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Police used tear gas as students, teachers and parents staged France's largest school protest day yet, demanding teachers, smaller classes and repairs amid a budget squeeze.
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Justice A. Badharudeen asked why PSC members were refusing to cooperate with the Crime Branch probe into unevaluated answer scripts in the State Planning Board recruitment exam, reminding the constitutional body that public employment is the hope of lakhs of young people.
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What began as sit-ins in Tripoli is now an open-ended nationwide strike: Libyan teachers demand salary reform, arrears, a teaching allowance and health insurance, rejecting promises until binding decisions appear. Mass protests are planned outside the government's Tripoli headquarters.
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The Central Administrative Tribunal will hear on October 8 the petitions of 67 aspirants challenging 27 questions in the UPSC Civil Services Prelims 2026 answer key. Many say they missed the cut-off by a whisker; candidates are also demanding a break-up of marks.
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The UPSC prelims controversy is not about 27 disputed questions. It is about an institution that treats opacity as authority and lakhs of young lives as acceptable collateral.
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Lessons will be totally or partly suspended at 400 to 500 French high schools on Monday after violent clashes between students and riot police. The revolt over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and run-down buildings has seen 24 schools burned or ransacked and 78 staff wounded.
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Education minister Edouard Geffray says 400-500 lycées will close on Monday as student protests over crumbling classrooms and teacher shortages spread nationwide. Twenty-four schools have been burned or ransacked, 78 staff injured, and nearly 5,000 teenagers arrested since the unrest began.
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AMU students blocked all four entry gates amid a weeks-long agitation demanding students' union elections — the first in eight years — while hunger striker Yasir Fahad entered his second week and the proctor claimed an 'outsider' was detained from a hostel.
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Former TN school education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi has asked the Madras High Court to quash the FIR against him in the alleged ₹100-crore private-school approval scam, arguing only the Governor could sanction his prosecution — and calling the case 'regime revenge'.
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Odisha Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati has ordered state public universities to start filling vacant teaching posts by the first week of November and finish by month-end — an admission that roughly seven in ten faculty positions, over 1,400 posts, lie empty. Merit must be the priority, he said.
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About 100 guest lecturers of Bengaluru's Maharani Cluster University have boycotted classes for a week over a remuneration dispute, warning of a hunger strike. They are the face of a broken system: Karnataka's public universities run on 3,434 guest lecturers against just 1,477 permanent teachers.
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A single national entrance test rewards coaching-class privilege, not talent. It shuts out rural, Tamil-medium and first-generation learners while paper leaks rot its credibility. Tamil Nadu's fight against NEET — from Assembly resolutions to the anti-NEET signature campaign — is social justice in Periyar's lineage.
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