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Catering the flavour is back (23 November 12:00) |
| The fast-paced growth of the hospitality industry in the country is attracting many students. |
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Courses in apparel design (23 November 12:00) |
| Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has joined hands with the Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) for offering various educational programmes in the domain of apparels, garmen... |
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Study in the land of fjords and midnight sun (23 November 12:00) |
| The best part of education in Norway is that there is no tuition fees for higher education with the exception of a few private university colleges. |
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Why not a career in the Indian army (23 November 12:00) |
| Excellent pay package, perks and privileges, yet the Army fails to attract the youth. |
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Apprenticeship creates valuable work experience for students (23 November 12:00) |
| Experience is one of the most important attributes employers look for in an applicant. Work experience gained during apprenticeship creates a ready work force. |
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Course for physiotherapists (23 November 12:00) |
| SPARRC (Sports Performance Assessment Rehabilitation Research Counselling Institute) Institute aims at inculcating knowledge of advanced treatment procedures and fitness training skills to e... |
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Tackling verbal and reading sections in the CAT (23 November 12:00) |
| Overcome the sense of ambiguity and uncertainty and score high by adopting certain strategies and managing time efficiently. |
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Robo-car designed in Tiruchi (23 November 12:00) |
| An unmanned car designed and developed by a Robotics-oriented group of final-year students of Roever Engineering College, Perambalur, promises valuable applications on battlefield and mines,... |
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Test for PG MBA courses (23 November 12:00) |
| Symbiosis National Aptitude (SNAP) Test, the written test for admission to the Postgraduate and MBA programmes offered by the 12 constituent institutes of Symbiosis International (Deemed Uni... |
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At a crossroads (16 November 12:00) |
| The president of the Medical Council of India outlines proposed changes in medical education system. |
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Empowered students informed choice (16 November 12:00) |
| Now, students and members of the general public who wish to seek information regarding quality of education offered by various educational institutions, being inspected by the UGC, can do so... |
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Students get hooked to robotics (16 November 12:00) |
| Robotics has caught up with the student community in a big way and many students have started forming groups in colleges to discuss several aspects of robotics. |
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Achieving maritime excellence (16 November 12:00) |
| The Indian Maritime University is the long cherished dream of the maritime community in India. |
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Women prefer to sail too (16 November 12:00) |
| “In the recent times, we have many women students who join the marine engineering and nautical sciences programme and they show great interest in the maritime career,” says Mr. Vijayan. ... |
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Virtual school fillip to dental education (16 November 12:00) |
| From a classroom with real time models, it is now on to virtual classrooms, computer rooms and libraries. Given that there is a dearth of trained teachers at dental colleges, dentists are lo... |
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Empowering teachers to create learning avenues (16 November 12:00) |
| “Teachers need to be empowered to recognise and value what children learn from their home, social and cultural environment and to create opportunities for them to discover, learn and devel... |
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VTU research portal to help students (16 November 12:00) |
| Researchers can share ideas and resources, not easily available in the public domain. |
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E-Learning to aid quality education (16 November 12:00) |
| The IIT Madras Director, M.S. Ananth, said that e-Learning has potential to address the growing quality education need of India and Industry participation in managing the education would def... |
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Study abroad courses in Nordic nations (16 November 12:00) |
| A significant aspect in the matter of education is that the fees are usually low but the cost of living is very high. |
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MANUU offers ghazal course (16 November 12:00) |
| Maulana Azad National Urdu University has started a unique course in ghazal appreciation for the non-Urdu ghazal lovers. Presiding over the function organised to launch the courses of ghaza... |
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Holland alumni network to meet on December 7 (16 November 12:00) |
| The Nuffic (Netherlands organisation for international cooperation in higher education), Chennai, is organising the Holland Alumni Network meet on December 7, 2009 at the Taj Mount Road, Che... |
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AU-T strengthens e-learning mechanism (16 November 12:00) |
| A proposal mooted by the vice-chancellor of Anna University-Tiruchi (AU-T), V. Ramachandran, for creation of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) for the purpose of pushing e-learning materials a... |
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CAT cracking the quants section (16 November 12:00) |
| The Quant Section of the CAT, while commonly feared, is quite manageable provided you set reasonable goals. |
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Bridging the gap (09 November 12:00) |
| Fortifying polytechnic education by providing excellent domain knowledge and interpersonal skills will keep students in tune with industry requirements. |
