Binita Jaiswal

CHENNAI : The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu government to consider a representation seeking enhancement of the retirement age of faculty members in state universities from 60 to 65 years.

CHENNAI: Allegations of large-scale irregularities in the evaluation of descriptive papers have emerged after the Tamil Nadu Teachers Recruitment Board (TRB) declared results of the assistant professor written examination on Thursday.

CHENNAI: Several autonomous arts and science colleges in the city have already completed admissions for postgraduate (PG) courses, and the University of Madras (UoM) has concluded entrance examinations and entered the final stage of admissions. However, uncertainty continues for undergraduate (UG) students of its affiliated colleges, as final-year results are yet to be announced.

CHENNAI: The Madras School of Social Work (MSSW), Chennai, is set to introduce a certificate course on the Toda language and culture. Believed to be the first of its kind in the state, the programme aims to safeguard one of India's most endangered indigenous languages while creating greater awareness about the Toda community's unique culture. The initiative is being spearheaded by the Centre for Social Justice and Equity (CSJE) at MSSW with support from the state's Adi Dravidar and tribal welfare department.

CHENNAI: Minister for Higher Education P Viswanathan released the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) 2026 rank list in Chennai on Wednesday. In the list, only 53 candidates have secured the maximum

CHENNAI: The University of Madras continues to function without a full-fledged annual budget for 2026-27 as the statutory senate has not met for over 15 months. Instead, the university administration has been approving month-to-month interim budgets through the ‘Senate-in-Circulation' mechanism to meet only salary, pension and other obligatory expenses.

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu higher education sector is in a deplorable state as nearly seven out of 10 government arts and science colleges are currently being run without a permanent principal. Data from the higher education department reveal that 125 out of 181 colleges across the state do not have a full-time academic head.

CHENNAI: The state has further solidified its position as country’s higher education hub, with its gross enrollment ratio (GER) climbing to 52.3 in 2023-24 acad

CHENNAI: Government arts and science colleges in Tamil Nadu have witnessed a sharp decline in undergraduate admissions this academic year, with only 83,276 of the 1,26,959 total seats filled across 181 institutions as of Saturday (July 11), translating to an enrolment of 65.59%, according to data from the higher education department.

CHENNAI: The state government's decision to replace higher education secretary V Arun Roy with Dheeraj Kumar just two months after the former's appointment has renewed concerns over the extraordinary bureaucratic churn in a department already battling with a plethora of academic challenges.