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 has remained less in the past...
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 teachers given to those from...
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 colleges have not been selected...
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 play-items that can teach...
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 applicable to Class 11 classes in the...
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 students got into government...
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 not get the course of their...
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 how the British and the...
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 experimental measure, in 67 Government...
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 examination for teachers’ positions...
