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German, Spanish to be elective language under CBSE course

By Ram M Sundaram  |  Express News Service  |   Published: 21st December 2016 01:29 AM  |  CHENNAI: The governing body of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday recommended that purely foreign languages like German and Spanish should be taught only as an elective fourth language.

This move comes in the backdrop of a high-level expert committee, constituted for the development of Sanskrit, suggesting the Centre to introduce Sanskrit as a subject for all students CBSE and ICSE schools across the country. 

A proposal based on this suggestion in the draft New Education Policy released by Centre two months ago faced stiff opposition from various non-Hindi speaking states including TN. 

Sources added that the Board of Governors meet which was convened on Tuesday also recommended the Human Resources Ministry to make Board exams mandatory for Class X students. At present, these exams are optional. This move was already being mulled, with the Union HRD Minister Prakash Javedkar indicating it earlier this year.

However, students currently in Class X will continue as per the current format where both the school-based and board-based options will be open. The recommendations suggest that the Board has stuck to the controversial decision of former Union HRD minister Smriti Irani, who had dropped German language from Central Schools. 

Emerging from the meeting, R K Chaturvedi, chairperson, CBSE said it has been unanimously decided by the members of the governing body to make it mandatory for all to take board examinations for Class X. Javedkar and Tamil Nadu School Education Minister K Pandiarajan were unavailable for comment. (With input from Sanjay Singh, Delhi)

source:http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2016/dec/21/german-spanish-to-be-elective-language-under-cbse-course-1551432.html

Will not impose or burden any language on students: Javadekar

NEW DELHI: Union Human Resource Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said the government will not impose or burden any language on students.

``But we want people to learn more and more languages,” the minister told reporters a day after the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)’s governing body recommended three language formula (like Sanskrit) be continued beyond Class 8 to Class X.

He said the government will implement the three- language formula in schools based on the recommendations by the Kothari Commission with the only exception with states like Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

Commenting on CBSE’s governing body approving restoring of the Class X board-based examinations from the next academic session, 2017-18, the minister pointed out that at least 15 lakh students appear for class X examinations out of which half of them, from government schools opt for board examinations while around seven lakh students only appear for school-based examinations.

``You cannot discriminate these seven lakh students from the total 2 crore students who appear for state board or CBSE board examinations. .

On CBSE recommending board examinations from next academic year which would be conducted in March 2018, after a gap of seven years, the minister said : ``We will duly clear and pass the CBSE recommendations for Class X board examinations”. The weightage of division of marks will be 80 per cent for the Board-based examinations and 20 per cent will be through internal assessments.

However for students currently in class X examinations they would continue as per the current format where both the school-based and board-based options is open.

The minister further remarked that the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) is part of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2010 and will continue.

On no-detention policy, the minister pointed out that the government has already prepared a Cabinet note and after clearing the required formalities it will be send for Cabinet’s approval.

The RTE Act, 2010, mandates that no child should be failed and detained in school until the completion of elementary education, or till Class 8.

However, the HRD ministry has reportedly approved a proposal for the no detention policy to apply only till Class 5. The proposal has been sent to the law ministry for examination. Any change in this policy will need amending RTE Act, 2010.

The Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) on October 25 recommended that the no-detention clause in the RTE be amended. This could result in children from Class V till Class VIII being held back if they fail the school examinations.

SOURCE:http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2016/dec/21/will-not-impose-or-burden-any-language-on-students-javadekar-1551682.html

Leg up for Sanskrit in CBSE’s new three language formula

CHENNAI: The governing body of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday approved restoring of the Class X board-based examinations from the next academic session, after a gap of seven years. The examinations for 2017-18 would be conducted in March 2018. While 80 percent of weightage would be for the Board exam, 20 percent would be based on internal tests.

The Board has also decided to bring in the controversial three-language formula, a move that is sure to trigger a furore in non-Hindi speaking states, particularly Tamil Nadu where there is a strong opposition to the imposition of Hindi and Sanskrit. 

The decision has come just a day after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Pannerselvam called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to handover a memorandum with a charter of demands that included a strong opposition to the introduction of three-language formula in schools, as Tamil Nadu has historically followed a two-language formula witah Tamil and English being taught.

