Who was invented World Wide Web? who was the first web designer?

It is hard to imagine a world without Internet. The Internet is use by about 3.17 billion people. 1.44 billion People use email and 247 billion emails are sent each day. People spend a total of 8 billion minutes a day on facebook. In fact, the Internet has become such a common part of our everyday lives most of us take it for granted. 

The Internet or ‘interconnected’ networks’ is a way of connecting computers together on a global scale. The World Wide Web (WWW) is the way all the documents on the Internet can be linked and accessed. The man described most often as the father of the World Wide Web is a British scientist called Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee was born in London in June 8, 1955. His parents were both

mathematicians working on Baby an early British Computer. Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

After studying physics at Oxford University, Berners-Lee went to work at CERN a prestigious Laboratory near Geneva in Switzerland. At CERN he wanted to find a way for scientists to talk to each other across the world via

computers so he invented a language for this; Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML).The first website was built at CERN in 1991 using HTML and The World Wide Web was born.

Today, the Internet is a vast pool of information and it is impossible to do business without either a website or email.  But connectivity now does come with strings attached. For most people, access to the Internet is not free and when we use it we are monitored.  Crucially, Berners-Lee not patent or copyright his invention and today he continues to believe that access to the Internet should be free to all. He also believes that Internet Service Providers should supply ‘connectivity with no strings attached’. 

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CTEVT objects to MoE decision

Taking caption to the decision of the ministry of education to allow the Higher Secondary Education Board to introduce technical and vocation education in Grade XI and XII, the council for technical

Education and Vocational Training on Tuesday has warned of moving the court to challenge the decision. Ram Hari Lamichhane, CTEVT Member Secretary, said that CTEVT is the pioneer institution in technical and vocational education and MoE had earlier asked it to do preparations to address the problems of SLC graduates from technical stream, but it now has asked the HSEB to introduce technical and vocational education. “MoE did not bother to seek our consent while taking the decision. The decision will only produce academic graduates which will enroll in higher education despite studying technical subjects.” He said Lamichhane said that the move was a conspiracy of the Department of Education to limit the jurisdiction of CTEVT.

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Technical Education start by Higher Secondary Education Board (HSEB) of Nepal

The Higher Secondary Education Board is going introduce technical and vocational subjects from current academic session. As per a ministerial level decision taken last week, the HSEB will introduce technical and vocational subjects in Plus Two level. Currently the HSEB has been providing Plus Two education in various faculties- Science, Management, Humanities and Social Science and Education in 3,658 Higher Secondary Schools  (HSS)/Plus Two colleges across the country.

Technical and Vocational Education in School education was introduced in Grade IX from April 2013 in 99 schools in 71 districts across the country as part of the School Sector Reform Plan (SSRP).

SSRP has divided school education into two levels- Basics Education (Grade-I  to VIII) and Secondary Education (Grade IX to XII)- and categorized school education into two streams – general and technical and vocational stream.

Dr. Laba Deo Awasthi, officiating secretary at the MoE, said that the decision was made to ensure higher secondary education to SLC graduates from technical and vocational stream.

A total of 3,256 students from technical stream had appeared in SLC exam-2071 where 215 students got A+ (equivalent to 90 to 100 marks), 779 students got A (80 to 89), 2,131 students got B (60 to 79), 124 got C (40 to 59) and one got D (25 to 39).

According to Awasthi, the HSEB will grant affiliation to 99 schools which had taught technical and vocational education in grade IX and X and Department of Education will manage budget, infra structure and teachers. Diwakar Dhungel, Executive Director, Curriculum Development Center said that they had already prepared the draft of curriculum for Grades XI and XII and had discussed it with experts and deans of various faculties in different universities. 

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HSEB tells HSS, Plus Tow colleges to abide by rules

The Higher Secondary Education board warned of action against the Higher Secondary Schools and Plus Two colleges that have been charging exorbitant free from students and parents in the name of entrance examination of grade XII.

The Supreme Court and the Ministry of Education ha earlier directed not to charge more than Rs. 25 for entrance exam from and more than Rs. 1000 for entrance exam, but some colleges in Kathmandu Valley have been charging additional fee as 'service charge'.

HSEB Voice Chairman Chaitanya Sharma said the HSEB would issue a public notice, asking all concerned not to charge more than Rs 125 for entrance from and entrance exam. He said that HSEB/Plus Two colleges that have already charged more than Rs 125 must return the additional amount.

A joint statement issued by student unions said that the government should control the practice of arbitrarily changing and tuition fees. The student unions have also drawn the attention of the Minsitry of Education and HSEB to scholarship selection process urging them to make it transparent and increase it to 10 percent from five percent.

There are 3,658 HSEB / Plus Two colleges across the country. The HSEB has also directed HSS/Plus Two colleges to distribute admission forms for two weeks from the date of SLC results. Which are already announced.  

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