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Practical matters
A year's preparation is tested in a short examination. Dhanya Parthasarathy speaks to teachers on how to tackle the Plus-Two practicals.


Rebooting curricula
The country's curriculum planners in IT and computing subjects have not been able keep up with trends and mould courses that sharply focus on new areas of study. Will the ACM report help academics envision a new course regime?
IT's good when you have friends
Keep up with fast-changing Information Technology trends and build a network of referrers in IT companies who will recommend you.
Don't get lost in the book maze
In the age of Internet and virtual libraries, information retrieval demands scientific cataloguing and archiving. Helping in this process is Dspace, a free software.
Gateway IIT
THE HINDU Education Plus and AIMS Education's event GATEWAY IIT and Open Test for IIT Joint Entrance Examination 2005, held this past week, was an occasion to savour for the group. The participants got to write a mock test modelled on ...
Why Tiruchi waits
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY has come of age in Tiruchi. IT enterprises here, as in the case of metros, are doing a roaring business. Innovative solutions are created here to take business to the next level. Young and the old alike, rush to the ...
Education in India: waiting for the magic
As an education destination, India offers distinct advantages to foreign students. Why then are institutions not vigorously marketing their courses abroad? And why are we not attracting more foreign students?
Beyond the lab
Taking science to the people in an accessible manner is critical, if baseless fears and prejudices are to be avoided.
Social work at its best
What is it that makes the personnel management and industrial relations course at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, highly valued by recruiters?
More than India Inc.
THE VITALITY of its democratic institutions, forward-looking policies and wealth of manpower combine to provide India the edge over its classic economic rival, China, in the march to economic growth for the next 25 years, says Vijay Govindarajan, ...
The personality factor
Personality assessment plays a key role in the recruitment process. Which aspects of personality are usually tested? What is emotional quotient? Can you improve it?
Spoken English course at TNAU
STUDENTS WHO join the `Spoken English' course at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) will be able to practice facing interviews, participate in group discussions and brush up their presentation skills. Offered by the Directorate of ...
Age and the job: the UK experience
Prejudice against job applicants over 50 is rife, but youngsters face discrimination too. Take a look at the advantages and pitfalls of the experience in the United Kingdom.
`Every applicant over 45 was as good as binned'
BARRY BADHAM, runs Dinosaurs Unlimited, a recruitment agency targeting the over-45s. As with so many good ideas, the agency was born after a chance conversation between two old friends, and quickly became a roaring success. ``We're just a ...
Ministers agree on admission regulation
There was consensus among Ministers to regulate admissions and the fee structure in private institutions.
INSTITUTION IN FOCUS
An ideal environment for learning
"I am happy to note that 60 per cent of the students passing out from this college are taking up teaching as a profession, which is a very good sign for societal upliftment." These are the words of President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. On the face of ...
Campus connect
VARIOUS EDUCATIONAL institutions have been rushing to the tsunami-hit districts to extend assistance to the affected people. The National Service Scheme volunteers are meeting the families to distribute relief materials. In one such gesture, the ...
The most challenging task
GETTING INTO an Indian Institute of Technology is the most challenging task for an engineering aspirant. As the IITs are considered as among the toughest and most influential engineering schools in the world, the tag, `IITian,' is attached only ...
IGNOU courses
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has announced the opening of admissions for B.Sc. in hospitality and hotel administration programme for the current academic session. The programme has been thrown open to the diploma holders of ...
BOOKS
For GI specialists
A book that deals exclusively with the pre and post operative management of patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery, has been authored by S. Devaji Rao, a surgeon attached to St. Isabel's Hospital. The book presents concise but in-depth ...

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