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Tamil Nadu Education - Schools, Colleges and Universities

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#1 ·
Thread for updates in TN Education. TN having around 420 Engineering Colleges, numerous Arts and Science, Polytechnic, Business schools and Medical colleges.
Some them are ranked in Top 10 in the Country.
 
#29 ·
Huge investments needed for education, says VIT Chancellor

http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/29/stories/2010032953970300.htm

VILLUPURAM: For achieving the ambitious target of raising the rate of access to higher education from 12 per cent to 30 per cent, as against the world average of 23 per cent, large investments are needed.

It can be accomplished only through joint efforts by the Centre, State governments and the private participants, said G. Viswanathan, Founder and Chancellor of VIT University, Vellore.

He was delivering the convocation address at the 10th Graduation Day of Theivanai Ammal College for Women here on Sunday. Mr. Viswanathan said the State governments were shying away from setting up new universities because it would take huge investment and vast stretches of land.

The State governments simply did not have the kind of funds required for starting new universities because all their resources were exhausted in promoting primary and school education, he said.

In 2007, the National Knowledge Commission headed by Sam Pitroda had suggested setting up of 1,500 new universities, but in the past three years only 50 had come up.

For the proposed three Central universities, the government had earmarked an amount of Rs.3,300 crore, but comparing with the scale of investments being made by China on education it would pale into insignificance. In China, even a university of moderate size would have tens of thousands of students on its rolls, with an annual budget of Rs.2,000 crore to Rs.3,000 crore.

Mr. Viswanathan pointed out that five decades ago the Dr. Radhakrishnan Committee recommended 6 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product to be invested on education but even now it stood at only 3.5 per cent.

If the avowed objectives of “expansion, inclusion and excellence” were to be achieved, the so-called “mushrooming” of colleges was important, with stress on adequate laboratory facilities and qualified faculty.

Mr. Viswanathan lauded the college management for providing women access to higher education in an educationally and economically backward area.

The Chancellor said that from the next academic year VIT University would award a gold medal to the best outgoing student of Theivanai Ammal College for Women.

S. Senthil Kumar, College Secretary, and Principal Kasturibai Dhanasekaran, also spoke. On the occasion, 481 graduates received their scrolls, including three university gold medallists.
 
#30 ·
Empowering youth through entrepreneurship


HARNESSING POTENTIAL: The Institute of Entrepreneurship and Career Development building on Bharathidasan University campus in Tiruchi.

Starting from scratch since its inception during mid-2004, the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Career Development (IECD), Bharathidasan University, has come a long way, filling the serious gap in the university educational system by organising entrepreneurship and career development programmes/courses and entrepreneurship sensitisation camps for various target groups.

It has been designing and operating various skills-based and career-oriented short-term certificate courses, diploma, advanced diploma and PG diploma courses for student and non-student school dropouts and unemployed youth. So far, the institute has trained 14,567 candidates: 7,187 through EDPs; 4,398 through short-term courses at the campus; and 2,982 through the off-campus mode. Of them, 2,576 candidates availed themselves of the benefit of scholarship.

Employment opportunities were created for 2,339 students of affiliated colleges, including 1,448 girl students, through campus interviews; 2,476 non-student youths through the on-campus programmes, and 2,561 youths through the off-campus programme. Currently, 1,007 students, including 557 girls, are undergoing the various certificate and diploma programmes. As many as 6,778 students have been enrolled under the SUITS programme. The institute has trained 7,187 persons, mostly belonging to weaker sections of the society, in entrepreneurship development, and has shaped 64 trainees as young entrepreneurs in service sector.

Among the unique programmes are the trainings offered in basic computer operations to deaf and dumb, and instrumental music (keyboard and guitar) to the visually-impaired. Roping in MNCs, the IECD has been at the helm of organising campus interviews for undergraduate and postgraduate students of the university and affiliated colleges.

