No braille textbooks for sightless college students in Odisha
BERHAMPUR: Absence of braille textbooks have forced sightless college students in Odisha to depend on either audio tapes or reading assistants. "We are facing much difficulty to prepare for examinations due to lack of braille books. Quite often, we are unable to pick up what reading assistants dictate to us," said Krushna Chandra Moharana, a second year student of Khallikote...
Govt moots KG to PG institutions
NEW DELHI: The government could roll out an ambitious programme of setting up of 'kindergarten to post graduate' institutions in educationally-backward districts of the country. The proposal is under consideration of the HRD Ministry and could find mention in the Union Budget to be tabled on February 28, sources in the ministry said. While the concept is not new to...
Nursery admissions to be digitalised
Gone are the days when parents have to visit schools for admissions. CBSE schools have made it more easy for the parents as the online admission portal has been opened for nursery in Chennai. The initiative was taken positively both by schools and parents. Schools have an upper hand of easily downloading the data provided by the parents and analyse...
The college-going boy can’t be a molester…or can he?
On January 16, a 24-year-old boy was arrested by the Delhi Police for killing his 20-year-old girlfriend after she had started ignoring him. He had dumped her dead body in a park and run away from the city . Creepy? The boy was a Delhi University student. If that unsettling bit of information takes you back to the 2013...
BCom results are out after a 24-day delay
MUMBAI: The university's third-year BCom semester V results were declared on Thursday, after a delay of 24 days. The exams got over on November 28 last year and the results were supposed to have been declared within 45 days. Of the 64,010 students who appeared for the exams, 65.28% cleared them, a rate similar to the 2013 exams. This year,...
College teachers in Odisha asked to improve skills
BERHAMPUR: College teachers in Odisha have been asked to improve their own skills in order to produce quality graduates in the state. "When we are working for quality enhancement in higher education, it should be both in teaching and learning," said state's higher education minister Pradeep Kumar Panigrahy. The minister said this while inaugurating a workshop on 'Quality enhancement in higher...
Modi invites students to share experiences in ‘Mann ki Baat’
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday invited students, teachers and parents to share their exam-related experiences for his monthly "Mann ki Baat" radio programme. "Was thinking about this month's radio programme and thought... why not share 'Mann Ki Baat' with students preparing for board and competitive exams," Modi said. The experiences would "inspire youngsters and even motivate them during...
Punjab to hold entrance test for MBBS, BDS in May
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government on Friday said it will conduct entrance test for admission in MBBS and BDS courses in May this year. The instructions in this regard have been issued to the officers to complete the necessary arrangements, a release quoted Punjab medical education and research minister Anil Joshi as saying. The minister issued instructions in a meeting in which...
IIM Nagpur ready to begin operations from July: MHRD secretary
NAGPUR: In a positive step for the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Nagpur, a team from the ministry for human resources development (MHRD) made site inspections for the proposed institute on Wednesday and gave a positive feedback, indicating that the premier institution may commence operations from July. "The permanent as well as makeshift facilities provided by the Maharashtra government...
