Reining in the demons

Chandrika R Krishnan

Stress, loneliness, depression, breakdowns — how open are we in dealing with mental health?

After a breakdown

Nivedita Das Narayan

At times, things don’t go the way you expect them to. It may take time, but it is not impossible to recover

Mapping the course of a career

Asheesh Gupta

Crash courses on placement preparation are neither enough nor sustainable — learning is a process

Education

‘Teaching is a form of narrative’

Education

Promising pathways

Sumit Batra There is a growing need for professionals who can understand law and apply it to business

Education

My internships Headstart at a startup

A part-time experience, post the final exams, turned into a full-time job for Nikhil Sonna

S.C. Sharma, director, NAAC, Bengaluru; T.A. Umesh, in-Charge Vice-Chancellor, and Rajanna, registar, at the Foundation Day Celebration of University of Mysore on Friday.

Karnataka

India’s Gross Enrolment Ratio in higher education very low: NAAC

Special Correspondent There is a need to start more universities in the country: S.C. Sharma

Opinion

ON THE OTHER HAND | Columns

Convince the student first

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

Interview

New education methods will transform the way students learn, says Mohandas Pai

Lalatendu Mishra ‘Students and employers will begin to question the value of a university degree’

On the other hand | Columns

One nation, one school board?

Raghavan Srinivasan To increase employability of graduates, we need uniformity in school education

Special autos for Chennai Metro Rail commuters soon

Sunitha Sekar Dedicated place will be allocated in stations for the service

Vijayawada

‘Harassment in class causing more damage than punishment’

Staff Reporter Commissioner of School Education K. Sandhya Rani has said that prevalence of corporal punishment is more across the world, and mental harassment and abuse has more negative impact on the students than physical punishment. Ms. Rani was addressing a gathering of headmasters from across the State at a one-day workshop on “Guidelines for Eliminating Corporal Punishment in Schools”, jointly organised by the National and State commissions for protection of child rights and School Education Department

Higher Education

Students going through options during engineering counselling. File

Colleges

Less than half the students graduating from engineering colleges get job placements

Varun B. Krishnan Less than half the students graduating from government and private engineering colleges across the country manage to get a job placement, according to data given in the Rajya Sabha by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. Here's a look at the placement record for students graduating from engineering colleges in the last three years.Job placements in engineering colleges Private engineering colleges, which have about 7 lakh students on their rolls every year, have shown a slight increase

O.P. Jindal Global University has signed an MoU with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for an annual study programme. Photo: Twitter/@JindalGlobalUNI

Colleges

Harvard signs MoU with JGU

Vikas Pathak Students of the O.P. Jindal Global University, a leading private university in Sonipat, will have an annual study programme at Harvard University. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has signed an MoU with the university for the programme. “This collaboration has taken the form of an annual study-abroad programme at Harvard University for nearly 30 students of Jindal Global University. At the successful completion of the programme, Jindal students will earn academic credits, and the course