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Skill sets for IT industry
For the country to be in the forefront of IT, the industry requires candidates who know the fundamentals and are also capable of communicating and applying them.
Add value to your learning
Students take up add-on courses for a better career



Q & A
Let your career take a DIP Q & A
I am an MBA in marketing, working in the pharmaceutical industry for over 12 years. I have recently moved to a Knowledge Process Outsourcing firm which offers solutions to the pharma industries in India and abroad. I would like to pursue ...

asdfgf… the learning continues
Tap tap tap… the familiar sound of letters hitting the paper on the typewriter is surely on the wane, but interest in learning the skill has not altogether diminished.
Engineering college
Sri Eshwar College of Engineering at Kinathukadavu is a new addition to the Anna University, Coimbatore. According to a release from the college, it offers four undergraduate programmes, viz., B.E. Electrical and Electronics, B.E. ...
Counselling puts you on right track
The present counselling system gives the students and the parents who accompany them a one-stop experience

In search of teachers
Architectural education has a peculiar arrangement. While universities recognised by the University Grants Commission may issue degrees, they cannot entirely determine the education norms. It is the Council for Architecture that mostly ...

Creating 'educators for peace'
A five-week training course on `Peace Education for Teachers' began in the National Council of Educational Research and Training headquarters recently. This is the fourth consecutive course which has been offered by the Department of ...
M.Tech in nanoscience from this year at AU-T
Anna University - Tiruchi is all set to offer M.Tech in Nano Science and Technology from this academic year. The university has roped in experienced faculty in the areas of Nano Particles, Biotechnology, Materials Science and Pervasive ...
Great days ahead for pharma graduates
With plans to start a six-year Pharm. D course in the country, pharmacy education will be on par with courses offered in any other foreign country

RIGHT TURN
Lateral thinking
A starving beggar prayed “O God! Help me. I promise to give you half of what I get today.” Surprisingly he found a hundred rupee note on the roadside. Having spent it totally, he was fearful of the punishment for breaking his ...
For the corporate circle
ISB&M courses seek to develop leadership skills
Student inventors
Only in a student inventor’s world, maybe, can an automatic rasam-maker and an automatic money depositing machine stand next to each other. But for a group of students of Savitha Engineering College, who worked on these two projects, ...
Campus connect
The Department of Management Studies of Sri Krishna Arts and Science College organised a management meet called “Officios ’08.” The valediction was held in the college premises and prizes were given to students who had presented ...
Great days ahead for pharma graduates
With plans to start a six-year Pharm. D course in the country, pharmacy education will be on par with courses offered in any other foreign country
Fee doubling draws students' ire
The fee increase for management quota seats may have been recommended by a panel, but students do not find merit in it.
Brainstorming, a multi-skill development device
Is it possible to practise an activity which will facilitate free flow of ideas, encourage patient hearing and active listening of each and everyone in a group? Brainstorming, the brainchild of Alex Osborne, a Latin American journalist, is one ...
In search of teachers


CAMPUS JOTTINGS
New V-C evinces interest for rural areas and poor students
As expected by many, Rector Beela Satyanarayana has been appointed as Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University and the ascendance to the highest post of the one of the oldest and reputed universities has not affected his humility and ...
Jobs and start-ups
IIIT-B, NEN team up to help freshers
Merging classroom and distance learning
IGNOU has been promoting a convergence between the conventional university and ODL systems. An appraisal.
Professional expertise in special education

Creating entrepreneurs
An institute offers virtual classrooms and much more
Courses in media and entertainment
Manipal Education Group now offers many professional courses in media and entertainment field, such as Television Journalism, Camera, Video Editing, Script Writing, Voice Acting and others, at its Institute of Media & Entertainment (MIME). ...
Merging classroom and distance learning
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is actively promoting convergence between the conventional university system and the open- and distance-learning (ODL) system. It is being done through enhanced and optimal utilisation of the ...
Master the business world
In a globalised scenario, with many MNCs opening offshore subsidiaries, this niche area holds a lot of promise for graduates, especially those with a commerce background.
Study media and entertainment
The Indian media and entertainment (M&E) industry is expected to grow at a 19 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to reach an overall value of $ 18.32 billion by 2010 from its present size of $ 7.72 billion, according to a report ...
The fine arts attraction
The two-decade old institution has been a major source of learning arts and music for students from Puducherry and outside.
Roots Business School launched
Roots Business School, a B-School aimed at producing managerial talent with knowledge of real-time problems of the industry, was launched last week. Blending the class room teaching with practical experience of work, internships would be the ...
Merging classroom and distance learning
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is actively promoting convergence between the conventional university system and the open- and distance-learning (ODL) system. It is being done through enhanced and optimal utilisation of the ...
Clinical psychology
The Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, Delhi, has invited applications for admission to the M.Phil. Clinical Psychology course. There are 12 seats. Those who have passed regular M.A. or M.Sc. courses in psychology, applied ...