“The CBSE was the only central board that was not following the three-language system up to Class X. Now the board has recommended it; the final decision is with the ministry,” highly-placed sources told Express. Under the three-language formula, the first language to be studied must be the mother tongue or the regional language.

In non-Hindi speaking states, the second language will be English or Hindi and the third language will be English or a modern Indian language. In Hindi-speaking states, students can choose English and modern Indian languages as their second and third languages. The CBSE has also recommended that foreign languages be taught only as an elective.

SOURCE:http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2016/dec/21/leg-up-for-sanskrit-in-cbses-new-three-language-formula-1551503.html

CBSE removes offensive references from textbooks

CHENNAI: Following objections against the alleged ‘denigration’ of the Nadar community in a class textbook, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has clarified that the section on ‘Upper Cloth Revolt’ in Southern India has been removed.

Published by the National Council for Educational Research and Training, the social science textbook prescribed for class IX students is used by several state boards, besides CBSE. The references were made regarding the revolt in the erstwhile Travancore state, covering parts of present-day Kerala and Tamil Nadu. 

According to the text, in 1822, women of the Shanar caste, who later were known as Nadars, were attacked by higher caste for wearing a cloth across their upper body.

But under the influence of Christian missionaries, the community started wearing tailored blouses. However, in 1829, the Travancore government directed Shanar women not to cover their upper parts. But it was met with a fierce and sustained resistance, leading to a confrontation with the Nair community. This subsequently forced the government to permit Shanar women, to wear a jacket, or cover their upper body “in any manner whatever, but not like the women of high caste”, the book read. The text book reference was severely condemmed by various political parties in the state as well as Nadar community. They claimed that the text conveyed wrong information, which misled students. 

As Chief Minister, J Jayalalithaa, in 2012, also wrote to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking his intervention to remove the objectionable references. Now, the CBSE in a circular said,  the section concerned stands omitted from the curriculum. The circular also said, no questions from this section should be asked in the exams. \

SOURCE:http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2016/dec/21/cbse-removes-offensive-references-from-textbooks-1551492.html

Minister backs CBSE move to make Class X exams a must

NEW DELHI: Supporting the CBSE governing body’s move to make the Class X Board exams compulsory from 2018, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said it was discriminatory to allow seven lakh students to opt out of the board exams when nearly two crore others were taking them.

He said the HRD Ministry will take forward the recommendations made by the CBSE governing body. He said there are around two crore students across the country who complete their Class X education every year. Out of these, 1.93 crore students take the exams conducted by different boards, whereas seven lakhs opt out of it. This kind of discrimination is not proper, Javadekar said.

He said that there had been popular demand from many schools, parents and education bodies to have a system where there is board exams for all. CBSE students at present have the option to choose between Board exams and school-based exams in Class X. 

The minister also said the government would not impose any language on students. “But we want people to learn more and more languages,” the minister told reporters a day after the CBSE’s governing body recommended three language formula (like Sanskrit) be continued beyond Class 8 to Class X.

SOURCE:http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2016/dec/22/minister-backs-cbse-move-to-make-class-x-exams-a-must-1551776.html

Learning begins from playing 

quintessentially school about ‘The School’, like the  little plastic pool set in the front entrance where kids frolic mindlessly. A teacher looks on as they splash water onto each other and soon all of them are drenched, their excitement palpable.  

The School, a pre-school and kindergarten started by Murdoch University  former lecturer Aji Divakar and his Singapore-based wife at  rural Paravoor is mainly about such moments and  learning here begins from playing. Their aim is simple: create genius minds.

Sans classrooms, desk-chairs and blackboards, kids here huddle around their  teacher (or facilitators as they are called here), learning things. While a few comfortably lie on the floor scribbling words, others take quick play  breaks before rushing back to their teacher. Most of them are below four and  display reading and writing skills beyond their age.

