Tag: Schools

North Iran gets massive snow dump

After months of waiting for the snow to arrive, Tehranis were hit by massive snowfall overnight on Sunday that shut airports and schools but delighted the ski community. The capital’s Imam Khomeini International and Mehrabad airports were shut due to poor visibility “until further notice”, state television said. Some 20 provinces in the west and north of...

January 28, 2018

Eleven city schools judged for Saraswati Vandana awards

A team of judges, among them celebrities like Bonny Mukherjee, Ankita Dutta, Mallar Ghosh, judged the Saraswati Pujas at 11 different schools for the 2018 Saraswati Vandana awards. The team first visited Hindu School, where the theme was Bengali iconic detective characters and their importance in the shaping of our childhood. Teacher Madangopal Dutta commented,...

January 25, 2018

Schools along IB, LoC shut due to Pak shelling in Jammu

The schools along with a section of the Line of Control (LoC) and International Border (IB) were on Saturday closed down by authorities due to firing and shelling by the Pakistani troops, officials said on Saturday. The schools, up to five kilometres range from the IB and LoC, have been shut for three days. “The...

January 20, 2018

Cong govt shifting teachers arbitrarily from schools: SAD

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday alleged the Congress government was shifting teachers arbitrarily from middle schools. In a statement here, former minister and SAD spokesman, Daljit Singh Cheema, said this would have a most adverse effect on education services in the state. He said the state government seemed to be playing with the...

January 18, 2018

Girls outshine boys in J-K higher secondary school exam

Girls outshone boys in the Higher Secondary School Examinations conducted by the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (BOSE). The results for the same were declared on Thursday. According to BOSE officials, 33,893 of the 55,163 candidates qualified the examination held in November last. While the overall pass percentage was 61.44, more girls (64.31...

January 11, 2018

Only laptops in Kerala schools

The Kerala government on Wednesday ordered that henceforth, only laptops and not desktops should be purchased for state-run schools. The order is in line with a recommendation of the Technical Committee of the Education Department. K. Anvar Sadath, Vice Chairman, Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education, the state government body that looks after the ICT...

January 10, 2018

Civic bodies, edu dept asked to examine fire safety measures in Schools

In order to ensure safety of students, the Delhi Commission For Protection Of Child Rights (DCPCR) has directed education department, all civic bodies and Delhi Cantonment Board to examine life and fire safety provisions in schools under their jurisdiction. The Commission has asked all agencies concerned to submit a status report on the issue to...

January 7, 2018

Bengal to impart advanced vocational training in HS schools

The West Bengal government has decided to impart advanced vocational training in higher secondary (HS) schools for skill development, Purnendu Bose, minister for Technical Education said. Bose said that training in vocational education was important to creating employment opportunities. At present, nearly 2700 HS schools had been selected for imparting courses in vocational training, he...

December 26, 2017

Don’t celebrate Christmas, Aligarh schools warned

A Vishwa Hindu Parishad affiliated activist group on Tuesday warned schools in Aligarh of dire consequences if they celebrated Christmas. The Hindu Jagran Manch, in a letter to all city schools, has said that if the festival is celebrated by them they would be doing it “at their own risk”. The warning has sent the...

December 19, 2017

Vocational training in 44 Odisha schools

The Odisha government has tied up with AISECT, an organisation offering skill-based education, to provide vocational training in 44 schools.The Odisha government has tied up with AISECT, an organisation offering skill-based education, to provide vocational training in 44 schools. The government will partner AISECT for implementation of a centrally-sponsored programme, Vocationalisation of Secondary and Higher...

December 17, 2017

70 lakh high school students given free bicycles : CM Mamata Banerjee

Seventy lakh high school students in state-run schools of West Bengal have been given bicycles free of cost under ‘Sabuj Sathi’ scheme, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday. “We launched Sabuj Sathi scheme on this day in 2015. We have empowered 70 lakh school students (Classes IX-XII) by providing them free bicycles,” Banerjee wrote...

December 15, 2017

Don’t let schools charge arbitrary fees, UP parents say

Citing Delhi and Gujarat, the Ghaziabad Parents Association (GPA) on Sunday hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government for allowing private schools to raise fees at will. GPA President Seema Tyagi and her colleagues berated the UP Fee Regulatory Bill, whose draft has been uploaded, and pledged to challenge it in the Supreme Court. “The...

December 11, 2017

Gurugram DC directs schools to ensure student safety

The Gurugram district administration will now focus on implementation of guidelines issued by the Haryana Education Department for safety of students. Stating this, the deputy commissioner (DC), Vinay Pratap Singh, who was presiding over meeting of School Safety Committee, said ‘safety of children is priority of the administration’. Singh said that the guidelines as regards...

December 6, 2017

Corporal punishment should be banned in schools: NCPCR

To completely ban corporal punishment in schools,  the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), an outline would soon be prepared for future in consultation with principals and teachers. Stating this on Wednesday in Gurugram, a specialist with NCPCR, Parvesh Shah said it was everyone’s responsibility to ensure that rights of children were not...

December 6, 2017

AAP govt has checked privatisation of education sector: Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said his government kept under check the mushrooming of private schools by setting up state-run institutions that imparted quality education to poor children free of cost. The AAP dispensation has completely changed government schools where the standard of education was earlier in a bad state, he claimed at...

November 17, 2017

NPSC: School principals working towards progressive principles

Principals of schools, at the National Progressive Schools Conference (NPSC) here, shared their mission to strive for excellence, equity, inclusion, emotions and efficiency in the education of children. The school principals affirm their efforts towards progressive principles at the first meet of the new NPSC Executive Committee held at Mira Model School here on October 25. Emphasising...

November 16, 2017

Rains lash coastal TN, schools remain shut

Rains lashed many parts of the city and neighbouring districts on Monday, prompting the administration to announce holiday for schools. Ennore near Chennai recorded the highest rainfall of 11 cm in the last 24 hours ending 8.30 AM on Monday, the weather office said. A low pressure area over Bay of Bengal which was lying...

November 13, 2017