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Dec 25, 2020

Gujarat Raises Age Limit for Entry to Class 1 to Six Years

The Gujarat education department has raised the age limit for admission to Class 1 from the current five years to six years from the academic year 2023-24 in state board schools for parity with other education boards.
In a circular issued all district primary education officers, district education committees, district education officers, and administrative officers of all municipal corporations have been directed to spread awareness among playgroups to rule out any 'conflict situation' among parents and these offices.
In 2012, the state government, under the Right to Education (RTE) Act rules, had allowed five years as the entry-level age for admission to class 1 in schools under the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB). It was also extended to admissions in private schools under the Act's 25 per cent reservation rule. But due to the difference in entry-level age, children would often be denied admission to private schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and a few other education boards where the age limit is fixed at six years.

IIT Jodhpur Inks MoU with WhizHack Technologies

The Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur and WhizHack Technologies Private Limited signed an MoU for the establishment of a new Centre of Excellence (CoE) for innovations in Cyber Security, AI, and IoT.
The signing ceremony was held at IIT Jodhpur campus in the presence of Professor Santanu Chaudhury, Director, IIT Jodhpur, Dr. Ram Prakash, Professor Surajit Ghosh, and co-founders of WhizHack Technologies- Kallol Sil, Kaushik Ray, and Sanjay Sengupta.
WhizHack Technologies' vision is to be the first truly Indian product engineering and human capital development company for managing the complete value chain of a secured cyber environment. Given the dearth in India's cybersecurity workforce, the burgeoning security breaches, and the Government's priority to strengthen India's cyber security resource, this collaboration comes at a pertinent time.

Dec 24, 2020

Future Generali India Drives Literacy Programme for Underprivileged

Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited (FGII) has partnered with an NGO Room to Read to improve literacy level and inculcate reading habits among underprivileged children.
As a part of its responsibility towards community development, FGII will use its uniquely designed annual report to raise funds for the NGO-backed schools. So if anyone wants to contribute towards the initiative, it can be done by ordering books on Amazon and Flipkart.
The amount contributed shall directly go to Room to Read. In addition, Future Generali India Insurance vows to match the amount 'Rupee for a Rupee' thus doubling the impact of the initiative.

ISRO to Open Regional Academic Centre for Space at IIT BHU

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will establish a Regional Academic Centre for Space at IIT (BHU) to facilitate short and long term projects at the institute.
ISRO and the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) and the move can help propel the culture of research and development among students, the statement said.
"Under this agreement, ISRO-IIT (BHU) will open the Regional Academic Center for Space (RAC-S) in the institute," it said. Short-term projects for B-Tech and M-Tech students from the institute and associate institutes will also be included in this sequence.
"Long term R&D projects leading to the PhD programme will also be offered. Capacity building programmes like conferences, exhibitions and short courses will be organised to strengthen the knowledge base in the field," the statement added. The MoU was signed by IIT (BHU) director Prof Pramod Kumar Jain on behalf of the institute and P. V. Venkatakrishnan, the director of Capacity Building Programme Office (CBPO), ISRO headquarter.

Dec 22, 2020

Diploma Programme in Geodesy

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has announced to launch a new programme- Diploma of IIT (D-IIT) in Geodesy, the science of measuring the Earth. The programme will be under the Department of Civil Engineering and divided into three broad areas: Geodesy, Navigation and Mapping, and Remote Sensing and GIS.
The science of Geodesy has applications in monitoring earthquake, volcanic, landslide, and weather hazard recognition and response; soil health, water resources, and drought surveillance; climate change including monitoring the polar ice cover; oil spill clean-ups; GPS timing and autonomous vehicle development.
The new D-IIT programme will be open to candidates from different backgrounds including Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical and Electronics, Mining, Geoinformatics, Physics, Mathematics, Earth Science, Environmental Science, Geography, etc., with requirements as for the MTech / MS(R) programme of Geoinformatics specialisation in Civil Engineering.

BCI Releases Dates for All India Bar Exams

The Bar Council of India, the apex lawyers' body and regulator of law education in the country, said that it will hold All India Bar Exam-XVI on March 21, 2021.
The online registration will start from December 26, 2020 and the last date for registration will be February 21, 2021.
The Admit Cards shall be released online on March 6, 2021.
The council, meanwhile, said that All India Bar Exam-XV, which has been postponed on number of occasions due to COVID-19 pandemic, will be held on January 24, 2021 which is the scheduled date.
The examination is to be held on about 140 centers in 50 cities of the country.

Dec 20, 2020

Civil Services Aspirants May Get Extra Chance

The Centre told the Supreme Court that it was discussing with the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) the issue of granting another chance to civil services aspirants, especially those who exhausted their last attempt in October 2020 Prelims during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dec 19, 2020

Four-year Bachelor's Programme in Talks again in DU

A committee appointed by Delhi University to look into the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) has come up with a four-year Bachelor's degree programme course structure, similar to the Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) which was implemented in 2014 and then scrapped.
Vivek Suneja, Chairman of DU's NEP Implementation Committee (NIC), sent an email to its members forwarding the proposed structure of the four-year programme, which includes exit options after the end of each year, and granting a degree only at the end of the fourth year.
Democratic Teachers' Front (DTF) said that DU was moving towards "hasty implementation" without consulting stakeholders and that exit options would "encourage and institutionalise the system of drop-outs, especially among students from socially and economically underprivileged sections, particularly women.

IIT-Madras Bags 'The Most Innovative Institute of the Year' Award

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Madras) has bagged the most innovative institute award of this year. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) conferred the 'The Most Innovative Institute of the Year' award to the institute for its innovations in the field of Healthcare, Technology, and other sectors.
The award was given for the innovations- VITALSENS platform for clinical-grade wearable health monitoring, which includes the 'Wireless Continuous Multi-parameter Patient Monitoring Device' and related smartphone apps, developed by Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam, Faculty Head, Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC). The other awards are for 'Arise,' India's first standing wheelchair by Prof. Sujatha Srinivasan, faculty head, TTK Center for Rehabilitation Research and Device Development and Shakti, first indigenous microprocessor, developed by Prof. V. Kamakoti, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

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