Private engineering colleges in the state urged the state government on Saturday to release the arrears pertaining to tuition fee reimbursement for the academic year 2012-13 immediately.
While one of the focus areas of Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit 2013 was knowledge-sharing through partnership with foreign education institutes, technical colleges back home are tottering to collapse.
The issue of permission granted to large number of private universities to set up campuses in Himachal Pradesh and land purchased by them, rocked Assembly on Tuesday with members questioning the credentials of these universities and the degrees being awarded by them.
The issue of allowing private universities to set up campuses in Himachal Pradesh came up in the state assembly Tuesday with members raising questions about the credentials of some of these institutions.
Private engineering colleges have taken strong exception to the state government's decision to increase seats in government-run colleges while stopping the private ones from hiking their intake capacity.
Scores of students, led by the district unit of the Students Federation of India (SFI), staged a protest here on Thursday condemning the opening of private universities in the State.
ADG (CB) Bijay Sharma said Debendra Behera, suspended deputy secretary of Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) in Sambalpur, had entered into a deal with private colleges to provide them question papers for money. Speaking about the modus operandi, Sharma said Behera had designed two modules to charge the private colleges.
In a major breakthrough in the Plus-II science question paper leak, the Crime Branch of Odisha Police have arrested heads of three privately run colleges.
The state will have three private universities by the next academic session. A nod could subsequently be given to five more following a scrutiny of their applications, which is now in progress.
When the University Grants Commission (UGC) expert committee that was set up to amend the regulations on private universities meets here next week, it will discuss the concerns expressed by the Supreme Court in 2005, when it delivered its ruling in Prof. Yashpal & Anr vs State of Chhattisgarh and others while endorsing the UGC (Establishment of and Maintenance of Standards in Private Universities) Regulations, 2003.
With the mushrooming of private universities in the country, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has constituted an expert committee to revisit the clauses in the UGC (Establishment of and Maintenance of Standards in Private Universities) Regulations, 2003.
The state government has reduced the land holding limit for establishing private universities in the state. Accordingly, private universities will now be allowed to be set on an area of around 10 acres as against 50 acres previously.