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Government of Haryana, Higher Education department & Youth4work have entered into a collaboration to facilitate skill profiling of all higher education students in Haryana with Youth4work & help them get Jobs and Internship Opportunities. Currently over 2 lakh students are passing each year gaining technical education in Haryana. This tie-up will ensure that all these students to use the new age technology and digital medium to give a free skill tests and showcase their skill profiles online. Youth4work platform will enable assessments, online learning Internships & employment opportunities to these students.

All Higher education institutes in Haryana with every student studying in firstt year to final year will benefit from this collaboration.

Rachit Jain, CEO of Youth4work said on the occasion, “Being an engineer myself, I strongly believe that there is no dearth of skills in Indian institutes. The challenge for every student in India is to identify his/her own talent and showcase it in front of the world. We are excited and enthralled by the support and initiative taken by Haryana Government towards technology adoption & helping youth across India, and we see ourselves helping many more states and profiling 1Crore youth in India, in next 18 months.”

Jeevanjot scores 340/340 in GRE

Jeevanjot Singh from Gurugram, has scored a perfect 340/340 in the GRE exam on April 3, 2018. The Graduate Record Examinations or GRE is a standardised test that is an admissions criterion for most advanced degrees such as a master’s or PhD at Graduate Schools world over such as MIT, Stanford, University of Chicago, Oxford etc. In a year, an individual can take the GRE 5 times, with a 21-day gap between each attempt. Every year approximately one lakh Indian students appear for this exam. The average score by Indian candidates is 303.

Jeevanjot’s journey began in January this year when he decided to attempt the GRE. After three months of hard work, Jeevanjot was elated with his perfect score. With this challenge overcome, he now hopes to begin his preparation to Ivy League colleges like Stanford and MIT in the USA. “It's a great feeling. I didn't expect to achieve this score. I checked again to make sure that it's my score and the screen is not flashing the maximum marks.”

Jeevanjot credited the faculty at Jamboree, Gurugram centre, mock test and his attitude during the exam as the major factors for his perfect score.

Green Talents Award

Become a Green Talent, promote your sustainability research in Germany and gain exclusive access to a remarkable network of excellent young researchers.

Those interested in sustainable development can apply for the Green Talents award. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research has held the prestigious “Green Talents – International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development” since 2009. The award honours 25 young researchers every year. The Green Talents Competition successfully encourages the global exchange of innovative green ideas from various fields of research. Since its inception, the award has recognised 207 young researchers and scientists from 57 nations for their outstanding achievements and contributions to making their communities, countries and societies more sustainable. The award-winners are selected by a jury of renowned German experts and are granted unique access to Germany's research elite.

Details:

An invitation to the fully funded two-week Science Forum 2018, consisting of a visit to leading German sustainable facilities, institutions and companies with exclusive insights on their pioneering research and projects individual appointments with German experts of the winner’s choice to discuss possibilitiesfor upcoming research and cooperation networking opportunities at the award ceremony in Berlin with participating Green Talents alumni

A fully funded research stay of up to three months at an institution of the award-winner´s choice in 2019

Particular access to the exclusive Green Talents alumni network.

Check out: www.greentalents.de

Deadline: May 23, 2018, 2 p.m. CEST.

Oxford STAR launched

Oxford University Press (OUP), the world’s largest university press announced the launch of Oxford STAR – an assessment solution designed to help students, teachers, parents and the school administration profile student personality, scholastic ability and 21st century competencies and skills. The solution empowers teachers and school administration to evolve and enhance the teaching-learning processes. Speaking at the launch event, Nigel Portwood, Chief Executive, Oxford University Press said: “At OUP, we are always looking for opportunities to develop new products and solutions to support education worldwide, so we are delighted to launch Oxford STAR. We know that every student has different strengths, and responds to learning in different ways. This test will provide educators with a better understanding of each student’s progress, so they can adapt and enhance their teaching methods, and improve learning outcomes.”

The test is based on a holistic competency framework, mapped to key skills and behavioural competencies that are vital in the 21st century. Unlike routine classroom assessments that are dominated by content and mainly evaluate knowledge and recall, Oxford STAR assesses learning competencies. It then provides rich analytical information on the students' performance to educators, to help to monitor students’ progress each year, and identify any learning gaps.

Oxford STAR’s reporting structure has been rigorously benchmarked and the tests are designed by industry experts with decades of experience in teaching and mentoring students. The solution can be delivered both online and offline, and will be available for classes 5, 6, 7, 8 for subjects - English, Mathematics, Science and Personal and Social Competence.

Check out: https://india.oup.com/oxfordstar