Rediff.com creates virtual campus
Mumbai, August 18, 1999

A cool place to hang out these days is Rediff's Education Channel, which has been given a makeover to suit youngsters across all age groups. The channel offers a range of new services to make it a fun-learning experience on the web.

Accessible at http://www.rediff.com/education, Rediff Education is a new online campus hangout where students can keep abreast of the latest happenings in schools and colleges, register online with youth organisations, win prizes through contests and quizzes, solve brain-teasers and improve general knowledge by reading interesting facts.

To find out about inter-school/collegiate activities, users can visit Rediff's 'Youth Buzz'. This was initiated with live reports from St. Xavier's festival Malhar '99 and included the Malhar event calendar, contests to win passes and a college-wise tally of points. Also included in this section is information on youth organisations like AIESEC (Association Internationale des etudiantes en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales) and AYBI (All Youth for a Better India). Users can enroll with these organisations through online registration forms and get updates on their special events and activities.

Rediff's 'Brain Candy' guarantees mouth-watering information to improve general knowledge. Students can gobble up interesting facts in science, history and literature, and solve number crunching math puzzles. Rediff takes community building further with the soon to be included Hobby Centre where students driven by the same passions can trade tidbits of information.

For those with a leaning towards the more serious, sections such as 'Career Resource Centre' and 'Education Counselling' are worth a check out. These are designed to give students a complete perspective of the professional world and encourage alternatives to the ordinary. Additionally Rediff's Education Directory is a vast resource for interesting job prospects, options for higher studies and part-time courses.

Founded in 1996, rediff.com is India's favourite website with unrivalled monthly hits in excess of 90 million. Its news service is updated round the clock and its free email service, Rediffmail, is one of the fastest available on the web today. A search engine giving access to a database of 110 million documents and channels such as Education, Shopping and Tech Jobs provide the user a complete online experience. The site can be found at www.rediff.com .