The start
It was in 2014 that Aji Divakar and his Singapore-based wife Chiek Chin Shyan flew down with their two kids to Paravoor. The dream of ‘The School’  where an alternative system of education will be practiced had taken wings long before that. By 2015, ‘The School’ began its operations for pre-schoolers and LKG with eight students.

“In 2010, our dream of a school, where an alternative approach will be practiced, took wings. So, I began saving  money and constucted the building.  We were adamant that there will be no classrooms or classes as such. Every child will be given a training that suits his or her caliber. Basically, our focus is on peer-to-peer learning,” says Aji Divakar. His wife Shyan trains the kids too.  

 
Aji says over the years, he has found the traditional education system futile. “What I follow in The School is a combination of Steiner and Montessori system where children are encouraged to be intelligent thinkers,” says Aji.

However, thinks weren’t easy. Following alternative education system meant challenges galore. Parent’s needed to be convinced. But, once results were seen, more parents approached them. Today, there are over 40 children at ‘The School’.

SOURCE:http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/2016/dec/28/learning-begins-from-playing-1553938--1.html

AICTE likely to dicuss issue of single national engineering entrance test

Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar. | AFP

NEW DELHI: The issue of holding a single entrance examination for admission to engineering colleges on the lines of NEET for medicine is likely to be discussed at a meeting of All India Council for Technical Education later this month. The issue was considered in the ministry at the level of HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar, sources said.

There is a view in the ministry in favour of holding a single national level test for entrance to engineering colleges on the pattern of NEET as it would address many concerns related to quality and bring in more transparency, they said. The ministry is keen on taking the consultation route and the issue will be discussed at a meeting of the AICTE scheduled later this month, the sources said.

The scores of the common test may be used by various government and private engineering colleges, they said.

At present, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducts the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), based on which students are chosen for admission to engineering colleges. Another issue which can be taken up for discussion at the AICTE meeting is conducting an exit test for students who pass out of engineering colleges to assess aspects related to skills and employability.

SOURCE:http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2017/jan/08/aicte-likely-to-dicuss-issue-of-single-national-engineering-entrance-test-1557469.html

CBSE postpones board exams to March 9 due to polls

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will conduct its board examinations for Class 10 and 12 from March 9 in view of the state elections conducted in five states namely Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur.

The CBSE board examinations for class 10 would end by April 10, while class 12 will be complete by April 29, according to CBSE.

In a press statement issued by the CBSE on Monday said the Board has tried to maintain reasonable time gap between the major examination papers that would ensure that the students appearing for Joint Engineering Exam (JEE) and upcoming National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) complete the CBSE examinations ahead of these entrance exams.

The CBSE had recently written to the Election Commission informing it that its Class 10 and Class 12 board examinations this year will not be delayed due to assembly polls.

The Election Commission had on January 5 announced the poll dates for the aforementioned five states. While the process of voting would be complete in all these states much before March 9, when the CBSE Board examinations starts, but counting of votes would be done on March 11.

The exams were earlier scheduled to commence from March 1 and the decision was taken keeping in mind the upcoming assembly elections in five states, during which many teachers will remain occupied with the election duty. "The board has given careful consideration to the situation before postponing the exams by a week which will now allow the students to get more time for the preparation and ensure uninterrupted sequence of examinations," CBSE said in a statement.

SOURCE: http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2017/jan/09/cbse-postpones-board-exams-to-march-9-due-to-polls-1557832.html

CBSE class 10, 12 exams from March 7

By Express News Service  |   Published: 10th January 2017 04:13 AM  |  

Last Updated: 10th January 2017 04:13 AM  |   A+A A-   |  

BENGALURU: Annual examinations of class 10 and 12 will be held by the CBSE for over a month, starting from March 9, 2017. The class 10 examinations will start on March 9 and conclude on April 10,
while class 12 exams will start from March 9 and end on April 26.

The exams have been delayed for a week this year in the wake of state assembly elections.
“The annual examinations of classes X and XII will be conducted by the CBSE from March 9, 2017, in view of the state assembly elections being conducted in five states of Punjab, Goa,Manipur, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh,” CBSE stated in an  official communication.

