ANyone watching: I still have the belt my teacher used to beat me with at school: Alex Ferguson

Former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson says he owes his success to being beaten with a belt by his favourite school-teacher when he stepped out of line as a schoolboy.

Ferguson, 72, the most successful manager in British soccer history, says he now has the belt in his study at home after it was bequeathed to him by the formidable disciplinarian Elizabeth Thomson before she died.

"Six from that belt and you were in absolute agony. That was the punishment you had, in my case, usually for fighting in the playground," he said in a feature entitled "My Best Teacher" published by the Times Educational Supplement.

Ferguson, famous for being a fierce disciplinarian himself whose "hair dryer" verbal admonishments of his players are the stuff of legend, said: "Elizabeth Thomson was an inspiration to me.

"She had a raw determination about her and she improved everyone she touched.

"Mrs Thomson endeavoured to make you be the best you could be. Yes, that part of me comes from her."

He says he kept in touch with her long after his schooldays ended, and while he was enjoying trophy-laden years of success at first Aberdeen and then Manchester United before he retired at the end of last season.

"When she died, I couldn't go to her funeral but months later I got a parcel. She had bequeathed her belt to me.

"Her nephew sent it with a letter saying 'You'll know more about this belt than anyone.' It's in my study now. My grandchildren are terrified of it."

Corporal punishment was banned in Glasgow schools in 1982. Ferguson went to school in the 1950s.

My Viewpoint: I strongly believe that teacher must have some liberty of punishing the students when rightfully needed. 

CBSE BANS SCHOOL INTEGRATED PROGRAMMES

Central Board of Secondary Education has asked all its affiliated schools through a circular to ban running of coaching institutions inside the school premises that claim to prepare students for entrance examinations like the Joint Entrance Examination All India Entrance Examination for admission to the IITs or other engineering colleges or National Eligibility Test for medical colleges .

Criticizing the practice as a commercial activity and a 'malpractice' the circular from CBSE secretary Joseph Immanuel said on not complying to the instructions mentioned in the circular that is a condition stipulated in CBSE's affiliation bylaws, the board is liable to take actions against the school.

"No coaching classes or parallel classes should be run in the school that consumes and affects the regular timetable of the school or that [affects] the focus of students on the regular course of study," said the circular.

The move however has attained mixed reaction. Where some students and their guardian find the practice a help as it saves their time in finding an alternative coaching center, others find the move by the board progressive as students not enrolled with the coaching centre face inequality in receiving learning.

Schools running coaching institutes often add it as its selling point helping them to hike fee structure irrationally. Some of these schools charge as much as Rs 4 lakh to 6 lakh for the courses they conduct as a package from Classes 8 to 12.

 Source: TV TODAY NETWORK

My Viewpoint: Well I welcome this move as such programs are basically promoting commercial interests instead of serving the students. 

IISER ADMISSIONS 2014

Applications are invited for admission to the five year BS-MS Dual Degree programme at Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) at Bhopal, Kolkata, Mohali, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram for the academic session beginning on August 2014.

About IISERs

To promote high quality scientific education, research and training, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India has set up five Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) at Bhopal, Kolkata, Mohali, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram

BS-MS Dual Degree Programme

It is a five year dual degree programme for bright and motivated science students who have completed class XII. It integrates classroom learning with research and provides ample scope for multidisciplinary interactions

Admission to BS-MS Dual Degree Programme 2014

Students will be admitted to the Five Year BS-MS Dual Degree programme beginning August 2014 through the following channels
1.Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Basic Science Stream: Students qualifying in SA (2012)/SX (2013)/SB (2013)
2.Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) 2014: Students securing a place in the rank list of Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) for admission to Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)
3.State and Central Boards: Those, who are eligible for INSPIRE scholarship by Department of Science and Technology (DST) on the basis of their aggregate scores in class XII may be considered for admission after clearing an aptitude test

Important Date Chart

	KVPY	JEE (Advanced)	State and Central Boards
Receiving online applications	7th June – 7th July 2014	23rd June – 7th July 2014	15th June – 10th July 2014
Counseling/Aptitude Test	10th July 2014	10th July 2014	20th July 2014
Last date for receiving admission fees	17th July 2014	17th July 2014	29th July 2014

Scholarship

BS-MS students are eligible for either KVPY or INSPIRE scholarship

Key Features

1.Highly competent and motivated faculty in various disciplines with a passion for science
2.Integrated undergraduate teaching with cutting edge research across disciplines
3.Upcoming eco-friendly green campuses with appropriate infrastructure
4.Library with online resources, books and research journals
5.State of the art teaching and research facilities
6.Sports and recreational facilities
7.Hostel facility for all students
Applications can be submitted online at www.iiser-admissions.in

CBSE XII Examinations: All The Best

All the Best For CBSE XII Board Examination starting from tomorrow 1 march'2014.

