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Three-year-old kid brutally beaten by tutor

A private tutor has been caught on tape brutally beating a three-year-old kid in Kolkata.
The police is on the lookout for the middle-aged woman home tutor who is accused of thrashing the kid.
The incident came to light this morning after a CCTV footage showed the tutor mercilessly beating the kid in a Lake Town home.
"We have received a complaint and are on a lookout for her," officer in charge of Lake Town police station Ashok Sen said.
According to the complaint lodged by the kid's family, the tutor was given appointment just a few daysback.

Visually impaired run out of scribes

Visually impaired students appearing for tests like the computer certificate, bank probationary officers exam, teacher eligibility test (TET) or clerical tests are facing a major shortage of scribes.

While the need for scribes ranges from between 30 to 300 a month, unfortunately there are not many available. As the eligibility criteria is stringent, most students find it difficult to find a scribe.

Disabled students asked to pay admission fees

A number of differently abled students have alleged that they had to pay more than Rs 1,000 for admission to colleges, despite the state government's guidelines to exempt tuition and other related fees for physically handicapped students.

What ails education of visually impaired?

Vikas Kumar Yadav, a student of BA (Hons) Hindi IInd year at Hindu College feels helpless when making rounds to the Delhi University library.

School for blind had no state recognition

More insanity: Blind students brutally caned by school teacher in AP

Even as the nation writhes in agony over the Bangalore school rape incident, another shocking case of brutality against children has to come light, this time from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh.
A teacher of a residential school for visually impaired children in the city was caught on camera brutally canning young children. The teacher is also blind.

Humoody's way: Blinded at 2, Snohomish boy lives with no holds barred

That's Humoody Jauda Smith using sound to see.

Family of severely disabled boy barred from taking term-time holiday

The mother of a severely disabled teenager who has been given only a few years to live says she has been threatened with fines and prosecution if she takes him on a term-time holiday.
Curtis Ingrouille-Kidd, 13, has cerebral palsy, suffers epileptic fits and is blind.
His family have been told he could die any time between the ages of 14 and 19, yet his school would not give permission for the proposed trip because it is during term time.

The case is the latest apparent injustice sparked by a crackdown on truancy ordered by the former Education Secretary Michael Gove.

PM donates $1.52m to visually impaired cricketers

Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller on Tuesday presented a cheque valued at $1.52 million to the Jamaica Visually Impaired Cricket Association (JVICA) at Jamaica House.

The funds will go towards covering the cost for hosting the upcoming 7th regional visually impaired cricket tournament to be held July 18-24, the Office of the Prime Minister said.

A journalism course for the visually-impaired students

The Times Foundation, in collaboration with JSS Mahavidyapeetha, has introduced a mass communication and journalism course for visually-impaired students at JSS Polytechnic For The Differently Abled.

The course, perhaps the first of its kind in India, aims at moulding students into radio/video jockeys (RJs/VJs), anchors, technical writers and digital journalists. The focus is on voice-based journalism as the course is exclusively for visually challenged students.