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NIT-Tiruchi to give mentoring support to NIT-Puducherry (09 November 12:00) |
| The National Institute of Technology - Tiruchi (NIT-T) has received instructions from the Ministry of Human Resource Development to provide mentoring support to the proposed NIT for Puducher... |
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Pay it forward (09 November 12:00) |
| The “Revolving Bank Guarantee”, a unique scheme started by a Pune-based NGO, aims to make qualitative education more accessible to the economically weaker sections of society in the coun... |
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For a career in theatre (09 November 12:00) |
| Rangayana will offer certificate and degree courses. |
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British Council all set to launch ELT centre (09 November 12:00) |
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MoU singed for joint research project (09 November 12:00) |
| Shree Motilal Kanhaiyalal Fomra Institute of Technology, Chennai, and University of Malta (UoM), European Union for Academic Research and collaboration in Malta (U.K), are collaborating for ... |
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UK offers scholarships to Tamil Nadu students (09 November 12:00) |
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Seeking entry to colleges in New Zealand (09 November 12:00) |
| Aspirants can apply for admission to the programme of their choice on the strength of their academic record and English language proficiency. |
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Kurukshetra 2010 Spurring innovation (09 November 12:00) |
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Course on non-violence and peace (09 November 12:00) |
| The International Gandhian Institute for Non-Violence and Peace (IGINP), Kadavur, Madurai, is offering a diploma course in Non-Violence and Peace in distance education mode. The course is ... |
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War cry for inclusiveness in education (09 November 12:00) |
| The country has been grappling with issues related to education. A report on the 12th edition of the National Summit on Quality in Education organised by the CII in Chennai last month. |
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Off course (02 November 12:00) |
| This PG programme envisaged by the vice-chancellor of University of Madras has sparked off debate. |
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ISEC course in development (02 November 12:00) |
| Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, is offering a short-term Certificate Course in Managing Development (CCMD). It is a three-week residential programme designed to... |
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NITs asked to prepare vision paper (02 November 12:00) |
| A directive to ascertain how to attract talent and how research could be fostered. |
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Workshop on Machine Vision (02 November 12:00) |
| A one-day workshop was conducted on ‘Basics of Machine Vision and its applications’, jointly by TIFAC-CORE Center, Rajalakshmi Engineering College and Soliton Technologies, Bangalore, on... |
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IGNOU launches six-month course in poultry farming (02 November 12:00) |
| Apart from imparting technical proficiency in poultry breeding, IGNOU will provide study material both in English and in Tamil. |
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Flying high in kiwi land (02 November 12:00) |
| The eight universities in New Zealand and a number of other institutions run a wide variety of programmes at different levels in diverse disciplines. |
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FOSS potential yet to be tapped (02 November 12:00) |
| Free and Open Source Software is a boon to educational institutions. It is cheaper and virus resistant, and most importantly, a virus attack can be solved immediately by programmers worldwid... |
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A nationwide initiative to boost skill pool begins (02 November 12:00) |
| Manpower equipped with sector-specific skills is essential for economic growth, and the National Skill Development Corporation is addressing this need. |
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Creating a framework for training (02 November 12:00) |
| The National Skill Development policy will encourage infrastructure creation for on-the-job training and apprenticeships. |
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A call to return to the basics (26 October 12:00) |
| Will the proposal to raise the cut-off marks for IIT-JEE pave the way for a learning process where students get a solid grounding in the fundamentals? |
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CDS exam (26 October 12:00) |
| The last date for submission of forms for taking the Combined Defence Services (CDS) Examination is October 26 and the examination would be conducted on February 14, 2010 at different centre... |
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A deal sewn up for training in the fibre-to-fashion chain (26 October 12:00) |
| IGNOU and the Apparel Export Promotion Council have joined hands for offering various educational programmes in the skill-based domain of apparels, garments and fashion designing. |
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Biology research (26 October 12:00) |
| The Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, has invited applications for admission to research programmes in genetics, molecular and cellular biology, molecular pathogenesi... |
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Seeking entry to colleges in Germany (26 October 12:00) |
| There are nine major technical universities that have excellent facilities for studies in engineering and sciences. |
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Appreciating films (26 October 12:00) |
| It might be one of those songs in the movie that you strongly feel is out of place or the plot of the film that seems annoyingly slack to you. If you think you know what goes wrong in a film... |
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A closer look at English Literature (26 October 12:00) |
| That English language has become an integral part of various fields could be an undisputed factor, but the significance of English Literature studies has for long not been duly recognised by... |
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