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Of the 5,03,570 students who registered to appear for the Telangana 10th exams, as many as 4,53,201 students have passed. The pass percentage is the lowest in three years, with as many as 90% of students passing the TS SSC. Not only is there a drop of a huge 10 percentage points when compared with last year when all 100% of students were promoted but also the pass percentage has dipped from 2019 – when the TSBSE had held board exams last. Since for the past two years, the Telangana Board is not conducting exams, the result seems to have mirrored the reality of learning among students after two years of school shut down and online classes. The Telangana Board has decided to hold two hours of daily classes for students who have failed. This is aimed at covering up the learning losses. For students who could not clear their exams, advanced supplementary exams will be held from August 1 to August 10. Girls Performed Better Than Boys Gender-wise, girls have performed better than … [Read more...] about TS SSC Results 2022 Declared: Pass Percentage at Three-Year Low, Special Classes to Fill Learning Gaps

KABUL (Reuters) - At least one participant at a gathering organised by the Taliban of 3,000 male religious and ethnic leaders from across Afghanistan called on Thursday for high schools for girls to reopen. It was the first such gathering to take place since the Islamist group took over the country in August. The Taliban in March backtracked on their announcement that high schools would open for girls, saying they would remain closed until a plan was drawn up in accordance with Islamic law for them to reopen. The u-turn left students in tears and drew condemnation from humanitarian agencies, rights groups and diplomats. "They will learn and will be a good guide for their children in society," said Sayed Nassrullah Waizi, from central Bamiyan province, in calling for the schools to open. It was not clear how much support this sentiment would receive or how a decision on the issue might be reached. International governments, particularly Washington, have said the Taliban … [Read more...] about Girls’ education raised at Taliban’s first national gathering since takeover

It would seem a safe bet that when faced with two offers from similarly prestigious companies, a job candidate would, most of the time, end up taking the one with higher pay. But when New York University’s Jason Greenberg and MIT’s Roberto M. Fernandez analyzed over 700 job offers from a cohort of students graduating from elite MBA programs, they found that something other than pay was driving students’ decisions. In a paper that will soon be published in the journal Sociological Science, Greenberg and Fernandez write that the students were significantly more likely to accept jobs found through networking—done either through alums of their program or their own social connections—even if those jobs came with lower pay than offers arriving through more formal channels, like on-campus recruiting. The choice, the researchers suggest, may be driven by students’ interest in their own career development, and a belief that taking a job with more networking opportunities would give them a … [Read more...] about The Perks—and Limits—of Having a Superstar Mentor

A tripartite MoU was inked between Guidance Tamil Nadu, Korean firm Mando and the Directorate of Technical Education (DoTE) in the presence of Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudi on Wednesday. Mando is engaged in manufacture and sale of automotive components and, more particularly, suspension, brakes and steering part to automotive OEMs in India. According to details provided by Guidance Tamil Nadu, which is instrumental in bringing in investments into the State, the MoU enables Mando to be the industrial partner for DoTE in launching two new sandwich polytechnic programmes under automobiles and mechanical engineering in which over 130 students will be undergoing industrial internships at Mando for one year during their course. This collaboration is in line with the Naan Mudhalvan Scheme which was recently launched by Chief Minister M. K. Stalin. Mando follows a unique model for engaging personnel in the operating line, namely, the operating engineer model inherited … [Read more...] about Korean firm Mando inks MoU with Guidance Tamil Nadu and DoTE

JAC 12th Arts, Commerce Result 2022: The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) will declare the result of class 12 arts and commerce stream today, June 30 at 2:30 PM. Students will be able to check their results through the official website of the Jharkhand board at jac.nic.in , jacresults.com , jac.jharkhand.gov.in , and jharresults.nic.in . JAC chairperson Dr Anil Kumar Mahto will release the result in a press conference, however, the result seems to have been delayed. After waiting for over 30 minutes, the press conference is yet to begin. JAC 12th Results 2022 LIVE Updates If the official websites are not working, students can check their result sat alternative websites such as indiaresult.com, results.gov.in, examreuslts.net. The marksheets provided will be provisional and students will get the hardcopy at a later date from their respective schools. JAC had released the result for Jharkhand board Class 12 exams for the Science stream and Class 10 board exams on June … [Read more...] about JAC 12th Result 2022: How to Check Jharkhand Arts, Commerce Marks Online, via SMS, DigiLocker

