The spate of engineering colleges that have come up all over the state; and people not getting employment even after spending a lot of money for completing their engineering studies - can be cited as the main reasons for many engineering seats lying vacant, say the...
With the 69% reservation system in vogue in the state facing legal challenges, some political parties and activists for social justice have raised the demand for caste-wise census for protecting it. “Data from the socio-economic-caste based census conducted...
The proposed Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) is constituted in place of the University Grants Commission (UGC) will encroach upon the rights of the states, feel some educationists voicing their opposition to the move. “Higher education was brought under...
After the first round of BE counselling, the number of students who chose the category “other courses” was more than 2,350 whereas those who chose perennial favourites like mechanical, ECE and computer science were far fewer. In subsequent rounds, however, the...
At the end of this year’s engineering counselling, the 239 engineering colleges in the state put together have admitted 30% of their sanctioned strength. A situation has arisen warranting the closure of more than 150 engineering colleges, in which student admission...
From this year onwards, teachers will be selected only through interviews for being eligible for national awards. The human resources development ministry has announced new guidelines in this regard. Further, the number of national awards for some of the finest...
After the fourth round of engineering counseling, some 1,15,390 seats have not been taken. For the fifth round of counseling, only some 26,000 students are remaining to participate. This would mean that at least 1 lakh seats would remain vacant this year. Some 36...
Poverty forced Muthuraj to drop out of school and work for a living. At 24, he is a young entrepreneur, running a tractor service business in Dharmapuri district. Muthuraj belongs to Neruppur, in the Pennagaram zone of Dharmapuri district. His father Chinnamuthu...
Arvind Gupta is a former student of IIT, Kanpur. After years of research and hi-tech work, his current passion is reaching science to young minds. He uses waste items like old newspapers, bottles, match sticks, threads and straws to produce simple...
Of all the Indian languages, it was only in Tamil that the first book was printed. That Tamil book was CartiIha published with Roman characters in Portugal in the 16th century. Cartilha remains an invaluable document which speaks about the greatness of Tamil...
Tamil Nadu government has decided to split the computer science subject that is taught in higher secondary schools in the state into three types. Computer technology is being introduced as a new subject for students of vocational stream. This change will be...
Last year, the first year NEET was introduced, two students got admission from government schools in government medical colleges, while three got into private colleges under government quota. In 2016, when only Plus 2 marks were considered, 30 government school...
K.P. Akila has performed the feat of securing 92.3% marks in Civil Engineering in Tamil medium and has won the gold medal, studying the course in the well known Guindy Engineering College. She had studied in Tamil medium in Dindivanam’s Rosanai Thai Thamizh...
In the engineering online counselling for students who got cut-off of more than 190 marks, 3,431 students did not participate in the first round of counselling. But it is worth mentioning that despite these many seats remaining vacant, as many as 167 students did...
At this Tamil-medium elementary school in Nellikuppam, Kancheepuram district run by the Tamil Nadu government, teacher S M Iyyappan considers English a foreign language. So much so that he teaches it in such a way that students learn to speak it like...
Starting this year, vocational education is being introduced as an optional subject for the IX standard students. With a view of making the students obtain talent-related education along with their normal curriculum, this scheme is being introduced as an...
The Government of Tamilnadu has issued an order cancelling the ‘Weightage System’ for the selection of candidates for the intermediate and graduate teacher vacancies in Government Schools. Accordingly, the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) and the competitive...
Engineering counselling has been delayed at present, and this may result in the postponement of the first semester examinations, which will have to be taken by the newly joining first year engineering students. As per the guidelines of the All India Council for...
In India, the structure for higher education has been evolving over a period of 125 years, right from British times...
Online counseling in engineering admission was supposed to smoothen the admission process. But it is quite likely that students will be in for a surprise when the process gets over and they find that those below them on the merit list bagged better courses and...
