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Aug 27, 2006 - Panel planning to cancel entrance test
The Justice S.S. Subramani committee
is considering cancellation of the entrance test conducted last
month by private medical colleges for admitting students to
the management quota seats in three colleges in the State. Read
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Aug 26, 2006 - High Court upholds mark incentive scheme
The mark incentive scheme extended
to Government doctors working in public health centres (PHCs),
at the rate of one mark per year of service, when they apply
for admission to super-speciality courses has been upheld by
the Madras High Court. Read
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Aug 23, 2006 - Increase in students opting for higher studies
in the U.K.
The education department of the
British Council in Chennai has observed a gradual but steady
increase in the number of students going to the United Kingdom
for higher studies. Read
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Aug 23, 2006 - Counselling schedule for medical seats
Counselling for re-allotment of
MBBS seats in government medical colleges and allotment of MBBS
seats in Government/ IRT/self-financing medical colleges will
be held as follows. Read More
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Aug 22, 2006 - Mixed signals emanate from engineering admissions
All seats were filled
in 19 branches in the counselling under the Single Window System
for admissions to engineering colleges in the State. Similarly,
in 22 colleges the students took up all seats this year. Read
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Aug 21, 2006 - Should Common Entrance Test be scrapped?
WHEN THE Tamil Nadu Government
appointed a committee of experts, headed by former Vice- Chancellor
M. Anandakrishnan, to look at the system of a Common Entrance
Test (CET) for admission to professional courses, its mandate
was clear. Read More >>
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Aug 21, 2006 - Over 16,800 seats vacant
More
than 16,800 seats remained vacant in 240 colleges across the
State as the single window admission to engineering colleges
in Tamil Nadu came to an end on Sunday. Read
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Aug 21, 2006 - Dental Council proposes new courses
The Dental Council of India (DCI)
will collaborate with Indira Gandhi National Open University
(IGNOU) to launch post-graduate distance learning courses in
endodontics and oral implantology, DCI president Anil Kohli
said on Saturday. Read More
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Aug 21, 2006 - Crossing the seas on scholarship
Your decision to go overseas for
higher education or research has to be followed by systematic
effort in a disciplined manner. In most cases, parents or scholars
may not be able to foot the bill, and therefore finding assistance
from other sources is a vital part of study abroad. Read
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Aug 16, 2006 - 22,000 engineering seats vacant
Only
a week remains before the single window counselling for B.E/B.Tech
seats in the State is to end, but more than 22,000 seats remain
vacant across 250 colleges in the State. Read
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Aug 15, 2006 - "Anna varsity must grant affiliation if AICTE
approves an institution"
Once
the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) grants
approval for a technical institution, the Anna University is
obliged to grant affiliation to it, the Madras High Court has
ruled. Read More >> |
Aug 14, 2006 - MoU with U.S. varsity
The
Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research (BIHER) near
Tambaram has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with
the Western Michigan University, USA. Read
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Aug 14, 2006 - NCERT begins talent search
TIME
HAS come for talented students in Classes VIII and X to match
their skills with the best in the country. The National Council
of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has announced its
National Talent Search Scheme for 2007. The purpose of the scheme
is to identify talented students and nurture their skills in
areas such sciences, social sciences, engineering, medicine,
mnagement and law. Read More
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Aug 14, 2006 - CET remains favourite option among many
THE UNCERTAINTY over the fate
of the Common Entrance Test to professional undergraduate courses
seems to have earned the test per se more supporters than detractors,
if one went by the mood at the first public hearing of the M.Anandakrishnan
committee in Chennai recently. The committee has been constituted
by the State government to go into the technicalities of doing
away with the CET.
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Aug 08, 2006 - Committee report on CET next month
To put an end to the confusion
prevailing among the student community over the Common Entrance
Test (CET) for professional courses, the expert committee headed
by M Anandakrishnan would submit its report to the government
next month. Read More >>
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Aug 08, 2006 - Public hearing favours continuation of CET
The public mood, barring a couple
of dissenting voices, was overwhelmingly in favour of continuing
with the Common Entrance Test (CET) for admission to professional
courses, at the first public hearing by the M. Anandakrishnan
committee in Anna University on Monday. Read
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Aug 07, 2006 - Public forum on scrapping CET
The
M.Anandakrishnan committee that is examining the issue of scrapping
the common entrance test for admission to professional undergraduate
courses will hear the views of members of the public and representatives
of educational institutions through two public hearings to be
held in Chennai and Madurai. Read
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Aug 07, 2006 - Is our education system outdated?
Complete and drastic reconstruction.
This is the prescription that eminent academician and long-time
watcher of the Indian and global educational trends V.C. Kulandhaiswamy
has to offer as panacea for the ills that dog Indian higher
education. Read More >>
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Aug 07, 2006 - All seats vacant in 26 colleges
As
the second phase of counselling for undergraduate engineering
admissions gets underway, it has been a no-show so far by 26
self-financing institutions which are yet to fill up a single
seat even in the much-sought after circuit branches. Most of
these institutions opened this year. Read
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Aug 04, 2006 - Engineer wins Rs. 55 lakh U.S. fellowship
A city-based engineer,
fresh out of college, has won a Rs. 55 lakh fellowship for a
doctoral programme in the University of California, Riverside.
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Aug 03, 2006 - Counselling trend throws up curious pointers
The end of the first
phase of counselling for undergraduate engineering courses has
thrown up a curious permutation as far as choice of courses
goes. While the actual numbers of those seeking admissions has
gone up compared to last year, more and more colleges are struggling
to fill seats even in the high-intensity circuit branches. Read
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Aug 02, 2006 - Merit list for paramedical courses
The merit list for paramedical
courses — B.Sc.(nursing), B.Pharm, BPT, BOT and D.Pharm to B.Pharm
— for 2006-2007 has been released by the Selection Committee.
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Aug 02, 2006 - Counselling for B. Arch from August 6
Counselling for admission to
the five-year B.Arch degree programme will be held on August
6 in Chennai. Read More >>
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Aug 01, 2006 - First phase of counselling ends
A total of 15,206 seats have been filled through the first phase
of single window counselling for engineering admissions. The
first phase ended here on Monday. The second phase will start
on Tuesday and is likely to go on till August 20. Read
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