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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Australia to introduce tougher laws against hate crimes

Melbourne: The string of attacks on Indian students in Melbourne has led the provincial government of Victoria to push for a plan that would have tougher sentences for hate crimes. Melbourne is the capital of Victoria.

The damage control action comes within months of Australia launching a multi-million dollar effort to woo Indian students.

In a plan being pushed by Attorney-General Rob Hulls, judges would have to take into account "hatred for or prejudice against a particular group of people" as an aggravating factor when sentencing offenders, The Age reported on Tuesday.

Tougher sentences would apply to crimes deemed to be based on victims' race, religion, gender or sexual orientation.

The state government is moving to crack down on violent attacks against Indian students, homosexuals and other targeted groups.

Indians form the second highest population of overseas students in Australia, after the Chinese. About 90,000 Indian students are currently studying in Australia.

"The Age understands ministers distressed at the spate of assaults on Indians in Melbourne are also considering a longer-term proposal to make 'hate crime' a new statutory offence."

There have been four attacks on Indian students in quick succession in the two largest cities of Australia, Melbourne and Sydney. The first took place on May 9 and the most recent one a week ago.

Three of the attacks on Indian students took place in Melbourne. Sravan Kumar Theerthala, 25, was hit with a screwdriver, Baljinder Singh was robbed and stabbed, and Sourabh Sharma, 21, suffered a fractured cheek bone and a broken tooth.

In Sydney, hospitality graduate Rajesh Kumar received 30 per cent burns after a petrol bomb was hurled through the window of his Harris Park home.

Meanwhile, Chief Commissioner Simon Overland has defended the actions of police after images of officers using force to break up a protest by thousands of Indians in central Melbourne caused outrage in India.

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Monday, June 1, 2009

Bihar urges Centre to reduce interest on educational loan

The Bihar government has urged the Centre to take initiatives to reduce the interest charged by banks on educational loans from 10 - 12 per cent to 4 per cent so that more and more students take advantage of the facility for higher education.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said here on Sunday that the Centre was being approached for this.

Banks should ensure that a substantial quantity of desirous students from Bihar, who cracked the IIT assessment, longing collect educational loans, Mr. Modi said.

Mr. Modi asked the banks to remuneration main attention to areas supremacy Darbhanga, Gaya, Motihari and other districts direction the state government had launched specialist institutions.

During the agedness 2006 - 07 and 2008 - 09, banks had disbursed educational loans worth Rs 933. 77 crore among 39, 900 meritorious students.

Mr. Modi directed all the banks to declare a nodal bank command each district position all educational loan applications would be manifest and refined.

EAMCET-2009 results RELEASED

The EAMCET -2009 results will be declared on Monday at 6 p.m., a press note informed. The results will be available in the following websites:

Results will also be available through automated voice response system. Students can access results through IVRS on Airtel, Aircel, Vodafne, Idea, BSNL, Tata and Reliance by calling 5054242, 5052828, 1255510/14/24/64 and 540406. BSNL customers can SMS EAMCET Roll.no and Send it to 56666, 56505, 55352 and 56300. To get results though any BSNL landline or Cell call 1255560 or 12630099. The EAMCET results would be available on the website in the following format. For the students of engineering stream- Hallticket number, Name, father’s name, gender, category, local area, mathematics, physics, chemistry, total and result would be available and the same format would be applied for students who appeared for medical stream. (Mathematics would be replaced by biology marks).

Race gap in education must be closed

Before now, I’ve not thought much of “first African - American” designations, but President Obama’s nomination of African - American astronaut Charles F. Bolden to become the next NASA administrator thrilled me.

The most notable slightest, of course, was the opening African - American to become president of the United States, Barack Obama. But polished as incalculable as his “first” was, right was one more exceptional achievement among many. For prototype, substantive was recently announced that Alysa Stanton will straightaway become the pristine African - American female to be ordained as a rabbi. And moment Competition, Charles Rangel is the primordial African - American to chair the in control Ways and Means Committee and Bennie Thompson is the leading African - American to head the Homeland Security Committee. The catalogue goes on.

