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Govt primary school heads lauded for increased enrolment
The letters, sent on WhatsApp groups, by Punjab education secretary Krishan Kumar, state that the work done by the school head and staff is an inspiration for others in the state’s government schools.
Updated on Jun 08, 2020 08:52 PM IST
Coronavirus: Parents in Shimla demand date of depositing pvt school fee to be extended
The association, Chhatra Abhibhavak Manch, demanded that state education minister Suresh Bhardwaj, education secretary and directorate of higher education director extend the date of depositing private school fee until situation normalises.
Updated on Mar 25, 2020 05:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Shimla | HT Correspondent, Shimla
School, Punjab board exams postponed, staff relieved till March 31
School education minister Vijay Inder Singla says activities of govt, private schools restricted to avert spread of coronavirus
Updated on Mar 19, 2020 11:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | HT Correspondent, Chandigarh
Chandigarh education department asks deputy commissioner not to assign non-academic duties to schoolteachers
Section 27 of the RTE Act prohibits deployment of teachers for non-educational purposes, barring few
Published on Mar 15, 2020 12:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times, | Srishti Jaswal, Chandigarh
Unfair means: Teacher caught helping students in exam in Pathankot
During the checking, education secretary found Amit sitting in the computer lab of Malikpur school and making slips that were to be handed over to the students of Class 8.
Published on Mar 06, 2020 10:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mohali | HT Correspondent, Mohali
More housing options: Hostels to come up at three colleges in Chandigarh
Move comes after the Chandigarh administration’s crackdown on unregulated paying guest facilities
Updated on Mar 06, 2020 01:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Srishti Jaswal, Chandigarh
Chandigarh schools to face action if students’ data is leaked
Adviser Parida wrote to the education dept after it was found that coaching centres have access to data of students
Published on Feb 14, 2020 01:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Srishti Jaswal, Chandigarh
UT has no panel to hear plaints of teachers
The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2015, after amending the Right to Education Act (2009), had made it mandatory to form a state-level committee under director (schools) to take up appeals of teachers working in government schools
Published on Jan 03, 2020 12:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Srishti Jaswal, Chandigarh
UT computer teachers, contractual employees await October salaries
The delay in salary is not new for these 200 computer teachers, including senior and junior instructors, data-entry operators, 87 counsellors, and other employees, who are waiting to receive their salaries.
Published on Nov 20, 2019 01:00 AM IST
Srishti Jaswal, Chandigarh
Unemployed BEd teachers’ meet with Singla remains futile, to pretest in Sangrur on November 24
Two days after police lathi-charged on over hundred members of the Unemployed BEd Teachers’ Union outside the residence of state education minister Vijay Inder Singla in Sangrur, a meeting between Singla and a delegation of the union in Chandigarh on Tuesday failed to take a satisfactory turn.
Updated on Nov 19, 2019 09:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | HT Correspondent, Sangrur
All schools should set up kitchen gardens: Centre
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has issued guidelines for developing and maintaining kitchen gardens in all schools, both in urban and rural areas.
Published on Oct 18, 2019 03:15 PM IST
New Delhi | Indo Asian News Service
Eminence tag: Panel chief seeks inclusion of 2 institutes
The IIPH and IIHS were among the 30 institutions the panel recommended in December 2018 for the IoE tag.
Updated on Oct 16, 2019 05:48 AM IST
Amandeep Shukla
Chandigarh education department yet to notify teacher transfer policy
Currently, a pick-and-choose policy for transferring teachers is being followed
Published on Oct 08, 2019 12:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Srishti Jaswal, Chandigarh
UT students gear up as CBSE Class 10 compartment exams to start from July 16
Total 17,873 students appeared for CBSE Class 10 exams from Chandigarh this year. Of these, 10,890 were from government schools, of which 4,308 got compartment, while 6,983 were from private schools, of which 601 either failed or got compartment.
Updated on Jun 27, 2018 04:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Parina Sood, Chandigarh
Govt comes to aid of Indian engineers in Kuwait after new qualification norms
Kuwait govt has set new academic qualification norms that left in the lurch thousands of Indian engineers working in the west Asian kingdom.
Updated on Apr 18, 2018 07:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Adjust fees of medical students from 2017-18 batch as well: Parents
A delegation of parents has written to FRA, seeking clarity on adjusting excess fees charged by private medical institutes
Published on Mar 28, 2018 11:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shreya Bhandary, Mumbai