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The Hindu
6 hours ago
- General
- The Hindu
NSS afforestation campaign gets under way
The Higher Education Department, in association with the National Service Scheme (NSS), launched a State-wide environmental initiative, Safalam 2025, at a function held at Mar Ivanios College here on Thursday. The campaign was formally launched by Higher Education Minister R. Bindu, who emphasised the vital role of students in ensuring environmental sustainability and food security through green initiatives. 'Safalam 2025' encourages each of the State's 3.5 lakh NSS volunteers representing 3,500 units to plant and protect one fruit tree sapling. A key feature of the campaign is the geo-tagging of the saplings in order to ensure long-term monitoring and care. The 14-day programme will also focus on student involvement in environmental regeneration, sustainable living practices and food security. NSS state officer Anzer R.N. and regional director Y.M. Uppin were also present on the occasion.
Express Tribune
2 days ago
- General
- Express Tribune
K-P is abandoning children
The writer is a Lecturer in English at the Higher Education Department, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Email him at namdar057@ Listen to article Let's call it what it is: K-P is abandoning its children. Not metaphorically, not in the way people toss around, 'Oh, the system is broken.' No. The system isn't broken; it's functioning exactly as it's allowed to, with chilling indifference to the rights of the most vulnerable. A recent report by the provincial Education Department pulls no punches. Legions of children enrolled in over 10,000 public schools across K-P arrive each day at buildings as bare as unfinished construction sites. No boundary walls. No electricity. No washrooms. Not even drinking water. Over 5,000 schools in K-P operate without a single watt of electricity. In more than 2,000 schools, safe drinking water is a rarity. Thousands more lack washrooms or a protective wall around them. In Peshawar — the provincial capital itself — 21 schools are in the dark, 15 can't offer clean water, 17 lack even a toilet and eight stand exposed, wall-less, to the city's sprawl. Peshawar, not some remote hillside village! Think about that for a second. We send our children off to elite schools in cars, armed with water bottles, packed lunches and backpacks stuffed with textbooks. Meanwhile, countless children in this country walk into schools that don't even have a toilet. Is this the dignity we promise every child under the Constitution? Yet, millions don't even get this indignity because they never enter a school at all. Thirty-seven per cent of children in K-P are out of school altogether. That's millions of futures we're snuffing out before they even begin. Nearly eight out of every 10 children in Lower and Upper Kohistan never even make it into a classroom. In Peshawar alone, over half a million are out of school — of those, 319,000 are girls. It's not a gender gap anymore; it's a gulf. And if you thought the ones lucky enough to be enrolled were at least getting a decent education, think again. Because unable to fund enough textbooks, the province now prints half and asks schools to source the rest from promotees, turning scarcity into strategy. The hand-me-down model might sound thrifty, but in practice, it's a debacle. Most old books either fall apart, go missing or are defaced with scribbles, tears and tea stains. And let's be honest: a lot of students just don't return them. So expecting this to work as a long-term plan isn't just lazy or absurd; it's negligent! What all this adds up to is a blatant violation of Article 25-A of the Constitution which guarantees every child the right to free and compulsory education. It also tramples all over the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Free Compulsory Primary and Secondary Education Act, 2017. Laws on paper, like fire alarms in buildings no one checks. Turning this around requires the provincial government to act decisively across several fronts. First, it needs to stop pretending its job is done at enrolment. Children need functioning schools, not just roll numbers. Fixing basic infrastructure — electricity, toilets, clean water, boundary walls — isn't some high-minded reform; it's the minimum standard of decency. Second, launch a real plan - not just window dressing - to bring out-of-school children (OOSC) into the system. This must include targeted efforts in high-need areas like Kohistan — even Peshawar — and the tribal districts, especially for girls left behind in droves. Third, stop slashing textbook budgets and start facing reality. If the government wants students to reuse books, it must put in place a real system to collect and track them. Or better yet, fund a full print run, because this isn't where we should be paisa-pinching. This isn't a resource issue; it's a priority issue. And so far, our priorities are glaringly apparent in every broken classroom, every empty desk and every torn-up textbook. K-P is failing its children. And if this doesn't set off alarms, maybe we've failed too. Because at the very least, K-P's children deserve better. That shouldn't be a radical thing to say.
