EDUCATION

The Jammu Kashmir administration has announced that the students, who could not appear in the recently held Common University Entrance Test (CUET) 2023 will be given an opportunity to take admission in subjects and colleges of their choice within Jammu Kashmir. Principal Secretary, Education, Alok Kumar said that the CUET, as per the NEP 2020, is a standardized entrance test conducted by National Testing Agency (NTA) that aims to streamline the admission process for undergraduate and postgraduate courses being offered by universities across India. He said that a total of 87309 (Eighty-seven thousand three hundred nine) unique candidates had registered from Jammu Kashmir for the CUET (UG) 2023. The examination centers were randomly allocated based on availability of requisite infrastr...

National Testing Agency (NTA) has on Tuesday declared the results for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) UG 2023. The students can check their results at the official website or login here after 10 PM. Upon the announcement of the NEET result, qualified candidates will be able to participate in the centralised counselling, conducted by the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) for the 15 per cent All India Quota seats and 85 per cent state quota seats by respective state authorities.

The results of class 12th that were declared on Friday afternoon have displayed disappointing figures for the Kashmiri language lovers. Urdu had the highest takers with 37252 students opting for it,  72 per cent of whom have passed. As per the figures accessed by The Kashmiriyat, a total of 1,27,636 candidates had enrolled for the exams in which 82,441 successfully qualified. The results show that 10,198 students chose Hindi, with a 72 percent pass rate. Urdu remained the top choice with 37,252 students, 72 percent of whom passed. In Dogri, 98 percent of 251 students passed, and Punjabi saw a 96 percent pass rate among 96 students. Kashmiri, considered at the verge of extinction, had only 257 students choosing it, and all of them passed. Experts say that  the decline i...

The results of class 12th have been declared for the Kashmir valley. On Friday afternoon, the Jammu Kashmir State Board of School Education declared the much-awaited results for class 10+2. Around 1,27,636 students had appeared in exams throughout J&K out of which 82441 have qualified it. The exams for the class were held in the months of March and April. You can check your RESULTS here

Srinagar School Vishwa Bharti, which earlier barred students from entering the school wearing Abaya has issued an order allowing students to wear Abaya inside the premises. In an order, accessed by The Kashmiriyat, the school has said, "That it has been running on the social media that female students have been directed not to wear Abaya (Long Robe) which is totally baseless and misrepresented." The School Management always respects the sentiments of all the sections of the society visa vis the dress code, it said. The school claimed that no ban has been imposed by the School Principal or the Mangement on wearing Abaya but it was politely conveyed to the students to wear School Uniform underneath the Abaya, the order read. It is for the information of all students that they can...

Principal Secretary Jammu Kashmir School Education Department Alok Kumar Thursday said that results of class 10th and 12th examination will be declared by the 2nd week of June. Talking to reporters here, Alok Kumar, as per the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), they will announce the results in accordance to the timeline they have set. He said that as they have conducted exams this year in sync with the national academic calendar, results have been compiled and will be announced soon—(KNO)

Middle school established in the year 1965 continues to function from a rented building since 1999 at Zachaldara in Handwara in north Kashmir's Kupwara district. However, a new building has been constructed which is yet to be handed over to the department. Government Boys Middle School Zachaldara functioning in the educational zone Rajwar is functioning from a rented building for about 150 students with just 5 rooms. Sources revealed to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that four schools have been clubbed together in 5 rooms only while the role of the institution is 150 including boys and girls causing major inconvenience in the teacher-pupil normal run. They said that the aforementioned school was established back in 1965 in Zachaldara. Later they said since 1999 it ...

The Jammu Kashmir government is surrendering more than 600 works approved under different schemes in the school education sector. Documents in possession of news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) lay bare that government of J&K has proposed to surrender more than 600 civil works approved by the Government of India in 2018-19 and 2019-20, but couldn’t be taken up for execution due to a host of reasons.“J&K UT is also proposing to surrender more than 600 different types of not taken up works of 2018-19 & 2019-20 during current PAB amounting to Rs 67 crore,” reads minutes of the meeting of project approval Board (PAB) for the Jammu & Kashmir under Samagra Shiksha scheme for the financial year 2023-2024. The meeting of the project approval board (PAB) for considering the...

The Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) on Wednesday changed the school timing within the municipal limits of Srinagar from June-01. In an order by the director school education department, the new timing will extend to all government and private schools. “Consequent upon the approval conveyed by the Administrative Department, all government and private recognized schools within the municipal limits of Srinagar city shall observe school timings from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM w.e.f June-01,” the order said.

In Jammu Kashmir more than 2600 teachers are having below secondary level qualification and are teaching students at all levels. Ironically, among the total number of such teachers with below secondary level qualifications, over 1700 are teaching the primary level classes. According to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the official figures reveal that a total of 2685 teachers with below secondary level qualification were teaching students at all levels. The official figures reveal that at pre-primary level across the Jammu and Kashmir, at least 276 such teachers were teaching the students. It also states that at least 1773 such teachers that amount to more than 66 percent were teaching the students at primary level. The official figures reveal that at upper primar...