Teachers Dress Code

Don't wear jeans, choose light-colored clothes, tuck in your shirt - These are some of the guidelines issued to teachers in Maharashtra as a part of the government's initiative at enhancing professionalism in schools.

The Assam government on Saturday issued a notification bringing a dress code for teachers in all state-run schools in the state and has banned jeans and leggings, officials said.

The student's mother posted a video on TikTok on the incident in which she slammed the school's policy.

Himachal Pradesh authorities have issued a directive to all teachers in government schools to avoid wearing fashionable clothes while on duty to "check incidents of sexual abuse".

Around 2.5 lakh government school teachers in Madhya Pradesh will soon have a compulsory dress code.

Three staff members of a private school Mumbai including a teacher and a director have been arrested for forcibly chopping off the hair of 25 students in order to punish them for not abiding by the prescribed dress code, police said today.

Four teachers were today suspended pending inquiry for allegedly forcing students to take off their clothes, including inner wear, as part of strict measures to stop cheating in a national medical entrance examination on Sunday.

Facing flak for its order directing female teachers not to wear "jeans, tops and bright suits", the Punjab government today withdrew the directive while suspending two employees of the education department in this regard.

Four teachers in Kerala have been removed by a school where a student said she was made to remove her bra in public over exam cheating fears, minutes before sitting a crucial test.

A woman teacher, who was suspended for a fortnight from an aided higher secondary school in Malappuram district for allegedly refusing to fall in line with the management's diktat to wear a "light green" overcoat, has approached the State Human Rights Commission, seeking justice.

A controversial circular on dress code for school teachers by the school Education Department has led to murmurs among women teachers in Tamil Nadu. The circular asks teachers to come dressed "in a dignified way, in line with their noble profession and culture." It adds, their outfits "should not promote inequality and temptation among students". W...

Tamil Nadu school education department has added a new curriculum, this time for its teachers - dignified dressing! A recent circular asks teachers to come dressed in a dignified way, in tune with their noble profession and culture. It adds that teachers ought to be dressed "in a way that would not promote inequality and temptation among students"....

A girl was allegedly stripped in a class by a woman teacher in West Bengal after she ignored the teacher's diktat on dress code, police officials said on Thursday.

In Madhya Pradesh, fashion shows are already banned in government colleges and a few have even forced their girl students to wear uniforms but a government-run college in Bhopal takes the cake. 'No more salwar-kurtas or jeans while on the campus, only sarees'. This diktat by the college management, all in the name of what it calls pro...

Teachers in all state-run elementary and upper primary schools in Orissa will have a dress code from September 15."Teachers, both male and female, will be wearing uniform from September 15. A circular in this direction has been issued," said School and Mass Education Secretary Aparajita Sarangi.According to the circular, male teachers would wear bl...

Don't wear jeans, choose light-colored clothes, tuck in your shirt - These are some of the guidelines issued to teachers in Maharashtra as a part of the government's initiative at enhancing professionalism in schools.

The Assam government on Saturday issued a notification bringing a dress code for teachers in all state-run schools in the state and has banned jeans and leggings, officials said.

The student's mother posted a video on TikTok on the incident in which she slammed the school's policy.

Himachal Pradesh authorities have issued a directive to all teachers in government schools to avoid wearing fashionable clothes while on duty to "check incidents of sexual abuse".

Around 2.5 lakh government school teachers in Madhya Pradesh will soon have a compulsory dress code.

Three staff members of a private school Mumbai including a teacher and a director have been arrested for forcibly chopping off the hair of 25 students in order to punish them for not abiding by the prescribed dress code, police said today.

Four teachers were today suspended pending inquiry for allegedly forcing students to take off their clothes, including inner wear, as part of strict measures to stop cheating in a national medical entrance examination on Sunday.

Facing flak for its order directing female teachers not to wear "jeans, tops and bright suits", the Punjab government today withdrew the directive while suspending two employees of the education department in this regard.

Four teachers in Kerala have been removed by a school where a student said she was made to remove her bra in public over exam cheating fears, minutes before sitting a crucial test.

A woman teacher, who was suspended for a fortnight from an aided higher secondary school in Malappuram district for allegedly refusing to fall in line with the management's diktat to wear a "light green" overcoat, has approached the State Human Rights Commission, seeking justice.

A controversial circular on dress code for school teachers by the school Education Department has led to murmurs among women teachers in Tamil Nadu. The circular asks teachers to come dressed "in a dignified way, in line with their noble profession and culture." It adds, their outfits "should not promote inequality and temptation among students". W...

Tamil Nadu school education department has added a new curriculum, this time for its teachers - dignified dressing! A recent circular asks teachers to come dressed in a dignified way, in tune with their noble profession and culture. It adds that teachers ought to be dressed "in a way that would not promote inequality and temptation among students"....

A girl was allegedly stripped in a class by a woman teacher in West Bengal after she ignored the teacher's diktat on dress code, police officials said on Thursday.

In Madhya Pradesh, fashion shows are already banned in government colleges and a few have even forced their girl students to wear uniforms but a government-run college in Bhopal takes the cake. 'No more salwar-kurtas or jeans while on the campus, only sarees'. This diktat by the college management, all in the name of what it calls pro...

Teachers in all state-run elementary and upper primary schools in Orissa will have a dress code from September 15."Teachers, both male and female, will be wearing uniform from September 15. A circular in this direction has been issued," said School and Mass Education Secretary Aparajita Sarangi.According to the circular, male teachers would wear bl...