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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - January 2019

Jan 2019

Apr 07, 2019

CBSE to Start School Hubs

CBSE is taking a new step towards academic proficiency. To achieve this, it will consider a group of schools and the community around them as a unit rather than an individual school.
The new concept of a collaborative learning hub (CLH) envisages five or so schools sharing resources, helping each other in capacity building, conducting joint activities, facilitating teacher-student exchanges and designing their own curriculum and papers for Classes I to VIII.
CLH, which comes into operation from July 1, is mandatory and its outcome will be part of the audit for the affiliation and upgradation of schools.
Under the scheme, 22,000 affiliated institutions have been grouped into 4,500 district hubs.
CBSE has adopted CLH to enable a group of schools to work together throughout the year, sharing their infrastructure and resources, practices and help each other while acting as change makers in their localities.
A hub will also share resources like sports facilities, laboratories, auditorium, and organise training for principals and teachers as well as sports and cultural events, science exhibitions and quizzes.
The hubs will also be encouraged to organise seminars on issues like safety and security, energy and water conservation, environment, digital innovations, ethics and leadership skills.
Each hub will make efforts to connect with the industrial units, factories, administrative headquarters, security services, institutions of higher learning and business houses in the locality to learn from and get insights into life and society.
As a community service, the hub will be encouraged to adopt a school and village or develop gardens, among other such activities.
According to CLH guidelines, it is mandatory for each hub to hold at least one monthly meeting and take turns at hosting activities every month.
Every two years, the institutions will decide on lead school in the hub, based on results in Classes X and XII, teacher-student ratio, infrastructure, digital initiatives, sports facilities, extracurriculars, innovations and participation in international, national, regional, state and district-level events.

Apr 05, 2019

BIS Inks an MoU with IIT, Delhi

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi to collaborate in the field of standardisation and conformity assessment.
BIS and IIT Delhi have also agreed to set up a Centre of Excellence in the field of standardisation, testing and conformity assessment.
According to the MoU, IIT Delhi will provide infrastructure support for research and development projects of relevance to standardisation and BIS will provide financial support to IIT Delhi for projects.

Apr 03, 2019

CBSE to Hire Retired Government Officers

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to form a panel of retired senior government officers from where officials can be appointed as enquiry officers for conducting departmental inquiries.
The panel will be valid for a period of three years and the number of disciplinary cases assigned to an inquiry officer will be restricted to eight cases in a year with not more than 4 cases at a time.
CBSE proposes to prepare a panel of retired officers of the central government, state government and PSUs who retired from the post of Additional Secretary, Joint Secretary, Director and Deputy Secretary or equivalent rank, to be appointed as inquiry officer.

Apr 02, 2019

J&J Baby Shampoo Samples Fail Quality Test

Johnson & Johnson's baby shampoo samples failed quality tests conducted by Rajasthan, according to a public notice from the state's drugs watchdog, findings that were rejected by the U.S. drugmaker.
This comes just a few months after Indian authorities launched an investigation into J&J's Baby Powder to see if it contains cancer-causing asbestos. J&J said in late February that it had resumed production of baby talc after government tests found no asbestos in the product.

Mar 28, 2019

Distance Learning Degree Programmes in Agriculture

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has prohibited imparting distance degree programmes in agriculture.
The decision was taken by the higher education regulator at its last meeting on the ground that a degree programme in agriculture is technical in nature as it requires practicals or laboratory courses.
As per UGC Open and Distance Learning Regulations, 2017, professional programmes such as medicine, engineering, architecture, nursing, dental, pharmacy and physiotherapy, are not permitted to be offered in distance mode.

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