Alongside offering Skill-based and Career Oriented Continuing Education Programmes through industrial/ institutional tie-ups, leading to Certificate /Diploma / Advanced Diploma / PG Diploma, the IECD has established 87 Entrepreneurship Development Cells (EDC) at college level, conducted coaching classes to Group I and II aspirants among rural youths, evolved skill-based electives (41 Credit Courses under CBCS) to UG Students of Tamil Nadu, initiated the School - University - Industry - Tie-ups Scheme (SUITS) for school children in Tamil Nadu, and offered specialised Skill /Vocation Based Certificate Programme to Rural Artisans.

The IECD has received through the university Rs. 14 lakh from the University Grants Commission for conducting certificate / Diploma /Advanced Diploma in e-Commerce and Entrepreneurship and Career Development during XI Plan period. At present, 85 UG Students of affiliated colleges are undergoing the courses.

The institute has extended its reach to Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh as well. Over 7,700 students are benefited by the IECD's courses. The institute has been acting both as entrepreneurial training and consultancy institute for empowering the youth, according to K. Parthasarathy, Professor and Head, Department of Life-Long Learning, who has been holding full-additional charge of the IECD since its inception.

The IECD was conceptualised and established as per the UGC's X Plan guidelines on Adult, Continuing Education, Extension and Field Outreach, with the philosophy of continuing education as part of the total education programme of the institution; integration between formal and non-formal education and out-of-school learning process; reaching out to the larger sections of adults through the university system and specially deprived groups for the purpose of equalisation of educational opportunities; and introduction of courses offered on campus, off-campus, online and through e-learning.

With an initial university funding of Rs. 10 lakh, the institute, functioning as an autonomous entity, has so far returned a whopping amount exceeding Rs. 2 crore to the university by operating the plethora of programmes. The target group for various courses includes student and non-student youth, current students of schools and colleges, school dropouts, employees, SHG members, senior citizens and junior citizens of the society and physically-challenged persons above the age of 5 years to over 80 years, said Dr. Parthasarathy.

K. Subburaj, Chairman and Executive Director, Cethar Vessels Private Limited, has agreed in principle to provide grant-in-aid of Rs.2.5 crore at an average of Rs. 25 lakh per annum for 10 years continuously for training and making the youth skilled in service sector and also making them as entrepreneurs through the establishment of Lab for Innovation / Skill Development at the Khajamalai Campus. The preparatory work is in progress, Dr. Parthasarathy said.

The institute has been empanelled by the Ministry of Micro and Small Enterprises, Government of India, under Rajiv Gandhi Udyami Mitra Yojana Scheme, for imparting training and playing a lead role for the socio-economic development of youth in general and unemployed youth in particular for making them entrepreneurs with the financial support of the Government of India.

Source: http://beta.thehindu.com/education/article320957.ece
 
#31 ·
Centre nod to knowledge network

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/centre-nod-knowledge-network-544

April 4: The Union cabinet has cleared a proposal to interlink all medical and agricultural universities, technical institutions and research libraries under the national knowledge network at a cost of Rs 6,000 crore over a period of five years, Union minister for communications and IT, A Raja said. :cheers:
Laying the foundation stone of the Software Technology Park of India at Kalapet at a cost of Rs 20 crore on Sunday, Mr Raja said the national knowledge network would enable students of universities and research institutions to have interaction, share knowledge, collaborative research and augment their skills. The STPI at Puducherry would also be linked with the national knowledge network.
“Although the country has policies for telecom and water, we don't have a separate policy in the information technology sector. There is a need for evolving such a network. The Union government had implemented a semiconductor investment policy and a MoU was signed at a cost of Rs 2.60 crore,” Mr Raja said. He also said that Ta-mil Nadu was the first state in the country to have come out with an IT policy.
 
