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	<title>Apsira Education Blog &#187; Book Review</title>
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		<title>Teaching Students How to Study and Learn</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/teaching-students-how-to-study-and-learn.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/teaching-students-how-to-study-and-learn.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 05:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V.Renuga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to study]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All thinking  occurs within, and across, disciplines and domains of knowledge and experience, yet few students learn how to think well within those domains.  Despite having taken many classes, few are able to think biologically, chemically, geographically, sociologically, anthropologically, historically, artistically, ethically, or philosophically.  Students study literature, but do not think in a literary way [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/545.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/545.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 10:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V.Renuga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Course & Degrees]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apsira.com/blog/?p=545</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Flash has indeed caught on the web. It provides an easy way to put animated and interactive movies on web sites which would otherwise not have been possible. When Flash first made its impact on the web, it was put to two main uses &#8211; Animated banner advertisements and Flash intros. Web designers thought that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The debate is on</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 09:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V.Renuga</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colleges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Universities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bangalore University (BU) Syndicate’s recent decision to rope in a private education consultant to screen prospective study centres for its distance education stream has created a flutter in academic circles. While the University says it had no other option because of the shortage of faculty to constitute as many Local Inspection Committees (LICs) as required [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Higher studies, the way to go</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/higher-studies-the-way-to-go.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/higher-studies-the-way-to-go.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 09:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V.Renuga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abroad Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Higher studies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is time to add value to one’s curriculum vitae. Some trends at The Hindu EducationPlus International Education Fair.
The economic downturn is driving more students away from the search for elusive jobs and toward the option of higher studies abroad, according to students and the representatives of educational institutions who participated in The Hindu EducationPlus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrading the study of international relations</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/upgrading-the-study-of-international-relations.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/upgrading-the-study-of-international-relations.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 11:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V.Renuga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abroad Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apsira.com/blog/?p=510</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[India’s inability to develop a sophisticated and comprehensive understanding of the world outside will have more serious consequences than just the dwarfing of a discipline
 
The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, recently brought some of the most eminent scholars of International Relations (IR) to brainstorm on the current state of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long search for quality teachers</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/uncategorized/long-search-for-quality-teachers.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.apsira.com/blog/uncategorized/long-search-for-quality-teachers.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 10:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V.Renuga</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Assessment and Accreditation Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching professionals]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apsira.com/blog/?p=508</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most experts in the field of higher education agree that finding quality teaching professionals is a great challenge for colleges and universities today. Bright young men and women pursuing postgraduate and doctoral studies no longer see teaching as a career option, professionals lament.
Teaching-learning and evaluation is an important component of assessing quality of education as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study of urban community survey in India</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/uncategorized/study-of-urban-community-survey-in-india.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.apsira.com/blog/uncategorized/study-of-urban-community-survey-in-india.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vrew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-motivation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[door-to-door survey.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[population]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pre-hypertensive]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The prevalence pattern of hypertension in developing countries is different from that in the developed countries. In India, a very large, populous and typical developing country, community surveys have documented that between three and six decades, prevalence of hypertension has increased by about 30 times among urban dwellers and by about 10 times among the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small steps towards better environment</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/small-steps-towards-better-environment.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/small-steps-towards-better-environment.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Professional Courses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[better environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social Environment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apsira.com/blog/?p=501</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Small Steps, the Corporate social Responsibility (CSR) wing of People First Consultants, has been launched with the initiative to promote a more environmentally and socially just world. Launched by Uma Prajapati of the Upasana Design Studio, Small Steps is a programme designed to reduce India’s plastic waste by providing an alternative to throw-away plastic bags.
On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free course in computer basics</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/free-course-in-computer-basics.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/free-course-in-computer-basics.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nandhini Computer School]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apsira.com/blog/?p=500</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nandini Voice for the Deprived, an NGO, will organise a three-month free crash course in basic computer operations for economically challenged students. Students who have passed the Plus-Two examination or appeared for the same this year are eligible for admission. Applicants must be less than 20 years of age and family income must not exceed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inflation at 2. 43 %</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/uncategorized/inflation-at-2-43.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.apsira.com/blog/uncategorized/inflation-at-2-43.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 








New Delhi: Inflation fell to 2.43 per cent, the lowest in over six years as prices of food items softened further.
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		<title>A new educational gateway</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/education/colleges/a-new-educational-gateway.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.apsira.com/blog/education/colleges/a-new-educational-gateway.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abroad Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colleges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teleconferencing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apsira.com/blog/?p=495</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ 




BRINGING TOGETHER: Teleconferencing mode over the Edusat link, from Rashtrapathi Bhavan.

 
 

ELECTRONIC LINKS that span continents in the wink of an eye can bring the highest quality of education to those who have the necessary technology.


 &#8221;It will bring the best teachers together. There is value in bringing together professors from different universities in various locations. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suggestions to educational administrators</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/education/colleges/suggestions-to-educational-administrators.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.apsira.com/blog/education/colleges/suggestions-to-educational-administrators.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vrew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Course & Degrees]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Counselling]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apsira.com/blog/?p=494</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Dr. P. V. Navaneethakrishnan, former director of entrance examinations and admissions, Anna University, and consultant, AIMS Education, offers the following suggestions to educational administrators while devising norms for engineering admissions:


Graduate Lateral Entrants in Engineering 
 
In addition to diploma holders in engineering, B.Sc. graduates with at least one paper in Mathematics also become eligible for lateral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy and childhood school curriculum</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/democracy-and-childhood-school-curriculum.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/democracy-and-childhood-school-curriculum.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vrew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy and development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fundamental education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apsira.com/blog/?p=490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
The policy of state surrender to market forces in culture and media has encouraged a crude and relentless assault on children’s sensibility.


