The city's premier academic organization, Deccan Education Society (DES), has decided to move a proposal to the state government to set up a private university under the government's model guidelines to set up such self-financed universities.
Unhappy over the Supreme Court verdict scrapping common entrance tests to medical colleges, India's Health Ministry is contemplating moving a review petition.
Supreme Court said that MCI has no power to conduct a single common entrance test for medical admissions across the country. Private medical colleges can conduct their own entrance tests. Supreme Court cancelled NEET and central government is planning to file a review petition. Nearly 115 petitions were filed in Supreme Court challenging NEET.
For the first time in the history of medical education in the country, the government has approved a proposal to allow extra MBBS seats to all public and private medical colleges this year.
Mumbai university is considering taking over the administration of Lords Universal College, Kandivli, and Public Night College, Santa Cruz, for financial irregularities at these institutions.
Entrance examination to MBBS seats in management quota at Medical Colleges under the Kerala Private Medical College Managements Association (KPCMCA) will be held at Sacred Hearts College, Thevara on July 21 at 2 pm, under the supervision of Commissioner of Entrance examinations, said the Admission Supervisory Committee headed by Justice J M James.
In a setback for private engineering colleges in the state, the AP high court on Tuesday rejected their plea seeking permission to charge fee higher than that was fixed by the Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee (AFRC).
Punjab technical education minister Anil Joshi on Thursday issued instructions to all government and private technical education institutes, including engineering colleges, polytechnics and industrial training institutes (ITIs), to take all preventive steps to ensure that new students are not subjected to harassment and ragging by seniors.
Two panels have recommended an enactment of the law to make mandatory quota of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in private colleges.
The government is signing an agreement with private colleges on seat-sharing in the next couple of days. "The fee structure remains the same as last year," he added.
The Tripura government has decided to reject degree and diploma certificates issued by study centres of private universities and educational institutions of other states, officials here said Thursday.
For those aspiring for government quota seats in private colleges to pursue Master of Business Administration (MBA) course in Karnataka, admissions may not be possible just by clearing the entrance exam, if representatives of some B-schools have their way.
Not only corporate schools, even private colleges offering graduate courses have been operating branches after securing permission in a different address in SPSR Nellore district. Many colleges are flouting norms and some of them offering laptops and other sops to fill the seats, this academic year.
The Department of Higher Education has decided to revive the Service Selection Board (SSB) to look after recruitment of teachers for non-government colleges. The decision has received the State Government’s approval as well.
Two things are sure to push us into exasperation mode – Delhi University’s near impossible cut-offs and the big question as to why our universities don’t find a mention in the world’s top 200 universities. Instead of rolling their eyes, a group of academicians and entrepreneurs have decided to set things right and offer a respite from platitudinous learning. Ashoka University, which is set to take off in August 2014 from the National Capital Region, promises high-quality, top-notch liberal education, banking heavily on private philanthropy.
Despite the case about filling of engineering seats under the management quota pending before the HC, admissions-starved private college managements in the state are trapping Eamcet-qualified candidates, assuring them of a seat in B-Category and asking them to submit their original certificates.
Student activists of the Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) blocked traffic on National Highway 66 at Nantoor here on Friday in protests against the State government’s order allowing private colleges to collect “excess” fees.