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Binita Jaiswal

Chennai

Binita is a journalist with @NewIndianXpress .Views expressed are personal.

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  • 5 days ago | newindianexpress.com | Binita Jaiswal

    CHENNAI: The city's Loyola College has appointed transwoman N Jency, a scholar with a PhD in English literature, as an assistant professor in the department of English. The move is being hailed as a significant step towards transgender representation in academia and is believed to be the first such appointment in Tamil Nadu. Chief Minister M K Stalin also congratulated Jency on her achievement.

  • 1 week ago | newindianexpress.com | Binita Jaiswal

    By Binita Jaiswal CHENNAI: The government will redeploy 1,300 of the 3,500 employees of Annamalai University, who are found to be in excess to the current demand at the university, to other state universities or departments. According to sources, only 80 out of this 1300 are teaching staff and the remaining are non-teaching staff.

  • 1 week ago | newindianexpress.com | Binita Jaiswal

    By Binita Jaiswal CHENNAI: Worried over the poor placements in state universities, the higher education department has now decided to strengthen the placement cell in the varsities and monitor its performance. The higher education department officials will now conduct regular meetings and video conferences with placement officers, registrars and even controllers of examinations to guide, improve and review the placement-related developments.

  • 2 weeks ago | edexlive.com | Binita Jaiswal

    As announced in this year's budget, the state government has already inaugurated 11 new arts and science colleges in Tamil Nadu for the academic year 2025-26 and Chief Minister MK Stalin recently said that four more will be opened soon. However, the lack of fresh recruitment of staff, particularly teaching faculty, has irked the staff members who are already working in government arts and science colleges across Tamil Nadu, according to a report by The New Indian Express.

  • 2 weeks ago | newindianexpress.com | Binita Jaiswal

    By Binita Jaiswal CHENNAI: Out of the 97 post graduate courses offered by the cash-strapped University of Madras (UoM), at least 16 courses received only single-digit enrolment in the academic year 2024-25, while one course (MA in Financial Economics) had to be suspended for the year due to nil admission.

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Binita Jaiswal
Binita Jaiswal @binitajTNIE
1 Jun 25

RT @xpresstn: #TamilNadu government’s Higher Education department issued an order to introduce 252 new courses in 100 colleges across TN. @…

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Binita Jaiswal @binitajTNIE
30 May 25

RT @xpresstn: Three students ousted from institute for ‘anti-nationalism’ in #Chennai. @binitajTNIE https://t.co/8yESxmmjEg

Binita Jaiswal
Binita Jaiswal @binitajTNIE
29 May 25

RT @xpresstn: To avoid any incident of question paper leak, #TamilNadu higher education department has instructed the registrars of state u…