The rat race for admission in Delhi University is finally going to take off from Monday 1st, June amid the pressure of large number of high achievers in 12th examination both in CBSE and ICSE. The application process for admission in the undergraduate courses will continue from 1st June to15th June. Though colleges like St. Stephen’s and Jesus & Mary colleges have already started their process of admission. But other colleges of Delhi University will take admission in the under graduate courses through centralized admission system.
16 admission centres have been made for the applicants to get and submit application forms. These include Arts faculty, Dean of student’s welfare (DSW), Kirorimal College, Deshbandhu College, ARSD college, Gargi college, PGDAV College, Shyam Lal College, Vivekanand College, South Campus, Jakir Husain College, Bharti College, Rajdhani College and Shrdhanand College.
The first cut-off list for admission will be displayed on 25th June while second cut-off list will be displayed on 30th June. For more detail about admission process in DU please visit www.du.ac.in
Delhi’s Government Schools have improved their performance in CBSE Class Xth result as compared to last year. Govt. School’s pass percentage has gone up from 83.68% to 89.44% (increase of 5.76%). In comparison the percentage of Private schools have marginally increased from 91.10 last year to 91.67 (increase of 0.57% only). The gap between Private and Government Schools of Delhi in the Class X CBSE 2009 results has narrowed to 2.23% in 2009 from 7.24% in 2008.Delhi government schools against 105538 last year. This year 85098 students from Private schools appeared in boards as compared to figure of 80952 of last year. Out of 1.47 lakh students who appeared in the Secondary Examination in 2009 from Government schools all over the country, more than 1.16 lakh students appeared from Delhi government schools only.Delhi also performed quite better than the Kedriya Vidyalays in Delhi. A student of RPVV, Sham Nath Marg, Vikas scored 96.8% mark to became topper among boys and all over. Ms. Ravneet Kaur from RPVV Gandhi Nagar and Ms. Aini Hasnain, RPVV, Surajmal Vihar scored 95% marks this year.
The number of students who appeared from Government Schools increased by 10655, in case of aided schools around 95 and in case of public schools 4146. This year 116193 students appeared from
The girls have again outshone the boys this year with pass percentage of 89.78% as compared to boy’s 88.18%. The over all pass percentage from all regions stood at 88.84% . The students of government schools in
The Education Minister Arvinder Singh said that the City Government is committed to impart quality education to students and inculcate state of the art technology in teaching. The Minister added that number of merit certificate winners in government schools has gone up from 9953 in 2008 to 10648 in 2009.
The new Manmohan Singh government will take forward the Foreign Educational Institutions (FEI) Bill to regulate foreign universities and institutions in the country. The new Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal, has said today while taking charge of the office. He also indicated changes in the IITs and IIMs in the near future.
The (FEI) bill is pending in the parliament for the approval. Several educational institutions and Association of Indian Universities (AIU) have been demanding to regulate foreign institutions in the country for the betterment of the educational institutions and Indian educational community. According to Sibal the ministry is linked to the youth, children and families and it needs to be seen how it can take India forward
Agatha Sangma, the youngest minister of the Manmohan Singh’s council of ministers, loves to walk and have interest in photography, reading and writing. The 29 year old Agatha has been included in the ministry on Thursday.
The youngest daughter of former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno A Sangma and MP from Tura Lok Sabha Constituency Agatha has not just done her LLB from Pune but also has done diploma in several fields of law including Cyber Law, Human Rights, Investment & securities law and Corporate Law. She has practiced as a lawyer at Delhi High court too. Apart from LLB she has done her post graduation in Environmental Management. Agatha, who first entered in politics as an MP in the age of 27 year when her father vacated Tura Lok Sabha seat for the state politics. She actually wants to be voice of North-east. According to her the north-east has been neglected for a long time and it needs better representation. She believes that lot of works need to be done in the area and as a minister with rural development portfolio she could better serve people of north-east.
