POETRY

Hawk Roosting
by ted hughes
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream
Between my hooked head and hooked feet:
Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.
The convenience of the high trees!
The air's buoyancy and the sun's ray
Are of advantage to me;
And the earth's face upward for my inspection.
My feet are locked upon the rough bark.
It took the whole of Creation
To produce my foot, my each feather:
Now I hold Creation in my foot
Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly I kill where I please because it is all mine.
There is no sophistry in my body:
My manners are tearing off heads The allotment of death.
For the one path of my flight is direct
Through the bones of the living.
No arguments assert my right:

SPEECH
Today, I want to share our latest thinking with respect to the role that U.S.
diplomacy can play in addressing some of the most pressing foreign policy
challenges that we face in an obviously extraordinarily complex, very
different world from the world of the last century.
I must say I am perplexed by claims that I occasionally hear that somehow
America is disengaging from the world, this myth that we are pulling back
or giving up or standing down. In fact, I want to make it clear today that
nothing could be further from the truth. This misperception, and in some
case, a driven narrative, appears to be based on the simplistic assumption
that our only tool of influence is our military, and that if we dont have a
huge troop presence somewhere or we arent brandishing an immediate
threat of force, we are somehow absent from the arena. I think the only
person more surprised than I am by the myth of this disengagement is the
Air Force pilot who flies the Secretary of States plane.
Obviously, our engagement isnt measured in frequent flier miles though it
would be pretty nice if I got a few, as a matter of fact but it is really
measured and I think serious students of foreign policy understand this
it is measured by the breadth of our global commitments, their depth,
especially our commitments to our allies in every corner of the world. It is
measured by the degree of difficulty of the crises and the conflicts that we
choose to confront, and it is measured ultimately by the results that we are
able to achieve.
Far from disengaging, America is proud to be more engaged than ever,
and, I believe, is playing as critical a role, perhaps as critical as ever, in
pursuit of peace, prosperity, and stability in various parts of the world.
Right here in Europe, we are working with our partners to press the
Government of Ukraine to forgo violence, to address the concerns of
peaceful protesters, to foster dialogue, promote the freedom of assembly
and expression. And I literally just received messages before walking in
here of the efforts of our diplomats on the ground working with President
Yanukovych to try to achieve calm and help move in this direction in the
next days. We will stand with the people of Ukraine.

LISTENING SKILLS
Conversation:
Rahul: Hi Rima, I saw you at registration yesterday. I sailed right
through, but you were standing in a long line.
Rima: Yeah, I waited an hour to sign up for a distance learning
course.
Rahul: Distance learning? Never heard of it.
Rima: Well, it is new this semester-it is only open to psychology.
All I have got to do is watch a twelve-week series of televised
lessons. The department shows them several different times a
day and in several different locations.
Rahul: Do you not ever have to meet your professor?
Rima: Yeah, after each part of the series l have to talk to her and
the other students on the phone, you know, about our ideas. Then
we will meet on campus three times for reviews and exams.
Rahul: It sounds pretty non-traditional to me, but l guess it
makes sense, considering how many students have jobs. It must
really help with their schedules-not to mention how it will cut
down on traffic.
Rima: You know, last year my department did a survey and they
found out that 80 per cent of all psychology majors were
employed. That is why they came up with the programme. Look, I
will be working three days a week next semester, and it was
either cut back on my classes or try this out.

Rahul: The only thing is ...does not it seem impersonal, though? I

mean, I would miss having class discussions and hearing what
other people think.
Rima: Well, guess that is why phone contact is important
Anyway, it is an experiment. Maybe l will end up hating it.
Rahul: Maybe, but ...I will be curious to see how it works out.
Q.1 What are the names of the man and the woman?
A. Rahul and Rima
Q.2 Where did the man see the woman the previous day?
A. at Registration office
Q.3 How long did the woman wait for her turn?
A. 1 hour
Q.4 For which subject was distance learning course open?
A. Psychology
Q.5 How is it different from traditional courses?
A. It is a distance learning course and she has to watch
televised lessons.
Q.6 How many weeks of televised lessons are there in the
course?
A. 12 Weeks
Q.7 Do the learners ever meet their professors?
A. There is campus met 3 times.
Q.8 What are the two advantages of the distance learning
course?
A. i) It cuts down on traffic.

ii) Can be done during job.

Q.9 Why did the woman decided to enroll in the distance
learning course?
A. She has to work 3 times a week.
Q.10 What is the disadvantage of distance
learning,according to man?
A. It seems impersonal.

