Govt-GU now clash over retiring age
30 November 2001 22:28 ISTGoa government and the state’s sole Goa University are on the course of collision once again, this time on the issue of reducing retirement age of college and university teachers by two years.Following opposition from ... READ
Teachers to be banned from politicking
06 November 2001 22:29 ISTGoa is planning to ban teachers from participating in active politics, including party work, unless they take a long leave or lien.Announcing a decision taken in this regard after discussing it informally at a cabinet ... READ
Row over university autonomy
16 June 2001 22:29 ISTGoa University, the sole university of the tiny tourist state, has suddenly become a centre of public debate here with chief minister Manohar Parrikar dubbing the institute as a 'mere PhD-producing machine' involved in several ... READ
Villagers oppose saffron education
08 June 2001 22:30 ISTVillagers in Goa are up in arms against saffronisation of primary education, using backdoor tactics. The field of education has thus become a battlefield here.The first day of the reopening of the schools after month-long ... READ
Sangh Parivar hijacking primary schools ?
02 June 2001 22:31 ISTKeeping the existing educational societies in the dark, the Bharatiya Janata Party government has granted permission to many non-educational institutions to run 52 government primary schools, which were slated for closure.The manner in which the ... READ
Private tuition by teacher is a crime
14 February 2001 22:32 ISTClose on the heels of Maharashtra, Goa has also decided to streamline coaching classes while debarring any teacher of government or aided school to conduct private tuitions.A comprehensive legislation in this regard would be introduced ... READ
Kalam appeals to go to villages
03 February 2001 22:32 ISTDr A P J Abdul Kalam, the principal scientific advisor to the Indian government, has appealed to all the young guards of the nation to penetrate into the quake-affected villages of Gujarat to rebuild devastated ... READ
CBI probe demanded into Vet collge affair
28 March 2000 22:33 ISTThe demand has been a thorough inquiry by the CBI while the Indian Veterinary Council is also seized with the issue of permitting a controversial private veterinary college in Goa, which is found to have ... READ
Sardinha ends Anganwadi fast, without concrete solution
14 March 2000 22:34 ISTWhile anganwadi workers from all over the country are agitating over regularisation in government service, Goa's women workers are expected to get a little better living, but only after resorting to a path of fast ... READ
Govt 'supports' blacklisted private Vet college ?
28 October 1999 22:35 ISTIn 1984, it was the engineering college on capitation, mooted by former prime minister P V Narasimha Rao's nephew Voditala Rajeshwar Rao, which the militant students movement forced the government to scrap.After 15 years, it ... READ
