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After nearly two-month long strike against the central government's decision to divide Andhra Pradesh, teachers of state-run schools and colleges in Seemandhra region Thursday agreed to return to work. Over two lakh teachers will be resuming their duties from Friday ...

Around 300 students and teachers of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) staged a protest outside the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) office here Thursday, demanding exclusion of the English language from the civil service examination syllabus. The students demanded that the ...

The MLC and Chairman of the Karnataka State High School Teacher's Association, Mr. Arun Shahapur, has blamed the government for unfairness between the government and the aided teachers. Former MLC Balakrishna Batt was also present at the moment. He ...

After concerns were expressed for safety of women teachers posted in remote areas and gang rape of one of them at Dalgaon in Darrang district, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has directed that a transfer and posting policy be formulated for ...

The Calcutta High Court today allowed the School Service Commission of West Bengal to publish the results for primary school teachers' recruitment exam, but with a mention of the pendency of a writ petition on it. Hearing a petition by ...

A 63-year-old retired school teacher in Kerala is rejoicing at the decision to introduce negative voting -- the "None of The Above" (NOTA) option was one he made provision for in a machine he made nearly 15 years ago. A.R. ...

Teachers and students of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) were Friday told to follow the ideals of its founder, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan. Eminent novelist and income tax commissioner S.M. Ashraf made the appeal while releasing a special issue of ...

Shops, businesses, transport and educational institutions were closed in all 13 districts of Seemandhra - as the Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra regions are jointly called - as a 48-hour shutdown began Friday morning to protest the union cabinet's decision to carve ...

Punjab government has said the process of recruiting 1,428 teachers has started in the state. Punjab education minister Sikandar Singh Maluka said the recruitment process is going on in model schools, Adarsh Schools and the Rashtriya Madhyamik Siksha Abhiyan (RMSA) ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Thursday said it will lend Bangladesh $500 million to help finance a major overhaul of secondary education to meet the country's need for skilled and technology-savvy workers. The ADB funds - to be provided in ...

The Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) will meet Thursday to address the concerns of ad-hoc teachers following the introduction of a points system for appointments. "Keeping in mind the anxiety of thousands of ad-hoc teachers over the recent points system ...

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has set aside a competitive exam held by the Teachers Recruitment Board on July 21 for recruitment of PG Assistants (Tamil) and directed it to conduct a fresh exam for the Tamil subject ...

Teachers of government aided schools in Punjab today threatened to gherao education minister Sikander Singh Maluka in protest against non-filling of vacant posts. "We will ghearo the education minister on October 5 at a state-level meeting to be organsied at ...

The Ministry of Human Resource Development has taken the initiative to constitute a Council of National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research (NITTTR) to facilitate better coordination and synergy between the four NITTTRs located at Chandigarh, Bhopal, Calcutta and Chennai. ...