#32 ·
Facebook links varsity, students

Slowly and steadily, Indian higher education campuses are upgrading their facilities to world standards. :cheers::cheers:

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/facebook-links-varsity-students-542

April 4: From being a platform for interaction and sharing views, social networking sites are transforming the way of communication between the administration and students at VIT University.
The VIT administration has been using social networking site Facebook to establish a friendly atmosphere among students, parents, alumni and faculties, besides encouraging students to come up with new ideas to run the administration effectively.
Launched on February 7, the VIT page on Facebook got 9,000 users in two months. “We have created our own page in the social network site to reach the students,” said university pro-chancellor Sekar Visw-anathan, who spends an hour everyday to go through the page.
The university has provided BlackBerry phones to 35 faculty members. “Nearly 15 students a day post their problems and also solutions for them on the site. The faculties also respond to the queries in two seconds using the modern gadget," said Mr Sekar.
The university has also created a channel, VIT Social, on YouTube. Important lectures are uploaded on the channel. It also plans to register on Twitter soon. “One of our students posted his problem in getting visa to China on Facebook. Within five minutes, I was able to solve the problem while I was travelling in a high-speed train in China on March 18,” he recollects.
Besides this, the social networking site helps students to update the happenings inside and outside the university campus. “I posted the idea of having an exclusive page for the university on Facebook. The pro-chancellor immediately asked me to go ahead with it,” said second-year B.Tech (Computer Science) student Rohit Mishra who is administering the VIT page. It also helps get redressal quickly, said III-year Mechanical and Energy department student Saurabh Jain.
 
#36 ·
Kingfisher ties up with Anna Univ to cut down emission

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Kingfisher-ties-up-with-Anna-Univ-to-cut-down-emission/articleshow/5772063.cms

CHENNAI: Kingfisher Airlines has tied-up with Anna University to carry out joint research in order to cut down carbon emissions and introduce bio-fuel.

This is the first time an airline has signed an MoU with a university for research. Under the four-year agreement, a joint research for `aircraft emission optimisation and forecasting module' will be carried out.

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#37 ·
IMU to set up Maritime Law Department

http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/12/stories/2010041262870800.htm

MoU signed with National Law School of India University



CHENNAI: The Indian Maritime University (IMU), Chennai, will enter into an academic collaboration with the Malta-based International Maritime Law Institute in June to provide specialised course in Maritime Law. Besides, it will also set up the Department of Maritime Law this year, said Union Shipping Minister G.K. Vasan on Sunday.

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#38 ·
TN education outlay goes up

Source: Hindu
http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/17/stories/2010041762980500.htm

School education infrastructure in the State will get a huge fillip with the allocation of over Rs.10,000 crore for the school education sector.
Detailing the schemes and plans for the last year of the five-year term of the DMK government, School Education Minister Thangam Thennarasu said this was the highest allocation ever for school education. The government was committed to providing an equitable system of education to all in the State.

“We want to make available the same kind of education to all…Rome was not built in a day. We are working on the infrastructure in all schools so that a few years down the line all schools will have good infrastructure.”

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In all, the government allocated Rs.39,643 crore for school education from 2006 to 2011. This was 88 per cent more than the allocation in the previous five years, he said. Between 2006-2010, as many as 341 primary schools were opened, 2,408 were upgraded middle schools, 445 middle schools were upgraded high schools and 435 high schools upgraded higher secondary schools. The Minister said the first step towards an equitable system of education was making uniform syllabus. This would be done at Class 1 and 6 this coming academic year. In all other classes, it would be introduced the next year.

...... The Minister said that at the primary level, dropout rate had come down from 3.81 per cent in 2005-06 to 1.02 per cent in 2008-09. At the upper primary level, the dropout rate declined from 7.58 per cent in 2005-06 to 1.88 per cent in 2008-09. :cheers:Tamil Nadu is in the fifth place in the education development index as per the research findings by the National University of Educational Planning and Administration.:bash:
 
#39 ·
Foreign degree still edges home draw

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/foreign-degree-still-edges-home-draw-664

April 19: Several deemed universities in Tamil Nadu claim they have come of age, in the global perspective — offering state-of-the-art facilities in classrooms, libraries and laboratories. Besides, their campus-interviews for jobs in MNCs and top-class corporates have been fruitful for students. Has all this slowed down the traffic of students seeking education abroad?
No, say foreign missions and Indian students, citing various reasons.