There has been a marked improvement in pass percentage of students of Delhi government schools in CBSE class-XII results declared today whereas there has been a decrease in pass percentage of students from public schools in Delhi. It is also worthwhile to mention that overall pass percentage of Delhi Government schools has gone up by 1.44% which is much better than the overall pass percentage of 0.09% in respect of entire students appeared in senior secondary examination 2009.
It is also a matter of great satisfaction for Delhi government schools have also been imparting quality education to the special children. Anuj Goel from Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya, Shalimar Bagh has topped all over India with 96.4% among special children in Class-XII with Commerce Stream. Education Minister Arvinder Singh today stated that government schools of Delhi, in fact, has bridged the gap and established parity in performance with public schools.
He further stated that pass percentage of government schools has gone up from 85.70% to 87.14% whereas the percentage have decreased in case of aided schools from 78.61% to 75.68%(-2.93%) and in case of public schools from 87.81% to 87.17%(-0.64%). Last year there was difference (2.11%) between pass percentage of public schools (87.81%) and government schools 85.70%. It is credible that this year the pass percentage of government and public schools is same.
Delhi government schools have secured highest position amongst all CBSE regions in three successive years though the pass percentage of Chennai regions is highest among all other regions but incase of government schools it is 2% behind Delhi government schools.
The number of students appeared from government schools increased by around 15,000 whereas in case of aided schools around 1300 and in case of public schools around 2650 only. The increase in number of students in case of government schools is more than 20% than last year. This year 87,235 students appeared from Delhi government schools against 72,253 last year. Moreover that number of government school students from all the regions was 1.10 lakh and more than 87,000 students alone appeared only from Delhi government schools. Singh added that number of merit certificate winners in government schools has gone up from 98 in 2008 to 124 in 2009 which is also a big achievement.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Education Minister Arvinder Singh have conveyed their heartiest congratulations to students and their parents on their outstanding performance. They have also wished them a bright future.
India’s one of the most beautiful church at Shimla in night.
Shimla is known as queen of hills but church at Shimla is known as one of the most beautiful church in India
Students, who appeared in their class-X and Class-XII and are not willing to pursue further education will get professional training in the capital city Delhi. The city government has decided to provide training to 30000 such students in 13 different trades based on the requirement of such skilled manpower in the market.
The training will be provided under Prime Minister’s Skill Development Mission Programme, Delhi’s Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said today in an interaction with media at Delhi Secretariat. All arrangements have been made to impart training to around 30,000 students who would be able to find a respectable employment, he said adding that the classes in afternoon would be held in all single shift government schools in Delhi. This would provide a unique opportunity to the students for enhancing their employability if they do not wish to pursue higher studies. The Directorate of Education has lined up all competent trainers for this purpose.
A part of trainers would, of course, be arranged from outside faculty. The Modular Employable Skills (MES) short-term courses are demand driven as determined in consultation with the industry. The objective is to improve their employability by optimally utilizing the infrastructure available in government schools. The courses are optional for the students. The duration for these trades varies from 80 to 270 hours depending on the nature of the trade. The Directorate of Education is expecting that around 30,000 students would enroll and avail the benefit of these courses.
The trades being offered are automobile repair, beauty culture & hair dressing, electrical, electronics, fashion designing and garment making, Indian foods and snacks, hospitality, information and communication technology, refrigeration and air-conditioning, travel & tourism, retail sector, security and media.
Education Minister stated that training courses are being offered after successful trial under which around 4000 students in the schools have been imparted training. All arrangements have been ensured based on the feedback received from these trial courses however the courses would be further fine tuned when they are introduced in government schools of Directorate of Education in mid July, 2009.
Singh expressed confidence that this scheme would prove to be beneficial to large number of students belonging to weaker and other middle-income families. The trained professional would be able to serve the needs of society at large. The government has taken a step which would go a long way in making those students professionally qualified and competent enough to earn their earning in a respectable manner who are not in a position to pursue further study. Singh added that the training by qualified trainers would make trainees an asset in their self making them a useful component of the society