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Whither higher education reforms?
Though the State government has initiated measures such as implementation of credit and semester system and formation of clusters of colleges to improve the higher education scene, much more needs to done. With elections round the corner, the government has less time to deliver. G.MAHADEVAN takes a look.



GUIDANCE PLUS
Making of an officer and a gentleman
The cadets for the three services are given academic and physical training of a preliminary nature for a period of three years at the National Defence Academy.

KCHR LIBRARY
The new additions to Kerala Council for Historical Research Library, Thiruvananthapuram:Tirthankar Roy, Company of Kinsmen: Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700-1940, 2010Douglas E. Haynes et al. (Ed.), Towards a ...

MSSW to start new courses
The Madras School of Social Work (MSSW) is planning to start a few new courses and introduce additional batches for in-demand courses.An M.Sc. programme in applied psychology is among the new courses that will shortly be launched, says ...

IGNOU's new initiative


Innovative PG course at MG University
The School of International Relations and Politics (SIRP), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, has invited applications for Innovative M.A Programmes for 2010-11. The school is the first institution in the country to offer a two-year M.A ...

Test track
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Regional Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, has invited applications for management aptitude test OPENMAT to be held on August 22 across the country for admission to the following management ...


Q & A
Options in journalism and mass communication
I am a BA (communicative English) student and would like to know more about journalism and mass communication courses, and institutions that offer these courses. What are the job prospects?SOUMYA AND ...

UPSC invites applications for IES/ISS 2010


Applications invited for admission to nursing course
Applications have been invited for admission to diploma course in general nursing and midwifery training offered at 14 government nursing schools under the Health Department of the State government. Seats allotted for each district-level ...

Coming up
DOEACC, Calicut Centre, has invited applications for admission to its M.Tech. course in embedded system and postgraduate diploma courses in embedded system design, and embedded wireless and mobile applications. The courses will commence in ...
Know Your English

The long wait and the ordeal
AICTE recognition process for engg. colleges is still in progress, delaying admissions
How do you choose a college?
What determines the choice of a professional course or college? Experts provide perspectives to help students and parents.

Set a clear goal and strive to achieve it
Students today have vast and diverse opportunities when it comes to higher education.

Making it to MIT against odds
Bolla Srikanth, a visually-challenged boy, is currently pursuing his Bachelor of Sciences at the university
RoboCamp a huge draw


Testing time for would-be lawyers
The Bar Council of India has decided to introduce a test for law graduates intending to take up legal practice, writes R. RAVIKANTH REDDY

Lend a hand, to make a successful career
Technicians trained in developing prosthetics are in short supply, as there are only a few institutions that offer a course in this niche area of healthcare.
Approval process 2010
What is this new AICTE process? A key AICTE official explained that the ‘New Approval Process 2010' aims at increasing transparency and eliminating any direct contact between AICTE officials and colleges.Colleges must submit ...

CAMPUS CONNECT
Students told about life skills
Department of MBA of Dr. SNS Rajalakshmi College of Arts and Science inaugurated “Growth- A Guide to Cultivating Self-Development” to enable students to perform better in the on- and off-campus interviews. It was inaugurated by R. ...
Autonomy— more effective academic model
A paradigm shift in imparting independent education by becoming autonomous is emerging as a new trend
Campus Connect
The valedictory function of the 56 {+t} {+h} and 57 {+t} {+h} orientation programme organised by the Academic Staff College of Madurai Kamaraj University for college teachers was held recently. P. B. Gopalakrishnan, Director in-charge, ASC, in ...

Italian and Spanish course
The Indo Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry offers a customised Italian and Spanish language course. The course will be ideal for students, professionals and companies engaged in Italian joint venture companies and for those in the ...

Campus Connect
The Karpaga Vinayaga Institute of Management in Pudukottai recently celebrated its first Foundation Day. S. Gopinath, General Manager (Operations), BHEL, Tiruchi, and CII chairman, Tiruchi, was the chief guest. He outlined the essential traits ...

Lend a hand, to make a successful career
Technicians trained in developing prosthetics are in short supply, as there are only a few institutions that offer a course in this niche area of healthcare.


