EDUCATION
Intermediate board exams in Andhra as per schedule: Minister
Addressing media, the minister stressed that the examinations will be held with Covid protocols in place to ensure safety for the students. The examinations will take place from May 5 to 19, at 1,452 examination centres that have been arranged across the state.
Delhi govt gives its teachers the shivers with show cause notices
The Delhi government has deployed the school teachers at several places including makeshift hospitals, data recording of vaccines and oxygen, crematorium grounds to keep a tab and maintain data on a daily basis on the number of people infected with Covid-19 and people losing their battle against the virus infection.
Will conduct 10 and 12 board exams: Andhra CM
He said that the government is conducting Board examinations to ensure that students have a better future and assured them that he has every student's future in mind while taking this decision. As only pass certificates would be issued by the states which have not conducted the exams, how will our students get admission in good institutions on the basis of a pass certificate alone, he queried.
IIT Madras, Anna University postpone exams
IIT Madras has postponed its end semester exams which were to be held on May 10 and Anna University has postponed its online retest scheduled for May 3. Madras University has also cancelled its examinations following the surge in Covid cases and the second wave of the pandemic.
Delayed boards may hamper students' admission plans abroad
The academic calendar in America, Canada New Zealand and the UK begins in September. If the board exams are held and if the results are declared in time, it would allow students to apply to most foreign universities. However, the time usually afforded for the application process would obviously be curtailed.
IIT-Madras studying Coronavirus' high transmission potential
Using computational tools, the IITM team studied its two close variants -- SARS-CoV and NL63. 'SARS-CoV' can be considered a asibling' of the subfamily beta coronavirus aSARS-CoV-2', while the aNL63' belongs to sub-family alpha coronavirus and can be considered as a acousin' of SARS-CoV-2.
IIT-K to prepare audit software for O2 use
Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Avanish Kumar Awasthi said that according to the instructions issued by the government, the responsibility of developing the oxygen audit system has been entrusted to IIT-Kanpur which will prepare the software and provide it to the government along with technical details.
Lucknow varsity to promote 1 lakh students without exams
The university authorities have decided to seek permission from the state government for promoting the students and a request letter will be sent to the government in this regard shortly.
$14,000 prize for idea on ocean sustainability
The virtual ideas competition will advance outstanding home-grown solutions from across 54 Commonwealth countries, targeting some of the world's most pressing ocean-related challenges, such as eliminating plastic pollution, accelerating sustainable energy uptake, climate change, developing sustainable 'blue' approaches for the ocean economy and protecting nature in marine areas.
Andhra Pradesh promotes all students from classes 1 to 9
"All students of classes I to IX in all schools under all managements shall be treated as pass and promoted to their next class, duly cancelling summative assessment - II examinations for the academic year 2020-21," ordered principal secretary B. Rajsekhar on Monday.
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