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The corporate ticket
Campus interviews throw an academic challenge to students to flag off their career. How productive are these corporate exercises? Akhila Seetharaman finds out...


By the way, just remember...
HELLO AMMA, I'm in a crisis! I need my "conduct certificate" by this evening. You must courier it. Look in the third cupboard above my bed, under the Beyonce poster, in a blue file. If it's not there, it's surely in the Godrej bureau... if it's ...
New courses in rare grouping
THE TAMIL NADU Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS) will offer two new courses - Master of Philosophy degree in Biotechnology and a post-graduate diploma in Bioinformatics from this academic year. A.Mahalinga Nainar, Dean, ...
TNAU launches environment courses
A 4-year degree programme B. Tech Energy and Environmental Engineering (EEE), the first of its kind in india being offered this year combines energy and environmental engineering as a self-supporing programme.
Medicine and pharmacy: inseparable
With improved standards in health care, multiple career choices are open to students of pharmacy.
Picture this profession!
The media offers a good career option and photojournalism as a course would give a better focus to students who want to enter the profession.
Orientation programme
A THREE-DAY in-house orientation programme for young faculty members was held at Crescent Engineering College, Vandalur. The programme was taken up on June 16 to benefit the young faculty members of the college to improve the quality of ...
Personality development
THE HARYANA Higher Education Department has set up a personality development cell in all Government colleges of the State to ensure the development of e-culture among the students. Two computers along with peripherals and furniture as well as ...
Hey Dudes & Dudettes
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. THAT'S EXACTLY what E-Tribe is all about, right? Ok, with that wonderful thought lets get started with all the gyan for the one and ...
Those words of fantasy
Welcome to the world of make-believe and entertainment. There's a lot of money to be made and a plenty of opportunities if you can put down your ideas on paper. Every year, there are over a 100 Hindi films that get made. Another 80 get made in ...
Oxbridge and more at the UK exhibitions
PROMOTERS OF British education in India are looking wider across the country. They are no longer confining their education promo events to metros. Coimbatore and Salem are in their map, as are Kochi, Visakhapatnam, Manipal, Thiruvanathapuram, ...
Scholarships & funding options
NOT MANY have much of an idea about the variety of scholarships and funding options that are available for international students pursuing higher education in the United Kingdom. But then, help is not far off, as most of the information one ...
Automobile tech: get into gear
A certificate course and a post-diploma course in automobile technology by SISI and Friendly Academy promise to open up employment opportunities for the economically weaker sections.
Exploring literature
Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, offers a unique post-graduate programme in Comparative Literature and Linguistics that promotes a multi-lingual approach to Indian literature.
Bob Dylan to receive honorary degree
SCOTLAND'S OLDEST university announced today that it was awarding an honorary doctorate to the laureate of folk-rock, Bob Dylan. The University of St. Andrews said Dylan would be made an honorary doctor of music at its summer graduation ...
Know Your English

What is the difference between "disassemble" and "dissemble"?
When you "assemble" something, you put it together. When you "disassemble" something, you take it apart. We have all met people who enjoy taking things apart and putting them together. Some people disassemble their watches and computers, in order ...
How is the word D-day used?
Since the whole world was talking about this particular day during the first week of this month, I won't go into what the actual D-Day was. Nowadays, the word is used to mean the day chosen for the commencement of an important activity. *The ...
Is it O.K to say, "What is your good name?"
Of course, it is! When we meet someone, this is the first question that we generally ask. Does this mean that there are people who in addition to their "good name" have a "bad name"? Perhaps the next time we meet a politician, we should ask him, ...
How is the word "epitome" pronounced?
The vowels in the first two syllables are pronounced like the "i" in "bit", "sit", and "hit". The "o" is like the "a" in "china", and the final syllable is pronounced like the word "me". The main stress is on the second syllable "pi". When you ...
What is the origin of "Hi"?
There are several theories which account for the origin of this word. According to one theory, in the old days when people bumped into each other, the first question they asked was "How are you?" This was the standard practice. Since everyone ...


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