The state government plans to introduce career counseling workshops in all secondary and higher secondary schools statewide, technical education minister Charanjit Singh Channi informed the media in Chandigarh on January 28. After a meeting with senior officials of the Union ministry for skill development and entrepreneurship (MSDE) on January 27, the minister said the National Skill Development Corporation has formally agreed to set up a counselors training centre in the state. This centre will educate and skill trainers across Punjab who will in turn conduct career counseling workshops in educational institutions, he said. The minister also announced that the state government will run self-employment skills training programmes in agriculture and allied services conducted by Punjab Agricultural University and Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University under the Punjab Skill Development Mission. Delhi Fulbright scholarship winners Six government school teachers including Manu Gulati (English), Anju Pathak (Math) and Deepti Chawla (English) among others, were awarded the prestigious Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, a scholarship programme initiated by US Senator J. William Fulbright (1905-1995) in 1946, according to an official communique issued in Delhi on January 22. These teachers will travel to the US to attend special programmes at various universities. They will receive intensive training in teaching methodologies, lesson planning, teaching strategies for home environments, teacher leadership and use of instructional technologies, the statement said. Delhis deputy chief and education minister Manish Sisodia invited the teachers to his residence and congratulated them. This is a proud moment for Delhi, since this is the first time all teachers selected from India are from Delhi government schools. It is heartening to see they are receiving international recognition for their service to Delhis children, he said. Madhya Pradesh Temporary teachers public protest Temporary teachers from across the state, some of them with tonsured heads, staged a public protest in Bhopal demanding their services are regularised by the states education department, Shivraj Verma, Azad Adhyapak Sanghs working president, informed the media in Bhopal on January 13. Four women teachers had planned to gift their tonsured hair to the chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhans wife, but were prevented from doing so. We dont know to which ministry we belong. The education ministry says we are employees of local authorities. The local authorities say we are employees of the state government. Over 288,000 temporary teachers are caught in this situation for the past several years, lamented Verma. Haryana New womens colleges plan Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced a plan to inaugurate 29 new womens science colleges across Haryana at a function to mark the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, in Panchkula on January 12. A scheme has been designed to set up one womens college within a radius of 20 km of every township in the state so that our daughters need not travel too far in search of education, the chief minister said. The state government is also taking several measures to promote its WIFY (women, infrastructure and industry, farmers and youth) mission, he added. Odisha…
