The symposium focuses on City school to host regional on higher education

VADODARA: City-based Navrachana School, Sama is hosting a regional symposium on higher education in a joint initiative with the Institute of Counsellor Training Research and Consultancy (ICTRC), New Delhi.Country's renowned educational psychologist and counsellor trainer Dr V S Ravindran and his team of experts are going to conduct a daylong programme with students and teachers of class XII on August 30.The symposium focuses on equipping students with the knowledge of the scientific process of...

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The national network of doctors medical education commercialisation only aim of reform bill

NEW DELHI: A national network of doctors committed to promoting rational and ethical healthcare on Friday criticised the bill drafted by the NITI Aayog and its report on restructuring regulation of medical education and the medical profession, saying it was merely championing "accelerated privatisation and commercialisation of medical education".Protection of patients and the need for a strong clampdown on unethical practices is clearly not a priority in the report and the bill, said the Alliance...

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The government has introduced several programmes improve in mini science centres give rural education a boost

MYSURU: With the focus on better primary education in rural schools, the government has introduced several programmes to improve the quality of education and attract more students.In rural areas, government school children are talented but need good education and skills. Science and English education in primary schooling can boost the academic performance of these children. Towards this end, city-based Ace Education Trust, in collaboration with United Breweries Limited, Nanjangud, has jointly...

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Andhra and Telengana in poor standards education

HYDERABAD: The national achievement survey (NAS) conducted by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has exposed the poor standards of education in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Both states failed to meet the mandatory pupil-teacher ratio (PTR) in schools.The survey revealed that 32.03 per cent of schools in AP and 35.79 per cent in Telangana failed to meet the pupil-teacher ratio. The national average of pupil-teacher ratio at primary school level is 24:1, upper primary...

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Fund Education Of Underprivileged Australian Woman To Run 3,800 km In India

New Delhi:  To raise funds for education of millions of underprivileged children in India, Australian ultra marathoner, Samantha Gash is set to begin a 3,800 km run across India.Kicking off from August 22, Ms Gash will attempt to run nearly 3,800 km from Jaisalmer in Rajasthan to Mawsynram in Meghalaya within a period of 76 days.A former lawyer by profession, the 31-year-old has taken this Run India project challenge to raise funds to support six World Vision Area projects that focuses...

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Education is important aspect of human development more Inclusive in India

Education is an important aspect of human development. This makes it crucial that we be aware and alert as to what is being taught in our schools today and conscious of whether it is contributing to the overall growth of our children. Is our present education system in India doing that?Here are 12 components that I think should be immediately included in school curricula for the development of the full potential of students. Even if some of these are part of the syllabus in a few schools, they...

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The Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Telangana and Odisha slams Centre's education policy

Hyderabad: Calling the draft new education policy as 'directionless', the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Telangana and Odisha (JIHTO) on Thursday accused the Centre of trying to resuscitate a "dead language" even as the socio-religious organisation demanded that it be rewritten with a fresh panel of experts.Addressing a gathering of media persons at Hotel Harsha in Nampally, JIHTO president Hamid Mohammed Khan criticised the government for giving "a lot of weight" to Sanskrit. "They have made Sanskrit an...

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Applied to elementary education of human resource development the idea that district planning

The extensive media coverage of the 25th anniversary of the launch of economic reforms had brought to light some unknown facts thanks to the personal accounts of key players.It is apposite to narrate yet another untold story: the unintended and decisive impetus that the 1991 reforms gave to India’s quest for universal elementary education (UEE). India was home to a third of the world’s out-of-school children in 1993, and to a 0.3 per cent in 2010 when the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory...

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The cuts to education system plan for budget cuts in government special needs education, school buses, teacher

The cuts, as reported by Channel 10 on Tuesday evening, will result in the cancellation of weekly school hours for all grades—from elementary school through middle school and high school—which would help save NIS 500 million. The remaining NIS 500 million will be cut from the Education Ministry's budget. In addition to the teachers, at-risk youth are also expected to pay the price of the cuts, as the program aimed at dealing with drop-outs will suffer budget cuts. Education Minister Naftali...

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The Scottish government Senior councillors from across Scotland to discuss the education policy

The Scottish government has said raising attainment is a key priority.Education conveners from 28 local authorities, which run schools, will debate the issue at the meeting hosted by council umbrella body Cosla.They are expected to focus on how money resulting from council tax changes will be spent.From next April, people in the most expensive homes will pay more.This is because the multiples between the different property bands will change - those in the most expensive bands will pay more,...

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Higher education system is time to reform India now

The writing is on the wall. India’s higher education system is in crisis and everyone is paying a hefty price for it: students, parents, industry, society and the nation.Private coaching costs of preparing for premier institutions such as the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) have soared by 250 to 500 times in the last 30 years. Over the same period, the time required to prepare for the IIT Joint Entrance Examination (IITJEE) has gone up from a one-year grind to four years at a minimum.As...

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Adhitya Iyer education system is the deadliest terrorist organisation in india

.says Adhitya Iyer, author of The Great Indian Obsession, who left home for two years and travelled across the country to find out why Indian parents are obsessed with getting their children to study Engineering.If 3 Idiots were to be remade, Adhitya Iyer would be glad to play Aamir Khan’s Rancho. For him, learning is more important than the college degrees and only logic does the talking. That’s probably why he didn’t like the idea of engineering from day one. What did he do instead? A start-up...

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The Union government no provision for reservation in jobs and education in the transgender Bill

The Union government has made no provision for reservation in jobs and education in the transgender Bill that was introduced in the Lok Sabha this week.According to an earlier draft of the Cabinet note prepared by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, all transgender persons, barring those who are not from Scheduled Castes and Schedules Tribes, were to be considered in the reservation quota for Other Backward Castes (OBC).The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, introduced...

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The empowering girls and re-training parents in Indian school Is working to end child marriage

Habitually wiping the moisture off her brow, Kunti Rawat deftly rings up a sale while waving in a string of shoppers to Didi’s Food in Lucknow, India, where she is second in command.Her older sisters were child brides, but she holds a Master’s degree in business administration, an unlikely accomplishment for a village girl in a region of India notorious for selective abortions of girls and the use of gang rape to subjugate women. Of the world’s 720 million women married in childhood, a third...

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The pro Vice Chancellor of Ashoka University in quality a big challenge for the Indian education sector

Jumpstart Goes to School, a seminar concentrating on children’s education, was held in the Capital today. This two-day seminar is focusing on the education in theory and in practice as well as school education with regard to children’s content.Delivering the keynote address, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Ashoka University, Vineet Gupta, himself an IITian and a first generation entrepreneur, highlighted the key aspects and challenges of the Indian education system.Gupta said that India has the largest...

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US firms to expand genomics and biotech educational programming globally in india

An American non-profit body and an India-based of provider of software products and services will collaborate to provide genomics and biotech educational programming globally.As part of the collaboration, Chennai-based Bahwan Cyber Tek, will work with Alabama-based HudsonAlpha to provide genomics and biotech educational programming globally.The two organisations plan to work together to use HudsonAlpha s expertise in genomic and biotech education to implement high quality educational strategies...

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