Speaking to the Deccan Chronicle on Monday, Ms Padmavathi Chandramouli, student counsellor, DAAD-German Academic Exchange Service, said we can positively say as far as student visa in the southern region is concerned, compared to 2007, 2008 saw a near 10 per cent increase; compared to 2008, there was about 40 per cent increase in student visas issued from the southern region to Germany in 2009.

Based on these factors, we can definitely say that more Indian students are going to Germany for higher studies and research in the past two years and also that interest to pursue higher studies and research in German universities is increasing sharply, she added.

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#41 · (Edited)
This is another important concern.

Money makers will now loot the people through CBSE school, TN gvt should strictly ask to Center not to approve more CBSE school district wise. And they should list the schools which don't have the permit.

News translation: Nearly 150 CBSE schools have mushroomed in the state without No objection certificate from state government. These schools are not ready to accept with state government's policy on uniform education as it will affect the income of these private schools. These CBSE schools are charging 25000-50000 rupees from the students as donation.



Dinakaran
 
#43 ·
Annamalai University to introduce tele-conferencing system soon

http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/22/stories/2010042251390300.htm

CUDDALORE: Annamalai University will soon introduce tele-conferencing system in place of contact classes for select subjects under distance education mode, said Vice-Chancellor M. Ramanathan.

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Seventeen new programmes, including M.Sc in building and real estate valuation, postgraduate diplomas in mobile computing and cyber security, and, diploma in bio-pesticides production technology would be introduced from this academic year.

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#44 ·
Tamil Nadu engg colleges may shun AIEEE list

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/tamil-nadu-engg-colleges-may-shun-aieee-list-408

April 25: Tamil Nadu engineering colleges that admit students from All India Engineering Entrance Examination’s (AIEEE) common list of students are likely to withdraw their arrangement with the examination authority after it took a unilateral decision this year not to share seats with the colleges.

Thanjavur-based SASTRA University, one of the four deemed institutes in Tamil Nadu that admits students from AIEEE’s common list of students, has criticised AIEEE’s centralised counselling board (CCB) for its order that participating institutions must surrender all their seats to the board, thereby doing away with the regular practice of allowing the institutions to retain a certain percentage of seats.

SASTRA University vice-chancellor R. Sethuraman told Deccan Chronicle on Sunday that many private universities admitting students with AIEEE scores had published advertisements for admission based on the practice of previous years in which a certain percentage of the seats were offered to the CCB. In SASTRA’s case, 30 per cent of the varsity’s seats had been offered to AIEEE.

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#47 · (Edited)
Nearly 100 students to visit Kennedy Space Centre

Nearly 100 students from various schools in Chennai are all set to begin a journey that would take them to the fascinating world of space research.

For the next 10 days, these students will get a chance to crawl through rocket tunnels, lunch with astronauts, interact with scientists at NASA and visit the Hall of Fame.

Space Kids India, an educational mission to Kennedy Space Centre launched by the World Travel Club, will take the students on a science and entertainment trip to the American space agency, Orlando and Universal Studios.

Speaking to the students over telephone at the launch of Space Kids India here on Monday, Mylswamy Annadurai, Project Director, Chandrayaan-I, said it was the chance of a lifetime for the students to get a taste of space by visiting the most respected space agency in the world.

Urging the students to make good use of the opportunity, he observed that the visit would spur interest among students to learn more about space.

Several innovative measures are on the anvil at Chandrayaan to strengthen the mission.

U.S. Consul General in Chennai Andrew T. Simkin said the students were in their formative years and a visit to NASA would broaden their perspective about science. “Indian students have been giving their best in various fields. India and U.S. are the only two countries that have strong capabilities to explore various avenues in science,” he said.

The students participating in the tour will be exposed to the world of space sciences, robotics and nuances involved in designing a space shuttle. They would be taken around NASA and will be explained about how space shuttles are assembled and where the astronauts are trained.

