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HARYANA (ICCs), mandatory under Studies & Philosophy — cation work for UNRWA
Teacher training the Prevention of Sexual with academic support (United Nations Relief and
programme Harassment of Women in from IIT-Madras and IIT- Works Agency for Pales-
Kanpur. SCU’s permanent
tine Refugees in the Near
Workplaces Act 2013.
Chandigarh, july 23. “Appropriate action campus is under construc- East) in Jordan.
The State Council of may be taken against the tion in Khaltsi, a village at
Educational Research heads of defaulting institu- an altitude of 3,500 metres GOA
and Training (SCERT) is tions by withholding the above sea level. Values program
set to launch an artificial salary of the entire estab- “SCU’s mission is to
intelligence (AI)-enabled lishment of the defaulting evolve as a centre for non- success
education training offices,” said the order. It conventional, interdisci- Panaji, july 12. Chief
programme for classes also threatened suspen- plinary learning aligned minister Pramod Sawant
I-XII government school sion of the principals for with the UN’s 17 Sustain- announced significant
teachers statewide. The non-compliance. able Development Goals. improvements in student
objective of the program is Addressing a press The university is expected and teacher behaviour as
to make classrooms more conference, Shinde added: to become fully opera- outcomes of the integra-
interactive, data-informed, “No college will be allowed tional by 2028,” said Dr. tion of the state govern-
and student-centric. to delay compliance, espe- Kamakoti, speaking on the ment’s Mulyavardhan
In late August, a ten- cially in matters involv- occasion. (values education)
member team of expert ing women’s dignity and program — conducted in
master trainers, who grievance redressal. It’s a DELHI association with Pune-
will finalise the training shame only a handful of IGNOU’s new VC based non-profit Shantilal
modules, will conduct the district’s 210 higher ed Muttha Foundation — into
workshops in all districts, institutions have complied New delhi, july 25. With the school curriculum.
followed by online training with the directive.” more than three decades of Addressing a press
for over 20,000 teachers distinguished service in the conference via video
via SCERT’s Prashikshak LADAKH open and distance learning link, Sawant said: “We
(‘coach’) portal, said SCU’s first systems, Uma Kanjilal has launched the values educa-
Samvartak Singh, director been appointed the first tion program six years ago
of SCERT, addressing a convocation woman Vice Chancellor of in government higher sec-
press conference. Leh, july 23. Fourteen the Indira Gandhi National ondary and high schools,
“This time, the train- students of the inau- Open University (IGNOU, with trained teachers
ing will be for all subjects gural batch of Sindhu estb.1985). facilitating the curricu-
from class I-XII. Training Central University (SCU, A professor of library lum. Over the years, this
outcomes will be assessed estb.2024), India’s first and information science initiative has positively
using the Peer Learning trans-Himalayan central at IGNOU since 2003, impacted the behaviour of
Circle method, where university, were awarded Kanjilal is nationally students and teachers.”
resource persons will men- postgraduate degrees recognised for expertise in The Mulyavardhan
tor and evaluate teachers at the varsity’s maiden e-learning, ICT in librar- program has reached
as they complete modules convocation ceremony. ies, digital libraries, and 80,000 students in 450
and assignments.” Dr. Pawan Kotwal, chief multimedia courseware state-run schools, with
secretary of Ladakh, Dr. development. She is cur- 2,700 teachers trained
ODISHA V. Kamakoti, Director of rently the National Coordi- to deliver the content, he
Non-compliance IIT-M and Chair of SCU’s nator for the SWAYAM added. Designed to teach
Executive and Academic
and SWAYAM PRABHA
students appropriate
crackdown Councils, presided over flagship digital education behaviour at home, school,
Bhubaneswar, july 23. Cut- the inaugural ceremony. initiatives of the ministry and in society, the program
tack collector Dattatraya Currently, SCU offers of education. encompasses the prin-
Bhausaheb Shinde has four postgraduate pro- Global achievements in- ciples of justice, liberty,
ordered over 100 colleges grammes — M.Tech in clude a Fulbright Fellow- equality, and fraternity by
in the district to suspend Energy Technology and ship at the University of Il- employing activity-based
disbursement of salaries Policy; M.Tech in At- linois, Urbana-Champaign learning pedagogies.
to employees for failure to mospheric and Climatic (1999-2000), consultancy
submit reports of Internal Science; MA in Public for the Commonwealth of Paromita Sengupta with bureau
Complaints Committees Policy and MA in Buddhist Learning, and digital edu- inputs

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