Here's a question for India's education-obsessed middle class and upper middle class parents: Would you send your son or daughter to a well-funded, well-appointed, classy private university backed by some of India's best names in business and academia but one that offers a liberal arts education?
With thousands of seats in private engineering colleges lying vacant in recent years, some colleges are mulling the option of converting the technical institution into an arts and science institution, as there is a rise in the enrolment in arts and science courses.
In the wake of the rise in number of seats going unclaimed after counselling year after year, some private engineering colleges are mulling conversion into an arts and science institutions.
A two-judge bench of the AP High Court on Monday gave its nod to the admissions made in private medical colleges for the present academic year. The bench of Justice Ashutosh Mohunta and Justice D Seshadiri Naidu dismissed a batch of 50 writ petitions primarily on the ground that the writ petitions raised disputed questions of fact but failed to place strong evidence in support of the allegations.
In a significant ruling on Monday, the AP High Court directed that the content and format of applications of all private medical colleges shall be uniform and they shall be made available even at the NTR Health University.
With private engineering colleges in the state facing a large number of student vacancies, some of them are resorting to unscrupulous means to fill up seats.
This year's admissions to private medical and dental colleges elicited very few complaints, only 14, as compared to more than 80 last year. While official data show that the admissions to the vacant seats after the second round in these colleges went smoothly, parents say many of their wards could not even attempt to seek admission, with just one day's deadline given to them.
Having accused the BJP government of turning Himachal into Bihar by allowing a large number of private universities and compromising with standards of higher education, the Himachal government on Saturday did a complete U-turn.
Infamous for many irregularities, Nagpur University administration has always tried to suppress controversies. But this time, chancellor K Sankaranarayanan himself has sought clarification from vice chancellor Vilas Sapkal on the NU move to illegally grant benefit to ME/MTech students, who had been admitted by colleges even before they got affiliation last year, NU officials said.
True to its status as an education hub, three colleges from the city figure in the list of colleges identified by the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) to be accorded the power to grant degrees, a privilege that is hitherto reserved for the universities. The 45-college list has 11 from the state.
In this academic year alone, according to police sources, there have been 17 registered cases of student violence in the State. Of these, at least six are in private colleges, including the principal’s murder in Tuticorin.
Gone are the days when there was a huge demand for the DEd course and one had to score a minimum of 80 per cent to get through. Today, private DEd colleges are forced to shut down, thanks to lack of takers in the state.
Of the 42 universities in the state, 34 are state universities, three central and five deemed. Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema have 10 state universities each, while Telangana has 14. Besides, there are 700 private engineering colleges spread across the state.
The TN Private Colleges (Regulation) Act does not contemplate prior permission from the government for filling up faculty vacancies, so aided colleges need not obtain them, the Madras High Court has ruled.
Private College Principals’ Association in Kanyakumari district has decided to close all their colleges on October 21 to condemn the murder of an engineering college principal by three students in Tuticorin District.
Challenging medical admissions under management quota, two writ petitions have been filed at the Madurai bench of the Madras high court against top government authorities and four private medical colleges.
The Himachal Pradesh High Court quashed the HP Regulatory Commission Act after finding it against the spirit of constitutions. An intrusion into the union lists of subjects in this bill was brought by the last BJP Government to keep tab on mushrooming of private Universities.
With the Himachal Pradesh High Court last week quashing the State Private Educational Institutions (Regulatory) Act of 2010, the state now lacks a mechanism to monitor its 16 private universities and an equal number of private institutes, mainly engineering colleges, officials said on Friday.
Andhra Pradesh, which basked in the glory of being a leading educational hub, is now staring at the problem of plenty as the professional colleges mushroomed in the state have registered poor response.