Chennai, April 28 (BPNS) Even though the Indian Institute of Technology –Madras is an autonomous institution under the minister of Education of the Government of India, the premier institution will play the Tamil state anthem, ‘Tamil Thai Vaazhthu’ henceforth in its official functions. The Tamil Thai Vaazhthu is the state anthem of Tamil Nadu penned […]

Chennai, April 25 (BPNS ) The YouTube videos of a Tamil Nadu government school Mathematics teacher, Tamil Selvan have become a major hit among students of Classes Xth, XI, and XII. Students who are stuck with problems in Mathematics avail of the YouTube of Tamil Selvan and find solutions. The Maths teacher while speaking to […]

Chennai, April 12 (BPNS) The demand for teachers in German, French, Chinese, and Japanese has gone up in Tamil Nadu after the state government announced that final year engineering students in government engineering and aided engineering colleges will have to mandatorily study a foreign language. While there were reports on the state government planning for […]

Chennai, April 12 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu higher education department will be opening ten new arts and science colleges in the state just as it had opened a few colleges during the last academic year. Interestingly, the higher education department is eyeing girl students. This is following the fact that Tamil Nadu government has already announced […]

New Delhi, Apr 5  With the University Grants Commission making CUET mandatory for admission to all central universities, several coaching centres have started witnessing a surge in students’ enrolment for the preparation of the entrance test for undergraduate courses. Last month, UGC chairman M Jagadesh Kumar announced that the central universities will have to use […]

Chennai, April 5 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday formed a thirteen-member panel headed by retired justice of Delhi High Court, Justice (Rtd) D. Murugesan to frame the state education policy. Former world chess champion, Viswanathan Anand and music mastero, T.M. Krishna are also on the list of 13 persons who will frame the […]

Chennai, April 4 (IANS) The Woman’s wing of the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FICCI FLO) has signed an MoU with Anna University for upskilling the women students of the university and making them suitable for industry. It is to be noted that FICCI FLO has its headquarters in New Delhi with […]

Chennai, April 3 (BPNS) Tirunelveli Roman Catholic diocese in 1940 opened a school in Anthoniyarpuram in Thoothukudi district to educate the children of palmyra climbers. The school was in a quiet hamlet surrounded by lush green palmyra trees and it was upgraded to a middle school in 2003. Trouble began here as the school management […]

Chennai, March 30 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu education department has identified 10,030 government schools for demolition due to dilapidated conditions. The state government has allotted an amount of Rs 1300 crore during this financial year for the construction of new school buildings in place of the demolished buildings. This was announced by the state school education […]

Chennai, March 26 (BPNS) The academic community and political leadership of Tamil Nadu have come out with stiff opposition against the proposed UGC move to conduct a common entrance test for admission to various courses in 45 Central universities of the country. M. R. Ayyappan, a retired professor from a Government College in Tamil Nadu […]