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NCHER Bill undermines autonomy
As the Centre's proposal for the constitution of a National Commission for Higher Education and Research is being discussed nationally, Kerala State Higher Education Council Vice-Chairman K.N. Panikkar outlines his perspective on the move in an interview to G. KRISHNAKUMAR.



GUIDANCE PLUS
Education options at Peking University
The procedures to join a course at the Peking University are simple and the university offers number of scholarships for academic excellence

All set for CBSE exams
The CBSE had been appointing school principals as Chief Nodal Supervisors for evaluation in the larger cities.

Coming up
The Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology has invited applications for admission to its M.Tech. course in plastics engineering, polymer nano technology, ME in CAD/CAM, B.Tech. in plastics engineering, diploma in plastics ...

Applications invited for CSIR-UGC test
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has invited applications for the Joint CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) to be held on June 20 for determining the eligibility for the award of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) ...

Topping the NDA exams
Joining the prestigious National Defence Academy is a dream come true for S.M. Sriram of Seetha Nivas at Manippuzha in Thiruvalla.This 18-year old boy is the first Keralite to top the three-pronged NDA selection process— a written ...

Green lessons for society
The eco-friendly Bishop Moore College, Mavelikara, is all set to become one of the State's ‘Green Colleges'.

Test Track
The Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry – 605006 has invited application for a national level entrance examination for admission to MBBS course starting from July 28. Total seats: 100. ...

Ask the CBSE
This is the concluding instalment of answers from the Central Board of Secondary Education to queries from readers of The Hindu as part of the ‘Ask the CBSE' series.Most of the statistical data provided in the Social Science ...

Q & A
I have passed my Plus Two and would like to know more about the higher study options in sociology. Kindly give me the details of the colleges and universities that offer this course and its related career prospects.MANJU S., ...

Ending the north-south divide
Are Chennai's college campuses turning into a battleground for students with different cultural backgrounds? What can pave the way for cross-cultural and nation-building education?

Going places, literally
From answering questions of inquisitive tourists to negotiating prices with shopkeepers, tour guides in India do much more than taking people around.For those who like to explore places and meet people from varied backgrounds, the ...

PG programme at IEMR
The Institute of Energy Management and Research (IEMR), recently set up in Gurgaon, has announced a two-year postgraduate programme in management and a one-year executive postgraduate programme in management with a focus on energy ...

For GPAT aspirants
The aspirants of Graduate Pharmacy Admission Test (GPAT) can now rate their scores, free of cost, before the D-Day. An all -ndia free scholarship test will be organised by Gateforum on March 7 in over 40 cities.GPAT 2010 is being ...

Theatre as a solution
The 10-week-long course encompasses plays including those by Mahesh Dattani and Girish Karnad in its module.

New Arrivals
The new additions to Kerala Council for Historical Research Library, Thiruvananthapuram:Laurelyn Whitt, Science, Colonialism, and Indigenous Politics of Law and Knowledge, 2009Tina Basi.J.K, Women, Identity and India's Call ...
Know Your English

Providing wings to dreams
CIAL Academy offers various courses in aviation, airport infrastructure technology and management

Nursing colleges need some care
Syllabus is outdated and facilities are abysmal

Ending the north-south divide
Are Chennai's college campuses turning a battleground for students with different cultural backgrounds? What can pave the way for a cross-cultural and nation-building education?
Candle vigil to spread environment awareness held
Park College of Technology students held a ‘candle vigil' recently to spread environment awareness. A release said around 200 students of environment engineering participated in the programme, organised on the eve of Copenhagen Summit. A ...
Bank on this career
Banks are the lifeline of any country dealing with the man on the street and those who drive the country. The sector that was the obvious choice of the entire middle-class educated segment till the 90s lost its sheen a bit with IT taking its ...

SVIMS resonates to music and dance
The entire campus of Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS) throbbed to the shrill voice of singers that prevailed over the din of the loud percussion beats and the clatter of wind instruments for the last three ...

Campus connect - Madurai
The Department of Chemistry of the American College conducted a symposium on ‘Recent trends in chemistry.' In his inaugural address, T. Chinnaraj Joseph Jaikumar, Principal, advised the students to pursue research in basic sciences . ...
Campus connect - Tiruchirapalli
The Association of Communicative Electronics of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering of M.A.M. College of Engineering in Tiruchi and Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, conducted ...
India Singapore joint Physics Symposium organised
The School of Physics, University of Hyderabad and the National University of Singapore (NUS) have jointly organised the India Singapore joint Physics Symposium (ISJPS) 2010 in Hyderabad last week. The symposium was the third in the series, ...
For that ever-smooth ride
PG programmes in automotive engg. have good scope
Patent application for students' work gains momentum
The Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology (TNSCTC) has made a representation to the Patent Facilitation Centre of the Technology Information Forecasting Assessment Council (TIFAC) in the Ministry of Science and Technology for ...
Grants for research projects
The Post-Graduate and Research Department of Bio-technology of NGM College, Pollachi, has received a grant of Rs. 11.6 lakh from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, for three years. The grant is for Screening ...
Bridging the gap between industry and academia
Challenging the challenges is the true sign of a winner. And a handful of students have set out to do this. Ajay Kumar Nasani, Rajasekhar Vajrala and Sri Charan Lakkaraju, engineering students of Srinidhi Institute of Science and Technology, ...

