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Congress govt. striving to reform education system in Telangana: Revanth
1 week, 2 days ago

Congress govt. striving to reform education system in Telangana: Revanth

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy here on Saturday said that the State government was endeavoring to upgrade the skills of the students and make them partners in the reconstruction of Telangana. He said the State government was providing free electricity to all government schools and added he already instructed officials and public representatives to visit residential schools two to …

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TEC Chairman Promises Overhaul of Telangana’s Govt Schools in Six Months
1 week, 3 days ago

TEC Chairman Promises Overhaul of Telangana’s Govt Schools in Six Months

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: The chairman of the Telangana Education Commission, Akunuri Murali, on Friday said that conditions in government schools and hostels would improve within six months. Small schools with 10-30 students and single teachers negatively impact the education system and the future of students in government schools. The state government needs to create big schools with adequate students and teachers, a …

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Substandard food items, lack of hygiene lead to mid-day meal poisoning: Experts
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Substandard food items, lack of hygiene lead to mid-day meal poisoning: Experts

Hindustan Times  

A series of food poisoning incidents in various government schools, residential institutions and welfare hostels in the last few days have put the Congress government in Telangana in a tight spot, forcing the authorities to step up vigilance on the implementation of mid-day meals scheme and focus on maintenance of quality of food and hygiene in school kitchens. LATEST INCIDENTS …

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Supreme Court Seeks Actionplan To Implement Menstrual Hygiene Policy For School-going Girls
1 month, 1 week ago

Supreme Court Seeks Actionplan To Implement Menstrual Hygiene Policy For School-going Girls

Live Law  

The Supreme Court yesterday heard a petition seeking directions from the Union, the States and Union Territories for providing free sanitary pads to adolescent girl children from Classes 6-12 in all Government, Government-aided/unaided schools, and residential schools. It passed an order for further action by States and UTs after the Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati informed the Court that the …

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Indigenous Community Calls for Independent Commission to Probe Missing Children's Deaths
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Indigenous Community Calls for Independent Commission to Probe Missing Children's Deaths

Firstpost  

Canada's special interlocutor Kimberly Murray has suggested the establishment of an independent commission to investigate the deaths and disappearances of Indigenous children from residential schools. The commission will be tasked with gathering evidence, interviewing survivors, and making recommendations for accountability and healing.

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₹5,000 crore for new residential schools, cot and bed for every student: Dy CM
4 months ago

₹5,000 crore for new residential schools, cot and bed for every student: Dy CM

The Hindu  

Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka on Monday instructed officials from the Education department to coordinate with respective District Collectors for acquisition of sites and preparing designs for constructing integrated residential school buildings in various constituencies. In a meeting to review the functioning of residential schools, Mr. Bhatti Vikramarka and BC Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar along with officials from SC, …

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KTR urges govt. to take steps to prevent death of students in residential schools, hostels
4 months, 1 week ago

KTR urges govt. to take steps to prevent death of students in residential schools, hostels

The Hindu  

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi leadership has announced constitution of a committee led by former IPS officer R.S. Speaking later, he said the incidents such as Anirudh’s death were painful and about 36 students studying in residential schools and welfare hostels had died during the last eight months due to different reasons such as food poisoning, suspicious reasons and snakebites. The …

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HSCAP Kerala Plus One first supplementary allotment list released at hscap.kerala.gov.in, direct link here
5 months, 2 weeks ago

HSCAP Kerala Plus One first supplementary allotment list released at hscap.kerala.gov.in, direct link here

Hindustan Times  

The Directorate of Government Education, Kerala has released the First Supplementary Allotment results for Merit Quota and Model Residential Schools for Plus One admissions. DGE Kerala releases First Supplementary Allotment results for Merit Quota and Model Residential Schools for Plus One admissions. How to check First Supplementary Allotment results: Go to the official website at hscap.kerala.gov.in. Earlier, the DGE Kerala …

