Management colleges in the state are facing severe student crunch. Thirty-four private management colleges, affiliated to Rajasthan Technical University (RTU), have shut shop in this academic year and the remaining others struggle to survive due to poor student response.
As if the problems regarding unapproved MBBS seats were not enough, the Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Sidda and Homeopathy (AYUSH) institutions in the state too are under scanner. As many as 36 private AYUSH colleges have not been accorded recognition by the Central Council for Indian Medicine (CCIM) for the 2013 admissions.
Four new medical colleges in the state — three in the private sector and one in the government sector —have been rejected by the Medical Council of India for the year 2013-14 as they failed to meet the stipulated norms on faculty and infrastructure facilities.
As many as 456 tribal students have been admitted to class XI of private colleges with hostel facilities under a special scheme of the state government, for which the colleges would be given Rs 50,000 per annum per student. Admissions of another 294 students were finalised recently. The total number of students included 160 from the district.
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.
With admissions to constituent colleges of Rajasthan University (RU) almost coming to an end, the left out students are now flocking private colleges of the city seeking admissions. Surprisingly, private colleges are now reporting higher percentage than in the previous cut-offs.
The country's first and only private open agriculture university, which began functioning here in January this year, has opened its doors for farmers offering them courses without any age bar and qualification restriction.
Private medical colleges in Andhra Pradesh are allowed to fill 25% of management quota seats. They are supposed to fill the seats in online method for transparency. When the students tried to download the application, it is showing that it will take 4381 years to download the application. Some private medical colleges are not allowing the students to download the application by increasing the size of it to 2,399 crore megabytes
The private medical college managements in Andhra Pradesh have agreed not to hike fee structure for the current academic year 2013-14, provided the state government do not interfere with the admission procedure of management quota seats in the state.
There had been many complaints against the private colleges in the state this year for indiscriminate sale of MBBS seats under the management quota by collecting hefty donations. Worse still, many meritorious students seeking admissions under the management quota were denied applications. Sources said that the raids unearthed hundreds of crores of rupees collected as donations and capitation fees.
Even though the permanent fee fixation committee for professional colleges had fixed Rs 40,000/Rs 45,000 as fees for non-accredited and accredited private engineering colleges, in reality most of the 500 odd private engineering colleges collect up to Rs 1 lakh as annual fees.
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 Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the single-window National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) dealing a body blow to uniform admission norms for MBBS, BDS and MD seats in all medical colleges and allowing private medical colleagues to frame their own admissions norms and charge, in many cases, stiff capitation fees.
The State government will upload a list of private professional colleges falling under various categories based on the ceiling it had set for additional fee collection on Tuesday, which coincides with the deadline for paying the fees and reporting to the colleges for Common Entrance Test (CET) rank holders.
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 Supreme Court has ruled that the common entrance exam held by the Medical Council of India or MCI will not continue because it is not empowered to do so.
In stark violation of the Punjab Private Universities Policy-2010, the DAV University here has started admitting students without obtaining “mandatory” approval from the University Grants Commission (UGC) to run different courses while its academic session starts on August 1.
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.