Unrecognised schools under education department’s scanner

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December 20, 2013

The state department of elementary education in Coimbatore issued notices to around 68 nursery and primary schools running without mandatory state recognition.
The schools have been asked to get various certificates required to run a school. If they fail to meet the conditions mandated by the government by the end of this academic year, they will be directed to close down.
Certifications needed to run a school includes stability certificate, fire and safety certificate as well as certificates from the department of health and the city corporation. Another important condition is the minimum land required to run a school. Schools in corporation limits must have a minimum of 33 cents, in municipality areas 55 cents, town panchayat an acre and village panchayats three acre to be free to function.

At the start of the current academic year, around 30 schools were forced to shut down citing similar reasons which had an adverse affect on students as many had found it difficult to get admissions in other schools. A similar situation is feared to arise if the schools under the scanner fail to submit the required certifications.

CBSE to conduct ‘Science Exhibition 2014’

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December 20, 2013

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is going to organize its Regional and National Level Science Exhibition in the month of July, 2014.
CBSE’s main objective behind this exhibition is to provide a common platform to schools, teachers and students to give shape to their innovative ideas and to offer a creative forum for the students to pursue their natural curiosity, innovation and inventiveness. These exhibitions also try to be a medium for popularizing science and increase awareness among the stakeholders about the close relationship between science, technology and the society. This year’s main theme is ‘Science and Mathematical Innovations’ with sub themes being agriculture, energy, health, environment and resources.
Apart from organizing the science exhibitions at regional and national level every year, CBSE has taken on a number of other initiatives in order to impart interactive, participatory, hands-on, innovative and creative learning experiences to its students.

J&K class 10th results out: Girls vanquished boys

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December 20, 2013

Jammu and Kashmir girls excelled boys in the class 10th examinations, securing 70 percent of the first 20 ranks.
269 students made it to the first 20 positions out of which 186 were girls. The first 10 positions were acquired by 55 girls out of a sum of 68 students.
Kauser Jan, a student of Iqbal Memorial School (IMI), Bemina was declared the topper with a whopping score of 99 percent with the second position being shared by three students scoring 98.8 percent.
Around 31,130 students (70.58 percent) passed the examination. 26,511 boys and 22,847 girls passed out of the total 49,358 students enrolled with the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education.
Though the girls made the cut, the pass percentage of boys this year too remained high with 73.82 percent.

Sex education in Bengal schools still a matter of debate

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December 20, 2013

Study of sex education in the state-run schools of West Bengal is still a matter of debate. The state education ministry is still in the process of collecting views of various educationists and stakeholders on the matter.

Last year, the Council of Boards of School Education in India (Cobse) had proposed the inclusion of adolescent education as part of the syllabus from classes 8 to 12. A few years back, the previous Left Front government in the state had introduced teaching of sex education under the name of lifestyle education. But it proved to be a failure with reluctant teachers utilising the lifestyle education classes for finishing the syllabus in other subjects. Therefore, the present state education minister wants to consult all the stakeholders before implementing sex education in the state-run schools.

HRD and Prasar Bharati to start 50 education channels next year

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December 20, 2013

Human Resource and Development (HRD) ministry along with the public broadcaster Prasar Bharati are planning to start 50 educational channels from May 1, 2014. This would enable students to hear lectures and interact with the academicians on TV.
The channels would gradually be increased from 50 to 1000 and has the potential to be viewed on 167 million TV sets which would be beneficial to 67 percent population of the country. The agreement, for this one of its kind project, was signed between Prasar Bharati CEO, Jawhar Sircar and HRD secretary Ashok Thakur. As per the agreement, Prasar Bharati, the public broadcaster, will provide expertise in carrying the channels on a DTH platform and the ministry would focus on providing content of the programmes.
The channels would run structured programmes the content for which will come from institutions like IITs, IGNOU, State Open Universities, Central Universities, NITs and others. Each channel will have live telecast of 9 hours a day which will be repeated for the next 15 hours. The channels will cover almost all the curriculum based content which is being taught in the universities and colleges. The content would also be available on internet. The channels will carry Doordarshan logo and will have to be accessed through Set Top Box.

