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Job skills for the less-privileged
Lack of funds need not deter aspiring students from studying and acquiring employment skills, thanks to community colleges and industrial training institutes.
From ITI to deemed varsity
KIIT not only offers engg. and MBA courses but also funds modern education for tribal children


Learning outside the classroom pays
Co-curricular activities fetch valuable points for Singapore students and help in higher studies


BOOKS
Mastering GRE, GMAT books

Know more about hospitality sector
HERA – Hospitality Educators and Recruiters Association will organise an Academic Excellence Aard function on October 6 in Chennai. According to a release from the vice-president of HERA, Ajeet Kumar Lal Mohan, there is a decrease in ...
Vocational courses: a world of opportunities
The courses are varied covering a whole range of industries enabling students to choose anything of their choice

More avenues for life science graduates
Life sciences students from different disciplines like biotechnology, microbiology, biochemistry, genetics and as well as pharmaceutical sciences and medicine have a wide range of career paths and special skills to choose from in the present ...

Navigating them to institutions abroad
Guiding students to choose courses of their choice and countries
For ex-servicemen
The Entrepreneurship Development Cell at BSA Crescent Engineering College, Vandalur, in Chennai, is offering short-term courses for ex-servicemen and those in services who are on the verge of retirement.The courses are of six weeks’ ...

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Matters of the mind
P.B. Siddhartha College of Arts and Science: Concentration and mind power are very important in enhancing a person’s capabilities. One should be able to have a keen sense of functioning of the mind. For this, a constant observation ...
Student stay in the UK made easy
Students travelling to the United Kingdom got an insight into the life in the country and the help offered by the universities in the initial period, at a pre-post departure briefing organised by the Association of Accredited Advisors on Overseas ...

Preparations on for Science Congress campus jottings
Andhra University has commenced preparations for the National Science Congress it will host in January next. It is going to cost around Rs.15 crores to organise this important event in which the President or the Prime Minister will participate as ...

Speech therapy classes all set to go hi-tech
E-mode classrooms set to cover students in all corners of the country
IBAB-PG entrance test
The Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB), Bangalore – 560 066, a public-private initiative of the Department of IT&BT, Government of Karnataka and ICICI Bank, has invited applications for its all-India level ...
Study business
International Business School in Kochi will organise a seminar on “Studying Business in Today’s Economy” here on August 18. The seminar will be held at Hotel Alankar Grande.At the school one can learn International MBA ...
Need for self-analysis
You are waiting on the platform along with your four-year-old child, standing near a bookshop. You accidentally spot a book that you are looking for since long. The train is approaching. You hurriedly purchase it and go back to your ...
Marketing gurus in the making
Projecting the theme ‘Know no Woe’, this year’s edition of MARWAR ’07, the week-long flagship ‘marketing war’ game at Bharathidasan Institute of Management, one of the premier B-Schools in India, turned out to ...
Spreading happiness
Nalanda Degree College: One should enjoy his or her time always regardless of place and occupation. Students who fail to taste this happy and joyful experience during the college days will remain an unhappy lot throughout. If one enjoys ...
Threads of success

Campus connect
Kongunadu Arts and Science College organised a book fair recently on its premises, in collaboration with Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya. More than 3,000 volumes on Sri Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda, self development, ...
Career in technical writing
I am in final year of MA English. I would like to pursue a career as a technical writer. Where can I learn software like PageMaker, Adobe Illustrator and Rob help? What are the career opportunities for a person with my qualifications in the ...
Campus connect
Students must use their leadership qualities for betterment of humanity at large, said O. Kannappan, Secretary, Udayappa Engineering College, at the inaugural function of college union held at Jayaraj Annapackiam College for Women in Periakulam ...
Exploring new learning possibilities
Class-toppers from various schools explored effective ways of learning different subjects at the workshop.
Scheme to strengthen agricultural marketing infrastructure
The Directorate of Marketing and Inspection of the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, has launched a scheme for developing and strengthening agricultural marketing infrastructure, grading and standardisation in ...
STATE OF EDUCATION
The Puttur Education Society has started the Vivekananda School of Management Studies at Puttur. The two-year full time Master of Business Administration (MBA) course begins from this month, according to its president G. Balarama ...

