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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Aided colleges in Tamil Nadu need not obtain prior permission from the government to fill vacant teaching/non-teaching posts which had already sanctioned for the academic year concerned, the Madras high court has ruled.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The commission to regulate the private educational institutions of Himachal Pradesh now is invalid and so are its assessment orders, circulars, and notices.
Though the enrollment in UP government's technical colleges is higher, when it comes to quality, private colleges take the lead. This year, majority of meritorious students, according to Gautam Buddh Technical University (GBTU), are from private colleges.
What began with a rush by private educational trusts to set up engineering colleges in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka a decade ago, is now suffering distress sales as the institutions fail to attract students to fill the available places.
The self-financing private medical colleges in the state is yet to submit the list of students admitted to various colleges under the 35% management quota seats.
State higher and technical education minister Rajesh Tope on Friday said private engineering colleges should reduce their student intake so there would be no vacant seats.