Teraflop Grid Computing facility at CDAC
In order to facilitate advanced scientific research through high power computing resources, a ‘Teraflop Grid Computing Facility' was instituted at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) at JNTU campus in Hyderabad on ...

OU student's business plan
It was a defining moment for G.Praveen Kumar, a III year student of B.Tech (Chemical Engineering) from Osmania University College of Engineering, when he made a presentation at the International Science Symposium organised by American ...

Colleges sign MoUs to improve student employability
Anna University inked a memorandum of understanding with Enixs Technology India Private Limited to set up a joint Altera EDA / SOPC Laboratory. The MoU will entail the university to get Rs. 12 lakh worth of software tools and FPGA kits from ...
A career in astrophysics
Astrophysics deals with the study of physical properties of stars and galaxies. It is a good option at the Master's degree level. Those who pass the three-year degree course with high marks can opt for astrophysics or astronomy for their ...
Stage set for NIT-W cultural fest
The stage is set for an all new and bigger Spree, a compelling exhibition of creativity, innovation and celebration! Spring Spree 2010 – the annual cultural festival of NIT Warangal promises to culminate and cultivate the whiz bang of ...


CAMPUS JOTTINGS
Outgoing students get grand farewell
Emotions engulfed the final year students as they were given a grand farewell by the juniors of Shadan Degree College for Boys. A souvenir was also released on the occasion marking the 10 {+t} {+h} anniversary of the college by Vizarath Rasool ...

Avanthi college celebrates annual day in style
Assembly Speaker, N. Kiran Kumar Reddy struck the chord with students stating that he wished to see more students coming to politics. He said political career though a difficult one was not evil as is projected and understood by the common ...

Lecture delivered on hotel management
The Hotel Management Association of Jamal Mohamed College in Tiruchi, recently organised a guest lecture programme on ‘How to learn the profession?'Vasanthan Navamani, chef in the United Kingdom, who delivered the lecture, ...

State-level management meet organised
Ten MBA students from Saranathan College of Engineering in Tiruchi, took part in the State-level management meet organised recently by the J.J. College of Engineering and Technology in Tiruchi.The students brought laurels by bagging ...

For GPAT aspirants
The aspirants of Graduate Pharmacy Admission Test (GPAT) can now rate their scores, free of cost, before the D-Day. An all -ndia free scholarship test will be organised by Gateforum on March 7 in over 40 cities.In Bangalore, the test ...


Q & A
Get into jewellery designing
I am pursuing Mechanical Engineering and am currently in the sixth semester. I am planning to get into the jewellery sector. Please provide inputs on Jewellery Design and Management programmes.Surya Kiran S.R.via e-mail, ...

A good beginning
Two more E-Plus clubs launched in Belgaum


E-PLUS CLUB
For the sheer fun of it
Do you keep a tab on the funniest moments in your life?

English teaching needs to be reoriented
The scare of English language among Indian children is more due to the teaching methodologies than the language itself. English teachers in India, particularly those in the semi-urban and rural areas emphasise grammar than teaching English as ...


GUIDANCE PLUS
Peking University tops the pecking order
The university effectively combines research in scientific subjects with training of personnel with a high level of specialised knowledge and professional skill.

LIBA announces winners
The Loyola Institute of Business Management (LIBA) in association with the University of Dayton, U.S., organised the third national essay-writing competition for full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students in India.The topic given ...
Special training for rural students
After a decade of experience in the successful running of Jawahar Knowledge Centres (JKC), the State government has been contemplating to accord special training for rural students that would make them employable.Though the training ...

Learning is fun in this creative atmosphere
If ambience assists academics, the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication's atmosphere will equip students to face a fast-changing mediascape. “The University of Hyderabad's only arm to be named after an individual, it seeks to ...


RIGHT TURN
Expert tips during exam time
Anything you study right before exam is more likely to hurt because the last-studied information is around your short term memory and interferes with information that you studied before. Avoid beverages like coffee, tea, or colas as nothing ...

Helping hand for students
The corporate world is changing fast and people are always on the move. In this competitive day and age, it's imperative for someone to stay ahead. Formal education that keeps in mind these changing trends and focuses on giving students the ...

Theatre as a solution
Art can open many doors, but can it be applied to the field of management, or its education? Students of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, certainly believes so.The Institute has added a new elective course titled ...


DIFFERENT STROKES
Saves time and money, but…
On the centralised admission process for UG seats

A career with tremendous scope
The physician assistant programme offers job opportunities in the health care sector.
Eplus club schedule
Theme: Love for humour occupies a special place in all of our hearts. Sometimes we just wish for some clean, good fun to cheer ourselves up or chill out. Movies, books and television have plenty to offer.Some among them leave us ...


ABSTRACT ARENA
Laser finds a wide range of applications
A ‘LASER' which means “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation” is a coherent and highly directional radiation source with unique properties. Laser dyes are chemical substances which exhibit lasing activity at ...


