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Earth studies in focus
Courses related to environment can help meet the challenge posed by environmental degradation.
Understanding web counselling process
Students need to understand the web counselling introduced for completing engineering admissions early, writes R.RAVIKANTH REDDY
How to fund your education
Most nationalised banks readily provide assistance in the form of subsidised loans
Integrated M. Sc. in Visual Communication from Karunya University
Karunya University will offer a unique five-year integrated M. Sc. programme in Visual Communication for those who have completed Plus-Two. Visual communication covers an array of multi-disciplinary subjects such as graphic design and typography, ...

CAMPUS JOTTINGS
AU campus getting ready for new academic year
Andhra University campus is getting ready for the new academic year that commences this week. While admissions for the post-graduate courses are on, AU administration is sprucing up the hostels for the new and old students.Over the last ...



UNIVERSITY ROUND-UP
‘Bhagavatham’, a treasure trove of knowledge
Sri Venkateswara University’s Oriental Research Institute conducted an international conference on ‘Srimad Bhagavatam’ last week, in association with Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams and Hyderabad-based Shanta Biotech. The ...

BHMS degree
The National Institute of Homoeopathy, Salt Lake, Kolkata, an autonomous body under the Government of India has invited applications for an entrance test to be held on August 9 at Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Bhopal, New Delhi ...

Spreading the green message
Going green is the fashion in schools and colleges, as today’s youth are increasingly coming forward to help in the cause of environment.

COMING UP
• Centre for Distance Education of Bharathidasan University, Tiruchi, invites applications for admission to MBA, MCA, M.Sc., M.Com., M.A., BBA, B.Sc. and B.A. through distance education mode. Last date: July 31;

GUIDANCE PLUS
First steps to choosing your destination
Before you make that all-important decision of studying in a foreign land, it helps to have a clear perspective about your way forward.

Reaping rewards through diplomas
In the changing Indian education scenario, diploma courses are seeing a revival with a boom in the number of new and innovative programmes on offer. An assortment of courses are available to suit a variety of career opportunities after getting ...

Research in nanogeoscience
The Department of Marine Science, Bharathidasan University, will commence its research in the field of nanogeoscience with a brainstorming session on August 20 and 21. With U.S. and European countries progressing rapidly in this ...

Aiming for new-look varsities
HRD Ministry for total revamp of higher education.

Admission to M.Phil., Ph.D.
Annamalai University invites applications for full-time M.Phil. and Ph.D. degree programmes in various arts and science disciplines. For application form and prospectus, send a requisition letter along with a demand draft for Rs.400 (for ...

Opportunities in audiometry ring loud and clear
Not many audiometricians are available although they are important to the work of ENT specialists.

Pointers to engineering counselling
Confused about the seats vacancy, college-wise and course-wise? Some help is at hand at these websites.

Apple software adds teeth to dental studies
Educational material on dentistry can now be downloaded in the audio visual format through iTunes, the signature music software of Apple, the global leader in the fields of personal computers, mobile communication devices and portable digital ...

SAP courses
eDrishyaa IT India Private Limited, Coimbatore, a Certified Education Partner, provides industry-relevant Systems Applications Product (SAP) courses to students and professionals. Online training is now available for various modules like ...

Online coaching for entrance exams
The Coimbatore Centre of Triumphant Institute of Management Education Private Ltd. (T.I.M.E.) recently inaugurated a computer laboratory for training students preparing for the Common Admission Test (CAT) by giving them tests online. Addressing a ...

Karunya inks MoU with CINVESTAV
Karunya University entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV), Mexico, for research and development in basic and frontier sciences. According to a release, the MoU envisages ...

Software
Educational material on dentistry can now be downloaded in the audio visual format through iTunes, the signature music software of Apple, the global leader in the fields of personal computers, mobile communication devices and portable digital ...

Get trained in detection of hearing problems
Audiometricians are urgently required by ENT specialists but they are in short supply. Now that the government has launched its National Programme for Prevention and Control of Deafness, the need is more acutely felt, the specialists say. ...

