Teachers

DU planning to give 5-year extension to professors post retirement

The Delhi University is paving the way to give professors and senior professors an extension of five years following retirement to promote research culture and re-employ research oriented academicians, a senior varsity official said on Tuesday. At present, the retirement age of the faculty is 65 years and no extension was given to teachers. The university has prepared a set of guidelines for the re-employment of "research-oriented academicians". The official, however, stated that the guidelines will only apply to professors teaching at the varsity departments, centres, schools, and institutions, and are not applicable to colleges of the university. The re-employed professors will hold the positions on a contract basis, he said. The 14-point guidelines, prepared by a committee, will be presented during the upcoming meeting of the Executive Council (the highest decision-making body of the university) on April 10 for approval. "The retirement age of academicians at the university is

CBI files FIR over irregularities in teachers' recruitment in Bengal school

The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a fresh FIR in connection with alleged irregularities in the appointment of assistant teachers for primary schools in West Bengal in 2020, officials said Sunday. The FIR has been registered against unidentified people on a Calcutta High Court order directing the federal probe agency to investigate the allegations, they said. The case pertains to alleged irregularities in the process of appointing 16,500 primary teachers initiated by the West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) on November 23, 2020, for Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) passed and trained candidates. The WBBPE conducted interviews and aptitude tests of the candidates and published the first merit list on February 15, 2021. "It is alleged that the West Bengal Board of Primary Education adopted dubious and corrupt means in the appointment of assistant teachers for primary schools in West Bengal and in order to do so and also in order to keep the applicants in ...

Deakin University's Indian teachers to get trained in Australia

"I want to really emphasise that these will not be a small cohort of staff employed in India, but Deakin staff who happen to be employed in India. That's not the same," Martin said

WBSSC to soon terminate 800 illegaly appointed teachers from service

The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) will soon terminate 800 illegally-appointed teachers at the secondary level in different state-run schools from service.

Inefficient teachers were always there: Abhijit Banerjee on teacher's scam

West Bengal Nobel Laureate economist Abhijit Banerjee said it is not a new phenomenon that inefficient teachers have penetrated the education system over multi-crore teachers' recruitment scam in WB

Academic load enough, can do without Covid deployment: Teachers on order

A section of teachers on Tuesday wondered, burdened as they are with academic work, why they were chosen over civil defence volunteers for COVID duty at IGI Airport, even as the DDMA withdrew its order that asked for their deployment at the Delhi Airport. The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) had on Monday issued an order directing government school teachers' deployment at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport to enforce COVID protocols. After facing criticism from teachers, the DDMA on Tuesday withdrew its order that was meant to be enforced from December 31 to January 15, and exempted teachers from the COVID duty. The original order had been issued by the district magistrate (West) on behalf of the DDMA. District Secretary (West-A) of the Government School Teachers Association Sant Ram said that teachers should not be involved in duties other than academics and that government staff apart from teachers should have also been deployed at the airport. "Why involve

DDMA withdraws order on deployment of teachers at airport to enforce norms

The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on Tuesday withdrew its earlier order directing teachers to be deployed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport to enforce Covid protocols, officials said. The new order said teachers and other teaching staff, who were to be deployed, are exempted from airport duty for the period of December 31 to January 15. "Further, in case required, civil defence volunteers from district west may be deputed on call out duty basis," the order issued by the district magistrate (west) stated. The earlier order on deployment was withdrawn after the DDMA faced criticism from a section of teachers. It had been issued by the district magistrate (West) on behalf of the DDMA. The now-withdrawn order had said several Delhi government school teachers would be stationed at the IGI Airport from December 31 to January 15 to ensure people follow Covid-appropriate behaviour. At least 85 teachers from various schools were to be deployed, it had said. The ...

Orders of deploying govt teachers on Covid duty at Delhi airport withdrawn

However, the authority in the order has said that if needed, civil defence staff will be deployed to ensure Covid protocol and guidelines for travellers landing from abroad at the airport

Dance teacher demands Rs 15 lakh each, threatens to kill children; arrested

Two people, including a dance teacher, have been arrested by Delhi Police for allegedly demanding Rs 15 lakh from parents of his students here in the Anand Vihar area on Sunday, Police said.According to the police, one of the accused, Vishnu, who turned out to be the dance teacher of the children allegedly threatened the family if the demands were not met, the students would be killed.It has been reported that the teacher was known to the family for 10 years."The Accused Persons allegedly threatened the family of killing their children if their demands were not fulfilled," A police official privy to the matter said.The father of the children told police that he received a Whatsapp message threatening to "kill his children" on December 20. It had crossed photos of his children."I received photos of my son and daughter with a message. The unknown caller introduced himself as a gangster and gave away the details of my family. Out of fear I disconnected the call and blocked the mobile ...

