Kathmandu, March 14. Golchha group has provided financial support for building an electric vehicle to Team Sireto, the students of Thapathali Campus. The vehicle had participated in the International Competition Shell-Eco Marathon, in October 2020. The team started with preliminary activities like building a team according to required skills, finding sponsors, finalizing the workspace, etc. […]
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TOKYO, Feb 18: Japan will ease its strict virus border rules to allow students and businesspeople into the country from March, but tourists will still be barred, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Thursday.
The move comes with growing pressure on Japan from the business community and academics to loosen the border restrictions, which are the toughest in the G7 but have broad support from Japanese voters.
Japan has barred tourists since the early days of the pandemic, and has in some cases prevented even existing foreign residents from entering the country.
Last November, the government slightly loosened the rules to allow some students and businesspeople to enter, but then quickly reversed the plan weeks later as the Omicron strain emerged.
After an Omicron-driven spike in infections, cases in Japan now appear to have peaked, experts say.
From March 1, Kishida said "we will allow new visitors, except those coming for tourism", adding that a cap on daily entrants will be raised to from the current 3,500 to 5,000.
More than 400,000 people whose visas have already been approved by authorities were waiting to enter Japan as of January 4, an immigration agency official told AFP.
More than 150,000 of those are students, with another 129,000 workers hired to take part in a technical training programme that is a key source of foreign labor for several industries in the country.
While Japan has not pursued a zero-Covid policy and has avoided strict lockdowns, it has made tough border measures a centerpiece of its pandemic response.
Even citizens and returning residents who are able to enter have been subject to quarantines of up to two weeks, with testing before and after entering the country.
Kishida said quarantine requirements would now be eased, going from seven to three days, if arrivals test negative.
Quarantine will be removed altogether for those with three vaccine doses coming from countries judged low-risk, he added, without specifying particular nations.
Japan has recorded more than 20,950 deaths in the pandemic and polls show Japanese broadly favor the tough restrictions, with nearly 60 percent of respondents in a recent survey by public broadcaster NHK backing a continued ban on entry.
Davide Rossi, an Italian entrepreneur living in Japan who campaigns for students stuck outside the country, said the news was a light at the end of the tunnel, and many now hope they can enter Japan before the new semester in April.
"There is a very high sense of urgency. People are really on the verge of quitting, but now, with this announcement, they have some hope," he told AFP.
But he recalled the way the border restrictions were tightened in November, just weeks after being eased.
"Hopefully this is a lesson, too, and the borders won't close again like they did in November, because that really hurt a lot of people so much. I hope things will get better from today."
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced 22 new fields of study have been added to the STEM Optional Practical Training (OPT) program to enhance the contributions of nonimmigrant students studying in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and support the growth of the U.S. economy and innovation. “STEM innovation allows […]
NIGERIA: Thirty students and a teacher have regained freedom after being held for more than six months by gunmen who attacked their school in northwest Nigeria's Kebbi state and abducted them in June 2021, according to a state official on Sunday.
Yahaya Sarki, the spokesperson for the governor of Kebbi state, said in a statement that the 30 students and their teacher from the Federal Government College in Birnin Yauri area of the state arrived in Birnin Kebbi, the state capital, on Saturday following their release. "They shall undergo medical screening and support while being re-united with their families," Sarki said.
A group of unknown gunmen attacked the secondary school on June 17, 2021, killing at least one policeman and abducted an unspecified number of students and several teachers.
According to local media reports, scores of students had been freed in batches before the latest release. A series of gunmen attacks recently happened in the northern part of the most populous African country, including attacks on schools and the kidnapping of students.
TAPPLEJUNG, June 24: Meringden rural municipality of the district has come up with a policy to provide scholarship for hydropower engineering study. The scholarship support is to be provided to one boy and one girl students of the rural municipality for the study from upcoming fiscal year.
Unveiling the annual policy and programme for the fiscal year 2021/22 on Wednesday, the announcement of scholarship support was made.
Meanwhile, the rural municipality has also laid emphasis on special educational incentive programme so as to increase the school enrollment rate to seven percent by bringing under 16 helpless students to the access of school education. To implement this scheme, the rural municipality has declared to support Rs 500 each.
Likewise, the policy and programme has also included a campaign to declare Meringden as literate rural municipality through informal education. It has also come up with the policy to continue teaching and learning in local language for the protection of indigenous language and culture
The rural municipality has presented the annual budget of Rs 411.65 million for upcoming year.
ROLPA, April 19: Minister for Energy, Water Resource and Irrigation, Barshaman Pun, on Wednesday extended financial support to four poor students and launched the school admission campaign.
