EDUCATION
Seeking teachers
THE Supreme Court recently annulled 25,000 appointments to government-run schools in West Bengal, upholding charges that there had been cheating in a selection examination and that bribes had also been paid for appointments. Of those whose jobs were gone, 17,000 were teachers who had been in service for 10 years
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Getting down to farming
Every week two or three teams of curious schoolchildren turn up at Deesan Farms, in Chittoor taluk of Palakkad district, to learn about farming. They get their hands dirty too. They dig, weed, plant, water and apply mulch. They visit the dairy farm and study the value-added unit which makes
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Books go far and wide the Moosa way in Arunachal
Libraries and bookshops are falling apart in big cities, but in Arunachal Pradesh a voluntary effort is spiritedly spreading the joy of reading among young people, reaching homes and government schools across the largely rural state. Some 10,000 books are in circulation through a network of small community-run libraries and
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ASER fine print: Figuring out the 14 to 18 year bunch
THE problems with school education are there for all to see. Children get enrolled and teachers are better paid, but…
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