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School students fight stress, as state dithers over curriculum revision

December 5, 2020 M G G Jithendra Prasad

The Tamil Nadu government is still expected to announce a curtailed syllabus for students of the academic year 2020-21. But will it be a case of too little, too late?

How students with hearing impairment are coping with virtual classes

September 30, 2020 Laasya Shekhar

Such students need continuous attention and special methodologies in class for effective learning. COVID-19 has made it especially difficult for them.

As colleges embrace virtual education, how are professors and students coping?

September 8, 2020 Laasya Shekhar

Exams, classes, seminars, lab sessions — how are Chennai colleges dealing with all this as COVID-19 forces a shift towards virtual education? We speak to students and teachers from various institutions.

As the world fights a pandemic, IIT-NEET-CLAT aspirants in limbo

August 18, 2020 Laasya Shekhar

Many national and state level undergraduate entrance examinations have been postponed or cancelled. City colleges have switched to online processes. How are students coping?

How to help your child beat the exam blues

February 26, 2018 Sandhya Raju

The Board exams are just around the corner; do you find your child to be unusually quiet, or restless, or excessively irritable? Here’s how to identify signs of beyond-normal stress in your child, how to tackle it and where to seek help in Chennai.

What Chennai could learn from cycle-sharing in IIT Madras

February 21, 2018 Bhavani Prabhakar

IIT-M students have 600 bicycles on campus provided by Zoomcar, Ola and others, which they share during the day. The initial experience and hiccups may hold important lessons for a city trying to replicate the model on a larger scale.

Kotturpuram schoolkids’ mural on school wall is much more than a work of art

August 30, 2017 Akshatha M

Students of the AMM Matriculation HS School in Kotturpuram were tired of the political posters that made their compound wall an eyesore, till a group of art-loving students decided to take matters in their hands. And look at the results!