The Nitish regime has cleared the decks for establishing private varsities with the passing of the Bihar Private University Bill, 2013, by the Legislative Assembly.
The bill on private universities is to facilitate setting up of three new private universities in the state. These are Lakulish Yoga University at Ahmedabad, Team Lease Skills University-ITI at Tarsali in Vadodara and CU Shah University at Wadhwan in Surendranagar.
The private university Act was enacted in 2007 to reduce the burden on state universities, but only 11 private universities could start ever since. The outcome is rising number of students continue to put a strain on government universities.
While there has been no official communication from the government on reopening of colleges under its administration, many private engineering colleges in and around the city have asked their students to get back to classes on Monday after close to a month’s closure owing to the anti-Sri Lanka protests.
Releasing land bought for setting up private universities in Himachal Pradesh just got tougher with the state assembly today passing a law increasing the time frame from 25 to 40 years for permitting any land use change should an institution fail to function during the period.
Bihar State Private University Bill 2013 was passed on Tuesday by voice vote in the state assembly, clearing the deck for setting up of private universities and related institutions of higher learning in the state.
Among those seeking their help are private universities such as Amity University and NIIT University, school chains such as Indus World school, and education solution companies. The education sector has hitherto relied on word-of-mouth publicity to hire people.
In clear violation of the Supreme Court of India's orders and audacious contempt of law, five reputed colleges have been caught in the middle of the rot in the country's medical education system. A CNN-IBN sting operation covering three states has exposed how private medical and dental colleges are illegally selling post graduate seats to the highest bidders.
The non-aided D Ed colleges' management association has alleged that the recent move of issuing show-cause notices for compliance to the colleges was part of an official conspiracy to close down all non-aided private colleges imparting diploma courses in teaching.
As many as 150 students of three private colleges, studying bachelor of dental studies (BDS), knocked the doors of Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya ( DAVV), blaming the authorities for poor results and assessment in internal examination here recently.
A senior functionary of N M Institute of Engineering and Technology (NMIET) was arrested here on Tuesday, a day after a girl of the private institute allegedly committed suicide following allegation of harassment over non-payment of dues.
Clearing the decks for private institutions to enter the field of higher education in Maharashtra, the state cabinet on Tuesday approved model guidelines for opening private varsities.
The state government on Wednesday withdrew its earlier bill on self-financed private universities to include 50% caste-based reservation. The bill was passed in the assembly in August 2011, but the governor had refused to sign it into law in the absence of the reservation clause. The amended bill is expected to be approved in the ongoing or monsoon session.
Decks have been cleared for private institutions to enter the field of higher education in Bihar with the state assembly passing the Bihar Private Universities Bill, 2013 on Tuesday.
Bihar State Private University Bill 2013 was passed on Tuesday by voice vote in the state assembly, clearing the deck for setting up of private universities and related institutions of higher learning in the state.
Even as the state government has paved the way for the opening of private universities in Bihar, the higher education scenario is unlikely to change much. A vast majority of the state's youth would continue to receive their higher education in the existing colleges and universities which depend solely on government grants. And, the state exchequer would have to cough up big grants to these government-funded institutions.
There is absolutely no demand for more engineering colleges in the state. It is going to be tough for the new private colleges to find students and faculty. Nearly 25,000 BE seats were vacant last year and it will be extremely difficult to woo students
Even before the SSC examination results are out the corporate Intermediate colleges have already commenced classes for the first year Intermediate students in the name of bridge course, flouting the rules of the Board of Intermediate Education.
The state government on Wednesday indicated that it was open to initiating the process of derecognizing 17 private medical and dental colleges found to have violated norms during the admission process in 2012-13.
JKBOSE has made it clear that private colleges have breached the rules since JKBOSE approved admission of only 12,000 candidates for the session 2011-2013 whereas colleges added 14,000 more. Adherence to rules under no circumstances should have been grossly violated and if it happened the problem lies with the administration of the private colleges and institutions