To cover the gap between Bio Science and Engineering, IIT-KGP to launch new coursesIn the academic year soon to start, the School of Medical Science and Technology at IIT Kharagpur is all set to launch new academic programs in the fields of Biology and Engineering. The main aim of these programs to facilitate multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach in the field of biomedical research. The new course will include a two year M.Tech course in Biomedical Engineering and all admissions in the course will be done through GATE ( Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) exam. “These programmes will bridge the gap between medicine, biological sciences and engineering with a roadmap to develop world-class scientists and clinicians,” said Prof Suman Chakraborty, Head, School of Medical Science and Technology. The course will include research area such as Bio-MEMS & Sensors, Cancer Research, Regenerative Medicine, Biomedical Instrumentation & Rehabilitative Medicine, Microfluidics & Point of Care Diagnostics, Cardiovascular Research, Biomaterials, Immunology and Immunotherapeutics, Biostatistics, Clinical and Epidemiological research, Biomarkers and Clinical Research Lab, Herbal Medicine, Medical Imaging & Image Analysis. IIT-KGP is also in the process of launching a super specialty hospital which will become fully operational in 2019. The institute has also collaborated with numerous national and international bodies which will further strengthen the medical research and data analysis of the hospital. “Innovations in technology have led to spectacular advancements in medicine. To meet the challenges posed by medicine in the 21st century, the country needs a new breed of medical professionals who can fuse together medicinal science with technology and can bridge the disciplines” added Chakraborty. via Education and Job Portal https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/to-cover-the-gap-between-bio-science-and-engineering-iit-kgp-to-launch-new-courses-8249
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UP Board results of class 10 and 12 are now liveOn Sunday, Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UPMSP) announced the results of the state board exams. This year the results of both classes 10 and 12 witnessed a sharp decline in the pass percentage of the students. This year, the pass percentage of class 10 and 12 is 75.16% and 72.43% respectively. Last year, the pass percentage was 81.6 for class 10 and 82.5 for class 12. This year, more than 66 lakh students registered for the exams of which 56,32,860 appeared. The huge drop in the number of students appearing for the exam was due to government’s crackdown on the cheating mafia in the state. Government took stringent steps to keep the incidents of the cheating under control this year. Exam halls were monitored through CCTV cameras and coded answer sheets were given to the students to prevent the incidents of mass cheating. Director of the education board Awadh Naresh Sharma said, “The exams have been conducted in a transparent manner and with complete honesty under the watch of CCTV cameras.” Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday congratulated “students who had successfully taken the exams and got good results without cheating” and said that prices will be announced for the top 10 scrores. “I am very happy that in record time, within one month of the exams, the results have been declared. These results are a slap on the face of those elements who play with the future of our students by facilitating cheating,” he said. Rajneesh Shukla, a resident of Fatehpur, and Akash Maurya from Barabanki, both scored 93.20 per cent and emerged statewide Class XII toppers. Meanwhile, Anjali Verma, a resident of Allahabad, emerged the Class X topper with a score of 96.33 per cent. via Education and Job Portal https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/up-board-results-of-class-10-and-12-are-now-live-8248 Newcastle University: Students receive cash reward for golden behaviorA recent study revealed that in more than 10 percent of the anti-social incidents in UK campuses students of Newcastle University are involved. To put an end to this rowdy behavior, the university is now offering a cash reward of £1000 to the students who behave best for one month. It is the university’s ‘best neighbor on campus’ scheme. Students are nominated by the local residents based on activities such as keeping the streets clean, not smashing the bottles on the streets etc. Will Ovenden and Oli Armitage are among the five students who have won the cash reward. Students are excited after winning the prize money and said that some of it will be spent in arranging a party. The country, right now is witnessing an increase in the disruptive incidents among the students and according to the Freedom of Information data obtained by The Times, the students of Newcastle university received more punishments than any other in the Britain. The University is also known as the rowdy University. Therefore, to keep the student’s behavior in check the University introduced