U-turn at JNU over madrassa admissions from hindu
"Coming from a different educational "experience", students from madrassa background are for the first time feeling "unwelcome" on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus here. With the University taking the drastic step of not just introducing an Equivalence Committee this year to assess the Alimiyat Fazeelat certificates of students but also refusing admission on the plea that these certificates were not equivalent to Class XII, strong resentment and dissent is brewing on the campus.
Describing the move as unacceptable, the JNU Students' Union has already written to the Vice-Chancellor demanding that the new system be withdrawn as it was in complete contradiction to the policy followed by the University in the past.
Though the problem is not new for madrassa students, JNU has always had a far more friendly admission process for them, with the University enrolling at least 100 such students every year in Arabic, Persian and other languages. "
what now, we are going to have a fight over common education system???? what is meant by different educational experience? do they mean that they only study the religious text? or is it accompanied with what regular education should consist of?
as far as my knowledge goes to get into an educational institute you needed to know math, science, art, language or things of the sort. not how many heads raven had (i am using this example because even if it was a hindu religious experience education i will be reacting the same way). i am hoping that they do not evaluate this in religious terms. they should check what courses are taught in these madrassa, and if it meets the education standard of the country. there should be no rule like madarssas are qualified or unqualified as education institute. it is there curriculum that is to be checked.
but i would really like to know what they mean by different educational experience???????
Jul 22, 2005
where else can we create trouble because of religion....
Jul 20, 2005
quotes
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
--R. Buckminster Fuller
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
--R. Buckminster Fuller
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
--Luis Bunuel
Jul 19, 2005
97 per cent certain !!!!!!!!?????
Christ's resurrection by God proved by maths, logic from HT
"Swinburne, while giving a public lecture at the Australian Catholic University said that probability calculus showed a probability of 97 per cent that Christ was resurrected. He said that the conclusion was arrived at after a series of complex calculations, which began with the probability of God's existence as one in two, that is either God existed or did not, adding that it was also one in two that God became incarnate.
Arguing that the evidence for God's existence was an argument for the resurrection, and any evidence against God's existence was an argument against the resurrection, he said that the chance of Christ's resurrection not being reported by the gospels had the probability of one in 10. These factors, all coming together, if the resurrection was not true, were one in 1000, he said."
Jul 16, 2005
Imagine
Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries,
It isn’t hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I’m a dreamer,
But I’m not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.
--John Lennon
[via Manjusha]
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