RAJASTHAN

• University of Rajasthan offers courses in three foreign languages

• University of Rajasthan offers courses in three foreign languages Spanish, French and German. Since the courses have started there have been a growing interest in the students for the languages and with globalisation and internet facilities students from different backgrounds are applying.
• Department of European languages, Literature and Cultural Studies in the university is offering these courses. There is no entrance exam that is being held and students can apply directly. The admission list will be prepared on the merit basis of higher secondary board marks. Another important factor is that students of all age group can apply here and there have been students as old as 60 years who applied for the course after their retirement.

• After learning the languages, there are options to apply for banks, embassies, tourism department, hotels or teachers. There is a scope in abroad as well because of the reach of these languages. There have been suggestions to make a language school in the University so that other languages like Japanese, Italian and Chinese could be included but for some reasons it could not be implemented. 

  INTERNATIONAL

   

  • India Signs Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) in Nursing with Singapore

   

  • India has signed the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) in Nursing with Singapore. This is the first MRA being signed by India with any of our FTA partners.

   

  • In a major gain for India, Singapore agreed to expand coverage of Indian nursing institutions by recognising seven nursing institutions in the MRA.

   

  • This has paved way for our healthcare service providers to institutionally access markets abroad.

   

  • It will further open up doors for India to enter into similar mutual recognition arrangements with other countries.

   

  • India and Singapore concluded the 2^ndReview of India Singapore CECA which was officially announced by both sides today during Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s State visit to Singapore.

   

   

  • Committee constituted under to celebrate 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi

   

  • The Government of India has decided to commemorate 150^thBirth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

   

  • A National Committee (NC) under the Chairmanship of the  President of India has been constituted for this purpose and the first meeting of the National Committee was held on 2^ndMay 2018 in New Delhi.

   

  • As decided in the meeting, an Executive Committee (EC) under the Chairpersonship of Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has been constituted comprising of Senior Ministers in the Cabinet, Leader of opposition (Rajya Sabha), Renowned Gandhians, Social Activists and noted public figures.

   

  NATIONAL

  ·        Ganga Survey By Geographic information system (GIS)

  ð   In 15 months time, Survey of India, the country’s principal mapping agency, will map the entire stretch of the Ganga using geographic information system (GIS) technology and provide high-resolution maps to the government.

  ð  It will help river cleaning authorities in getting minute details of sewage and effluent discharge outlets and identify pollution hot-spots up to 10 km on both sides of the river.

  ð  Since the project will map sewage outlets and other discharges from all units (industrial, commercial and others) from the source to the public drainage network, it will help in monitoring of polluting sources and quicken the process of taking appropriate action.

  ·        HRD Ministry notifies 75 National Resource Centres

  ð  The Ministry of Human Resource Development has launched a major and unique initiative of online professional development of 1.5 million higher education faculty using the MOOCs (Massive online open course) platform SWAYAM.

  ð  In the first phase, 75 discipline-specific National Resource Centres have been identified which are tasked to prepare online training material with focus on latest developments in the discipline, new & emerging trends, pedagogical improvements and methodologies for transacting revised curriculum.

  ð  Under this initiative, all in-service teachers, irrespective of their subject and seniority will have an enabling opportunity to keep abreast of the latest developments in their disciplines through the technology based online refresher course.

  ð  HRD Ministry Launches Initiatives for Online Professional Development Using SW

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ð  Human Resource Development Ministry launched a major and unique initi

ð  In the first phase, 75 discipline-specific National Resource Centres (NRCs) have been identified.

ð  National Resource Centres are tasked to prepare online training material with focus on new and emerging trends, pedagogical improvements and methodologies for transacting revised curriculum.

ative of online professional development of 1.5 million higher education faculty using the Massive Open Online Courses platform SWAYAM.

• AYAM