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...
20 May, 2022, 12.06 AM IST
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...
28 Oct, 2021, 07.20 PM IST
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...
28 Oct, 2021, 06.55 PM IST
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...
08 Sep, 2021, 08.57 AM IST
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...
07 Jun, 2020, 10.51 PM IST
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.
25 Aug, 2019, 12.43 PM IST
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.
14 Feb, 2019, 01.28 PM IST
India improves student-classroom, pupil-teacher ratios: SurveyIndia has also improved quantitative indicators such as enrolment levels, completion rates and other physical infrastructure.
29 Jan, 2018, 04.26 PM IST
With GIS map data, state looks to rationalise schoolsDuring RTE admissions last year, authorities stumbled upon 14 municipal wards in Bengaluru which did not have a single school, government-r...
10 Jan, 2017, 11.34 AM IST
With 76,000 schools on GIS map, Karnataka looks at analytics to rationalise schoolsUneven distribution of schools has been a concern experts have voiced, especially with the coming of the Right to Education (RTE) Act makin...
10 Jan, 2017, 09.29 AM IST
Bengaluru: Teachers aplenty, but many government schools have too fewIn Bengaluru alone, 662 government primary schools need 921 additional teachers to ensure a pupil teacher ratio of 1:30 as prescribed under...
30 May, 2016, 12.44 PM IST
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.
27 Aug, 2013, 08.06 PM IST
India slips in Global innovation rankings, down to 66th positionThe country scored higher in gross capital formation, investment in new business, industrial cluster development, growth rate % of PPP GDP/...
04 Jul, 2013, 05.03 AM IST
Sharp decline in enrolment in government schoolsThe number of children enrolled in government primary schools has dropped by 21 lakh between 2009-10 and 2010-11 while there has been an in...
24 Jul, 2012, 09.00 AM IST
- 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 ...
02 Mar, 2012, 07.47 PM IST
- UGC makes new rules for student-teacher ratio at universities
The UGC has laid down new regulations for student-teacher ratio at universities.
18 May, 2010, 06.57 PM IST
- School education needs greater focus in Budget: Azim Premji
In February last year, the finance minister took a bold stance by increasing the 2007-08 school education Budget by 35% to Rs 23,142 crore....
19 Feb, 2008, 12.00 AM IST