Exams are normally held in first week of March every year. This year, total of 16.67 lakh candidates from across 16,354 schools will appear for the class X exams. About 10.98 lakh candidates from 10,677 schools will appear for the class XII exams.The release from CBSE also stated that the results will be declared on time this year.

“The board has made all possible efforts to maintain reasonable time gap between the major papers. It has also ensured that the students appearing for Joint Engineering Exam and upcoming National Eligibility cum Entrance Test complete the CBSE examinations ahead of these entrance exams,” says the release.

SOURCE:http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2017/jan/10/cbse-class-10-12-exams-from-march-7-1558005.html

CBSE changes examinations dates for Class 10 and 12 examinations

By Express News Service  |   Published: 27th January 2017 04:48 PM  |  

NEW DELHI:  The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has changed the examination dates of subjects of three papers of Class 10 and 12 which includes Tamil language, Gurung and National Cadet Corps (NCC) for Class 10 and has also altered the schedules of other subjects following complaints by students and parents to CBSE about lack of sufficient gap between different subjects and the IIT Joint Entrance Examinations (JEE) 2017 which would be held on April 2.

According to CBSE, the Tamil language paper has been postponed by eight days, from March 10 to March 18, while that of Gurung language has been advanced from March 23 to March 10. NCC examinations, has also been delayed by eight days and it will be held on March 23 instead of March 15.

Additionally, the schedule of five papers of Class 12 namely Theatre Studies, Tangkhul, Physical Education, Sociology and Food Service-II has been altered.

The new date of Theatre Studies paper is April 10 instead of April 20, Tangkhul language exam will be conducted on April 10 and Food Service paper, which was to be held on April 29, will now take place on April 26.

These changes come in the wake of students and their parents complaining to CBSE about lack of sufficient gap in the dates of Biology paper and IIT Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) 2017, but the CBSE has kept the schedule for Biology exam unchanged.

The Class 10 CBSE examinations will start from March 9.

At least 10,98,420 students will appear for the Class 12 board examinations this year, while 16,67,573 candidates will take Class 10 examinations this year.

The CBSE had earlier advanced the board examination dates by nine days in the wake of elections in five states.

SOURCE:http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2017/jan/27/cbse-changes-examinations-dates-for-class-10-and-12-examinations-1564089.html

CBSE to conduct NEET entrance examinations for MBBS and BDS admissions on May 7

By Express News Service  |   Published: 31st January 2017 08:30 PM  |  

Last Updated: 31st January 2017 09:36 PM  |   A+A A-   |  

NEW DELHI: National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (UG), 2017 examinations for admissions to medical and dental colleges across the country will be conducted in 80 cities across the country on May 7, 2017, the Central Board of School Education, which conducting the test said in a statement on Tuesday.

The CBSE said admissions for all the seats of MBBS and BDS courses across the country will be made through NEET (UG) 2017 this year.

Accordingly, admissions will be made in all India quota seats, state government quota seats, state, management, NRI quota seats in private medical or dental colleges or any private or deemed university and central pool quota seats, the CBSE stated.

“Also Indian citizens, Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), Overseas Citizens of India, Person of Indian Origin and foreign nationals are eligible to appear in NEET (UG) 2017 and will also be eligible for 15% all India quota seats,” according to the Board.

The upper age limit of the candidates appearing for NEET (UG) has been fixed at 25 years on the date of conduct of examination. A five year relaxation has been given to the reserved category candidates.

“There shall be three attempts available uniformly for all the candidates in NEET examination. Aadhaar Number is required to fill up the online application of NEET 2017 for the candidates of all states except J&K, Assam and Meghalaya. In this regard, based on the Aadhaar Act, CBSE has issued a public notice to make the candidates aware,” the CBSE further informed.

“Candidates have been given an opportunity to submit the online application for a month period from January 31 to March 1. This year in all the seats of MBBS and BDS courses, admission will be made through NEET (UG) 2017,” the CBSE said.

Around 10 lakh candidates are expected to appear in the NEET examinations which would be held in 1500 examination centres spread across 80 cities across the country. CBSE will hold NEET-UG, 2017 for the first time for admission in MBBS and BDS courses.

