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Starting early in computers
When it comes to choosing a computer course, a majority of students seem to know what exactly they want, and their familiarity with computers begins at school.
Timely or a waste of time?
Two-day CET will help us to be better prepared, say many students but some disagree
Finishing schools coming up in Puducherry
Students to be trained in English-speaking skills, interview handling methods, goal setting, communication skills, body language, voice correction and much more.

CAMPUS CONNECT
‘Success of company depends on human resources’
The human resource of a company is what determines its growth and success, Jairam Varadaraj, Managing Director, Elgi Equipments, said here recently. Inaugurating the national seminar on “training manpower in the modern business ...
Lucrative jobs for multilingual professionals
Proficiency in a foreign language has become an increasingly important asset in an interdependent world economy
Campus connect
A workshop on ‘semiconductor devices and applications’ was organised by the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Regional Council of Indian Association of Physics Teachers at the Department of Physics, Madura College, recently. It was attended ...
Campus Connect
The Directorate of Field Publicity organised an elocution competition for the NSS Volunteers of Holy Cross College, attending a special camp at Puthanampatti. The competition was conducted in connection with the National Integration Week. ...

CAMPUS JOTTINGS
Teaching associates’ plea to CM
The teaching associates of Andhra University submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, requesting him to regularise teaching associates with Ph.D.s as assistant professors. The members ...
Lessons made easy on TV
Topper TV is a 24-hour channel available on DTH platforms such as DISH TV/Tata Sky. Website: ww.topperlearning.com.
‘Nuclear festival’ for school, college students
DAE scientists will update them on nuclear science.
Higher education fair in Chennai

Scholarships up for grabs

Call to fulfil dreams of Kalam
In honour of the most illustrious alumnus of the New Hostel of St. Joseph’s College, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, a lecture programme was organised recently. Former Kerala Education Minister E. T. Mohammed Basheer, who spoke on ‘Youth and ...
“Student roping programme” for skill upgradation

JEST 2009 on February 15
Applications are invited for the Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST-2009) for admission to Ph.D. programmes, including integrated Ph.D., in physics and theoretical computer science at leading national-level research institutions.The test ...
When English skills helped
The shift in weightage in this year’s CAT was significant.
BU alumnus gets Karnataka State award
Dreamajax Technologies Private Limited, Bangalore, has been selected for the “Karnataka’s Best IT Export Award” for 2007-08”, among the incubating units in Karnataka by the Software Technologies Parks of India ...
Pharm.D: the right prescription
The six-year course for Intermediate pass students is now treated on par with pharma courses across the world

CAMPUS JOTTINGS
College celebrates national pharmacy week
The KVSR Siddhartha College of Pharmaceutical Sciences organised the 47th national pharmacy week celebrations recently. As part of this, it conducted a State-level pharmacy quiz for students of various colleges. Fourth year students Avinash ...

GUIDANCE PLUS
Words must match intent
The statement of purpose is an important part of your application to any foreign institution. Get it right.
JEST 2009 on February 15
Applications are invited for the Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST -2009) for admission to Ph.D. programmes, including integrated Ph.D., in physics and theoretical computer science at leading national-level research institutions — ...
Wanted: lots of astronomers
Here is some good news for all those who want to take up a career in astronomy and astrophysics. Thanu Padmanabhan, internationally-renowned cosmologist, says that “there is a great demand for trained personnel in the ...
New Zealand beckons
An offer to study for a year, work permit for the following year and then being eligible for Permanent Residency (PR) in the second most safest country in the world (rated by the United Nations) sounds music to any Indian student. Precisely that ...
Medical entrance test on April 19
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Wardha (Maharastra) has invited applications for its entrance examination for admission to the MBBS course beginning in 2009. The entrance test will be held on April 19, 2009 at ...



DIL SE
Strive for a green tomorrow
KBN College: Environmental awareness should be given greater thrust in view of the fast looming threat to our society due to increasing levels of pollution. For this, everybody has a role to play and the students’ community have a ...