They will visit the Kennedy Space Centre's shuttle landing facility to see the vehicle assembly building. Students from Shree Niketan Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Velammal Matriculation Higher Secondary School, PSBB Group of Schools, Church Park, Zion Matriculation Higher Secondary School, and M.K.M Matriculation School will participate in the tour.

Source: http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Chennai/article411105.ece
 
#48 ·
Thiagarajar management school gets autonomous status

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/04/29/stories/2010042950872100.htm
The Thiagarajar School of Management (TSM) has been conferred autonomous status by UGC & Madurai Kamaraj University . The conferment is based on the visit by the UGC expert committee under the chairmanship of Prof R C Sobti, Vice-Chancellor, Punjab University. The status will facilitate TSM in providing industry-oriented curriculum which would enhance the placement prospects.
 
#49 ·
Banks say -use e-statements & e-banking-save paper -save trees ;
To save our valuable environment ;
Nice most of us these days shifted to such system - e-banking/e-statement/ATM/net banking/ online transfers & transactions, etc, etc...
Y not our Governments & education departments-use their Good will to implement such practices in schools & colleges by way of using e-systems eliminating Text books & note books-which could save a lot of trees;
Is it not possible?
 
#51 ·
12,000 additional engineering seats expected this year

94 applications sent to AICTE for approval for new colleges

Coordination committee for counselling formed


Around 50 new engineering colleges are expected to be started in the State with an additional 12,000 seats from this year.

Applications forms for the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions will be issued from May 3 and the university is gearing up for single window counselling, P. Mannar Jawahar, Vice-Chancellor, Anna University, Chennai, said here.

Last date

Speaking to The Hindu on Saturday, Dr. Jawahar said 1.8 lakh application forms had been printed by Anna University and they would be issued at 58 places across the State from May 3 (Monday). The last date for submission of application forms is May 31.

“Based on last year's experience, we have supplied more application forms this year. Last year, 1.6 lakh forms were printed, but this year the number has been increased to 1.8 lakh,” he said. The Vice-Chancellor was in the city to participate in ‘The Hindu Education Plus Career Fair 2010,' which was organised to guide students/parents on various courses and careers available.

Dr. Jawahar, who is also the Southern Region Chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), said 94 applications were sent to the AICTE from Tamil Nadu seeking approval to start new colleges. “The approval is awaited. But, we expect an increase of 12,000 engineering seats through the new colleges this year,” he said.

Totally, there are 454 engineering colleges in the State with a seat capacity of 1.65 lakh.

30,000 seats left

vacant last year

Last year, 30,000 seats were left vacant as only 1.35 lakh students joined engineering colleges. Seats are available in excess and every one who applies will get an engineering seat in some college or other,” he said.

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Source: http://www.hindu.com/2010/05/02/stories/2010050259850100.htm
 
#52 ·
I would rather prefer engineering courses with different specialization for the future like mechatronics, intelligent transport systems, Nanotechnology , Feul Technology and so on rather than the regular ones.

Atleast MCA has lost value now.
 
#53 ·
TN cements presence in civil service: 127 in this yr

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Chennai/TN-cements-presence-in-civil-service-127-in-this-yr/articleshow/5900692.cms

Tamil Nadu continued its stride into the echelons of civil services, with 127 candidates making it to the elite national list of 875 who cleared the final exam and interviews conducted by the Union Public Service Commission. The UPSC results were published on Thursday.

With this, the state has bettered last year’s record of 100 candidates making it to the IAS, IFS, IPS and group A and B services of the central government.

Many of the successful candidates from the state — such as Mohan Gopu, the son of a construction labourer — are from a poor economic and social background. The list also includes two disabled persons who fought against all odds to emerge successful. Around 675 candidates from the state appeared for the main examination, of which 252 qualified for interviews. A majority of the students opted for public administration, geography and sociology for the mains.

There is an increase also in the number of candidates who wrote the examination and qualified for interviews when compared to the previous year.
 
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