Ahmedabad: A private school teacher has been detained by the police after CCTV footage of him beating a student went viral on the internet. Vatva police detained Abhishek Patel, a mathematics teacher at Madhav Public School in the area, on Tuesday. The teacher has also been suspended from his position at the school. The shocking CCTV footage shows Abhishek grabbing a student by the hair and dragging him to the front of the classroom. He is then seen slamming the student against the blackb...Read More

Ahmedabad: Several schools in the eastern and western parts of the city stayed open on Monday, disregarding the public holiday for Eid-E-Milad. As per state education department regulations, schools are required to close on all official holidays. Following complaints from parents, the Ahmedabad city district education officer (DEO) issued show-cause notices to these schools on Tuesday. It has come to light that schools in areas such as Vastrapur, CG Road, and Hansol continued their classes de...Read More

Ahmedabad: The District Education Officer (DEO) has served a notice to Satellite School for Children, run by Udgam Consultancy, for not refunding the fees of a student. The parents had canceled the admission of their daughter at the school and demanded a refund of Rs. 1.19 lakh. When the school did not return the fee, the parents approached the DEO office. Acting on the complaint, the DEO has notified the school to refund the fees. It is noteworthy that according to the rules of the Fee Re...Read More

Gandhinagar: During the 2024-25 academic session, a total of 229,747 students in Gujarat transitioned from private to government schools, according to the state government. In a statement released on Monday, the government reported that among municipal corporations, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) had the highest number of students moving to government schools, with 37,786 students. This was followed by Surat Municipal Corporation with 22,892 students, Vadodara Municipal Corporation wit...Read More

Navsari: Minister of State for Education in the Government of Gujarat, Praful Pansheriya, today stated that he has ordered an investigation into the cases of teachers being absent from schools for extended periods and settling abroad . The report of the investigation will be submitted by Monday, and further action will be taken based on its findings. The statement from MoS Pansheriya comes after recent cases have come to light where teachers, while still employed, have been residing in foreign c...Read More

Delhi: The Ministry of Education has issued a clarification today in response to a recent article titled "Confusion over revised NCERT textbooks for classes VI, IX and XI leave teachers in a tizzy" published in The Hindu on July 9, 2024. The news item, which suggests delays and inconsistencies in textbook distribution, has been deemed factually incorrect and misleading in the press release. The article stated that: NCERT's Class VI textbooks would require an additional two months before ...Read More

Surat: Chhatrapati Shivaji School in the Udhna area of Surat has been shut for the last month due to sealing by the Surat Municipal Corporation(SMC) since June 3. Though the school management handed over an assurance letter and fire NOC, the procedure of unsealing is pending. As a result, as many as 941 students have been sitting at home without going to school for the last one month. The books supplied by the State government for students are also lying inside the school without access to st...Read More

Rajkot: The state education department officials on Friday, exposed a fake English medium school operating classes from 1 to 10 without board affiliation in Pipaliya village in Rajkot district. It is also learnt that the school had hired its former students, who had only studied up to class 9 or 10, as teachers. The school had been running in four shops for the past seven years. Vimal Gadhvi, in-charge taluka primary education officer, received a complaint from the Rajkot taluka panchayat pre...Read More

Rajkot: Additional Collector C.A. Gandhi has issued new safety directives for school transportation in Rajkot district. These regulations apply to government and private schools, colleges, coaching classes, as well as owners and drivers of school buses, vans, and rickshaws. The directives mandate that by August 9, vehicles must provide driver information, install fire extinguishers, CCTV cameras, speed measuring devices, and emergency doors. The new directives specify the following: - Driver i...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation will reopen more than 150 pre-schools that were sealed for the last 15 days. The schools will have to submit a notarized binding letter and get approval from the deputy municipal commissioner. The schools that do not have fire safety certificates will have to obtain those within 30 days. Administrators must provide a notarized binding letter on Rs. 300 stamp paper and obtain fire safety certificates within 30 days. If construction is not regulari...Read More