An unrecognised school functioning at Pudupet in a cramped street Chennai: Twenty-two years ago, more than 100 students had nowhere to run, when a cluster of schools functioning from a two-storey residential set-up in Kumbakonam caught fire; 94 were charred to death, and 16 were gravely injured.Now, a TOI visit in and around the city…
Chennai: Nearly two weeks after the state information commission and a week after the school education department ordered private schools to display their fee structures on their notice boards, compliance remains patchy.A TOI visit to city schools on Tuesday and Wednesday, coinciding with chief and district education officials sharing a compliance report with the private…
Chennai: Every year, Class 12 state board students applying for re-totalling in biology pay more than those applying for other subjects — even though the revaluation cost remains the same.The reason, officials say, is due to the way in which the subject is structured. While the subject is classified as ‘biology’ and has only one…
