Tag: Education
Maharashtra: No junk food in school canteens
In an attempt to keep children away from junk and unhealthy food, the Maharashtra government on Monday imposed a ban on the sale of `High in Fat, Salt and Sugar’ (HFSS) food at school canteens across the state. According to a Government Resolution (GR), 12 categories of food items will not be[Read More…]
NEET exam: Candidates got a ‘sleeve cut’
Centre Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) organised the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) Undergraduate (UG) on Sunday in 104 cities across the country. Against 8,02,594 registered candidates last year in NEET-2016, with the increase of 41.42% in the number of candidates, 11,35,104 medical aspirants have registered for NEET-2017. Over[Read More…]
DU teachers blame VC for unsatisfactory decisions
UP CM Adityanath wants images of teachers on school walls
In order to improve the standards of education quality in state-run schools and ensure regular attendance, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath wants pictures of faculty members posted on school walls. This step will be taken to check and cross-check from students if those teachers’ whose images are on the wall[Read More…]
Facebook may help reduce exam anxiety: Study
Researchers at the University of Illinois in the US have found that undergraduate students, who have high levels of anxiety before an examination, may control it by reading supportive comments, ‘likes’ and private messages from Facebook friends. “We found that only the students who received supportive messages from their Facebook[Read More…]
Nalanda University to collaborate with Kanazawa University
On Friday, the Nalanda University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Kanazawa University of Japan for an academic collaboration, said a statement from Nalanda University. The MOU was signed on Thursday in Rajgir by Mori Masahide, Head of the School of Humanities, Indian Buddhist Studies, Comparative Culture[Read More…]
Kalpit Veerwal tops JEE Main with 360/360
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared the results of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2017 on its official website on Thursday. Kalpit Veerwal, a student from Udaipur, has secured the first rank by scoring 360 out of 360 marks in the exam. It is a happy moment[Read More…]
Sustaining higher education a challenge: President
Ronnie Screwvala launches scholarship fund
800 million to be unemployed, underskilled by 2030
PIL in SC to make Hindi compulsory from Class I-VIII
A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre, states and union territories to make Hindi compulsory for students of class I-VIII across the country to promote unity and national integration. The plea is likely to come up for hearing next week in the[Read More…]
Jharkhand village setting example by naming streets after educated girls
A village in Potka block of Jharkhand’s East Singhbhum district is setting a whole new example in promoting girls’ education. Actually, Juri – a village (150 km south of state capital Ranchi), has initiated an unusual practice to encourage education among girls by naming lanes after them. Under this initiative,[Read More…]
Now, English will be taught from class 1 in govt-run schools in Uttar Pradesh
The government-run schools in Uttar Pradesh will make English a compulsory subject from Class 1. Earlier, the subject was taught from Class 5. “English will be taught from Class 1. All the school heads have been directed to improve the standards,” said deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma on Friday to[Read More…]
IISc ranks first in the list of top Universities in the country
Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister on Monday released the ‘India Ranking Report 2017’. The Ministry has given the list of the top universities, best management, engineering and pharmacy colleges. Indian Institute of Science has retained its number one rank in the list of top universities in India. “Among Indian institutes,[Read More…]
Cheating case lodged for fake UGC notice to JNU
Only 40% engineering graduates get placement: Prakash Javadekar
Only 40 per cent of engineering graduates got placements after passing out of college, Union Human Resource Development minister Prakash Javadekar said during the question hour at Rajya Sabha on Thursday. The minister added that AICTE has decided to introduce summer internships for at least 75 per cent of the[Read More…]
JNUSU rejects proposal to install CCTV cameras at hostel gate
The Jawaharlal Nehru University administration failed to implement the order of installing CCTV cameras at every hostel gates of JNU. This has been rejected by the JNUSU (Student’s Union) terming the decision as ‘authoritarian’. The students were only aware of such a move from the authority’s side only when they[Read More…]
US: Drop in Indian applications after hate crimes
Senior academicians attend RSS workshop on Education
A two-days workshop organised by RSS over the past weekend which took place in Delhi was attended by over 721 academicians and experts including 51 Vice Chancellors of various central and state universities. The concept of the event was to discuss on the topic of making Indian education more inclined[Read More…]
Missing JNU student: Court to hear students plea on Monday
In recent development in the missing JNU student case, the Patiala House Court on Monday to hear the students’ plea against the police move to conduct lie detector test on them. Earlier the Delhi Police has asked the students to under-go a lie detector test, as many as 90 students[Read More…]
JNU seat-cuts: Students block gate, protest outside UGC office
Students of JNU angered by the seat-cut according to the new UGC gazette staged protests on Friday both inside and outside the Campus. While a bunch of students who blocked the main gate of the university, some marched till the UGC office at ITO hoping to meet with the officials[Read More…]
Haryana: 192 cases of cheating in Board exams
On Wednesday, the Board School Education Haryana (BSEH) has registered 192 cases of cheating in board exams. It also canceled geography exam for Class XII students in Ladan of Jhajjar district due to increasing rate of students cheating to pass the exam. Also, it has canceled Class XII geography exam[Read More…]
Jamia Milia Islamia to have a student council in 11 years
Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University plans to have a election for a Jamia Student Council (JSC) in 2017. It is to be noted that this university has not held student union elections since 2006 over claims by the authority that student representatives had started interfering in administrative work. As per[Read More…]
Students, beware! 23 universities, 279 technical institutes in India are fake; Delhi tops list
Just a few weeks prior to the admission season of 2017, at least 23 fake universities and 279 such technical institutes have been found to function in India. The UGC and the AICTE have barred total 23 such fake educational institutions in eight states in India. These Universities are functioning[Read More…]