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Unlike courses offered in physical schools, online degrees allow students to save on transport costs, rent, hostel fees, and study material.

Music can be a powerful teaching tool and have multiple benefits.

Write way to a booming legal career

Shashikala Gurpur

Share your insights and expertise through blogging

A gamechanger

Online learning can revolutionise and reform Indian higher education and make it accessible and affordable

Strike the right notes

Bindu Subramaniam

Here is why educators should use music as a teaching tool

Technology is where the future is, and students have the best chance to shape future of work

Future of work

If a person keeps intruding into your space with uninvited suggestions, politely thank them for their inputs and tell them that you are handling the issue.

No, thank you!

It is important for students to realise the importance of soft skills in their formative years.

‘Communication is an underrated skill’

Archana Subramanian Entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala talks about the importance of lifelong learning and why he wrote Skill It, Kill It

An important development that young accountants must take cognisance of is technological development, especially the increasing use of AI and Data Analytics.

Up your numbers game

Sanjiv Chaudhary While risks and challenges abound for young chartered accountants, opportunities and rewards are aplenty too

Rubani Singh, who identifies as non-binary

Growing up non-binary in today’s India

Geetika Sasan Bhandari Agender, genderfluid, bigender — children and young adults finally have a name to put to what they are feeling. Now parents and the society must learn how to be supportive and respectful

Opinion

yarn it! Opinion

Meet the real power players: on alternate career paths for college students in 2020

Jane De Suza Career choices where you can call the shots with minimal effort

Photo used for representation purpose only.

Comment | Higher Education post-COVID-19

C.P. Gopinathan K. Ramachandran Online has become the default mode of education during this long lockdown period in the wake of Covid-19. What does this mean for the institutions and academic leaders, administrators and students in the long run is getting clearer.

ON THE OTHER HAND | Columns

Convince the student first

Raghavan Srinivasan Regulatory change won’t persuade students that they’re getting a better education

Schools

Supreme Court refuses to review its June 22 order on Class 12 exams

Legal Correspondent Private, compartment students have sought parity with regular CBSE students

Parents and guardians of students receive mark-sheets of their wards for Madhyamik examinations, at a school in Nadia, West Bengal on July 20, 2021.

Lack of uniformity in awarding marks to students by schools: teachers’ organisations

PTI More than 90% of the students secured first division marks in this year’s Madhyamik examination and the pass percentage was a record one hundred per cent

Higher Education

New thrust: Efforts are on to promote technical education in
regional languages. File

AICTE creating database to promote higher education in regional languages: PM Modi

Special Correspondent It will help students from rural, low-income families and prevent language-based discrimination, he says

Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu. File

VP Venkaiah Naidu welcomes decision of 14 engineering colleges to offer courses in regional languages

PTI All India Council for Technical Education, in tune with the provisions of the new education policy, has permitted B.Tech programmes in 11 regional languages

Careers

Schools can start focusing on developing students’ cognitive skills through age-appropriate physical activities and brain exercises.

Building blocks of learning

Kamlesh D. Patel What are cognitive skills? Why are they essential for our functioning?

While it is imperative that we identify and nurture our strengths, psychologists caution us that we must exercise them in moderation, lest they turn into liabilities.

Think When strengths can backfire

Aruna Sankaranarayanan Foster your talents, nourish your gifts, but remember to wield them wisely and to be mindful of the context

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News from the world of Education: August 3, 2021

Transforming media in the age of AI and data

Delhi

Yet another year of admissions in Delhi University

Farmer’s son brings laurels to J&K, secures second rank in IES exam

News from the world of Education: July 31, 2021

A gamechanger

Write way to a booming legal career

Share your insights and expertise through blogging

Strike the right notes

Here is why educators should use music as a teaching tool

Future of work

How do we prepare our students for the workplace, in the new normal?

No, thank you!

