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Maharashtra SIR extension keeps teachers away from classrooms as unit tests face delays
Teachers deployed as BLOs for over a month will continue election-related work until August 17, with the draft electoral rolls now scheduled to be released on August 24. Schools across Maharashtra have reported reduced teaching time, limited staff and difficulties in conducting unit tests, while educators say prolonged deployment is affecting classroom teaching and the academic schedule
BHU Dalit prof allegedly attacked for supporting Muslim colleague’s appointment
Students allegedly attacked the senior professor in the Sanskrit department where Feroz Khan was appointed
2nd lathicharge in 40 days on JNU students by Delhi Police
The students were peacefully marching to the Rashtrapati Bhavan to put forth their plea of the fee rollback to the President
DU teachers protest against oppressive policies
DU has decided to appoint guest lecturers for permanent positions, leaving 4,500 ad-hoc teachers in the lurch
HRD Ministry’s response to parliamentary question highlights the lack of transgender participation in higher education
In response to an unstarred question asked in the Lok Sabha with regards to transgender participation in higher education, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ said there are no trans students in any Indian central universities. He could only offer up empty banalities when asked about planned measures to improve the statistics.
After JNU, its neighbour IIMC protests against fee hike
IIMC officials have said that there is going to be a faculty-student meeting soon
Parents ‘foreigner’, 31 children deprived of education languish in Assam’s detention camps
The Assam Legislative Assembly has been informed that there are total 31 children in detention camps, figures valid till November 20, 2019.
JNU Alumni protest fees hike in Kolkata, gets support from several Universities
Professors, students and parents, who are aggrieved with the fee hike in public education system of India poured in huge number in central Kolkata to show solidarity with JNU alumni demanding fee hike to be rolled back
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Only work, no pay: 40,000 teachers in K’taka not paid salaries since September
The teachers are getting the short end of the stick between the tussle of the Centre and the states
75,000 student suicides between 2007 and 2016 in India!
Academic pressure, caste-based discrimination found to be major causes
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