Concern: Govt ignoring stakeholders while implementing new education policy, say NISA
Srinagar: The National Independent Schools Alliance (NISA) of India on Wednesday accused the government of India for implementing the new education policy without taking major stakeholders on board. Addressing a press conference here, President NISA Dr Kulbushan Sharma along with president Private Schools’ Association of Jammu and Kashmir (PSAJK) said the government of India was […]
Maths adding up woes of students: Govt failed to simplify the subject to check dropout rate
Srinagar: The government decision to simplify the mathematics subject in order to control the dropout rate of school children has taken a back seat as the department of education is yet to issue formal orders on modification of the syllabus despite holding several meetings. An official said the issue has been shelved at civil secretariat […]
Overweight school bags: No respite for kids as govt ignores panel recommendations
Srinagar: Despite the passage of over two years, the school education department has shelved the MHRD guidelines for reducing the heavy weight of school bags carried by children. The two committees constituted by the state government have submitted their report to the education department over a year ago but the implementation of the recommendations has […]
Teaching staff at loggerheads with Registrar KU
Says all initiatives failed under his command
Says all initiatives failed under his command
Scam: Tourism dept outsources ‘prized’ Zabarwan Park in lieu for ‘peanuts’
Srinagar: Without any auction and “in violation of norms”, the Directorate of Tourism Kashmir has allotted the management of the prized Zabarwan Park on the Boulevard allegedly to a “blue eyed” person even as the department maintains there were no takers for the project. As per official documents accessed by ‘Kashmir Vision’, Director Tourism Kashmir […]
India rejects Pak report claim on talks
Says take verifiable action against terrorism
Says take verifiable action against terrorism
DSEK fails to issue guidelines on sale of books in private schools
Srinagar: The school education department seems to have shelved the complaints received against sale of textbooks at exorbitant prices by private schools in the State. On November 08 last year the advisor to Governor Khurshid Ahmad Ganai had instructed the director school education department to examine the complaints and issue guidelines to regulate prices of […]
Irony: College in Old city has more faculty members than students
Srinagar: The government degree college (GDC) Bagh-i-Dilawar Khan in old city area continues to remain a blot on the face of the government as it has failed to attract the students for admission in under-graduate courses. The college was established some eight years ago but the enrollment of the college has never gone beyond 20. […]
Education dept fails to appoint heads of higher secondary schools
Srinagar: Exposing the laxity of the school education department to fill key positions in the schools, around 15 out of 26 higher secondary schools in Bandipora district are headless from the past several months while as the authorities are unmoved to fill-in the pots of the Principals in the district. The headless government higher secondary […]
Laxity: No uniforms for school kids as procurement gets delayed
Srinagar: The school education department seems to have forgotten to distribute the school uniforms among the students enrolled in government schools. The school children are yet to receive the uniforms despite five months of the present academic session in valley already being over. As per norms, the distribution of school uniforms should start in month […]
