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.
Not only corporate schools, even private colleges offering graduate courses have been operating branches after securing permission in a different address in SPSR Nellore district. Many colleges are flouting norms and some of them offering laptops and other sops to fill the seats, this academic year.
Four new medical colleges in the state — three in the private sector and one in the government sector —have been rejected by the Medical Council of India for the year 2013-14 as they failed to meet the stipulated norms on faculty and infrastructure facilities.
The Tripura government has decided to reject degree and diploma certificates issued by study centres of private universities and educational institutions of other states, officials here said Thursday.
The government should look to private higher education and TAFEs if it still hopes to achieve its 40 per cent participation target, says researcher Daniel Edwards.
Call it soul drain. Private theological colleges may shepherd their students all the way through a masters degree, only to see them go elsewhere for a PhD.
Two panels examining the education standards of SC/STs and OBCs have urged the Centre to enact a law to implement admission quotas for them at private institutions of study.
Central funding under Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) would also be made available to private institutions based on certain criteria, the HRD ministry said.
A federal appeals court on Monday reinstated a federal False Claims Act lawsuit brought against ITT Educational Services, Inc. by a former enrollment official. A federal judge in Indiana dismissed the suit against the for-profit higher education provider last year, saying the court did not have jurisdiction because the plaintiffs in the case were not the original source of the allegations against the company, as is required under the false claims law. The court also slapped the plaintiffs with nearly $400,000 in fines for having brought, in the judge's words, a "frivolous" lawsuit.
The second try was the trick for Ashford University, which earned its regional accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges after being rejected one year ago.