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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - October 2019

Oct 2019

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.

Nov 28, 2019

From 2021, JEE (Main) in 11 Languages

Now engineering aspirants from the vernacular medium can have a shot at the JEE. The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE Main) will be offered in 11 regional languages from January 2021. The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has directed the National Testing Agency (NTA) to prepare for conducting the test in at least 11 languages which include Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Odiya, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
Earlier conducted by the CBSE, the computer-based test has now been passed on to NTA.
The ministry stated that this would help students continue their schooling in their mother tongue instead of shifting to English or Hindi medium. According MHRD sources, it has asked NTA to also explore possibilities to offer the competitive exams in as many languages as possible.

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