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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - July 2019

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Oct 11, 2020

Flipkart Introduces 45-day Paid Festive Internship for Students

E-commerce marketplace Flipkart brought back its paid internship programme Launch pad for undergraduate students from tier-II cities and beyond to work in its supply chain ahead of the festive season and the Big Billion Days sale.
The company said that the 45-day internship is aimed at helping students gain critical skills in supply chain management and create an ecosystem of trained professionals for the e-commerce industry.
Over 2,000 students participated in the internship programme last year.
Flipkart is working with educational institutes across 21 locations, including Binola (Haryana), Bhiwandi (Maharashtra), Uluberia and Dankuni (West Bengal) and Malur (Karnataka), Medchal (Telangana) and several more, to identify meritorious students and engage the selected ones at its fulfilment centres.

India is Fourth Lowest Spender on Health

Afghanistan and India set aside the same share for health in their budgets, 4%, just above a quarter of the recommended spending and one-third of what the second poorest country in the world, Burundi, did. And that may have affected how far people were shielded from the Covid-19 outbreak, the latest 'Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2020' by international charity Oxfam says.
Globally, the report found, only 26 of the 158 countries surveyed were spending the recommended 15% of their budgets on health. Nigeria, Bahrain and India, (the last of) currently experiencing the world's fastest-growing outbreak of Covid-19, were among the world's worst performing countries in tackling inequality going into the pandemic.
The survey data shows India spent less than 4% of its budget on health and ranked 155th on the health spending index.
According to the World Bank database, India was the 13th lowest (among 206 for which data was available) in terms of the percentage of total government expenditure that went to health in 2017.

Maine Island Witnesses First Childbirth in more than 90 Years

A woman has given birth to a baby on Maine Island for the first time in more than nine decades.
Azalea Belle Gray is the sixth child for Aaron Gray and Erin Fernald Gray on Islesford, which is also known as Little Cranberry Island.
Ellen Fernald Gray said she didn't set out to be the first woman to have a home birth in Islesford since Calvin Coolidge was president.
She said she didn't realise how long it'd been since the last island birth: her own grandfather, Warren Fernald, in 1927.
It was only after Azalea's birth that she learned that the lifelong lobsterman who died in 2005 had previously been the most recent birth on Islesford.

Assam to Shut down All Government-aided Madrasas, Sanskrit Schools

In a significant development, Assam Education and Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that the state government has decided to shut down all state-run madrasas and Sanskrit tols (schools) as it is not possible for Assam government to use public funds to teach religious scriptures.
A formal notification in this regard will be issued by the state government in November.
As per Sarma, after the closing down of the madrasas, 48 contractual teachers would be shifted to schools under the Education Department.

Oct 10, 2020

Gujarat Government Awards Supercomputer 'Param Shavak' to Marwadi University

In an effort to boost the education infrastructure in the state and the country, the Gujarat Council on Science and Technology (GUJCOST) of Gujarat Government, has conferred Marwadi University with supercomputer 'Param'.
With this Marwadi University is amongst only a handful of universities in the state to have the facility of a supercomputer.
The indigenously developed Param Shavak supercomputing system will facilitate high-end computations and research work in the field of AI, CE/IT, ICT, ML.

Oct 09, 2020

IISc Bangalore Offers Online Course in Computational Data Science

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore will soon offer an advanced programme in computational data science. The 10-month executive programme is for current and aspiring data engineers, data analysts, data architects, and data scientists. The course is being offered online in partnership TalentSprint — an online learning platform.
The first cohort of the programme will start in January 2021 and is open to 50 professionals from India, APAC, and the Middle East. Students will undergo live and interactive online classes and mentor participants to solve data science problems.
Interested can visit iisc.talentsprint.com/cds/ and apply. Applicants should have a bachelors' degree and at least one year of work experience and programming knowledge.

IIT-Madras Launches Online Course in Business Accounting Process

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras has launched a new online course on the business accounting process. The institute's Digital Skills Academy partnered with Bengaluru-based ArthaVidhya to offer this programme aims to upskill students and professionals looking for a career in finance and accounting.
The course is completely online, interactive and job-oriented. The candidates will get a concept of a virtual office, embedded in Artificial Intelligence-based 'Interactive Learning Management System' (iLMS).
According to K Mangala Sunder, Head, Digital Skills Academy the course is designed to provide students with a simulated environment (virtual office), giving the students a real-life simulation of actual work environment throughout the programme.

Oct 08, 2020

UGC Declares Twenty-four Universities as Fake

The University Grants Commission announced a list of 24 unrecognised universities. These Universities have been termed as fake. This has been done by UGC to maintain the standards of higher education in the country.
The maximum number of these universities are operating from the states of Uttar Pradesh followed by Delhi. They have been termed fake based on the provisions of UGC act.
Of the list announced eight of these universities were from UP, two from West Bengal, two from Odisha and seven from Delhi. The states such as Karnataka, Maharashtra, Puducherry have one fake university each. UGC has also notified that the word "University" shall not be used by any institutions other than those established and recognised by UGC.

Oct 07, 2020

India is Becoming a Huge Market for Foreign Universities

Indian higher education presently is in a tryst with the invention, discoveries, and transformation all at once. As per the latest Census, 600 million youth under the age of 25 will be added to India's population by 2030. This will be making our nation one of the youngest in Asia. The preparation for turning this potential into an asset and boosting the economy is already happening. However, the advent of the pandemic has given it a historic turn, with a surge in online adoption, demand for skill-based courses for working professionals, a collaboration of foreign experts and teachers with Indian universities.
Plans of international students coming to India for securing the coveted degrees have been put on hold due to Covid and a similar situation prevails for Indian students keen on studying abroad. Giving the Indian institutions and universities an upper hand to tap on this disguised opportunity.
India has immense respect around the globe for its higher studies and reputed universities, like IIT's& IIM's Sundar Pichai - CEO of Google Inc, Satya Nadella - CEO of Microsoft, Ajaypal Singh Banga President & CEO of MasterCard, Rajeev Suri - CEO of Nokia, are some of the names that are products of the Indian education system and leading the world's most powerful organizations. To revitalize this respect, upskilling of teachers in English language and their ability to function with tech-enabled studying tools needs to be honed.
The NEP aims to attract top 100 QS World Ranking universities to establish their offshore campuses in India.

Harsh Vardhan Launches 'Ayush Standard Treatment Protocol'

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan launched the Ayush Standard Treatment Protocol.
The Union Health Minister launched the protocols at an event held via video conferencing and hailed the up-gradation of protocols by the AYUSH Ministry, which has been done in sync with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
The modern systems of medicine have their own strengths, they have made available operations and medicines which have made people's lives better. But Ayurveda is an ancient science of our country, and probably the oldest knowledge base. Many say it's an offshoot of the Atharva Veda.

Free Course on Anti-racism and Allyship

Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) announced a free online course on anti-racism and allyship. The seven-day course is for students, young professionals, and educational fraternity across the nations "who care about racial equity and justice", the institute said in an official statement.
It covers racism in the US context, as well as themes designed to address the issue from a global perspective. The institute claims that the course aims to help learners move from understanding to reflection to taking new actions. The online course is self-paced, with the learner required to spend 45 minutes a day for either a week or up to several weeks. It will also provide learners with access to additional resources and tools for continuing the learning journey after the completion of the course.
Stanford offers several socially-impactful courses. It had earlier offered, 'An Evidence-Based Approach to the Diagnosis and Management of Migraines in Adults in the Primary Care and General Neurology Setting (CME)', Giving 2.0, health across the gender spectrum, international women's health and human rights among others.

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