A student hailing from a below poverty line family in Vayaloor near Kalpakkam studied in a Tamil medium school and went on to complete his Phd in Physics and later joined the prestigious Bangor University in Wales, England as a Post Doctoral Research Officer. At 34 years of age, E Jayaprashath...
Actor R Madhavan has courted controversy by saying the panchangam, the almanac used in Indian astrology based on ancient techniques, was key to the success of India’s Mars mission since it made up for the lack of state-of-the-art technology in the satellite launch vehicle. Madhavan hinted that...
Fidget toys have a major role to play in busting school-going children’s stress. That is why educationists insist on making education and learning pleasurable through games and toys. Sahul Hameed, who has been selling fidget toys and dolls for over 35 years in Coimbatore, thinks that toys...
The Illam Thedi Kalvi scheme -- a novel initiative in Tamil Nadu education -- that used volunteers to teach students whose learning had been disrupted by the lockdown has come to an end. Following that, the Tamil Nadu government has launched a programme using the Google Read Along app. The...
Experience shows that the earlier single-window system is better than the recent online counseling system in Tamil Nadu engineering admission. P V Navaneethakrishnan, former director of Anna University Entrance Exams and Admissions, says that rural students have trouble understanding and using...
The Charaka Shapath, or the Oath of Charaka, has become the center of a controversy in Tamil Nadu. The Shapath, a part of the Charaka Samhita, that the central government has asked medical students to take, instead of the traditional Hippocratic oath, has been strongly opposed by the DMK...
Monisha, a techie mom in the US, uses the Montessori method but in Tamil medium to train her two-year-old girl child. Monisha, who grew up in Nagercoil and now works in Microsoft, is keen that her child gets the best of modern learning in her mother tongue. Monisha has written two books...
On the day Governor R N Ravi organized a two-day meeting of V-Cs of universities in state without inviting the concerned state minister or officials, the Tamil Nadu government hit back by passing legislation that gave itself the power to appoint V-Cs. While passing the legislation, the...
Returning from consultations with Union government in New Delhi, Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi will preside over a two-day conference of Vice-Chancellors, V-Cs, of Tamil Nadu universities at Raj Bhavan on April 25 and 26. A press release says that the conference is organized by the Raj Bhavan,...
The Tamil Nadu government has set up a panel consisting of educationists and subject matter experts to suggest a new education policy for the state. Tamil should be the language of learning, and each school student should be able to attend the school closest to their homes. These should be the...
