1. “Education isn’t a Business to Earn Profit, Tuition Fee
Must Be Affordable”, says SC.
The Supreme Court on Monday remarked that
education is not the business to earn profit and tuition fees must always be
affordable as it noted that the Andhra Pradesh Government's decision to enhance
fee to Rs 24 lakhs per annum, which is seven times more than the fee fixed
earlier, is not justifiable at all.
2. BITS Pilani permits students & faculty to take a year
off to establish start-ups.
The students and faculty at the Birla Institute of
Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani will be now be able to take up to a year
off to join a business or establish a start-up as part of the premier university’s
new policy to promote innovation and start-ups.
3. Education Ministry to organize Rashtriya Ekta Diwas Quiz.
As a part of ‘Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat’, the
Ministry of Education’s Department of Higher Education, is conducting the
Rashtriya Ekta Diwas Quiz competition to mark the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai
Patel and celebrate the cultural diversity of India. Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat
programme, according to quiz.mygov.in statement, aims to enhance interaction
and promote mutual understanding between people of different states and Union
Territories through the concept of states and Union Territory pairing.
4. Piramal Foundation collaborates with Google to help 6
lakh children learn to read.
Piramal Foundation, on Monday, announced its collaboration
with Google for an initiative to help 6 lakh children in India learn to read
with the help of 'Read Along', a speech-based reading tool devised by Google.
5. Unacademy to cut 10% of its workforce.
Indian online education firm Unacademy will cut
10% of its workforce due to "harsh economic conditions", the company
told employees in a letter on Monday. This is its second round of layoffs this
year. Softbank-backed Unacademy has tried to curb spending on marketing and
control operational costs but it was not enough, founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal
said in the letter.
6. Assam to abolish 8000 vacant posts of school teachers under
elementary education department.
The Assam government on Tuesday said it will
abolish 8,000 vacant posts of school teachers under the elementary education
department as a larger number of contractual educators are already working
under the Sarba Siksha Abhiyan (SSA).
7. NEP focuses on promoting mother tongue & regional
languages, says Union Minister.
Union Minister Dr Subhas Sarkar on Tuesday said that the
National Education Policy (NEP), 2020, largely focuses on promoting mother
tongue and regional languages.
The NEP does not intend to impose Hindi, the
minister said while presiding over a meeting at Namsai district in Arunachal
Pradesh.
8. Over 300 orange producers in Nagpur receive training on
innovative agricultural practices at IIM-N.
Over 300 orange producers from Maharashtra's
Nagpur and Amravati districts were given training on increasing productivity,
dealing with climate change, biotic stress and other issues, at the Indian
Institute of Management Nagpur (IIM-N) on Tuesday.
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