The state government will do “all it takes” to renovate the dilapidated Aldeen House, a building along the Hooghly where the seeds of modern education in Bengal were sown under the tutelage of Wil...

Students of state-run schools in West Bengal are likely to attend classes on alternate days after they reopen, in order to observe social distancing norms.The schools will be asked to follow an 'alter...

It will not be possible to start the academic session now in colleges and universities, education minister Partha Chatterjee said on Saturday.Chatterjee made the announcement after a meeting with vice...

Schools in Bengal are set to remain closed in July, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said.“We have already announced that the schools will remain shut till June 30. I think the closure will be extende...

Engineering institutes were on Tuesday asked to consider increasing the number of seats in courses that are in greater demand among students and reducing the intake in less popular disciplines.Educati...

Schoolteachers will be marked absent if they participate in any movement without taking leave, education minister Partha Chatterjee said on Monday.The government has noticed that students of many stat...

Mamata Banerjee on Friday obliquely criticised BJP leaders Bengal for alleged attempts to politicise the Covid-19 pandemic, although the chief minister had been firm in steering clear of bringing poli...

The Trinamul Congress is planning to take an all-party delegation to Delhi to protest against the Centre’s decision to privatise 46 central public sector undertakings (PSUs), including 10 in Bengal....

A Class VIII history textbook of the Madhyamik board will be reviewed to rectify the “mistake of calling freedom fighter Khudiram Bose a terrorist”, education minister Partha Chatterjee said in th...

The postponed final semester exams of undergraduate and postgraduate courses will be held a month after the colleges and universities reopen following the withdrawal of the lockdown, education ministe...