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Experts sound alarm as more school students seek psychiatric help

Tuesday 16 June '09

With the increasing number of schoolchildren seeking psychiatric help, it seems bullying and ragging are no longer confined to colleges.
Resentment brews among school staff

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...
St John’s dedicates golden jubilee year to the girl child

Friday 12 June '09

The 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.
Education dept has no record of 100 govt schools’ results

Friday 29 May '09

With 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.
Govt schools battle against dismal student to counsellor ratio

Monday 25 May '09

Despite a dismal ratio of counsellor to student and the growing number of instances of students in governemnt schools succumbing under examination pressure...
Board results throw light on Education department’s apathy

Monday 25 May '09

With 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.
Classes on for XI students, schools say not violating CBSE norms

Saturday 23 May '09

After raising much hue and cry about schools holding provisional classes for Class XI students before the declaration of the Board results...
Government schools battle it out for top positions

Saturday 23 May '09

It 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.
Govt schools to get own bus service

Tuesday 19 May '09

The 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.
Success stories spur on rural IAS aspirants to babudom

Thursday 14 May '09

Civil 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...
‘They beat up the junior students with rods, sticks’

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....
No end in sight to monkey menace in PU

Thursday 30 April '09

Come 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...
Parents see red as schools fail to manage traffic

Wednesday 29 April '09

Even as DAV Model School, Sector 15, was celebrating Traffic Awareness Day on Tuesday, the chaos outside the school narrated an altogether different story.
Capturing life’s memoirs

Wednesday 29 April '09

Somtimes tragedies teach you to not endure grief but wake up and take notice of life’s larger calling.
The curious case of ‘missing’ textbooks

Sunday 26 April '09

The perennial problem of shortage of books has students making endless rounds of bookshops this year as well.
Parliamentary committee says no sex education before Class XII, experts differ

Sunday 19 April '09

Even as schools and the UT Education department are trying to develop innovative ways to impart sex education...
Committee says no sex education before Class XII, experts differ

Saturday 18 April '09

Even as schools and the UT Education department are trying to develop innovative ways to impart sex education...
Re-evaluate answersheets, Education dept directs school of ‘failures’

Tuesday 7 April '09

A 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.
Parents blame school as 50 students fail

Monday 6 April '09

The future of over 50 students of Government Model Senior Secondary School, who failed the Class XI annual examination in March...
Over 50 Class XI students fail, parents point fingers at faculty

Monday 6 April '09

The 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.
‘Who will take care of my sons after I die?’

Friday 3 April '09

With 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.
Students in a holiday mood, attendance drops in schools

Friday 3 April '09

The 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.
‘Class-conscious’ students say no to mid-day meals

Thursday 26 March '09

The 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...
‘Class-conscious’ students shun mid-day meals

Thursday 26 March '09

The 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.
The truth behind reality shows: Death of innocence, say experts

Tuesday 24 March '09

The trend of children lining up as entertainers on various reality shows on television is fast catching up.
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