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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - January 2019

Jan 2019

Jan 02, 2020

AI Outperforms Doctors Diagnosing Breast Cancer

Artificial intelligence is more accurate than doctors in diagnosing breast cancer from mammograms, a study in the journal Nature suggests.
An international team, including researchers from Google Health and Imperial College London, designed and trained a computer model on X-ray images from nearly 29,000 women.
The algorithm outperformed six radiologists in reading mammograms.
AI was still as good as two doctors working together.
Unlike humans, AI is tireless. Experts say it could improve detection.

India Leaves China Way Behind in Births

According to UNICEF, oOn New Year's Day, January 1, an estimated 67,385 babies were born in India — 17% of the estimated 392,078 babies born in the world that day.
India and seven other countries accounted for at least half of total global births. The other countries are: China (46,299), Nigeria (26,039), Pakistan (6,787), Indonesia (13,020), the United States (10,452), Democratic Republic of Congo (10,247) and Ethiopia (8,493).
The United Nations (UN) World Population report released in June 2019 says India is projected to overtake China as the world's most populous country this decade — by 2027.

Jan 01, 2020

Assam Govt. Gives Cash Rewards to Literary Outfits

The Assam government announced financial assistance of Rs. 75 crore to 22 sahitya sabhas (literary bodies) in the state. The government will provide Rs. 10 crore to the corpus fund of Asom Sahitya Sabha, Rs. 5 crore to Bodo Sahitya Sabha and Rs. 3 crore each to 20 other indigenous literary bodies as a one-time grant.

Private Doctors Can Now Teach at Government Medical Colleges

In a bid to curtail the shortage of teachers and faculty in medical colleges, the Union Health Ministry has planned to engage private and overseas doctors in teaching the students at government and private medical colleges.
However, this new regulation will not be applicable to the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, and Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry.
The notification in the matter was issued by the Medical Council of India (MCI). It says that the teachers who would be appointed will be on a part-time basis known as "visiting faculty."
The visiting faculty should have minimum work experience of eight years in his specialty department after achieving the post-graduate degree and the age limit shall not exceed 70 years.

Dec 31, 2019

Special Math Classes in Delhi Govt. Schools

To improve Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 10 examination results in Delhi government schools, the state cabinet approved the directorate of education's proposal to use private agencies to conduct special classes in mathematics.
Slated to begin in January 2020, the initial phase of the 'Maths Teaching Project' will focus on over 30,000 class 10 students from 342 Delhi government schools found to have a low pass percentage, ranging between 7.02% and 55%, in mathematics.
The job of the agencies would be to customise the content to help students prepare for the board exams. The package is proposed to be of 100 hours, covering important topics to be completed before the board exams.

EAMCET in AP from April 20-24, 2020

AP EAMCET 2020 will be conducted by JNTU, Kakinada on April 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24, 2020 to grant admissions to students into engineering, agricultural and pharmacy courses offered by colleges in Andhra Pradesh. As per AP EAMCET 2020 Eligibility, candidates appearing or having passed class 12 with PCM/B are eligible to apply for AP EAMCET 2020.

     • AP EAMCET 2020 Application Form will tentatively be available from February 26, 2020 at the official portal.
    • The application fees is INR 500 for engineering or agriculture stream and INR 1000 for both the streams.
    • As per AP EAMCET 2020 Exam Pattern, it will be an online test of 3 hours duration having 160 MCQs of 1 mark each.
   • There will be no negative marking in the exam. The paper will be set in English and Telugu languages.
   • AP EAMCET 2020 Syllabus will contain various topics from the subjects of Mathematics/ Biology, Chemistry and Physics.

Dec 30, 2019

Govt. Panel Okays Animal Testing at PG Level Medical Colleges

The expert committee formed by Union health ministry has suggested against doing away with the practice of use of animals for experimentation at the post graduate level in medical colleges, in a notification released earlier this month.
The expert committee was formedto look into the feasibility of entirely doing away with animal use in laboratory experiments for training in post graduate (PG) medical education and switching over to non-animal based modules, as suggested by the ministry of environment, forest and climate change.
"The Board of governors regulating medical education is of the view that there are still certain areas of learning and training in medical education where animal experimentation is needed," said Dr VK Paul, chairman, board of governors for the Medical Council of India (MCI).

Dec 28, 2019

CBSE Asks Schools to Become Anger-free Zones

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) asked all schools affiliated to it to become 'anger-free zones' where everyone — teachers, parents and administration staff — will try to manage their anger to set an example for children and teach them the value of 'freedom from anger'.
As per the board, this would help students become mentally active and emotionally healthy and they would go back home 'charged and happy' and would also want to return the next day.
The CBSE, which has issued an advisory to schools on this matter, said that the initiative is part of its thrust on "joyful education and holistic fitness.

Teachers' Posts Vacant in Delhi Govt. Schools

A report released by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a think tank associated with the party claimed that 51% posts of permanent teachers were vacant in Delhi government schools compared to 11.1% in the institutions run by the BJP-led municipal corporations in city.
The report titled 'Politics of Performance vs Politics of Propaganda – A comparative analysis of education in Delhi govt. school vis-a-vis MCD schools & Kendriya Vidyalayas' listed areas where the Delhi government schools are lagging behind municipal schools and KVs.

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