Bihar's Kishanganj district has mandated private CBSE-affiliated schools to teach Urdu, following a DISHA meeting highlighting its absence. Schools must report compliance to the Bihar Education ...

District Education Officer Nasir Hussain has instructed CBSE-affiliated private schools in Kishanganj district to offer Urdu as a subject. The directive follows concerns raised during a district ...

It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...

In Pakistan, debates about education tend to orbit around crumbling school buildings, lack of funds, outdated curricula, and ...

Expressing concerns over the “deteriorating” quality of education in Urdu-medium schools, the Chairman of the Maharashtra State Minority Commission, Pyare Zia Khan, has proposed converting all Urdu ...

A decision by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the country's largest school board, to disallow students from writing board exams in any language other than Hindi and English has left ...

The decision of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to offer question papers to students only in English or Hindi has put students of Urdu medium MANUU schools in trouble. Students ...

Officials say it is time to look beyond language mediums and focus on recruiting teachers based on skills, as Urdu-medium teachers’ associations raise concerns A new conflict has arisen between the ...

Nagma Rehman has a lament in her retired life. Ms. Rehman, who retired a year ago as Urdu teacher at the Baxibagh, Government Higher Secondary School in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, says her school has ...

Sena asked Centre to take a cue from UK's decision to deport Muslim women who fail to speak English. Mumbai: Asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take a cue from UK government's warning that ...