Explained: What is the purpose of UDISE plus in India's education system?

The UDISE+ system collects information from all recognised and unrecognised schools imparting formal education from pre-primary to Class XII

WBSSC scam: Maximum illegal recruitments of teaching staff made for Bengali

As per the fresh list of 40 illegally recruited teachers in the state-run schools published by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC), the maximum illegal recruitments were made for Bengali

Indian-origin science teacher wins Prime Minister's prize in Australia

As a leading educator in STEAM, Nair has more than 20 years of experience in teaching science-based subjects across India, the United Arab Emirates, and now Australia

SSC posts list of 183 'ineligible' candidates appointed as teachers

The West Bengal Central School Service Commission has posted on its website a list of 183 candidates, who did not qualify in the 2016 examination, but still figured in the merit list and were appointed in educational institutions. A statement by the commission on Thursday said the notice for publication "of 183 wrongly recommended candidates in connection with 1st State Level Selection Test 2016 for the posts of Assistant Teachers for classes 9 and 10 published in compliance with the order of Hon'ble Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, High Court, Calcutta." is being posted. No official of West Bengal Central SSC was available for comment on the move. The SSC move followed shock expressed by Calcutta High Court Judge Abhijit Ganguly recently over reports of ineligible candidates working in state-run and state-aided schools. The BJP and CPI(M) took a dig at the state government saying this is the tip of the iceberg and skeletons are already tumbling out of cupboard. BJP leader Rahul Sin

No poll or other duties for Andhra teachers, focus now only on primary job

Government teachers in Andhra Pradesh, from now on, will have nothing to do except perform their core task of teaching children. The state government has amended the AP Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, 2010, prohibiting deployment of teachers for non-educational purposes. The amendments to the RTE Act Rules will effectively keep teachers away from election duties, Census work and the like. The School Education Department has already cancelled the deputation of several teachers as personal assistants to ministers and legislators and re-engaged them in teaching activity. Section 27 of the Right to Education Act, 2009, envisaged prohibition of deployment of teachers for non-educational purposes. In accordance with it, and also to further strengthen the RTE Act, we have made the necessary amendments, School Education Commissioner S Suresh Kumar said. The changes were intended to let teachers focus on their core academic activities and improve the academic ...

West Bengal recruitment scam: SC stays Calcutta HC order of CBI probe

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Calcutta High Court orders directing CBI investigation into filing of an application by the West Bengal Central School Service Commission (SSC) in a case related to the teachers' recruitment scam. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice Hima Kohli also stayed the part of the order by which the single-judge bench of the high court had summoned West Bengal Principal Secretary Manish Jain before it Friday in relation to the filing of the fresh application by the West Bengal Central SSC. "Presently, when I am arguing here, the principal secretary is in the dock before the high court," senior advocate A M Singhvi, appearing for the state government, told the bench. "There shall be a stay on the high court orders," the CJI said and listed the plea of the state government after three weeks. On November 23, the high court had ordered the CBI probe into filing of a benami application' and had asked the central agency to investigate

For 19 months in pandemic, 43% children had no access to education: Study

The socially and economically disadvantaged groups and children with disabilities were worst impacted as compared to more advantaged counterparts: Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy's report

Over 20,000 schools shut down in India during 2020-21, says govt

More than 20,000 schools shut down across the country during 2020-21 while the number of teachers also declined by 1.95 pc in comparison to the previous year, according to a new report by the Ministry of Education. The Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) report on school education in India for 2021-22 also pointed out that only 44.85 per cent schools had computer facilities while nearly 34 per cent had internet connection. "Total number of schools in 2021-22 stood at 14.89 lakhs as compared to 15.09 lakhs in 2020-21. The decline in total schools is mainly due to closure of schools under private and other management," said the report launched on Thursday. While only 27 per cent schools have special toilets for children with special needs (CSWN), over 49 per cent of them have ramps with handrails, it said. Detailing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on enrolment, the report said, "Although the impact of Covid is cross-cutting, this is particularly ...

CBSE CTET 2022 registrations process starts; here's all you need to know

The Central Board of Secondary Education started the registration process for the 16th Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) today

AP TET results 2022 declared on aptet.apcfss.in; check details here

AP TET results 2022 declared by the Department of School Education, Andhra Pradesh

Future of learning: Edtech start-ups' hybrid tilt to lure students

With the offline lure of greater teacher-student connect many such start-ups have forayed into brick-and-mortar centres to compete with existing offline institutions