The CBSE said its responsibility is to conduct the NEET 2017 and prepare an All India Rank based on the results of the examinations. “Admitting authorities will invite applications for counseling and Merit List shall be drawn based on All India Rank by the admitting authorities subject to their applicable rules,” the CBSE further stated.

SOURCE:http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2017/jan/31/cbse-to-conduct-neet-entrance-examinations-for-mbbs-and-bds-admissions-on-may-7-1565536.html

NEET EXAM DECLARED LAST DATE FOR APPLY ONLINE 01/09/2017

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http://www.careersstarts.com/2017/01/neet-2017-exam-declared.html
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The Reading Life

The Reading Life

Finally, the point of a life built on reading. As you trek back down the centuries, returning to myth and legend, to stories told by people gone for hundreds of years who had the same fears and hopes as you, who hoped that their future, the world you inhabit, would be a kinder and happier place, you understand that there will never be an end to the exploring. That is the pleasure and the challenge of it — a reader’s life has no full stop.

Source | Business Standard | 31 January 2017

New software makes English learning easy for schoolkids

Right to Reading initiative being implemented in govt-run schools across eight states in the country

 

The Right to Reading (RTR) initiative across eight states has revolutionised the way English is being taught for nearly one million children in government-funded schools. These states include Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and West Bengal. In 2014, RTR was implemented as a pilot project in the Aurangabad, Jalna and Beed districts of Maharashtra. Seeing its enormous popularity with the schoolchildren, the programme was subsequently extended to other parts of the country as well.

 

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Life Through a Mathematician's Eyes

Maryam Mirzakhani (born May 3, 1977) is an Iranian-American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.
On 13 August 2014, Mirzakhani became both the first woman and the first Iranian honored with the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics. The award committee cited her work in "the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces".
Her research topics include Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry.

National Bravery Awards 2016

National Bravery Awards 2016
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JEE Main 2017: Correction of application form to start from tomorrow

The candidates can apply for the correction of application form from January 25 to February 3, 2017

The correction of application form of the Joint Entrance Examination (Main) will start from tomorrow, January 25. The process will end on February 3, 2017.

The candidates also have to pay additional fee through credit/ debit card/ e-challan/ cash from January 25 to February 4, 2017.

Correction in uploading images has started from December 10, and the process will be ended within the first week of January.

This year, the 5th Joint Entrance Examination (Main) 2017 will be conducted on (Sunday) April 2, 2017.

The examination will be held by the Central Board of Secondary Education for admission to Undergraduate Engineering Programmes in NITs, IIITs and other Centrally Funded Technical Institutions etc.

Important note:

Candidates should make sure that before starting the online application process,  they have scanned all the documents, including Aadhaar card number, valid email ID and mobile phone number with them.

Selection procedure:

All those candidates who have successfully cleared the JEE (Mains) will be eligible to appear for the JEE Advanced exam round. On the basis of these two written exams, students will be allotted colleges.

Important dates:

Events

Events	Important Dates
JEE Main 2017 Registrations	December 1 to January 2, 2017
Last date to pay fees	January 3,  2017
JEE Main 2017	April 2, 2017
JEE Main 2017 Result	April 27, 2017(tentative)

For any query,  all the candidates can check the official website.

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Coming soon: First-of-its-kind Indian sign language dictionary

Over 6,000 words have been compiled in languages specific to Indian context.

THE TERM ‘hearing and speech impaired’ is a pejorative for Sachin Singh. “I am deaf and I have my own language. From where I stand, those who cannot understand my language suffer an impairment,” he gesticulates, as his interpreter Kushboo Soni spells it out through the spoken word.

Kushboo, who is proficient in the language of her deaf parents, and Sachin are part of a dozen-member team that is currently working on a central government project for documenting the first-of-its-kind Indian Sign Language (ISL) dictionary, which is expected to be released in March. Under the ambitious project, commissioned by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, so far over 6,000 English and Hindi words — of everyday usage, legal, medical, technical and academic terms — have been compiled in sign languages specific to the Indian context.

