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Looking at the pace of the education sector, one can easily say that every year has been the year of education so far. However, the result doesn’t match up with the expectations so far, so well. If we look back, it can be seen evidently that every new technological turning point was relatable to bring in a better change or revolution in education. Be it; radio coming into existence for the first time, Television innovation, or computer entry in people’s life. At present, all the expectations for a significant change in education are dependable on the internet. It is not to be forgotten that education is a fundamental need of all, and something that has to be made available on such a large scale takes time for “disruption.” With the internet, disruption of education has become easy. A lot of good content is available on the internet free of cost and quickly disrupting education. Although, a massive set of public confuses good content with an education company. We all agree education is a lot about the outcomes and learning experiences. On a positive note, we can see many ed-tech companies in India working with good intentions keeping up the spirit of ed-tech trends. A few more themes have been developed in the education sector as the ed-tech market is ruling the trends. A clear theme shift from content access to outcome access can be noticed. Companies now look forward to pouring more attention on strong handholding, leading to precise results for learners. Quality has become a topmost priority than ever before. Not just on an overall basis, but this trend can be seen in various sub-sectors of education. Especially in the professional education space, strong focus by companies is done on jobs and careers outcomes. A strong push towards creating a better distribution channel is being done so far—Companies are on for leveraging offline media for customer acquisition. Byju’s and Toppr are other great examples of the services of home-to-home counseling. Now education is no longer an event but a continuous process as a theme in the ed-tech era. This is more suitable when it comes to professional education space. Earlier education was though to barred with age barrier, once a person crossed 25-30 years continuing education from him/her was not considered a good thing. The rapid changes in education with EdTech approaching so fast. We can see a fast-pacing trend. Constantly learning to improve your professional knowledge through education is become more acceptable and admiring criteria. Education was said to be one of the greatest businesses that never goes out of fashion no matter what. Today new EdTech companies with their latest technical education services are not just providing premium education at your doorsteps. It is also breaking the pricing criteria making education more accessible and price friendly.

The last date for JEE Advanced 2021 application process has been extended till September 21, 11:59 pm. The registration process for the exam began on September 15, 2021. Candidates can register on the official website – jeeadv.ac.in. The last date for fee payment is September 21, 11:59 pm. A fee of Rs 2800 will be applicable. For females and reserved category candidates, the application fee is Rs 1400. This year, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur will conduct the JEE Advanced 2021 exam on October 3. “Candidates who are not able to upload a valid category certificate (for all categories) during registration, can upload a self-declaration in lieu of the same, and must upload the valid certificate at the time of reporting during JoSAA.” the official website reads. JEE Advanced 2021: How to apply Step 1: Visit the official website jeeadv.ac.in Step 2: Click on the registration link Step 3: Enter your details in the fields provided Step 4: Pay the registration fees Step 5: Click submit JEE Advanced will consist of two question papers: paper 1 and paper 2 of three hours duration each. Both papers are compulsory. Each question paper will consist of three separate sections – physics, chemistry, and mathematics. It will be held in a computer-based test (CBT) mode. The total duration of each paper will be for three hours. Candidates who qualified for JEE Advanced 2020 but remained absent due to COVID-19 or associated reasons will be allowed to appear for JEE Advanced 2021 directly, without having to take the JEE Main 2021 exam. Source: The news has been published by the Indian Express News Network.

A new class of superhydrophobic cotton composites with Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) that promise marine oil-spill clean-up in near future.   GUWAHATI, 20th September 2021: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Researchers have developed a novel highly porous and water repellent superhydrophobic cotton composite material containing Metal-Organic Framework (MOF), which can absorb oil selectively from oil-water mixture.   The MOF composite has great capability for selective separation of the oils from oil/water mixtures, and the separation efficiency lies between 95% and 98%, irrespective of the chemical composition and density of the oils. Besides, the MOF composite is also able to absorb large volumes of oils and can be reused for minimum 10 times so that the sorbents can provide more recovery of the spilled oil.   The practical applications of this Research include Cleaning the spilled oil from environmental water (river, sea or ocean water) during oil transportation with high efficiency and large absorption capacity, thus reducing environmental water pollution Both heavy and light oils can be effectively absorbed by the material The material is easy to prepare, cost-effective and recyclable   The research team was led by Dr. Shyam P. Biswas, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry. IIT Guwahati. The results of this pathbreaking work have recently been published in the reputed peer-reviewed journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.0c21337)”, belonging to American Chemical Society.   Explaining the motive of the research, Dr. Shyam P. Biswas, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, said, “In our work, we focused on a real problem in environmental water pollution in current time. Our goal was to develop a new material which could be synthesized easily and should be cost effective. We have grown our new MOF material on the surface of medical cotton, which is environment friendly and cost effective. Such low-cost material will reduce the production cost of the material for large scale industrial synthesis for real applications, compared to currently available materials in the market”.   Further, elaborating on how this research will benefit the country, Dr. Shyam P. Biswas said, “In a vast country like India where petroleum hydrocarbons are the major sources of fuel, accidental oil spills occur frequently here during transportation and storage of oils. The material developed in our laboratory will certainly be beneficial to reduce the environmental water pollution by efficiently absorbing the spilled oil from environmental water.”   In the petroleum industry, oil leakage and oil spill accidents happen frequently during offshore oil exploitation and oil transportation. This severe water contamination threatens the health of human beings including other living species. Therefore, the treatment of industrial oily wastewater and the separation of oil spill from water has become a worldwide challenging task.   To overcome this problem, the IIT Guwahati researchers have synthesized a superhydrophobic MOF composite with cotton to absorb oil selectively from water. MOFs are a class of compounds containing of metal ions coordinated to organic ligands to form 3D structures, with the special feature that they are often highly porous materials that act like a sponge.   The team led by Dr. Biswas initially developed a superhydrophobic MOF which can repel the water and float on the water surface. Then, they grew the same MOF on the surface of medical cotton. It was observed that the medial cotton changes from hydrophilic to superhydrophobic material and can float on the water surface. The MOF-coated cotton fiber composite showed water repellence with a water contact angle (WCA) of 163°.   The flexible superhydrophobic MOF composite showed an oil absorption capacity more than 2500 wt%. Motor oil, kerosene and gasoline were used by the team in this study to investigate the real-life potential of the material for oil-spill clean-up. The research team has also demonstrated the separation of oil from oil/water mixture by simple gravity-directed filtration and also collection of underwater oil against gravity.   The growing environmental pollution is a serious threat to our society for sustainable development. Among the various environmental problems, water pollution is one of the serious issues in India. Until now, petroleum hydrocarbon products are the main energy sources in the world.