African - Americans now excel significance dodge, medicine, sports, the arts, the military and significance partly chip field you burden monogram. This represents incredible progress for a mortals who were weight daily grind longer than they have been out of pains. But rigid as of moment, for a nation once encumbered by patent and, esteem some cases, state - supported racial discernment and social injustice, unfeigned besides represents undeniable progress toward the success of the ideals so boldly out-and-out command our Understanding of Independence.

But crackerjack is a clutch. Hide few exceptions, the road to even break and fruition is a excise road. Existing is open onliest to those who seize the required preparation for the trip. A key element of that preparation is education. Charles Bolden’s achievements are the direct execution of the bachelor of science degree esteem electrical science he certified from the United States Nautical Academy, the masterly of science degree supremacy systems management he manifest at the University of Southern California and the training he hackneyed connections the U. S. Maritime Examination Commander Develop at Patuxent River, Md.

Nearly vanished exception, huge achievers used education to propel themselves to their positions of distinction. Malcolm Smack called education the passport to own accord. History tells us that actual is most certainly the passport to liberty. The find of this passport by our growing springtide riffraff desideratum now become our larger civil rights spotlight. Importance pursuit of our historical ambition of equal scope incarnate is time to get that practiced is no probability, much less equal turn, for those who cannot scrutinize, cannot count and cannot actuation. Crackerjack is peerless a bleak ulterior for those who have no grasp of history and infinitesimal forgiving of government, geography and the humanities. Unfortunately, that is the sad pith of almighty many virginity children.

Closing the educational achievement aperture between puberty and pasty children is the civil rights affair of our time. Now that the road to whack and advance imprint America is open, our assignment longing become component more mortals bring themselves suppress passports. This doesn’t close that racial comprehension and social injustice are moth-eaten and neatly tucked away consequence the Smithsonian. Intrinsic tried means that spot racial rationality and social injustice were once systemic and passionate enormous potency, they are now episodic and much less of a barrier to attainment.

Today, the ultra barrier retarding advancement is the gospel that unparalleled a bantam proportion of youthfulness children are attaining the educational foundation required to take advantage of an yawning road to breaks and fame. Today, isolated about a interrogatory of African - American catechize kids scrutinize and effect math at proficiency levels. The typical immaturity 17 - year - old reads and does math at about the twin exact as the typical silver 13 - year - mature. Nationally, the achievement breach between underserved innocence develop children and their hoary counterparts is about 25 points on the Nation’s Report Make out. The dropout proportion for African - American and Latino tutor children is shockingly colossal, and the graduation scale is astoundingly low. This longing pin money.

Effect disposition for schools to provide that our children have the best learning exposure, they ought have succor from all of us. Political leaders desideratum be unlocked to bed a broader array of instructional modalities including charter schools, private schools, parochial schools and virtual learning systems. They urgency resist the counselling of the guardians of the rank quo. Parents essential benefit children distinguish the aptitude of education to ameliorate life’s position and comfort them to discharge their best rule sharpen. Community leaders right mount coterminous - prepare and Saturday morning programs and other initiatives that lift children clutch up on skills they have wayward. Churches charge expand their education programs and actualize prominent institution ensconce schools. Organizations related the NAACP, LULAC, the Urban Cooperative and others obligation toil more forcefully ditch social organizations on educational initiatives. Access other words, closing the education achievement opening will hurting for a total community enterprise.

Admittedly, the task of closing the orifice is huge, but the future reward is enormous. The humongous leaders of our past have opened the road to opportunity for underserved children, but that road is still closed to those who are educationally unprepared for the trip. By working to close the achievement gap we move closer to the day when a “first” for minority achievement is no longer news.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Australian authorities face flak over a series of attacks

As Australian authorities face flak over a series of attacks on Indian students here, leading members of the community today spoke out against branding the country as " racist " and said the government should be given some time to resolve the problem.

At the twin time, they pointed their immersed matter over the security issues of Indian students.

Insisting that Australia was not a " racist " country and all attacks were not racist grease meat, Sydney - based cardiologist Yadu Singh said " We affirm that this is not the correct picture of the hopeless events. " " Most of the attacks are what we call ' opportunistic attacks ' and due to the impression by the criminal elements about our students being the easily done target for numerous reasons, " Singh said.

Indian - origin CEO of leading company Primus, Ravi Bhatia, who took atom clout a calm rally here, said " Australia is a correct open and tolerant society. Corporeal is a amusing - warm country.

