John Brumfield

Monday, July 16, 2018

To regulate schools fees, NCPCR recommends using AI

To curb the unjustified fee hikes in the private and unaided schools and make the education available for the complete society, the NCPCR has recommended a slew of measures such as the use of artificial intelligence and digital technology. The committee also suggested that every state should form a committee in every district to implement such regulation. Priyank Kanoongo, member (RTE & Education) at the National Commission For the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) said “the fees of schools should be fixed using a suitable mechanism by the use of digital technology and artificial intelligence”. The committee would be headed by the district collector or district magistrate and the fee should be determined for each school, he said. The NCPCR has already sent its recommendations to the HRD ministry and also suggested the formation of the parent-teacher association (PTA) which would be a part of the committee that will determine the fees of the schools. Kanoongo said “the PTA shall consist of one parent representative from each class such that three-fourths of members of such committee shall be parents or guardians”. According to the framework, after submission, “the proposal will be analyzed taking into consideration the variable indicators of expenditure and income (as given by the school in enclosed performas/forms/annexures including depreciation/loans/interests etc.) and constant indicators of the respective district using software/ artificial intelligence”. Kanoongo said “The schools will submit a proposal for fee determination and thosewhich fail to come out with proposals in the stipulated time period would be slapped with a fine of up to 10 percent of the total revenuegenerated by them in the preceding year”.

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Second merit list for the FYJC postponed

Earlier, the second merit list for the First Year Junior College’s (FYJC) was scheduled to be released today but following the HC orders, the list has been postponed to July 19. The official merit lists for the regions of Mumbai, Pune, Amravarti, Nagpur, Nashik and Aurangabad will be available on their respective websites. However; the merit list for the Mumbai and Pune will be available at mumbai.11thadmission.net and pune.11thadmission.net. The first merit list was released on July 7 and according to the reports, nearly 2.3 lakh candidates applied for the seats of which 1.2 lakh candidates were allotted the seats. After the first round, about 50,000 seats have already been filled and students can check the vacancy status and cut-off of the first merit list on the website. This year, the cut-off remains high for the colleges as top scorers have raised the bar in many sought-after colleges for the seats. In the first round of seat allotment, about 1.2 lakh applicants were allotted seats in junior colleges in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.

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GATE 2019 | Check all the important details about the exam

IIT Madras will conduct the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2019 to determine the eligibility of the candidates who wish to join the masters and direct doctoral programs offered by the various IITs and IISCs of the nation in various branches of engineering, technology, architecture and science. The GATE score is also used by the several PSUs such as BHEL, GAIL, HAL, IOCL, ONGC, etc. for the direct recruitment of the candidates in these organizations. Next year, the exam will be conducted in 24 subjects on 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 9th of February 2019. The score of the GATE exam remains valid for the three years. The registrations for the exam are done via GATE Online Application Processing System (GOAPS) and certain universities such as RWTH Aachen and TU Munich requires the GATE score before they consider the Indian nationals for the admission into the postgraduate courses. Educational qualification For the GATE exam, there is no age limit and the candidate must have a graduate level degree in BE, BTech, BPharmacy, BArch, BSc (Research), BS, MA, MSc, MCA, Int MSc or Int BSMS. Exam pattern The GATE exam is held for the three hours. A total of 65 questions are asked with a total weight of 100 marks and candidates are given three hours to attend the exam. The exam tests the candidates in general aptitude, engineering mathematics and core engineering area of the candidate. The exam consists of questions in the form of MCQs and fill in the blanks. While MCQs have negative marking for the wrong answer fill in the banks do not impose any such penalties. Important dates GOAPS opens: September 1, 2018 Last date for submission of online application: September 21, 2018 Last date for requesting a change of examination city: November 16, 2018 Admit card availability: January 4, 2019

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Sunday, July 15, 2018

Punjab’s SCERT to access pre-primary kids on activity-based assessment

The pre-primary kids in the government schools of Punjab will soon be assessed on the basis of activities under the project ‘Padho Punjab, Padhao Punjab’, said The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT). According to the letter released by the SCERT, the pre-primary students will be assessed thrice a year-- July, November and March. The orders further clarify that teachers can only give positive remarks on the report cards of the students and it must be shared with the parents. In November 2017, the Punjab government has claimed that it has become the first state in the country to introduce ‘pre-primary playway’ classes for the students between the age group of 3-6 years. The orders were issued on Friday and strictly said that students can only be assessed on the basis of teacher’s observation and this observation needs to be carried out for 15 days for each child during the playful activities. Children under the assessment will be assessed on five parameters: physical and mental fitnesssocial and moral developmentintellect developmentbasic languagemathematics learning for beginners Apart from the above mentioned, there are some new points which have been added to assess the children under the scheme and they are: Paper foldingHolding a pencil in right mannerCompleting a picture by joining dotsRope-skippingStaying happy in the classroomSocializing with other kidsStarting a new conversation without hesitationSolving puzzles For language learning, kids will be assessed for poems, songs, reading alphabets with help of pictures, trying to write easy alphabets etc.

