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Born blind, now a school teacher. Kolkata man's inspiring journey proves ‘You can always overcome obstacles.’Sayantan Banerjee, a visually impaired teacher from Kolkata, inspires many. He teaches sighted students at Bikramgarh High School. Banerjee...
One fridge. 500 books. How a Kolkata teacher built a street library with a simple thought, ‘Reading should belong to every child.’An English teacher in Kolkata, Kalidas Haldar, and his wife established a unique street library in 2021, utilizing a repurposed refrigerato...
49% of teachers not prepared for AI impact, need urgent support: ReportAs artificial intelligence (AI) becomes all-pervasive, at least half (49 per cent) of the teachers feel unprepared for its impact, saying m...
Spain shocked as 14-year-old stabs five people in schoolThe head of the Spanish bishops' conference, Archbishop Francisco Cesar Garcia Mogan, called for "urgent reflection" and a focus on mental ...
Andhra Pradesh: 39,000 vacancies for teachers in elementary schoolsAccording to government data, there are 39,000 teacher vacancies in primary schools in Andhra Pradesh and over 11,000 openings for secondar...
Is there really an acute shortage of teachers in Indian schools?The education ministry gives a figure of 1.035 million teacher vacancies without explaining how it got that number. Going by the 2019-20 Di...
Bengal schools reopen for classes 9-12 after 20 monthsClasses for students of junior and middle schools will continue in the online mode for the time being, even as the state's Education Minist...
Dearth of special teachers who alone can impart education & training to CwSN: Supreme Court"As of today, there is a dearth of rehabilitation professionals or special teachers recognized and registered by the council, who alone can...
Centre must forthwith notify norms of teacher-pupil ratio for special schools: Supreme CourtThe 2019 recommendations said that number of special education teachers in a particular disability should be determined based on the genera...
7-year report card for Education ministry: 83% schools have power, 90% hand wash facilityProportion of schools with hand wash facility has risen to 90% in 2020 compared to 30% in 2013; schools having girls toilets have risen fro...
View: India’s public elementary schools are in crisis — and hiring more teachers is not the solutionAlready, in 2010-11, enrolments in 57% of public elementary schools in India had dropped to 100 or fewer students. The average number of pu...
Bihar schools have worst student-teacher ratio, followed by Delhi: HRDThe Right To Education Act, 2009 in its schedule has laid down pupil-teacher ratio (PTR) for both primary and upper primary schools.
Can wide demand-supply gap in education and healthcare spoil demographic dividend?Healthcare and education contribute over 10 per cent weight to the CPI basket.
India improves student-classroom, pupil-teacher ratios: SurveyIndia has also improved quantitative indicators such as enrolment levels, completion rates and other physical infrastructure.
Over half of teachers in UK considering quitting professionFigures show that nearly a third of teachers have witnessed a reduction in staff in schools, despite Government efforts to address key conc...
Eton College to give online leadership lessons to students in ChinaThe 'Modern Leadership Programme', consists of individual tuition from Eton-trained tutors based in Britain plus group activities helped by...
UK schools should outsource exam marking to India: Academic researcherResearch projects had found accurate marking could be carried out overseas, in countries such as India, for about 3 pounds per hour or less.
Bihar schools lag in implementing right to educationBihar lagged on different counts of infrastructure and basic facilities like kitchen shed, library, playground, sanitation, free text books.
- Bihar will esnure total literacy by 2020, says HRD minister PK Sahi
Bihar human resource development minister P K Sahi said his department had made significant initiatives for ensuring total literacy in the ...
- UGC makes new rules for student-teacher ratio at universities
The UGC has laid down new regulations for student-teacher ratio at universities.