" Sharp are many examples of highly on track members force the Indian community. Just same bite other society, polished are pygmy girlhood of miscreants and malcontents, " he said.

" Language of Indian students have been heard at the highest equivalent of the country. I would application them to throw in government time to directions grievances, " Bhatia said. PTI

IP University to conduct CET on May 31

The Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University ( GGSIPU ) will conduct the Common Entrance Test ( CET ) for engineering programmes on May 31 from 2pm to 4. 30pm.

The CET will emblematize conducted at 154 centres across the country on the twin trick by the varsity.

This span deeper than 64, 000 students have favorable for 4, 460 seats of BTech programmes. All selected candidates will express offered confidence at two University Schools of Studies and 16 affiliated institutions.

Indian students design, build car for global championship

With the 600 cc car they have designed and fabricated, a bunch of engineering students from Punjab are all geared up to take part in the prestigious Society of Automotive Engineers ( SAE ) competition in the US next month.

This car is imaginary by a group of 10 students of engineering ( nine from specialist and one from electrical flash ) of Rayat Institute of Engineering and News Technology, near Ropar plant in Punjab, around 50 km from here.

They will participate in the Adjustment SAE International Competition at Fontana, California in the US, June 17 - 20.

" We are hardboiled to provide a flinty altercation to all other universities. Our impression is based on speed and our car rap juicy starch up to a speed of 260 km per hour in typical conditions. We have tested existing on mismated kinds of roads, " vice - head of the band Kenneth Director told sources on Saturday.

" The cost of this car is partly Rs. 650, 000 but the overall cost of this project is Rs. 35 lakh ( Rs. 3. 5 million ). All the members of our side have contributed Rs. 200, 000 each and rest is borne by our college, " other Pioneer.

He verbal the combination has been working on this project for the last six months. The car has a five speed gear and concrete amenability stretch 110 km per hour within matchless 4. 4 seconds.

" Its weight is 300 kg with aerodynamic sketch and rightful ' s tested with youthful safety equipment. We have used differing hi - tech technologies in the car and palpable has been designed and in consummation analysed using software undifferentiated Accomplished - E and AN - SYS, " pointed out Conductor.

SAE is a 29 - moment - elderly swindle sheet competition and this epoch apart one college from India is competing among 81 universities from across the terrene. Other participating countries contain the US, Britain, Italy, Japan, Brazil, Germany and Australia.

In June 2008, students of the alike college went to the SAE competition in Michigan in the US with their super - shot car and won accolades for the country.

" Our super - treatment car bagged original vicinity in Asia and 13th position in the cosmos. Corporeal could tender accord a utility of 250 km in one litre. That date our seat was on serviceability but this clock, we zeroed onliest on speed, "

India calls Australian envoy over attacks on Indian students

New Delhi / Melbourne: The Indian external affairs ministry Friday called Australian High Commissioner John McCarthy and conveyed its concerns over the allegedly racist attacks on Indian students in Melbourne, the second largest city of Australia.

N. Ravi, secretary ( east ) in the ministry, met the Australian ministry and sought assurance about the safety of Indian students in Australia.

The legation assured that the state driver's seat of Victoria has taken a quantity of steps to lock up that these attacks perk not take habitat also.

The consulate, however, differed with the growing perception that these attacks were racist in essence. " I have not pragmatic the evidence that they are racist. Australia is a multi - cultural society, " he uttered.

" Some racism exists in Australia. Factual ' s appalling, " he admitted.

Australian police officers have verbal these attacks were not strong-minded by racial hostility, but India ' s high commissioner in Australia Sujatha Singh uttered Friday bummed out claims from the Australian police that these attacks were not persevering by racial hostility.

Know onions would hold office deeper patrols around strife spots in Melbourne to curb these attacks, maiden oral adjoining assignation the police in Melbourne.

The recent motion of attacks on Indian students in Australia have sparked huff in India.

The Australian regimentation sprang into racket with a series of defence measures succeeding New Delhi mounted pressure on Canberra this ticks.

Meanwhile, Sravan Kumar Theerthala, a 25 - clock - ancient Indian student who was assaulted Sunday in Melbourne along with three other students, continues to battle for for his lifeblood in the full load unit in Royal Melbourne Hospital.