Do well!!!

RGIPT: All is not Well

The students of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT) have been peacefully protesting since last week against the ignorant attitude of the management for their concerns.  RGIPT is an ‘Institute of National Importance’ set up by Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Govt. of India as per the vision of Late Shri Rajiv Gandhi in the year 2008.

It is promoted by 6 major oil PSUs (ONGC, IOCL, BPCL, HPCL, OIL and GAIL) and OIDB. The admission to this institute is through IIT-JEE (Advanced). Part of the vision was to cater the needs of oil and gas industry with skilled manpower but sadly the institute has not been able to live up to it.

Even after 6 years of establishment the institute lacks a permanent campus due to which R&D, industrial interaction and ultimately placements have been severely hindered. The hopes and aspirations of the students at RGIPT and their guardians have gone sour due to lack of attention on part of college administration and policy makers. The management has always slacked to justify its negligence on the concerns that the students have been raising. But what is aggravating is that their future is being played with false hopes and ignorant attitude of management. The status of campus placements is abysmal in comparison to other ordinary engineering colleges, what to talk of IITs, ISM and NITs. The students are a frustrated lot and this has led the students to take extreme measures. The protests lead the management to address their concerns and make promises that actions would be taken. Such protests were held last two years also but only verbal assurances were made to the students with no substantial results. The students have decided that this agonizing procedure can no longer be borne with and their protest will continue until the assurances given to them turn into substantial actions.

RGIPT was publicized to be a flagship institute of the UPA chairperson. Simultaneous to their protest, a group of students met Shri Rahul Gandhi during his visit to Amethi on 19th February, 2014. He was sensitive to their concerns and promised them to visit their campus at Rae Bareli. They look forward to bring-forth the issues to him so that their grievances could be heard.

As Posted on bhadas4media.com

Transistor Simplified: CBSE CLASS XII PHYSICS NOTES

Well here I provide you the short and sweet notes to simplify the transistor , the problem faced by majority of XII students.
All the best!!

CBSE LATEST SAMPLE PAPERS for 2014 Board Exams

CBSE has issued latest sample papers for 2014 examinations.
You can check them here
1. Physics: http://www.cbseacademic.in/web_material/Circulars/2013/74_ClassXII/Physics_XII.pdf
2. Maths: http://www.cbseacademic.in/web_material/Circulars/2013/74_ClassXII/Mathematics_XII.pdf
3. Chemistry:  http://www.cbseacademic.in/web_material/Circulars/2013/74_ClassXII/Chemistry_XII.pdf
4. Biology:  http://www.cbseacademic.in/web_material/Circulars/2013/74_ClassXII/Biology_XII.pdf
5. English Core:http://www.cbseacademic.in/web_material/Circulars/2013/74_ClassXII/English_Core_XII.p

Medical Students Protest Against Longer Duration of MBBS

Medical students today held a protest here against the proposal for increasing the duration of the MBBS course from the existing 5.5 years to 6.5 years with the addition of a compulsory one-year rural posting for admission into post-graduate programmes.

At the protest which was held in front of Nirman Bhawan, the students demanded that instead of increasing the course duration, the compulsory one year rural posting be either incorporated within the existing MBBS course structure or included as part of the PG curriculum.

"We are not against rural postings, but we want the one- year rural internship to be included as a part of our curriculum either during the MBBS course or at the post- graduate stage," said Dr Anirudh Lochan, national secretary of the Young Doctors Association of India.

Police had to use water cannon to disperse the protesters when they attempted to enter the premises to meet the Union Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad.

Around 2,000 doctors from AIIMS, University College of Medical Sciences, Lady Hardinge Medical College, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Maulana Azad Medical College took part in the protest.

At around 3 P.M., the Health Secretary met some of the protesting students and assured them that their concerns would be looked into.
Source: BS