Education | Kashmir InFocus

August 21, 2017 No Responses

100 Open-sky schools in Jammu to get buildings

Students in remote areas of the district face hardships due to lack of proper infrastructure at open-sky schools, which functioning without buildings and often face closure due to bad weather. Nearly 100 open-sky schools in Jammu district, which often face...

August 14, 2017 No Responses

All edu institutions across valley to remain closed today

All educational institutions from primary upto higher secondary schools shall remain closed across Kashmir on Monday. Director School Education Kashmir, G N Itoo said, “The decision to close down all educational institutions from primary upto higher secondar...

August 11, 2017 No Responses

Rajasthan university shuts hostel door on 250 J&K students

About 250 Kashmiri students of Jaipur’s Suresh Gyan Vihar University (SGVU) are pleading every Muslim house in the city for help after being shunted out of their hostel. The students are forced to suffer this ordeal because the university reportedly...

August 3, 2017 No Responses

Colleges, Varsities remain shut to prevent protests

Schools, colleges and universities remained closed in the Valley today to prevent protests by students following the killing of Lashkar commander Abu Dujana and his associate in Pulwama on Tuesday. The government had announced the closure of all educational in...

August 2, 2017 No Responses

Jaipur varsity stops hostel facility for J&K students: No funds

A disappointing incident happened with youth of Jammu and Kashmir studying in Rajasthan as students enrolled at Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, were barred from hostel facility. The letter, issued by Deputy Registrar of the university to students of J&am...

July 24, 2017 No Responses

Education sector remains in tumult in Kashmir

Looking back at the past 12 months, the education sector in the Valley remained on the edge, with frequent protests, shutdowns and curfews, forcing the closure of schools for months together. After Hizb commander Burhan Wani’s death on July 8...

June 30, 2017 No Responses

10 Day Summer Vacation for educational institutions begins from July 6 to July 15, 2017

The vacation coincides with a protest schedule issued by United Jehad Council (UJC), an amalgam of militant organisations operating in the valley. The Jammu and Kashmir government today announced a 10-day summer vacation in all educational institutions in the ...

June 23, 2017 No Responses

Kashmiri Students booked for pro-Pak slogans in UP college

A police complaint has been lodged against some Kashmiri students at a dental college here for allegedly shouting pro-Pakistan slogans and uploading objectionable picture of the Indian cricket team on social media after the ICC Champions Trophy final. Two comp...

June 15, 2017 No Responses

Install CCTVs in schools, colleges to curb student protests: Police

With student protests in colleges and schools refusing to die down in Kashmir, the educational institutions in north Kashmir have been asked to install closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras to check what the police have termed as “interference by outsider...

June 15, 2017 No Responses

23 Degree Colleges without permanent buildings in J&K

Belying the tall claims of successive regimes of Jammu and Kashmir on upgradation of infrastructure in education sector, as many as 23 colleges in the state are without buildings. Officials in the Higher Education Department said around 41 colleges were...