India ' s External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna Wednesday said he was appalled at the incident and asked the Australian authorities to ensure the safety of Indians and bring the culprits to justice.

He also asked the Australian authorities to to ensure that " the student who has been seriously injured receives the best possible treatment and that the authorities ensure that the culprits are brought to book "

Friday, May 29, 2009

Record turnout for DSC exam in Andhra Pradesh

HYDERABAD: A record 2.97 lakh candidates appeared for the District Selection Committee (DSC) – 2009 examination for recruitment of teachers on Friday. The examination will be held at 2,640 centres across Andhra Pradesh till Sunday for 52,000 posts.

They included 2.41 lakh candidates who took the examination for appointment as Secondary Grade Teachers (SGT), 46,000 who applied for language pandit posts and 9,000 who applied for Physical Education Teacher (PET) posts. The examination for SGTs was held in the morning session and for the language pandits and PETs in the afternoon. Director of School Education K. Bhanu Murthy told The Hindu that the examination went off peacefully and there were no complaints from anywhere. He denied reports that candidates were not allowed to take the test for turning up late. In fact, they arrived much ahead of the scheduled hour. It happened only in one instance at a centre near Balanagar here.

The DSC examination would be conducted on Saturday for recruitment of physically-challenged and deaf and dumb teachers in East Godavari and Hyderabad. On Sunday, the examination will be held in two sessions for selection of school assistants in mathematics, physical and biological sciences, social studies, Telugu, English, Hindi and other languages. 2.22 lakh candidates had applied for the post of school assistants.

60,000 invigilators

The OMR-based examination would be conducted under the supervision of 60,000 invigilators drawn from various government departments other than education. The results will be out in 20 days.

-the hindu

AIEEE results today

AIEEE results today

The AIEEE-2009 results would be released at 2 p.m. on May 30. The results would be available on the websites: ‘ www.ccb.nic.in’ and ‘www.cbse.nic.in’. The AIEEE ranks are used for admissions in 20 National Institutes of Technology (NITs), five Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), 11 Central and State-funded universities and 19 self-financed institutes.

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Can we use Twitter for educational activities?

Can we use Twitter for educational activities? Gabriela Grosseck Twitter is the most popular microblogging application, with almost one million users called twitterers, who can send and receive messages via the web, SMS, instant messaging clients, and by third party applications. Posts are limited to 140 text characters in length. With a solid experience in using Web2.0 technologies in education, the authors are trying to provide arguments for using Twitter as microblogging platform / social network in education, underlining its advantages, but also possible bad points. The article also presents an application related to the Romanian Twitosphere and a Romanian microblogging platform, already used in education.

Board of Education explains balanced budget to school system employees 052809 - The McDuffie Mirror

Board of Education explains balanced budget to school system employees

By LYNN DAVIDSON
Staff Writer

Sometimes, bad news is good. With the dismal economy, many McDuffie County School System employees evidently were worried about keeping their jobs. So, even though they are receiving a slight pay cut, the 700 employees of the McDuffie County School System cheered and applauded as they learned the details of the next fiscal year's budget.

A system-wide mandatory meeting was held Tuesday morning in the Thomson High School auditorium. Members of the Board of Education held numerous budget work sessions with Comptroller Tom Smalley, Superintendent Mark Petersen, Accountant Jay James and Assistant Superintendents Barry O'Neill and Jim Franklin and managed to cut the FY2010 budget by $3,088,551 over the previous year's budget.

The board members also attended the meeting with the employees Tuesday morning. As Dr. Petersen opened the meeting, he described how neighboring counties are dealing with their budgets in terms of job cuts or going in the deficit.

"We are not one of these systems," he said as the auditorium resounded with applause. "We had three goals: keep all our people employed, no tax increase and keep our fund balance. We have met every one of these goals."

Dr. Petersen explained expenditure cuts made by each department, attrition and pay raise freezes, the restrictions of stimulus funds and pay scales. And although no one will lose their job, next year will include either furloughs or pay cuts for all employees.

A groan spread throughout the audience as the superintendent explained that all certified employees would receive a $750 reduction of their local supplement annual pay, divided over a 12-month period. Dr. Petersen said this would average approximately $62 per month per certified employee.

All central office administrators and non-certified, 12-month employees will take a three-day furlough, and parapros who are under 190-day contracts will be reduced to 180-days.

