Conspiracy theorists may attribute many reasons to the government's refusal to relieve Dr V Dekal from service, but the state has a valid reason: its medical colleges face a severe shortage of forensic medicine teachers.
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Posted by Divya (#1) 791 days ago (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com)This Chennai school sends just one student for class X exam
Posted by Divya (#1) 791 days ago (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
In the rest of Chennai, around one-third of the students of a class have opted to write the CBSE class X exam. But in RMK Residential School, it's a one-fortieth ratio. Only one student from the school – Feroze Khan –decided to take a shot at the board exams this year, while 39 of his classmates wrote their school-conducted exams.
More testing times ahead of students
Posted by Divya (#1) 793 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
“He has lost two marks and with it the chances of getting centum,” remarked a dejected R. Selvi, about her son N.R. Bala Murali's performance in the mathematics examination held on Thursday.
Private schools told to issue hall tickets
Posted by Divya (#1) 796 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
The Directorate of Government Examinations has instructed all private schools that have withheld students' hall tickets for non-payment of fees to immediately issue the hall tickets without fail.
New courses in the offing at vet univ this year
Posted by Divya (#1) 796 days ago (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
The Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University has ambitious plans for the next academic year, ranging from the introduction of several new courses to creating new facilities.
The Madras high court has dismissed a set of writ petitions from associations of school and college managements challenging a government notification extending the Employees' State Insurance (ESI) Scheme to private educational institutions.
Vocational courses in schools face tough times
Posted by Divya (#1) 798 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
Though everybody welcomes the idea of schools looking beyond pure academic lessons and imparting skill-based courses, vocational courses are not popular among city schools. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) recently issued a circular about the new vocational courses from the coming academic year for students of classes XI and XII. Courses such as geospatial technology, food producti
Students disappointed as language laboratory languishes
Posted by Divya (#1) 799 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
As many as 10 brand new computers, a 59-inch LCD television, a projector and a photocopying machine-cum-printer are all lying in shambles at the language lab in Dr. Ambedkar Government Arts College, Vyasarpadi. The facility set up in 2009 to impart language training and develop the soft skills of students of the Department of English Literature is in disuse since February 2010. With practical tes