CAREER AVENUES
The scope of polymer engg.
Graduates in this branch with a valid GATE score can opt for postgraduate programmes
New courses from MSSW
The Madras School of Social Work (MSSW) is planning to start a few new courses and introduce additional batches for in-demand courses.An M.Sc. programme in applied psychology is among the new courses that will shortly be launched, says ...
Germany invites scientists for ‘Green Talent' contest


Last date for application extended by MANUU
Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) has extended the last date for submission of application for admission in to various campus based courses to June 30, except the courses offered at the School of Education & ...

International conference on knowledge discovery and data mining
The 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2010) will be held at Hyderabad from June 21-24.The event will see researchers and industry practitioners sharing their ideas, original research results and ...

Q & A
All about management studies
B-school aspirants had a free-flowing question and answer session with the experts at the counselling session, Manage - 2010, organised for the MBA hopefuls by The Hindu Education Plus in association with Hyderabad-based Sujana School of ...

Reunion
Reunions are flavour of the season. Caught in the complexities of life we all want to 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 ...

Look smart, be smart
The Civil Services interview board looks for competent candidates, and so one must remain confident and truly believe that one's chances are bright

What students of design must know
Any role for psychoanalysis and psychology in training design students? Yes, says Ed D'Souza, HoD of Graphic Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton

EdServ's free mobile application for students
Students can clarify their subject doubts instantly on their mobile phones now. Chennai-based Education Services Company EdServ has launched an exclusive new mobile application, which the students can download for free to their mobile. The ...


GUIDANCE PLUS
Making it to the National Defence Academy
The Services Selection Board interview makes a comprehensive assessment of the personal attributes, usually referred to as ‘officer-like qualities' for recruitment to the academy.


CAMPUS JOTTINGS
Innovative training programme
In an initiative to train and provide placements to its students, Nalanda Group of Institutions and Holy Mary Group of Institutions have tied up with the New Delhi based Synergy Info Systems last year. The tie-up turned out to be fruitful for ...

Eplus Club schedule
Theme: Deadly diseases are as much a threat to us as wars. We have seen the devastating effects of some highly contagious ailments. What's more worrying is that panic spreads faster than the diseases and we start believing all kinds of ...


RIGHT TURN
Keeping our promises
Every promise is based on faith. Do you remember the elementary school poem on Casablanca? “The boy stood on the burning deck... Whence all but he had fled...” (During the Battle of Nile, a captain of the ship asks his 12-year-old ...


TALKING POINT
Adding new expressions
Last week I mentioned three different sources that make up most of what we recognise as Indian English: Indian language words being used in English sentences; English words that are made up by us and do not exist in standard English; and ...

All about agri-business
IIPM offers a 24-month PG diploma


E-PLUS CLUB
Tackling epidemics
(Members of E-Plus clubs in colleges have been given the following topic for discussion and debate)Week 35 (June 21 to 26)Theme: Deadly diseases are as much a threat to us as wars are. We have seen the devastating effects of some ...

GSB launches executive MBA
Global School of Business (GSB), a constituent of Everonn Business Education Limited (EBEL), which is a subsidiary of Everonn Education Limited, has launched its executive MBA flagship programme.On the occasion of the launch of the ...

Chinese lessons in Chennai
With increasing people-to-people contact between India and China, and growing interest in Chinese culture, more and more people are now learning Chinese.

Role of literature in technical education

BVB courses
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's College of Communication and Management is offering P.G. Diploma courses in Journalism, Public Relations and Mass Communication apart from P.G. Diploma courses in Marketing and Sales Management, Business Management, ...

PAKDD-2010
The 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2010) will be held at Hyderabad from June 21 to 24.The event will see researchers and industry practitioners sharing their ideas, original research results ...

Gitam signs MoU with Japanese pharma major
Gitam University has entered into an MoU with a Japan based Pharmaceutical company Eisai Pharmatechnology and Manufacturing to identify and initiate measures for joint research activity for better human healthcare.Need based ...

Chance to study engineering in England
Students of affiliated engineering colleges of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur now have the privilege of going to England to pursue their B.Tech. and B.E. degree and also enjoy the unique distinction of possessing dual ...

