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Prof. Ashok Banerjee has been appointed as the new director of IIM Udaipur as of today. IIM Calcutta faculty member Prof. Banerjee succeeds Prof. Janat Shah, who has led the organisation since its establishment in 2011. Prof. Banerjee is a chartered accountant who also possesses a PhD from Rajasthan University in addition to an MCom from Calcutta University. According to a release from IIM-U, the new director has extensive expertise as a senior professor in the field of finance and control. His areas of interest for study include sentiment analysis, Fintech, and high-frequency finance. From 2012 until 2015, he served as the Dean of New Initiatives and External Relations at IIM Calcutta. He worked as a professor at IIM Lucknow before moving on to IIM Calcutta. On the boards of companies in the financial and technology sectors, he also serves as an independent director. IIM Calcutta Innovation Park, which is recognised by the Department of Science & Technology as a Technology Business Incubator, was established at IIM Calcutta during Prof. Banerjee’s tenure as Dean. The Financial Research and Trading Laboratory of IIM Calcutta was established by Prof. Banerjee, who also served as its coordinator. At IIM Calcutta, he played a key role in launching the International Finance Conference in 2009. Now known as the India Finance Conference, it is jointly put on by IIM Calcutta, IIM Bangalore, and IIM Ahmedabad. Following the completion of Prof. Janat Shah’s second term, Prof. Banerjee was appointed. He was in charge for 11 years in all, starting with the first term and continuing for an additional year in between. IIM Udaipur has become a highly regarded and recognised institution under Prof. Shah’s leadership. The fourth IIM and youngest B-School to receive ACCSB or EQUIS accreditation was IIM Udaipur. In 2021, it became the youngest B-School in Asia and only the third IIM to be ranked in the prestigious FT Global Top 100 MIM Rankings for a third consecutive year.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has announced that starting on Friday, more than 23,000 higher education courses, including programmes on artificial intelligence (AI), cyber security, and early childhood care, would be offered for free on a new web portal. The portal aims to bridge the digital divide and improve access to higher education in rural areas of the nation. As part of the National Education Policy-2020’s second aniversary, it will be unveiled on Friday. In order to offer these courses starting with the upcoming academic session of 2022–2023, the UGC has partnered with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to integrate the e-resources with their more than 7.5 lakh Common Service Centers (CSC) and Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) Centers. According to UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar, “as part of its efforts in making higher education accessible to all, the UGC has been constantly working in making digital resources available to students in English as well as regional languages.” The CSC aims to provide individuals, particularly those in rural India, access to digital technology and to e-government services right at their doorstep. More than 5 lakh CSC/SPV centres are operational throughout the nation, while about 2.5 lakh CSCs and SPVs are in use in gram panchayats. “The CSCs and SPVs are being managed and operated by entrepreneurs who belong to the local community and referred to as village level entrepreneurs (VLEs). VLEs operate the centres to earn their living by delivering online services. These centres have computers and internet connectivity,” Kumar stated. There are 23,000 postgraduate courses in addition to 25 non-engineering SWAYAM courses and 137 SWAYAM MOOC courses in emerging fields. These can be accessed for free on the UGC portal. Source: PTI

The results of the Class 10 board examination have been released by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Students who took exams can check their results at cbseresults.nic.in, results.cbse.nic.in, results.gov.in, or cbse.digitallocker.gov.in. The board released the results of the Class 12 final examination earlier today. Using the school code, roll number, and admit card ID, one can verify their CBSE results. Exams were conducted by CBSE in two terms this year. In terms of theory papers, terms 1 and 2 have been assigned an equal weightage of 30% and 70%, respectively, for the sake of the final results. Practically, both terms have been given the same amount of importance. Nearly 35 lakh students registered for the 2022 CBSE 10th and 12th term exams, which were held from April 26 to June 15. A total of 2093978 students took the CBSE 10th exam. Out of the total 1976668 have passed the exam, taking the pass percentage to 94.40%. Girls have performed better than boys by 1.41%. As many as 95.21% of girls passed the exam, among boys, it is 93.80% and 90% of transgender category students have passed the exam. At 99.68 per cent, Trivandrum records the highest pass percentage in class 10th exams, while Assam’s Guwahati records the lowest pass percentage at 82.23 per cent. The institution-wise pass percentage is, JNV- 99.71%; Independent- 96.86%; KV- 96.61%; CTSA- 91.27%; Govt – 80.68%; Govt aided – 76.73%. Students can check the results via the official Website which has been activated, and they can also get the results on other alternate websites.

