10,000 Violations Of Right To Education In Delhi

Just nine months after the Right to Education (RTE) Act was implemented in India, promising free and compulsory education to all children in the age group of 6-14, over 10,000 cases of violation have been registered by a child rights body in the capital.

Some children were denied admission to school, some were subjected to corporal punishment by the school authorities and yet others were denied the benefit of the economically weaker section (EWS) quota for poorer students in Delhi schools.

According to Amod Kanth, chairman of the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR), the body has registered 10,500 cases of RTE Act violation since its implementation.

"As per the RTE Act, the DCPCR monitors its implementation in Delhi. We have registered cases which involve violations of at least 15 kinds, like screening tests before admissions , corporal punishment, admission denial, mental harassment and others," Kanth told the sources in an interview.

"Initially, we had taken suo motu cognizance of media reports, but gradually parents started approaching us and now it seems like the floodgates have opened. Wherever required, we approach the school authority concerned and the compliance level is as high as 95 percent," he added.

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act was enforced April 1, 2010. The Act promises free and compulsory education to all children in the age group of 6-14.

Among others, it says no child shall be denied admission for lack of documents or if the admission cycle in the school is over. Disabled students should also be enrolled in mainstream schools.

The violations registered by DCPCR have been on the same lines.

"The commission intervened and issued a notice to the school principal after which the girls were admitted to the Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Azadpur," a DCPCR document revealed.

In another case, a physically handicapped father approached the commission after his daughter was denied admission under the EWS quota in a public school at Shalimar Bagh, northwest Delhi. In yet another instance, a Class 5 child was asked to take admission elsewhere on complaint of his "poor hygiene" and behavior, prompting his parents to approach the commission.

In the EWS quota case, a notice was issued to the school after which the girl was given admission under the quota, while in the other case the child was taken back to the school after counseling.

The DCPCR issued notice to the Delhi government on Friday on the nursery admission guidelines that it says are against the provisions of the RTE Act.

Other than the random selection criteria for 25 percent seats in the EWS category, the notice said for the rest of the 75 percent the guidelines violated the RTE Act since schools would be able to formulate their own admission policy.

"The schools will be free to base their criteria like sibling, alumni, single parent, transfer case or neighborhood. Multiple criteria would create preferences for certain types of categories of children over the other category of children which would be a clear violation of provisions of the RTE Act," a DCPCR statement said.

Kanth added, "The DCPCR is like a legal body. We are not toothless and our aim is not to act like an NGO. We act like a civil court." IANS

IIT Kanpur brood Over Steps To Prevent Student Suicides

A serious and need to take a effective steps against those student, catching the suicide decision whenever get the frustration. A senior faculty member told the media today that, "Students spending the whole night surfing the internet often fail to do well because they either miss classes or are too mentally fatigued to understand what is going on in class. Their failure to keep pace with their studies led to the suicides".

However, the decision to shut down internet services after midnight in the Wi-Fi enabled campus can only be taken after being cleared by the IIT senate, institute registrar S.S. Kashalkar said.

The country's premier engineering school has witnessed as many as eight suicides over the past five years. The most recent case was of 21-year old B.Tech final year student Madhuri Sale, who hanged herself in her hostel room on Nov 17. (IANS)

Slum Childrens Need Help - And Go To College

Delhi: Only 30 percent of Delhi's slum children make it to school beyond the age of 14. But defying the statistics and the odds, a clutch of bright-eyed youngsters is now studying humanities and even engineering in well known colleges - with a little help from an NGO.
Eighteen-year-old Babita looks frail, but she recently joined Maitreyi College of Delhi University as a political science student.

"After my Class 12 result, I thought I will be married off as my mother could not afford my higher studies. My father died eight years ago. My mother toils hard as a maid to make ends meet," said Babita.

"I remember times when my two brothers and I did not have anything to eat and slept empty stomach," she said sitting in her one-room cramped house in a narrow lane of Ambedkar Nagar slum in south Delhi.

"On the last day to pay the college fee, I did not have a penny. My mother asked me to drop the idea of joining college. I cried. I did not know what to do," Babita told the sources.

But an NGO named Asha came to her rescue by paying her college fees.
Mahesh, 19, is a reserved boy with an innocent smile. This student of Delhi College of Engineering said he has seen many twists and turns in life.

"Though I got 83 percent in Class 10, there was a mixed feeling of wanting to earn and study too. As I don't have a father, I felt the need to take on some of the financial burden from my mother," he said.

