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Sex education in Bengal schools still a matter of debate

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

850 IIT B students placed in the first phase

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The first phase of placement at Indian Institute of Bombay (IIT B) will complete on December 20. Around 55% of students have already been placed. 245 companies visited the campus in the first phase of placements. The second phase will begin in the second week of January 2014. Till now, 873 students have been placed with unique offers and this number is only expected rise in the second phase of placements at the campus. Most of the computer science students have secured placements in the first phase.
Last year, around 850 candidates were placed at the end of the second phase of placements.  The batch strength then was 1,350 with 230 companies visiting campus for placements then. This year Oracle made the highest offer in the first phase followed by Samsung US/Korea , which picked around 14 students from IIT B. It is possible that same companies might visit the campus again in the second phase to pick more students. Some public sector units are also expected to visit the campus in the second phase.

New policy for technical education in West Bengal

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With the aim to create more job opportunities, the Bengal state cabinet has decided to introduce a new policy for the technical education department to have an integrated skill development programme. Under the policy, medium scale industry will come under the department of micro and small scale industry and textiles to provide more opportunities to the industries which have machinery cost upto Rs10 lakhs. The technical education department will also be renamed as technical education training and skill development department. An integrated skill development programme will be introduced to create skilled labourers in the field. The decision has also been taken to upgrade the existing technical education and training with time to create more job opportunities and also benefit the industrialists.

Chinese University to sign MoU with Panjab University

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The Henan province of China has showed interest to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh. A Chinese delegation led by Mr Hao Lijun, Deputy Director-General, the Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Henan Provincial People’s Government visited Panjab University.

Zhao Jiayu, Director of the Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Hebi City People’s Government, Henan,  Huang Xia, Director of  the Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs of Shangqiu Municipal People’s Government, and General Secretary of Henan People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Zhao Qing Shan were also part of the delegation.

The purpose of the delegate’s visit to Panjab University is to look out the best suitable universities in India, with which Henan Province could have collaboration and mutual academic co-operation which will include teachers, students exchange programme. The Chinese Delegations had a formal meeting with the Panjab University officials. The MoU has not been signed yet.

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