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The Minister questioned why was BJP worried about his government initiative to take action against fake news when even the media welcomed it Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Priyank Kharge speaking to media representatives at Aiwan-e-Shahi Guest House in Kalaburagi on Saturday. Responding to the clash between two groups of students — Students’ Federation of India (SFI) of the left wing and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) of the right wing — at the Central University of Karnataka (CUK) near Kalaburagi, Priyank Kharge, Minister for Rural Development & Panchayat Raj and Information Technology and Biotechnology and Kalaburagi in charge, held the CUK authorities responsible for the turn of events. “I think that the Central University of Karnataka (CUK) is doing everything except for educational activities. I will shortly visit the university. The very purpose of establishing such a big institution is to facilitate the educational development of the region and h...

Schools in Gautam Budh Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, will be closed on September 21 (after 2 pm) and the entire day on September 22 for classes 1 to 12 due to UP International Trade Show.   Noida schools closed on Sept 21-22 ahead of UP International Trade Show Schools in Gautam Budh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh will close after 2 pm on September 21 and there will be a complete holiday on September 22. The schools will be closed ahead of the UP International Trade Show and Moto GP events which are scheduled to be held in the city on the above-mentioned dates. According to the notice issued by the District Education Department, there will be holidays in schools in the district after 2 pm on September 21. There will be a complete holiday across all schools on September 22. This order will be applicable in all schools from Classes 1 to 12. The official notice, which includes temporary closures and holidays for students, aims to minimise disruptions during these events. UP ...

The percentage of children in classes 1 to 8 taking paid private tuition in UP increased from 15.9% in 2018 to 23.7% in 2022. UP: Survey Shows High Dropout Rates Among Girls, Rising Popularity of Private Tuition Lucknow: There has been an over 7.9% increase in the proportion of school-going children taking paid tuition classes in Uttar Pradesh in 2022, in comparison to pre-Covid-19 levels, according to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2022 launched on Wednesday. According to the ASER, the overall enrollment to private tuition across the state has increased at all levels despite the prolonged closure of schools. The nationwide survey was resumed after a gap of four years. However, the percentage of children in classes 1 to 8 in Uttar Pradesh taking paid private tuition increased from 15.9% in 2018 to 23.7% in 2022. Nationally, the figure stood at 30.5%. In UP, the survey was conducted in 2,096 villages across 70 districts and included 91,158 children in the age group of 3–16...

The state government assured the Assembly that vacant posts in state-run primary schools would be filled at the earliest. Representational Image. Gandhinagar: As many as 926 government primary schools in Gujarat are functioning with just one teacher, the state Assembly was informed on Thursday. The government assured the House that vacant posts in state-run primary schools will be filled at the earliest. As per the data shared in the House by the state government, 106 schools in Mahisagar district have just one teacher each, while the figure is 105 schools in Kutch, 84 in Tapi, 46 in Devbhumi Dwarka, 45 in Narmada and 41 in Kheda district. Districts where the situation is better include Botad, where only two schools are functioning with one teacher each, followed by Morbi (three schools), Bhavnagar and Gir Somnath (five schools each), Gandhinagar (six) and Jamnagar (eight). State education minister Kuber Dindor said schools were functioning with only one teacher because posts were lyin...

NIT Silchar Silchar (Assam): Students of the National Institute Of Technology, Silchar, on Monday staged a sit-in on the campus demanding the sacking of the dean of academics for his alleged role in the suicide of a student recently. A senior official said the stir, which began at 7.30 am, is still continuing. “The students are demanding the sacking of the dean of academics, BK Roy. They also want a high-level inquiry by experts from outside the campus into the incident,” he added. The protest has been peaceful so far and no untoward incident has been reported, a police official said. On September 15, an Arunachal Pradesh student was found hanging in his hostel room, the official said. Alleging that he was forced to die by suicide because of the actions of the college authorities, his classmates claimed that Roy had insulted the victim who got six backlogs in his first semester examinations, held online in 2021 because of the pandemic. The deceased’s classmates began a protest on Septe...

The study showed that Indian women who received five years of schooling during the 1960s exhibited better learning outcomes than those born in the 1990s. Representational image. Delhi: Education quality has deteriorated in 56 of 87 developing countries since the 1960s, including India, according to a 2022 working paper by researchers at the Centre for Global Development, a think-tank based in Washington DC, This decades-long decline has marked a profound concern for international organisations such as the World Bank and UNESCO, which termed it a “learning crisis” in these regions. Basic literacy and numeracy skills have become increasingly elusive for students. For instance, Indian students, when assessed on international learning standards, score on average at about the 5th percentile (bottom 5%) compared to their counterparts in advanced economies, the study noted. This is an indication of the challenges plaguing India’s education system. One striking finding was that women in Indi...

The ban triggered global condemnation and remains the Taliban's biggest obstacle to gaining recognition as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan. Afghan girls attend a religious school, which remained open since the last year's Taliban takeover, in Kabul, Afghanistan. ISLAMABAD: Two years after the Taliban banned girls from school beyond sixth grade, Afghanistan is the only country in the world with restrictions on female education. Now, the rights of Afghan women and children are on the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly Monday in New York. The U.N. children’s agency says more than 1 million girls are affected by the ban, although it estimates 5 million were out of school before the Taliban takeover due to a lack of facilities and other reasons. The ban triggered global condemnation and remains the Taliban’s biggest obstacle to gaining recognition as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan. But the Taliban defied the backlash and went further, excluding women and girl...

As the Nipah virus outbreak intensifies in Kerala, the government has announced the indefinite closure of educational institutions and Beypore harbour in the Kozhikode region, while ramping up containment and contact tracing efforts. As the Nipah virus outbreak intensifies in Kerala, the government has announced the indefinite closure of educational institutions and Beypore harbour in the Kozhikode region, while ramping up containment and contact tracing efforts. The Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala has led to the temporary closure of all educational institutes, including schools, colleges, and tuition centres in the Kozhikode region. The state government has also announced that Beypore harbour will suspend its operations until further notice as the region lies within a designated containment zone. IDENTIFICATION OF INDEX CASE AND ONGOING TRACING EFFORTS The Kerala state government has confirmed the identification of the man who was the patient zero, or index case, of the ongoing ...

Starting October 4, UK visa fees will rise, with a £15 increase for visit visas and £127 hike for student visas, affecting travellers worldwide, including Indians.  Starting October 4, UK visa fees will rise, with a £15 increase for visit visas and £127 hike for student visas, affecting travellers worldwide, including Indians. The British government has recently announced a proposed hike in visa fees for visitors and students, effective October 4. The rise applies to travellers around the world, including Indians, making UK visit visas more costly and UK student visas ã127 more expensive. INCREASED FEES FOR VISIT AND STUDY VISAS The proposed legislation, tabled in Parliament on September 24, outlined the changes to visa costs from the UK Home Office. A visit visa for less than six months will now cost ã115, an increase of ã15. Students applying for visas from outside the UK will need to fork out ã490, aligning in-country and international application fees. Prime Minister Rishi...