GROUP DISCUSSION
TOPIC: UNETHICAL PRACTICES OF EDUCATIONAL

SYSTEM
Indias education system is mired in corruption and a high
rate of teacher absenteeism. Teacher absenteeism does not
just affect quality of education; it is also a huge drain on
resources resulting in the wastage of education funds in
India the study said. Politics in teacher appointments and
transfers is a major reason for teacher absenteeism. The
study identifies the absence of well-established criteria for
teacher recruitment a uniform policy on promotion,
remuneration and deployment as some of the main
reasons identified for teacher absenteeism.
Teachers also believe highly in private tutoring a practice
identified by UNESCO as unethical. It does not
complement learning at school and leads to corruption the
report said. The practice of ghost teachers and
involvement of teachers in mismanagement of schools

were other gray areas identified in the Indian education

system.
Another indictment of the sorry state of Indian education
was the view held by students that cheating in
examinations is their traditional right. In India
universities cheating is now well-established. Recently in
bihar over 1000 were arrested when relatives and friends
were found scaling the walls of exam centers to pass notes
through windows.
The fees for manipulating entrance tests ranges between
Rs. 5000 to Rs. 15 lakh for popular programmes such as
computer science, medicine and engineering .The biggest
example of all this is vyapam scam. The Vyapam scam is an
admission & recruitment scam involving politicians, senior
officials and businessmen in the Indian state of Madhya
Pradesh.Vyapam" (Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal), is a selffinanced and autonomous body incorporated by the State
government responsible for conducting several entrance
tests in the state. These entrance exams are held for
recruitment in government jobs and admissions in
educational institutes of the state. The scam involved a
collusion of undeserving candidates, who bribed
politicians and officials through middlemen, to get high
ranks in these entrance.
Now it is difficult for our government to provide quality
infra for schools and colleges so they should focus on

distance learning so that it even help remote areas. More

government medical colleges needed and menace of
donation should also be cracked down in private institutes.
The recruitment of teachers Should stricly be on merit
basis and weightage of written exams for recruitment
should be more than interviews to check nepotism

JAM: JUST A MINUTE

Topic : if I were the prime minister
I will recommend the President to declare state emergency,
while keeping the economy as stable as possible. I will have some
nominated persons to guide me, whose knowledge and intentions
I can trust. I will first appeal to the citizens to give me some time,
I am working for your welfare. Many will protest, I will address
peaceful protestors and give them a logical explanation. Many
(may be with the support of political leaders) will force a strike,
stop trains, block roads. I won't tolerate them. Reforms as have
been suggested by many committees. I would lower the budget of
arms purchase and spend more on the police. more courts,
judges, and fast judgement. I will bring back retired judges. ECI
will amend its rules to make sure every candidate will be needed
to have a certain minimum education and absolutely zero criminal
record. Many good potential leaders may be left out but I have to
do this. Please understand. I will set up a commission especially to
check leakages on public spending. In this way poverty and
illiteracy can be significantly reduced and hope that situation will
improve.

The Future of online Education

-- People expect to be able to work, learn, and study

whenever and wherever they want to.
-- The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based
and expectations of IT decentralized support.

-- The world of work is increasingly collaborative, driving

changes in the structure of student projects .

Abundance of resources and relationships are easily

accessible via the Internet.
-- Education paradigms are shifting to include online
learning, hybrid learning, and collaborative models.
--There is a new emphasis in the classroom on more
challenge-based and active learning.
-- The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based
and expectations of IT decentralized support.
-- The world of work is increasingly collaborative, driving
changes in the structure of student projects

Q-What are the Challenges to

adopting new technology that
provides online education??
1. Evaluations have not kept up with the new
scholarly forms of authoring, publishing, and
researching.
2.Digital media literacy continues its rise in
importance.
3.Economic pressures and new models of
education are bringing unprecedented
competition to the traditional models of higher
education.
4.. Institutional barriers present major challenges
to moving forward with emerging technologies.
5. Increasing challenges for libraries.
6.Current business models of universities and
libraries are being challenged

To what extent has technology

influenced higher education

Or are these technologies simply

supporting and reinforcing existing
practices

Where will the money come from?

-- certification (students pay for a badge or
certificate)
-- secure assessments (students pay to have their
examinations invigilated)

-- employee recruitment (companies pay for access )

-- applicant screening (employers/universities pay
for access to records to screen applicants
-- human tutoring or assignment marking (for which
students pay)
--Selling the MOOC platform to enterprises to use in
their own training courses)
-- sponsorships
-- Tuition fees

BARRIERS OR
FACTORS AFFECTING
EFFECTIVE ADOPTION
--have we learned how to make new technologies
transform teaching?
-- instructional workload
-- often too much emphasis on the technology
itself and lack of support for faculty