Education and Employment

World's first engineering college for blind soon

The students are waiting and the software and syllabus is ready for the world's first engineering college for the visually impaired, but a search for suitable land to set up the multi-crore campus that could empower hundreds of special children is where the project is stuck.

An ambitious blueprint to set up an engineering college by the Devnar Foundation, with help from professors of BITS Pilani, along with 20 different digital and Braille software and initial funding arrangement is however ready.

Visually impaired students will get laptops in 4yr programme

The Delhi University today informed the High Court that all the visually impaired students will be given laptops fitted with Non Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) software.

The university told the court that this was being done so that the students do not suffer in the four-year undergraduate programme, being implemented from July 24.

362 visually impaired students join four-year DU course

The Delhi high court on Wednesday extracted an assurance from the Delhi University that all grievances of visually impaired students especially regarding mandatory courses in mathematics and science will be addressed before the commencement of the four-year programme later this month.

High court satisfied with facilities for visually impaired Delhi University students

Satisfied with the steps promised by the Delhi University to ensure visually impaired students have full access to its teaching experience when the four-year programme starts, the Delhi high court on Wednesday disposed of a PIL raising the issue.

2000 Scholarships under Two Schemes to be Given to Students with Disabilities in 2013-14

National Handicapped Finance & Development Corporation (NHFDC) is implementing two Scholarship schemes (1) 1500 Scholarships under Trust Fund and (2) 500 Scholarships under National Fund, under the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment. These scholarships are for students with disabilities (with disability 40% and above) for pursuing professional courses during the academic year 2013-2014.

LSR plans special resource centre for disabled students

Lady Shri Ram College for Women is coming up with a resource centre for its disabled students as part of its equal-opportunity centre, Swavalamban.
"It is a state-of-the-art facility equipped with latest assistive technology aimed at promoting self-reliance and independence among disabled students. The resource centre is endowed with a braille embosser, screen reading software, lex-cam scanner, book scanner, DAISY recorders as well as 10 computer systems with OCR software in both English and Hindi," said Kanika Khandelwal, the college's media coordinator.

Blind students from districts say no to city school

The students say their agricultural-labourer parents cannot afford to send them to Chennai and support their educational needs

Blind UAE student's 90% in Grade 10 exams

Mustafa is not excited about scoring 90 per cent in the CBSE 10th standard school results announced recently. But his family and the entire community are happy about how bravely this 100 per cent blind boy has fought his disability.

Activists allege move to close school for blind

Protest eye exam for aspirants; officials scrap it, say it was to mainstream students

A proposed eye exam for aspirants to the Government Higher Secondary School for the Blind in Poonamallee was abandoned on Friday after a group of visually challenged persons staged a protest there.

DU pioneers Math, Science curriculum for visually impaired

The proposed FYUP (Four Year Undergraduate Program) by the Delhi University mandates that every student study foundation course each in basic Mathematics and Science in the first year. This is a positive step forward, since I believe the study of Mathematics and Science has a great impact on the way one processes knowledge and perceives the world around.

However, in the present context, making the study of these two subjects compulsory is certain to exclude most blind students. Majority of schools in India do not offer the subjects to visually impaired students beyond Class VIII.