The state government has decided to take control of vacant medical college seats after two rounds of admissions. The move comes in the wake of malpractices by private medical colleges last year.
The Young Doctors Association (YDA), Pakistan, has said that due to alleged negligence of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC), 26 private medical and dental colleges have not created seats for postgraduate training in their respective teaching hospitals.
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.
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.
The Young Doctors Association (YDA) has asked the government to force private medical colleges and hospitals to comply with regulations stating that they must create seats for postgraduate training and provide free treatment to 50% of their patients.
A demand-supply mismatch for undergraduate courses in Delhi University has created a windfall for private universities and institutes in the region. This year, the increase in number of applicants hit a new high of 43%. Nearly 2.5 lakh students have applied for 54,000 seats, and the admission process is still on.
As the admission season is on, city private colleges are making huge money by just selling out their prospectus. A student applying for two or more colleges has to shell out anywhere from Rs. 1,200 to Rs. 1,500.
The dismal situation of Nagpur University prompted the first question in the discussion: What caused this fall in standard of the hallowed institution? Former vice-chancellor Haribhau Kedar began by blaming those at the helm for not implementing the rules that make up this system.
In a move to ensure there are fewer irregularities in the admission process to private medical colleges this year, the state government has issued an order clarifying that these colleges will have to surrender to the government, seats left vacant after the second round.
After hearing that William Peace University might put a large chunk of its $35 million endowment into neighboring real estate, I decided to take a look at other university endowments to see how they compare.
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.
For those aspiring for government quota seats in private colleges to pursue Master of Business Administration (MBA) course in Karnataka, admissions may not be possible just by clearing the entrance exam, if representatives of some B-schools have their way.
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 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.
Students in private universities taking courses not approved by the Commission for University Education (CUE) have recently learnt, to their utter dismay, that they cannot get help from the campuses to resolve the problem, because CUE’s bark is louder than its bite.
Apollo Group (APOL), the for-profit education stock behind the University of Phoenix, made waves yesterday by announcing that Phoenix’s accreditation was reaffirmed through the 2022–23 academic year.
The government is set to decide whether to make BPP a university, creating the UK’s second for-profit institution with the title, just as its US parent company faces “adverse impact” from a sanction against one of its other institutions.