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More than 40,000 schools in Kerala are now high tech

Kerala schools are embracing the modern day digital technologies from the field of education at a pace higher than any other state. Soon, more than 40,000 classrooms in the states will be equipped with advanced gadgets, including laptops and multimedia projectors and all this is a part of state government’s ambitious ‘Hi-Tech schoolʼ project. Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE), formerly known as IT@School project, is special purpose vehicle designed by the state government to help schools adopt latest IT technologies for the education of the children. K Anvar Sadath, vice chairman and executive director, KITE, said “northern Malappuram district tops in the number of hi-tech classrooms (5,096), followed by neighbouring Kozhikode (4,105) and Thrissur district (3,497). We have completed the deployment of laptops, multimedia projectors, mounting kits, USB Speakers etc to 40,083 classrooms and additionally 16,500 laptops for the computer labs are also being deployed the week.” He further said that out of 4,752 government and aided high schools, higher secondary and vocational higher secondary schools all the classrooms in 3,676 schools have been made high tech. He also said that there are 59 schools in which not a single classroom has been made high-tech because approval to renovate the classrooms of these schools is pending from the authorities. “As a requisite for the hi-tech school programme, the schools have to ensure safe and secure classrooms only after which the ICT (Information Communication Technology) equipment would be provided to them,” Sadath said. In the meantime, laptops and projectors will be deployed to these schools in certain proportions. Teachers will be allowed to take the equipment from the labs to the classroom as and when required. “With such a plan in place, all students in Class 8 to 12 in Kerala would be able to make use of hi-tech classroom facility from this month onwards,” Sadath said. A total of 13,786 schools have also been equipped with the high speed broadband connection.

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Check important details and dates related to JEE Mains 2019

Now, that NTA (National Testing Agency) has started operating officially, the most popular exams of the central government such as JEE and NEET will be held twice a year by the NTA. An official announcement regarding the same was made HRD Minister, Prakash Javadekar, last week. Both the tests were organized by the CBSE earlier. The JEE exam for admissions to undergraduate courses in various engineering colleges will be conducted in the months of January and April. In another new change, these exams will span over multiple dates and students will have the full liberty to chose the date of their liking. If the students appear for the NEET and JEE twice, then the best of his/her score between the two exams will be considered for the counseling. “The main feature is that students will not lose one year because there will be two examinations before admission. He/ she can appear in either of the two, or both. The best score will be taken into account for the result,” Javadekar later tweeted. Eligibility criteria For a candidate to be eligible for JEE Mains and Advanced, it is required that she has at least 75 percent in the class 12 board exams or is among the top 20 percentile of the Boards. For the reserved category students, this limit has been lowered to 65 percent. Tentative exam schedule for JEE main 2019 January 2019 exam Online submission of application forms: September 1 to September 30, 2018 Dates of examination: January 6 to January 20, 2019 (8 different sittings, and the candidate can choose any one) Declaration of results: First week of February 2019 April 2019 exam Online submission of application forms: Second week of Feb 2019 Dates of examination: April 7 to April 21, 2019 (8 different sittings, and the candidate can choose any one) Declaration of results: First week of May 2019

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Saturday, July 14, 2018

10% cap on the fee hike for the private schools recommended by Child Right’s body

An official with the NCPCR said that the body has recommended a yearly cap of 10% fee hike for the unaided, private schools. Priyank Kanungo, a member of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, said that the body has come up with a framework of recommendations after they received reports that children are being harassed by the school authorities for the fee hike and some have even considered committing suicide over the fee hike issue. "We have made the recommendations to the HRD Ministry and has proposed the setting up of a district fee regulatory authority in states to monitor school fee increases," he said. Mr. Kanungo said that they have received numerous complaints of the mental and emotional harassment of the children at schools by the authorities over fee-related disputes between the parents and school administrations. Following the complaints, the body has come up with a fee regulatory framework for the private schools. The private schools makeup 23 percent of total schools in the nation and cater to the educational needs of 36 percent of the total population of children who are in schools. According to the draft regulations, if a school violates the norms of the framework then respective state government can bar the school from taking new admissions for the new session or can impose a fine equivalent to 10percent of the total revenue generated by the school in the previous year.

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