

Tuesday 16 June '09
With the increasing number of schoolchildren seeking psychiatric help, it seems bullying and ragging are no longer confined to colleges.Sunday 14 June '09
While the Education department was quick to warn government school principals of disciplinary action for the poor show of students in the Class X and XII exams...Friday
12 June '09The St John’s Old Boys’ Association (SJOBA) and students of the school have taken up the cause of saving the girl child and have also dedicated the school’s golden jubilee year to protect and save their female counterparts.Friday
29 May '09With no documents or records of over 100 government schools, getting information about their performance over the years from the Education department seems to be a Herculean task.Monday
25 May '09Despite a dismal ratio of counsellor to student and the growing number of instances of students in governemnt schools succumbing under examination pressure...Monday
25 May '09With eight students in a batch of 13 failing to clear at least one subject in the Class XII examination, the figures of Government Senior Secondary School, Maloya, speak volumes about the dismal academic standard of non-model schools.Saturday
23 May '09After raising much hue and cry about schools holding provisional classes for Class XI students before the declaration of the Board results...Saturday
23 May '09It was a closely contested match for the top three slots of government model senior secondary schools in the Class XII results declared by the Central Board of Secondary Education on Wednesday.Tuesday
19 May '09The Education department and State Transport Authority finally seem to have woken up to the needs of students by floating a proposal to provide transport facility in government schools.Thursday
14 May '09Civil services examination is fast emerging as a cause of migration of rural students to the city. With the last year seeing an increase of 20 per cent in the number of students from a rural background...Monday
4 May '09“The only saving grace in the entire episode is that they did not kill my son. The battered condition in which we brought him home is testimony....Thursday
30 April '09Come summer and students residing in the Panjab University hostel have new inmates in monkeys. The simians seem to have become a perennial problem for hostellers as they resurface in the months of April...Wednesday
29 April '09Even as DAV Model School, Sector 15, was celebrating Traffic Awareness Day on Tuesday, the chaos outside the school narrated an altogether different story.Wednesday
29 April '09Somtimes tragedies teach you to not endure grief but wake up and take notice of life’s larger calling.Sunday
26 April '09The perennial problem of shortage of books has students making endless rounds of bookshops this year as well.Sunday
19 April '09Even as schools and the UT Education department are trying to develop innovative ways to impart sex education...Saturday
18 April '09Even as schools and the UT Education department are trying to develop innovative ways to impart sex education...Tuesday
7 April '09A day after Newsline reported that over 50 students had failed in Class XI examination at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, the Education department has decided to re-evaluate their answersheets.Monday
6 April '09The future of over 50 students of Government Model Senior Secondary School, who failed the Class XI annual examination in March...Monday
6 April '09The future of over 50 students of the Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, who failed their Class XI annual examinations in March hangs in the balance now, with the school authorities allegedly refusing to entertain their pleas for re-evaluation.Friday
3 April '09With both his sons suffering from schizophrenia and his wife a cancer patient, 68-year-old retired Navy Officer O P Asija is fighting a lone battle to ensure a place for his sons at the halfway home under the District Welfare Programme.Friday
3 April '09The slew of holidays lined up in the coming month has students playing truant in schools. The new academic session that started on Wednesday is a testimony to it with government schools registering a drastically low attendance on the second working day today.Thursday
26 March '09The class-consciousness ushered by the neo-liberalised economy of the 90s seems to have found firm roots in one of the symbols of new India...Thursday
26 March '09The class-consciousness ushered by the neo-liberalised economy of the 90s seems to have found firm roots in one of the symbols of new India — the modern city of Chandigarh.Tuesday
24 March '09The trend of children lining up as entertainers on various reality shows on television is fast catching up.