Scholarships for ISB students
Two students of the Indian School of Business (ISB) were awarded the newly-instituted Manyagroup-Princeton Review-ISB scholarships.Amounting to Rs. 6.5 lakh, the scholarships are awarded to students who undergo GMAT training at ...


ADMISSIONS
MBA in port and shipping management
The Indian Maritime University under the Government of India has invited applications for a common entrance test to be held on July 4 for admission to its MBA programme in port and shipping management conducted at its Chennai and Cochin ...


Q & A
Speed matters in the world of paramedics
IIM-Calcutta offers an Executive Programme in Business Management for working professionals. The duration of the course is one year and it is offered in the distance education mode through the HUGHES network. After completion of this course we ...

COURSE CLOSE-UP
The need of the hour is environment management
Fast-paced development initiatives pose a big challenge to the environment. This PG course throws light on how best to use nature's resources for sustainable growth.

Turning start-up ideas into reality
NEN EClub, functioning in Chennai, Pune, Mumbai and Bangalore, now helps all aspiring entrepreneurs to stay connected.

Government colleges to have psychotherapy counsellors
While school education may be easy to get through with parental support, higher education is a different story altogether as students cope with teen pressure and are exposed to a new environment. They must also deal with their personality as ...

Applications invited
The Commissioner for Entrance Examination has invited applications for an entrance examination to be held on July 25 at Thiruvananthapuram for admission to postgraduate degree courses in Ayurveda for the year 2010-2011 in government Ayurveda ...

Educational loans – need for reorientation
College admissions have started and it is time for parents to start arranging for funds to secure a seat for their wards in the course and college of their choice. The government, duly recognising the role of education in the development of ...


QUERY CUE
Learning to be a stock market analyst
I want to pursue a stock exchange course. Please tell me the institutions offering this course and the qualification required to do the course.Prabhu DevaIndia is now a business destination for many of the world's top ...

Higher defence management course


Learning is fun here
Students of V-Lead E-Plus club, Mysore, get innovative while improving their fluency in English
MOUs Signed
CMS College of Science and Commerce, Coimbatore, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Business School of Worcester University, the United Kingdom.The MoU would enable the students of CMS to pursue their higher education and ...

PG certificate programme
Mudra Institute of Communications (MICA), Ahmedabad, has announced admissions for its six-month residential post-graduate certificate programme in Crafting Creative Communications (CCC).The programme is structured to train and develop ...


ABSTRACT ARENA
Novels for a new social identity
Mulk Raj Anand, who is described as the grand old man of Indo-Anglican fiction gained a sympathetic and closer understanding of the social exploitation of the lower caste in the social order and also of the economic exploitation of the poor ...

Education programme on ‘Emergency medicine'
Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS University), in association with GVK EMRI, conducted a continuing medical education programme on ‘Emergency medicine' last week. It was the second such event by the EMRI after the one ...


DIFFERENT STORKES
Toppers need medals
Bring back the gold medals, students tell BU
St. Joseph students get innovative on two wheels
The bright red-painted bike seems like a contraption one sees in the circus — with two handlebars and a loud sound.The dual mode DruHill bike designed by M. Abraham Devanesan, N. Arun Prakash and G.B. Charan Raj of St. Joseph ...
Training for GRE aspirants
GREdge.com, the online academy for GRE training, has launched an enhanced set of programmes aimed at students aspiring to study abroad. The new programmes offer enhanced verbal and quant lessons, covering 200 hours of study.The new ...

New courses from IPE
The Institute of Public Enterprise is starting two new courses – PG Diploma in Management-Banking, Insurance and Financial Services (PDM-BIF) and PG Diploma in Management – International Business on June ...

Reunion
Reunions are flavour of the season. Caught in the complexities of life we all want to 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 ...

Italian and Spanish course
The Indo Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry offers a customised Italian and Spanish language course. The course will be ideal for students, professionals and companies engaged in Italian joint venture companies and for those in the ...

PG diploma in clinical diabetology
Annamalai University in association with India Diabetes Research Foundation(IDRF), a research organisation in diabetes and related fields, and Dr. A. Ramachandran's Diabetes Hospitals, have introduced a two-year full-time course leading to ...



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