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February 17, 2003, Chandigarh, India
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HAMARA SCHOOL
IT claims to be a school with a difference and this cliche is indeed proved true within the campus of Career Academy, situated on the Bhadson road, Patiala. The institution has established itself as a school of repute in the short period of its inception. The focus of the institution is to make the learning process enjoyable by using the latest teaching aids and prepare its students for various competitive examinations right from their tender age. The school believes in reducing the burden of unnecessary syllabi which leads to rote memorisation. Instead imparting practical knowledge-based education is the aim of the school. The Principal, Ms Kamal A D Singh, firmly follows the
school's ideology of laying stress on the use of computers, graphic aids, social counselling and extra-curricular activities, including trips and interaction with various personalities in the course of teaching, instead of blindly following the conventional pattern of education. She also believes in placing personality-building activities like sports, dance, music, yoga, competitions, debates and nature walks at par with academics. Career Academy has a day boarding system which helps children as well as parents in reducing the stress induced by excessive homework. Students below class V do not carry their books home and finish their assignments in the school itself. The school has a huge modern building coupled with an adequate playground. The environment-friendly classrooms are equipped with whiteboards and their walls reflect the gaiety and creativity of the students. The kindergarten section of the academy deserves special mention as it possesses latest toys, teaching aids and colourful furniture, especially designed for small children. The walls are covered with charts which are an aid to teaching as rhymes, fairy tales, alphabets and basic concepts are depicted visually through these charts. Children are encouraged to develop the habit of reading newspapers. In fact, in higher classes, the subject of general knowledge includes assignments chiefly based on the study of newspaper clippings of The Tribune. The well-stocked
library, which has more than 3,000 books, is very well utilised by the students. Latest compact discs using innovative techniques of teaching are used regularly by the teachers. A lot of emphasis is laid on educational trips and the use of multi-media in the teaching process. The teaching fraternity prefers to take the children to particular sites to comprehend concepts like 'The Panchayati Raj', jails and courts while teaching civics. The school also regularly arranges visits to museums, airports, the National Institute of Sports and zoos. Another strong aspect of the school is the importance it lays on the social counselling of the students which is carried out by professionals on a regular basis. The concept of social responsibility is also one which Mrs Kamal A.D.Singh will like to inculcate in the students from an early age. Not only do the teachers go about teaching in a more recreational way, they also make moral concepts more palatable by initiating interesting discussions and projects based upon them.
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Brain teasers Answer the following questions: 1. Which vitamins are generally lost while cooking? 2. Who wrote our national Anthem? 3. Who discovered pencillin? 4. Which part of the body is affected by AIDS? 5. Which country won the 7th world Cup Cricket? Answers: 1.Vitamin C 2.Rabindra Nath Tagore 3.Alexander Fleming 4.The Immune system 5.Australia Give two synonyms of these words: 1. Ability 2. Speak. 3. Welcome Answers: Skill, capability or qualification. 2. Utter, pronounce or talk. 3. Receive, greet or hail. Give Antonym of these words: 1. Inability 2. Silent 3. Offend. Answers: 1.Ability 2.Noisy 3.Defend |
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Poems by students India
Famous for unity in diversity Agra is famous for forts But Maharashtra is famous for its ports Delhi is famous for Qutab Minar And you can see Bodh Gaya in Bihar Kerala is famous for spices And we can many other places So great is my country Do you wish to make an entry. Harpreet Kaur, Class VII My favourite subject Geography is my favourite subject, We do it by way of projects It is the study of continents And about human settlement Nile is the longest river, Thinking about Antarctica gives
me a shiver Mt Everest is the highest peak Infront of it I feel meek Caspian Sea is the largest lake So many maps we have to make Asia is the largest continent My interest here is permanent So many interesting facts Our teacher uses all the tacts to teach it as if it were a game As the teacher is our Principal ma`am. Navjot Kaur, Class VII |
