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NGO to help corporation students get admissions

Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:47 administrator
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The Hindu  15.12.2010

NGO to help corporation students get admissions

Staff Reporter

MADURAI: Students of Corporation schools who score 1,000 or more marks in the ensuing Plus Two public examination would get the support of an NGO in the process of getting admission for professional courses.

Corporation Commissioner S. Sebastine launched the programme at a meeting held here on Thursday. The NGO, Vellaiyan Education and Medical Charitable Trust, would bear all the expenses for the outstanding students from buying application forms for professional courses and taking the students and their parents to Chennai -- including transport, accommodation and food – for the professional course counselling.It would also help them to get educational loans from banks for those who get admissions. Addressing Plus Two students of Corporation higher secondary schools, Mr. Sebastine asked them to make the best of the opportunity. The intervention of the NGO would be of immense help to the poor students, especially those whose parents do not have awareness on professional courses and the admission process.

The Commissioner said that napkin vending machines would be installed in the Corporation girls's schools soon. The students need to put a one rupee coin which would be used to pay a disabled person who would maintain the machine.

Corporation Chief Educational Officer Vaidhyanathan, Chief Engineer K. Sakthivel, and NGO representative Jagadeesan were present.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:48
 

Corporation’s ‘schools of excellence' criticized

Sunday, 12 December 2010 00:00 administrator
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The New Indian Express  12.12.2010

Corporation’s ‘schools of excellence' criticized

CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation’s initiative of having ten best schools of excellence came in for criticism by education activists at the state convention of the State Platform for Common School System here on Saturday.

In November,  Chennai Mayor M Subramanian had launched the civic body’s 10 Schools of Excellence, selected from its 10 zones and vouched to improve their standards.

Convenor, State Platform for Common School System, Prince Gajendra Babu, said that it implies that the government has accepted that the Corporation schools are in a bad shape as compared to the private schools. “What about the rest of the schools, this will bring about an inequality among the Corporation schools themselves, “ he questioned.

The Chennai Corporation’s move would send a wrong signal that other Chennai schools are of poor standards. A resolution was passed that all the Chennai Schools should be declared as schools of excellence and uniformly improved.

He further said that the head of Private Schools Fee Determination Committee, Justice Raviraja Pandian, had also passed on the buck of punishing schools not following the fee structure, to the Directorate of School Education. The Directorate of School Education and the Chief Education Officer have passed the tackling of the issue to the Inspector of Matriculation Schools.He also said that the Right to Education Act, should make education free and compulsory upto 18 years.

Last Updated on Monday, 13 December 2010 12:04
 

TN turns third most obese state in country

Wednesday, 08 December 2010 05:37 administrator
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The Deccan Chronicle  08.12.2010

TN turns third most obese state in country

Chennai, Dec. 7: A plump or chubby child is not “cute” or healthy as people, especially children, of Tamil Nadu seem to be more prone to obesity than most Indians. The southern state’s rapid urbanisation and affluence has made it the third-most obese state in the country.

While 19.8 per cent of males and 24.4 per cent of females are overweight or obese in Tamil Nadu, Chennai studies have revealed that 33 per cent of children from “upmarket” schools and 10 per cent from Corporation schools are overweight, and 4 to 8 per cent of them are obese.

Obesity surgeon from Apollo hospitals, Dr Ravindran Kumeran said, “We ought to stop measuring obesity as per American BMI standards. While a Body-Mass Index of 25 is ‘normal weight’ for a Caucasian, an Indian with the same BMI is considered overweight. A BMI of 28 and more would put us in the “obese” category,” he explains, pointing out that rice-eating Tamilians culturally tend to perceive “plump” as “beautiful”, and take pride in having fat children.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 08 December 2010 05:42
 
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