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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - July 2019

Jul 2019

Jun 17, 2022

NIOS to Provide an Opportunity for Further Education to Agniveers who are Just 10th Class Pass Out

National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) is instituting a special programme in consultation with the Defence Authorities to provide opportunity for further education to those Agniveers who are just 10th class pass out.
Under this programme, these Agniveers can obtain a 12th class certificate by developing customized courses that are not only current but very relevant to their area of service.
This certificate is recognised for both employment and higher education purposes in the whole country. This will benefit the Agniveers to gain adequate educational qualification and skills to take up productive role in society later in life.
This special programme of NIOS will facilitate enrolment, development of courses, student support, provision of self-learning material, accreditation of study centres, personal contact programme, evaluation and certification.

Jun 15, 2022

College of Engineering Pune Ranks First in AICTE's Learning Assessment Survey

The College of Engineering Pune, an autonomous institute under the Maharashtra government, was ranked first in the AICTE's learning assessment survey, with 314 engineering undergraduates from the college scoring over 70% in the test. The second position went to the Jharkhand-based Birsa Institute of Technology, which saw 193 students achieve five-star ranking (given to those who scored over 70 per cent) on the test, followed by the NMAM Institute of Technology in Karnataka (166 students ranked five-star).
The survey, which revealed that first year engineering students are underperforming in maths compared to other core subjects, shows that undergrads from Tamil Nadu underwent the maximum number (24,499) assessments, while Goa had only three students signing up for it.

First Blind PhD Degree Holder from Rehabilitation University of India

Saurabh Rai, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Teacher's Training and Non-Formal Education (IASE), Special Education (visual impairment), Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) earned the distinction of first blind PhD degree holder from the National Rehabilitations University, Lucknow.
Saurabh Rai's doctoral research is on 'Support Services for Students with Visually Challenged in Higher Education Institutions in Uttar Pradesh: An Exploratory Study'.
The work brings out the inadequacies that inform the support system created for specially-abled persons in society, more particularly in the context of the university system in Uttar Pradesh. It also makes recommendations for all-around improvement in the existing system.

Jun 13, 2022

Indian Students Leaving Ukraine will be Accepted by Russian Varsities

Indian students who had to leave studies midway as they fled the Russia-Ukraine conflict will be offered admission in Russian universities without them losing out on their previous academic years, Roman Babushkin, Deputy Chief of Mission of Russian Embassy in New Delhi, said.
Babushkin said that the students would be admitted to Russian universities where they can continue with their respective courses from where they were left off without losing out on the previous years of study.
The statement came in response to queries by reporters on the fate of the over 20,000 students who fled Ukraine after Russia invaded that country in February this year.

India's First COVID-19 Vaccine for Animals 'Anocovax'

Agriculture Minister, Narendra Singh Tomar launched the country's first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine "Anocovax" for animals, developed by Haryana-based ICAR-National Research Centre on Equines (NRC). Anocovax is an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Delta (COVID-19) vaccine for animals. The immunity induced by Anocovax neutralises both Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2.
The COVID-19 vaccine for animals, Anocovax, is effective and capable of neutralising both Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2.
The Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar also launched 'CAN-CoV-2 ELISA kit', an antibody detection kit against SARS-CoV-2 for animals.
It is a sensitive and specific nucleocapsid protein-based indirect ELISA kit.
The antibody detection kit has also been indigenously developed in India and a patent has been filed for it.

Jun 12, 2022

'First Time in History': Cancer Vanishes for every Patient in Drug Trial

An Indian-origin patient was among those who had a "miracle" cure using a cancer medication that is being tried out by a research centre, achieving an unprecedented healing rate when all 14 patients in the trial had their cancers disappear.
In the trial at the Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Centre in New York using dostarlimab, "the rectal cancer disappeared after immunotherapy -- without the need for the standard treatments of radiation, surgery, or chemotherapy -- and the cancer has not returned in any of the patients, who have been cancer-free for up to two years.
According to researchers, this was the first time that all the patients in a cancer trial were completely healed with a medication and they did not have serious side-effects.

Jun 11, 2022

Jindal Global University Ranks No. 1 in 2023 QS Rankings

OP Jindal Global University (JGU) was ranked India's No 1 private university for the third year in a row, according to the QS World University Rankings, 2023, released in New York, US. London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) analysed a total of 2,462 institutes and ranked 1,422 of them in the world, including 41 institutes from India. JGU was ranked in the 651-700 band this year, making it the only Indian private university to have found a place among the world's top 700 universities.
JGU focuses solely on social sciences, arts and humanities. It is the only Indian non-STEM and non-Medicine university to have found a place in the QS rankings. For the QS rankings, universities are evaluated on the basis of academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty-student ratio, citations per faculty, international faculty ratio and international students ratio. In faculty-student ratio, JGU is the second highest-ranked Indian university. In international faculty ratio, JGU is the third highest-ranked Indian university. In employer reputation, JGU scored higher than 31 of the 41 institutes ranked from India.

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