John Brumfield

Sunday, July 1, 2018

CBSE to give awards to the meritorious teachers

This year, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has increased the number of awards given to teachers to 48. The board has been awarding meritorious teachers since 2000. Till last year, the award was given only to 34 meritorious teachers. The awards to the teachers are presented on Teacher’s Day and from this year, the board has also revised the guidelines for the same. Distribution of awards Primary teachers - 10 awardsSecondary teachers - 9 awardsScience teachers (class 12) - 3 awardsMaths teacher (Senior Secondary level) - 1 award 10 separate awards have also been reserved by the CBSE for the Special Educators (from all categories), Performing Arts (Music/ Dance) teacher, Physical Education Teacher, Best Trainer, School Counselor and IT Teacher. According to the new guidelines, retires teachers are no longer eligible for the awards and teachers with a minimum of 10 years of experience are eligible to apply. CBSE has also asked the teachers to provide with the actual videos of classroom teachings via YouTube links. The duration of each video should be 30 minutes.

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Delhi government | Parents should avoid sending their wards to schools in private transports

In a recent directive, the Delhi government has asked all its schools to take steps to discourage the parents from sending their wards to school in private transports. The government claimed that most of these transport services are illegal and pose a threat to the safety of the children. The directive came into existence after the life of students were put in danger by a private transport due to non-adherence of the traffic rules. "It is observed that for transportation of school children in Delhi primarily three modes of transport are being used-- vehicles owned by the educational institutions, vehicles hired by the educational institutions and vehicles hired by parents or guardians themselves," the Directorate of Education (DoE) said in a letter to schools. It further said that the first two modes of the transportation are simple to monitor and generally follow the laws of the traffic under Delhi Motor Vehicles Rules, 1993. However, the DoE said, "A majority of private vehicles hired by parents themselves are observed to be operating illegally without taking adequate safeguards towards the safety of school children, thus jeopardizing the lives of young school children using this form of transport." The directorate further observed that "most of these vehicles are overloaded and are piled dangerously and (are driven)recklessly at great speeds in utter disregard to traffic rules and regulations." The schools have been asked to alert the parents about such recklessness of the private transports during the Parent Teacher Meetings (PTMs) and by using other interactive means. "Parents must be asked to make use of safe transport provided by the schools and abstain from sending their children in illegal school vans/cabs which can prove dangerous or fatal owing to non-adherence of motor vehicles law," DoE said.

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To promote the education, Bihar government is giving INR 10,000 to each girl students

The Bihar government is preparing to give one-time monetary awards to the girl students who are unmarried and have successfully cleared the intermediate exams. The beneficiaries of the scheme will receive INR 10,000 as an award from the state government and the amount will be transferred directly to their accounts. The award will be presented by the Nitish Kumar under the ‘Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthan Yojana’ (MKUY), which was launched by the government in April 2018. “Directions has been given by the education department to all districts to shortlist beneficiaries who cleared the state’s Plus-Two exam, the results of which were declared on June 6, for the state government award,” Principal Secretary, Education, R K Mahajan, told PTI. He further said that the money will be transferred to the respective accounts by the month of July. “The scheme, run by the education department, aims to promote education among girls, besides fighting social evils like child marriage, which, in turn, would lower fertility rate and control population. Only unmarried girls who cleared the Plus-Two exam are eligible for the benefit,” the principal secretary stated. Approved by the cabinet on April 19, 2018, the MKYU scheme offers various incentives to the girls right from their birth till they complete their graduation. If a girl completes her graduation then she is entitled to INR 25,000 from the state government irrespective of her marital status. “The program aims to take care of a girl, irrespective of her caste or religion, by providing a total sum of Rs 54,100 at different stages,” Mahajan said and added that the government has set aside a sum of INR 1400 crores for the scheme.

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Tripura IIIT to commence its functioning this academic year: Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath

Tripura Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath informed the Assembly the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) will commence its functioning from this academic year. Initially, IIIT will operate from the National Institute of Technology’s (NIT) campus in Agartala. The reply from the minister was a given to an attention notice moved by the Sushanta Chowdhury and Dilip Das on the progress of establishing the IIIT in the state. Nath said that the project was approved by the center in Public Private Partnership (PPP) model in July 2012 but was delayed substantially, six years, because of lack of initiative by the erstwhile Left Front government. “The construction for the IIIT will be made on a plot of 52.08 acres land at Bodhjungnagar. Meanwhile, we want to start the first academic session in NIT campus this year,” Nath said. He further told that the first batch would be of the computer science students with the intake capacity of 30 students initially. The batch for Electronics and Communication will commence from the next academic session.

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Higher Education Commission | Kerala CM not in support of replacing the UGC with the HECI

On Friday, Kerala CM, Pinarayi Vijayan, state clearly that he is against the center’s decision to replace the University Grants Commission with the Higher Education Commission. He said that with this move center is trying to restrict the role of the states in matters related to the education. He said “the Center’s ‘unilateral’ decision to do away with the apex higher education regulator, University Grants Commission and replace it with the Higher Education Commission under the Human Resource Development Ministry, will lead to far-reaching repercussions in the field of higher education”. He further said that a similar move was tried by the first UPA government under which the government tried to constitute education commission which could replace the UGC. But their attempt to commercialize the education sector was met with strong opposition from the lest parties and the scheme could not be implemented. He also alleged “Besides commercialization, the BJP had another aim to implement thedecision — saffronization of the educational sector.” “ Those who are against the BJP’s proposed move to do away with the UGC, need to raise their voice,” the chief minister said.

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Odisha Jail inmates to get the education from IGNOU

In order to provide education to the jail inmates, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has decided to open study centers at the 11 major jails of the Odisha state. The university is already providing this service at five jails in the state, said official sources. IGNOU Bhubaneswar regional center assistant director Santosh Kumar Panigrahi said that the education provided by the university will be free of cost. "We are planning to provide 18 certificate courses to the inmates," he added. The university will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Odisha’s state government under which it will also provide add-on courses to the undergraduate and postgraduate students of the government aided and non-aided colleges of the state. The students studying in the colleges can enroll for the certificate courses which will add additional skills to the existing skill sets. At each college, the university is planning to provide five different certificate courses. The workers of the National health mission (NHM) will also receive training about food, nutrition, critical nursing, waste management and HIV AIDS and family therapy from the Open University. The University is also in-charge of providing the training to the students of the Indian Oil Corporation's Mancheswar training center and after the successful completion of the training, it will give certificates to the students.

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Saturday, June 30, 2018

Tripura IIIT to commence its functioning this academic year: Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath

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