Vadodara. Service contracts of two junior resident doctors of the Gujarat Medical Education & Research Society’s Gotri Medical College were terminated, and five third-year medical students expelled from the hostel for allegedly ragging 60 second-year students who were forced to do 100 sit-up exercises.
“We have taken a serious view of the matter and […]
Bhubaneswar, june 3. The Kendrapara district administration has set a target to revamp 500 government primary schools in the district by end 2021.
“So far, 60 primary and upper primary schools in the district have been given a facelift. The focus is on upgrading their infrastructure with good quality benches, desks, toilets […]
Chandigarh, May 3. Chief minister Amarinder Singh constituted a committee to recommend examination reforms and review curriculums for improving the quality of higher education in the state.
Chaired by Dr. Jaspal Singh Sandhu, vice chancellor of Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, the committee will also explore the feasibility of introducing new study […]
New Delhi, April 15. Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia held the first annual general meeting (AGM) of the Delhi Schools of Specialised Excellence Society. The society, which will start functioning from the new academic year 2021-22, has drawn up a plan to establish over 100 schools of specialised excellence (SSE) in the national capital region.
New Delhi, March 30. The first annual general body meeting of the Delhi Board of School Education (DBSE) — the latest of India’s 31 state examination boards — was held to discuss registration and constitution of the board.
Establishment of DBSE was given Delhi government approval on March 6 following which the board was formally […]
Guwahati, February 11. State governor Jagadish Mukhi, ex officio chancellor, suspended Ranjit Tamuli, vice chancellor of Dibrugarh University with immediate effect following allegations of misuse of public funds.
Earlier, the Dibrugarh University Teachers’ Association and several employees unions of the university, and MLA Rituparna Baruah had petitioned governor Mukhi to investigate Tamuli’s financial irregularities and […]
Mathura, January 2. Sixty-six suspects have been taken into police custody for alleged involvement in a fraudulent diversion of Rs.23 crore from the state’s post-matriculation scholarship fund during the period 2015-20.
Those booked include social welfare officer Karunes Tripathi, suspended by chief minister Yogi Adityanath last December, three clerks of the district’s social welfare department and […]
New Delhi, December 3. The civil engineering faculties of 18 IITs, 26 NITs and 190 other reputed engineering colleges countrywide have signed collaboration agreements with the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). Under the terms of these agreements, each institution will be permitted to ‘adopt’ a stretch of a national highway to enable its faculty, […]
Amaravati, November 5. A total 262 students and 160 teachers tested Covid-19 positive during the past three days after schools were reopened statewide for classes IX-X students on November 2, said the commissioner of school education V. Chinna Veerabhadrudu, addressing a press conference.
According to data provided by the state government’s department of school education, 9.75 […]
Thiruvananthapuram, October 12. Kerala has become the first state in the country to digitize all 16,030 government schools, announced chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan at a press conference. “The government took special interest in universalizing K-12 education and has presented a Left alternative, a Kerala model of education to the world,” he said adding with all […]
New Delhi, September 5. At a specially organised virtual ceremony to mark Teachers’ Day (September 5), President Ram Nath Kovind conferred the National Teachers Awards to 47 selected teachers from around the country for their unique contribution towards developing teaching innovations to enrich the lives of their students.
New Delhi, August 18. Union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ released the annual Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovations Achievements 2020 (ARIIA, estb.2018) which ranks higher education institutions and universities for innovation and entrepreneurship development in six categories.
Under the category of Centrally-funded institutes of national importance, the Indian Institutes of […]
Puducherry, July 1. The decks have been cleared for upgradation of the state-run Pondicherry Engineering College (estb.1980) into a technological university with a Bill passed by the assembly having received presidential assent. The new varsity will be a teaching, research and affiliating university which will also facilitate and promote technology incubation and product innovation, says […]
Bhubaneswar, June 11. The Odisha government has cancelled undergraduate and postgrad final semester examinations of all study programmes except medicine, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic spike countrywide. However pending theory and practical examinations of medical courses will be conducted according to schedule, said a government spokesperson.
