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Jun 30, 2008 - Go prepared for engineering counselling
Now that the rank list for engineering applicants
is published, the next step for them is to prepare for counselling.
But, why at all prepare for counselling? It is not an interview.
For those who have such thoughts, the orientation at the Government
College of Technology organised by the Coimbatore Chapter of
Computer Society of India on Sunday, would have been an eye
opener. Read More >> |
Jun 30, 2008 - College gets helicopter
Nehru College of Aeronautics and Applied Sciences
has acquired a helicopter for training purposes.
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Jun 30, 2008 - MKU to re-launch B. Ed. in distance education
mode
Pursuing B. Ed. degree course under the distance education stream
of Madurai Kamaraj University will soon become a possibility
as steps have been initiated in this regard. Read
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Jun 28, 2008 - MBBS/BDS merit list released
The merit list for MBBS/BDS admission was released
here on Friday, a day ahead of schedule.Nine students, who scored
200/200, secured the top ranks in the list released by the Directorate
of Medical Education. Read
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Jun 28, 2008 - Mannar Jawahar takes over as new Anna University
V-C
From research collaborations and incubation
centres to improving employability and placement, the relationship
between academia and industry plays a significant role in the
plans that Anna University-Chennai’s new Vice Chancellor
P. Mannar Jawahar is laying out for his tenure.
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Jun 28, 2008 - Saveetha Medical College launched
Saveetha Medical College, a unit of Saveetha
University, will start admitting students from this academic
year as it has received approval from the Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare. Read
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Jun 28, 2008 - Recruitment drive
A two-day State-level campus recruitment exercise
is to be held on Saturday and Sunday at Vickram College of Engineering
at Enathi near here. Read
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Jun 28, 2008 - Muslim students gain in engg admissions
Muslim students will have a huge advantage in
the single window counselling process for admission to government
quota BE/BTech seats this year as 3.5% of the seats have been
earmarked for them by the state government for the first time
in the history of Tamil Nadu.
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Jun 28, 2008 - Beware of bogus colleges, says VC
Five B Ed colleges functioning in the Kongu
region have been identified by the Bharathiar University (BU)
as 'bogus' colleges, as they had not obtained any affiliation
to conduct cou. Read More
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Jun 28, 2008 - Exclusive varsity to regulate B.Ed. colleges
An exclusive university for teacher education,
set up by the State government in Chennai to monitor/regulate
B. Ed. Colleges, will come into existence on July 1.
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Jun 27, 2008 - Ponmudy plays down colleges’ refusal
to sign pact on seats
While the government has ensured that all self-financing
engineering colleges will surrender at least 65 per cent of
their seats to the government quota, it has backed down on its
announcement that college managements will sign a pact on seat
allocation, and that it will be mandatory to collect first-year
fees through select nationalised banks.
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Jun 27, 2008 - Unaffiliated colleges warned of strict action
Colleges functioning without affiliation will
be penalised, Vice-Chancellor of Bharathiar University G. Thiruvasagam
told a press conference here on Thursday.
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Jun 26, 2008 - Self-financing colleges agree to surrender
65 per cent of seats
Self-financing engineering colleges have agreed
to surrender 65 per cent of their seats to the government this
academic year, but they have refused to sign any agreement with
the government. Read More
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Jun 26, 2008 - Anna University releases rank list of engineering
seats
Competition for engineering seats in the State
will be tougher than ever this year. On Wednesday, Anna University
released the rank list of the 1.23 lakh students competing for
69,731 seats in government colleges and the government quota
of self-financing colleges.
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Jun 26, 2008 - University to conduct exit survey on Choice
Based Credit System
An ‘exit survey’ of university/
college students will be undertaken by the Madurai Kamaraj University
(MKU) to evaluate the implementation of Choice Based Credit
System (CBCS). The State Government has made CBCS mandatory
for all undergraduate and postgraduate courses from 2008-09.
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Jun 24, 2008 - Counselling dates released
The Department of Technical Education on Monday
released counselling dates for candidates seeking admission
to second year of B.E./B.Tech programmes through the lateral
entry scheme. The counselling will be held at Alagappa Chettiar
College of Engineering, Karaikudi.
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Jun 24, 2008 - Counselling for UG courses begins
Counselling for admission to undergraduate courses
under the single window system began at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural
University on Monday. It will go on till Saturday.
