India's Primary Education

Primary school teachers hold protest in Odisha over various demands

Thousands of primary school teachers on Sunday staged a demonstration here seeking fulfilment of several demands, including complete abolition of contractual appointments. Traffic came to a halt at the thoroughfares in Bhubaneswar on Sunday as the agitating teachers from across the state staged demonstrations at the Mahatma Gandhi Marg here to press for the demands. The protesters, besides urging the state government to scrap contractual appointments, sought annual increments during the first six years of employment for those who have already been hired under contract, before their regularisation. They also sought salary on par with the central government-appointed teachers. Some of them alleged that they are being paid less than high school teachers, despite having similar qualifications. A delegation of the agitating teachers, after around four hours of the demonstration, held a meeting with education department officials at the state secretariat, a source there said. The ...

ED seeks information on teachers' appointment in Bengal school jobs scam

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday sought information from the West Bengal Board of Primary Education about the appointment of primary teachers since 2011 in connection with its ongoing probe into a school jobs scam, an official said. The ED wrote to the chairman of the board for soft copies of the appointments-related details by Thursday, he said. A source in the education body said officials concerned in primary schools in all the districts have been asked to furnish the information on time. The ED had earlier arrested suspended Trinamool Congress leader and former state minister Partha Chatterjee, and his close associate Arpita Mukherjee for their alleged involvement in the multi-crore scam.

Secularism safe in India, it is in blood of individuals: Venkaiah Naidu

He also stressed that the basic primary education must be in mother tongue.

Upgrad to hire 3,000 people in 3 months, close to securing fresh funding

Bucking the trend of lay-offs in the edtech sector amid funding crunch, Upgrad on Wednesday said it is looking to add nearly 3,000 people in the next three months and is close to securing funding

Shortfall of 19,128 classrooms in state-run Gujarat schools, says Govt

The Gujarat government on Monday admitted in the legislative Assembly that there was a shortfall of over 19,000 classrooms in various state-run primary schools as on December 2021

India's education report card: Better score in enrolment; low rank in infra

Data from the 2019-20 U-DISE report, recently released, indicates that more of India's children are going beyond primary education

Azim Premji tops EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy list 2020

The preferred cause of India's top philanthropists over the past seven years has been education and 2020 was no different as most of the donations were made for this purpose

Declare education 'for profit': Educationists, private schools urge govt

It is an open secret that school owners make money - at times hand over fist - but maintain that they are not for profit

Letter to BS: Want to be a good teacher, don't take students for granted

The fundamentals must be clearly understood before students move on to more serious things

More girls aged 4-8 enrolled in govt schools, boys went to pvt ones: Report

Unlike earlier, the enrolment levels among girls overtook that of boys by a significant margin for 4-8-year-olds

The ABC of change

As new partners start working in conjunction with the state school system, a slow but distinct transformation is occurring in India's education delivery

Finding gems among teachers to fix India's primary education system

Kaivalya Education Foundation's Aditya Natraj wants to fix India's primary education system