The Progressive School Vol 01 Issue 04

news & events
CBSE felicitates 86 economically
weaker students who performed
well in exams
Central Board of
Secondary Education
(CBSE) has felicitated
as many as 86 students
from economically weaker
sections for performing well
in the Class XII examinations. At the annual Guru Gaurav
event, Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash
Javadekar felicitated these students. These students belonged
to government and government-aided schools, Kendriya
Vidyalayas and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas.
Rajasthan government to award girl
toppers in the state
As a move towards
improving women’s
education in
the state, the Rajasthan
government has recently
announced that they will
award cash prizes to female
students from classes 8, 10
and 12 who will perform
outstandingly in their final
exams. The government has
also announced that class
12 toppers and ‘Varishtha
Upadhyay’ exam toppers
among girls will also receive a scooty as a reward. The scheme
will come into effect in the coming academic session of 2017-18.
Female students studying at schools affiliated with the
Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education (RBSE) will be eligible
for the awards. District toppers will require a score of at least 60
per cent to avail the reward.
Under the scheme, Rs 40,000 will be provided to class 8
female toppers; Rs 75,000 to class 10 female toppers and Rs 1
lakh to class 12 female toppers.
Three Indian universities shine at
QS rankings
Published annually,
the Quacquarelli
Symonds (QS) World
University Rankings provides
an overview of the 200 top
universities in the world.
The Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT)-Bombay is the latest edition, joining IIT-
Delhi and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, in this
group. With this, India, for the first time, has three of the top 200
universities in the world. IIT-Bombay is ranked at 179, IIT-Delhi
at 172 and IISc at 190.
In the overall rankings, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) continues its run as the world’s best
university for the sixth consecutive year. Stanford University
and Harvard University follow as the world’s second and third
best institutions.
Another record for Super 30!
Super 30 made
headlines one again
for creating a record
of all candidates clearing
the IIT JEE Advanced
examinations. Last year, 28
out of 30 candidates made
it to IIT JEE Advanced.
Super 30 is an
innovative educational programme running under the banner
of “Ramanujan School of Mathematics”. It looks for 30 meritorious
talents from among the economically backward sections of the
society and shapes them for India’s most prestigious institution
- the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
Common curriculum and papers for
all boards
The Union ministry
of human resource
development (HRD)
has set up an inter-board
working group (IBWG),
comprising eight boards,
to work out the details for
stopping of moderation and
upward revision, or spiking,
of marks.
It is also planned that all boards will move towards adopting
a common curriculum. To avoid confusion, the grace marks
policy will be uploaded on websites, and marks and grades
for extracurricular subjects will be given separately. It is also
planned that all boards will share question papers with CBSE
to bring about uniformity in assessment.
IIT-JEE: still male-dominated
Over 2.2 lakh students
were eligible for the JEE
(Advanced) this year,
1.72 lakh students registered for
the ‘Advanced’ test, of which
1.59 lakh appeared for the test
for the 10,000-plus seats across
the 23 IITs.
Of these, only 33,358 girls registered for the exam. As many
as 86% of successful candidates this year were boys (43,318)
while only 7,137 girls qualified the exam.
Montreal named the best city in the
world for students
According to QS Best
Student Cities, a spinoff
from the annual QS
World University Rankings, has
named Montreal as the best city
in the world for students. Paris held the first position for the
last four years. This will make Canada a major attraction for
international student market. Montreal offers degree courses
in two big international languages - English (universities such
as McGill University) and French (such as the Université du
Québec à Montréal).
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