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From school to the shop floor
Anna University hopes video will make a difference to teaching, especially in the rural areas.
You can design your future
There is a great demand for product and systems designers, and NID is up to the task


Get cracking, serve the nation
A guide to joining the armed forces

Profits and the pyramid

For that extra edge
Students looking to land on foreign shores see an added advantage in having a foreign language on their resume
A helping hand in studies
Tribal people living in remote areas get basic education
Management development programmes from IMET

Learning all about adolescence
Gay abandon is only the facade of adolescence, behavioural scientists will swear. In actual fact, many a youth finds it hard to come to grips with factors related with changes that take place in his body in teenage.The Union ...
Needed: retail experts
A course that gives training in handling retail business
Diploma in Aviation and Hospitality Management
Air Hostess Academy is offering a one-year diploma in Aviation and Hospitality Management and a two-year diploma in Global Aviation and Hospitality Management. Candidates should have passed Plus-Two and should be between 17 and 24 years of ...
NITs to function directly under Ministry of HRD
All the Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) were upgraded to NITs in 2003
For the sake of knowledge
Gogte Institute of Belgaum starts foreign language learning centre
New perspective on tourism studies
A professionally-run tourism sector needs trained people. Many academic programmes have adapted to meet the requirement.

UNIVERSITY ROUNDUP
Osmania varsity holds orientation programme for foreign students
University Foreign Relations Office, Osmania University, organised a two-day orientation programme for newly admitted International students in the university to sensitise them about the academic and administrative aspects, apart from the ...
Website as guidepost
Decisions about what and where to study are difficult enough in a place you are familiar with, but finding the right course or university in a completely different country is a challenge on a totally new level. For Indian students heading off ...
IBS opens in Kochi
The International Business School has announced the launch of their India operations by opening their first schools in Kochi.The Kochi school will function in collaboration with the Management Centre Innsbruck (MCI), Austria, to award an ...
TIFR Ph.D programmes
The Tata Institute Fundamental Research (TIFR) (a deemed university), Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai – 400 005 (phone: 022-22782875), has invited applications for admission to the following programmes: Ph.D. in Mathematics, Physics, ...
New courses
The University of Nevada, U.S., encourages a multi-disciplinary approach in the study of issues relating to mining. The Mining Life-Cycle Centre, part of the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, is focused on the key ...
An inspiring teacher and a great humanist
The queue was winding and long, reminiscent of the scene from Tom Brown’s School Days, where old students and friends of Dr. Thomas Arnold converged to attend his funeral Rugby, England. This queue, however, was at Loyola College, Madras, ...
National seminar
The chemistry department of the Andhra Loyola College (ALC) organised a national seminar on “Isolation of hydrogen and its applications in the industry as a fuel”. A quiz was conducted for student teams that came from all parts ...

Q & A
A career in cargo management
I am a mathematics graduate. I have completed IATA-FIATA cargo Introductory Diploma and am working (for the past six months) with a leading freight forwarding company as a Consolidation Executive. I am interested in pursuing MBA in Aviation or ...
A book called life
Every person’s life is a book. Where do you keep it? Do you dump the book in a dark store room called lethargy and allow it to be besieged by cobwebs of laziness? Decompose by apathy? Or do you keep it clean and orderly to be ...
Good, can do better
Expert panel audits the performance of the University of Mysore
MCI certificate for students studying MBBS in China
The Medical Council of India (MCI) has decided to issue eligibility certificate to students joining only in the 30 Chinese medical education institutions that are approved to admit foreign students. The eligibility certificate is mandatory for ...

QUERY CUE
Courses in nuclear medicine
I would like to know more about nuclear medicine. What are its career prospects? I would like to know the courses available in the area. Which institutes offer these courses? Imran Sharief Nuclear medicine is a ...
Fillip to medical education
The Centre’s recognition of FRCS and MRCP is widely expected to bring expertise to the country’s patient care and add to its medical research talent
Bhavishya Jyoti scholarships from NIIT



GUIDANCEPLUS
Various aspects of non-verbal communication
Non-verbal communication is integral to the interaction process

Campus connect
Nano Technology is going to herald a revolution towards the end of 21st century, if sufficient breakthrough in nanotechnology is achieved, according to S. Ranganathan, Scientist, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was the chief ...

Bond with best Down Under
Bond University, Australia’s first private, not-for-profit university, has been gaining immense popularity among students
Let’s get QUIZical
3. The postulated spherical cloud of comets situated about 50,000 AU from the Sun is called...?4. What was created in 1965 by Stephanie Kwolek and Herbert Blades?5. Who are the member countries of NAFTA?Answers ...
Q & a
Psephology is the scientific analysis of political elections based on statistics. It uses compilations of voting records for elections of some previous years, public opinion polls, campaign finance information and similar statistical data. ...
Kakatiya University issues Ph.D notification
Kakatiya University has issued notification inviting applications for admission into the Ph.D programme in the faculties of Arts, Commerce & Business Management, Education, Law, Science, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Social Sciences, ...
Who is a good teacher?
Here is a systematic look at the capabilities, skills and traits that will help one attain the goal of being an ideal teacher.
Students throng New Zealand fair
Students heading to foreign shores may wish to think beyond U.S. U.K. and Australia. New Zealand, the land of the Kiwis, is becoming one among the popular destinations for Indian students to pursue higher education.Over 400 students ...
New insights into colour
NID launches a laboratory to study the impact of colour on consumer behaviour and other aspects.