Avoid giving unsolicited advice and draw boundaries when receiving it, to protect your “psychological space”

A guided path

Uncertain about your career options? Low on self-confidence? This Q&A column by Nandini Raman, practising counsellor and trainer, may help

Scholarships: July 31, 2021

Information on scholarships

‘Communication is an underrated skill’

Entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala talks about the importance of lifelong learning and why he wrote Skill It, Kill It

Up your numbers game

While risks and challenges abound for young chartered accountants, opportunities and rewards are aplenty too

Growing up non-binary in today’s India

Agender, genderfluid, bigender — children and young adults finally have a name to put to what they are feeling. Now parents and the society must learn how to be supportive and respectful

Happy Schooling 2.0 in Madurai Corporation schools soon

As COVID-19 pandemic disrupts life, civic body is bringing back project to offer emotional support to children

Assam Class 10 board exam pass percentage soars to 93 %

The boys outshine this time in the matriculation results with 93.34 %, while 92.90 % of the girls passed in the HSLC exams.

Supreme Court refuses to review its June 22 order on Class 12 exams

Private, compartment students have sought parity with regular CBSE students

AICTE creating database to promote higher education in regional languages: PM Modi

It will help students from rural, low-income families and prevent language-based discrimination, he says

News from the world of education - July 29, 2021

Information on new courses, admissions, webinars, partnerships and more...

Avoid an infodemic

With dependency on digital mediums rising, it is important to be aware of what is real and what is not

Land that dream job

Academic achievements apart, focus on widening your existing repertoire of skills and developing yourself in a holistic manner

A returnship programme for STEM professionals

Johnson & Johnson's Re-Ignite which helps those on the comeback trail, is open for registrations

A blend of old and new

A post-pandemic hybrid learning model can help create a generation that has developed a scientific temper and has imbibed the qualities of inclusion and diversity

News from the world of Education, July 27, 2021

Information on admissions, research, MOUs, scholarships and more...

CBSE, UGC asked to assess vaccination rates among teachers, staff

Immunisation seen as key to reopening educational institutions

You can count on Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, ‘the world’s fastest human calculator’

Twenty-one-year-old Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, known as ‘the world’s fastest human calculator’, talks about his love for numbers and his ed-tech startup Exploring Infinities

Engineering admission: More aspirants keen on taking up new branches

With the admission process for BE/B.Tech courses set to begin, this year too parents and aspirants are chasing a handful of preferred courses.Most

Calicut University launches four integrated PG courses

Entrance exams to be held in August

UoM proposes shift system in colleges to cope with increase in admissions

Recruiting additional teachers imperative, says VC

News from the world of Education, July 24, 2021

Information on admissions, research, MOUs, scholarships and more...

CISCE declares results for classes 12 and 10

The CISCE on Saturday announced results for classes 10 and 12, with class 10 girls and boys achieving the same pass percentage.In the Council for the

Adding value to learning

How Course Crafting can help enhance the quality of any upskilling or higher education course

Cash in on the cloud

Why Accounting students need to stay abreast of cloud-based technology in their field

Not a pleasant experience

What is the difference between ‘vomit’ and ‘retch’? (K. Harish, Madurai)I am sure that all of us have experienced both sometime or the other. Neither

Meeting future challenges

Do marks in the Class 12 board exams give a clear picture of students’ knowledge?

Know your acronyms

When using short forms of expressions, it is important to know how and when to use them — and with whom.

Career prospects for you

Uncertain about your career options? Low on self-confidence? This Q&A column by Nandini Raman, practising counsellor and trainer, may help

Scholarships: July 24, 2021

Information on scholarships

How has the pandemic impacted students?

When it comes to education, interrupted study programmes has been the main issue, despite the adoption of online learning methods.

President approves appointment of vice chancellors to 12 varsities

Union Minister of Education informed the Rajya Sabha that of 22 posts of VCs that are vacant, 12 have been finalised

Lessons for the future

Correlating the past with the present can not only change mindsets and attitudes but the future as well.

Teaching during the pandemic

We are facing an ‘education emergency’ today: Educationist Rishikesh B.S.

The researcher, who leads the Hub for Education, Law & Policy at Azim Premji University, talks of the urgent need to refocus on fundamentals and get children back to school

Eight students to match wits in CMA Online Business Quiz 2021

Finals to be held online on July 25

Taking higher education to the grassroots

Why it is important to offer college and university programmes in regional languages

Kerala removes upper age limit for transgenders seeking admission in State universities

The decision to remove age limit is expected to encourage transgenders to pursue higher education

Lack of uniformity in awarding marks to students by schools: teachers’ organisations

More than 90% of the students secured first division marks in this year’s Madhyamik examination and the pass percentage was a record one hundred per cent

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