This year, 1,20,881 out of 9.69 lakh candidates who appeared in the exam failed, showing a sharp increase in the number of unsuccessful students.
Jobless ‘tainted’ teachers during their protest today were involved in a scuffle with police during their march to chief minister’s residence at Harish Chatterjee Street on Monday.
A major fire broke out at the Directorate of Education headquarters here on Sunday morning, reducing several important files related to the teachers' recruitment scam and other matters to ashes.
Protesting teachers of the government-aided schools across the state on Friday decided to shift their new site of protest at Sahid Minar and stopped their five day-long siege to Acharya Sadan, head office of the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) at Salt Lake since 21 April.
The protestors have been continuing their agitations in front of the Acharya Bhawan for more than 30 hours since Monday demanding the WBSSC to release the list of qualified and ineligible candidates in the panel of 2016 when the recruitment tests for the posts of assistant teachers, non-teaching group C and D were held by the commission.
As a part of its relentless efforts to elevate the state’s school education system and to bring it on par with the world-class standards, the Punjab School Education Department has initiated the selection process for the primary and elementary teachers for training at the University of Turku in Finland.
The 8th edition of Pariksha Pe Charcha (PPC) 2025, a flagship initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has received a record 2.79 crore registrations from students, teachers, and parents across India and abroad.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates around 726,000 suicides per year worldwide. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in India, in its latest report finds the total number of recorded suicides in India was 171,000 in 2022, compared to 135,000 in 2018.
Appreciating teachers’ innovative techniques in their teaching work, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has suggested that they take their students on educational tours to acquaint them with the diversity of Indian culture and also promote tourism.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday interacted with teachers who have been conferred National Teachers Awards at his residence at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg.
