Chennai, Jan 12 (BPNS) With the University Grants Commission (UGC) unveiling norms for setting up foreign universities in the country, the academics from Tamil Nadu has raised concern on the level playing field vis a vis other private universities and foreign entities. A major concern raised by academics is whether these foreign universities would abide […]
Chennai, Dec 25 (BPNS) The National Testing Agency (NTA), the body conducting the Joint Engineering Entrance (JEE), has allowed students of Tamil Nadu who were given all passes by the state board, to write the entrance without marks. This is following a request by the state government to the Union Education ministry for allowing the […]
Chennai, Dec 23 (BPNS) With no marks to show in their tenth-class examination, several students from Tamil Nadu are facing a tough situation while applying for Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). The students don’t have tenth marks to produce as they were all passed by the Tamil Nadu Board due to Covid -19 pandemic of 2020-21. […]
Chennai, Dec 21 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu school education department on Wednesday placed a teacher of a primary school at Kumaratchi near Chidambaram of Cuddalore district under suspension for corporal punishment on a Class 1 student. The teacher, Kannagi, in a video that went viral was seen caning a student of Class 1 repeatedly on […]
Chennai, Dec 19 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu school education department will hire IT companies to set up high tech labs in middle schools of the state. The labs would be set up in Classes 6 to 8. It may be noted that presently the high tech labs are set up in government high schools and […]
Chennai, Dec 16 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu minister for school education, Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi has said that the state would educate 5 lakh people under the National Literacy programme. He said that in the previous year the state educated 3.15 lakh people under the programme and even overcame the set target of 3.10 lakh people. He […]
Chennai, Nov 30 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu school education department will soon be constituting Internal Complaints Committees(ICC) to prevent sexual abuse of school children. The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has while hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on the increasing sexual abuse of school children had come down heavily on the school […]
Chennai, Nov 15 (BPNS) A councilor of Greater Chennai Corporation has joined hands with an NGO for improving the English language skills of children of her ward in Ashok Nagar. The councilor, Yazhini .B, who is a representative of Dalit political party, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) while speaking to BPNS said, “ My schooling was […]
New Delhi, November 14, 2022 For the second year in a row, a record number of Indian students chose the United States to pursue higher education. According to the Open Doors Report released today, almost 200,000 Indian students chose the United States as their higher education destination in the 2021-22 academic year, a 19 percent […]
Chennai, Nov 11 (BPNS) The Indian Institute of Madras has developed a localized regional weather model to predict rainfall at the ward level and is now implanted in the Chennai corporation. This was a research project of an IIT Madras scholar, Krithiga to provide weather forecasts for irrigation management and is now used in Chennai […]
