Rise in number of students in Delhi schools

According to the report released by the Delhi Statistical Handbook, on Thursday, the number of students enrolled in senior secondary schools across Delhi increased to 44.31 lakh from 44.13 lakh in the academic session 2015-16 when compared to the data of 2014-15.

As per the report, 2016, the total number of schools in Delhi was 5,796 in 2015-16, while the total number of schools in 2013-14 and 2014-15 were 5,453 and 5,798 respectively.

Around 44.31 lakh children were enrolled at different levels during 2015-16 in these schools as compared to 44.13 lakh during 2014-15.

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Online learning grows 50% in India

Online learning grew by 50 per cent in India this year, and technology and English were the most sought-after skills, says a report.

According to Coursera, a provider of online courses from top universities, out of the 10 most popular courses, technology constituted 70 per cent, followed English for career advancement.

Coursera has 1.8 million learners from India, out of 23 million registered learners globally, making the country the second-largest base of online learners after the US.

Compared with 2015, Coursera has seen a 50 per cent jump in registered users, especially among technology learners, it said in a release.

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MP govt introduces new exam norms for classes 5 and 8

From now, the students of classes 5 and 8 at state-run schools would have to take the examinations at their respective institutions. The Madhya Pradesh school education department has issued new guidelines according to which there will be no external examination centres for such students.

The guidelines, in the form of a circular, has been sent to all district education officers (DEOs), district project coordinators (DPCs) and school principals.

Yes, new guidelines have been issued for primary and middle school examinations. Letters have been sent to all the concerned authorities, Akshay Singh Rathore, DPC Indore told.

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Rajasthan to host Education Festival

While Rajasthan is known for its music and literature festival, the state will now host a first-of-its-kind ‘Festival of Education’, ‘ in Jaipur next year which will see convergence of academicians and faculty from across the globe.

The two-day event, to be held in April, will provide students and teachers a unique opportunity to interact and share ideas with their global peers, and improve teaching and learning experience.

The event, dubbed as an ‘entertaining and informative extravaganza’ by the state government, will be organised in partnership with Dubai-based education organisation ‘Gems Education’ with whom it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in September this year to fill the infrastructure gap and promote education.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, while unveiling the logo and the theme of the event here, said, “In Rajasthan, more and more students are getting enrolled in government schools than private schools as the government has taken a lot of initiatives in its three years tenure.”

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Bihar launches multiple programmes to boost higher education

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, announced that in order to give a boost to higher education, his government has launched a number of programmes so that 40 percent of youth in the state can pursue higher studies.

At present, only about 13 per cent of the youth are able to study further after clearing class 12. The main reason behind this is due to financial constraints and also due to dearth of institutions.

Poverty in Bihar and dearth of institutions are the major reasons behind the low percentage of the youth pursuing higher education and hence he has come up with a string of programmes under its ‘Seven Resolves’ to lift the number of youths in higher studies to 35-40 per cent.

He said that the “government will provide interest-free loans of Rs. 4 lakh through student credit card so that they can pursue higher studies. He added that youths in the age group 20-25 years would be given an allowance of Rs. 1000 for two years to search for jobs.

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Private schools in England propose 10,000 free places

Independent schools could help fund 10,000 new places for children from lower-income families, following government calls for them to do more to justify their charitable status.

The proposal forms part of the Independent Schools Council’s (ISC) response to the government’s consultation, ‘Schools that work for everyone’, which also outlines plans to expand academic selection in the state system.

The ISC plan would see the government contribute the cost of a state school place to educate children in existing independent schools, with the fee paying schools funding the rest of the cost.

The new places would be free for parents. It echoes the assisted places scheme, brought in by the Conservatives in 1980 to provide places in independent schools for bright working class children, but abolished by Labour in 1997.

The ISC said the places would be available across age groups and schools, and there would be a range of assessment criteria.

The organisation also proposed that groups of independent schools co-sponsor new state-funded schools. It said this would be in partnership with a state school or multi-academy trust lead, and could focus on one or more of the six DfE-identified opportunity areas, which have been labelled ‘cold spots’ for social mobility.

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Singapore top in global education rankings

Fifteen-year-olds from Singapore topped the ranks of the best- performing students in the OECD's triennial survey on international education, followed by Japan, Estonia, Finland and Canada.

The metropolitan areas of Hong Kong, Macau and Taipei also scored high in the survey covering science, reading and mathematics, the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said.

Some 540,000 students across 72 countries or cities were quizzed with a computer-based test during the latest version of the survey, known as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).

With a special focus this time on science, the survey found that students knowledge in the field was broadly stable over the last decade, although Colombia, Israel, Macau, Portugal, Qatar and Romania made significant gains.

Among the 35 mostly wealthy countries belonging to the OECD, one out of five students on average did not achieve the baseline level of proficiency in science.

"Sciences education isn't keeping up. Why? Because science itself is moving at lightening speed," said OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria.

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Government to make sports a compulsory subject in schools

Access to playfields and engagement of physical education instructor has been made a mandatory requirement for all schools under the Right to Education Act, government told the Lok Sabha.

Union Sports Minister Vijay Goel said government recognises the role of sports and physical education in the holistic development of children and youth in the country.

As part of this policy, the government has made access to playfields and engagement of physical education instructor a mandatory requirement for all schools under the Right to Education Act, he said.

The Minister said the CBSE places special importance on co-scholastic areas which includes sports and physical fitness and it is expected that the state education boards would also emulate the CBSE example in due course.

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