EDUCATION
208 students graduate from T-Hub's LaunchPad programme
One of the expertly curated programmes of T-Tribe that helps students aspiring to become entrepreneurs, Launchpad is a year-long educational experience that is a perfect amalgamation of theoretical and practical learning, a statement said. It not only enlightens students on the scope of entrepreneurship but also gives them a direction to achieve success in the field, it added.
Jet Set Go: Eight new Flying Training Academies to be launched in India
Aimed at making India a “global flying training hub” and at preventing Indian cadets from leaving the country to get training at foreign academies, these FTAs will also cater the flying training requirements of cadets from the neighbouring countries, the ministry said.
Now, MP class 12 board exams cancelled
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that this year the 12th board examinations will not be conducted. Children's life is precious for us, we will take care of their career later. It is not advisable to put mental burden on children at a time when the state and the whole country is reeling under such a big health crisis.
Indian-American girl among winners of Apple 'WWDC21' student challenge
Passionate about the intersection of medicine and technology, Dinesh has helped other young women learn the basics of programming and machine learning in her hometown of North Brunswick, New Jersey. "I went to a gastroenterologist and he diagnosed me with a pelvic floor disorder," said Dinesh, "but then told me nothing about how I was supposed to get better."
Class 12 students in 'No Man's Land' amid Covid blues
Although they are still recognised as students of Class 12, however their schools and coaching centres have now gone busy teaching the new batches which have been promoted from class 11 to 12 in April itself.
CBSE Class XII board exams cancelled for this year
The decision was taken after a key meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Cabinet ministers and the concerned officials. It was decided that the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will take steps to compile the results of Class XII students as per a well-defined objective criteria in a time-bound manner, the PMO said.
Students of Class 1 to 8 promoted in Tamil Nadu
The office of the director of elementary education said that this is in accordance with the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009. The Director also said that officials of the School Education Department should inform all government, government-aided and private state board schools under their jurisdiction to promote all students of Class 1 to Class 8.
Last year's policy can be adopted this year too, SC on 12th board exam
Attorney General K.K. Venugopal, urged the top court to give him time till Wednesday to come with a decision on cancelling class XII board exams due to pandemic. A bench comprising Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari told the AG, "you take a decision, but if you are departing from the decision taken last year in connection with the exams, then you must give us good reasons."
DU teachers, students want final semester exams scrapped
Delhi University on May 20 postponed semester exams for final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students for the second time and announced that these will now commence on June 7. The exams, which will now be held in the open-book format online, were earlier scheduled to start from May 15 but were postponed to June 1 owing to the spike in Covid cases.
US colleges look to federal govt to ease visa control: Report
Students from abroad often pay the full sticker price on tuition and fees, making them desirable to admit, but the cash flow halted when the pandemic closed borders, cancelled flights and shuttered buildings, Xinhua news agency quoted the Politico news report as saying on Saturday. Education groups are looking at President Joe Biden to restore it.
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