 
 
At a recent seminar on democracy and development, an elderly gentleman came up to me and said he wanted advice. His son was planning to return from the United States next year, primarily for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The urgency of educational reforms &#8211; Opinion</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/the-urgency-of-educational-reforms-opinion.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/the-urgency-of-educational-reforms-opinion.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vrew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[educational Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[educational reforms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apsira.com/blog/?p=489</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[


The quality of education is a reflection of the quality of teachers. Major improvements in their training and working conditions will determine how India fares in the pursuit of economic and social development in the years to come. 



 SIXTEEN YEARS ago, the author of Swami and Friends, the late R.K. Narayan, delivered his maiden speech [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CUSAT invites applications for CAT</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/cusat-invites-applications-for-cat.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/cusat-invites-applications-for-cat.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vrew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apsira.com/blog/?p=486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Cochin University of Science and Technology has invited applications for its Common Admission Test (CUSAT-CAT-2009) for admissions to various graduate and postgraduate programmes, including B.Tech. The test for admissions to all PG programmes (except MA Hindi and MA applied economics) will be held on May 23; and for B.Tech programmes, five-year integrated M.Sc. photonics, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Validating open source proficiency is now possible</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/validating-open-source-proficiency-is-now-possible.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/validating-open-source-proficiency-is-now-possible.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vrew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apsira.com/blog/?p=485</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is good news for Open Source enthusiasts. You can now get a government approved ‘Free and Open Software Competency Certificate’, which will demonstrate your proficiency to any potential employer. This certification programme would be conducted under the National Resource Centre for Free and Open Source Software (NRCFOSS). It is also a collaborative effort. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best time for higher studies</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/career/best-time-for-higher-studies.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.apsira.com/blog/career/best-time-for-higher-studies.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vrew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[graduates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human resource managers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multinational companies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.apsira.com/blog/?p=484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Life after college for fresh graduates is not easy these days. The days of landing in a plum job immediately after passing out of college are gone.
Watching movies, hanging out with friends and other fun activities, taken for granted during college days, are luxury now. It’s as if campus interviews have vanished into thin air.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To be Relax! &#8211; Exam time?</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/to-be-relax-exam-time.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/to-be-relax-exam-time.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recently-launched helpline by the Department of Pre-University Education is inundated with calls. In fact, the response has been so good that within a week the department decided to extend its operation by half-an-hour every day, sources in the department said.
This first of its kind venture receives 80 to 90 calls a day, from urban [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More vocational degrees are needed</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/uncategorized/more-vocational-degrees-are-needed.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.apsira.com/blog/uncategorized/more-vocational-degrees-are-needed.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Universities should offer more vocational degrees because the current system is not supplying students or employers with the skills they need, the universities secretary, John Denham, said today.
Research funding will continue to be concentrated in the academically elite universities, while others need to develop new types of degrees to train people for the world of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Educational assistance given</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHENNAI: Local Administration Minister M. K. Stalin distributed cheques for Rs. 9,66,250 to 50 students for educational assistance on Monday.
According to a press release, under various schemes run by the Centre and State for education, 4157 students were given a total of Rs. 4.4 crore during the year 2007-08. In the current year, Rs. 9.68 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Management Aptitude Test  goes online from September</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/management-aptitude-test-goes-online-from-september.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Delhi: Come September 2009, aspirants appearing for the Management Aptitude Test (MAT) can look forward to doing away with paper work.
The All India Management Association (AIMA), the apex body of management schools in India has decided to conduct the exam through online mode.
The online MAT will be conducted in addition to the regular MAT.
A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2,500 middle schools to get computers</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/bookreview/2500-middle-schools-to-get-computers.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHENNAI: Local Administration Minister M.K.Stalin on Thursday said that State Government in the 2009-10 budget has announced several initiatives to ensure that free education is imparted in government and aided schools.
Speaking at a function to distribute cash incentives totalling Rs.4.95 lakh to 1,035 Corporation school teachers who guided students to score well in the board [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science festival will enable students to think, ask questions</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/education/colleges/science-festival-will-enable-students-to-think-ask-questions.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With ‘Science in everyday life’ as the theme, it is on till February 22
CHENNAI: Speakers stressed the importance of enabling students to think and ask questions, at the inauguration of the Chennai Science Festival here on Thursday.
“It is important to encourage students at school to think, apply concepts, and learn by doing, so that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ME in printing technology soon &#8211; Anna University</title>
		<link>http://www.apsira.com/blog/education/colleges/me-in-printing-technology-soon-anna-university.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ “The biggest challenge before print media is to adapt itself to digital revolution” 
CHENNAI: The Department of Printing Technology of Anna University-Chennai will launch a Master of Engineering (ME) programme in June, Vice-Chancellor P. Mannar Jawahar said on Thursday.
Launching silver jubilee celebrations of the department that pioneered a bachelor programme in printing technology in South East [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School education: struggling to learn</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been changes for the better in the schooling system over the last decade. But the quality of education remains abysmally low for a vast majority of Indian children and we must stop tolerating this. 
How would you feel if half of the buses and trains that are supposed to be running on a particular [...]]]></description>
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