No more! No more multiple runs to the examination centres for the engineering aspirants in Bihar willing to get admission in government colleges. After NEET (national eligibility-cum-entrance test) for medical admissions, now the Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board has declared to conduct a Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) regulated under[Read More…]
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UPTET 2018 last day: Fee payment for online registration closes today at 6 pm; here’s direct link
UPTET 2018: Uttar Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test closes its registration, but the fee can be paid till today, October 8, 2018 06:00 pm. However, the official website of Uttar Pradesh Basic Education Board (UPBEB)- upbasiceduboard.com is facing some technical issues and is not loading since yesterday. The pioneering online traffic[Read More…]
RRB Group D 2018: Admit Cards for October 10 to release today; here’s how to download
RRB Group D 2018: The Railway Recruitment Board is releasing the admit cards for the October 10 exams today on their official website www.indianrailways.gov.in. The admit card will have all the details including examination date, city, and centre. It is compulsory for the candidates to carry their RRB Group D[Read More…]
UPTET 2018 online registration date extended till October 7
Uttar Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test (UPTET) 2018 online application last date is extended. Now the candidates can apply and submit their application till October 07. Special Secretary from the Department of Basic Education has issued an order of extension to apply for the test. The willing candidates who are yet[Read More…]
Selfie Trends: Govt institutions adopt selfie vogue to mark teachers’, doctors’ attendance
Expanding its usage, selfie trends has crept into many government sectors including hospitals, schools in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. After a school in Uttar Pradesh, now doctors in Munger district of Bihar have also been asked to submit their selfie to mark attendance. Making the best use of technology in[Read More…]
Delhi police detain teenager for hacking UPSC website
Delhi police finally get hold of a 17-year-old teenager who hacked the official website of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on September 27. The website upsc.gov.in was hacked on September 10 for few hours and as a result, the homepage started to display the image of popular cartoon character[Read More…]
Education remains a distant dream for students with disabilities in Tamil Nadu govt schools
To utmost contentment for Dev Nath and his parents, the teenager had passed his class 10th exams with flying colours. He was on cloud nine because he had scored 84 marks in Science while his teachers told him that he cannot pass and that he was a bad student. The[Read More…]
Delhi University collects Rs 3 cr in revaluation fees, CIC asks to bring answer-sheets under RTI
The Delhi University earned over Rs 3 crore in fees paid by students for either revaluation or rechecking their answer-sheets and for providing photocopies of answer-sheets to them between 2015-16 and 2017-18, an RTI has revealed. According to the information provided by the university, it earned Rs 2,89,12,310 for revaluation alone between[Read More…]
Global effort on girls’ education defeating Taliban’s purpose: Malala
Taliban’s efforts to keep girls away from education in Pakistan was defeated by their very action of shooting her, says Malala Yousafzai, the world’s youngest Nobel laureate. “The result is that today millions of people all over the world are speaking out” and taking action against keeping young girls away[Read More…]
IITs in Delhi, Mumbai to be free to decide on hiring, courses and fee structure
Indian Institutes of Technology in Delhi and Mumbai is all set to enjoy the freedom of taking decisions on the recruitment, course structure and fee structure on its own. The government granted the Institution of Eminence (IoE) status to IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay on July 09, last month. As[Read More…]
595 principal posts in Delhi government school go vacant, AAP blames Centre
New Delhi: Nearly 600 of Delhi’s government schools are running headless some of them for the past six years according to an RTI reply, and the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) blames the central government neglectful attitude for this serious issue. According to the information sought under the Right to Information[Read More…]
‘Philanthropy cannot be mixed with profession’: Super30 co-founder Abhayanand
Super30, a free tutorial to coach 30 bright aspirants of IIT entrance test who come from underprivileged families of Bihar is said to be an exceptional idea. The international exposure this concept got was phenomenal. It made IPS officer and educationalist Abhayanand and Ramanujam School of Mathematics teacher Anand Kumar[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh: Women ‘shiksha mitras’ tonsure their heads in protest
