After scanning for laws in states across the country that allow illegal institutes of higher education to be prosecuted, with no success, the Goa government has sat down to formulate its own regulation that will punish those offering higher education courses without approvals from bodies like the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and University Grants Commission.
The Karnataka government is keen on implementing the provisions of a 2006 law to regulate admission and determine the fee structure in private medical, dental and engineering colleges.
The Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) will start postgraduate medical and dental counseling between May 23 and 27, while the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMEDK) will hold it on May 27.
A Parliamentary panel has criticised the University Grants Commission (UGC) for its delay in examining whether private universities are functioning in accordance with the UGC Act.
Private medical colleges in the state have threatened not to undertake fresh admissions unless fee is hiked for the block period 2013-2016 is carried out in a manner that is commensurate with the expenditure they are bearing on each student. Interestingly, the demand comes ahead of the engineering and medical admission exam (Eamcet) is slated to be held on May 10.
Establishment of private universities (self-financed universities) in Maharashtra will soon be a reality as the state government today issued government resolution (GR) in this regard. So far companies such as Reliance and Bharat Forge have evinced interests and have held series of meetings with the government.
Higher Education Minister R.V. Deshpande on Wednesday said that he would strive to get one world-class university and Indian Institute of Technology at Raichur and Dharwad with help from the Union government but remained noncommittal on what stand the Congress government would take on private universities sanctioned by the Bharatiya Janata Party government.
The Private Universities Bill passed during the last session of the previous Assembly could hit a roadblock with Higher Education Minister R V Deshpande stating that it was a policy matter and the Cabinet would discuss its pros and cons.
Doaba region of the state seems to be soon developing as an hub of private universities in the name of quality higher education. Two private universities Lovely Professional University situated on Jalandhar-Phagwara highway (NH-1) and the coming up DAV University located on Jalandhar-Pathankot National Highway had already made their presence in the region to serve the people with higher education. Now the third player was ready to enter the list of private universities. The University named as Sant Baba Bhag Singh University is likely to come with in a year as claimed by Dr. HS Sagar, Director General of the Sant Bhag Singh Education Society.
Minister for higher education RV Deshpande on Sunday said his government would review the decision taken by the previous government granting permission to start universities by private institutes and individuals.
With just eight days to go for the completion of admissions for postgraduate medical courses in the State, the government seems to be in two minds on its consensual agreement with the private unaided educational institutions for admissions this year.
Government colleges in Mysore are in demand this admission season. Hundreds of student from city and rural areas are opting for government colleges even though there are enough private colleges.
The Supreme court which finally declared the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) PG final verdict after a lot of postponement has cleared the admissions for Medical/ Dental courses across the country.
Twenty-seven students who took admission in various private engineering colleges directly after Odisha joint entrance examination (OJEE) counseling was over last year stand to lose their seats. The government has decided to withdraw their admission rights and not allow them to appear the semester examinations of Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) beginning from Saturday.
This was decided in a meeting held with the private educational institutions on Friday by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Minister for Higher Education R V Deshpande, Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil and education department officials.
In a keen desire to make Uttarakhand an education hub and thereby allowing the mushrooming of private Universities, by giving them permission to open their campuses, the successive state governments have inadvertently made Dehra Dun, where most of these Universities are located a drug and booze capital.
A private Indian university has been barred from recruiting Ghanaian students for its distance learning programmes since it is not accredited in this country. The university is under a cloud back home with a federal probe likely into its affairs - particularly the awarding of an extraordinarily high number of degrees - and its chancellor-promoter is on the run.
The race for that coveted post-graduate medical seat in Karnataka just got tougher. Two years ago, a PG seat in orthopedics in a prestigious private medical college in Bangalore cost Rs 1 crore. This year, it has touched Rs 2 crore. The price of an MD (Radiology) seat available for Rs 2 crore last year is likely to go up to Rs 2.75 crore this year.