The men who drive business processes
Application services experts are in great demand
Soft skills training for Stella Maris lecturers
Careers Junction, a human resource training organisation, conducted a 3-day workshop on soft skills development for lecturers of Stella Maris College recently. As many as 36 lecturers who finished their training received certificates from ...

Making the most of a job fair
The changing times have changed the very concept of recruitment. Unlike government recruitment that takes years with a painfully drawn process testing the patience of the seekers than their knowledge and skills, the new age recruitment in the ...

ZIPS – for engineering students
ZIPS (Zeal Tech Institute of Post-Graduate Studies) Research Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, to catalyse higher education and research in the areas of science, engineering and technology was inaugurated by R. Radhakrishnan, ...

CAMPUS JOTTINGS
Regency College celebrates annual day
The Regency College of Hotel Management & Catering Technology celebrated its 14th annual day on November 25. Stephen Fabrigoul, General Manager, ‘West in Hyderabad Mind Space’, was the chief guest at the event. Talking on ...
Take that
How about writing about your classroom and your backyard that is your college campus? Heart-rending (heart-warming too) experiences that move you. Incidents that stirred you or things you did not like. Youth festivals or workshops ...
The ‘rural’ wrangle
The Medical Council of India needs to meet student expectations on pay and certification for the compulsory rural medical service plan to work
Coimbatore student bags first place in AMIE ‘B’ exam
S.S. Poorna Kumar from Coimbatore has secured All India First Rank in Section ‘B’ examination of the Associate Member of the Institution of Engineers (India), Kolkata, held in 2007.Having completed his school and diploma ...
GD: a critical selection tool for companies
Group discussions, a concept designed by management gurus in the West, are initiated for mass elimination and for testing the communication skills of candidates
It’s the turn of the Dutch now
Plan to develop common research programmes and an academy
Talk, cheer, inspire
If you are creative, well informed and a good speaker, become an RJ.
Contribution of top engineer recalled
The Institution of Engineers India - Tirupati and the local unit of Indian Geotechnical Society organised the 10th memorial lecture of Late Engineer T. Narayana Reddy at SVU Senate Hall on Thursday. Speakers eulogised Reddy’s contributions ...

Q & A
Delve into aquaculture studies
We are interested in aquaculture. Can you guide us about studies in this field and starting a small aquaculture centre? Govindappa and Eshwar via Email Mandya It is wonderful to find that people like you are ...
Lessons made easy on TV
School students can now take their science and mathematics lessons from Dr. Chandralekha Singh, who is currently professor of physics at the University of Pittsburg; Dr. Shankar Venkatagiri, a Ph.D in mathematics form Georgia Tech University, ...

Scholarship for students from low-income families
Thousands of scholarships are in the offing under the Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students.

Conoscenza ’08 at TNAU
An inter-collegiate meet, “Conoscenza ‘08”, was held at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. Organised by the Department of Agricultural and Rural Management of the university, it saw 300 management students from 25 colleges ...
Classical music rents the air at IIIT-H

Wanted: lots of astronomers
A candid appraisal of the state of astronomy and astrophysics education and research in the country
Course in German
The fresh batch of German language courses (elementary level) begins on January 5, 2009 (weekday course, morning and evening) and on Janaury 10, 2009 (weekend batch) at the Goethe Institute/Max Mueller Bhavan, Chennai. The course is open to ...


GUIDANCE PLUS
Letter of recommendation
We move on to the role played by letters of recommendation in admissions to colleges and universities in foreign countries.

SPIPS plays host to Polish students

For the cause of social sciences
Academy to be built on Kuvempu varsity campus
New programmes in nanomaterials
Cochin University of Science and Technology is introducing new programmes in nanomaterials and devices and renewable energy engineering.

UNIVERSITY ROUNDUP
Prestigious award for sculptor-painter
Veteran sculptor and painter C.S.N Patnaik has been chosen to be awarded with the Visishta Puraskam - 2007 presented by Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University. Hailing from Srikakulam, Patnaik was a student of Devi Prasad Roy Chowdhuri. He has been ...

