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The Jharkhand school education and literacy department has decided to implement a pilot project in some schools to make students give up tobacco use for good, an official said on Saturday. This was decided following the publication of a survey report which says that 5.1 per cent of teenagers in the age group of 13-15 years in the state are using tobacco in any form. Ten schools, including five government and five private institutions, in each of four districts will be developed as model tobacco-free institutions, the official said. After successful implementation of the project, the model will be later…

A school teacher in Madhya Pradesh has been suspended and an inquiry ordered after he allegedly asked a 10-year-old tribal student to take off her dirty uniform in front of other students, an official said on Sunday. A picture of the incident, which took place in Bara Kala village of Shahdol district on Friday, surfaced on social media in which the Class 5 student was seen only in her undergarments and the teacher, Shrawan Kumar Tripathi, was seen washing her clothes and other girls standing nearby. The student had to sit in that condition for about two hours till her…

The LEGO Foundation, Germany, and the United States committed this week US$42 in additional financing to Education Cannot Wait in response to a global learning crisis that has left 222 million crisis-affected children in desperate need of educational help (ECW). “A worldwide call to action is made with these kinds of new donations from the LEGO Foundation, Germany, and the United States. We must work together to mobilize US$1.5 billion over the next four years to fully fund Education Cannot Wait and our strategic partners. We will be able to assist 20 million children who are affected by some of…

Universidad Externado de Colombia (Colombia), Pontifical Catholic University of Parana (Brazil), HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management (Germany), Al Akhawayn University, and Woxsen University have all nominated students to serve on the International Student Advisory Board (ISAB), which has been established by Woxsen University (Morocco). The ISAB will organise events for a worldwide student community, work on cooperative projects chosen by the board, discuss international best practises, represent students’ views, and expose a large international network of university prospects. Through the newly established “Diplomats’ Club,” which functions as a diplomatic advisory board and was launched with the premiere of “The…

Jamia Millia Islamia on Friday reopened the registration process for three days for the undergraduate programs whose tests have been conducted by the Common University Entrance Test (CUET). The university is conducting undergraduate admissions to 10 courses through the newly-introduced CUET. In August, JMI opened a registration portal for candidates seeking admission in these courses. The university has reopened the admission portal after receiving “requests” from students. The portal will remain open from Friday to Sunday. In an official order, the Controller of Examination at the university said, “On the repeated requests from some of the stakeholders and in continuation.. the online…

By encouraging high school females to think about technical education and a career in the skilled trades, Universal Technical Institute (UTI) has received praise from its certifying authority. At the ACCSC’s annual Professional Development Conference on September 20, delegates from UTI received the “Excellence in Community Service” award from the accrediting commission of career schools and colleges (ACCSC). The award honours a school’s dedication to its neighbourhood as well as the breadth and effect of its services. Eight UTI campuses collaborated with IGNITE Worldwide to conduct a Women in STEM Skilled Trades Conference throughout the past year, which they invited…

All government and private schools till class 8 across Noida and Greater Noida in Gautam Buddh Nagar will remain closed on Friday due to rains, an official order announced on Thursday. The weather department has issued an alert due to rains in the region after which District Magistrate Suhas L Yathraj issued the order to shut the schools, District School Inspector Dharamveer Singh said. “On September 23, all schools from class 1 to 8 in the district would remain closed,” Singh said, according to an official statement issued on Thursday night. Parts of Uttar Pradesh and the national capital region…

Both Houses of the Andhra Pradesh Legislature witnessed acrimonious scenes on Wednesday as the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy-led government brought in a Bill to rename the NTR University of Health Sciences (UHS) as YSR UHS. At the end of the five-day monsoon session, the Legislative Council approved the Bill amidst strong protests by the opposition Telugu Desam Party and others. Earlier, the Assembly passed the Bill after 12 TDP members were ‘suspended’ from the House. Chief Minister Reddy justified the renaming of the UHS, the first such university in the country established in 1986 as a brainchild of Telugu…

Despite having the lowest percentage of PrEP use in New York State, Bronx County has the fifth-highest rate of HIV diagnoses in the nation. PrEP is a class of drugs that is highly effective at preventing HIV infection. The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, $4.2 million grant to physician researchers at Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine to assess two approaches to enhancing PrEP access and use in the Bronx. People who identify as Black or African American and Hispanic bear the brunt of the racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, and HIV infection rates and PrEP use…

Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) have been given 10 per cent quota in admissions and jobs out of 50 per cent General category seats for the first time without eroding the “totally independent” reservation for SCs, STs and OBCs, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Strongly defending the 103rd constitutional amendment which provides for 10 per cent quota to the EWS, Attorney General K K Venugopal told a five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice U U Lalit that it does not violate the basic structure of the Constitution as it has been given without disturbing the 50 per cent quota…