Teaching in private colleges throughout the country was affected on Friday as thousands of teachers were on mass casual leave and participated in a rally held at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
All the private educational institutions will be closed for a week from Monday across the state, as per the decision taken by Samaikyandhra JAC, to intensify the agitation.
Private universities in state will invite trouble for themselves for affiliating colleges. In the wake of escalating number of complaints regarding affiliation/ franchise centres being distributed freely, University Grants Commission has yet again warned private universities not to flout the norms or face the music as per the private universities regulation, 2003. The commission, citing regulations, has said that private universities being unitary in nature cannot affiliate any college or institute for conducting courses leading to award of its diplomas, degree or other qualifications.
Eighty students from Kashmiri families, who took admission in a Fatehgarh Sahib-based engineering college under the Prime Minister's Special Scholarship Scheme, have alleged that the college duped them and left them in a situation where they cannot even seek admission in another college.
Maharashtra Government is mulling setting up of a special recruitment board on lines of MPSC and UPSC for the appointment of lecturers and staff to private colleges, minister for Higher and Technical Education Rajesh Tope has said.
Medical and dental college aspirants are worried about losing out on seats despite being meritorious. A schedule for admissions to private medical and dental colleges to fill seats that are vacant after the second round gives students only one day to attend counselling, confirm seats and pay tuition fees.
The Gujarat industries department signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with private enterprises today to set up five centres of excellence in three universities and two industrial training institutes (ITIs) in the state, a statement issued by the Gujarat state government said.
The college administration in response said that they were only following Supreme Court’s orders in not revealing the number of seats. Gandhi Medical College is a private medical college affiliated under the ‘autonomous body’, Barkatullah University, Bhopal.
A Division Bench of the AP High Court comprising Justice Ashutosh Mohunta and Justice Dama Seshadri Naidu on Monday felt that the admissions into management quota seats in private medical colleges in the State had to be streamlined and some more safeguards need to be put in place to protect the interest of the students.
Teaching faculty of private colleges, including engineering institutions drew flak from educationists for staying focused on infrastructure and rather than good teaching staff. As a result, even talented students from private institutions suffer on account of poor placements.
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The Admission Supervisory Committee for Professional Colleges has directed the Kerala Private Medical College Management Association (KPMCMA) to cancel all admissions given from outside the qualified rank list of 408 candidates from the entrance examination that was held earlier this year.
Seats vacant after the second round of admission in the state's private medical and dental colleges will be filled individually by the institutes for the second year in running. The Bombay high court has given an interim order staying the implementation of a government resolution (GR) of July 4 that directed private colleges to surrender vacant seats after the second round to the state. The round will be over this week.
Private technical and medical colleges demanding capitation fee from students is illegal and unethical, the Supreme Court has said and asked the Centre to make laws to put an end to such practices which deny admission to meritorious financially poor students in those institutions.
Reacting to the Supreme Court's recent order that termed private technical and medical colleges' demand for capitation fees from students illegal and unethical, Union minister of human resource development MM Pallam Raju on Friday said there are certain loopholes in the system due to which the menace of capitation fees stays alive. "Centre is making all efforts to address the problem. Unfortunately, the Prohibition of Unfair Practices in Technical Educational Institutions, Medical Educational Institution and Universities Bill 2010 is pending in the Parliament," said Raju on the sidelines of a function organised by Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU).
In a bid to keep a track of teachers working in private colleges, Barkatullah University on Saturday decided to issue bio-metric cards from the next academic session.
Kerala Nursing and Midwives Council’s decision to bar allotments to 400 nursing seats spread across 8 University Colleges of Nursing under the M.G. University for this year has left around 2,500 applicants in the lurch.
Two accused arrested for duping about a dozen students mostly from Andhra Pradesh to the tune of Rs 1.35 crore by promising them admission in private medical colleges of the state had roped in an interpreter to interact with the clients in English.