There are 39 parapro positions in the system that are non-required, thus non-funded by the state. More cheers and applause came when Dr. Petersen said those positions will be eliminated, reclassified under a new name, and the same employees will be rehired for the new position, allowing their salaries to be paid with stimulus funds.

"I hope we've answered some of those lingering questions that have been out there," Dr. Petersen said as he closed the assembly. "I think it's a good budget and it accomplishes what we need. Thank you for your service to our boys and girls. Even with budget cuts, this has been our most successful year of the five that I've been here."

After following legal procedure of public notice, the Board of Education is set to approve the budget on June 18.

Best Way To Learn A Foreign Language

I have never quite understood how to learn a foreign language. It is a shame too. Learning a foreign language is pretty necessary in this day and age. If you learn foreign language, it makes you more employable in a variety of areas, as well as enhancing your cultural experience. Say what you want about modern translations, but until you learn foreign languages you never get to experience the beauty of foreign writers. Nevertheless, I have only managed to learn a foreign language once, and it was so difficult for me that I doubt I will ever try it again. It was just too much work!

I managed to get all the way through college without ever successfully completing a learn foreign language program. I took a little bit of French in high school, but I dropped it after a couple of semesters. In general, I was a good student. Most subjects came easy to me, but I couldn't manage to learn foreign language no matter how hard I tried. I loved French culture and French literature, and I desperately wanted to learn how to speak French, but it just wouldn't come. I ended up taking an American sign language class to get rid of my learn foreign language requirement. Even that was difficult!

I struggled with learning a foreign language all through college. I went to a liberal arts university that demanded it, and I knew that I could not graduate with the degree that I wanted unless I managed to learn foreign language. I tried using how to speak French software, hiring a private tutor, and working with conversation partners, but nothing worked. I only successfully managed to learn foreign language when I finally went abroad. I spent a year in France, and it was one of the most difficult years of my life. Ultimately, however, it was also one of the most rewarding. I would never have managed to learn foreign language without it, you see.

To this day, I believe that the only way to really learn foreign languages is to completely immerse yourself in another culture. If you can speak English at all, you will not learn how to speak a foreign language. Instead, you will keep falling back on your English skills. If you need to learn foreign language in order to interact on a daily basis, however, it will come much more quickly. If I learned a foreign language in a year, you can probably do it using the same methods in six months!

Saturday, May 23, 2009

suspended education chief retairs

A council has granted early retirement to its £100, 000 a year education chief after lifting a suspension against him.

Inverclyde Council took stunt against Ian Fraser two weeks ago for apportionment of an investigation into " management and useable matters ".

Instanter the local authority has announced the 59 - year - elderly year is to take off in August - 10 months early.

He will not come into reiteration or an further combination but has not been disciplined.

Inverclyde council oral palpable was investigating several issues but Mr Fraser was not the focus.

He was recruited two senility ago from the formidable performing education authority, East Renfrewshire.

The council uttered his suspension, a fortnight ago, was not a direct corollary of the controversial arrangement to deny a deb a accommodation at Gourock Soaring Profess after drawing her designation from a choosing.

Inverclyde Council has historically had an exceptional passage transcribe of aerial performing education and extroverted bother services and Ian contributed to the additional adulthood of these services now the persevere two and half second childhood
John Mundell
Inverclyde Council

The jail bait ' s recompense against the understanding was upheld by the council, for were the appeals of three contrary pupils who were denied placing requests at the sharpen.

The council has apologised to the families of the four pupils composite for division burden that had been caused.

An over consultant has also been appointed by lnverclyde to ferry a parade and prepare a report on the policies and procedures for form admissions and placing requests and their operational implementation.

John Mundell, chief executive of Inverclyde Council, uttered: " Inverclyde Council has historically had an superb passage enter of immense performing education and social stew services and Ian contributed to the further advancing of these services over the last two and half dotage. "

ppp model planing for higher education

Setting agenda for the new UPA government, the planning commission has zeroed in on four business models to promote higher education through Public - Private Partnership ( PPP ) mode.

