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Rickshaw driver’s 13 year old son clears Scholarship exam; with YUVA Unstoppable’s mentorship Here is a success story of a young 13 year old boy, Prince Baria who aspires to become a scientist. Ranip is one of the oldest areas of Ahmedabad and has cultural importance in making Ahmedabad India’s first UNESCO World Heritage City. It majorly has a Gujarati speaking population. Ranip has a lot of government schools. Deval Ben, who is a fellow teacher at YUVA Unstoppable, teaches in Ranip School No. 4. She has been associated with YUVA for 2 years now. While taking her classes, she met a young boy and realised that he is a very bright kid. She recognized the potential he has and helped him academically. She sat with him for 2 hours daily after the school got over and trained him personally. Prince Baria is a student of Ranip School No. 4. He studies in class 8th . In April 2019, YUVA organised a summer camp science workshop for these students. It tried to include fun activities like treasure hunt to improve their reasoning and qualitative thinking and also included a lot of interesting science experiments for enhancing the scientific ability of kids. Prince’s drive for knowledge and active interest in science forced him to make a brilliant working model of a volcanic eruption himself. It was appreciated by everyone in his school including the teachers as well as his friends.
Recently, Prince appeared for the NMMS (National Means cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme) which provides scholarship to government school students till they complete their class XII. With Deval Ben’s guidance, he cleared the exam successfully and now is looking forward to shift to a better private school till he completes his schooling. “Deval Ma’am has helped me a lot in performing well in the NMMS exam. YUVA helped to recognise my potential. I want to be associated with YUVA till I graduate”, said Prince while talking to one of our volunteers. Prince told us that the thing that he appreciates the most about YUVA is that it gave him a platform to understand his favourite subjects not only through his academic curriculum, but also through practical lessons that helped in understanding the subject more effectively. He said that YUVA has provided him exposure to this part of the subjects that his school has not been to provide. This is not only Prince’s success story, but equally belongs to Deval Ben who gave her best efforts, went beyond the limits and helped Prince in achieving his aim. Prince comes from a challenging financial background. His father drives auto rickshaw on the streets of Ahmedabad for a living. His mother works as an ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) is a community health worker who goes on house visits to provide vaccination. She is a hired for a contract of only some months and doesn’t have a permanent job. Prince wants to improve his lifestyle. He wants to live a life that he has not experienced before and he knows that would be achievable only by completing his education. We at YUVA have transformed the lives of almost 150,000 young students like Prince. We believe that education is key to any nation’s success and should not be taken away from them. We try to provide the best facilities to every student we come across so that they can be an asset to their family as well as the nation. YUVA provides scholarship to its students after class 10th only and would be looking forward to assist more and more students like Prince to fetch their dreams.
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UK's new approach to immigration? MPs will head an inquiry into the Home Office's treatment of international students who may have been wrongly accused of cheating in the English language test by questioning the most senior civil servants in the Home Office. Sir Philip Rutnam, the permanent secretary at the Home Office, and his deputy, Shona Dunn, will join Mark Thomson, the director general of UK Visas and Immigration, to face questioning from MPs. Approximately 2,500 students have been forcibly removed from the UK after being accused of cheating in the exam. Another 7,200 left the country after being warned that they would face the prospect of being detianed and removal if they
stayed. Many have tried to prove their innocence in court: 12,500 appeals have been heard and so far 3,600 people have won their cases. The hearing by the Commons public accounts committee is the latest in a series of official attempts to investigate why the Home Office decided to accuse more than 30,000 international students of cheating in an English language test they were required to sit as part of their visa application process. A National Audit Office report published in May concluded that some students may have been mistakenly accused and unfairly removed from the UK and it criticised the Home Office for failing to protect those wrongly caught up in the scandal.
The report questioned the quality of the evidence used to determine who had cheated. "We are pleased that a second government watchdog is now investigating this scandal. We hope that this brings the tens of thousands of students who were denied the chance to prove their innocence a step closer to the justice they need," said Nazek Ramadan, Director of Migrant Voice. Meanwhile, a group of the students had successfully delivered their letter to the Home Secretary earlier at the Home Office. A member of the Home Secretary's staff came down to receive the letter, and Stephen Timms MP was also there to show his support for the students.
