Education

Chennai, Sept 26 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu government’s flagship project of free educational kits for the students of the government schools in the state has drawn flak after the supply of poor-quality products in the kits. This includes unfit uniforms, shoes, and even poor-quality geometry boxes, notebooks, and even school bags. Other than the quality […]

Chennai, Sept 21 (BPNS) A recent study conducted by the National Council For Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has revealed that the students of Class 3 of Tamil Nadu schools are abysmally poor in the numerical ability tests. The students fared poorly in the language proficiency tests as well, shockingly in the Tamil language also. […]

Chennai, Sept 20 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu school education department has called for tender from private companies to take an assessment of the impact of the volunteer-based door-to-door education programme in the state, named Illam Thedi Kalvi (ITK) scheme. The study will be conducted from October 2022 to April 2023. The programme was implemented in the […]

Chennai, Sept 19 (BPNS) The Kallakurichi district collector, Sravan Kumar Jatavath has given permission to the two schools, Sakthi Matriculation Higher secondary school, and ECR International school to conduct renovation works. The collector was responding to an application submitted by the Latha Educational Society which manages the schools. It may be noted that a violent […]

Chennai, Sept 10 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu primary school teachers associations want the post of district elementary educational officers (DDEO) and assistant elementary educational officers (AEEO) to be revived for the smooth functioning of the elementary education sector in the state. It is to be noted that the posts of DDEO and AEEO were abolished […]

Chennai, Sept 6 (BPNS) In a bid to improve the English speaking skills of students, the Greater Chennai Corporation(GCC) has directed the schools under it to conduct Wednesday morning meetings for students of Classes 6 to 9th in English. According to a recent study conducted by the GCC, it was found that many of the students […]

Chennai, Sept 5 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin launched the Moovalur Ramamritham Ammaiyar Higher Education Assurance scheme titled,’ Pudhumai Pen’  at Chennai. Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) founder leader, Aravind Kejriwal unveiled 26 schools of excellence and 15 model schools opened by Tamil Nadu government emulating the schools set up […]

Thiruvananthapuram, August 22 (BPNS) The Kerala High Court on Monday stayed the appointment of Priya Varghese as the associate professor at Kannur University. The stay, which will be in effect till August 31, follows after a petition was filed before the court by the second rank holder in the list, Joseph Scaria. With this, the […]

Chennai, Aug 13 (BPNS) The Coimbatore district administration has directed all schools and colleges in the district to open anti- drug clubs. This is following the rising menace of  narcotic use among the students of the districts. The Coimbatore district collector, G.S. Sameeran in a statement said that NCC, NSS, and scout teams will assist […]