He stays in a one-room house with his two siblings and mother. A look inside reveals a corner full of books with his bag lying on top of them.
According to a report by Asha, every third Delhi resident lives in a slum colony and around 86 percent of the urban poor in Delhi is illiterate. By the age of 14, only 30 percent of children in Delhi slums attend school. Delhi has some 1,500 slums.

"Slum children are denied opportunities and very few aspire for higher education even if they manage to complete schooling. Even the brightest children, particularly girls, are not sent to college due to lack of money," Asha's founder Kiran Martin said.
Asha has also opened up a study centre so the slum kids have a quiet time to study. The NGO is a community health and development society that works with over 400,000 people in nearly 50 slum colonies of Delhi.

Supreme Court judges assists By 24 Gujarat law students

Twenty four students of the Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) here are attached to Supreme Court judges as part of their internship, the university said here on Wednesday.

"It is a matter of great pride and prestige for us that 24 students of GNLU are being trained while assisting the judges of the Supreme Court. It shows GNLU's commitment to serve all stake holders needing sound legal and judicial infrastructure," said GNLU Nice-Chancellor Bimal Patel.

The university release said that the apex court's Justice A.K. Ganguly had words of praise for the student interning with him. IANS

Killed British troops' kids to get free degree courses

Children of British troops, who died on active duty since 1990, have been offered free degree courses, a media report said on Tuesday.

An annual 8,200-pound scholarships will be on offer - enough to cover tuition fees, rent plus any extra books and equipment. Around 100 kids a year are expected to take advantage of the move, the sun.co.uk reported.

The big-hearted gesture - promised by the Tories before the general election - is a thank you for the sacrifice made by a father or mother, the report said.

Universities Minister David Willetts was expected to unveil the plan at the Tory party conference in Birmingham on Tuesday.

The offer is open to children at or near university age who had a parent - soldier, sailor or airman - killed on active duty since 1990.

More than 600 heroes have died in uniform in the last 20 years.

An extra 1.1-million pound will also boost an existing scheme to support ex-service personnel through their studies

Let's Make Strategies For IAS Preparation-Discuss

Time Management:

We see many people around us who spend their time in a frenzy of activity but achieve very little because they are not concentrating on the right things. They are perpetually busy but it does not necessarily mean that they make optimum utilization of their time. So there is a great need for effective Time Management in our lives today.
We keep hearing the word "Busy" a lot. There are two kinds of busy, chaotic, disorganized busy and calm effective busy. It goes without saying that being the latter helps to pack in more productivity in your work. Improving our "effectiveness Quotient" calls for mastery of basic time management skills.
We constantly hear the refrain that we do not know where the time goes. Whether you are an executive, a student or a homemaker, you need to achieve more in every minute of the day and to enjoy each task that you take up. We will be well on our way to the top if we know how to squeeze the most out of even a minute.
The first thing to bear in mind is to question whether you have a personal sense of time or a time log. This helps you to keep track of how you spend each hour. There is a way to do this. Divide each day for a period of two weeks into one hour intervals and jot down what you do in them. You can sub divide the activities under such headings as business meetings, writing, making phone calls, reading, time spent with the family etc. At the end of the week, examine your time log.

How To Prepare For Prelims:

The civil services examination is basically a test to choose suitable administrators. It tests the candidate right from the stage when one starts the preparation. One common misconception about the prelims is that it is a test of facts and figures. This is not so. A candidate should have the right frame of mind and the will power to succeed in the exam. A proper action plan is needed for the preparation itself since he /she will be tested for some essential qualities like power of retention, clarity of concepts, ability to identify the correct alternatives with efficiency and accuracy. All this requires a quick decision making power. Since the preliminary exam in particular is a test of endurance the candidate needs to prepare himself on the physical as well as mental level. The main constraint is the time one gets to answer questions. On an average one gets around 40 seconds for each general Studies question and around 50 seconds for each optional question. Added to this time constraint is the fact that the exam is conducted in the month of May which is usually the hottest month all over the country. Most of the centres for the exam do not have proper facilities which adds to the stress. One sure way of dealing with this stress is to count numbers or to take a few deep breaths. Meditation and Yoga also help in dealing with stress to a great extent.