Lucknow: Over a dozen ‘shiksha mitra’ women activists demanding full benefits of assistant teachers and other welfare schemes on Wednesday tonsured their heads against the state government’s apathetic attitude towards them. Hundreds of state ‘shiksha mitras’ are out on the streets for over a month. They say the government is[Read More…]
CM Yogi takes action against primary schools using ‘Islamia’ to their names
In a startling revelation, five state-run primary schools had word ‘Islamia’ prefixed to their name on the sign board and the entire documentation of the school records was done in Urdu. Moreover, these five schools were seen shut on Friday instead of Sunday. Once the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi[Read More…]
‘Aptus, a low-cost technology to bridge knowledge gap in India’, says Commonwealth of Learning CEO
Using technologies that are affordable and accessible can help India bridge the digital and knowledge gaps which are widening due to multiple factors such as gender discrimination, income disparity and cultural practices, among others, says the President and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL). COL, an intergovernmental organisation established[Read More…]
Delhi Govt’ education sector to get a boost with 10,000 more classrooms
New Delhi: The Delhi government has announced that “12,748 new rooms will be made including around 10,000 classrooms in its schools in the next one and half years, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said today.” Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in a tweet, dubbed the move a “massive infra boost” for the[Read More…]
Gujarat government launches ‘School on Wheels’ for kids of salt pan workers
The Gujarat government recently launched a pilot and unique project, ‘School on Wheels’ for the children of salt pan workers. Chief Minister Vijay Rupani introduced the project saying, “The idea is to provide infrastructure and teaching facility as part of Right to Education (RTE) for children in the 6-14 age[Read More…]
Jadavpur University brings back admission tests, VC wants to resign
Kolkata: Under pressure from protesting students and revolt by a large section of teachers, Jadavpur University authorities on Tuesday decided to bring back the admission test system for admission to six under-graduate courses, but the Vice Chancellor announced that he would resign. The decision to admit students in the six[Read More…]
Lack of attention on education, health magnified in Modi rule: Amartya Sen
New Delhi: Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen said the lack of attention on social sectors had taken a quantum jump in the wrong direction since the BJP came to power and that despite the visible prominence of backwardness in India, the political dispensation was diverting attention from the core issues. Things[Read More…]
Cabinet extends funds upto Rs. 10,000 crore to boost educational infrastructure
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday July 4, approved a proposal for expanding the scope of Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA) by expanding its capital base to Rs 10,000 crore. The CCEA also tasked the HEFA to mobilise Rs 1,00,000 crore for revitalising infrastructure and Systems in[Read More…]
Google to make Machine Learning education available for all
New Delhi: Google on Thursday introduced “Learn with Google AI” — a set of educational resources developed by Machine Learning (ML) experts at the company, for people to learn about concepts, develop skills and apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) to real-world problems. “Learn with Google AI” comes with existing content as well[Read More…]
No proper education, health, nutrition in over one-fourth of 201 districts in UP
Over one-fourth of 201 districts where India fails in education, health and nutrition fronts are located in Uttar Pradesh alone, followed by Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Tuesday. “If you look at 201 districts in India where we fail…, 53 are in Uttar Pradesh,[Read More…]
How Rahul Gandhi’s U.S. trip presented his vision for Congress Party and India: A discussion on key issues
Rahul Gandhi’s trip to the United States of America where he interacted with political and business leaders, students, and Non Resident Indians is being largely seen as a success. It has been universally admitted that the young leader spoke with clarity and honesty seldom seen in politics. He was reflexive[Read More…]
India on mission-mode to eradicate poverty, ensure health, sanitation: PM Modi at BRICS summit
Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi said India is all geared to eradicate poverty and implement sanitation, better health facilities, education and food security while addressing the plenary session at the 9th annual BRICS summit at Xiamen in China. “We are in mission-mode to eradicate poverty; to ensure health, sanitation, skills,[Read More…]
Delhi HC instructs police to ‘keep away’ from JNU
An order from the Delhi High Court has been asked to keep away from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus unless there is any proof of disturbance of law and order or in the case of varsity seeking its assistance adding that the university is not a place where the[Read More…]