Mangaluru : The aided school teachers comes under south block have not received their salary for the past three months. The job without pay for the past months has landed many teachers in deep financial crisis as they depend on their salaries to run their houses and meet other expenses. According to sources, the officials […]

Udupi : The Department of Public Instruction on Saturday said that it would be issuing notices to the Block Education Officer and Route Officer asking why two bundles of question papers of SSLC exams were found lying on the bonnet of the Block Education Officer’s four-wheeler at the Volakadu Government Composite High School here March […]

Mangaluru: Unregistered child welfare centres are likely to face closure if they do not register themselves immediately. Dakshina Kannada deputy commissioner Sasikanth Senthil S on Thursday gave a three-month deadline to all such unregistered centres. Addressing officials from the Dakshina Kannada Child Protection Committee and Dakshina Kannada District Children Protection Unit, Senthil ordered the heads […]

Mangaluru: Though the district has been leading in terms of quality education and literacy rate, the number of aspirants for civil services is abysmal. Measures have to be taken to develop interest in top government posts among students, said Dakshina Kannada deputy director of public instruction V Shivaramaiah. He was addressing high school teachers and […]

Mangaluru: “ The government is ready to provide mid day meal to the students at Sri Rama high school in Kalladka and Sri Devi school at Punacha, if Prabhakar Bhat submits a written appeal to the government, and I will see that they are immediately provided the mid-day meals, which are provided to all schools […]

Mangaluru : Schools should do away with the tendency to run behind the examination scores, Mangaluru South MLA J R Lobo said. He was speaking after inaugurating an educational meeting organised by Dakshina Kannada High School Headmasters and PU College Headmasters’ Association (DKHMPA) at Sri Madhusudhan Kushe College in Attavar on Tuesday. The MLA said […]

Mangaluru : Dakshina Kannada has improved its position in the SSLC examination this year by scaling to the second position with a pass percentage of 82.39 from the third position last year. Efforts put in to improve performance on slow learners in the district have yielded results. The district was in the 26th position in […]

Mangaluru: Commenting on the fees refunding row, Alva’s educational foundation PRO Padhmanabha Shenoy said while speaking to MegaMediaNews that till now the institution has defended hundreds of such cases and in most of the cases the court has passed order in favour of the institution only. “During the admission we take signature from the parents […]

Mangaluru : A total of 36,514 students will write SSLC examinations in Dakshina Kannada district from Monday. The exams will be held in 100 centres in the district. Out of the 36,514 students, as many as 33,337 are schoolchildren, 865 students are writing the exams privately, 1,825 are repeaters and 427 are repeaters writing the […]

Mysore : In an attempt to ensure that more teachers work in backward parts of the State, Primary and Secondary Education department would frame guidelines to make it mandatory for them to serve for a period of ten years in such areas. Minister of State for Primary and Secondary Education, Kimmane Ratnakar, said such a […]