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 […]
NTA does it again, sets up exam centres for Kashmiri students outside
Srinagar: Despite repeated assurances by the state administration that adequate centres of all national level exams will be setup in the Valley, the National Testing of Agency (NTA) has once again set up exam centres of Valley students outside Kashmir. The students are appearing in the National Eligibility Test (NET) which is scheduled the between […]
Govt will shield JK Bank, assures CS
‘Wait for three months and you will see results flowing out of J-K Bank’
‘Wait for three months and you will see results flowing out of J-K Bank’
Old city schools fail to get proper accommodation
Srinagar: Puncturing the tall claims of the state government to plug in the infrastructural gaps, four schools operating in old city continue to function under one roof in the building that houses the ‘National High School’ Srinagar. The schools according to officials were shifted to the building of National school Srinagar after September 2014 floods […]
Gimmick: Decision to set up new colleges doing more harm than good
Srinagar: The government’s announcement of approving new 50 degree colleges for the state has contradicted the state’s own report about the dwindling trend of student enrolment in the colleges. The state administration has claimed that the new 50 colleges were announced on public demand as many areas were ‘unserved’ by the higher education department. However, […]
Educational grants to over 22, 000 schools released by School Edu Dept
Srinagar: In a bid to improve the infrastructural standards in government schools, the school education department has released school grants to 22,570 educational institutions under centrally sponsored scheme- Samagra Shiksha. The move is likely to bring reforms in the educational institutions in terms of maintenance of electricity, libraries and laboratories in the government-run educational institutions. […]
Lackadaisical: DIET’s, SIE’s yet to see posting of teaching faculty
Srinagar: Despite the passage of half of the academic session in valley schools, the Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) has failed to streamline the posting of teaching faculty in District Institute of Education and Training (DIETs) and State Institute of education (SIE) Kashmir. The much hyped initiative for posting promising staff in these institutes […]
Despite years of wait undergraduate SSA teachers facing dark future
Srinagar: The state government seems to have shelved the process for regularisation of undergraduate SSA teachers. This is despite the government order issued in December last year. The teachers accused the state administration of delaying the regularisation despite clear directions from government to clear all the cases within three months from the time when the […]