How to Prepare Notes:

Appearing for any competitive exam requires a lot of preparation. Students should be ready to face this challenge in the best possible way. Though there is no one way of studying, there are ways to study more effectively and with less stress and more enjoyment. It is important to know how to make use of the sources available to you in the best possible way. It is wise to take a three pronged approach to preparation, reading to learn, making effective notes and able to write answers to various kinds of questions.
Students are often faced with the daunting task of making voluminous notes. Now the question arises as to why make notes at all. There are several good reasons, one is that you cannot make notes without understanding the given topic, since you have to pick out the important points and try to summarise them. Next is that writing down any information helps you to remember it better. Thirdly, it makes a good practice for thinking and writing out essays. Fourth, it will prompt you to revise your work since it does not take a long time to go through a set of well made notes. Lastly, it helps you in your final revision by reminding you of the most important points of each topic.

How to Write Answers:
The civil services main exam consists of descriptive type of questions. It focusses on testing the candidate on various levels. The time limit for the essay paper is 3 hrs without a word limit, but for the optional paper, there are questions with specific word limit like 250 words in optional subjects and 250 words, 150 words and 20 words in general studies. The candidate then has to prepare himself to answer all types of questions. The most important thing to be kept in mind is the time constraint. Therefore it becomes necessary to answer these questions quickly and effectively and in minimum words.
STYLE OF ANSWERING QUESTIONS:
For this it is very important to understand the question first. Depending on what the question is, whether one is asked to "discuss", "elucidate", "explain","critically Appreciate" or "give reasons for and against", the answer should be written Accordingly because it is only through the examinee's style of answering questions that one can assess his or her originality of thought and analytical abilities. The question should be read properly, in fact the question paper should be read thoroughly in the first five or ten minutes of the exam and then one should decide on the questions which are to be answered first. Time should also be given to frame the answer so that there is no confusion later on

Gaining Mental Power for UPSC:

UPSC exam preparation needs thorough planning. Candidate can not achieve success until he organizes his study matter, make proper time management and get guidance from professors and experts. These are the core preparations and everyone makes great efforts to do well in examination to get success. In today's competitive environment, examinee is struggling with number of issues. Even though he put extreme knowledge and attempts, he can not manage resources and cover all topics related to examination. There are various factors parallel affecting when students appear in competitive examination. These may be personal, environmental or related to subject. First of all, student must have to learn to cope up with these problems. There are many ways by which he can solve problems as they arise. Sometimes we have to instantly provide solutions so that these factors do not create hurdles in exam preparation. Candidate must have to be detached from many activities and voice everyone that I can share only serious matter. He must avoid entertaining guests, picking things, purchasing and so on.

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First educational reality show to air

The achievements can be in the pedagogical innovations - activity-based, bringing in IT into education, infrastructure, best teaching practices, physical fitness programmes, agriculture initiatives in schools, sanitation and cleanliness etc.

"This show will also be an ideal opportunity in understanding the different aspects of the learning process and will help in gauging the feedback of students and teachers for policy making," said Sadath.

Each episode will have three segments.

"The first segment will be a profile of the school, then there will be a video prepared by our crew on the different activities of the school, and then the school will be given an opportunity to present their performance before a jury. The overall performance of the school in at least three of the fifteen sectors suggested will be evaluated," said Sadath.

The eligibility and evaluation criteria along with prize details will be announced next month.

IT@School is the technology arm of the general education department of the state government, set up for empowering the state school populace by imparting ICT-enabled education besides implementing e-governance within the education department.

Ethical Hacking workshop in Aligarh Muslim University

Hacking in AMU, Two days program held on in Zakir Husain College, That was a good time during the hacking session,Todays Ethical Hacking is taking a new technical role in this Era.

If you are having the knowledge of this course or you have done it , then there is a bright career ,waiting for you.

There are several programs will be launched on cyber laws in future, well lets know about the session held on Ethical Hacking.

The Department of Civil Engineering (DOCE) at Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology of the Aligarh Muslim University(AMU) organized a two day "National Workshop on Ethical Hacking" in Kennedy House Auditorium in collaboration with M/s Kyrion Technology Pvt. Ltd.

More than 100 students from Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology, Women's Polytechnic, Faculty of Science and also from different Engineering Colleges at Aligarh participated in the workshop.

The workshop ran in four sessions of four hours duration each and the experts from M/s Kyrion Technology Pvt. Ltd. delivered lectures and organized training sessions for the students. The company also provided software worth Rs. 750/- to each participant.

