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Try to get a wide perspective of things and expand your horizons. This will help you take wise decisions.
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Harbingers of change
In the past few years, students have taken to the streets to protest against social issues they feel strongly about.
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Working towards a casteless society
Instead of criticising the system, we need to find a solution within the system which will lead us to our goal
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Confessions go viral
Confession pages on Facebook have turned into a platform for some students to post derogatory comments.
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COIMBATORE,
May 18, 2013
Schools in Coimbatore collecting fees for RTE Act quota seats: parents
When C.T. Sekar, a 53-year-old resident of Muthannankulam here, heard of Right of Children To Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, he was ecstatic. For, it gave his three-and-a-half-year old g...
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Chennai,
May 9, 2013
AICTE rescinds Microsoft Office 365 mandate
All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has agreed to remove the word ‘mandatory’ from a controversial memo it served on 11,500 colleges it oversees for installing Microsoft Office 365.
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May 5, 2013
An Indian education?
I recently read an article in Kafila written by some students from St. Stephen’s College in Delhi that really made me think. To quickly summarise, the piece criticised the draconian views of the Pr...
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TIRUCHI,
April 30, 2013
Self-financing arts colleges hard-pressed for teachers
For some of the self-financing arts and science colleges in the region, summer vacation has turned out to be a harrowing time as they have to respond to the frightening level of attrition of teachi...
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NEW DELHI,
April 27, 2013
Delhi University finalises syllabus amid allegations by teachers
Even as Delhi University’s Faculty of Arts finalised the syllabus for several of its courses like English, Hindi, Urdu and Psychology on Friday – there were several allegations of foul-play and ar...
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April 23, 2013
Microsoft responds to The Hindu’s story on AICTE deal
In response to “Engineering students locked into Microsoft Office»
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM,
April 19, 2013
‘Every child is different’
Bangalore-based Chetana Keni is a child psychologist, special educator and counsellor rolled into one. She founded The Chetana Keni Institute for Remedial Education, under which she runs the pr...
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April 13, 2013
Lyngdoh in limbo
One of the Lyngdoh committee recommendations mandates that a candidate cannot spend more than Rs. 5,000 on his entire election campaign. But this past September, in the midst of the fight for the...
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April 13, 2013
Where Young Turks are born
University and college campuses have always been, and will always be, important nurseries for politicians. But these are not the only ones. Political leaders emerge also from militant struggles of...
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NEW DELHI,
April 1, 2013
Government’s failure to meet RTE deadline triggers concern
With the three-year timeline for the implementation of the norms of the Right to Education (RTE) Act expiring, the RTE Forum — a platform of national education networks, teachers’ unions and promi...
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Government schools worry about being passed over
The challenge begins now for ‘RTE children’
Flipping the classroom
Some vacation ideas
Village doctors
May 16, 2013
Curriculum for wellness
If the proposal finally materialises, students in schools across the country will be soon taught about communicable and non-communicable diseases at length. The Union Ministry of Health and Family...
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CHENNAI,
May 9, 2013
Triplicane has highest no. of out-of-school children: survey
On a hot April morning, the Chennai Corporation playground in Royapuram was brimming with young boys carrying cricket bats and wearing oversized football jerseys. Of the lot, at least five admitte...
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CHENNAI,
May 2, 2013
B.E. colleges in Chennai get imaginative with fees
Engineering colleges have released notifications on fee structure for the new academic year. There is no fine print here, however.
In order to avoid censure, private and deemed institutes...
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NEW DELHI,
April 29, 2013
Art & wit, posts & placards keep DU protests alive
“Reform deform, knowledge porridge, meta feta, multi pulti, innovation strangulation, two-year four-year, full half-baked or poached.” Gibberish on the face of it, but humorous enough to draw out a...
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HYDERABAD,
April 25, 2013
CLAT rejected applicants can take the test
Hundreds of Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) candidates whose applications were rejected on various grounds can heave a sigh of relief as the CLAT committee has decided to allow them to sit for th...
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Chennai,
April 22, 2013
Engineering students locked into Microsoft Office
Come June 30, over 80 lakh college students all over India would have little choice but to use Microsoft Office 365 in their college computers, locked by a government contract that may well be mor...
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April 13, 2013
The numbers count
Last December, even as television news channels were slowly waking up to more horrific details of the gang rape of a 23-year-old on a bus, members of the Jawaharlal Nehru Students’ Union were alrea...
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April 13, 2013
Thorny path to campus politics
Amid sustained demands and as part of its pre-poll promise, the Samajwadi Party government restored student unions in Uttar Pradesh last year, with assurances that a young Chief Minister could bes...
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April 1, 2013
Get hands-on this summer
Come the end of the academic year and students in most colleges are all set to gain first-hand work experience through internships. Be it the field of Mass Media, Business Studies, Economics or eve...
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COIMBATORE,
April 1, 2013
Quota in private schools: many questions remain to be answered
Of the numerous provisions in the landmark Right of Children To Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE), a few would have aroused as much attention as the one mandating all private unaided schools...
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Schools miss infrastructure deadline
Even after three years, RTE fails to deliver
Hotline to redressal
An open-and-shut case?
The big IIT dream
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