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NEW DELHI: Learning by rote or attending coaching classes will no longer guarantee admission to popular and premier engineering institutions in the country. The Union human resource development (HRD) ministry will soon set up a National Authority for Testing (NAT) to conduct a new entrance examination — starting this October — that will replace the two-tier joint entrance examination (JEE) main and advanced tests for entry into engineering colleges. The JEE is a national common entrance examination conducted to provide admissions to several engineering courses. The focus now will be to standardise the test so that it can’t be cracked by coaching institutes or “teaching shops” and learning by rote — which bring down the standard because such practices fail to teach analytical and logical skills needed for scientific research. The new system will test the logical and analytical abilities of students rather than knowledge on subjects. The first such test from October will screen ...

Two ex-IITians have come up with a unique open- school communication and social learning platform that allows teachers, parents and students to interact freely and effectively on mobile phones. Ritesh Singh and Akshat Goel wanted to provide innovative solutions for effective knowledge transfer in our ecosystem. Hence, they chose the name ‘Eckovation’ for their startup, a portmanteau of ecosystem, knowledge and innovation. Eckovation allows teachers, parents and students to interact freely and effectively while safeguarding privacy. (Courtesy/Yo Success) Founded in March 2014, the app was finally launched this June after more than a yearlong market research and study. CEO Singh, who hails from tier-III town Chapra in  Founded in March 2014, the app was finally launched this June after more than a yearlong market research and study. CEO Singh, who hails from tier-III town Chapra in Bihar, said he had language issues from the beginning and these never left him. “So, I was ...

Mark Stories Created by Children on StoryWeaver Did you know that it's now possible to mark your child's story as 'Created by Children' on StoryWeaver? And, you can add additional details like name, age, and so on. It was important for StoryWeaver to have this feature mainly for two reasons: to give due credit to young creators, and for our user community to be able to identify stories created by children. Here's how you can mark stories created by children. It's easy-peasy. After you create a story, hit the 'Publish' button and a form appears. At the near-end of the form is a field to add details of the child. In cases where a story has been created by a group of children, it is possible to add details of more than one child. Additionally, there is an open field in which you can add any other details which you feel may be relevant. For instance, if the story was created as part of a campaign, a class project, etc.   Once you publish th...

a a Smaller sub-centres, cluster colleges, courses on oceanography and a training academy for examiners — the University of Mumbai’s perspective plan proposes several changes. Experts say efficient implementation and administration will be key to driving chan Instead of just the Fort and Kalina campus, if other University centres are granted more powers and administered well, each can tackle issues faced by the students in that region. SUDHAKAR TAMBOLI, former senate member of MU Ashish Chawla, 20, a third-year student of information technology at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College in Bandra, still remembers how he had to visit the University of Mumbai’s (MU) Kalina campus multiple times to ask for his revaluation results, after he failed in his math paper in June. “Technically, it should have come out in August last year, so that if I still didn’t qualify I would have enough time to prepare for the December exams,” says Chawla. While everybody else got their results...

Mumbai:  Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation, today announced the launch of comprehensive inventory management system to assist Mumbai Mobile Crèches (MMC). Mumbai Mobile Crecheshas been one of the few NGOs working specifically to support the health, education and safety of children of construction laborers, since 1972.  Developed by TCS pro bono as part of corporate social responsibility programme, MMC’s comprehensive inventory management system, Reduces manual paper work at the sites Provides the ability to aggregate data across all centres managed by MMC Helps in easy monitoring of centre activities and advance planning The system also generates real time accurate reports with statistics, assists in recording inventory of purchased and donated assets across all centres. Migrant workers at construction sites are on daily wages and work under harsh conditio...

The winners have been announced!  Grand Prize Winner Puja Singh  - Teacher (Language & Literature), Victorious Kidss Educares, Pune (Entry - Sub-skills) Category Prizes Young Learners Middle School Tertiary / Higher Education I Prize Gurdeep Kaur Aujla - Primary Teacher, Bombay Cambridge School, Andheri (East), Mumbai  (Entry - Language) D. Sreedevi  -  English Teacher, Sri Jayendra Swamigal Silver Jubilee Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Tirunelveli (Entry - Language) Catherine Anna Pushpam A  - Assistant Professor, B S Abdur Rahman University, Chennai (Entry - Exam) II Prize Viral Vimal Shah  - English Teacher, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Public School.(Vidyashram)Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad (Entry - Language) Priyanka Payaal  - English Assistant Teacher, Mount Carmel School, Dwarka, New Delhi (Entry - Sub-skills) Shashi Prabha Nagendra  - Assistant Professor, BNM Institute of Technology, Bangalore (Entry - Language) III Prize S...

Clearly defined learning outcomes for each class would help parents track student’s progress MUMBAI: Even as the state government has come up with new programmes such as competency tests to improve the learning levels of students in schools, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has defined class-wise, learning indicators and outcomes for students across the country. City school principals and other academicians have said that the state government should adopt these indicators or develop special markers for students in Maharashtra. In a 208-page report, the NCERT has laid down the indicators and outcomes, which state exactly what a child is expected to learn at a particular age. The report also provides evaluators a guide to identify whether students are acquiring the skills. It has provided simple guiding points for parents to check the progress. Although states have been given the liberty to adopt these indicators as per their needs, Maharashtra ...