Loyola College to represent India at SIFE event
Loyola College of Chennai will represent India in the annual competition of the US-based Students in Free Entrepreneurship (SIFE), a world body promoting community projects among students.
Students from 48 nations will participate in the three-day event to be held from October 10 in New York this year.
The college recently won the national-level competition held in [...]
An attempt to make students think…
What can we learn from Indian history? What can we learn from Hitler? How to get over superstition? Why did Russian communism fail? What is modern management and why there is great demand for MBAs?
What is the status of NGO movement in India? What can be done to remove grinding poverty? Do we have energy [...]
Church institutes top education surveys
Catholic institutions have dominated the two major national rankings of India’s best higher education institutions, but in the list of best institutions in ‘new subjects’ the church institutions are a negligible presence.
Loyola College Chennai has topped India Today magazine’s best college ranking in both arts and science.
The Jesuit-run Loyola College Chennai is India’s best college [...]
School building demolished in Villivakkam
A dispute between two private parties over about 12 grounds of land has put the future of nearly 500 students in the balance. On Tuesday, day two of the academic year, students of St.Joseph’s Matriculation in Villivakkam, saw their benches being thrown out and classrooms crumble.
This followed a Chennai Corporation directive to demolish the building [...]
Chennai boy tops CBSE exam
The CBSE class twelve exams have high stakes for many students from middle class families. For them it is a passport to a good future. K Vijaykumar of Chennai ranks first in the list of candidates nationwide who sat for the CBSE Class 12 exams. He’s scored a mind-boggling 490 marks out of 500, just [...]
Counselling for BE courses free
State Higher Education Minister K Ponmudy today announced that the counselling fee for engineering admission had been waived to benefit students.
Speaking to reporters at the Secretariat, the Minister said the government had earlier announced the slashing of counselling fee from Rs 300 to Rs 200. Now, Chief Minister, considering students from far off places, has [...]
Conduct counselling in Tiruchi, Madurai Coimbatore: CPI(M)
The two-day State executive committee meeting of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which concluded here on Saturday, urged the State Government to conduct counselling for engineering college admissions in Tiruchi, Madurai and Coimbatore, apart from Chennai.
The meeting said, till last year, the counselling was held in four cities simultaneously. The decision to conduct it [...]
Web site opened
Vice-Admiral R.P. Suthan inaugurated the web site of the Chennai Centre for China Studies here on Monday.
B. Raman, Former Additional Secretary, Government of India, and member of the centre, said the web site was the first step towards making the centre known to the rest of the world. Some prominent educational institutions in other countries [...]
Wipro Infotech signs MoU with AMU
Wipro Infotech announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Centre for Distance Education of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in Aligarh to act as the strategic IT services partner for the Institute. Through the partnership, Aligarh Muslim University has engaged Wipro as the preferred IT partner for providing technology solutions and participating in [...]
Good News: B.Com, BCA courses for the hearing-impaired
Presidency College will offer B.Com and BCA programmes exclusively for hearing-impaired candidates from the coming academic year. “Applications will be issued in the third week of May. We will take 15 students for each course,” Presidency College Principal S. Ramanathan said. The courses, to be offered in Tamil, will be taught free of cost.
Teachers proficient [...]
