Non-bank lenders, recruiters and consultants are witnessing a five-fold increase in education loan applications from students and young professionals from Punjab looking to Canada, Australia and Europe. The majority of these applications originate from major cities such as Amritsar, Jalandhar, Patiala and Mohali, as well as smaller towns like Barnala, Khanna, Muktsar, Firozpur and Faridkot. […]
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Aug
Aug
NEW DELHI: India’s leading educational institutes like Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), Indian School of Business (ISB), Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) have collaborated with ET Prime, the premium digital news service offered by The Economic Times (ET), to offer students exclusive access to articles, analysis, and insights across a wide range of domains.This gives […]
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Aug
Aug
CHANDIGARH: A total of 149 students shortlisted under the Udhyami Haryana Programme were given their commendation certificates during the Graduation ceremony of successful entrepreneurs.ITIs have successfully launched their businesses this year Udhyam Learning Foundation under the guidance of the Udhyami Haryana Programme was held here on Tuesday, with 42 students from batch one and 107 […]
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Jul
Jul
CHENNAI: Semiconductor company Texas Instruments (TI) is hosting the second year of the WiSH (Women in Semiconductors and Hardware) initiative, a month-long mentoring programme for female engineering students in India. The programme is designed to encourage more women to pursue core engineering careers by giving them exposure to and mentoring in the semiconductor and hardware […]
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Jun
Jun
For millions of people, the cramped coaching centres in Kota are a lodestar. Teenagers jostle for a once-in-a-lifetime shot at prosperity by securing a seat in India’s premier engineering and medical schools. On their shoulders is not just the weight of their careers but the load of expectations of their families. And, for decades, despite […]
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May
May
Over the course of this month, five students have taken their lives in Rajasthan’s Kota town, linked no doubt to the crushing pressure wrought on young people during the competitive exam season. On Saturday, a 16-year-old girl preparing for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate), or NEET-UG, for admission to a medical college was […]
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Apr
Apr
CHENNAI: National Means cum Merit Scholarship examination results will be declared at 1pm on April 15.As many as 2,22,985 students studying in Class VIII in government and government-aided schools wrote the exams on February 25.After registering their roll number and date of birth, students can check the results on www.dge.tn.gov.in
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Apr
Apr
Updating textbooks and rationalising syllabi is a commonplace practice across the world, necessitated by the shifting needs of the education system, society and science. Yet, steps taken by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) last year to rationalise the syllabi have stoked controversy for a bouquet of reasons. The government body argued […]