Srinagar: A year after the fire safety audit of buildings at Kashmir University was completed, the varsity administration has failed to implement the audit report recommendations. The audit was carried out in the wake of a fire incident at varsity’s Zabarwan guest house on February 22 last year. A day after the incident, the varsity […]
SRINAGAR: Islamia College of Science and Commerce (ICSC) is going to introduce many integrated postgraduate programmes from the upcoming academic session, officials said. The college has introduced post-graduate programmes in english, commerce and computer application from the current academic session. An official at ICSC told Kashmir Reader that they will introduce integrated postgraduate programmes in […]
Shutdown delays works on Ganderbal campus
Srinagar: The Higher Education Department has been unable to shift its first engineering college to permanent campus, two years after the institute was established. Officials maintain the process was halted due to lockdown in Kashmir, which began with the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5. The college is one of two institutes in J&K […]
Srinagar: Day after the Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education (JKBOSE) issued date-sheets for class 10 and 12 examinations, students have demanded reduction in syllabus for the exams, as they lost more than two months of class work due to prevailing lockdown. While a few class 10 students admitted of completing their syllabus […]
Srinagar: Most of the newly sanctioned degree colleges in Kashmir have failed to attract students for first academic session, with officials citing mid-session operationalisation as the main problem. The colleges were made operational without a permanent staff, from make shift accommodations, in the middle of the academic session. Of the 52 new government degree colleges […]
Srinagar: A task force set up by School Education department to make suggestions on infrastructural gaps and other issues in February 2018 has failed to make any headway. The task force headed by then Minister of State for Education was supposed to make its recommendations within a month. These issues of concern included infrastructural gaps […]
Srinagar: Two years after the announcement, the School Education department has failed to set up special boarding schools for each district in Kashmir even as required land has been identified at many places. Conceived on the pattern of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) schools, the department had in December 2017 asked the Chief Education Officers to […]
Srinagar Oct 3: Majority of schools in Kashmir continued to remain deserted on Thursday as students remained away from institutions snubbing the government’s directive to start class work. The divisional administration in Kashmir had on Monday ordered opening of all schools including higher secondary schools in the valley on October 3. Although the staff has […]
Srinagar: The communications clampdown in Kashmir since August 5 has left an ambitious project of the School Education Department to monitor attendance of teachers online on real time basis non-functional. As reported by Kashmir Reader in June, the project to monitor the attendance of teachers at Kashmir schools had been introduced on pilot basis at […]