DIL SE
Fun-filled life in college
Mallareddy College of Engg and Tech: Life in college changes the very way we look at life. It opens a whole new world to the youngsters who have memories of restrictions and limitations at school. The definition of studying itself changes ...
Destination U.K. for further studies
What makes the U.K. one of the most favoured destinations for Indian students pursuing higher education.
Taking out time to remember the Almighty
Bhoj Reddy Engg College For Women: Half of our life is spent in sleep. Some portion is spent in eating, drinking and talking. We are enveloped in ignorance and play in childhood and net of women in adolescence. In old age we ...

GUIDANCE PLUS
Softening the hardliners
Non-verbal communication is integral to the interaction process. Understand how it works to help make communication more effective.

Multi-skilled workers shine
The new knowledge economy has brought in a sea change in the priorities of companies and industries. They are looking for knowledge workers, who are ready to adapt to change and rise to the occasion by constantly learning newer skills and respond ...

Gain for medical education?
Doctors feel the Central Government’s decision to recognise postgraduate medical degrees like FRCS and MRCP will bring in the much-needed expertise

Job offers from Softsmith Infotech



CAMPUS CONNECT
MBA Association inaugurated
The RVS Institute of Management Studies and Research, Sulur, inaugurated the MBA Association recently. P.S. Balasubramanian, General Manager, Autoprint Machinery and Manufacturers Private Limited, who was the chief guest said that success was ...

Campus Connect
Under the auspices of the ‘5th Pillar India’, Chennai, a day-long programme on ‘Freedom from corruption through Right to Information Act’ was organised at the H.H. The Rajah’s College in Pudukottai ...

Kakatiya University issues Ph.D. notification
Kakatiya University has issued notification inviting applications for admission into the Ph.D programme in the faculties of Arts, Commerce & Business Management, Education, Law, Science, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Social Sciences, Engineering ...

Technical symposium
Students should try to keep abreast of latest developments happening in their chosen fields, Head, Department of Tamil, SIET College , Parveen Sultana said after inaugurating the classes for this academic year at Paavai Engineering College in ...


CAMPUS JOTTINGS
Lack of facilities in AU hostels
Problems being faced by students staying in Andhra University campus hostels are coming to light frequently. The students are protesting against inadequate facilities regarding water supply, quality of food, etc.Whenever the problem ...

UoH inks MoU with Japanese varsity
It’s yet another milestone for the University of Hyderabad in its endeavour to forge collaborations with Institutions of repute from abroad. Keio University, Japan represented by its President Prof. Yuichiro Anzai and University of ...

Take that
How about writing about your classroom and your backyard that is your college campus? Heart-rending (heart-warming too) experiences that moved you. Incidents that stirred you or things you did not like. Youth festivals or ...


DIL SE
Let’s root out violence
Dept. of English, AU: In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins...not through strength but through persistence. This is what is lacking today among us. Truth and non-violence on which the tree of freedom ...

The real business with virtual money
GITAM: The objective of learning is to make the living in this world a happy event of 100 years. Learning is always a happy act. However, it can not always be so, especially if you are learning the boring subjects of management. The ...

Importance of ‘samskaras’
SRR and CVR Government Degree College: India, being a traditional country, has a unique culture. The people are steeped in age-old cultural practices and they follow what are known as ‘samskaras’. All these are handed down from ...

Research retell
All ye researchers! It is time to shed your inhibitions and come out of your laboratories. This is your chance to get your ideas and works published. Be it research. Seminar papers or technical papers that you have published as ...

Remembering god
Bhoj Reddy Engg College For Women: Half of our life is spent in sleep. Some portion is spent in eating, drinking and talking. We are enveloped in ignorance and play in childhood and net of women in adolescence. In old age we pine ...

Mastering case-study analysis


In the service of sericulture for nearly five decades
The Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute (CSRTI), Mysore, was established in the early 1960s under the aegis of the Central Silk Board to provide research and development support for the promotion of the sericulture industry in ...

Diploma in sports therapy
In this line of job, you could be priming the fitness levels of a sports celebrity, or helping society shed its flab in this era of indulgence and indolence.The National Sports Medicine Center in Chennai offers an entry-level course for ...

Careers in tourism


Blood donation camp
Marking the 14th ‘Department Day,’ a blood donation camp was organised recently for the Department of Business Administration, Standard Fireworks Rajaratnam College for Women, Sivakasi. K.J. Sunmista, lecturer, Department of Commerce ...

Management programmes
The Institute of Management Education and Training (IMET) is conducting two-week long management development programmes in business finance, business communication and office management, supply chain management, production management, retail ...

The importance of ‘samskaras’
SRR and CVR Government Degree College: India, being a traditional country, has a unique culture. The people are steeped in age-old cultural practices and they follow what are known as ‘samskaras’. All these are handed ...
A taste of Brit life

Awakening of minds
Andhra Loyola College: We have come to realise that it is not important how clever, talented or skilled a person is. It’s more important how a person uses his or her abilities as best as her or she can. The experience was felt ...
CRESTECH at Crescent College
CRESTECH, an annual event for developing creativity among engineering students, was organized by B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College, Vandalur, near Chennai from September 5 to 7.Students from various colleges participated in ...

An Act in the right direction
The National Institutes of Technology Act 2007 came into effect on August 15. A look at what the Act means, with special focus on NIT, Calicut.

Diploma in sports therapy in distance education mode
In this line of job, you could be priming the fitness levels of a sports celebrity, or helping society shed its flab in this era of indulgence and indolence.The National Sports Medicine Center in Chennai offers an entry-level course for ...



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