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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - January 2019

Jan 2019

Dec 03, 2019

Child Life Expectancy Projections Cut

According to an Office for National Statistics (ONS) report, years have been knocked off official projections of children's life expectancies in the UK.
A baby girl born in 2019 is now expected to celebrate three fewer birthdays on average, than under previous calculations.
Official 2014 data thought that girl would make it to 93.6. Now the figure is 90.4.
The report also slashed the likelihood of children reaching 100.
Although life expectancies have been and are still improving, experts say previous estimates were too high.
The improvement is much smaller than previously thought, as part of a widely acknowledged slowdown in life expectancy since 2011.

Dec 02, 2019

No Distance Education Allowed in Hotel Management and Real Estate

The University Grants Commission (UGC) prohibited distance education programmes in Hotel Management and Real Estate.
In accordance with communication received from various regulatory bodies, programmes in Hotel Management, Culinary Studies, and valuation of Real Estate, will not be recognised from academic session 2019-20 and onwards.
The order, however, said admissions taken in the recognised Open and Distance Learning (ODL) programme during the recognition period will be recognised till the completion of programme even if the university does not have recognition for further years provided the programme is offered in accordance with UGC norms and territorial jurisdictions.
The UGC had notified Open and Distance Learning Regulations in 2017, according to which professional programmes such as medicine, engineering, and architecture, are not permitted to be offered in distance mode.

Dec 01, 2019

E-pharmacies Cannot Stock Meds

According to revised draft regulations by the Union Health Ministry, online medical stores, or e-pharmacies, will not be allowed to stock medicines and will have to tie up with offline retail pharmacies to deliver drugs to consumers.
The original draft regulations for online medicine retailers have been tweaked by the ministry after stiff opposition from so-called brick-and-mortar retailers. The revised draft also has a provision to allow retail pharmacists to deliver medicines at a customer's doorstep.
The initial draft, released August last year, had allowed online sale of medicines, barring narcotics, psychotropic drugs and tranquillizers, by a registered e-pharmacy.
The changes were recently made in the draft regulation, after public consultation held in September this year, to address concerns of retail pharmacists over the impact of online pharmacies on their businesses.

Nov 30, 2019

AIM Is To Be a Springboard For Start-Ups

Innovation is the 21st century buzzword, and the Centre's flagship initiative to promote entrepreneurship is the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), which comes under the NITI Aayog.
R Ramanan, Mission Director, AIM, was at Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, recently to inaugurate the Atal Incubation Centre (AIC) on its campus.
AICs are enabling people with great ideas to launch their start-ups in an incubator. The objective of these innovation centres is 'to nurture innovative start-ups in their pursuit to become scalable and sustainable business enterprises.

Nov 29, 2019

Zimbabwe Facing Man-made Starvation

According to Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Zimbabwe is facing man-made starvation with 60% of the people failing to meet basic food needs. She ranked Zimbabwe among the 4 top countries facing severe food shortages outside of conflict zones.

Rise in Indian Students Going to the UK

After years of decline in the numbers of Indian students coming to the UK, figures released r in November show a 63% rise in Tier 4 visas issued, reflecting the largest number of annual grants to Indian students since 2011. New curbs and closure of the post-study work visa in 2012 had led to a steep fall in the number of Indians choosing the UK for higher education, against countries such as Canada, Australia and the US.
As per the UK Home Office, Chinese and Indian nationals together accounted for over half of all Tier 4 visas granted to non-European Union citizens (43% and 11%, respectively) during the year ended September 2019.
Former Home Secretary Theresa May scrapped the visa in 2012, which led to the perception that the UK was less welcoming to international students, and resulted in a steep fall in the number of Indian students from 39,090 in 2010-11 to 16,550 in 2016-17.

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