DoCE Chairman Razaullah Khan, while addressing the last session of the Workshop, urged the participant to use this modern knowledge of Ethical Hacking in an ethical manner and use it for betterment of the society as it is a very powerful instrument against the menace of hacking and violation of other cyber laws.

Boards Examination and Its Moderation Policies

Central Board Of Education(CBSE) decided change as the moderation policies in Examinations,Lets Knnw about that..
Prior to declaration of results of Senior School Certificate (Class 12) and Secondary
School (Class X) the Board adopts the Moderation Policy in the following manner:

a) To compensate the candidates for the difficulties experienced in solving the
question in a specified time due to misinterpretation/ambiguity of questions and
errors, if any, leading to multiplicity of performance and causing constraints on
consumption of time for other questions.

b) To compensate the vagaries and to bring uniformity in the evaluation process.

c) To bring parity on account of element of subjectivity involved in the evaluation
process.

d) To level up the mean achievements in the set-wise performance of the candidates
attributable to the difference in the difficulty level of different sets of question papers in the multiple sets scheme.

e) To maintain a near parity of pass percentage of the candidates in the current year vice a versa preceding years, subject-wise and overall.

Protestation On UPSC Results By The Students

Jantar Mantar, A Place to share the problem to all, Well Students are not satisfied with the UPSC Results declarartion by the Board. They created protestation on sunday, becaues they are not agree with results.

A candlelight vigil was held by the students who alleged that the results were not fair and blamed the commission of corruption.

"Many students with lower scores have made it to the list, while those with higher marks have been left out," said Anurag Tripathi, a PhD scholar from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi.

The UPSC preliminary exams results were declared last week. The UPSC conducts a three-tier exam yearly for entry into country's higher administrative services.

The students are demanding greater transparency in the procedure of conducting the exam and revelation of the cut-off marks.

"I scored 84 in Geography and 56 in General Studies but my name was not in the list, but I know students with lesser marks who have made it to the list," said Kapil, another student from JNU.

Disclosure of marks and the cut-off has been demanded by students in the past as well. The commission has also rejected Right To Information applications demanding the disclosure of marks.

"We want the UPSC results to be revised. They don't reveal the information in RTI, there is no transparency," said Ashok Kumar, who has done his masters from Jamia Millia Islamia University.
Well whatever happened but students are affected by the UPSC panel, really.

Maths Lab set up in Chennai Schools

Right way to going some steps, now the Labs setup get by two schools in Chennai. Even it got a good expanses but should be effective,Hope!

Well there are some special equipment established in these Maths labs. And the fure plan sof opening new libraries in various area schools running on, that will be effective in school learnings.

Maths promises to get more interesting for students of two Chennai Schools as the Chennai Corporation on Wednesday opened a Mathematics lab each in the institutions.

The facilities at the Chennai Higher Secondary School, Tiruvottiyur and Chennai Girls Higher Secondary School in Saidapet were inaugurated by Mayor M. Subramaniam.

Speaking at a function organised at the school in Saidapet, the Mayor said that within a month 67 new libraries would be opened in Chennai High Schools and Higher Secondary Schools.

According to a release from the Corporation, the Maths lab would benefit students of classes VI, VII and VIII. A total of 1,500 students would be benefitted in the first phase.

The cost of the first phase of the project is Rs.8.06 lakh, including the Rs.3.89 lakh worth equipment funded by the Tamil Nadu Small Industries Corporation.

Ramanujan Museum and Math Education Centre would train teachers and help these labs function for a period of three years, the release said.

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Importance of SEO(Search Engine Optimization) , These Days !

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Common MBBS And PG Entrance Exam

From now The MBBS and PG courses will be running concurrently, Exams will be held as a common basis.
MBBS and PG courses in medical colleges will not have to appear for numerous tests. The Union From now on those aspiring to get admission into MBBS and PG courses in medical colleges will not have to appear for numerous tests. from next year onwards. The move is expected to replace over 17 pre-medical tests (PMTs) conducted across the country. Admission tests are conducted annually for nearly 32,000 undergraduate and 13,000 postgraduate seats in medical colleges across the country.
S K Sarin, the head of Board of Governors of Medical Council of India (MCI), on Tuesday said the Health Ministry has cleared the MCI’s proposal for a common entrance test for undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
According to ministry officials, the idea is to bring in uniformity. As of now, every state has its own rules. For instance, students in Gujarat are enrolled on the basis of the marks obtained in the senior secondary examination.
“A lot of wrong doing has come to our notice. The new system will, therefore, bring in uniformity and common standard for all,” said a senior official in the ministry.

