Feb 28, 2009 - Development communication an aspect of media freedom
  Development communication has to be seen as another aspect of media freedom and not a different species in itself, N. Ravi, Editor, The Hindu, said on Thursday. Read More >>

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Feb 27, 2009 - Less than 100 students get job offers
  Less than 100 students were given job offers through the State-level placement programme of Anna University-Chennai, for its affiliated colleges this year, according to Vice-Chancellor P. Mannar Jawahar. Read More >>

Feb 27, 2009 - Engineering college to be located at Arani
  The new government engineering college to be set up in Tiruvannamalai district next year will be located in Arani, according to P. Mannar Jawahar, Vice-Chancellor of Anna University, Chennai, which has the responsibility for starting the college. Read More >>

Feb 27, 2009 - Team inspects medical college
  A four-member team from the Medical Council of India (MCI) carried out on Wednesday and Thursday an inspection of the infrastructure in the Coimbatore Medical College and the hospital attached to it and also the faculty strength in the college for granting permanent recognition for the additional 40 seats for the MBBS course. Read More >>

Feb 27, 2009 - Good response to distance education programme in Periyar University
  The total number of admissions in the undergraduate, postgraduate, diploma and certificate courses offered by the Periyar Institute of Distance Education (PRIDE) of Periyar University has crossed 15,000 this academic year. Read More >>

Feb 27, 2009 - Placements to be delayed at Anna University: VC
  Campus placements of final year students of Anna University will be postponed from June to December this year, university vice-chancellor P Mannar Jawahar said. Read More >>

Feb 26, 2009 - Varsity team talks to PMR staff, students
  A five-member team comprising Anna University (Chennai) professors and an official of the directorate of technical education (DoTE) on Wednesday inspected the PMR Institute of Technology in suburban Adyalampattu, a self-financing college which was in the news recently for alleged impersonation of faculty. Read More >>

Feb 25, 2009 - A car that can ride out rough and rugged terrains
  If potholes the size of craters and gravels for black topping on roads bother you as a driver, the innovation of a group of mechanical engineering students of Sri Sai Ram Engineering College in the city could help you a lot. Read More >>

Feb 25, 2009 - Three varsities to start civil services exam coaching
  The State government has decided to give Rs.10 lakh each to Madurai Kamaraj University, Bharatiar University, Coimbatore, and Manomaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, for establishing coaching centres for candidates appearing for civil services examinations, Arcot N. Veeraswami, Minister for Electricity and Personnel and Administrative Reforms, told the Assembly on Tuesday. Read More >>

Feb 25, 2009 - DRDO to sign MoU with Anna University
  The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will formalise its relationship with the Anna University by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the institution, said S Sundaresh, director of Combat Vehicles Research and Devlopment Establishment (CVRDE) at a press conference on Wednesday. Read More >>

Feb 24, 2009 - College agrees to fill vacancies
  The PMR Institute of Technology at Maduravoyal has agreed to fill vacancies of teaching faculties and create infrastructure before February 25, Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudy said on Monday. Read More >>

Feb 24, 2009 - Annamalai varsity to launch Tamil course for students of other States
  Annamalai University will soon start a special course for imparting Tamil language skills among the students hailing from other States, said M.Ramanathan, Vice-Chancellor. Read More >>

Feb 23, 2009 - Why not special education zones?
  From the digital classroom to an explosion in vocational education, from the death of the affiliating university to a special education zone, there are a multitude of new models that the Indian education system can choose from in the 21st century. Read More >>

Feb 23, 2009 - Anna University and Apollo Hospitals launch clinical trial course
  A new course on Clinical Trial Management is being introduced jointly by Anna University, Chennai, and Apollo Hospitals Educational and Research Foundation (AHERF). The course is termed as “Advanced Certificate Course in Clinical Trial Management” (ACC-CTM). Read More >>

