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Students will now get to study about tsunami.
Tsunami to enter CBSE textbooks
In the backdrop of the tsunami disaster, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to incorporate information about the natural phenomenon in its school textbooks.
Beginning next academic session, information on tsunami waves will be included in the disaster management curriculum of Class X, the CBSE Chairman, Ashok Ganguly, said.
These will include lessons on how schools and students can coordinate with the community in the event of a calamity, he said. "CBSE was the first education board in India to introduce lessons on disaster management, as we believe that today's younger generation needs to learn about events which society has never confronted before," he said. While disaster management was introduced for Class VIII students as part of their social science curriculum in 2003, it was incorporated in Class IX lessons in the ongoing academic session.
"As the disaster management curriculum for Class X, to be started from the next academic session, is in the process of finalisation, we decided to include information on tsunami," Mr. Ganguly said.
Disaster management will account for 10 per cent marks in social science examinations and students will be required to do project work on community work, he said
Training in disaster management
With the tsunami tragedy still fresh in memory, educationists, including Directors of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), have favoured training for teachers and students in disaster management.
"We will have to ensure that tragedies such as Kumbakonam school fire, Dabwali school fire and tsunami are controlled and damage reduced through sound teaching, learning and teacher training," the NCERT Director, Krishna Kumar, said at a workshop jointly organised by NIDM and NCERT in New Delhi.
"As curriculum designers, we have to ensure that theory of disaster management must get converted into practice and for this we have to train our teachers well. Inclusion of chapters will not be enough," Mr. Kumar said.
S.P. Gaur, Director of NIDA, said disaster management in school education was important, as today's students are tomorrow's citizens.
Yale ties-up with GLIM
Yale, an Ivy League U.S. University, recently joined hands with Chennai-based B' school Great Lakes Institute of Management (GLIM) for establishing a management research centre in India.
Richard C. Lewin, president, Yale University; and Bala V. Balachandran, founder, GLIM, signed an MoU for the joint venture at a function in Chennai.
Mr. Lewin also unveiled the foundation stone for Yale-GLIM Centre for Management Research.
This is the first time that an Ivy League University is tying up with an Indian institution of higher learning to set up such a venture.
"Such a first-of-its-kind interaction with an Ivy League institute such as Yale will go a long way in cementing a mutually synergetic bond between US academia and Indian industry," he said.
The centre will undertake management related research activities and consultancy projects, which contribute to the development of basic and advanced applied knowledge in the field of management.
The programme will involve faculty exchanges, joint research, concurrent case studies and publications, which will create an academic symbiosis between the two management institutions.
Bharathiyar University convocation on Jan 12
The 20th convocation of the Bharathiar University will be held in Coimbatore on January 12.
The Tamil Nadu Governor, Surjit Singh Barnala, will preside over the function and G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation, would deliver convocation address
The Tamil Nadu Education Minister, C.V. Shanmugam, in his capacity as Pro-Chancellor, would also participate, according to a university release.
Five new medical colleges
Five new medical colleges will be started from the next academic year in Karnataka, the State Medical Education Minister, Iqbal Ansari, said in Hubli.
He told reporters that the five new colleges included one in Shimoga for which permission from the Medical Council of India has been sought.
Mr. Ansari said the State would recommend to the MCI for more intake of students in medical colleges from the next academic year.
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