“ICM polling for our new report finds that only 18% of the British publicand just 25% of 2017 Conservative voters - agree that Mrs. May did a good job managing immigration in either office. Those vying to replace her in Downing Street have sought to distance themselves from this failure,” wrote Sunder Katwala for the Financial Times. In the meantime the Prime Ministerial candidate Boris Johnson has proposed for a points-based system combining control with skilled migration whereas his competitor Jeremy Hunt has announced his intention of reviewing £30,000 salary threshold for skilled migrants.
Disabled man left on plane after special assistance failed to turn up A disabled passenger was left on a holiday jet for two hours after it had landed because the special assistance booked for him never arrived. Quamer Khaliq, 44, and his daughter, aged 11, had been on a dream £6,000 trip to visit Disney World in Florida and had just touched down at Manchester Airport after a nine-hour flight. Mr Khaliq, who has been dependent on a wheelchair since birth because of spinal muscular atrophy, remained in his seat after his Thomas Cook Airlines flight arrived at the airport. After all the other passengers had left, Mr Khaliq, his carer and his daughter remained in their seats as the cabin crew and pilot disembarked. Cleaners came and went and the drama only came to an end after newly recruited cabin crew came aboard for training and he threatened to dial 999 to get the fire service to rescue him. The new recruits' tutor raised the
and promised to investigate. Mr Khaliq, from Ashtonunder-Lyne, G r e a t e r Manchester, said: 'There was a moment when I was actually crying. My daughter saw me crying. I wanted this to be special for her. Mr Khaliq Mr Khaliq, from Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater described how the Manchester cabin crew and the pilot left the plane, alarm but it took another 30 leaving him in his seat minutes for a wheelchair to beside his daughter, before a be brought to the plane and team or 'five or six trainee Mr Khaliq was finally lifted air stewards' came on board out of his seat. to be shown the inside of the Mr Khaliq says he sufaircraft. The airport confered 'distress and humiliatractor which provides assistion'. He had booked the tance for disabled passentrip through Disabled gers, ABM Aviation, apoloHolidays.com and the comgised and said it was reviewpany says it booked 'special ing the incident. assistance' for him at A Thomas Cook Airlines Manchester Airport. spokeswoman said, 'Mr. ABM Aviation, which Khaliq's experience was was only awarded the conclearly unacceptable. 'On tract in April, has apologised arrival into Manchester, our
Closing ethnic gap: Indians earn more than British Recent data from the office of national statistics has revealed that Indian employees earned a higher median hourly pay than their British counterparts last year, while wages for bangladeshi and pakistani workers were lower than any other ethnicity in the UK. The report, the first of its kind by the ONS, comes months after prime minister Theresa May proposed new plans which would oblige employers to release their race pay gap statistics. According to the
ONS, Indian workers earned 12 percent more an hour compared to white UK staff while Bangladeshi employees earned the lowest medium hourly pay, approximately 20 per cent less than white British workers, followed by Pakistani employees. Although some large businesses, such as Santander, agreed to report their ethnicity pay gap, not all have followed suit. The Prime Minister launched the Race Disparity Audit in 2017, to examine how people of different ethnic back-
grounds were treated across society. However, the report also highlighted that Pakistani and Bangladeshi were significantly less likely to be employed, probably owing to “cultural differences” as many women were found to be looking after their family or home. When in employment, data found that Bangladeshi females earned more per hour on average than their male counterparts, showing a gender pay gap of negative 10.5 per cent.
crew made multiple attempts to connect with Manchester Airport's special assistance providers, and a member of the Thomas Cook Airlines team stayed with Mr. Khaliq until he was met at the aircraft. We have asked Manchester Airport to look into what went wrong with its provider to ensure that this does not happen again.' A Manchester Airport spokesman said: 'We are committed to ensuring all our customers enjoy a positive experience when travelling through Manchester Airport, and are therefore disappointed to hear the standards we expect of our partners do not appear to have been met on this occasion. 'We have raised this matter as a priority with ABM Aviation, our special assistance provider, and will work with all parties concerned to understand what happened here, and will ensure any lessons are learned.
Theft at Harrow Restaurant: Cricket ball stolen Amidst the on-going Cricket World Cup, Bombay Central in Harrow Weald had displayed a huge cricket ball outside their restaurant. However, the ball is now reportedly stolen. A man is seen untying the ball that was secured to one of the Rickshaws outside the restaurant, in the CCTV footage that was uploaded and shared across social media. The caption reads: ‘Do you know this man?’. Police are aware of the theft. “Please help us identify the individual in the footage. The reward – a meal for four at Bombay Central,” said, owner Rishi Lakhani, Bombay Central.