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Take the humanities route
PRESIDENT A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has gone on record saying scientists alone are not responsible for technology development. Behind every scientist or inventor is a large group of persons doing science, practising humanities, projecting economic ...


Spice it up
MAKING humanities studies more interesting and relevant is the challenge for administrators. Read: Change the way history or literature is learnt now. The curriculum design and its delivery. Of course, the core of history or literature is ...
Back with laurels
TWENTYSEVEN students of Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, Chennai, are back from Lucknow where they won the first prize for the "Best case study presentation on student-teacher interaction" at the sixth international convention on ...
A sound option
Life at the turntables could be groovy. And you get paid to party. So what does it take to be a disc-jockey (DJ)? CHECKLIST Did you start watching MTV when others back in school were still watching Cartoon Network? Do you lust more for the ...
Hey Dudes & Dudettes,
Guess all you guys out there had an absolutely awesome Christmas... right??... and hey I had lots of cakes, puddings, turkey biriyani and wine... did I miss anything?!...Ok after all that partying I am back with my usual gyan for all you guys ...
Jobs on the spot
THE world outside was preparing for Christmas celebrations. But within the serene surroundings of IIT-Madras — Chennai's sanctuary of technology learning — was a buzz of activity. Amid the green canopy, for two days, final year MBA ...
Ahoy! For a career on the seas
ENCOURAGED by the success of a friend's brother, Ravindran has decided to pursue a career in the merchant navy. Countless youngsters like Ravindran get into the maritime act because they want to have the same monetary success that somebody else ...
Design for the differently-abled
EVERY day you board a bus, cross a road divider, enter into a building through steps or climb a flight of stairs.... and do a hundred other chores. Seemingly all without an effort. But, do you realise what a major effort all this is for a ...
Mapping your way through
IF you are still in school or doing your Bachelors, and aren't sure what direction to take, maybe you should dig out that dusty old map. Geography, as a subject, has got great scope for a future, and, importantly, plenty of money. "There's ...
Study in Singapore
The Singapore Management University is offering full-time undergraduate programmes: Bachelor of Accountancy, Bachelor of Business Management, Bachelor of Science (Economics), Bachelor of Social Science and Bachelor of Science (Information Systems ...
Ready to lap IT up?
In another five years in India, I.T and IT-Enabled Services industry will be short of 2,35,000 trained professionals, especially with the continuing growth in the `hot market' of off-shore software development. Global leaders are scaling up ...
A double will save your trouble
BRIDGING the gap between the skills acquired in a college campus and being an `industry relevant professional' will decide whether a student will get a junior-level or middle-level position in his first job. Or whether he will get a job at all. ...
Thinker's corner
A teacher is someone who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. — Edith Ann, [Lily Tomlin] The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. — Elbert Hubbard ...
Maths in nature
The number of petals of a flower and stemlets in plants occur in a natural sequence. It has a relation with the Fibonacci numbers (a series of numbers formed by adding the two previous numbers of the sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, named after ...
HR in the knowledge era
SUNERGEO-2003, the annual Study Conference of the Forum PACE (Personnel Management Associations for Competence and Excellence) of the Department of Social Work, Madras Christian College, was held earlier this month. The topic this time focused ...
Events
Use less and last longer. That's what, as you folks know, energy conservation is all about. Students and teachers at the S.A. Engineering College, near Chennai, observed `Energy Conservation Day' on December 18. The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board ...
Beyond the classroom
AT the end of three/four/five years in a college, you are likely to be an expert in the areas of specialisation you spent all those years studying. Perhaps you have the core competence. But what about allied skills? The HR guys who are looking to ...
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