Telangana’s rural students forced to earn to learn

Nearly two-third of all senior-Intermediate girls in rural Telangana have to earn so that they may study, a survey has found.Conducted by the M.V. Foundation, the survey on impediments to girl education involved girls who were first-generation education seekers. It reported 74.2 per cent girls as saying education was not free even in government institutions that did not charge for tuition, but collected other fees that many students could not afford.The respondents said they had to earn wages...

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More than half of all education loans in South India, TN and Kerala

Two states, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, have accounted for nearly 40 per cent of education loans disbursed in the country so far, indicating the skew in the tapping of bank funds for education.Banks have disbursed Rs 16,380 crore in Tamil Nadu, Rs 10,487 crore in Kerala — over 38 per cent of total disbursals, as per data prepared by the Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance.According to the data, collated from states across the country, over 54 per cent of education loans have gone...

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Set up special commission for education

The Akhil Bharatiya Samajwadi Adhyapak Sabha, a socialist advocacy group, has demanded setting up an autonomous commission to govern the education sector and creation of separate cadre for top bureaucrats working in government-run educational establishments.The local unit of the group recently met governor C Vidyasagar Rao and submitted a memorandum of their demands, which also includes ensuring free and compulsory education from kindergarten (KG) to post graduation (PG), among others."Setting up an autonomous institution for the education sector...

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Special education to take a hit, boards warn

Starting this fall, boards will have fewer options to move money around — so expect special education to take a hit because most need to do that to cover the actual costs of serving their most needy students, says the head of the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association.While a threatened 2 per cent cut in overall funding didn’t materialize — grants remain at the same level as last year, at $22.5 billion — Michael Barrett said there are still several areas of concern.“While it wasn’t as horrible...

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Telangana State to recruit 85,000 people for Govt jobs

Telangana government on Tuesday stated there are no hurdles to conduct recruitments to about 85,000 government jobs. However, the government didn’t provide a clear timeline as to when the recruitments will begin. Irrigation minister T. Harish Rao said the Chief Minister has already promised that all recruitments would be completed within a year. However, dissatisfied with the “government’s callousness towards the issue,” Opposition parties walked out of the Assembly on Tuesday.The matter pertaining...

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Funds for higher education? Take education loan

The education loans can fund your higher education. The process is simple and if followed can offer you access to funds to pay your fees and other expenses. One must pay off his education loan to remain creditworthy.After students pass out from schools, funding their higher studies is both a momentous event and a dilemma faced by parents. The costs of higher professional education have gone through the roof. Education loans come in as much-needed financial succour to help talented and meritorious students realise their dreams of studying in reputed...

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Telangana Ed.CET 2015 on 6 June

Hyderabad: The Telangana state examination for the Education Common Entrance Test (Ed.CET) for 2015 was decided to be held on the 6 June, 2015 by the Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) which convened at Osmania University. The meeting was led by the committee's Chairman Prof. E Suresh Kumar. In attendance were Prof. S. Mallesh, Vice-Chairman, TSCHE, Prof. P. Prasad, convenor, TS Ed.CET-2015, was well as several members of the Osmania University along with representatives from other universities in the state.The full particulars...

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No Admission Tests for Nomadic BCs

HYDERABAD: To encourage education among children from nomadic backward classes (BCs) in Telangana, the BC welfare department is planning to provide them admissions to government residential schools at any point of the academic year without holding entrance tests. Admissions will be given to BC welfare and social welfare residential schools in respective districts.In a move to improve the literacy rate among the nomadic BCs, the BC welfare department has recently proposed to launch a survey to identify eligible children to send them to schools....

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Telangana: 7-year school record must to claim fee reimbursement, scholarships

Hyderabad: The Telangana state government has made it mandatory for students to submit last seven years’ schooling records to claim fee reimbursement and scholarships.This will be applicable with immediate effect, from the ongoing academic year 2014-15.The government has allowed online submission of applications on the “e-Pass” website and students have to upload their schooling records to be eligible to claim the benefits, along with other documents like income and caste certificates.Deputy...

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Millennium Development Goals: India shows mixed progress on gender equality

The Millennium Development Goals—eight international goals established in the UN Millennium Summit—are set to expire in 2015. The goals were set to achieve development targets across the world on issues like health, primary education and gender equality and empowerment of women. While India has made progress on issues like combating hunger and poverty and primary education, its performance in meeting the third goal, on gender equality and empowerment, has been mixed. Indian women’s labour force participation is 33% compared with the global average...

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Telangana State Intermediate board gets recognition for qualifying examinations

Hyderabad: The Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education has been added to the list of Boards of qualifying examinations or the JEE (Main) this year. TSBIE has asked students in Telangana, who have applied for JEE (Main) this year, to mention their Board of exam as “Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education” while downloading the admit card. Officials also said that students, who mentioned AP as their state of eligibility can change to Telangana if they desire so, through a request...

