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Himachal Pradesh Apna Vidyalaya: Community engagement in developing sustainable model for educational improvement | India News

January 14, 2024 by Adam Smith

SHIMLA: With an objective to create a synergistic partnership between public representatives, administrative leaders, and skilled professionals to contribute collectively for the improvement of government schools, ‘Apna Vidyalaya’: The Himachal School Adoption Programme (HSAP) has been initiated by the Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu led government in the State.My School-My Pride campaign under Apna Vidyalay … Read more

2 yrs after finance ministry veto, breakfast under school midday meal scheme back on Centre’s table

January 1, 2024 by Adam Smith

New Delhi: The proposal to also serve breakfast to students under the midday meal scheme, rebranded as PM Poshan in 2021, is back on the Centre’s table, over two years after it was vetoed by the finance ministry, officials privy to the development told ThePrint. The PM Poshan scheme provides free lunches on working days … Read more

Smart classrooms, AI tools, e-libraries — how higher education in Odisha govt schools is levelling up

December 23, 2023 by Adam Smith

Focusing on Teamwork, Transparency, Technology, Time, and Transformation, the programme seeks to change the image of higher education in the eastern state. Started in 2020, it has completed three phases in its quest to modernise 8,679 high schools in the eastern state. The budget for this programme was increased 55 percent from 2018-2019 to 2023-24, … Read more

HC raps Khattar govt for its ‘glaring insensitivity’

November 28, 2023 by Adam Smith

Gurugram: A court order imposing a fine of Rs 5 lakh and summoning the principal secretary and the director of secondary education in connection with poor amenities in government schools has given ammunition to the Opposition to hit out at the Manohar Lal Khattar-led BJP government in Haryana. In an affidavit to the Punjab and Haryana … Read more

Unnao school headmaster arrested for ‘sexual abuse of 18 minor students’, booked under POCSO

November 28, 2023 by Adam Smith

Lucknow: The headmaster of a government school in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao village was arrested Monday for alleged sexual abuse of at least 18 minor students studying at the school, according to the FIR registered in the case. The matter came to light when the students, aged between 7 and 14 years, confided in three women employed … Read more

Mergers, addressing teacher shortage — NITI Aayog report on improving India’s public schools

November 16, 2023 by Adam Smith

It highlights issues like sub-scale and inadequately resourced schools, large-scale teacher vacancies, education and training to improve teacher quality, accountability towards learning outcomes via competency-based assessment reforms of schools, early childhood education (ECE), contextualised mother tongue-based multilingual education (MLE), and strengthening the governance structures in education departments, as some of the challenges faced by public … Read more