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Jun 23, 2008 - CTS makes record campus offers for Anna University
Over 1,100 students of the College of Engineering,
Guindy, got offer letters from Cognizant Technology Solutions
(CTS) at Anna University on Friday. This represents the highest
number of offers received by the students of an engineering
college from a single company, P. Mannar Jawahar, Placement
Director, Centre for University-Industry Collaboration, Anna
University, said. Read More
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Jun 23, 2008 - Creating history with 12 centums
R. Suganya, who just passed out of L.R.G. Government
Arts College, Tirupur, with a B.Sc. Mathematics degree, has
created a history of sorts.
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Jun 23, 2008 - M.Tech in nanoscience from this year at AU-T
Anna University - Tiruchi is all set to offer
M.Tech in Nano Science and Technology from this academic year.
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Jun 23, 2008 - Get two degrees simultaneously in three years
From this academic year onwards, students will
have the option of pursuing two degree courses simultaneously
instead of spending an additional two or three years to acquire
an added qualification.
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Jun 22, 2008 - 50% more seats in PG courses this year
The University of Madras has decided to permit
its affiliated arts and science colleges to increase students'
intake in postgraduate programmes by 50% this year. However,
the intake in MBA and MCA would not be increased as these courses
are governed by the regulations of the All India Council for
Technical Education (AICTE).
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Jun 21, 2008 - Government, management quotas to be decided
soon
The government hopes to settle the issue of
the government and management quotas in self-financing engineering
colleges within the next few days, according to Higher Education
Secretary K. Ganesan. Read
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Jun 21, 2008 - Choice-based credit system to be implemented,
but with dilution
The choice-based credit system will be implemented
in all colleges under the University of Madras this year, but
the impact on students and faculty will be diluted for now.
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Jun 21, 2008 - Agricultural University offers two certificate
courses
The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University will
offer two certificate courses in horticulture under the open
distance learning programme.
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Jun 21, 2008 - 5,000 more seats in city colleges
Here is some good news for students aspiring
to join undergraduate courses in arts and science colleges in
the city. The University of Madras has decided to create 10%
more seats in its affiliated colleges from this year.
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Jun 20, 2008 - TNAU counselling from June 23
The first phase of counselling at Tamil Nadu
Agricultural University (TNAU) will start on June 23. Details
of cut-off marks and date of counselling are given in the graphics.
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Jun 18, 2008 - Indo-Australian Award for educationist
The Indo-Australian Award for Meritorious Service
was conferred posthumously on K.C.G. Verghese, founder of the
Hindustan Group of Engineering Colleges, by Australian High
Commissioner John McCarthy on Tuesday.
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Jun 17, 2008 - Decision on NIT admission will hit State
students
The sudden decision of the Ministry of Human
Resource Development to fill 50 per cent of the seats, hitherto
reserved for students of other States in the National Institutes
of Technology, on an all-India merit basis, will eliminate the
chances of Tamil Nadu students getting admission to the NITs
elsewhere in the country, say school principals.
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Jun 16, 2008 - Students evince interest in integrated MBA
programme
Eighty-five second-year B.E./B.Tech students
of Anna University – Tiruchi have evinced interest in
enrolling themselves for the newly-introduced Integrated MBA
programme. Read More >> |
Jun 16, 2008 - Higher studies in international business
To meet the demand for professional managers,
universities and institutes have introduced master’s programmes
in international business or foreign trade with focus on international
finance, international marketing, international trade, intellectual
property rights, insurance and risk management and so on.
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Jun 16, 2008 - Fee doubling draws students’ ire
The fees for management quota seats in self-financing
colleges has been nearly doubled for the current year. But the
Balasubramaniam Fee Committee Report that suggested this fee
hike has come under fire from many quarters.
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Jun 14, 2008 - Academic campus to operate from Jothipuram
The academic campus of Anna University, Coimbatore,
will function from a rented premises at Jothipuram from the
coming academic year, Vice-Chancellor R. Radhakrishnan said
here on Friday. Read More>> |
Jun 13, 2008 - An engineering marvel from students
Out of bamboo comes not only music but
also T-shirts, say textile technology students of S.S.M. College
of Engineering. Read More
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Jun 12, 2008 - Alagappa University signs memorandum
Alagappa University has signed a Memorandum
of Understanding (MOU) with Shevaroys Institute of Hotel Management,
Yercaud, under Public-Private Partnership (PPP).