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Bring nursery education under govt control

AURANGABAD: Bringing in nursery education under government purview, provision for encashment of earned leaves and offering due recognition while handing over government awards are some of the major demands an association of primary teachers from private schools in Maharashtra has raised.Addressing media persons here on Tuesday, association general secretary for Marathwada region, Arjun Rasal, said a demonstration would be staged in front of the office of the regional educational authorities to press for demands."The government has been turning...

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Online Education in India – Going the Right Way

Technology in education is creating a disruption in the higher education sector globally. Heavy textbooks and notebooks are paving the way for technology led means of learning like interactive videos and virtual live learning sessions. Online reading devices, mobiles, tablets, laptops, multiple digital tools and applications are revolutionizing the learning habits of the student community.According to the Docebo report of July 2014, the global market for self-paced e-learning is growing very...

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Telangana Epass Fresh Application 2014-15 Scholarship Status

All students of Telangana can apply Fresh applications for 2014-15 in telanganaepass.cgg.gov.in . Application process will start very soon . Candidates can apply in official website telanganaepass.cgg.gov.in Important announcement for students who are residents and economically backward of Telangana State those are eligible for this E pass fresh scholarship 2014-15. The Telangana E pass fresh scholarship application form is available on the official website www.telanganaepass.cgg.gov.in. We...

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IIM Calcutta announces launch of EPBM Programme with Hughes Global Education India

Hughes Global Education India Ltd (HGEIL) today announced the launch and opening of admission to the Executive Programme in Business Management (EPBM) by the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta. Delivered over the Hughes Interactive Onsite Learning platform by the eminent faculty of IIM Calcutta, this programme offers working executives comprehensive learning through lectures and real world case studies including addresses by senior executives from the corporate world.Sudip Chaudhuri,...

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'Skill up India' online education portal launched in Gujarat

AHMEDABAD: Silicon Valley-based 'Code for India' (CFI), a network of Indian-origin technology professionals launched a free education portal 'Skill Up India' here today.The portal was launched by CFI's Gujarat chapter, in partnership with iCreate, IIT, Gandhinagar, IIM Ahmedabad, CIIE and US-India Business Council (USIBC)."Gujarat chapter of CFI today launched its education portal for anybody wishing to learn and teach via internet, in partnership with IIM-Ahmedabad, IIT-Gandhinagar, USIBC and Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurs...

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Digital Gender Atlas for girls' education in India launched

The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School Education and Literacy, presented the Digital Gender Atlas for advancing girls' education in India to the media in New Delhi on Monday. The tool, which has been developed with the support of UNICEF, will help identify low performing geographic pockets for girls, particularly from marginalised groups such as scheduled castes, schedule tribes and Muslim minorities, on specific gender related education indicators.The Atlas is placed...

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Harvard again ranked as world's best university, no Indian institute makes it to the list

America's Harvard University remains number one in a ranking of 100 most prestigious education institutions across the world, followed by Cambridge and Oxford universities of the UK. The list does not feature any Indian university.According to the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2015, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) of the US was pushed to the fourth spot by the University of Oxford, and Stanford University was pushed to the fifth spot by the University of Cambridge, reported IANS.Among Asian nations, Japan's University...

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School Education Set to go Online in Telangana

HYDERABAD: The school education is all set to go online in Telangana State. The school education department is planning to prepare online portals where the digitised lessons will be shared online with the schools across the state.Recently the school education department and the State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT) proposed to build  online portals which will be made accessible to both private and government schools in the state.According to the proposal, the school textbooks will be digitised and will be uploaded on the...

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New Education System in Offing in Telangana

HYDERABAD: As part of the KG-to-PG free education programme, the Telangana government is said to be planning to introduce a new education system and establish a residential education complex in every Assembly constituency in the state. With the intention of bringing all the government educational institutes at single place, the government has recently proposed to build new residential education institutes across the state.According to the recent proposal, institutes ranging from high schools to degree and PG colleges will be set up at a selected...

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Digital India: Indian education system has a great opportunity

Shantanu Prakash, Chairman and Managing Director, Educomp Solutions LtdIt is great to see that the current Union government has set the ball rolling on a New Education Policy. That this is being revisited after nearly 30 years does not take away from the fact that it has come at a critical juncture- when India is staring at a surging youth population, set to be the world's largest in 2020.While most of the pressing concerns like re-assessing the government's spend on education, access to quality education, innovation, research, regulation, poor...

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How to Apply for Telangana EAMCET 2015 Online Application?

Follow below mentioned steps carefully to apply online for Telangana EAMCET 2015.     First visit the Official website of TS EAMCET.     Now find the EAMCET 2015 Online Application and click on it.     Download the Application form and first pay registration fees of 250/ – at any mee seva center to get application ID nad registration number.     Login with that and fill online application and submit the details.     Upload...

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