DIFFERENT STROKES
And I will opt for…
A look at what students prayed and hoped for while waiting for CET counselling
Clinical psychology
The Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, Delhi, has invited applications for admission to the M.Phil. Clinical Psychology course. There are 12 seats. Those who have passed regular M.A. or M.Sc. courses in psychology, ...
Opportunities matter the most
S.D.M. Siddhartha Mahila Kalasala:The objective of education has taken a different direction these days with students and their parents solely concentrating on future opportunities and chances that may come from a particular course. ...

RIGHT TURN
Life’s a game, play it well
Take on students' test of nerves
MBA from Cygmax
Cygmax Institute of Management Studies at Coimbatore and Madurai offer two-year full-time MBA programmes.For details, contact 97913-31890 and 0422-4213990 in Coimbatore and 97916-51750 in ...
Admission open for NALSAR courses
National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University of Law, Hyderabad, has announced opening of admissions for 2008-09 in the following one-year courses: P.G. Diploma in Patent Law; P.G. Diploma in Cyber Laws; P.G. Diploma in ...

DIL SE
When the judgement day arrives Dil Se
Andhra Medical College: The restless vibration of the new Sony Ericsson phone broke the delicious slumber I was relishing that sultry afternoon. Like the sun that breaks the nocturnal frost, the new message I received, shattered the ...
Opportunities matter the most
S.D.M. Siddhartha Mahila Kalasala:The objective of education has taken a different direction these days with students and their parents solely concentrating on future opportunities and chances that may come from a particular course. ...

CAMPUS CAPSULE
IT certification
Computer Society of India (CSI), India’s largest organisation of IT professionals, and PQR Software will be jointly conducting the National Software Testing Examination for certifying IT professionals. PQR Software, involved in software ...
Free CAT course
TCYonline.com offers a free online CAT course. It includes about 60 recorded lectures and over 200 tests in verbal and quantitative ability sections. TCYonline.com Product Manager, Rakesh Kumar says, “The current batch (eighth) ...
Courses in media and entertainment
Manipal Education Group now offers many professional courses in media and entertainment field, such as Television Journalism, Camera, Video Editing etc . Manipal, in association with Whistling Woods International, an initiative of ...
Let’s get QUIZical
3. Which famous writer founded the ‘All the Year Round’ Victorian periodical?4. What is the capital of Honduras?5. Lester Keith Piggott is a living legend in which sporting activity?Answers for June ...


YOUR VOICE
Responsible and responsive
“Newspapers and periodicals; people involved in producing these,” is the definition of the term ‘Press,’ according to the Oxford Dictionary. That is not quite a satisfactory explanation for ‘Press’ means a ...

Cracking the civil services exam



GUIDANCE PLUS
Opportunities galore in hospitality industry guidance plus
We explore more options for further study after Plus-Two and turn to course choices that do not hinge on the student’s optional subject combinations.

Product and design engineering at Middlesex
Creating dancing robots, improving usability of mobile phones, designing furniture, inventing a light-emitting jacket for cyclists, enhancing the interface between gorillas and tourists at London Zoo — these are just some of the projects ...

Design, construct and operate industrial plants
An engineering branch that involves the design and maintenance of chemical processes for largescale manufacture, chemical engineering is crucial to running an industrial economy.

CTS makes record campus offers for Anna University
Over 1,100 students of the College of Engineering, Guindy, got offer letters from Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS) at Anna University on Friday. This represents the highest number of offers received by the students of an engineering ...

All for true research
The Thiruvananthapuram-based Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) is widening its horizons with a Rs. 100-crore grant from the Centre, and the deemed university status is expected soon. Its Director, M. Radhakrishna Pillai, spells out the plans of the centre such as the setting up of a second campus.

Q & a
I am in final-year computer science engineering. What are the career prospects for network engineering ?
Network engineering involves a group of system, network, and operations professionals responsible for designing, ...



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