Health, education of girls focus of new policy

JAIPUR: The new 'girl child policy' approved by the state cabinet on Friday would help many children in the state get better healthcare facilities and education apart from security and protection without any gender discrimination.The policy is unique in the sense that various departments of the government would be putting their combined effort to ensure that girls get all the benefits proposed in it.Principal secretary, women and child development, Sarita Singh said: "The policy has been prepared taking into consideration that in the past one...

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Indian education meet draws students in Oman

Muscat - The two-day seventh India Education Interaction Meet at Haffa House Hotel that concluded on Tuesday saw good participation from students and parentsThe education meet aimed to promote Indian universities and colleges by bringing them to Oman's doorstep, and gave students and parents an opportunity to interact with representatives of these institutions.K Shivakumar, from the organising firm Indus Fairs and Events, told Muscat Daily  the group holds education events across Middle East and Africa every year in January. “India has many...

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India - Sri Lanka Joint Study Group Presents Recommendations for Bilateral Relations

The India - Sri Lanka Joint Study Group, set up under a joint initiative of the Manipal Global Education (MaGE) of India and the Pathfinder Foundation of Sri Lanka, has presented its recommendations to the Governments of India and Sri Lanka.The Joint Study Group was conceived as a discreet and informal dialogue process to jointly explore ways of strengthening the bilateral relationship between the two neighbours with a view to generating innovative recommendations and complementing official efforts to this end.The relationship between India and...

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Mindlogicx bags education deal worth Rs 54 crore

 BANGALORE: City- based Mindlogicx, a tech product development company in the higher education space, has announced that the company has bagged a multi-year Rs.54 crore Exam Management Services (EMS) contract from Gujarat Technical University (GTU), Ahmedabad. This is the company's second large deal in Gujarat after its end to end exam automation deal with Saurashtra University struck in September last year. GTU is the largest technical University in the country with about 5.5lakh students studying in 500 affiliated engineering, pharmacy,...

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Netas game for sex education in schools

The Delhi gang rape has changed the mindset of old-style political parties. They want to introduce sex education as part of school curriculum to create awareness among students at an early age.Leaders of parties believe that it’s the government’s responsibility to do this and it should deal with it seriously by working out a plan.According to political experts, there was a plan to introduce sex education in school curriculum in 2007. But the ruling party as well as opposition parties strongly objected to it over the content and style of teaching...

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CCTV cameras in education institutes help reduce misdemeanour

It was earlier limited to government offices, financial institutions and corporate offices but now CCTV camera surveillance is common at educational institutes also. Schools and colleges are increasingly equipping their buildings with this proverbial 'third eye' to be in more control of their environment.Deepak Bajaj manages Mahatma Gandhi Centennial High School and had pioneered the concept in 1996. "I had 74 sections for middle and high school and over 4,000 students were studying. Their activities along with those of teachers and multitude...

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Indians Spend Rs 20 Lakh for School Education: Survey

The growing cost of education has become a major cause of worry for parents. Most parents usually spend more than Rs 18 lakh-20 lakh in raising a child by the time they are teenage graduates from high school, reported Himanshi Dhawan for TNN.Parents spending on a single child's education has increased massively from Rs 35,000 in 2005 to over Rs 94,000 in 2011, said a recent survey. The spending was noted to be integral to the school curriculum like fees, books, transport, uniform, stationery, building fund, educational trips, extra-curricular...

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A fellowship for service in India

The American India Foundation’s William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India is a 10-month fellowship where Fellows from India and the United States are placed with “credible NGOs and social enterprises in India in order to accelerate impact and create effective projects that are replicable, scalable, and sustainable.” AIF focuses on enhancing the livelihoods of poor and marginalised communities with particular emphasis on promoting livelihoods for women and youth. A monthly stipend covers...

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Online education a popular option, but not profitable

In August, four months after Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng started the online education company Coursera, its free college courses had drawn in a million users, a faster launching than either Facebook or Twitter.The co-founders, computer professors at Stanford University, watched with amazement as enrollment passed 2 million last month, with 70,000 new students a week signing up for over 200 courses, including Human-Computer Interaction, Songwriting and Gamification, taught by faculty members at...