best Neighbour on Campus scheme. The scheme layouts the criteria for winning the prize and how it will be equally divided among the housemates. The prize is given the house where there is ‘Evidence of students who have shown a demonstrable commitment to being good neighbours’. via Education and Job Portal https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/newcastle-university-students-receive-cash-reward-for-golden-behavior-8246 Telangana's Durishetty Anudeep is topper of the UPSC 2017 civil services examDurishetty Anudeep, Indian Revenue Service officer break the three year long streak of female candidates bagging the top spot in civil services exam. Durishetty bagged the first rank in the UPSC’s 2017 civil services exam. The second and third position were held by Anu Kumari and Sachin Gupta respectively. Anudeep, an OBC candidate from Metpally in Telangana is Assistant Commissioner in Hyderabad. “A total of 990 candidates - 750 men and 240 women - have been recommended by the Commission for appointment to various central government services,” UPSC said in a statement here. Of the selected candidates, 476 are from the General category, 275 are from OBC, 165 are from the SC and 74 are from from the ST category. "The recommended candidates also include 29 physically disabled persons (9 orthopedically handicapped; 8 visually challenged and 12 hearing impaired)," the statement further said. Saumya Sharma, a physically disabled candidate secured AIR 9. Anudeep is a graduate engineer from BITS Pilani in Electronics & Instrumentation. Anu Kumari, a topper among female candidates is a graduate from Delhi University in Physics BSc (Physics) and completed her MBA from IMT, Nagpur in Finance and Marketing. Nandini K R, Tina Dabi and Ira Singhal had topped the civil services examination 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively. "The Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2017 was conducted on June 18, 2017. 9,57,590 candidates applied for this examination, out of which 4,56,625 candidates actually appeared. 13,366 candidates qualified for appearance in the written (Mains) examination held in October-November, 2017. Of them, 2,568 candidates qualified for the Personality Test conducted in February-April, 2018," UPSC said. via Education and Job Portal https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/telanganas-durishetty-anudeep-is-topper-of-the-upsc-2017-civil-services-exam-8247 NIMS University’s Chairman Wife arrested in DelhiShobha Tomar, wife of NIMS Univeristy’s chairman (Balbir Singh Tomar) was arrested by the Delhi police from a hotel in Delhi. On Thursday, the police had also arrested chaiman’s son Anurag Tomar. Both, mother and son are in jail now and will be presented before court on Friday. Amir Hasan, a police official, told that Balbir Singh had registered a case against both of them in November 16 in which he alleged that his wife and son are tampering with the documents of the Indian Medical Trust. Later, the case was transferred to the CBI for further probe in which CBI found that all allegations against the accused were true following which CBI order the arrest of the person/s accused. As of now, police is questioning Sobha Tomar to know more details about the case and trying to catch other persons involved in the case. via Education and Job Portal https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/nims-universitys-chairman-wife-arrested-in-delhi-8245 RU Paper leak case| Police arrested two more studentsPolice arrested two more students in the latest Rajasthan University’s BSc Physics paper leak case. The students arrested are Tushar Bhatia and Ravinedra Prajapat hails from Malviya Nagar (Jaipur) and Hindon respectively. Both arrested are the students of second year BSc and after getting their hands on the paper, they leaked the paper on social media. Earlier, police had arrested an associate professor and a personal secretary to RU's chief examination controller in the paper leak case. The court ordered the police to detain the Tushar for three days where he will be further questioned about the paper leak and other beneficiaries and police will present Ravinedra before magistrate on Saturday. As of now, police is doubting the role of various professors and students in the paper leak and further probe into the case will reveal the names of the other beneficiaries. via Education and Job Portal https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/ru-paper-leak-case-police-arrested-two-more-students-8244 Hotel Management CourseIndia, as one of the most popular cities in its historical destinations and sites of attraction for the people coming from all over the world and tourists especially. The world has turned out to be more of a global village and the most significant outcomes of globalization are coming from tourist and hospitality industry. So, the government is encouraged to expand its revenues from these industries as well as India has some mind-blowing and worth-watch historical places in the world. The hotel industry is definitely a great part of this hospitality and tourism industry