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Capturing curriculum to sculpt young minds
6 months ago

Capturing curriculum to sculpt young minds

Hindustan Times  

Sudhir Kakar, who passed away in April, and his teacher, Erik Erikson, spent their lives studying identity — its cultural moorings and public implications. The struggle to find one’s self is tough because external forces do all they can to influence the young mind, often in directions that later prove false and unsatisfying. Popular ideas — including the ones marketed …

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Will Upgrade Govt Residential Schools on Par with Private Ones: Karnataka Minister
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Will Upgrade Govt Residential Schools on Par with Private Ones: Karnataka Minister

News 18  

Buoyed by the tremendous performance of students of the Karnataka Residential Educational Institutions Society run schools in class 10 board examination, the state government has vowed to upgrade these schools on par with the sophisticated private schools. According to official sources, there are 833 residential schools in Karnataka named after Morarji Desai, Kittur Rani Chennamma, B R Ambedkar, Atal Bihari …

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Karnataka: Education sector gets Rs 850 cr for infra upgrade
10 months ago

Karnataka: Education sector gets Rs 850 cr for infra upgrade

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: The state budget bets big on infrastructure development and improving the learning gap in primary and higher education with a focus on upskilling. He also reiterated the government’s promise of providing free electricity and water at all government schools and PU colleges, benfiting 46,829 government schools and 1,234 colleges with a grant of Rs 25 crore. The budget mentioned, …

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Canada's unmarked graves: How residential schools carried out "cultural genocide" against indigenous children
1 year, 10 months ago

Canada's unmarked graves: How residential schools carried out "cultural genocide" against indigenous children

CBS News  

The dark legacy of Canada's residential schools, where thousands of children died | 60 Minutes In May 2021, when archeologists detected what they believed to be 200 unmarked graves at an old school in Canada, it brought new attention to one of the most shameful chapters of that nation's history. Chief Wilton Littlechild: To save money Archeologists detected what they …

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Budget 2023: Government promises to hire 38,800 teachers for Ekalavya Model Residential Schools
1 year, 10 months ago

Budget 2023: Government promises to hire 38,800 teachers for Ekalavya Model Residential Schools

India TV News  

Budget 2023: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the 10th Union Budget under the Modi government. While the budget presentation, Nirmala Sitharaman claimed hiring 38,800 teachers for the 740 Ekalavya Model Residential Schools serving 3.5 lakh tribal students. Presenting the last full Budget of the second term of the BJP-led NDA government ahead of the general elections in 2024, she …

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Here are 5 ways that a residential school can assist children in developing their overall personalities
2 years, 1 month ago

Here are 5 ways that a residential school can assist children in developing their overall personalities

India Today  

Today's schooling is incredibly competitive, and kids have a plethora of options in terms of career choices and specialisations that they can pursue after high school. Here are 5 ways that a residential school can assist children in developing their overall personalities That is why boarding schools or residential schools, which place a strong emphasis on the holistic development of …

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What ails Telangana\'s govt hostels, colleges? bad food, no water, no toilets
2 years, 2 months ago

What ails Telangana\'s govt hostels, colleges? bad food, no water, no toilets

Deccan Chronicle  

The Telangana government’s midday meal programme, which was launched with the twin objective of improving children’s nutritional status in government hostels and residential schools as well as encouraging students from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds to attend school, is gradually losing credibility. There has been an increase in both food poisoning cases and student deaths in government hostels, residential schools, …

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The long-forgotten Inuit survivors of Catholic abuses
2 years, 3 months ago

The long-forgotten Inuit survivors of Catholic abuses

Al Jazeera  

Warning: The story below contains details about abuse in residential schools that may be upsetting. In late July, Pope Francis travelled to this remote area 2,337km north of Toronto, where thousands of Canada’s residential school survivors and community members awaited an overdue apology. “We were always going to survive, and we always knew resiliency … I lead a very great …

