-The Telegraph New Delhi: Every JNU student may have to study a compulsory paper aimed at "sensitising" them to sexual harassment and any form of discrimination if the university accepts a suggestion an expert panel plans to push. If the university, which had set up the committee after a student was brutally attacked by her classmate last year, does make such a course compulsory, it would be the first time any...
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IIT gap in school boards-Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Nearly three of every four students shortlisted for the Indian Institutes of Technology this year come from two of the country's 29 school boards, an analysis of the results has shown. The results have confirmed a long-standing suspicion: distribution of students who made it to the elite tech schools is not uniform across the two national and 27 state boards. The analysis has shown that of the nearly...
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-The Indian Express New Delhi: It's been over two years since the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) asked all its affiliated schools to "develop their own websites containing comprehensive information about the school and its management". But not many have complied so far. In its latest circular, sent on June 17, the CBSE has warned that the defaulting schools "will not be able to register their candidates for board examinations". The...
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-The Telegraph New Delhi: Easy promotions may lead to poor performance in school, a government committee has found. Class X board results have worsened across the states in the three years since the Right To Education Act stipulated compulsory promotions till Class VIII, a member of the panel told The Telegraph. The act mandates schools to conduct "continuous and comprehensive evaluation" (CCE), which means pupils' scholastic and co-scholastic skills should be assessed round...
More »A flood of telegrams for PM urging an 'end to corruption' -Akshaya Mukul
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: It will be an unusual Monday morning in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's household. Among the bagful of mail he gets daily will be several telegrams urging him to 'end corruption, give us freedom'. As the 160-year-old telegram service wound down on Sunday, one young man's idea of sending a telegram to the PM on corruption caught the fancy of others in the serpentine queue at the...
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