Puja Pednekar Dna

• St Xavier's school trustee moves court

  After teachers of St Xavier's High School, Nerul, went on strike last week demanding sixth pay commission salaries, the school trustee moved the Bombay High Court against the formation of the seven-member committee appointed to decide the implementation of the new pay scale for teachers.Varsha Burli filed a civil application in court stating that s...

• Mumbai: 40 students injured in bus accident

  Within a month of the tragic death of Saurabh Mhatre, who slipped off a toy train during a school trip, students from another city school had a near death experience on their field trip to Silvassa. At least 40 school children were injured, three of them seriously, when their school bus skidded of Dudhni road in Silvassa on Thursday. The school bus...

• Mumbai: Parents cry foul over school fee hike

  Schools in the city are in a mad rush to hike fees. In the past few months, many private unaided schools have hiked their fees by 20% to 60% in the middle of the term. From paying teachers salaries to providing for 25% seats to the weaker sections of society under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, schools attribute fee hikes to increasing expenditu...

• Mumbai schools take the corporate route, outsource learning

  After students, now teachers have found a way to cut back on homework. Instead of preparing their own lesson plans, many schools have outsourced it to companies who specialise in providing front-line services like drawing lesson plans, worksheets and designing activities for students. Since Compulsory Continuous Evaluation (CCE) emphasises interact...

• Parents protest as school locks kids over fees

  The Khar Education Society's Mumba Devi Vidyamandir school faced the ire of politicians and child rights activists on Friday, after it continued to detain nearly 20 students in the school library despite a police complaint against it.The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) on Friday issued a warning to the management of the school, saying the party wo...

• Three-day 'library arrest' for Khar school kids

  Some students of Khar Education Society's Shree Mumbadevi Vidya Mandir School were allegedly confined to the library for five hours three consecutive days, as their parents refused to follow the new school diktat and pay the entire year's fee in advance.Around 20 parents filed a complaint at Khar police station on Thursday. "On Monday, students who...

• Mumbai: The real students of a fake college

  One small class, no professors, a small, 10-feet room that serves as the administration office; this is not what 200 graduate students had signed up for when they applied to the Zoroastrian College at Fort.But, when the academic year began, the students found out that the college was only a front office that allegedly offered bogus degrees from for...

• Mumbai: Teacher taught kids how to French kiss, allege parents

  Fifteen out of the 50 children enrolled at Eurokids nursery school, Yari Road, have been withdrawn from the school. Their parents have demanded that Sana Saiyani, a teacher who allegedly molested the tiny tots on October 22, should be blacklisted and the school should refund their fees.The parents have termed a 60-day probe launched by the school a...

• Mumbai colleges flooded with RTI applications from students

  As if students bunking lectures or political parties arm-twisting for admissions is not enough, city colleges are now facing fresh bouts of trouble from the student 'RTI wallahs'.Though the admission season is over, college principals admit that many students are using the Right to Information (RTI) Act, to ask balance sheets, last year's admission...

• College principal accused of rape

  Chitra Salunkhe, who teaches at the Siddhartha Law College, has filed a police complaint that ex-principal Digmabar Gangurde allegedly had sexual relations with her for three to five years on the false promise of marriage."The case against ex-principal Gangurde was registered by the Azad Maidan police on Monday, and we are investigating the case fu...

• Mumbai: School boys build robot to clear oil spill

  It took the Mumbai Coast Guards several weeks to clear the recent oil spill in the Arabian Sea. But a robot, developed by four city students, can clear it in less than 30 days.The standard X students of Jamnabai Narsee School at Vile Parle have developed Seaswam, a low-cost solar operated robot that can swiftly clear oil spills in the ocean. The bo...