QUERY CUE
Pharma sector untouched by recession
I am pursuing pharmacy third year. I am confused on what to do after B. Pharm. Please provide information regarding career opportunities after the course.Vivek CKYou should be aware that during the recession only the ...

Students earn and learn through WELL
In a trend setting initiative to make optimum use of in-house resources and information technology for effective library management, the College library and Information Centre (CLIC) of Nagarjuna Government College, Nalgonda, has been ...

Ask the CBSE
This is the concluding instalment of answers from the Central Board of Secondary Education to queries from readers of The Hindu as part of the ‘Ask the CBSE' series.Most of the statistical data provided in the Social Science ...

TALKING POINT
Describe your most intimate feelings
In the recently popular 3D film Avatar, which is about human beings invading another planet in a distant, imagined future, the native people on the planet, the Na'vi, use a nice phrase to express affection and understanding. 'I see you,' they ...
IT + culture
College students live it up at Euphoria-2010

Campus capsule
Everyday events are not as apparent as they seem. The national workshop on ‘General Semantics: Reflections on an Enlightened Living' organised by the Department of English of Bangalore University in collaboration with Balvant Parekh ...

Going places, literally
From answering questions of inquisitive tourists to negotiating prices with shopkeepers, tour guides in India do much more than taking people around.For those who like to explore places and meet people from varied backgrounds, the ...
For an equal society
Seminar decries discrimination
New B-school at Coimbatore
Spark Charitable Trust, in collaboration with Suguna Group of Industries, has set up Suguna Spark Business School in Coimbatore. The school will begin classes from the academic year 2010-11.According to V. Lakshminarayanasamy, trust ...
Focus on genomics technology
In the development and use of GM crops, it is important to rigorously test them for bio safety of the transgenic event through a stringent regulatory system and a single window mechanism for speedy and stringent evaluation for efficacy and ...


COLLEGIAN
Hail the disabled!


Centre for Tamil computing mooted


Chemical industry management course
Nandini Consultancy Centre Private Limited, a chemical business consultancy organisation, based in Chennai and Singapore, will offer a four-month course in ‘Chemical Industry Management' in distance education mode.The course ...

Going nostalgic
Reunions are the flavour of the season. Caught in complexities in life we all go down the memory lane and recall those good old days spent in school and college, and reunions are a platform for refreshing those memories.The Hindu ...

National workshop on quality in higher education
Loyola Academy Degree and PG College has organised is holding a two-day national workshop on “Quality in Higher Education.This seminar involved all the stakeholders in enhancing quality in higher education. was aimed at helping s ...

Test tracker
The Central Institute of Fisheries Nautical and Engineering Training (CIFNET), Kochi, has invited applications for an entrance test to be held on June 6 at Kochi for admission to its Bachelor of Fisheries Science (BFSc.) Nautical Science ...

LIBA announces winners
The Loyola Institute of Business Management (LIBA) in association with the University of Dayton, U.S., organised the third national essay-writing competition for full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students in India.The topic given ...

Courses in finance
Emerge School of Finance and Accounts (EFSA), in collaboration with the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), is launching courses in Finance, Accountancy and Business English.A release said the programmes will be launched in ...

PG programme at IEMR
The Institute of Energy Management and Research (IEMR), recently set up in Gurgaon, has announced a two-year postgraduate programme in management and a one-year executive postgraduate programme in management with a focus on energy ...

Suguna Spark B-School to begin admission process

Aspire Learning Scholarship test
Aspire Learning has announced its admission-cum-scholarship test 2010 for students of classes between VI and XI aspiring to write the IIT-JEE and AIEEE examinations.A release issued by Aspire said students can walk into Aspire centres ...
Intermediate 2004-06 batch of Chaitanya co-op Junior College


Collegian
The ‘Share your Views' column will be dispensed with from the next issue of the Education Plus. It will be replaced by the hugely popular ‘Collegian' column that earlier provided students a platform to share heart-warming stories, ...

Coming up
The U.S.-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) has invited applications for Fulbright, Nehru and other scholarships from Indian citizens residing in India. Download application and other details from the website www.usief.org.inAmrita ...
Write to us
Interested in starting Plus Club in your institution? 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 ...

Admissions open at IBS
Over 10,000 students who cleared IBSAT 2009 attended admission process for 2010 intake at IBS Hyderabad at its Dontapally campus here on Saturday. Out of the total members who took part in the admission process, 3,500 students were selected ...


ASK THE CBSE
Latest information may be used
This is the concluding instalment of answers from the Central Board of Secondary Education to queries from readers of The Hindu as part of the ‘Ask the CBSE' series.Most of the statistical data provided in the Social Science ...


CAMPUS JOTTINGS
Hike in wages comes with conditions
Teachers of higher education in the State are waiting for a long time for implementation of UGC-recommended pay-scales and their wish has been fulfilled with the Government issuing a GO recently. The new scales come into effect with January ...

International Business School starts operation
“The world's education system hinges on two pillars: The European system and the American system and in both the system practical orientation is given maximum value.” This was the message given by the senior professor from Indian ...



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