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Sep
30
2011

New Medical Entrance Test for West Bengal

No more Joint Entrance Exams (JEE) for aspiring to be doctors from West Bengal. Agreeing to the plan proposed by the Medical Council of India (MCI), the West Bengal state government has announced that the students, who are interested in pursuing medical degree, will be participating in the Common Entrance Test (CET). This test is conducted across India and just like the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), which is current test in place, the CET will be allocated with 85% of the seats in the state’s various medical colleges for the local students.

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Sep
30
2011

Plan for Common Entrance Test Still Under Discussion

The IIT Joint Council’s plan to bring together the admissions to IITs, NITs and other engineering colleges in the state of Tamil Nadu under a Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) may not see the light of the day for some time to come. The Tamil Nadu (TN) State Government continues to disagree with the plan to implement a common entrance exam for all engineering colleges in the state citing different grounds.

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Sep
30
2011

Is IT What IT Seems?

What with the global economic downturn, especially evident in the US and Europe, shadowing the job market worldwide, any amount of soothsaying on the prospects of an uptrend job market seems untrue and difficult to consume.

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Sep
30
2011

Understanding the Value of Internship

On the face of it, an internship only suggests ‘on-the-job training’ taken up by college or university students. However, interns can even be school students and postgraduate adults seeking skills for a new career.  It helps gain live experience in the chosen field, decide about continuing in the chosen field, and build a network of contacts.  If you are lucky and your internship work gets noticed, chances of getting absorbed in the same organisation are bright. The period of internship helps to establish a connection between the organisation and the interns and it prepares the interns for a productive future.

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Sep
30
2011

CS Exam: The Way to Crack It – CS Topper Mahima Kapoor’s Story

With a rank of No.1 in her first attempt in the Company Secretary Professional Programme, Mahima  Kapoor gives a few simple tips to achieve success in the exam.

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Sep
30
2011

The National Biodefence Programme

The national conference on Nano-science and Nanotechnology was organised by the Madras University recently and the conference saw 175 researchers, eminent scientists and experts sharing their views on the National Biodefence Programme of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

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Sep
30
2011

Tamil Nadu Says No to Common Entrance Exams

The IIT Joint Council had recently proposed that a common entrance exam be held for admissions to all engineering colleges, including the IITs, from next year.  A final decision on this is pending but Tamil Nadu is not likely to agree to this proposal in the near future. Some of the reasons for this are given below.

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Sep
30
2011

Indian Education: A System Desperately in Need of Educators?

India, a country that has had a strong tradition of education in the guru-shishya parampara, is today facing a crisis situation wherein the lack of policies and infrastructure is not as worrisome as the severe shortage of teachers is.  Like the famous Indian Vanishing Rope trick, the teacher community is fast disappearing. The situation is alarming to say the least.  According to our human resource development minister, there is a shortage of 1.2 million teachers in India.

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Sep
29
2011

Social Media Wreck Students’ Writing Style

Some experts believe that slang is acceptable in spoken language, but never in the written form, although a certain amount of slang keeps the text from being too academic.

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Sep
28
2011

Yale & India increase collaboration

Rajeev Kumar Tiwari, an associate professor at the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy in northern India, is one of 30 representatives of the Indian Forest Ministry spending the next two weeks at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies studying in a mid-career training program. He and his colleagues are confronting an important problem: How to balance the economic growth affecting a population of 1.3 billion with protecting unique and ancient ecosystems?

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