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At a time when classrooms are increasingly defined by examination scores, rankings, and relentless competition, it is worth asking a fundamental question: what is education truly meant to achieve?
At a time when classrooms are increasingly defined by examination scores, rankings, and relentless competition, it is worth asking a fundamental question: what is education truly meant to achieve?
Imagine the typical Indian evening: a student hunched over a table, notebook open, struggling to come to terms with equations or the reasons behind the Revolt of 1857.
In a significant decision, the Allahabad High Court has taken a strong stance on the 'disturbing' pattern of several assistant teachers in Uttar Pradesh obtaining jobs based on forged and fabricated certificates.
New Alipore College hosted its annual winter festival, Udbhas 2025, on 17 and 18 December. The campus came alive with energy, colour, and excitement. Students, teachers, alumni, and guests gathered to celebrate creativity, learning, and togetherness.
A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday cancelled the jobs of 313 teachers attached to Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA)-run schools spread across the hill regions of Darjeeling, Kurseong and Kalimpong in the northern sector of West Bengal.
Protesting teachers of the government-aided schools across the state on Friday decided to shift their new site of protest at Sahid Minar and stopped their five day-long siege to Acharya Sadan, head office of the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) at Salt Lake since 21 April.
The protestors have been continuing their agitations in front of the Acharya Bhawan for more than 30 hours since Monday demanding the WBSSC to release the list of qualified and ineligible candidates in the panel of 2016 when the recruitment tests for the posts of assistant teachers, non-teaching group C and D were held by the commission.
The stalemate over the issue of publishing of the segregated list continued even after the meeting between the WBSSC chairman and six-member representatives of the agitating teachers at the commission’s office.
The agitating teachers of government-aided secondary and higher secondary schools across the state, who have been rendered jobless after the Supreme Court verdict on 3 April, want permanent jobs and not any temporary relief.
The Kolkata police commissioner Manoj Verma has ordered an inquiry to probe the incident of vandalism at the district inspector (DI) of schools office premises at Kasba in the southern part of the city on Wednesday.