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Flag raised in Canada to honor residential school survivors
2 years, 3 months ago

Flag raised in Canada to honor residential school survivors

Associated Press  

OTTAWA, Ontario — The Canadian government raised the Survivors’ Flag on Parliament Hill Monday as a way to honor Indigenous Peoples forced to attend the country’s notorious residential schools. Several residential school survivors spoke about the significance of the flag, including Jimmy Durocher, a Métis survivor who attended St. Bruno’s boarding school in Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan. Trudeau called residential schools a …

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Pope calls treatment of Indigenous in Canada schools ‘genocide’
2 years, 4 months ago

Pope calls treatment of Indigenous in Canada schools ‘genocide’

Al Jazeera  

Pope Francis steps up his apology, saying the technical word for the wiping away of a people’s culture was ‘genocide’. Pope Francis has said the treatment of the Indigenous people in Canada amounted to a “genocide”, after a six-day trip in which he apologised to survivors of abuse at Catholic-run schools. The leader of the Catholic Church on Saturday said …

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Pope Francis apologises again as Canada visit wraps up in Nunavut
2 years, 4 months ago

Pope Francis apologises again as Canada visit wraps up in Nunavut

Al Jazeera  

Pope’s six-day tour of Canada is ending in northern territory of Nunavut, where he met residential school survivors. Pope Francis has apologised once more for the “evil” perpetrated by members of the Catholic Church at residential schools, as he wrapped up a six-day “trip of penance” to Canada that has drawn mixed reactions. “This only renewed in me the indignation …

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Pope’s Canada visit ‘doesn’t heal’ wounds of Indigenous survivors
2 years, 4 months ago

Pope’s Canada visit ‘doesn’t heal’ wounds of Indigenous survivors

Al Jazeera  

For many Indigenous survivors of abuse in Canada, the papal tour is a reminder of the ‘horrors’ committed against them. It’s not something I agree with.” From the late 1800s until 1997, there were 139 federally mandated residential schools which assimilated Indigenous children into mainstream Canadian culture. “I know a lot of community members aren’t happy about him coming either.” …

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Pope apologizes for ‘catastrophic’ school policy in Canada
2 years, 4 months ago

Pope apologizes for ‘catastrophic’ school policy in Canada

Associated Press  

MASKWACIS, Alberta — Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families and marginalized generations. “I am deeply sorry,” Francis said to applause from school survivors and Indigenous community members gathered at a former …

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Pope apologizes for ‘catastrophic’ school policy in Canada
2 years, 4 months ago

Pope apologizes for ‘catastrophic’ school policy in Canada

India TV News  

Highlights “I am deeply sorry,” Francis said to applause from school survivors and Indigenous community members He called the school policy a “disastrous error” that was incompatible with the Gospel Further investigation and healing is needed, Pope Francis said Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying …

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How was the pope's 'pilgrimage of penance' received by Indigenous people in Canada?
2 years, 4 months ago

How was the pope's 'pilgrimage of penance' received by Indigenous people in Canada?

NPR  

How was the pope's 'pilgrimage of penance' received by Indigenous people in Canada? In a moving ceremony on Monday, Pope Francis begged for the forgiveness of the Indigenous survivors of the abuse by residential schools that were run by the Catholic Church for more than a century. LEILA FADEL, HOST: Pope Francis is begging for the forgiveness of Indigenous survivors …

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Hope for ‘healing’ as pope joins Indigenous Lac Ste Anne pilgrims
2 years, 4 months ago

Hope for ‘healing’ as pope joins Indigenous Lac Ste Anne pilgrims

Al Jazeera  

What is the significance of the sacred Canadian lake Pope Francis will visit on his trip to mend relations with Indigenous communities? It was named Lac Ste Anne by 19th-century Catholic missionaries, however to the local Metis and First Nations, the eutrophic lake has been a sacred area long before the settlers came. His attendance forms part of his “pilgrimage …

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