A prolonged adversity

After a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools in Haryana seem to have stabilised their operations while teachers continue to suffer. Sonepat:  Teachers continue to struggle on a low salary during the second wave of the pandemic while schools seem to recover their losses. Working on a sum that is 50 to 70 percent of […]

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Teachers not happy promoting students

Due to the closure of schools, online exams were conducted and students were promoted without learning anything in the previous academic year. Haryana: Students of first and second standards were given marks based on oral assessment through Shiksha Mitra’s contact numbers, while students of third, fourth, and fifth standards had to give online exams through […]

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Counselling the Counsellor

Mental health has taken a backseat for teachers dealing with the pressures of their work amidst the horrors of the second wave of Covid-19. DELHI- The pandemic has taken a heavy toll on teachers’ mental health all across the country as the second wave of the pandemic has increased their work stress and burdened them […]

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Covid-19: Teachers turn daily wage labourers

Due to no payments of salaries, rural private school teachers are forced to shift to MGNREGA work. Bangalore: Latha C.S, 32-year-old kindergarten teacher in a private school is now working in the sun, rejuvenating lakes, about two kilometers from her school, in Mandya, under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). “I did […]

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No red signal for tutoring teachers yet

The practice of government, government-aided, and private school teachers engaging in the ‘business’ of imparting private tuitions in the city remains ungoverned. By Manasvi Gupta Good morning teacher! Wished the students. Good evening teacher! Wishes the students again—only this time at the teacher’s home. The teacher—surrounded by a group of students providing private tuitions thus […]

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Insufficient Teaching Staff Hinders Studies

Lingsugur taluk  lacks computer education for children The schools and colleges in the Lingsugur taluk lack  teachers, which in turn affects the students. The government Pre-university College had around 1000 students and for those 1000 students they had only eight teachers. Another high school, Akka Mahadevi Higher Primary School, had only 15 teachers for 503 […]

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