Addressing the media, the spokesperson said this decision was […]
Bhubaneswar, April 3. In collaboration with the UN Children’s Emergency Fund, the Odisha government has launched an online mo protiva (‘my talent’) competition for children in the 5-18 years age group to keep them engaged at home during the emergency Covid-19 nationwide lockdown.
Children’s entries under separate age categories are invited in painting, slogans writing, short […]
Kohima, March 4. Speaking at a function to mark the launch of digital education in 15 state government colleges, Nagaland’s chief minister Neiphiu Rio said Smart classrooms will improve the quality of education in the state and make teaching-learning interactive and engaging.
Also speaking on the occasion, Temjen Imna Along, minister for higher education and tribal affairs, said Nagaland is the first […]
Bhuj, February 14. Over 60 girl students of the Shree Sahajanand Girls Institute (SSGI) — an all-women’s college which offers undergrad and postgrad courses — in Gujarat’s Kutch district, were reportedly forced to strip by college hostel authorities to check for menstrual blood.
Darshana Dholakia, vice chancellor of the Krantiguru Shyamji Krishna Verma Kutch University with […]
Muzaffarpur, January 5. Speaking at a college seminar on ‘Quality education and teachers condition in Bihar’, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Union minister of state for health and family welfare, said acquiring knowledge of English language is more important than clearing an exam on the subject. “The current education system is focused on passing examinations and getting […]
Chandigarh, December 10. Government school teachers across Punjab threatened to burn the effigy of state education minister Vijay Inder Singla if he refused to apologise for allegedly using objectionable language against unemployed youth protesting government inaction.
Singla reportedly used abusive language against unemployed B.Ed and TET-qualified teachers, who were protesting the failure of the state government […]
Noida (UP), November 7. India Inc tycoons Ratan Tata and G.M. Rao were conferred honorary doctorates by Amity University at its annual convocation which awarded degrees to 6,900 graduates and 42 doctorate scholars. Union human resource development minister, Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal was the chief guest.
While Tata was honoured in absentia, Rao, chairman of the Delhi-based […]
Hailakandi (Assam), September 1. The Mumbai-based Piramal Foundation (estb.2006) — the philanthropic division of the Ajay Piramal-led group of companies — is all set to launch an accelerated learning programme (ALP) for slow learners in 100 government schools of the Hailakandi district, Assam in collaboration with the state government.
“ALP will help teachers enhance learning outcomes […]
Dholpur, july 1. In an exemplary punitive order, a district collector commuted the sentence of a class IX student found guilty of assaulting and injuring a classmate, to nurture five trees on his school campus for three months.
Neha Giri, district collector of Dholpur who chaired an enquiry committee into the incident at Jawahar Navodaya […]
New Delhi, June 4. The University Grants Commission (UGC) recently issued guidelines for recruitment of faculty in higher education institutions (HEIs) to address rising staff shortages.
“Shortage of quality teaching faculty in HEIs is one among many issues presently confronting the higher education system in the country. This is also affecting the quality of higher education. […]
New Delhi, May 25. CBI sleuths arrested six people in connection with alleged involvement in the manipulation of the online entrance examination of the top-ranked Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. Search operations conducted at several addresses in Delhi, Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Mumbai resulted in the arrest of the managing director of Delhi-based Pathway […]
Chandigarh, April 29. Two women hostel wardens and two security guards of the privately-run co-educational Akal University in Punjab’s Bathinda district have been suspended on charges of ‘dereliction of duty’ for strip searching several women students after a soiled sanitary napkin blocked the hostel toilet. Suspension orders were issued in response to a public protest […]
Ghaziabad (up), March 1. Shripad Yesso Naik, minister of state in the Union AYUSH ministry, laid the foundation stone of a proposed National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM) to be constructed on a 10-acre site at a projected cost of Rs.300 crore. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2021.
