Punjab school education minister Harjot Singh Bains Saturday said that the process to implement the grade pay and service rules as per the Sixth Pay Commission for government computer teachers working under the PICTUS Society, was in full swing. He said that the education department has completed documentation process and the file has been sent […]
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When American educationist Sal Khan started Khan Academy in 2008, he would probably not have imagined the platform would eventually help government school children in rural Punjab solve maths problems — in their mother tongue, Punjabi. A room at the Punjab Education Department’s office in Mohali was turned into a studio, with softwares for screen […]
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Punjab failed to “provide any supplementary nutrition items” to children of classes 1-8 in government schools under the PMPOSHAN scheme (mid-day meal) in 2021-22 despite approval from the Centre, the Union Ministry of Education has pointed out. Last year, the state had proposed to provide bananas to children in two districts, Moga and Ferozepur, but […]
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The Punjab government Wednesday launched a centralised admission portal for admissions to government colleges in the state affiliated with Chandigarh’s Panjab University, Punjabi University in Patiala, and Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar. Launching the portal at the Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration (MGSIPA), Chandigarh, Punjab Minister for Higher Education Gurmeet Singh Meet […]
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After Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) took strong objection to a part of the Punjabi University’s MA political science syllabus which mentions Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale as a terrorist, the university immediately swung into action to make amends for the mistake by deciding to remove the content and launching a probe into it. The […]
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Punjab’s first technical university has found itself in a piquant situation with National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) awarding it grade B in its first-ever inspection for the assessment of the ‘quality status’ even as several colleges affiliated with it secured A+ or A grade. To put things in perspective, A+ equals rank 2 in […]
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A footwear shop owner’s son and a labourer’s daughter managed to bag the top positions in Mohali in the Class 10 matriculation examination results that were declared on Tuesday by the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB). Aviraj Gautam, a student of Shaheed Lieutenant Bikram Singh Government Senior Secondary School Sialba-Fatehpur, scored the first position in […]
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From scoring ‘below national average’ in 11 of 15 subjects in 2017 to being the national topper in 11 subjects four years later, Punjab has scripted a turnaround in the school level education, if the results of the National Achievement Survey (NAS)-2021, released by the Union Ministry of Education Thursday, is anything to go by. […]
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