Violent scenes were witnessed at the MES Raja Residential School, Kalanthode near Chathamangalam in the district, where the entrance examination for admission to the member colleges of the Kerala Private Medical College Management Association (KPMCMA) was held on Friday amidst strong protest from different students’ organisations.
A committee headed by the district collector recently found a full-time lecturer at a government college practising at a private hospital and also claiming non-practise allowance given to doctors for refraining from private practice. Following the incident, the committee is all set to launch a drive across the district to identify such bogus practitioners and clinics.
The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has cautioned students and parents against 'exploitation' by some private institutions and education centers that allegedly offer training for the CEPA exam or even claim their possession of the exam.
Head of Higher Education Commission, Member of Parliament Abed Thiyab Al Oujayli, called upon the Ministry of Higher Education on Thursday May, 30 to cancel the central exams for senior-years students in private colleges; and demanding to inform these universities straight away to have enough time to prepare correctly for exams.
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American Commercial Colleges Inc. has agreed to pay the United States at least $1-million over the next five years to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit accusing it of defrauding the government, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan today urged U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to strengthen oversight of for-profit colleges and filed comments with the Department of Education in support of requiring schools to ensure students can pay off their loans and to make more accurate and complete disclosures about their job placement rates.
The Admission Supervisory Committee for Professional Colleges, headed by former judge J.M. James, has annulled the entrance examination held in Kozhikode on May 31 for admission to the MBBS management seats offered by private and self-financing medical colleges in the State. The committee has found prima facie evidence of corruption and malpractice in the conduct of the test.
Primary education minister Sake Sailajanath directed officials to initiate stringent action against private colleges and schools if they were found violating norms and collecting exorbitant fees.
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As many as eight private medical colleges in the state have withdrawn from the agreement they had entered with the government on seat sharing and decided to do away with 50% general category seats. In other words, any student who seeks admission to these colleges will now have to pay almost Rs 5 lakh as fees per annum, instead of the earlier subsidized fees of Rs 1,65,000/annum.
For private high schools, colleges and universities, survival is the name of the game when the roll-out of the K to 12 (kindergarten to Grade 12) reform is completed.
The cost of college here in the Hub is on the rise. Before you start the hemming and hawing, however, the “good news” is this: school officials are calling these increases among the lowest in recent history.
A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Madras high court to direct the private dental colleges to ensure and conduct admission of students to the postgraduation courses strictly as per the laws and regulations based on the merit-based rank list published by the Director of Medical Education (DME) and consequently direct the state government to monitor and supervise the admission process to ensure proper transparent and merit-based admission.
The admission supervisory committee (ASC), headed by Justice J M James, on Thursday cancelled the entrance test by private medical colleges to fill 35% management quota seats, citing question paper leak. The exam will now be held on June 22.
Private colleges and universities can go ahead and implement their planned tuition increase this school year as the Supreme Court removed the legal barrier for its implementation.
The government will bring an ordinance to make it mandatory for private colleges in the country to seek the approval of the All India Council for Technical Education for running postgraduate Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Computer Application (MCA) courses.
Hopeful of passing two pending Bills to check malpractices in institutes of higher learning, including private universities, Union Human Resource Development Minister M.M. Pallam Raju Friday sought cooperation of the state government to take punitive action against universities indulging in malpractices.
Even as the fake degree racket of Chandra MohanJha (CMJ) University is getting murkier and believed to have even crossed the country's frontiers, the University Grants Commission (UGC) that had granted it the status of an 'university' has failed to take any action till date. Senior officials from Nagpur University, who are now searching for the CMJU's beneficiary students in over 800 colleges in its jurisdiction, disclosed that the Delhi-based apex body had granted 'private' status to as many as 150 universities across the country. Of them about 20 were believed to have operating bogus degree racket through agents spread far and wide across the country.
Local colleges and universities are hiking tuition costs by an average of 3 to 4 percent for next year, with some school officials calling the increases among the lowest in recent history.