Alliance Française de Calcutta, the Kolkata address of The French Association, is located at Khaleel Manzil at Beckbagan off AJC Bose Road. The lane on which the building stands serves as a useful conduit for motorists who wish to take a shortcut after the AJC Bose Road flyover has come up. It’s a cramped accommodation […]
Learning In Australia? A Tough Call.
Protesting exploitation!! [Image source]Sometime back I attended a Canadian education seminar at the city’s Grand Hotel for my son. The institutes that came didn’t seem to be front-ranked in their country. Yet there was considerable rush of wannabe students who wish to pursue further studies there. Like me there was another person at the seminar […]
Owning a website that rewards
Truly speaking, owning a website today is nothing more than a child’s play. Scores of web hosting companies and website designers are there who, once they’re paid, can launch your site in less than half an hour. However to make your website a success, to have visitors come to your site and like it, to […]
Aviation Institutes
When aviation space was opened up in the beginning of 90s, one of the early entrants was Damania Airways promoted by Pervez Damania and his family. Initially, good standard of service brought fame to it until it became known that internally the company was bleeding. In mid-90 Damania Airways was acquired by the Chennai-based NEPC […]
Second coming of quality education
The more you try to unshackle, the more you tie up in knots. This best describes Presidency College’s plan to become autonomous. One may wonder why it so happens. Why is it that the urgency of autonomy is so badly entangled that nobody knows for sure when it would happen? Perhaps the answer lies in […]
Carnage at Virginia Tech U
Yesterday’s carnage at Virginia Tech University in US has shaken the entire world. It’s the deadliest campus shooting in the country’s history that has left at least 32 people dead. Ranked 17th for an engineering school by US News and World Report, that produces well-regarded annual ratings of American universities, Virginia Tech is a favorite […]
CU strives
Had there been no pressure from UGC to conform to a uniform academic calendar, one doubts if CU would have bothered to change. It seems CU is striving to change not only because of UGC’s rider, but because the rider accompanies a dole of Rs.100 crore from the central government to spruce up overall standard […]
Writing to earn
Are you good in writing and editing? And have good command on the usage of English as the Americans like? If yes, oportunity is knocking on your door. You can look forward to a lucrative editing job from across the seven seas. Cost-cutting along with superior service is such a dream-cum-true for many US companies […]
Google’s love for Kolkata
One of Google’s favorite hunting grounds in Kolkata is St. Xavier’s College. Time and again it has sourced fresh graduates from here. It has other affinities for the college as well. One recalls last year’s Wordmaster writing contest, held on Mahashtami day that took place in the dimly lit auditorium of the college. The contestants […]
Why not to study at CU
Calcutta University (CU for short) has a checkered history. Checkered, because while up to mid-70s of the last century, having formally started in 1857, it walked tallest in the annals of higher education in the entire Asia, the last 3 decades or so have seen steady decline in its standard as a whole. So much […]