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Strike the right tone
Language is an important aspect of self-presentation. Use it to your advantage.
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Power play
Pradeep Indulkar talks about “High Power”, which won a Yellow Oscar at the Uranium Film Festival recently
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Tracking students
A comprehensive School Information System that uses radio signals to monitor the movement of students
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Concerted dissent
UGC member critically examines Delhi University’s Four-Year Undergraduate Programme
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Bangalore,
June 13, 2013
Out-of-school children: Karnataka HC seeks response
The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday granted time till June 20 to the State government to respond to its directions issued on April 25 as well as the suggestions given by a court-appointed ami...
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BANGALORE,
May 29, 2013
Deshpande to discuss excess fee, placement fee issue
Higher Education Minister R.V. Deshpande announced here on Tuesday that the State government will hold talks with college managements over excess fee being allegedly collected by some colleges. <...
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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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1 comment
May 2, 2013
Wide angle view
Sonal wanted to present a paper at a conference in a prestigious university. But all her friends had already paired up and the ones who were left were not ‘her kind of people.’ “I can’t work with...
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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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April 28, 2013
Harbingers of change
Newspapers today are rife with articles on protest, revolt and demonstration. Students are being hailed as the dormant giant who just emerged to take control, take charge and change the landscape...
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NEW DELHI,
April 26, 2013
Parliamentary panel opposes automatic promotion under RTE
Opposing the provision of automatic promotions till Class VIII under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Act, 2009, a Parliamentary committee has asked the Ministry of Human Resource Deve...
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1 comment
April 23, 2013
Microsoft responds to The Hindu’s story on AICTE deal
In response to “Engineering students locked into Microsoft Office»
31 comments
April 21, 2013
Working towards a casteless society
“Caste restricts opportunity. Restricted opportunity constricts ability. Constricted ability further restricts opportunity. Where caste prevails, opportunity and ability are restricted to ever-nar...
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BANGALORE,
June 4, 2013
Bangalore University nixes seat enhancement at day college
The yearlong controversy over the enhancement of seats in Jain College, Jayanagar, returned to haunt Bangalore University yet again at Monday’s Academic Council meeting, with a resolution finally...
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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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5 comments
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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87 comments
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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25 comments
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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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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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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57 comments
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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