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Tiruchi district's govt. schools to offer English medium education
New sections for the first and sixth standard to be created for this purpose.
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1,800 teachers in residential schools not paid for months
As many as 1,800 teachers appointed through outsourcing agencies to residential schools run by the Department of Social Welfare and the Department of Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare in the...
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Problems persist with class XII revised marksheets
Students who went to pick them up on Saturday, asked to go to another centre on Monday
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TIRUCHI,
June 19, 2013
Hall tickets for SSLC supplementary exams on June 21 and 22
Hall tickets for candidates appearing for the SSLC special supplementary examinations in June or July will be issued at the following centres at the respective educational districts on June 21 and...
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COIMBATORE,
June 15, 2013
Schools warned against collecting excess fees
The Department of School Education has warned private schools to refrain from collecting fees in excess of the levels determined by the Private Schools Fee Determination Committee. Any s...
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MADURAI,
June 15, 2013
Now, villagers send children to faraway schools
School children in well-pressed uniform and shoes, with neatly combed hair, loads of talcum powder on face, carrying a diary to note down homework, travelling in a van and parents who take pride o...
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MADURAI,
June 14, 2013
Ribbon colours say it all
Disciplining children involves constant monitoring which becomes an arduous task when there are as many as 4,000 of them studying in a school between Standards VI and XII alone. Yet, the 59-year-o...
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VILLUPURAM,
June 14, 2013
41 nursery, primary schools closed in Villupuram
A total of 41 unauthorised nursery and primary schools in Villupuram district have been closed. In a joint statement issued here, Collector V. Sampath and Chief Educational Officer K. Munusa...
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CHENNAI,
June 14, 2013
No textbooks till mid-July, class XI students told
Nazima had travelled over 50 km from Devanere near Mamallapuram on Thursday to buy class XI textbooks for her daughter, who has been attending classes without them. When she reached the office of...
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COIMBATORE,
June 13, 2013
Plus-One: just 46 per cent seats in reserved category filled
Even 35 years after the State Government issued an order mandating all private schools to implement caste-based reservations in admissions to Plus-One, only 46 per cent of the seats reserved for...
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TIRUCHI,
June 12, 2013
TN students to get ‘Tatkal’ applications for SSLC supplementary exam
The private candidates appearing for the SSLC special supplementary examinations June / July 2013 who did not apply online during the period prescribed by the Department of Government Examinations...
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COIMBATORE,
June 11, 2013
Parents oppose move to close unrecognised schools
Commotion broke out on Monday in several of the 30 primary and nursery schools in the district that were closed by the Department of School Education for either not obtaining or renewing their reco...
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COIMBATORE,
June 11, 2013
Within the reach of rural poor now
For generations, English medium education has been viewed as accessible only to a few sections of society, endowed with wallets fat enough to fork out huge fees in private schools.
This s...
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MADURAI,
June 19, 2013
Struggles of a school for a second life
The firm action by the district administration has given a new lease of life to 62-year-old Madura Labour Welfare Association Higher Secondary School which would have, otherwise, become history by...
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TIRUCHI,
June 15, 2013
Face-off at public hearing on land needs for private schools
A public hearing by the expert committee constituted by the government to recommend minimum land requirement for private schools ended abruptly here on Friday, following an altercation between rep...
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CHENNAI,
June 15, 2013
Students protest delay in laptop distribution
Traffic was hit for more than two hours on Gollavar Agraharam Road in Royapuram on Friday, after around 120 students and their parents blocked the stretch in front of KC Sankaralinga Nadar Higher S...
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NAMAKKAL,
June 14, 2013
IT raids on three ‘super schools’
Income Tax officials conducted searches in three schools here on Thursday. Department sources said the searches were done on the basis of complaints that the schools, dubbed ‘super schools’ becaus...
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TIRUCHI,
June 14, 2013
Tiruchi to get regional resource centre for special children soon
Underprivileged children with disabilities can benefit from free early intervention, crucial to the development of special children, with the first Regional Resource Training Centre in Tamil Nadu...
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MADURAI,
June 13, 2013
Madurai education department office in a mess
Government schools, and also some private schools, lacking basic infrastructural facilities is not unusual, but even the state of the office of School Education Department, a supervisory body, at...
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CHENNAI,
June 13, 2013
Now, private schools’ revised fee structure up online
Parents of children studying in private schools can now view the revised fee structure for three academic years beginning in 2013, on the government’s website: http://sp.tn.gov.in/miscellaneous/fe...
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Madurai,
June 11, 2013
Delay in disbursal of education grant leaves Dalit students in the lurch
Six of the 10 students who were selected under a special government scheme have been asked by the school management to leave the school due to the delay in disbursal of grant by the government. »
COIMBATORE,
June 11, 2013
Parents petition Collector
Parents under the ‘Amrita Vidyalaya Manavar Nala Petrorgal Podhunalasangam’ banner on Monday petitioned the district administration seeking action against Amrita Vidyalaya, for violating a court o...
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COIMBATORE,
June 11, 2013
Teachers to prepare education material
Teachers of Government schools in the district, where English sections have been introduced this academic year, will themselves prepare the education material under the Activity Based Learning (AB...
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