Education

Chennai, May 9 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu school education department is to probe the absenteeism in the board exams for Classes X and XII that are underway in the state. According to the department, 2265 and 1238 students were absent for Class X and Class XII board examinations respectively. A senior official of the state […]

Chennai, May 3 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu school education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi has said that the state school students will be subjected to sexual awareness sessions for a week from next academic year onwards. The minister while speaking to BPNS said that the state education department has taken extensive measures to prevent any sexual […]

Chennai, April 29 (BPNS) The prestigious Women’s Christian College, Chennai signed an agreement with the FICCI FLO programme to upskill women students in the college. FICCI FLO will conduct the campus to Corporate Skilling programme. A statement from the FICCI FLO said that around 1,500 students are expected to attend this programme. FICCI FLO, the […]

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 […]