Once the compilation process is over, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment plans to call for a national conference so that experts from the field can further improve on it. The dictionary is also a corollary to the ministry’s Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill 2016, which was the only legislation to be passed during the last session of the Parliament. The Act, under sections 16 and 17, requires the government to ensure, in all manner possible, an inclusive education for all children with disabilities.

A recent survey by the ministry has found that there are merely 300 sign language interpreters in the entire country. According to a ministry official, this is the main reason why, of all persons with disabilities, literacy rate is the lowest when it comes to those who can’t hear.

“Presently, there are roughly 15 lakh deaf children in the school-going age; very few are actually able to get an education. This dictionary will be widely circulated in all schools, put up online with videos and eventually we want to have it in all regional languages. Our aim is that each and every school should have at least one teacher who knows the sign language,” says the official.

Madan Vasishta has documented how while only five per cent of the total deaf children go to school, just 0.5 per cent receive education in sign language which is the only way they can comprehend.

Back in the ISLRTC cell, researchers Rahul Garg and Islam Ul Haque, both deaf themselves, have identified 44 hand-shapes used in India under which each of the 6,000 words would be classified in the dictionary. Efforts are still on to come up with signs for abstract words. As researchers ponder over how to depict the befuddling ‘trigonometry’, Kushboo is quick to suggest that it should be broken into three different signs to indicate ‘mathematics relating to triangles’. For most of the researchers, many of whom are either deaf themselves or are siblings/ children of deaf persons, the final product would be more than just a dictionary. As Sachin puts it, through gestures that Kushboo interprets, it would an acknowledgement of their linguistic identity.
Source:http://indianexpress.com/article/india/coming-soon-first-of-its-kind-indian-sign-language-dictionary-4487058/

Now NEET candidates only have 3 attempts, age cap introduced

The National-Eligibility-cum-Entrance-Test (NEET) has introduced limits to the number of times aspirants can attempt the paper and the age of the candidates. Now, candidates can only try their hand at the paper three times and cannot be older than 25 years (30 years for reserved category), a surprising turn to a national examination that had no limit on the number of attempts and age till date.

This has been done to bring down the number of older candidates competing with 17-year-old candidates (the minimum age limit), and to prevent fraud and cheating.

According to data collected from the Maharashtra directorate of medical education and research (DMER), the oldest candidate was 38-years-old and at least another 100 aspirants were in their early 30s, TOI reports.

This year, candidates have been eagerly waiting for the notification of NEET 2017 but it has been delayed over a long time. Even the official website of NEET is not available as it is under construction. In 2016, the NEET examination replaced the All India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT) which used to take place every year in the month of May. It has been made mandatory for admissions in all-India medical/ dental colleges.

Also read: NEET 2017 to be held in 8 languages, forms to be released soon

This is a good decision,” says Dr Pravin Shingare, director of DMER. “There are some students who keep taking the test, and when they don’t make the cut, join a BSc college and keep taking the medical entrance test.”

For more stories on NEET and education, click here

Source:http://indianexpress.com/article/education/cbseneet-nic-in-now-neet-2017-candidates-only-have-3-attempts-4491418/

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Lifelong Learning : Equipping people to stay ahead of technological change

It is easy to say that people need to keep learning throughout their careers. The practicalities are daunting

WHEN education fails to keep pace with technology, the result is inequality. Without the skills to stay useful as innovations arrive, workers suffer—and if enough of them fall behind, society starts to fall apart. That fundamental insight seized reformers in the Industrial Revolution, heralding state-funded universal schooling. Later, automation in factories and offices called forth a surge in college graduates. The combination of education and innovation, spread over decades, led to a remarkable flowering of prosperity.

Today robotics and artificial intelligence call for another education revolution. This time, however, working lives are so lengthy and so fast-changing that simply cramming more schooling in at the start is not enough. People must also be able to acquire new skills throughout their careers.

Source:1)http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21714341-it-easy-say-people-need-keep-learning-throughout-their-careers-practicalities

2)https://www.mappr.in/posts/991818/

HRD ministry plans national entrance test for B.Ed

HRD ministry plans national entrance test for B.Ed

"B.Ed cannot be the last resort for youngsters who do not qualify for other disciplines," an official said.

