The education scenario in the State has worsened from what it was during the 1960s and 70s and there has been an unseen level of commercialization and caste and class based prejudices in the field of education and that too in primary education, according to V.Vasanthi Devi, Chairperson of the Institute of Human Rights ..
The patience of parents of school children in State, Matriculation, and Anglo-Indian boards is wearing thin even as the stalemate over Samacheer Kalvi threatens to throw the academic schedule out of gear.
A Supreme Court ruling over Uniform School Education is expected by this weekend.
But ..
On July 30, hundreds of candidates went to a private engineering college, off Sathyamangalam Road, to appear for the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission's examination for the ‘Combined Subordinate Services'.
Upon reaching the engineering college and coming to know about their examination halls, ..
“Cinema-kaaga arrear vechavan naan” (I am someone who had arrears in college for the sake of cinema), says K. Selvaganapathy. On Thursday, the aspiring cinematographer will sit for his first class at the M.G.R. Government Film and Television Institute in Taramani here.
With some experience in ..
What is it that catches the attention of children most in a newspaper? ‘Photographs' screams a group of boys, listing out pictures such as the “Rocket launch,” “Viswanathan Anand playing chess” and “a batsman hitting a six.”
“We cut out photographs from the ..
Even as more Indian students are taking wings to the US for higher studies, a top Indian scientist today said "America is not at all good for education."
"Everything in (the) US is no good. They are (Indian students) going to some second rate institutions. Just because you go abroad, ..
For those having an appetite to prepare different sweets here's a good news - a certificate course on sweet making technology, the first of its kind in the country, will be launched in Orissa soon in collaboration with Jadavpur University of Kolkata.
"We have already got the ..
Germany-based Hof University of Applied Sciences entered into a MoU with PSG Institute of Advanced Studies here to offer two year German-Indian Management Studies MBA Program from this academic year.
The four semester program will have students do the first semester in PSG, when German will be ..
HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said the National Advisory Council (NAC) has recommended addition of pre-primary sections in all government schools.
NAC has recommended that this (pre-primary sections in government schools) will pave the way for "bringing pre-school learning under the ..
The London-based School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), which attracts several Indian students, has now been granted the power to award degrees in its own name.
Until now, it awarded degrees on behalf of the University of London.
"It confirms our standing as one of ..