In the cause of social sciences
An academy is being set up in Kuvempu University to revive a neglected subject

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Seminar held on Annamacharya
A two-day national seminar on ‘Tallapaka Annamacharya and saint–poets in Indian Languages - A Comparative Study’, was organised by the Department of Telugu, Osmania University, in collaboration with the Departments of Tourism ...

Student stay in the UK made easy
Students travelling to the United Kingdom got an insight into the life in the country and the help offered by the universities in the initial period, at a pre-post departure briefing organised by the Association of Accredited Advisors on Overseas ...

Twinning programme at ICAS
The Manipal Group of Institutions was one of the first in the country to establish collaborations with foreign universities at the degree level in the fields of medicine, management and engineering. The group’s International Centre ...

A launch pad for space scientists
The first week of September – that is the ‘launch window’ finalised by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to place into orbit the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IISST)-ISRO’s home-grown ...

B.Sc degree in Multimedia and Animation
Picasso Animation College, Hyderabad, has announced B.Sc degree programme in Multimedia Animation for EAMCET qualifiers who could not get into engineering. Announcing this, programme managing director of Picasso Animation College, A.B.R.P. ...
Scholarship for women


PG in Environmental Sciences at Madurai Kamaraj University



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A sweet, sour journey called life
The City University of New York: Life is a marvellous journey to be enjoyed and savoured. The difficulties and problems that we face every day are all a part of this very majestic and interesting journey. How silly, stupid and dumb ...
V-C of EFLU
Abhai Maurya of Department of Slavic Studies, University of Delhi assumed the office as the first Vice-Chancellor of English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad on August 3. The Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL) ...

Let’s get QUIZical
1. Which Steven Spielberg movie was adapted from the Booker Prize winning work by Thomas Keneally?2. What type of animal is a ‘puggle’?3. What is a “Papal encyclical”?4. Who was the first Finance ...

Q & A
Floriculture or flower farming is a discipline of horticulture concerned with the cultivation of flowering and ornamental plants for gardens and floristry, comprising the floral industry. The development plant breeding of new varieties is a ...
Applications invited for vacancies
Applications are invited from B.Tech graduates and post graduates to work as full-time mentors at the JKCs in various colleges. More details can be had on: 99481-21707. ...
Better career opportunity in biosciences
Biomedical engineering is an emerging field in India. The subject offers wider scope for specialisation and excellent career prospects. Biomedical engineering is the application of engineering principles and techniques to the medical ...


VALUE-ADD
Degrees for Bharathanatyam artistes, from home Value-add
Now Bharthanatyam artistes can add academic recognition to their professional expertise through this off-campus programme.

My tryst with god
Sree Vidyaniketan Engg College: People walked in and out of my life, But I never thought you’d leave me, I was hurt, bitter and morose, I broke down, I broke down… There’s not a moment I don’t think of you, What ...
Leading a school and managing it
Indira Gandhi National Open University has come up with an innovative postgraduate diploma programme in school leadership and management.

Be a Fellow at Indian Institutes of Management
A look at the Fellow Programme in Management offered by the Indian Institutes of Management.

NASSCOM plan to improve student skills
NASSCOM Assessment of Competence-Tech programme will evaluate students aspiring to find jobs in technology and engineering industries.


GUIDANCE PLUS
How to score high in GMAT Guidance plus
During the last few months this column had touched on a wide range of management disciplines and related courses. We conclude with a look at GMAT.

Tips to come up tops


Short takes


A launch pad for space scientists
The Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IISST), a prestigious academic project of the Indian Space Research Organisation, is all set for take-off in Thiruvananthapuram.

Increasing demand for hospitality sector


Entrepreneurship training for ex-servicemen
The Entrepreneurship Development Cell at BSA Crescent Engineering College, Vandalur, in Chennai, is offering short-term courses for ex-servicemen and those in services who are on the verge of retirement.The courses are of six weeks’ ...

New Ph.D programmes from Sri Ramachandra varsity
This September, Sri Ramachandra University will introduce two Ph.D. programmes — split Ph.D. and integrated Ph.D. programme. The split Ph.D. programme will provide candidates a chance to conduct a part of their research work in a recognised ...

Certificate programmes from LIBA
The Management Development Centre at Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai, has launched three-month certificate programmes in disciplines such as finance, sales and marketing, information security/ control and audit of business ...
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