Feb 20, 2009 - Anna varsity, NUS join hands to offer PG course
  Anna University will be joining hands with the National University of Singapore (NUS) to offer a postgraduate programme in automotive engineering, Vice-Chancellor Mannar Jawahar said on Thursday. Read More >>

Feb 20, 2009 - A two-day job fair for final year students
  A two-day job fair will be conducted on February 21 and 22 at the Government Arts College for Men, Nandanam, by the Placement Cell of the Directorate of Collegiate Education. Graduates and students in the final year of the bachelor’s programme from government arts and science colleges in and around Chennai would benefit, according to a press release. Read More >>

Feb 20, 2009 - A mesmerising, poetic start to the oldest inter-college cultural event
  Mitafest ’09, the 60th annual inter-college festival of the Madras Institute of Technology got under way on its premises in Chromepet on Thursday. Read More >>

Feb 19, 2009 - 886 new engg colleges, 1,084 B-schools on cards
  A common wisecrack among engineering aspirants in Andhra Pradesh has it that every second building in the state is an engineering college. That may cease to be a joke when institutes dishing out management and engineering degrees start mushrooming all over the country. Read More >>

Feb 19, 2009 - 120 applications for new engineering colleges
  Even as the government has announced that it will start five engineering colleges this year, private players have made 120-odd applications for starting new colleges. This may create more than 9,500 additional B.E. seats when the admission process begins this summer. Read More >>

Feb 19, 2009 - TNAU’s courses for urban dwellers
  To inculcate the know-how and do-how on agricultural enterprises among farmers and urban dwellers, the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) will offer five certificate courses in the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) mode. Read More >>

Feb 19, 2009- Periyar University exam results released
  The results of the examinations held during November/December 2008 for the first year Under Graduate and Post Graduate Arts and Science courses of Periyar University were released on Wednesday. Read More >>

Feb 18, 2009- Stone for SRM Sivaji Film Institute may be laid in October
  Foundation stone for SRM Sivaji Film Institute will be laid this year, according to G. Ramkumar, producer and Managing Director of Sivaji Productions. Read More >>

Feb 18, 2009- Five engineering colleges will be started this year
  Even as the government announced that it will start five engineering colleges this year, private players have flooded the sector with 120-odd applications to start new colleges. This could result in over 9,500 additional B.E. seats when the admission process begins this summer. Read More >>

Feb 18, 2009- MKU gets Rs.65 lakh to study genetic diversity
  The genetic diversity of rare and endangered tree species of 3,500-km Agasthiarmalai Biosphere Reserve bordering Tamil Nadu and Kerala would be studied through a project sanctioned for Madurai Kamaraj University here Read More >>

Feb 18, 2009- Record blood donation drive planned
  Bharathidasan University, in association with Anna University, Chennai, and Tamil Nadu Blood Transfusion Council, is all set to figure in the Guinness Book of World Records and the Limca Book of Records by mobilisation of 20,000 units of blood in record time on February 20. Read More >>

Feb 17, 2009- MMC infrastructure likely to be upgraded: Panneerselvam
  There is some good news in store for students and staff of the Madras Medical College during its 175th year, Health Minister M.R.K.Panneerselvam said on Monday. Read More >>

Feb 16, 2009- Madras Medical College turns 175
  The Madras Medical College (MMC), to which the Government General Hospital is attached, will formally launch its 175th anniversary celebrations on Monday. Read More >>

Feb 16, 2009- Management students must be more creative in approach
  In this era of cut throat competition, management students should be more creative in their approach and keep innovating to move upward in the organisation they work, V. Ananthakrishnan, Executive Director, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Tiruchi, said here on Sunday.Read More >>

Feb 15, 2009- Kamal Haasan’s invitation to educated youth
  Actor Kamal Hassan has appealed to the educated youth to join the entertainment industry as it needed more of them now than before. Read More >>

Feb 15, 2009- BU courses to be revamped next academic year
  Students planning to pursue an undergraduate or post-graduate degree course in the arts and science disciplines next academic year in any of the affiliated colleges of Bharathiar University will have something novel to look forward to. Read More >>

