Young Learner News Magazine June 2019

June 2019

YOUNG LEARNER News Magazine on School Education

कूल क बि डंग कूल नह ं है । कूल का अथ तो कूल क पढ़ाई है , जो कसी कूल म नह ं हो रह ।

An Editorial Initiative of Raman Media Network Editor: Rakesh Raman

Modern Education | Trends | Job Market | Campaigns | Policy

Main Stories in This Issue

Learning

Army Holds Children Adventure Camp

News Analysis

Research

Role of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Policy

Draft National Education Policy 2019

Donation

Donation for Free Education Schools

You Must Not Celebrate School Results

Environment Campaign

Research Report on Pollution in Delhi

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Why You Must Not Celebrate School Exam Results While there is a lot of falsehood being spread by Arvind Kejriwal’s Delhi Government about the school education, Delhi stands at a low No. 9 in the list of 10 regions.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in India declared Class-10 results on May 6. According to ​CBSE​, Trivandrum performed best amongst all regions with 99.85% pass percentage followed by Chennai region with 99.00% while Ajmer stands at third position with 95.89% pass percentage.

While there is a lot of falsehood being spread by ​Arvind Kejriwal​’s Delhi Government about the school education, Delhi stands at a low No. 9 in the list of 10 regions with only 80.97 pass percentage. This again shows that the quality of education in ​Delhi schools is pathetically bad.

According to CBSE, 17,61,078 students appeared in the exam out of which 16,04,428 students passed the exam. The overall pass percentage of this year is 91.10. Thirteen students have topped the exam with 499 marks out of 500.

But there is no cause for celebrating the exam results because these results have no link with the careers of the students. Since the quality of education is equally bad in all parts of India, students with even higher education degrees do not get jobs.

Google ​search reveals that there is no value of educational degrees while the crowds of unemployed degree holders are increasing in India.

As the education standards are very poor in India, the degree holders do not learn skills that are required in the modern ​job market​. As a result, the employment situation is equally bad in all parts of the country. It is reflected in the worsening Human Development Index (​HDI​) of India.

Published by the United Nations Development Programme, HDI indicates the level of skills in a country and lets you know if people in that country are able to achieve their goals.

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Unfortunately, India falls at No. 130 in the global list of countries ranked on the basis of their HDI.

कूल क बि डंग कूल नह ं है । कूल का अथ तो कूल क पढ़ाई है , जो कसी कूल म नह ं हो रह । Ph o: Rakesh Raman / RMN News Service The HDI rank of war-torn countries such as Iraq, Palestine, and also Sri Lanka, China, Namibia, Vietnam, and Guyana are better than that of India.

That means, despite all the loud claims by the Indian governments about the ​education standards in the country, the education in India is not producing skilled workforce. The so-called educated people in India are not employable in any modern field. Worse, most of them are not even trainable.

Consequently, out of nearly 500 million workers in India, over 94% work in unorganized sector as pushcart vendors, street hawkers, domestic servants, and so on. This means the education standards in India are so poor that schools and colleges are not producing workforce employable for respectable jobs in the organized enterprises.

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Plus, the ​web is replete with facts and figures that reveal the irrelevance of Indian education systems and how they are wasting students’ time and parents’ money.

Indian Army Holds Children Summer Adventure Camp This camp offers opportunity to the participating children to instill a spirit of adventurism and personality development.

Southern Command Children Summer Adventure Camp 2019 was organized at Mount Abu from 27 May to 03 June 2019. The eight-day camp was conducted under the aegis of 8 MADRAS Battalion of Battle Axe Division. This camp offers opportunity to the participating children to instill a spirit of adventurism and personality development.

Children Summer Adventure Camp Around 125 children from units of entire Southern Command of Indian Army subscribed to attend the camp. During their stay in camp children enthusiastically participate in various

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indoor and outdoor activities, including trekking, caving, boating, various games, and competitions.

