Tamil gives new lease of life to Tamilian teachers in Singapore
Advocate Duraisamy Naidoo (55) living in the Fiji islands recites Tamil Therukoothu (street play) songs with no difficulty.
Several teachers in Singapore schools have got their pay increased after t
New database to end fake degrees
Forged educational certificates could soon be a thing of the past. The government is all set to establish and maintain, in electronic format, a database of all academic certificates issued by universi
Corporation schools face shortage of clerical staff
Even as the students in corporation schools continue to excel their counterparts in private schools academically, several city corporation schools are facing acute shortage of clerical staff. As a res
Women rank-holders steal the show at VIT
Woman power was in full flow at the 27th annual convocation of the VIT University at Vellore on Saturday.
A majority of the 134 rank-holders in the various engineering and sciences disciplines turn
Merit thrown out of single window
The option of school transfer in plus one has led to students with lower marks moving to top schools while those with higher marks are still awaiting admission to the same schools. The single window s
Court rejects student's plea for return of fees
The Madras high court has rejected the plea of a girl for refund of fees from an engineering college in the city that she left to join one in Pudukkottai as she was unable to attend class on all Satur
Pay of pre-primary teachers set to rise
The education department has told the high court that it will raise the salary of pre-primary school teachers from Rs900 to Rs5,000 and ayahs from Rs600 and Rs3,500.
The finance department’s final sa
Four out of 10 Indian engineers can't comprehend English
In a shocking revelation, four out of every 10 engineers in India are unable to understand English, which includes their day-to-day conversation and writing correct sentences, a survey has found.
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Anna Universities’ merger gets green signal from TN
Anna Universities in Tiruchi, Coimbatore, Tirunelveli and Madurai will be merged with the Anna University, Chennai, in order to ensure uniform standards in technical education throughout Tamil Nadu, a
2,500 students get free textbooks
T. Nandini, a first year B.Sc Maths student of Quaid-e-Millath College for Women, came to know through her senior that she could receive textbooks free of cost from Rajasthan Youth Association Book Ba