In-house training from HSL
Hindustan Software Limited, Chennai, will offer in-plant training for engineering students belonging to the disciplines of electrical and electronics, electronics and communication, computer science and information technology. According to a ...

CAMPUS CONNECT


“It is not all racism”
Ever since news reports of attacks on Indian students in Australia began making the headlines with sickening regularity over the last few weeks, Natasha Chopra is an anxious woman. For, she is not just the Managing Director of The Chopras, a ...

Tread a new path through applied arts


Higher study options for B.Tech. (IT) students
There are several higher study options including M.Tech. and MBA for B.Tech. holders in information technology. Admission to M.Tech./ME programmes is open to engineering graduates who score a minimum of 60 per cent in their graduation and qualify ...

Campus Connect
A seminar on ‘Creation of scientific awareness for women self-help groups of Virudhunagar district’ was organised at Rajapalayam Rajus’ College, in association with Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology, in the ...
CAMPUS CONNECT
Senior students and staff members of Shrimati Indira Gandhi College welcomed 1,460 freshers with sweets, pens and greeting cards last week.Principal K. Meena distributed free books, notebooks, book bank cards and scholarships to needy ...

Basic sciences and humanities back in the reckoning


Staff development programme organised
Fifty staff members from various universities participated in the staff development programme organised jointly by the organised by the Department of Biotechnology of Periyar Maniammai University and All India Council for Technical Education ...
Many specialities, many opportunities
With as many as nine specialised areas at the PG level, career prospects for students of dentistry are bright.
Orientation on ‘solar energy for rural applications’
Speakers stress the need for energy conservation

Integrated M. Sc. programme
Karunya University will offer a unique five-year integrated M. Sc. programme in Visual Communication for those who have completed Plus-Two. Visual communication covers an array of multi-disciplinary subjects such as graphic design and typography, ...

More applications for medical seats
After the process of weeding out duplicates and invalid forms, the Selection Committee of the Directorate of Medical Education has come up with a total of 14,318 applications for MBBS/BDS courses this year. It is at least 2,000 more ...
Diploma in speech
Sweekar Rehabilitation Institute for Handicapped, Secunderabad is inviting applications for its four-year B.Sc. and one-year diploma programmes in speech and audiology. The institute is also offering B.Ed. in Special Education and diploma ...

Caribbean varsity offers MD
Students can seek admission into the MD course after completion of their Intermediate


UNIVERSITY ROUND-UP
A treasure trove of knowledge
Sri Venkateswara University’s Oriental Research Institute conducted an international conference on ‘Srimad Bhagavatam’ last week, in association with Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams and Hyderabad-based Shanta Biotech. The ...

Clinical research anyone?
Global Hospitals in association with Kriger Research Center India, a division of Kriger International Canada, has launched a diploma course in clinical research. The clinical research wing of Global Hospitals-Global Clinical Research ...


CAMPUS JOTTINGS
Combine idealism and ambition, students told
Idealism without ambition may not achieve much but ambition without idealism is dangerous, Rajya Sabha M.P. and former Governor Dr.C.Rangarajan told the 2008-09 batch of the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) Hyderabad. Dr. ...

‘Nothing is impossible’
B. Srikanth, a visually-challenged student, makes it to MIT with a full fee waiver beating all odds, writes D.V.L.PADMA PRIYA

Learning the nuances of robotics
It was fun and learning for students at the RoboCamp 2009 conducted by the Robotics Club of IIIT-H

OU professor presents paper
A paper by M. Sulochana, Professor and Head of Department, Commerce, OU has been selected for presentation in the International Conference on Social Intelligence. According to a University press note, Prof. Sulochana’s paper titled ...