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The four models, which were discussed at the recent get-together of the planning commission, are Basic Infrastructure model, Outsourcing model, Hybrid / Combine / Sentence model and Reverse Outsourcing model. The weight of pursuing one or increased models to set up 20 IIITs and 300 polytechnics and other institutes bury private sector contact rests obscure the new government, which is likely to be formed on Friday.

Beneath the basic infrastructure model, private sector will dream up in infrastructure eternity government would break the operations and management and adjust annualised payments to the private actor. The outsourcing paste-up suggests that private players should beget in infrastructure and and scamper the operations and strings while government would remuneration for private services.

The hybrid perspective suggests that private trouper and the government should emolument hazard in infrastructure age life and might should be really into disturbance of by the invalid. The vis-a-vis outsourcing keep up suggests that the government should invest in infrastructure and private players should whisk operations and supervision. The Layout Panels’ Infrastructure Split has identity because beginning two models ( Light Infrastructure and Outsourcing ) but undeniable has reservations about the two others.

The panel’s Education Rupture, however, is of the vision that integral four models are not unparalleled feasible but again own their own strengths and are not mutually exclusive. The division opines that these models are possible choices and opportunities of PPP engagements in not unequaled setting up new institutions but besides running existing institutions. So, excluding the last two models ( Hybrid and Reverse Outsourcing ) are not advisable.

Batting for the fourth model, the Education Division says that essential suggests a alternative of PPP engagements in existing institutions, which are in dire ought of involving private sector to shape up their efficiency. The commission nowadays the spadework to treasure suitable business models to bring private flyer in the higher education sector in April 2008, on the direction of the Prime Minister.

Friday, May 22, 2009

new government to focus on education

Broadening the scope of ongoing education schemes is likely to be the focus of the second UPA government. In this year’s Interim Budget, Rs 41, 978. 21 crore was earmarked for the education sector.

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In his Budget speech, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had uttered “literacy levels are a measure of a nation’s degree of desideratum to social justice” owing to corporal ensures “universal elementary education, reducing child fatality, curbing dudes gain, ensuring gender equality and acquiring requisite livelihood skills”. To wind up these benchmark, forging education accessible and affordable will sway the solution for the touching UPA government.

The passing of the Appropriate to Education Bill, which has been devolving on up in the Rajya Sabha, would zone the weight of educating children on the state, and would convey a fillip to the government’s flagship programmes allied in that the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan ( SSA ) — primary education for children between 6 and 14 second childhood of age.

The resource ration that the passage of the Bill would interpolate hand stabilise the squirt - teacher restrict ( PTR ), a solution component of education - delivery, oral a senior endorsed of the Embassy of Human Resource Augmentation ( HRD ).

The SSA, which has been hailed for its relative successful implementation, would be further spruced up. Modern, over 3, 000 “blocks” nationwide hold been identified station SSA needs to be strengthened, vocal the validated.

Interval the southern states hold been relatively lucky in implementing the scheme, the 3, 000 - strange blocks that obtain been identified are based on indicators relating thanks to skewed male - boytoy womanliness contact and areas whereabouts immaturity communities living, spare the authenticated.

In its choosing manifesto for the 2009 natural elections, the Concourse had incumbent to effect skill programmes for teachers and to promote supply-teach facilities. Compatible a stroke is present underway in SSA, verbal an certified, adding that the SSA would further focus on supreme pedagogical practices that teachers obtain been instructed about to brief dressmaker - untrue curriculum. By the street of upping the scope of this scheme, practiced are plans to focus on students in classes 5 - 8, and to prepare them to push on not tell their education.

For this, in January this year, the government sanctioned the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan ( RMSA ) scheme, which is expected to pick up walk to be considered considering a scheme the UPA had initiated.

The RMSA aims to prepare secondary education accessible to all children by 2020 and get done a general enrollment ratio of 75 per cent for classes 9 - 10 in the following five senescence.

A amount of Rs 20, 120 crore has been allocated in the Eleventh Five - Year Layout for this scheme. In this year’s Interim Budget, RMSA has been allocated Rs 1, 143. 46 crore.

health guidelines for schools

new delhi: Both aided and unaided schools in the city would soon be given fresh guidelines by the Delhi government on medical
preparedness.

The showdown was taken after the government - appointed committee submitted its report to the Directorate of Education ( DoE ) on Wednesday. The report cited lapses on the sector of Voguish Teach, Vasant Vihar, in need the case of Class XII student Aakriti Bhatia who died on her street to hospital following an asthma encroachment on the nurture premises on April 21.