Feb 15, 2009- For setting global standards in B-schools
  Though many business schools and colleges have come up in India, not many are coming forward to apply for the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International accreditation. Even the Indian Institutes of Management are not showing interest. Read More >>

Feb 14, 2009 - India needs special education zones, say educationists
  India needs Special Education Zones, according to a number of educationists and industrialists. Read More >>

Feb 14, 2009 - Rule of law constitutes heart and soul of democracy
  Rule of law constitutes the heart and soul of constitutionalism and democracy and, in its absence, the notion of democracy as well as constitutionalism becomes an illusion, said Mool Chand Sharma, Vice-Chairperson, University Grants Commission, at the convocation of Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University here on Friday. Read More >>

Feb 14, 2009 - Exam results published
  Periyar University published the results of the examinations held during November-December 2008 for the second year postgraduate arts and science courses on Friday Read More >>

Feb 14, 2009 - Annual fest Milan 2009 gets underway at SRM
  College life is incomplete without music and other art forms. The artist in a student is brought out during the annual cultural festival the institutions host. For the second year, the SRM University has given opportunity to college students across the country to exhibit their skills in their annual fest Milan 2009'. Read More >>

Feb 13, 2009 - Varsity institutes ‘green campus’ awards for colleges
  Starting from this year’s World Environment Day (June 5), the Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) will present ‘green campus’ awards to colleges every year Read More >>

Feb 13, 2009 - Academic warns engineering students against buying projects
  In a timely advice to students of engineering and computer science, the eminent academic professor M Anandakrishnan has cautioned them against buying readymade projects from the market since that could affect their job prospects Read More >>

Feb 12, 2009 - New marks pattern welcomed but apprehensions remain
  Teachers' organisations have welcomed the proposal to introduce "normalisation of marks" in examinations from the next academic year in arts and science colleges and universities. Read More >>

Feb 12, 2009 - CII’s education summit tomorrow
  As part of its focus on higher education, the Confederation of Indian Industry is organising an education summit here on February 13. Read More >>

Feb 12, 2009 - PMR college students boycott classes for third day
  Students of the PMR Institute of Technology and PMR Engineering College boycotted classes for the third day on Wednesday. About 500 students and 50 parents protested on the Directorate of Technical Education’s Guindy campus all day, demanding a transfer out of their colleges. Read More >>

Feb 12, 2009 - VC warns those who indulge in malpractices
  The Vice-Chancellor of Anna University, Coimbatore, R. Radhakrishnan, has appealed to the students and staff of the university to refrain from indulging in malpractices during examinations. Read More >>

Feb 12, 2009 - M. Phil students’ results in a fix
  Over 2,500 students who studied M. Phil programme under the distance education mode in Periyar University in 2006-07 are in a fix as the varsity is causing inordinate delay in publishing the results. Read More >>

Feb 11, 2009 - All institutions except law colleges to reopen on Feb 12
  The arts and science colleges, which were closed following the unrest over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue, will reopen on February 12 . All professional colleges, except for law colleges and its hostels, have already reopened across the state. However, law colleges will remain closed until further intimation from the government. Read More >>

Feb 11, 2009 - Grades instead of marks for colleges
  Students of arts and science colleges and universities will be able to score higher marks from the next academic year under a new marking normalisation system conceived by the Tamil Nadu State Council for Higher Education (TANSCHE). Read More >>

Feb 11, 2009 - Madras Medical College gets new skills lab
  Orthopedic students at the Madras Medical College will no longer have to peer onto the operation table to watch their professor demonstrate. Read More >>

Feb 11, 2009 - PMR students lay siege at DoTE, demand transfer
  Tension prevailed on the campus of the Directorate of Technical Education (DoTE) in Guindy on Tuesday, with students of the PMR Institute of Technology laying siege amidst high-pitched sloganeering demanding a transfer from the institution, which is facing a threat of disaffiliation. Read More >>

