Trends & Lifestyle

Reality show bug ultimately seems to have hit the field of education too. However, parents need not worry as it is expected to benefit the students. The show is the brainchild of IT@School and will be aired on IT@School ViCTERS channel.

According to the recently performed - Education Hot Spots in India Survey 2010; conducted by the country’s leading Education and Career Network Minglebox; Bangalore and Delhi have emerged as the hottest education destinations in India.

Just like last year and the year before that, 2010 again finds the education sector as the top advertiser in print media, making it a hat-trick for the sector in the advertising charts. The data for all three years corresponds to the period from January-May, as per data from TAM.

 After a long wait, the Indian government has finally launched it’s much talked about, low on budget and high on functionality, tablet computer. Priced at a jaw-dropping $35 (Rs.1500), the laptop was unveiled by Human Resource and Development minister Kapil Sibal.

To provide clean and complete information regarding UP’s engineering colleges, eight engineering students joined hands to launch an online project – edgenroots.com.  These students have worked tip to toe for presenting the ranking list of almost 500 colleges under UPTU according to their placements, which is the main attention-grabbing part of this website.

Gone are the days when students used to choose subjects of their interest at random. Now, they select subjects meticulously with future planning on the back of their mind. An average student today prefers job oriented degree courses. Hence, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Economics (Honours), B. Tech courses and last but not the least, Bachelor of Journalism and Mass Communication (BJMS) are the hot favourites and trending preferences among most of the students today.

At the beginning of every new academic session, Delhi University (DU) witnesses a mad rush for admission. Students not only from Delhi, but all over the country throng the campus with dreams in their eyes. Outsiders have some additional concerns. Finding an accommodation, coping with the environment in a new city, getting to know their way about, and learning to deal with people in an alien land, their problems are manifold.

Thanks to a new device launched by Pinnacle Teleservices, parents will now be able to access all information related to their ward’s progress at school. Be it school report cards, updates or circulars, the device will make them all available on the mobile.

R-Fi, the latest release by pinnacle Teleservices, will make all this information available to the parents in a jiffy, at a service cost of Rs.600-Rs.1,000 per year.

With the world shrinking to the size of what could be called a ‘global village’, the school education sector too is remodeling in such a way that it makes a child truly competitive in the ‘globalized’ scenario. The need of the hour seems to be ‘360-degree learning’.