DIFFERENT STROKES
Fun + responsibility
Living in a hostel is the best part of life, feel many students
Test Tracker
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Wardha (Maharashtra), has invited applications for its entrance examination for admission to the MBBS course beginning in 2009. The entrance test will be held on April 19, 2009 at Nagpur, ...
Pharmacy college plays host to Polish students
Two girls from Poland - Ewa Gromadko and Iwona Hodana - said they were awe struck going round the country. The girls who were here on a two-month course at the St. Peters Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (SPIPS) said they found the teaching ...
A plus factor for students
They will be asked to practise English language learning modules
Course for fitness instructors
Sports Performance Rehabilitation Research Counselling (SPARRC) Institute is organising a six-day (three weekends) course for health and fitness instructors. Sports medicine specialist Dr. Kannan Pugazhendi has designed this programme. ...

QUERY CUE
Prospects for BHMS students
Please tell me about the career prospects of Homeopathy and further study options after BHMS. MudassirHomeopathy is widely accepted system of medicine and has also found favour with patients in India and many ...
Campus Capsule
Cisco organised its first regional-level networking skills competition recently. Asia Pacific NetRiders 2008 featured 45 participants from 15 countries. These teams competed for an all-expense paid trip to the U.S.The competition was ...
Welcome to the world of KPO
How does a construction boom in New Zealand create jobs in India? V.P. Rajini Reddy, director, Exemplarr worldwide, a KPO organisation, gives you three words — Knowledge Process Outsourcing.“The current slowdown will not affect ...
Shedding their inhibitions
Students were all excited at the launch of Eplus Clubs and some had even done their homework well
Meet on storage technologies
EMC, a leader in information infrastructure solutions, has announced that it is organising an International Conference and Symposium on Storage Technologies (ICSST) with NMAM Institute of Technology, NITTE, Mangalore, on December 3 and ...
Seminar on soft skills
The Chennai centre of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), headquartered in New Delhi, will organise a seminar on soft skills for employability, in association with an HR consultancy firm, in Chennai on December 7 at ...
Fun-filled learning


YOUR VOICE
New dimensions to learning
An account of the Global Students Forum meeting in Cape Town
Inter-collegiate meet at TNAU
An inter-collegiate meet, “Conoscenza ‘08”, was held at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU). Organised by the Department of Agricultural and Rural Management of the university, it saw 300 management students from 25 ...
Practical training in mathematicss
A teenaged priest of a Kali temple wants to become a mathematical genius but is poor even in adding two simple numbers. Every day he prays to the deity to make him a whiz-kid in maths. Years pass but there is no positive result. Other gods appeal ...
Scholarships
Animation as a genre thrives on creativity. The more creative one is, the greater the rewards. If nurtured, creativity can blossom and take us ahead. It is with this objective that Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (MAAC) has ...

EPLUS CLUBS
Terror attacks condemned
Eplus Club members say it is the duty of every citizen to ensure that anti-social elements are brought to book
Let’s get QUIZical
1. What is the U.S. Secret Service name for the current U.S. President and First Lady?2. Which word means “easeful death”?3. What are the indentations on a golf ball called?4. A sommelier is an expert ...
FIITJEE talent reward exam
The FIITJEE Talent Reward Examination (FTRE) 2008 will be conducted on December 14 in 56 test centres across the country. The examination is for students from Class VI to 12 who are appearing for board exams, competitive entrance exams, SAT, ...

An ‘enlightening’ train journey
Arts College, OU: What does a train journey mean to you? A chance to escape the traffic? A much-needed break from the routine? An opportunity to indulge the child in you? And replenish your sense of wonder? Perhaps some combination of all ...


DIL SE
Carve your own identity
JNTU, Kukatpally: Threshold -- the very word itself transforms all of us to a fun-filled, yet nostalgic world. To literary experts it may crystallize into a beautiful yet marvellous poem by Sarojini Naidu namely ‘The Golden ...

Live for the moment
The City University of New York: As the creed of human beings and as invincible patrons of this ever revolving clock of time, we do not have time to postpone things indefinitely. Like for example, enjoying the moment or the day. In ...


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