BATALA: Taking strict action against erring teachers, education minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan paid a surprise visit to two government schools and suspended an absentee teacher and marked an enquiry against the administrative officer posted at district education officer, Gurudaspur, who had called a lab assistant school without any appropriate reason. Sekhwan ...

AMRITSAR: Anguished over non­ fulfillment of their demands, the Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union is on warpath again and plans to hold agitations to draw the attention of authorities towards the long-pending issues concerning teachers working in non-government colleges (affiliated to Punjab, Punjabi and Guru Nanak Dev Universities) of ...

HOSHIARPUR: School teachers , were taken aback on Thursday when they received an obscene email, that too from the ID of an official. As per reports, assistant science supervisor and inspection coordinator Ashok Kalia was at his job of sending mails on behalf of the district education officer. He was shocked when ...

CHANDIGARH: Haryana college lecturers will hold a demonstration in Panchkula on January 7 to protest against the delay in notification of the modified pay structure as per the UGC. The Haryana State University Teachers Sangh and the Haryana Private Aided College Teachers Association will organise the symbolic “dharna" outside the ...

GURDASPUR: Sacked teaching fellows held a state-level rally at Nehru Park and staged a sit-in, blocking traffic at Banda Bahadur Chowk on GT Road in Gurdaspur on Sunday. Addressing the rally, Sacked Teaching Fellows Union, Punjab, general secretary Sarbjit Singh said that 563 teaching fellows, recruited in November 2008, were ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government has decided to regularise the services of computer teachers hired on contract by the Punjab lnformation and Communication Technology Society (PICTS) set up under the education department. According to a spokesman, education minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan on Tuesday said eligible teachers who would complete two and a ...

ROHTAK: Taking strong exception to the "inordinate" delay in issuance of the comprehensive notification regarding the sixth pay commission recommendations for teachers of higher education in the state, the Federation of Haryana Universities Teachers' Associations (FEDHUTA) have given the Hooda government a month after which they would launch agitation. Federation president ...

CHANDIGARH: Upholding a Haryana government notification while dismissing a bunch of petitions, the Punjab and Haryana High Court said passing the State Teachers Eligibility Test (STET) was mandatory for guest teachers to be appointed regular teachers in the state. Ten petitions filed by guest teachers had challenged the amendments made in ...

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Staff Selection Commission has recommended 9,003 names of candidates for the vacant posts of JBT teachers in the state government schools and the appointment letters would be issued to the candidates soon. Vijay Kumar, registrar, elementary education, Haryana, gave the said information to the Punjab and Haryana High ...

KARNAL: The Haryana College Teachers Association (HCTA) wants Kurukshetra University to allow them to supervise research work for PhD aspirants. Interacting with Hindustan Times, HCTA general secretary Dr Rajbir Parashar accused the university of trying to "belittle the teaching fraternity" in colleges affiliated to it. He threatened to withdraw teachers' representatives from ...

JALANDHAR: The Punjab government is likely to announce shifting of more than 13,000 elementary school teachers to the education department, but in batches, it is learnt. Sources said the CM's principal secretary Darbara Singh' Guru on Thursday met with ETT Teachers Union representatives led by its president Jaswinder Singh Sidhu to ...

CHANDIGARH: Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday reiterated that guest teachers in the state would not be removed from service. Hooda, who was addressing guest teachers at his residence in Chandigarh, though made it clear that he would not succumb to "pressure tactics" of agitation, as was being done ...

BATHINDA: Activists of the Sikhya Karmi Union faced a police lathicharge on Sunday as they marched to Lambi, home constituency of chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, to start a fast unto death demanding regular jobs. At least 15 teachers (members of the union) and activists of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta-Ugrahan) ...