Maharashtra: Before HSC, SSC exams, vaccinate students, says Latur group
Press Trust of India | March 20, 2021 | 10:00 AM IST | 1 min read
As the number of COVID-19 cases has increased, vaccinating students seem a must for a "tension-free" exam.
NEW DELHI: The HSC and SSC exams, scheduled from next Month, must be conducted after all students are vaccinated for COVID-19, a delegation that met Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education in Latur on Friday said.
The HSC (Class XII) and SSC (Class X) exams in the state are to start from April 23 and April 29 respectively and will go on till the last week of May. The delegation, which comprised students and parents, said vaccinating all students as well as school staff will allow those appearing for the exams to do so in a "tension-free environment".
There has been a spike in COVID-19 cases across the state over the past few days, including an outbreak-record addition of 25,833 on Thursday.
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Next Story
]Featured News
]- Delhi University plans study-abroad programme for UG students, scholarships for some
- Hostel Life: Bad food, dirty toilets, sky-high fees – the truth about higher education’s crumbling backbone
- No UGC framework, no scope of AI-free assignments; teachers rethink class assessment with viva voce
- Assam Women’s University: From handful of students to robots in village schools, AWU is just getting started
- Teacher Training: Deemed university on paper, NITTTRs lose ground as AICTE, MMTTCs muscle in on domain
- CBSE mandatory 3rd language rule leaves Sanskrit as only R3 option at many pvt English-medium schools
- Mofussil to Markets: SNDT Women’s University is taking fashion design boom to the Maharashtra hinterlands
- Promised, but missing: Five years on, National Digital University reduced to a budget item, with no funds
- Amravati University drops Marathi novel on Covid lockdown from syllabus; ‘targeting literature,’ says author
- JNU, TISS Mumbai, BHU: Student unions vanish from universities with elections scrapped, councils taking over