Private schools slam nursery entry norms

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December 20, 2013

Criticizing the new guidelines for nursery admissions, the private schools of Delhi have decided to draft a letter to the Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung demanding modifications in the guidelines.
Delhi’s private schools are left with bitter taste in mouth due to the new guidelines for nursery admissions whereby all the private schools would follow a common criterion for admissions. With the doing away of management quota which carried 20% weightage, the schools are now left with no significant say on admissions.
Private schools associations across Delhi complain of drastic changes been made to the admission process without any former discussion with them. The new guidelines further ignore a 2002 Supreme Court judgment that says private institutions which do not receive any financial grant from the government must be allowed a certain amount of freedom in the matter of admission and fees.
The new guidelines include selection will be based on criteria including the neighbourhood where a child lives, and whether they have a sibling studying in the school. Especially the ‘neighbourhood’ criterion which allots 70 points to kids living within the radius of 6kms from the school has not gone down too well with the parents, as many believe that a more dissected system of grading could have been better in a city like Delhi, than allotting a fixed 70%.
Parents with a single boy child find the 5% quota for girls adding to the woes.

Protest for free education to girls

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December 19, 2013

Demanding immediate implementation of government’s decision on free education for girl students in junior college, workers of Chhatrabharti Maharashtra protested outside the district collectorate’s office in Nashik.
The vice-president of Chhatrabharti Maharashtra presented a memorandum to the district collector with the grievance that in spite of the promise of free education to girls, colleges are charging hefty fees. The memorandum also stated that an amount of Rs 1,500 is being collected as development fee despite the government order that no fees should be collected except the tuition and examination fees. Chhatrabharti Maharashtra has also warned that the demonstrations will continue to take place if their demands are not met.

Free education till elementary level for J&K students

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December 19, 2013

According to the new law drafted in Jammu and Kashmir, every child in the age group of four to fourteen years will have the right to free and compulsory education till the competition of elementary education.
The state education department is ready with the draft of the law which would soon be presented before the cabinet for approval. The law drafted by the state goes beyond the provisions given by the centre. It has made special provisions for children from the weaker sections of the society. Steps have also been taken to upgrade the education infrastructure in the area for rural students. Setting up a college is also on the anvil.

Odisha government forms sexual harassment cell in education department

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December 19, 2013

The Odisha government has constituted a state level sexual harassment cell in the higher education department. The cell would investigate allegations of sexual harassment in government, government-aided and self financed colleges of the state. The Director of Text Book Bureau, Nibedita Jena has been appointed as the Chairman of the cell. The cell would look into allegations related to sexual harassment and would recommend the principal secretary to take stringent action against the culprit if found guilty. This move by the government comes in the wake of the recent complaint of sexual harassment by a student against the management of Saikrupa residential college in Dhenkanal. The government has served show-cause notice on the college management and has also asked Regional Director of Education, Bhubaneswar, to submit a report after conducting a spot inquiry.

One year mandatory rural posting for MBBS doctors from 2015-16

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December 19, 2013

MBBS students applying for admissions to post-graduate medical courses for the academic year 2015-2016 have to undergo one year compulsory rural posting at Public Health Centres (PHC). This was stated by Ghulam Nabi Azad, minister of health and family welfare, in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha on 18 December. The decision aims to tackle the problem of scarcity of doctors in the country and the decline in number of Primary Health Centres. As of March 2012, there is a shortfall of 3,459 surgeons, 3,005 obstetricians and gynecologists, 3,667 physicians, 3,270 pediatricians and a total of 13,477 specialists in the community health centers across the country. The regulation comes into effect after the proposal of Medical Council of India (MCI) to amend the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000.

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