The camp provides opportunities to explore the nature, make new friends, develop new and diverse interests and create lasting memories. The organizers of the camp also intend to motivate the children towards adoption of new hobbies, shouldering responsibilities,

goal setting and achieving the same. Toward that objective, various activities like introduction to ​yoga and meditation techniques, lectures on safety, security and social graces are also conducted.

This camp is conducted every year by Army at Mount Abu during the summer vacations of children, providing them a platform of learning and adventure coupled with fun and frolic.

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What Is the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Education?

A synthesis report to document the main achievements and outcomes of the Conference will be published.

An international conference on Artificial Intelligence (​AI​) and education took place in Beijing, China from 16 to 18 May 2019. The conference provided a platform for Member States, international organizations, civil society, and the AI industry to:

Debate whether skills needed to successfully cope in the AI era can be anticipated, and share experiences on the development of such skills that will enable humans to adapt to a society informed by AI; Exchange information on the latest trends in AI and how the trends are shaping education and learning;

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Assess lessons learned from emerging national policies and strategies for leveraging AI to achieve SDG 4; and Strengthen international cooperation and partnership for promoting equitable, inclusive, and transparent use of AI in education.

Artificial Intelligence in Education. Photo: UNESCO The conference called more than 500 participants, including approximately two high-level representatives from each participating Member State, as well as representatives of UN agencies and international organizations, leaders of the AI industry, academic experts, policy-makers, and practitioners.

A synthesis report to document the main achievements and outcomes of the Conference will be published, as well as a Consensus, to be developed and adopted by the high-level representatives of the Member States.

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The conference was co-organized by UNESCO, the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, and the National Commission of the People’s Republic of China for UNESCO. Download Previous Issues of Young Learner January 2019

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India Releases Draft National Education Policy 2019 After getting feedback from the public, and after consulting State Governments, the National Education Policy will be finalized by the Government.

Union Minister for HRD Prakash Javadekar (file photo) The draft National Education Policy document has been submitted to the Ministry for HRD (MHRD) by the Chairman Dr Kasturirangan and the members of the Committee on May 31.

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According to MHRD, this is a draft Policy submitted by the Committee and is placed for views of the general public while it is not the Policy announced by the Government.

After getting feedback from the general public, and after consulting State Governments, the National Education Policy will be finalized by the Government.

According to MHRD, the Government under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi is committed for equal development and promotion of all Indian languages. There will be no imposition of any language in educational institutions and no discrimination against any language.

50 Volunteers Wanted for New Education Campaign in Delhi द ल के कूल म श ा का गरता हुआ तर और उसम सध ु ार का यास ऐसी पढ़ाई का कोई फायदा नह ं जो हम अ छ नौकर न दे सके आओ मल कर शु कर – श ा लाओ, कूल बचाओ – आंदोलन RMN Foundation – which is a humanitarian organization – seeks the services of at least 50 volunteers for its new campaign which aims to get the education system in Delhi government schools revamped.

The selected candidates will be given the opportunity to work in diverse operational areas such as Education Counselling, Field Campaigns, Public Relations, Fund-raising, Events Management, Government Relations, and General Administration.

Depending on the nature of their work, the volunteers can choose to operate from their homes. But they will be expected to attend initial weekly meetings at RMN Foundation’s Education and Career Counselling Center at a poor J.J. Colony in Dwarka, New Delhi.

Interested candidates, who can offer their services on a voluntary basis, may ​Please click here to apply online​.

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RMN Foundation launched the next phase of its education awareness campaign in New Delhi Alternatively, you can download our Volunteer Application Form and send it by post at the following address.

Rakesh Raman RMN Foundation 463, DPS Apts., Plot No. 16, Sector 4 Dwarka, Phase I, New Delhi 110 078, INDIA Email: ​rrthakur@hotmail.com

Disturbing Fact There are numerous pitfalls in the current state of school education in India - including irrelevant syllabuses, poor content quality of books, defective pedagogical methods, incompetence of teachers, disturbing teacher-student ratios, and overall lack of administration in local schools. The schools are being run in a totally careless, free-wheeling manner.