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Tuitions dampen the learning process What sets your school apart from the rest: We prepare our students to imbibe meaningful learning and chisel them for the careers which they will ultimately adopt. To achieve this, we strengthen their reasoning power and logical faculties and promote learning through powerful and more retentive media like audio-visuals aids and practical experiences. We arrange regular interaction with famous personalities in various fields. On the present education system: By and large it is a good system though it tends to focus more on higher classes. More stress should be laid on imparting quality education right from the kindergarten level. On maintaining discipline: I feel discipline should not be confused with snubbing the child. Children should be encouraged to express creativity while retaining a healthy respect for our moral values. On imbibing values: I believe in a secular value system. Here in Career Academy we teach students to respect all people and religions. Counselling comes in handy here and teachers with a balanced value system are as good a role model as a parent in a similar position. On reforming education: The only way to reform education is by counselling our teachers on how best to train our future generations. The teacher should not only be competent in dealing with academic problems but also with psychological and emotional problems of the students. On Tuitions: This practice is a menace. It dampens the thought processes. It is up to the schools to stop burdening their students who ultimately run towards tuitions. |
CAMPUS NOTES Panjab University once again witnessed a round of procedural wrangling for more than 40 students of the Law department who were denied admission in their next semester for failing to have the required attendance in the previous semester. The department head's doors was locked and the faculty deliberated for two days. After a series of parlance the matter was referred to the syndicate. The university syndicate has decided that the normal admissions for the second, fourth and sixth semester students will be carried out on February 18. Importantly, students have been asked to tender an unconditional apology to the department for raising slogans against certain faculty members and locking the door of the chairman. The department says that it was only maintaining the rules and regulations under the statutes. The affected students term the whole exercise as a "personal vendetta". The main head under question in the whole controversy is Malwinder Singh Kang, president of the Panjab University Campus Students Council. This episode also included Khusbaz Singh Jattana, president of the Students Organisation of Panjab University, Kang's rival association. Kang went on to say to the extent that the department could cancel his admission if it wanted to settle any scores, however, the future of other students should not be compromised. The statement could well be interpreted as a smart utterance because admission to others on the same ground would naturally open doors for him as well. The situation became more peculiar because students of Sociology and Political Science departments had been denied the roll numbers of the previous semester along with the Law department. The university decided to organise special lectures for the affected students. While other two departments went ahead with the classes, no classes were held in the Law department. So, in the ultimate analysis it because very difficult to single out the Law department students on the grounds where other lot had been benefitted. The situation had gained the unexpected turn in wake of the recent decision where the power of condoning lectures had been taken away from the Vice Chancellor and the syndicate. Otherwise there were precedents where more than 80 lectures had been condoned in the past. Certain faculty members however feel that the university had been over-generous in the admission pertaining to Kang. He should not have been allowed admission incase guilty of not meeting the attendance requirement in the 15 days. Nothing official on the matter has been communicated by the law department. A fellow said the whole issue should be discussed by the university in the senate to smoothen out the loose folds for times to come. Seminar on demography The census of 2001 reflects the regional disparities in the country in matters pertaining to the population graph. The issue needs immediate attention because the inherent problems will otherwise haunt the country for very long. This was said by Prof
G.S.Gosal, formerly from Geography department, in his inaugural address at a two-day national seminar on 'Demographic Dynamism in India with a Special Focus on Census 2001' at Panjab University. He pointed out that the available data on women indicated that in the North-South divide, the North had lower literacy, lack of autonomy for women, lesser state policies for their benefit and early marriages. The sex ratio had also come down sharply from 976 in 1951 to 927 in 2001. Professor Gosal said that population was the most important subject, next to defence, which faced the future of mankind. The country which had a population of 361 million in 1951 had risen to 1027 million in 2001. Prof
K.N.Pathak, the Vice Chancellor, in his presidential address informed that the university had decided to commence a diploma in Remote Sensing and Geographical System which he wished to be upgraded to the degree level. Professor Pathak added that the university recently had shown its commitment to start a project on Antarctica to which Geography department could contribute positively. Prof Swaranjit Mehta in her inaugural address dwelled on to all related aspects of the theme. She said that the subject of gender marginalisation was a very crucial area for future concerns as was reflected in the 2001 census. The latest census had also paid special attention to slum dwellers to show the socio-economic disparities. Dr Dhian
Kaur, the chairperson, proposed the vote of thanks. The seminar was conducted by Dr
R.P.S.Gosal.
