There are many considerations to balance when designing a database, but based on the information you provided so far, something like this might be a good start.
You will design one table for each kind of "thing" (subjects, groups, students, meetings) in your database. Each table will have one column for each datum (piece of information) you need to store about the thing. Additionally, there must be one column, or a predictable combination of columns, that will allow you to uniquely identify each thing (row) that you store in the table.
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