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 […]
Chennai, Nov 9 (BPNS) Seven senior MBBS students of the prestigious Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore were suspended by the college management after they had subjected juniors to ragging. A first-year MBBS student had shared the video in which he and other batch mates were subjected to ragging by seniors. The video which went viral […]
Chennai, Nov 5 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu School education department has announced that it would commence coaching classes for Class 11 and Class 12 students for National Eligibility Cum Entrance Examination (NEET). The classes, according to a statement from the school education department would start in the third week of November. Around 420 centres are […]
Chennai, Nov 4 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu school education department has commenced career guidance classes for students in government schools who are in classes 11 and 12. The classes are designed in such a manner that students will be empowered to do self-assessment of themselves. This, according to a senior officer with the school education […]
Chennai, Nov 3 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu has slipped a notch below in the Performance Grading Index (PGI) of the Union Ministry of Education report released on Thursday. Kerala and Andhra Pradesh retained their positions among the top seven performing states of the country along with Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Chandigarh, and Maharashtra. Performance Grading Index (PGI) […]