More than 150 clear UPSC preliminary:Ahmedabad

In UPSC civil service examination more than 150 students from Gujarat have cleared the preliminary test of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). About 20,000 students from the state had appeared for this test whose results were declared on Thursday. The final exam is scheduled to be held on October 29.

A total of 3.50 lakh students across the country had appeared for the preliminary test, out of which 12,500 students have passed.

For the past few years, students from Gujarat have been doing well in UPSC exam. Last year, about 90 students from the state cleared the UPSC prelim test. This year, 13 from the state cleared the final exam, which is conducted twice every year. The development has come as a major morale booster for students here. The state has registered 20 per cent growth in number of UPSC candidates.

Quiz Session by IGNOU.....??

The Quiz session by the IGNOU,Nice way to represent the knowledge emerges in their heart.
On tuesday Indira Gandhi National Open University Organised a contest IGNITE 2010,many colleges and universities participated,it was so effective session and so much enjoyful,Let's know the full report on it,Go a head...
An exhibition and short film was also screened during the occasion. The university which started with just two courses and 4,000 students in 1985, has today evolved into the world's largest, most diverse and inclusive institution, offering over 3,500 courses and catering to over three million students.

Around 80 teams from schools across the city participated in the quiz contest. Six teams qualified for the main round. Talking about the wide range of academic programmes offered by IGNOU and the massive potential for millions to benefit from them, V N Rajasekharan Pillai, vice chancellor, IGNOU said, "The future is in the hand of the youngsters and they are going to contribute a lot to this world."

From audio-visual round to identifying a personality, the quizmaster made it all very interesting for the audience and the participants. Questions were prepared for the audience as well and whoever answered them correctly also won prizes. Teams SKCH-4 and SKCH- 1, both from Sri Kumaran Children's Home CBSE School, bagged the first and the second prizes respectively. Other participating schools were Deeksha School, National Hill View School and Christ Junior College.

Medical Council of India, Let's Know Some!

Common Medical Examination will be held on Next year, the panel has been decided, Lets know that what the summary regarding news.
A common entrance test for students aspiring to study medicine is likely to be introduced from the next year, the Medical Council of India (MCI) said on Tuesday.

"The common entrance test for undergraduate and postgraduate students will soon be a reality. The health minister has approved (it). We are awaiting the notification to be issued. Once the notification is issued it should be implemented for 2010-2011," MCI's Board of Governors' chief S.K. Sarin said.

The MCI has proposed a common entrance test (CET) for all medical colleges in the country. According to Sarin, it will cover the private as well as government medical colleges across the country.

"It will be convenient for the students who presently have to take 10 to 15 different entrance tests," he said.

Ranks will be given to students on the basis of this test which will be used for admission in colleges all across the country. The move is also being seen as an attempt to bring an end to the management quota seats and other unfair means practiced in giving admission in private medical colleges.

"This test will ensure transparency, every college will have to take the students on the basis of the ranks," he said.

However, the inclusion of All India Institute of Medical Sciences and other central medical colleges is not clear yet.

"These institutes are not under MCI. We have proposed their inclusion," Sarin added.

The health ministry proposal comes as the human resource development (HRD) ministry has proposed a common entrance test for medical as well as engineering.

Sarin, however, said that the modalities of the CET is yet to be finalized and the council is in dialogue with Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and HRD ministry as well.

"Reducing the burden on students is the main concern and it can be done in coordination with the HRD ministry," he said.

Education Economic Issue By Obama

Several times during his 25-minute speech Obama argued that investing in education is the “single most important” move his administration can make toward building a solid economic foundation... Obama speech ties U.S. need for more college graduates to the economic recovery Washington Post: Saying that the country's long-term economic recovery depends on a wholesale improvement in education, President Obama on Monday pledged his administration's best efforts toward increasing the number of college graduates... Texas Schools Paying for Tutors With Mixed Track Record EdWeek/AP: School districts across Texas are paying tens of millions of taxpayer dollars for private tutoring that has a mixed track record of improving student test scores [and billions for an education system who's record is just as bad]...Lesson Plan in Boston Schools - Don’t Go It Alone NYT: Rather than have the principal fill the slots one by one, the Boston schools have enlisted the help of a nonprofit organization, Teach Plus, to assemble teams of experienced teachers who will make up a quarter of the staff of each turnaround school come fall.