Feb 11, 2009 - Colleges heave a sigh of relief
  Announcement of the dates of reopening of classes for PG and UG programmes by the Directorate of Collegiate Education has come in as huge relief to heads of Arts and Science Colleges in Tiruchi region, where quite a few working days were already lost due to the heavy rains late last year. Read More >>

Feb 10, 2009 - PMR students boycott classes
  Students of the PMR Institute of Technology, which is facing a threat of disaffiliation from the Anna University (Chennai) for allegedly brining in school tecahers to impersonate as college professors, boycotted classes on Monday demanding that they be transferred to other colleges. Read More >>

Feb 10, 2009 - Education most valuable asset
  Education is the most valuable asset a person could possess. From the available scriptures and literature, it is clear that Tamils realised the value of education over 2,000 years back, said K. Venkatapathy, Union Minister of State for Law and Justice. Read More >>

Feb 10, 2009 - University gets touch screen facility
  Bharathidasan University has fulfilled a long-felt need of visitors by establishing a Students’ Counselling and Grievances Redressal Cell at the entrance to its administrative block. Read More >>

Feb 09, 2009 - Exam schedule of Anna University
  The semester examination of the Anna University, Coimbatore, for first year students and undergraduate and post-graduate students having arrear papers, has been rescheduled. Read More>>

Feb 09, 2009 - Bharathiar University to set up fund for staff: Vice-Chancellor
  Bharathiar University will set up a corpus for providing pension and retirement benefits to its 750 teaching and non-teaching staff, Vice-Chancellor G. Thiruvasagam told The Hindu on Sunday. Read More>>

Feb 09, 2009 - Women’s studies come to the fore
  A discipline with a clear-cut purpose. Set up to understand and integrate education from women-centric point of view by the UGC, the Centre for Women’s Studies has come as an effort to mainstream women’s issues. Read More >>

Feb 08, 2009 - Admission to Villupuram medical college from next academic year: Ponmudy
  Admission to the government medical college at Villupuram will commence from the next academic year, said Higher Education Minister K.Ponmudy on Friday. Read More >>

Feb 08, 2009 - Integrate knowledge for enlarging realms of research
  Paper presentation, guest lectures, a workshop and technical and business quizzes marked the first of the two-day Prodigy’09, the two-day national-level technical symposium organised by the Production Engineering Association of the Dept of Production Engineering, NIT-T. Read More >>

Feb 07, 2009 - Pvt engg colleges asked to mend ways
  The decision of the Anna University (Chennai) to issue a disaffiliation notice to the errant management of the PMR Institute of Technology here is seen as a step in the right direction that would prompt colleges to ensure quality in technical education. Read More >>

Feb 06, 2009 - Anna University to set up campus in Dubai
  Anna University, Chennai is expanding its global reach. On Wednesday, its Syndicate approved a proposal to set up an off-shore campus in Dubai. From the coming academic year, undergraduate courses in 4 depts – automobile, chemical, electrical and civil engg. – will be offered. Read More >>

Feb 06, 2009 - PMR Institute of Technology faces disaffiliation
  Anna University-Chennai is taking steps to disaffiliate the PMR Institute of Technology, a self-financing engineering college near Maduravoyal. Read More >>

Feb 05, 2009 - Shifting of Centre of Distance Education begins
  Bharathidasan University has commenced the process of shifting its Centre of Distance Education (CDE) from the Khajamalai premises to its main campus. Read More >>

Feb 05, 2009 - Professional colleges to open on February 9
  The Tamil Nadu Government today ordered the re-opening of all professional colleges, closed in the wake of students’ unrest on the Sri Lankan Tamils’ issue, on February 9. Read More >>

Feb 04, 2009 - University gets a new research unit
  Bharathidasan University has achieved a distinction by getting Centre for Pheromone Technology established in the Department of Animal Science, the first such facility in the country. Read More >>