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Appeal for Donations RMN Foundation is a humanitarian organization that was formed in May 2015 as an educational and public charitable Trust for the benefit of humanity at large.

It is registered with the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi at New Delhi, India.

Currently, all the activities of RMN Foundation are being managed single-handedly (without any support) by RMN Foundation founder Rakesh Raman who had left his job a few years ago to run this charity.

As RMN Foundation has embarked upon some major humanitarian projects during the past over 3 years, now it needs a significant amount of funds in the form of donations​ to expand the scope of its activities.

All the services of the Foundation are structured to ensure “​Equal Opportunity for All to Live and Progress​.”

DONATION DETAILS

Individual Indian donors can help RMN Foundation with their contributions using the following bank details:

Bank Name: ICICI Bank Bank Branch: HL Square, Plot No. 6, Sector 5 (MLU), Dwarka, New Delhi 110 075 Account Number: 025005004368 Account Name: RMN Foundation Type of Account: Current IFSC Code: ICIC0000250 Or you can ​click here​ to donate with PayPal, credit card, or bank account.

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Children to Govt: Save Us from Pollution in Delhi You

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environment-protection campaigns that it is running in Delhi.

Children – who study at the RMN Foundation free school – have launched a new pollution-control campaign in Delhi. The campaign urges Delhi government to save Delhi residents – particularly children – from all types of ​pollution​, including air pollution, dust pollution, noise pollution, and water pollution.

Children – who study at the RMN Foundation free school – have launched a new pollution-control campaign in Delhi.

These children – along with the founder of RMN Foundation Rakesh Raman – hold informative placards and stand near the traffic lights of the city to distribute pamphlets that explain the harmful effects of pollution on residents’ health.

You can join hands with RMN Foundation and support the environment-protection campaigns that it is running in Delhi.

You can ​click here​ to download a research report on pollution in Delhi.

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Meet the Editor The editor of ​Young Learner news magazine ​Rakesh Raman is a national award-winning journalist and social activist.

Besides working at senior editorial positions with leading media companies, he was writing an exclusive edit-page column regularly for The Financial Express (a daily business newspaper of The Indian Express Group).

Nowadays, for the past about 8 years, he has been running his own global news services on different subjects.

He also has formed a free Education and Career Counselling Center for deserving children at a poor J.J. Colony in Dwarka, New Delhi under his N ​ GO​ – RMN Foundation.

He also runs a global edutainment site ​RMN Kids for children, their parents, and teachers. It is a global online content property covering diverse topics of contemporary relevance for children of all age groups. He has developed a “Constructive Education Framework” for school students to help them compete in the modern knowledge-driven world.

He runs a community-driven anti-corruption social service “​Clean House​” to help the suffering residents of Delhi raise their voice against the growing corruption and injustice.

He also has formed an environment-protection group called​ Green Group​ in Delhi.

He creates and distributes a number of ​digital publications that cover areas such as technology, law, environment, education, politics, corruption and transparency.

He created a comprehensive online information ​service to educate the Indian voters for the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

Earlier, he had been associated with the United Nations (UN) through United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) as a digital media expert to help businesses use technology for brand marketing and business development.

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Collaboration for School Education Content Project The ​Young Learner news magazine is being published by RMN Foundation. It is being circulated among the top UN agencies, education departments, policymakers, schools, civil society organizations, social activists, and others in India and abroad.

RMN Foundation is looking for sponsors and collaborators across the world who can join hands with us to expand the school education content activity with the objective to improve the quality of school education in a holistic manner.

Contact

Rakesh Raman Founder RMN Foundation 463, DPS Apts., Plot No. 16, Sector 4, Dwarka, Phase I New Delhi 110 078, INDIA Contact by email

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