The class 12 board exam results for 2022 were declared today by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). The official websites cbse.gov.in and cbseresults.nic.in now have the results available. Students can also use the UMANG app, Digilocker, and SMS to check their results. Board reported a 92.71 percent total passing rate for this academic year. With a pass rate of 98.83%, Trivandrum has emerged as the best performing area. In class 12 board exams, all registered transgender students passed, with girls outperforming boys by 3.29 percent. This year, JNV schools outperformed KV schools. JNVs have the highest overall pass rate of 98.83 percent, followed by CTSA Schools at 97.76 percent and KVs at 97.04 percent. The school wise pass percentages are as follows, NVs: 98.93%; CTSA: 97.96%; KVs: 97.04%; Govt. Aided: 94.81%; Govt.: 93.38%; Independent: 92.20%. Based on how well students performed on the term 1 and term 2 board exams, the results of the senior secondary exams have been released. Despite the fact that both term exams were taken offline, term 1 contained objective questions whereas term 2 had subjective ones. The first term’s exams were held in December 2021, and OMR sheets were distributed to the students. Students who are dissatisfied with their grades will be permitted to take the board’s compartment exams. In 2021, the CBSE class 12 results were released based on an alternative marking scheme that used the 40:30:30 formula for grade evaluation. The board’s overall passing rate was 99.37 percent, up nearly 10 percent from the 88.8 percent reported the year before. It was 83.4 percent in 2019.    

In collaboration with the National Commission for Women, the Centre for Development of North Eastern Region (CeDNER), IIM-Shillong is hosting a 60-hour real-time (online) certificate programme in general management for aspiring women entrepreneurs in the North Eastern Region (NER). Applications are being taken from July 15 to August 12 for the master class, which will start on weekends on September 3 and run until October 16. Students will receive a course certificate from IIM-Shillong at the conclusion of the programme. Candidates interested in applying should go to innovateindia.mygov.in/ncw-iim-Shillong/ According to the official announcement, the workshop’s goal is to provide participants with the information to adopt an outcome-based learning paradigm, where participants will learn how to launch, manage, and scale up the firm.

On July 15, 2022, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will publish the India rankings 2022, which will feature a list of the best colleges, universities, and other educational institutions nationwide. The rankings will be virtually announced by the education minister at 11 am on the official website nirfindia.org. “On 15th July 2022, Hon’ble Education Minister, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan will release the India rankings 2022 under National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), virtually. The annual exercise outlines a methodology to rank Higher Education Institutions (HEI’s) across India in various categories & subject domains. Stay tuned!” reads the tweet by Ministry of Education. Institutions will be graded in one of 11 categories, including overall, university, colleges, engineering, management, pharmacy, law, medical, architecture, dental, and research, depending on their functional areas. The institutions are ranked using a number of factors, including resources, research, and stakeholder perception. Each parameter has a specific weight allocated to it, which varies depending on the institution type. The total weightages determine the final scores and subsequently the rank. IIT-Madras was ranked first among all educational institutions last year and first among engineering institutions. The ranking is generally based on five main factors, including outreach and inclusivity, graduation outcomes, research and professional practise, teaching, learning, and resources, and peer perception.

In the early hours of July 11, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the JEE Main Session 1 results. At this time, the websites nta.ac.in, ntaresults.nic.in, and jeemain.nta.nic.in allow applicants to download their scorecards. In the JEE Main 2022, up to 14 students achieved 100 percentile scores. With a flawless score of 300/300, Sneha Pareek of Guwahati took the top spot. Pareek, who placed first among all female candidates, plans to study BTech computer science at any IIT. On July 2, the JEE Main 2022 answer key was made available, and candidates had till July 4 to raise challenges. NTA will prepare and release the results based on the updated final answer key. On June 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, and 29, 2022, the test was given. The candidates’ JEE Main 2022 scores will be made public by NTA following the announcement of the JEE Main results. The JEE Main marks vs rank chart includes the candidates’ expected rank based on their score. Several B.E./B. programmes will accept the JEE score. NITs, IIITs, and other Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs) offer technical education. NTA has also reopened the application period for the session 2 tests in the meantime. Registration for the session, which is slated to take place from July 21 to July 30, was open to candidates until July 9.