Aiming to improve the quality of teaching in government schools, the HRD Ministry is working on an action plan which proposes to introduce a national-level entrance test for the B.Ed course, certification of B.Ed colleges, exit test for all B.Ed graduates and a compulsory induction programme for government school teachers.

According to ministry sources, the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) has been tasked to work on the modalities for conducting the entrance and exit tests and also draft the module for the compulsory induction programme.

“School education will not improve unless the teachers are good. We are looking at a multi-pronged approach to achieve this. For starters, we want better quality of candidates entering the B.Ed programme. B.Ed cannot be the last resort for youngsters who do not qualify for other disciplines. An entrance test will ensure that those serious about teaching take up this course,” said an official, who did not wish to be identified.

The official added: “To ensure the country is producing quality teachers, all B.Ed colleges should be compulsorily certified. There should be an exit test for all graduates of such colleges to ensure that they achieved the desired learning outcomes. It’s also important that fresh recruits in government schools attend an orientation programme to understand what is expected of them. These teachers should be thoroughly evaluated.”

The ministry is also working on a pilot project to ensure that teachers attend school regularly. For this, the ministry has proposed to give one computer tablet to each government school through which teachers can mark their attendance. The HRD Ministry estimates that each tablet will cost about Rs 4,000 to Rs 5,000. The pilot, which could cost about Rs 7 crore to Rs 10 crore, will be implemented in government schools in Chhattisgarh.

“We want to freeze the specifications of the computer tablet by March and place the order. We have discussed the project with the World Bank and they are on board to fund the pilot. We will also use some of the SSA funds for this,” the official said.

The computer tablet provided to government schools will not only be used to register attendance of teachers, but also enter data such as the number of students who have eaten mid-day meal, their attendance and Aadhaar details.

“We will also load educational content on these tablets which will aid in classroom learning,” the official said.

Source | Indian Express | 18 January 2017

XIIth Class Study materia, lFLAMINGO & The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells

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The Invisible Man, by H. G. WellsThe Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells
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LITERATURE (35 MARKS) TEXT BOOK FLAMINGO: Important questions of FLAMING

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4-year-old becomes librarian for a day in world's largest library

PTI | Updated: Jan 15, 2017, 05.19 PM IST

HIGHLIGHTS

• 4-year-old Daliyah Arana became the "librarian for a day" at the world's largest library in the US
• Arana, who has read more than 1,000 books, read her first at the age of two years
• Arana suggested the library to add whiteboards to the walls so children could practice their writing
• ASHINGTON: A four-year-old girl, who has read more than 1,000 books, has become the "librarian for a day" at the world's largest library in the US.
  
  Daliyah Arana, who is from Gainesville, Georgia, joined Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden -- who made history in 2016 when she became the first female and the first African-American to hold the position.
  
  Arana became the first-ever librarian for the day at the US Library of Congress on January 11, the ABC reported.
  
  Hayden and Arana sat in on meetings, met with library staff and roamed the many halls of the library.
  
  Arana also suggested the library to add whiteboards to the walls so children could practice their writing, which library officials said they were considering.
  
  Hayden tweeted photos of herself and Arana, saying "It was fun to have 4-year-old Daliyah Marie Arana of Gainesville, GA as 'Librarian For The Day.' She's already read more than a 1,000 books."
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  Arana read her first book, a picture book called Ann's Big Muffin, on her own at the age of two years.
• Around that time, her mother Haleema signed Arana up for the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten Programme - a programme that promotes reading for young kids - to keep track of just how many books her daughter managed to finish.
  
  
  
  Haleema decided to write to the Library of Congress to tell them about her daughter's book-reading brilliance. They responded by inviting the entire family down to the library, and let Arana act as a librarian for the day.
• "She just kept saying how the Library of Congress is her most favourite, favourite, favourite library in the whole wide world," Haleema said.
  
  
  
  The Library of Congress now plans to invite other young book-lovers as 'Librarians For The Day' in the future.

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