Feb 03, 2009 - Order to vacate hostel leaves students stranded
  Chantarat Meesuk is in the middle of a dilemma. "I cannot book tickets to go home because I do not know how long this leave is for," says the first year Anna University student, who hails from Thailand. Read More >>

Feb 02, 2009 - Community colleges to accept applications for associate degrees
   From the coming academic year, community colleges across the country will accept applications for two-year degree programmes, called associate degrees. Read More >>

Feb 02, 2009 - Turning recession to advantage
   Economic recession reflected in the declining number of jobs has dampened the spirits of students, especially those who are looking forward to pursuing lucrative careers in IT sector. Read More >>

Feb 02, 2009 - IT and banking certificate course
   The Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF), in association with DOEACC, will offer an information technology and banking certificate course aimed at those seeking employment in the ITeS-BPO sector, particularly call centres catering to banking clients. Read More >>

Feb 02, 2009 - Thinking beyond IT
   Global meltdown, economic slowdown, industrial downturn, recession. These are some of the words in constant circulation these days. Read More >>

Feb 02, 2009 - GATE pattern changes
   Here is some good and bad news for candidates who would be appearing for the Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE). While the time limit of three hours to attempt the paper remains unchanged, some major changes will greet the candidates. Read More >>

Feb 02, 2009 - The challenges ahead
   Over the past decade, there has been a huge proliferation of institutions of higher learning. What began in the 1980s as an experiment in self-financing colleges has transformed into a movement towards complete commercialisation of higher education. Read More >>

Feb 02, 2009 - Recruitment slowdown and finishing schools
   Seeking to gain an edge over competition, many students are queuing up before finishing schools, which promise to increase their 'company-readiness'. Read More >>

Feb 02, 2009 - Country needs more medical specialists
   At a high level meeting, health ministers of different states agreed that there was a shocking lack of specialists in the country - both in clinical practice and in teaching. Unanimously, they urged Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, to take remedial measures to increase medical specialists. Read More >>

Feb 02, 2009 - BITS signs MoU with MMM
   Is there space for expertise wedged between the professions of physicians and nurses? What was once a blank arena in the clinical setting has been successfully turned into a critical speciality by BITS Pilani. Read More >>

Feb 02, 2009 - BIM student teams make their mark
   Student teams of Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM), Tiruchi, have asserted their competency in the national scene with victories in a string of recent contests across the country. Read More >>

Feb 02, 2009 - Seminar on optical communication
   A seminar on 'Recent advances in optical communication,' organised by the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering of Vickram College of Engineering, Enathi, was inaugurated by S. Mohan, Vice-Chancellor, PRIST University, Thanjavur. Read More >>

Feb 02, 2009 - Programme
   RVS College of Arts and Science will organise "Nangahabba" (Ungal Choice) here on February 4. Read More >>

Feb 02, 2009 - Thondi facility: VC allays fears
   There is no proposal to shift the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Area Studies from Thondi to Karaikudi, according to P. Ramasamy, Vice Chancellor, Alagappa University. Read More >>

Feb 02, 2009 - Faculty development programme
   K.L.N. College of Information Technology, Pottapalayam, conducted an IBM-sponsored faculty development programme in TIVOLI Storage Manager. Read More >>

Feb 01, 2009 - Self-financing college teachers may get UGC benefits
   The University Grants Commission has proposed a scheme to extend its benefits to teachers of self-financing colleges. It has been sent to the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development for approval, UGC member Xavier Alphonse told The Hindu on Friday. Read More >>

Feb 01, 2009 - Improve communicative and written English skills, students told
   Education is not just about earning a degree. It is a process that should bring desirable changes in an individual, especially in knowledge, skills and attitude, C. Sylendra Babu, Inspector General of Police (Special Task Force), said here on Thursday. Read More >>

Feb 01, 2009 - Tamil Nadu orders closure of colleges
   Colleges across Tamil Nadu will remain closed from Monday, the state government announced Saturday in view of students' protests over the situation in Sri Lanka. Read More >>