with more chances o... via Education and Job Portal https://www.brainbuxa.com/blog/hotel-management-course Guidelines for nursery teachers issued by the NCERTThe National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has shared guidelines regarding the admissions of children and appointing teachers for in the preschool. Preschool is broadly defined as any setting which educate the children between the age of three and six years. Some of the guidelines outlined by the NCERT are as follows: The minimum age of the child for admission in nursery must be three years.The admission process should not involve any evaluation and interaction with the child.Teachers in preschool must be XII passed and must have a diploma in preschool educationThe students-teacher ration should be 25:1The duration of the preschool should be of four hours only Preschools in the nation are known by different names such as anganwadi, balwadi, nursery, preparatory, preschool, pre-primary, LKG and UKG. At present, there is no formal curriculum for the preschools and the schools are free to decide what children must be taught and what the learning outcomes should be. For the first time, NCERT has documented what an ideal preschool should be and what learning outcomes should such schools thrive to achieve before the formal schooling can begin. “Currently, preschools across the country are just a downward extension of formal schooling where a lot of reading and writing is happening. Through these guidelines and curriculum we want to encourage schools to use pedagogical approaches that do not burden the children,” said an NCERT official. The guidelines also lay out the basic infrastructure requirements which these school should have. The guidelines state that school buildings should be located away from traffic, ponds, wells, ditches, uncovered drains with outdoor play area along with the separate toilets for boys and girls and CCTV cameras for campus monitoring. The guidelines along with defining the standard size of a preschool classroom which should be 8x6 square meters also defines the roles and responsibilities of school teachers, principal and helper staff. As far as learning goals are concerned, schools are expected to achieve three goals: Children should become effective communicatorMaintain good health Able to connect with their environment immediately The state governments have two week to give their feedback on the guidelines issued by the NCERT for the preschools. via Education and Job Portal https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/guidelines-for-nursery-teachers-issued-by-the-ncert-8243 JEE Mains 2018 exam| Results to be declared tomorrowCentral Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will released the results of the JEE Mains 2018 exam tomorrow i.e. on April 30, 2018. Candidates who had appeared for the exam can visit the official website-- jeemain.nic.in and check their respective scores in the paper-1 after the results are declared. The score will comprise of the marks obtained by the candidate in Paper 1 and along with the status showing if the candidate has qualified for the JEE Advanced. On April 24, 2018 CBSE had released the answer keys for the JEE Mains exam. This year, more than 10 lakh candidates appeared for the exam. The offline exam was conducted by the CBSE on April 8 and the online exam was conducted on the April 15 and 16. According to the feedback of the experts, the difficulty level of paper 1 was moderate however; students found Physics section to be tricky and math paper was lengthy. Steps to check the results Visit the official website as mentioned aboveClick on the link for the resultsIn the fields given, enter the desired information in the prescribed formatClick on the submit buttonThe result will be displayed on the screeDownload the result and take the print out of the same via Education and Job Portal https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/jee-mains-2018-exam-results-to-be-declared-tomorrow-8242 PG and SS cut-off percentile in NEET 2018 reducedA statement released by the Union Health Ministry said that the cut-off percentile for the NEET PG and Super Speciality exams has been reduced by the 15 percent. The decision will benefit the about 18,000 aspirants and will improve the chances of filling the PG seats. Referring to the decision, Union Health Minister J P Nadda said all efforts are being made to fill up post graduate seats. “This is a significant step towards strengthening the medical sector and indicates the priority given by the government to it. We are making sure that there is adequate manpower for providing quality healthcare services,” he said. NEET exam is conducted by the MCI every year to determine the eligibility of the candidates for filling the seats in medical PG courses. 50 percent seats are filled by the center and the remaining 50 percent are filled by the governments of the respective state. via Education and Job Portal https://www.brainbuxa.com/education-news/pg-and-ss-cut-off-percentile-in-neet-2018-reduced-8240 |
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