarships was 50, which increased to 100 in 2007 and from 2012, the number has doubled to 200.

 

Dual accreditation must for tech institutes

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Dual accreditation has become mandatory for institutes in Maharashtra offering courses in engineering, pharmacy, hotel management etc. According to new UGC regulations, such institutes will have to get an approval from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). On the other hand the programmes offered by them have to be approved by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA).

According to these regulations, the process of approval which was earlier done by the AICTE, has been merged with the affiliation process and will be done by the universities. An official stated that, the state can now control the mushrooming of colleges and the excess seats in these institutes which go vacant every year.

Senior officials are doubtful about the level of transparency over the implementation of the new policy. An official said that, the AICTE’s approval process was online and was transparent, but now it will be difficult to monitor applications with individual universities having their own independent processes

Only ten new engineering colleges open in Tamil Nadu this year

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This year, there may be fewer new engineering colleges as well as a possible reduction of seats in Tamil Nadu ahead of the admission season. Sources say Anna University has received only six inquiries for the approval process this year, of which, four or five colleges had applied last year as well but could not get approval because they lacked some requirement. Only 10 colleges have shown interest before the deadline of May 15 for finalising the new colleges.

Since UGC took over charge of technical institutions, college managements have had to send their applications to the university for approval and affiliation, giving rise to confusion whether AICTE or UGC would approve the new colleges. This has delayed the process further.

E.Balaguruswamy, Vice Chancellor of Anna University said that the reduction in seats intake or closure of engineering colleges that were not doing well is not a bad thing for the students. He also added that the government and university should evaluate the status of the engineering colleges and dig out the poor performers.

IIT-Gandhinagar plans a new lab on carbon dating

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IIT Gandhinagar plans to set a new lab for carbon dating. A centre for archeological science has already been set up in the institute and it will see a multi disciplinary approach to archeology, along with the establishment of a carbon dating lab.

Dr Sudhir Jain, director, IIT-Gn stated that in order to understand the heritage and roots of the country better, science and technology will be used. The centre will focus on application of archeological sciences through a number of disciplines, like civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical and material engineering and metallurgy. The Archeological Survey of India (ASI) is funding the laboratory, which will use modern chemical analysis and carbon dating tools to determine the age of artefacts from other parts of the country.

Carbon dating is a radiometric dating technique that uses the decay of carbon-14 to determine the age of organic materials like wood, leather etc as old as 58,000 to 62,000 years. The date of one such sample costs around Rs 58,000 – Rs 60,000 but Dr Jain said that they intend to do it free or at a nominal fee in order to make this science available to maximum number of people in the country.

Schools with overstaffed teachers to be transferred

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Teachers from overstaffed government schools in Uttarakhand will be transferred to the ones suffering from shortage of teachers, the state government said.

Chief Secretary Subhash Kumar has sought a district-wise list of government schools from the education department of the number of teaching staff in each school.

Addressing the executive committee meeting of Uttarakhand Education For All Board, Kumar stated that strict action will be taken against the teachers who are not regular to school and get their work done by other teachers. He also said that FIRs will be registered against the teachers found guilty in this case.

The Chief Secretary also approved a fund of Rs 786 crore for the 2014-15 Annual Plan, in the education sector.

Delhi High Court not to lift its stay on nursery admissions

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The Delhi High Court has refused to lift its stay on the nursery admission process. After hearing the various stakeholders, the division bench consisting of acting Chief Justice BD Ahmed and Justice S Mridul, extended its interim stay till April 2, 2014.

The court also directed the Directorate of Education to ensure the rights of children who could have secured admission in the inter-state transfer category but are facing uncertainty due to its dismissal. It also asked the DoE to update its website with details related to the earlier draw of admissions conducted.

Earlier, the HC had rejected the data provided by DoE related to nursery admissions in unaided recognised private schools. According to the guidelines, out of 100, 70 points are given to kids who reside within 8 km radius of a school. Twenty points are given to children whose sibling is studying in the same school and five points for children of alumni.

INA signs MoU with IIT Madras

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The Indian Naval Academy (INA), Ezhimala has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) with the aim of collaborating together for academics and research in the areas of mutual interest, exchange of academic information, scholarly information, materials and publications.

The MoU signed earlier this week in Chennai will also facilitate the cadets and students of both the institutions to participate in project competitions, faculty exchange programmes, sponsorship of cooperative seminars, workshops, etc and facilitate faculty development programmes.

Professor Bhaskar Ramamurthy, director of IIT Madras, said that the IIT Madras engages in interactions with society, organizations and industry through a variety of outreach programmes.

Vice admiral Ajit Kumar P, commandant, INA while thanking the director, said the Indian Naval Academy, which is already the largest Naval Academy in Asia, and aims to become the best Academy of its kind in the region, would benefit immensely from the IIT Madras which has a rich experience and legacy of more than five decades.

The INA had earlier signed a MoU with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and also Govt Engineering College Kannur (GECK) at Mangattuparamba, to collaborate together at the academic level.

UGC confers college of excellence award on four colleges

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The University Grants Commission has selected four Jesuit colleges — Loyola – Chennai, St Joseph’s-Bangalore, St Xavier’s-Kolkata and St Xavier’s-Mumbai — for the college of excellence award. The award comes with a grant of Rs two crore to be spent over five years for specific purposes.

The University Grants Commission began conferring on colleges the Potential for Excellence award about a decade ago. Two hundred of the 30,000 colleges in India were selected for this award, which included generous funding for infrastructure and educational upgradation.

St Xavier’s College – Mumbai was granted this award in 2006 and has received about Rs 2.5 crore in funding over 8 years. Some months ago, the UGC announced a sequel, “The College of Excellence (CE)” award.

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