CHANDIGARH: Punjab education minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan on Sunday ordered the promotion of 251 education department employees as school principals. The minister had recently promoted 17 senior college lecturers as principals. Stating this here on Sunday, Sekhwan said the state needed 1,299 principals, adding that with the latest promotions, no senior ...

AMRITSAR/GURDASPUR: Students ofDAV Public School, Amritsar, took out an awareness rally on the Lawrence Road on Thursday to sensitise the masses about pollution caused by the burning of crop residue. ,Meanwhile, Pawan Kumar, principal, Government Model Senior Secondary School, Gurdaspur, on Thursday flagged off a student rally organised by the ...

CHANDIGARH: The education department plans to hold a screening test for the selection of teachers for state and national awards. On Thursday, an official spokesman said that the proposed screening test would comprise a written exam, classroom teaching evaluation and children's learning outcome evaluation. The written exam, to be conducted by directorate ...

SAS NAGAR: For sake of convenience, the newly-appointed employees of the education department will be allotted the newest station from their house, Punjab education minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan said on Monday. Sekhwan, who was interacting with mediapersons at Punjab School Education Board in Phase-8 of SAS Nagar, said, "We had received ...

CHANDIGARH: Can an underprivileged youth in sub-urban and rural areas serve the requirements of the 21st century? The answer lies in the efforts to be made with the involvement a US-based academy that has been roped in to change the fate of education in Punjab. Chief minister Parkash Singh on ...

SRINAGAR: Teenage students who were seen protesting during the recent unrest in the Kashmir Valley are back on the roads but for a different cause this time. The students have been gathering outside Press Enclave where most of the media offices are located to protest against the state government's decision to ...

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government has asked the district education officer, Gurgaon, to thoroughly look into reports that a private school in the city had turned out children suffering from AIDS. She has been asked to submit a detailed report on the matter by December 27. A spokesman of the education department ...

ROHTAK: The Board of School Education, Haryana, has been authorised by the state government to affiliate, examine and certify the course of Diploma in Education (D. Ed) for students enrolled in the first year in the 20-11 session. An education department notification said all institutions offering D. Ed should get affiliated ...

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 ...

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 ...

BATALA: The Punjab government has placed six employees of the treasury office under suspension in connection with a multi-crore scam detected in the local treasury office a few months back. Treasury and accounts director PS Talwar has placed three treasury officers - Prem Pal, Darshan Lal and Roop Lal- and three ...

JALANDHAR: The ETT Teachers Union, Punjab, on Monday announced to hold relay fast at Badal village starting November 13 to register their protest against the failure of chief minister Parkash Singh Badal to bring them under the education department, as was assured. Union president Jaswinder Singh Sidhu said that 45 suspended ...

JALANDHAR: The Panchayati Raj Elementary Teachers Union, Punjab, on Sunday, announced that more than 2,000 school teachers working in zila parishads statewide would attend ongoing teaching skills upgradation seminars and implement 'Parho Punjab', a state education department initiative, in rural schools. Earlier, zila parishad teachers have not been joining these seminars ...