Time of India
5 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
SAMS Odisha +3 registration window closes today: Check direct link to download and other important steps here
SAMS Odisha +3 registration 2025: The Higher Education Department, Government of Odisha, will close the registration window for the +3 admissions under the Student Academic Management System (SAMS) today, June 1, 2025. Eligible candidates seeking undergraduate admission to state-run higher education institutions must complete their registration on the official portal, before midnight. The Higher Education Department, Government of Odisha, had previously extended the last date to June 1, 2025, following updates to admission policies and application timelines. The department has also allowed an OTP-based editing window from May 21 to June 1. Applicants who submitted their Common Application Forms (CAF) earlier have until the end of today to rectify any inaccuracies and upload their +2 or equivalent marks. For students under the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) Odisha, marks are being auto-fetched from the CHSE database. Those from other boards must manually enter their marks within the portal. The state government has approved the implementation of an 11.25% reservation for candidates belonging to the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) category. The quota will come into effect from the academic year 2025–26 across all Higher Education Institutions governed by the department. SAMS Odisha +3 registration 2025: Steps to apply Candidates can follow the steps mentioned here to apply for the SAMS Odisha +3 admissions 2025: Visit Select the link for SAMS Odisha +3 Admission 2025. Register with a valid mobile number and email ID to generate login credentials. Fill in the CAF with personal, academic, and contact details. Upload the necessary documents and pay the application fee online. Submit the form and download the confirmation page for future reference. Alternatively, candidates can click on the link provided here to apply for the SAMS Odisha +3 admissions 2025. Candidates are advised to stay in touch with the official website to get the complete details of the SAMS +3 admissions 2025. Ready to empower your child for the AI era? Join our program now! Hurry, only a few seats left.
Hindustan Times
5 days ago
- General
- Hindustan Times
SAMS Odisha +3 Admission 2025: Last day to register at samsodisha.gov.in, apply via direct link
Higher Education Department, Odisha will be closing the window to register for SAMS Odisha +3 Admission 2025 on Sunday, June 1, 2025. Eligible candidates who wish to submit the online CAF have their last chance to do so on the official website of SAMS Odisha at As per the revised timetable , the window for OTP based editing of the CAF, by the candidates who submitted the CAF earlier opened on May 21 and will close on June 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM. Candidates who have already submitted their CAF earlier can upload the +2/equivalent marks during this period. Also read: JEE Advanced Result 2025: What after IIT JEE result is declared The provisional allotment of seats (For First/Second/ Third/ Waiting List Round Selection), Admission dateline, Commencement of 1st Year Classes will be notified by the department at a later date. It may be mentioned here that the seat allotment will be made as per the opted Major in single major, major-1 in double major and general in three minors. Apart from this, all other subjects will be mapped based on the request made by the Student and counselling process at HEI level. Also read: Issue notices to edu officers of districts with low pass percentage: Siddaramaiah to Chief Secy Also, The Government of Odisha has approved the implementation of 11.25% reservation for candidates belonging to the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) in admissions to UF courses in HEIs under the administrative control of the Higher Education Department, starting from the academic year 2025-26, the official notice states. Also read: SSC GD Result 2025 News: Website and steps to check Constable exam results when out Candidates can follow the steps mentioned below to submit their applications: 1. Visit the official website of SAMS Odisha at 2. On the home page, click on the link for SAMS Odisha +3 Admission 2025 registration. 3. Enter the required details to register yourself. 4. Fill in the application form and make the payment of application fee. 5. Submit and download the confirmation page. 6. Keep a printout of the same for future reference. For more related details, candidates are advised to visit the official website of SAMS Odisha.
The Hindu
6 days ago
- Health
- The Hindu
Delay in submitting seat matrix of professional courses to KEA may delay counselling
Four days after the deadline to submit the seat matrix for various professional courses ended, no department, including the Higher Education Department, has submitted it to the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA). The seat matrix of professional courses, including engineering and others, is necessary for both the KEA and students at this stage after the Common Entrance Test (CET) results. However, owing to the delay in submitting the seat matrix, there is a possibility that the counselling process will also be delayed this time. 'We need at least one week to upload the seat matrix after receiving the same from various departments. Unless we receive the seat matrix we cannot proceed further,' said H. Prasanna, executive director of KEA. As per information from the KEA, the authorities have personally met officials of the Higher Education and the Medical Education departments requesting for seat matrix. 'Despite repeated requests there is no response from the departments,' an official of the KEA said. For engineering courses, the Higher Education Department has to get the seat matrix from respective colleges and submit it to the KEA. For medical, dental and nursing it is the responsibility of the Medical Education Department. Higher Education Department officials said they are compiling the data and submitting the same to the KEA soon. However, the medical, dental and nursing seat matrix will be delayed because the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) was under a dilemma following the directions from the Governor not to involve some of the senate members in any committees, including college inspection.
