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Greetings from Tohoku University
14 Jan 2012 • 1:48 WIBDear all, I hope this email finds you well. It is our great pleasure to introduce our undergraduate and graduate degree courses taught in English to prospective students living all around the world. Tohoku University has a long tradition of welcoming students from other countries. Currently we have around 1,500 international students from many different [...]
In coaching heartland Kota, the competition’s for faculty
5 Jan 2012 • 4:19 WIBOver 20 years ago, V. K. Bansal, an engineer who suffered from muscular dystrophy, began the first IIT-JEE coaching institution in Kota, pioneering the coaching class boom in this sleepy town in Rajasthan. Virtually all coaching classes in Kota, including the popular “Resonance”, were started by former faculty at Bansal Classes. And now, seven teachers [...]
IIT-JEE coaching pioneer to down shutters after 57 years
5 Jan 2012 • 4:10 WIBMUMBAI: A city-based institution has decided to slip quietly into history. Agrawal Classes, that large blue neonlit sign seen from the Dadar flyover, will turn its lights off as the coaching institute has decided to down its shutters after sharpening a million minds for 57 years. G D Agrawal, who started tutoring children in maths [...]
First there was ‘Tiger Mum’, now there is ‘Wolf Dad’
5 Jan 2012 • 3:42 WIBBeijing – The roar of America’s ‘Tiger Mum’ was heard worldwide earlier this year. Now a ‘Wolf Dad’ from China is boasting about his tough child-rearing techniques. Guangzhou businessman Xiao Baiyu, 47, has written That’s Why They Go To Peking University, which echoes Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother by Chinese American mother Amy Chua. [...]