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Jun 12, 2008 - IT gets a thumbs down in online career counselling
“Please do not go for Computer Science
or IT because the job opportunities are decreasing and it will
be worse in four years’ time.” Sounds unusual? It
was, in more ways than one.
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Jun 12, 2008 - More Chinese students to enrol at BU
Seventeen more Chinese students from Huaihua
University, China, have enrolled to pursue degree courses in
English at the Bharathiar University.
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Jun 09, 2008 - AIEEE counselling from June 16
As per the tentative procedure evolved by the
Central Counselling Board, Motilal Nehru National Institute
of Technology, Allahabad, AIEEE - 2008 Counselling would be
held in two phases from June 16 to July 9.
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Jun 09, 2008 - Choice-based credit system — the potential
and the challenges
The Tamil Nadu State Council of Higher
Education (TANSCHE) has taken the great initiative of introducing
a new academic credit system in all affiliated colleges from
the coming academic year. The genesis of this system is traced
to ‘Cafeteria system’, in vogue in the West.
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Jun 09, 2008 - Choice-based credit system makes an entry
The Choice-Based Credit System (CBCS)
will be implemented in all arts and science colleges in Tamil
Nadu from the coming year. Laying out the blueprint of the system,
Nalini Ravindran, Director of Collegiate Education, told The
Hindu EducationPlus that this would ensure uniformity in college
education in the state.
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Jun 08, 2008 - TNAU announces counselling schedule
The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
will begin counselling for its 12 undergraduate programmes on
June 23. According to a release from K. Vanangamudi, Dean (Agriculture),
the university will follow the single window system for admi.
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Jun 06, 2008 - Fee up for management quota seats in self-financing
engineering colleges
The Balasubramanian committee has recommended
Rs.62,500 as the annual fee students admitted under management
quota seats to self-financing engineering colleges in the State.
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Jun 06, 2008 - Varsity finalises college locations
Anna University–Tiruchi (AU-T) has
finalised temporary locations from where its four constituent
colleges would start functioning from the ensuing academic year.
In Nagapattinam district, the constituent college will function
from Anjugam Muthuvelar Government Higher Secondary School at
Thirukkuvalai. Read More
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Jun 06, 2008 - BU to tie-up with Singapore university
Bharathiar University will tie-up with
the National University of Singapore (NUS) for research in basic
sciences.Vice-Chancellor of the university G. Thiruvasagam told
The Hindu that the university has been selected based on its
strength in the basic sciences departments
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Jun 05, 2008 - Increase employability of students: VC
The industry is looking for graduates
who are sound in the subject knowledge and communication skills.
Students should be sound in these two areas to increase their
employability skills. Read
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Jun 04, 2008 - Announcement on fee structure today
An announcement on the fee structure for
undergraduate courses in self-financing professional engineering
colleges in the State will be made on Wednesday. This will be
about Rs.62,000 for management quota seats, sources say.
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Jun 04, 2008 - Bharathiar University keen to revive science
courses
With the profusion of Information Technology,
even in the education scenario, it has become a cause of concern
that basic sciences and humanities are dying.
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Jun 04, 2008 - Improve quality of education: VC
“At the global level, the goals
are expanding underscoring the need for more agri-business managers,
qualified agro-processors and environmental engineers which
calls for greater adaptation by the agricultural universities
for meeting the demands.
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Jun 04, 2008 - Recruitment drive on June 7
Bharathiar University will hold a recruitment
drive for graduates and post-graduates in science, arts, and
economics at the Natchimuthu Seminar Hall in the university
on June 7 from 9.30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Jun 02, 2008 - AICTE may relax norms for self-financing
colleges
The All-India Council for Technical Education
(AICTE) will consider relaxing the academic and fees norms for
self-financing engineering colleges, its chairman R.A. Yadav
said on Sunday. Read More
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Jun 02, 2008 - Work and learn
Bharathiar University Vice-Chancellor G. Thiruvasagam
has announced that undergraduate and post-graduate students
of the university and its affiliated colleges will be allowed
to work part-time within the campus.
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