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Soon, study MBA and engineering in distance mode

In the not-too-distant future, you could become an engineer or earn an MBA sitting at home.The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the apex body for professional courses, will allow colleges to offer engineering and MBA via distance mode, overturning the tough stand it has maintained for years. The council had earlier stated that professional courses like engineering required intensive practical training and programmes such as an MBA ought to have several hours of classroom discussions and debates as business had several tones of...

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ICAI: Experts warn against marketing of higher education

As the pre-Vibrant Gujarat International Conference of Academic Institutions (ICAI) got underway Tuesday, some of the world’s top education experts disagreed with a few objectives of the two-day event, including the state government’s push for private-public partnerships (PPP) in higher education via an industry-academia link and signing of MoUs.The experts — from the World Bank and Canadian, British, American and Indian institutions of higher learning — warned against emphasis on marketing (including MoU signing), private funding, too much stress...

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Rising cost of education worries parents, survey shows

NEW DELHI: While the cost of private education has always been prohibitive, education in government-run institutions has also increased sharply in the last one month with the HRD ministry taking the decision to hike under-graduate fees in IITs by 80%.Earlier, the fees for Kendriya Vidyalaya students increased three-fold from Rs 4,500 to Rs 12,000 annually. The KV fee hike impacts 11 lakh students in 1,090 schools. The last fee hike in both cases took place in 2008-09, and has been long overdue.The decision to hike fees for undergraduate courses...

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India to digitise national academic database

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), India has started the process of hiring a vendor to digitise the national academic database.Human resources and Development Ministry (HRD) in September 2011 had an idea of digitising all academic qualifications in the country to allow instant verification and prevent the forgery of academic documents.The CBSE already conducted a pilot project for the National Academic Depository (NAD), and the results were encouraging. The NAD is a national database...

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Over 100 foreign educational institutes in Vibrant Gujarat Summit

More than 100 foreign educational institutes are among the over 200 institutes coming to take part in the upcoming Vibrant Gujarat Summit (VGS) 2013, slated to take place in Gandhinagar next week.Universities and institutes from as many as 30 countries, including the UK, Canada, the US, Australia, Germany, Singapore, Finland and Rwanda, among others, will be taking part in the International Conference for Academic Institutions, being organised on January 9 and 10 as part of VGS 2013.The conference will take place at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum...

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Different educational boards agree to have similar question papers

NEW DELHI: Come 2014, class 12 students of maths and science from one particular education board will not be able to complain about having to face tougher question papers and marking systems than their counterparts studying under other boards.The majority of educational boards conducting class 12 exams across the country have agreed in principle to have a common design of question paper to make the school-leaving exams as uniform as possible in terms of difficulty.This is being done to give students a level playing field. Efforts began in 2010,...

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Goa wants modulated sex education

Faculty members and students from several higher secondary schools and colleges in Goa want inclusion of gender sensitization in school curriculum, and sex education to be disseminated in an age-appropriate and contextualized manner at all levels of education.These are among the several suggestions listed by participants during a round table meeting held at Goa college of home science in Panaji organized by the city-based NGO Saad Aangan in collaboration with the colleges. The suggestions would be sent to Justice Verma committee on the law relating...

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Why large section of Indian households today prefer private education over government's?

Indian households are increasingly spending more money on education, and for a majority of households today, children's education is one of the key motivations for saving.Estimates from National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) data reveal that even though food has been a priority in the consumption basket of Indian households, its share has been declining.On the other hand, the share of many non-food items is on the rise: in particular, education, along with health, durable goods, consumer services...

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Latest is, education loans have taken a hit

The demand for education loans is likely to be subdued in the year ahead as a weak economy is forcing students to defer their plans for higher studies till the time the job market in India and abroad sees a major improvement.Outstanding education loans grew by 10.6% to Rs54,300 crore as on November 30, 2012, compared with a growth of 15.7% in the corresponding period last year, according to sectoral deployment data released by the Reserve Bank of India.“Going by present indicators, I don’t see any improvement in 2013. Looking at the job market...

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Make sex education compulsory in schools

Teaching them young It may be difficult to put a total stop to incidents of rape immediately. But it is certainly possible to educate people on how to counter sexual harassment and domestic violence. Education is an important tool that can help to work towards eradicating this evil.The fact is that many of us are scared to raise our voices against sexual harassment because of what people will think about us. And perverts take advantage of this. We must start to change this, through education in our schools. The government mustintroduce sex education...

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