Critised The Panjab University Campus Students' Council has condemned the proposed fee hike of 10 per cent announced by the authorities for the forthcoming academic session(2003-2004). Malwinder Singh
kang, the president, said that there was no justification in the annual raise in the fee because there was hardly any activity being done for the student welfare. The council has threatened an agitation on the issue if the university does not look into the issue. It is worthwhile to mention that the university has been forced for the hike in fee because of the shrinking government share in grants and the rising prices.
Youth festival The 44th Inter-Zonal Festival of Panjab University began at Khanna. The festival will conclude on February 21. In this festival more than 100 colleges affiliated to the university are likely to participate, Dr Surinder Sharma, director of the Youth Welfare department said. The competition will be organised in light classical, folk music,
'giddha', quiz, fine arts, drama, poetical recitation and creative writing categories.
Non-teachers' demands The Panjab University Non-Teaching Employees Federation in a press release has said that " over a period of time, it has been seen that the university authorities have been adopting a passive and anti-employees attitude towards non-teaching employees. The authorities have barred many benefits to the employees admissible under the regulations. These include increment on improvement of qualification, extension to Class C employees beyond the age of 60, besides others. The press note submitted to the syndicate members said that the proposal of the Vice Chancellor that the qualification for appointment on compassionate grounds be the same as prescribed for regular appointments was basically contrary to the very spirit of the word "compassionate".
Attestation power Panjab University has given the power of attesting college students to the college teachers. As many as seven lecturers from an individual college will be bestowed with the power. Dr
R.P.S.Josh, a fellow, had raised the matter in the senate saying that usually two to five odd lecturers in each college were given the powers. Things became difficult for students when the principal was away. The power will be given for a period of three years to the appointed lecturer and can be withdrawn in case of and negative report. |
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Sudanese envoy visits
PU Chandigarh, February 16 Mr Abdalhaleem met Prof
K.N. Pathak, Vice Chancellor. Mr Anmol Rattan Sidhu, a fellow of the university Senate and Mr R.N. Anil, Secretary General of the Unity International accompanied the Ambassador. |
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Doon school function Panchkula, February 16 The function started with the school orchestra comprising of eight Indian instruments playing the tune, “ Yeh Kaun Chitakaar Hai.” The next item was Vandana dance performed by girls of middle section, in order to invoke the blessings of God. Later, prizes were given by the chief guest. The prize for best student was bagged by Anil Singla of Standard VIII, while the best teacher award was given to Mrs Indu
Nanda. |
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Fun games mark YPS annual fete SAS Nagar, February 16 Fun games, music, dance and delicious food marked the two-day fete with the main attractions proving to be the crafts, request stalls and paint your face. The fete was organised to raise money to create a corpus for a scholarship fund. This fund will be used to provide subsidies to the deserving children who otherwise would not be able to pay their fee. Students enjoyed the most during the fete with thier teachers manning the stall and some other manned by their friends and class fellows. Food item stalls did the maximum business. |
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Manipuri students hold function Chandigarh, February 16 Mrs Vijaylakshmi, Principal of Government College for Girls, Sector 42, was the chief guest. The venue was witness to a recitation, acting contests, quiz and a number of songs. The prize distribution ceremony came towards the end of the programme. |
World Cup official album NIRVANA Music, a subsidiary of Nimbus Communications Ltd, has come out with ‘‘Khel Re’’, the official musical album of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003. It is not an album about cricket but focuses on passion, trials and tribulations one has to go through to achieve one’s dream. All of this created in a manner that is stylish and meaningful. ‘‘Khel Re’’ has 12 songs. One of which is the ‘‘official’’ theme song of the extravaganza. This English-Zulu hybrid, titled Welcome, has been produced by the best-known performers from South Africa. Music directors Jatin-Lalit, Sajid-Wajid, Rajesh Roshan, Lalit Sen and Nitin Raikwar have combined with new and young composers like Jayanta Pathak, Harpreet and Jeet M. Ganguly while Abhijeet, K.K. Sukhwinder Singh, Vinod Rathod, Bali Brahmabhatt, Sudesh Bhosle, Alka Yagnik, Sunidhi Chauhan and Vasundhra Das have sung songs.
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India is my country
Principal Ms Kamal A.D.Singh firmly feels that there is a need to light a spark of ambition in every student so that he or she is motivated to realize the full potential within.