Coworking spaces facilitate networking among professionals. An interactive session at one of the centres of 91springboard.

Location for the medical colleges will be identified in the selected areas. File photo: K. Murali Kumar

An alternative to working from home

Companies are tying up with coworking space providers and offering their employees an option better than working from home

Nod for 24 new medical colleges, more seats

Special Correspondent

Institutions will come up in underserved areas

Graduates from IIT, NIT to teach in rural areas

Vikas Pathak

The teachers will be there on a three-year contract and get paid ₹70,000 a month.

National

Contra-disciplinary — the best model of artscience education

Saikat Majumdar Double major in disparate disciplines? That’s the best way one can benefit from college education

Education

Value Add Ten skills that can help foster entrepreneurial abilities in school-goers

Husien Dohadwalla It is no secret that the career space is constantly evolving and today’s school-goers will have new jobs in a decade that no teacher can prepare them for, today. However possessing certain skill sets can help every individual succeed. Here are 10 skills that can help foster students’ entrepreneurial abilities.Think differently One sure shot way to help students think out of the box is by allocating assignments that are diverse in nature. If the standard format of completing assignments is by way

Education

Offbeat A career in SFX

Nalin Verma Combine your cosmetic skills with SFX Makeup Artistry to mould a creative career

Opinion

Interview

New education methods will transform the way students learn, says Mohandas Pai

Lalatendu Mishra ‘Students and employers will begin to question the value of a university degree’

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One nation, one school board?

Raghavan Srinivasan

To increase employability of graduates, we need uniformity in school education

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The spectre of unemployment

Raghavan Srinivasan

Sans quality jobs, ‘aspirational young India’ will become ‘angry young India’

Schools

National

No proposal to remove Darwin’s theory from school, college curricula, says Minister

PTI Minister of State for HRD Satya Pal Singh landed in a controversy last month when he claimed that the theory of evolution was “scientifically wrong”.

National

CBSE helpline to help deal with exam stress

Staff Reporter The Central Board of Secondary Education will be providing psychological counselling services to students at the time of preparation as well as during the examinations to overcome exam related stress. Students can avail the services between February 1 and April 13. Rise in students reporting exam stress CBSE said its annual counselling is an outreach programme which caters to the heterogeneous students’ population and vast geographical network of schools. It will offer tele-counselling by

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