Stop Loyola College from admitting students for aided and unaided, undergraduate and post-graduate courses, as there is an apprehension that merit and reservation norms may not be followed during admissions, said a PIL filed in the Madras high court.
Here's some good news for engineering aspirants who are now eagerly waiting for the e-counselling to begin from June 20. The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has given a go-ahead to increase 1,400 seats in engineering courses across 80 private colleges, six government colleges and six universities after inspecting their infrastructure.
Troubled students of the controversial Nagpur College of Homeopathy can finally see light at the end of the tunnel. An order of the state government issued earlier this month has assured the students of admissions to other private colleges affiliated with the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS). The management of the college has to pay Rs 50,000 per student for the transfers.
The apex court bench of Justice Gyan Sudha Misra and Justice Madan B. Lokur said this on an application filed by NGO Sankalp, seeking direction that the private medical colleges which were enrolling students on the basis of their own entrance tests should admit only those students who had appeared in the NEET and secured at least 50 percent marks.
KPC Medical College and Hospital in Jadavpur, a private medical college, has issued a notification to conduct its own medical entrance examination for admission to MBBS course flouting the Supreme Court guideline.
The State government on Friday submitted before the Kerala High Court that if the Kerala Private Medical College Management Association (KPMCMA) backs off from the seat sharing agreement, it would become null and void. Any right or benefit by way of the said agreement will also cease to exist.
The notification for counselling for engineering and pharmacy courses is likely to be pushed further due to delay in fixing the fee structure in private colleges. The Admissions and Fee Regulatory Committee (AFRC) which was supposed to decide the fee structure for private colleges by June 12 has not announced a composite fee structure till date. The higher education department officials said notification for counselling will be announced only by next week and counselling likely to begin from June 26.
As their demand for hiking the fees for undergraduate professional courses was shot down by the state government, private professional colleges in the state have hiked the price for management quota seats manifold. While some of the private engineering colleges in the state have stated charging about Rs 18 lakh for seats under the payment (management) quota, the amount seems to be on a continuous ascent.
The High Court on Friday directed the Kerala Private College Medical Managements Association to file a counter affidavit on a petition filed by the state government seeking to postpone the entrance test in colleges under the association.
In about a month's time, MBBS admission counselling dates would be announced but deals worth crores have already been inked between private college authorities and students for management quota seats at a time when the government is mulling introduction of an online application process to bring in transparency.
Under the scheme, private players who invest in setting up medical colleges in three divisions of the state — Devipatan, Basti and Mirzapur — will get capital subsidy up to Rs 20 crore. There are no medical colleges in these three divisions of eastern UP at present.
AIADMK on Friday urged the AINRC-ruled Puducherry government to ensure private medical colleges earmarked 50 per cent of the total seats in MBBS courses for students under government quota.
The raging controversy surrounding admissions of over 456 students undergoing Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) course in 11 private colleges has sent the Punjab government as well as the college managements into a real tizzy.
The NGO, Jan Jagran Samiti (JJS) has approached the district collectorate on Friday to register their protest against the private junior colleges indulging in private tuition classes, demanding strict action against such institutions.
The state government has cleared proposals for setting up agriculture polytechnic colleges in private sector. Five new agriculture polytechnic colleges and one agri-engineering college would come up in the private sector at different locations, according to Acharya NG Ranga Agriculture University vice-chancellor professor A Padma Raju.
With the number of medical colleges and seats increasing, there aren't enough cadavers for learning clinical techniques. Government colleges still manage to get cadavers, but private colleges are in a fix as they have to request permission and wait for government approval to get a cadaver.
The massive fraud being played on medical students who prepare for the entrance exam of private colleges, thinking them to be genuine, should be stopped
The top Government and Private Medical Colleges in India has been listed out through the results of The Week-Hansa Research conducted in March/April 2013.
What is also surprising is that there are only three private colleges from Chennai — SSN College of Engineering, Meenakshi Sundarajan Engineering College and Sairam Engineering College — ranked in the first 20. At least 60 colleges have a less than 20 per cent pass percentage, which students could avoid. Many of these colleges are around Tirunelveli, Kancheepuram, Kanyakumari, Vellore, Erode, and Villupuram.