Suraj Mandhare News Today

In February, the Maharashtra school education department announced a massive teacher recruitment drive for a total of 21,678 posts in 1,258 schools.

Government and aided schools registered for the 25% RTE quota this year, taking no. of registered schools for RTE admissions to 76,051.

Over 11,000 teaching posts in zilla parishad, municipal corporation, municipality and government-aided schools all over Maharashtra have been filled in the first phase of recruitment.

Till Jan 22 this year, advertisements were posted for 21,678 teachers’ vacancies in Maharashtra of which over 12,522 were in zilla parishads and 2,951 in mahanagar palikas, 477 in municipalities and 5,728 in aided schools.

To mobilise educators to achieve the target of enrolling 50,000 students in secondary govt schools in Ludhiana district, district education officer (DEO secondary) Harjinder Singh addressed school principals and teacher volunteers at Government Senior Secondary School, Punjab Agricultural University.

A delegation of education ministers and senior officials from 13 countries and representatives of the World Bank visited Gujarat govt’s Vidya Samiksha Kendra (VSK), a command-and-control centre for schools on Monday.

Read the latest news about two government schools in Nilgiris getting additional buildings. Tourism minister K Ramachandran opened a newly constructed additional building at the Masinagudi government high school in the Nilgiris on Saturday.

Order, which will eventually see reduction of RTE seats in private schools, draws criticism from all quarters

Considering the age at the time of nursery admission, in Maharashtra, the child is only five and half years old during admission to Class I while NEP recommends that the child should be six years old to take admission in Class I

The circular said that a skill test will be conducted by the Regional Education Authority under the SCERT (State Council for Educational Research and Training) for all English-medium teachers after they are recruited.