Destination Bangalore for media course
For those who boldly take up a social cause and work towards achieving it, journalism makes a career that is dynamic, rewarding as well as absorbing. As the fourth estate has a halo around it and hence considered sacred, it needs a lot of ...
Eplus Club schedule
Day 1 - Collage: - Most articles in newspapers and magazines are accompanied by images that explain the stories further. But a sequence of images can also speak and does not need many words to accompany it. Look through your collection of ...
Write to us
All you need is to register with The Hindu, identify the students willing to improve their language skills and one or two lecturers to assist them. Write to us for registration and other details on ...

Diploma programmes in speech and audiology
Sweekar Rehabilitation Institute for Handicapped, Secunderabad is inviting applications for its four-year B.Sc. and one-year diploma programmes in speech and audiology. The institute is also offering B.Ed. in Special Education and diploma ...

Needed: uniform interest rates
Karnataka Govt. has asked banks to come to a consensus on the issue

QUERY CUE
Careers in clinical research
Please tell me about clinical research and the career prospects it provides. Which institutes offer the course? HemanthClinical research deals the responses of human subjects to drugs and medical treatments. This ...

TALKING POINT
Understanding the writer’s perspective
When Greek philosopher Aristotle died, he left behind a simple but clear will. Along with instructions for what should be done with his wealth, there was an important section in it:“Provisions for slaves: The slave Myrmex shall be ...
How good is a foreign university?
Information from different sources will make the task of choosing your institution easier

RIGHT TURN
Stages in human psychology
The teacher asked, “When is your birthday”. The student answered: “13th October”. The teacher again questioned: “Which year?” The over smart student smiled: “Every year”. The teacher was silent for ...
Share your views
The recent decision by the State government to hike the tuition fee in degree colleges is yet to set in with rumours doing the rounds that plans are on to hike the fee of engineering and medical colleges also. Helping the farm sector
KSOU, UAS jointly offer innovative certificate courses
Hospitality industry beckons in New Zealand
Severe shortage of skilled personnel in tourism, hospitality sectors, says MD of Professional Bar and Restaurant School
IBM launches remote mentoring
Endeavouring to bridge the industry-academic divide and bring next generation technologies to university campuses in India, IBM launched the ‘Remote Mentoring Programme’ at the International Institute of Information ...
Masters in law of capital markets
NALSAR Law University (NALSAR) and Institute of Insurance and Risk Management (IIRM), two Hyderabad-based premier institutes, are jointly introducing a two-year Masters Degree in Law of Financial Services and Capital Markets from present academic ...
CSIR lab offers training
The postgraduate course is aimed at bridging a serious deficit of skilled personnel
For quality higher education in Urdu
The Hyderabad-based Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) is a reflection of a vision, perspective and an aspiration. The institution, which is a result of the efforts to revive the glory of Urdu language has a clear inclusive development ...
The never-say-die spirit
Entrepreneurs must have long-term vision and face all business problems boldly

English degree course
With a view to producing quality English language teachers for high schools across the country, the Regional Institute of English, South India (RIESI), will be offering B.Ed English, a one-year degree programme, at its premises in Jnanabharathi ...


Q & A
The call of genetics
I am doing my first year Bachelor of Unani Medicine and Surgery. I want to know the scope of Unani in India. After the completion of this course can I take the IAS or State Civil Services exam? Khalid Syed via e-mail, ...


HOT TOPIC
Cricket: level-headed approach sought

Call it a role model
Stress on research and quality education paying dividends for Karnatak University

IT’s all about the R-word
Some students are wary of the IT sector in the wake of recession, but others aren’t worried

TEST TRACK
The National Institute of Homeopathy, Salt Lake, Kolkata, an autonomous body under the Government of India has invited applications for an entrance test to be held on August 9 at Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Bhopal, New ...

Are we any better?
Racial attacks on Indian students are condemnable but our own track record is not good

CAMPUS CAPSULE
Light and Life Academy, a professional photography institute, has invited applications for admissions for a one-year post-graduate diploma course in professional photography. The last date for submission of applications is June 30, 2009. The ...


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