Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) on Thursday issued the date sheet for class 11 annual regular examination 2020. As per the date sheet, the examination shall commence on Saturday, December 12, and end on Wednesday, January 6. The papers will start at 11:30 am sharp except for Fridays on which […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday brought 108 primary schools in Srinagar and Jammu cities under the purview of the respective Municipal Corporations as part of the devolution of powers to Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) under the 74th Amendment Act. The Constitutional amendment came into force in J&K after the abrogation of Article […]
Srinagar: A day after Class 10 board exams of JKBOSE began in Kashmir, the Class 12 annual regular examination-2020 also commenced in both Kashmir and winter zones of Jammu on Thursday. As per official figures, a total of 58,514 candidates in Kashmir and 15,055 in winter zones of Jammu are appearing in the annual exam […]
Srinagar: Amid strict precautionary measures in view of Covid-19, nearly 75,000 students on Wednesday appeared in the first paper of Class 10 annual regular examination-2020, the first board examination in the valley to be held through offline mode during the pandemic. Conducted by the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE), the annual examination […]
SRINAGAR: The administration at Kashmir University (KU) is on a “spree” of buying high-end luxurious SUVs for its top officials, at the expense of the varsity exchequer, which is “misappropriation of funds,” teachers and officials both say. The administration says that the top officials need the vehicles “to visit far-off campuses”. One high-end SUV worth […]
SRINAGAR:In disregard of directions by the School Education Department, private schools in Kashmir kept charging transport fees from students during the Covid-19 lockdown even though they did not operate any transport. The department had in an order barred private schools in J&K from charging transport fees during the lockdown and had asked schools to collect […]
Srinagar: Appointment of vice chancellor (VC) on temporary basis at Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSBU) amid controversy over the recruitment process for the top post has spurred apprehensions that the selection process for VC might be quashed altogether. The move comes when the recruitment process, which was marred with allegations of fraud, was almost […]
Srinagar: Amid the School Education Department’s trumpeting about “community classes” during the Covid-19 pandemic, Jammu and Kashmir has been found to be among the worst in terms of community involvement in the learning process of school children during the pandemic, according to the provisional Annual State of Education Report (ASER) 2020. As per the report, […]
Srinagar: Candidates left out of the selection list of PhD programmes in Zoology and Biotechnology at Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSBU) Rajouri have alleged “nepotism and discrepancies” in the selection process, though authorities refute these allegations as baseless. In the selection lists of the two programmes notified recently, officials at the respective departments have […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday constituted for the third time, in a period of five months, search committees for recruitment of new Vice Chancellors for Srinagar and Jammu Cluster Universities. The first search committee, which was chaired by then Principal Secretary School Education, Asgar Samoon, was set up by the government on […]