The hijab controversy was heard in the Karnataka High Court on Friday again during which the state government contended that the hijab isn’t an essential religious practice of Islam and preventing its use won’t violate Article 25 of the Constitution, which guarantees religious freedom. Appearing for the state dispensation, Advocate General of Karnataka Prabhuling Navadgi told the high court the claim that the government order discriminates against Muslim women has a communal basis, all of which is absolute without any basis. The government order on February 5 had barred students from wearing hijab or saffron scarves. “We have taken a stand that wearing hijab is not an essential religious part of Islam,” the AG told the full bench of the High Court comprising Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice J M Khazi and Justice Krishna M Dixit. Navadgi also dismissed the charge of some Muslim girls that the order violated Article 25. He contended that the February 5 order of the state … [Read more...] about Hijab Not Essential Practice of Islam, It Must Pass Test of Constitutional Morality: Karnataka Govt to HC

The bond between teachers and their students can be like none other. For one maths teacher, this special relationship involves being able to joke around in class. But the teacher ended up feeling left behind when the class came up with a nickname for them that they had never heard before. Luckily, the people of Reddit came to the rescue, and everyone was left in tears after the teacher realised what the term meant. A post shared anonymously to the website by the teacher reads: "Throughout this whole past school year there was this running joke where the students would call me the goat. They were in tears once they learned the truth (stock photo) ( Image: Getty Images) Get the news you want straight to your inbox. Sign up for a Mirror newsletter here "And I would respond back each time that they are the goats and they would all laugh." The kind-hearted teacher added that they found it "pretty funny" but wanted to know what the nickname meant … [Read more...] about Teacher left in tears over nickname students used in class – after figuring out joke

In July 2019, the asteroid 2019 OK came screaming out of the glare of the Sun where astronomers find it difficult to detect such small, faint objects, and passed within 45,000 miles of Earth while traveling at 5,487 miles per hour. That’s well inside the Moon’s average orbit of around 238,000 miles. Despite the close call, 2019 OK didn’t pose a threat to life on Earth, but asteroids like it one day could. That’s why scientists at the Arecibo radio astronomy observatory in Puerto Rico raced to make as many radar observations of the space rock as they could in the half hour or so it would remain in range of their antennas. They wanted to learn as much as possible about an asteroid that passed the Earth that closely and quickly. “It was a real challenge,” Luisa Fernanda Zambrano-Marin, a University of Central Florida planetary scientist who was at Arecibo in 2019, said in a statement . “No one saw it until it was practically passing by, so when we got the alert, we … [Read more...] about ‘It was a real challenge’: Arecibo observatory classifies sneaky asteroid from 2019

“ How to Build a Life ” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Click here to listen to his podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life . W hen you’re admired and well known, “people are always nice to you,” the actor Robert De Niro once confessed to Esquire magazine. “You’re in a conversation, and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying.” Sounds great! Agreement makes life smooth, and the praise and esteem of others gives us pleasure, even stimulating a reward center in our brain. Wanting to surround ourselves with admirers, if we can, is only natural. But in his interview, De Niro clarified exactly what a life filled with admirers can mean. Admirers agree with you “even if you say something totally crazy.” And that’s bad: “You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear,” he said. In other words, the admiration of others can be a double-edged sword. Being admired for our … [Read more...] about Why You Should Befriend the People You Admire

Who bears responsibility for government-sanctioned forced birth? How about the anti-abortion legislators in 26 states who have either banned abortion entirely or made it so onerous for women to end a pregnancy that we are entering a new medieval era of state-imposed reproduction with all the hardship that comes from bringing an unintended child into the world. Conservative politicians who worked so hard to overturn Roe v Wade blithely say women can give up their newborns for adoption, no questions asked, and they’ll put more money into foster care. More wishful thinking than realistic policy, these fixes don’t come anywhere near meeting the needs. We already have a foster care system that is near the breaking point with more than 400,000 kids waiting to be placed or reunited with their parents, many of them with special needs. If we’re going to have forced births, it is not unreasonable to ask the government to cover the costs. We can call it forced socialism with the burden … [Read more...] about You Want Forced Births? Then We Want Forced Socialism