News Topic:Schools

DSEK has directed Kashmir schools to conduct Classes up to 8 assessments and annual exams strictly under the approved academic planner and government framework.

J&K Government told the Assembly that 3,997 schools were merged or clubbed in 2022-23, while no primary school was merged in the last three years.

J&K's Food & Drugs Administration has directed schools to ban junk food sales within 50 metres of gates and implement 2020 food safety regulations for children.

Fresh flash floods have damaged crops, roads and infrastructure in Rajouri's Thanamandi constituency, weeks after a July 19 cloudburst killed four; schools were shut Wednesday.

Authorities have issued a child-safety advisory to Srinagar schools and madrasas after two POCSO-accused undertrials escaped Central Jail by scaling its wall.

NITI Aayog data shows J&K's Gross Enrolment Ratio falls from 113.7% at primary level to 44.8% at higher-secondary level, with a dropout rate above the national average.

Waseem Ahmed Lone, a government school teacher from south Kashmir's Kulgam district, has been invited by President Droupadi Murmu.

With a Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) of 46.6 percent for female students at the senior secondary level, Jammu and Kashmir finds itself mired in the ‘deficient category’.