Police are investigating an Indian university suspected of issuing fake PhDs after it awarded more than 400 doctorates in a single year, officers said Wednesday.
He said government-aided private colleges and unaided private colleges would have to pay Rs. 3,000 per candidate to the university for additional seats sanctioned. This was not applicable to government colleges. The fee is being collected to check uncontrolled admissions, he said.
The world’s top 50 universities in engineering and technology in 2013 do not include any Indian university/college. The Higher Education World Reputation Ranking 2013 of top 100 institutions, has representation from all the BRIC countries, except India. We can conveniently blame it on bias, or simply ignore the global ranking. While the Government-run institutions have their share of challenges, the private institutes/universities, perceived to be a ray of hope, appear to be less interested in improving quality.
MC Nanaiah said while one college charged Rs10,000 for a course, another charged thrice that amount for the same course, affiliated to the same university.
Weeks after the state government notified model guidelines for private institutions to set up universities, three big groups have put forward their proposals to the higher and technical education department.
With more seats on offer than the number of students available and to top it picking out meritorious ones from those who have qualified the Joint Engineering Entrance Examination (JEEE) has most of the private universities in a fix as there are not enough students to fill up the available seats.
In absence of any response shown by the private universities on issue of admission to technical courses, the MP Private Universities’ Regulatory Commission has decided that it would not conduct the admission process for universities this year.
The Bill proposing Bangalore University’s bifurcation, passed earlier this year, has been pending the Governor’s approval along with the Karnataka State Universities (Second Amendment) Bill, 2013. The Chancellor, however, had approved the Bills to establish private universities.
Increasingly, the country is appealing to private and international higher education providers to add to national capacity. The market is economically attractive to private higher education providers. But the doors for entry of foreign higher education institutions are still not fully opened. It could be useful to look at all means of partnerships at the government level.
Education minister BhupendrasinhChudasma has retained the Gujarat University papers granting permission to three private institutes for commencing five-year integrated professional courses to be run from the university campus.
The Gujarat University (GU) landed itself in a controversy when it signed MoUs with two private institutes for operation of five-year integrated professional courses within the university campus. The move has been branded as favouritism by academicians linked to GU.
Punjab's medical education and research department headed by minister Bhagat Chunni Lal has failed to formally decide whether to regularise the admissions of over 450 students enrolled in the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) course-2012 in 11 private colleges and allow them to sit in the first-year examination beginning on Wednesday.
The fee committee chaired by Malai Subramanian has enhanced the fee for MBBS course by five per cent in two self-financing medical colleges under Pondicherry University for a period of three years.
The Medical Council of India, the apex body to regulate medical education in the country, has said the faculty and infrastructure facilities in private medical colleges are not on par with the standards set by the MCI.
The new Act making one-year rural service compulsory for new MBBS doctors is all set to snowball into a major controversy as chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has already signed an agreement with private medical colleges, exempting management quota students from rural stint.
Is the Congress government finally ready to embrace the private universities’ Bills passed by the BJP government? The government constituting a three-member committee to 'look’ into the quality of education, infrastructure and strength of faculty members is a sure indication that the Congress is in no mood to shoot down these Bills.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has clarified that no university — Central, State, private or deemed — can offer programmes through ‘study centres’, even for the purpose of conducting courses through the distance mode.