Gangtok, February 1. The Sikkim state government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with megacorp Microsoft Inc, to prepare youth to become future-ready and transform its e-governance and core sectors, said R.B. Subba, the state’s minister for education.
Under the agreement, Microsoft will support the state to integrate IT (information technology) content in the curriculum […]
Itanagar, January 6. Seven Central government promoted Kendriya Vidyalaya primary-secondaries will become operational in the state this year, says an official communique issued after Arunachal Pradesh governor Brig. (Retd.) Dr. B.D. Mishra met with Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar in New Delhi.
The governor also requested the minister to sanction three Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (Central government-promoted […]
JAMMU, DECEMBER 3. At a function organised by the state’s school education ministry to mark the International Day of Disabled Persons (December 3), governor Satya Pal Malik announced new scholarships for differently abled children. Incorporated into the J&K government’s scholarship scheme, Rs.1 lakh will be awarded annually to one meritorious boy and girl child.
Ahmedabad, November 3. Three lakh first-year college students across Gujarat will be given tablet computers christened ‘Namo e-tab’ valued at Rs.11,000 each at a token sum of Rs.1,000 for the second consecutive year. Chief minister Vijay Rupani made this announcement in a recent address to Gujarat Technological University students.
“The objective is to enhance students’ […]
New Delhi, October 1. Haryana’s Maharashi Dayanand University is India’s ‘Cleanest Public University’ in 2018, according to a Union human resource development ministry survey. The Swachh (‘clean’) Campus Rankings in three different categories were announced by Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti (October 2). The other top-ranked varsities are Guru […]
Puducherry, September 4. Puducherry chief minister V. Narayanasamy lauded the efforts of teachers and non-teaching staff of a government primary school at Koonichampet for bagging the all-India #1 rank under the Swachch Vidyalaya Puraskar (clean schools programme) of the Central government. He presented a cheque of Rs.1 lakh to the school’s principal Sasikumar.
Kochi, August 30. Emotional reunions of students and teachers were witnessed across this southern state as a majority of primary-secondary schools reopened on August 29 after a grim fortnight of devastating rain and floods. According to the state’s education minister C. Raveendranath, 650 schools were damaged by severe flooding — the worst of the past […]
New Delhi, July 3. The Delhi-based National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Arunachal Pradesh government to pay Rs.5,000 relief to 88 girl school students forced to undress by their teachers as punishment on November 23 last year. The girl students allegedly wrote about their head teacher in vulgar terms.
The class VI-VII students […]
The state government-funded International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)-Bhubaneswar is set to offer specially designed industry-oriented skilling programmes for unemployed graduate engineers domiciled in Odisha, from this month (July) onwards.
“With a skilling and training timeframe of 150 hours spread over two months, the programme is designed to equip graduate engineers with quantitative, qualitative and soft […]
Three teachers, including a headmaster, were arrested for allegedly messaging answers through a mobile phone to a student examinee during the recently concluded class X state board examinations in Ganjam district. The teachers have been charged under several sections of Odisha’s Conduct of Examinations Act, 1988, police informed mediapersons in […]
The Haryana Teacher Eligibility Test Level 3 (PGT) exam — scheduled to be written by over 460,000 candidates in the state on November 14 — was cancelled on suspicions of a question paper leak. Speaking to mediapersons in Chandigarh on November 14, Pankaj Kumar, secretary, Haryana School Education Board, said fresh dates will […]
Seventy-three first year B.Tech students of IIT-Roorkee scoring a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of less than five in the second semester, were served expulsion notices on July 10. The rule mandating expulsion of students with below-five CGPA scores in two consecutive semesters was framed last year by the IIT-Roorkee Senate (which comprises […]
Addressing the Rajasthan legislative assembly after tabling the state budget 2015-16 on March 9, chief minister Vasundhara Raje announced her government’s intent to constitute District School Boards (DSBs) for monitoring the quality of education delivered by government schools statewide. DSBs, whose members will include parents, teachers, civil society and public representatives and […]
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