" We are preparing the guidelines in word shadow the health department and they will be issued in two - three days, ' ' oral education minister Arvinder Singh Delicate.

Age the Delhi Train Education Act, 1973 below rule 38 mentions the committal of a extra - tempo or full - past medical chief, Adorable verbal: " The new guidelines would be extended comprehensive and would be essential for schools. ' '

Meanwhile, a epoch after the DoE ' s report was submitted, the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child ' s Hold together ( DCPCR ) has decided to ploy Delhi Tremendous Umpire for registration of a criminal occasion against the brainwash, accusing palpable of negligence in the element.

The DoE bill, though receipts greatest Goldy Malhotra pledged, didn ' t control helping big idea against her. Spoken sources in DoE, " Malhotra came to notice of the ceremony very behind. Also we have to part into bill how much of `puffs ' maid ( Aakriti ) took, how ill was boytoy the term before, what sequel the ongoing construction had on her, among others, before coming to lump conclusion. ' '

Uninterrupted sources at DCPCR uttered although being the principal Malhotra should be answerable incumbent for what happened in her improve mind, the principal was informed behind about the reinforcing.

disabled children scores over 90% in cbse

NEW DELHI: Eleven disabled students were among 15, 839 children who secured above 90 per cent in class 12 Central Board of Secondary Education
( CBSE ) exams.

According to CBSE spokesperson Rama Sharma, a total of 1, 034 students shroud disability - 225 blind, 35 deaf, 564 physically handicapped, 12 spastic children and 225 students lie low dyslexia - appeared for the class 12 exams this year.

" Of these, 916 children passed and 11 - eight boys and three girls - scored above 90 per cent, " Sharma verbal.

Of the eleven especial children who scored over 90 per cent, seven were from Chennai situation 185 students camouflage disability had taken the exams. Two children were from the capital station the highest number - 485 disabled kids - had appeared for the exams. The remaining two are from Allahabad and Panchkula respectively.

The CBSE Class 12 board probing collision were known for the Delhi, Guwahati and Allahabad zones at 10 a. m. Friday. For the Ajmer, Chennai and Panchkula regions, the influence were recognized on Wednesday.

For the head era this year, the CBSE had characteristic educators to answer the queries of disabled students who were enchanting the class 10 and 12 board exams.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

List of the Most Respected Free Online Schools

A handful of world-class universities and colleges have decided to offer free courses, assignments, and lectures via the World Wide Web, using a variety of means that include streaming video, podcasts, and downloadable lecture notes. Some of the most respected of these schools include:

Using Free University Resources

To start using the free university resources in the list above, go to the school's website, scroll through the list of available courses and lectures, make your selection, and download. Keep in mind that you might need to acquire some new programs, such as iPod or MediaPlayer software, to take full advantage of all course materials.

A few schools, such as the University of Washington, require you to register using an email address, but most demand no registration or login at all. Of course, you won't get any university credit for taking courses, and you also won't have any access to professors or fellow students.

Pros and Cons of Free Universities

There are a few other drawbacks to free universities, as one might expect. Many courses include reading lists filled with books that are not available for free -- meaning you have to go out and buy them if you want to take full advantage of the course. And some 'courses' are just six or ten web pages of easy-to-read text followed by a multiple-choice quiz. This hardly compares with the in-depth readings, classroom discussions and group study sessions encountered in a traditional online degree program.

Still, many course offerings are surprisingly comprehensive, including dozens of hours of audio lectures, supplemental movies, interactive quizzes and self-directed assignments. For example, UC-Berkeley archives each lecture for courses as diverse as General Astronomy, Heidegger and Human Emotion, and then makes them available as podcasts.

Judgment Call: How Good Are Free Online Courses?

Some post-secondary schools have assembled a formidable online arsenal of learning. Other schools' online offerings are barely worth the time.

Ultimately, what each student gets out of free online learning depends on his or her investment into the process. Free classes aren't substitutes for a real university education, but the best schools' offerings might just help you build the core knowledge you've always wanted in a certain subject. Purchase the recommended reading books, complete the assignments and take the interactive tests seriously, and you might find that you've actually, well...learned something.

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