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
Various teachers and student organisations opposed the proposal to allow autonomous colleges in the state at the hearing organised by the N R Madhva Menon committee appointed by the Kerala State Higher Education Council (KSHEC) on Thursday to discuss the draft report on the scheme.
The delay by the State government in deciding on fee structure and seat-sharing matrix for admission to professional colleges through the Common Entrance Test (CET) has irked private engineering colleges.
All Kerala Private College Teachers’ Association (AKPCTA) has called upon the Higher Education Council not to make recommendation for the introduction of autonomous colleges in the State.
Hurt by Medical Council of India's apathy towards government medical colleges in Vidarbha, which has led to refusal of increased post-graduation seats, the Nagpur branch of Indian Medical Association (IMA) has demanded resignation of all three members from the state on the MCI board of governors.
Receiving an increasing demand from students across the country, private universities have started the entrance exams in both offline and online formats.
The Bangalore University Task Force has recommended the varsity not to approve admissions made by private colleges that do not have the university affiliation.
The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will file a review petition in the Supreme Court next week on the apex court’s order allowing private colleges to conduct MBA and MCA courses without AICTE’s permission.
Federation of Associations of Managements of Unaided Professional Educational Institutions in India has appealed to the Kerala government to go ahead with the reforms in education sector.
Several private colleges in the state have siphoned off crores of rupees of the government-sponsored post-matric scholarship scheme by faking identities of 25,000 poor students, a top higher education department official said.
DAVV students are in jitters. Semester examinations are delayed and private colleges blame it on the university. The students have been forwarding applications and protesting constantly over the issue.
Governor H.R. Bhardwaj has cleared all private university Bills that were awaiting his assent. Sources in Raj Bhavan told The Hindu that there were no Bills proposing the establishment of private universities now pending with the Governor.
In a major decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that private colleges need not seek approval from the All India Council for Technical Education to conduct courses in computer application and management at the postgraduate level. However, AICTE Chairman S.S. Mantha said the Council would file a review petition against this order early next week.
The fate of students pursuing higher studies in the privately-run CMJ University in the state appears to be hanging in the balance as Meghalaya governor R.S. Mooshahary has brought out various irregularities in the functioning of the university.
Some student organisations and academics may oppose the setting up of as many as 17 new private universities in the State, but a few former Vice-Chancellors (VCs) have pledged their support for their establishment.
The 'Forum for Fairness in Education' has decided to file a contempt case against the state government for violating the apex court's order on private medical and dental college seats. The SC directive states that private medical and dental colleges have to surrender vacant seats to the government after the second round of admission. The government can allot these seats to meritorious candidates.
Private medical colleges in the state have threatened not to undertake fresh admissions unless fee is hiked for the block period 2013-2016 is carried out in a manner that is commensurate with the expenditure they are bearing on each student. Interestingly, the demand comes ahead of the engineering and medical admission exam (Eamcet) is slated to be held on May 10.
A Parliamentary panel has criticised the University Grants Commission (UGC) for its delay in examining whether private universities are functioning in accordance with the UGC Act.
Private universities recognised by Chhattisgarh and other States and offering courses in the State now face a threat of their courses being derecognised if they do not comply with new guidelines issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
Admission to two private medical colleges and ten-odd private dental colleges of the state has been restricted by the medical education department as the colleges have failed to fulfil the affiliation criterion as prescribed by the government.
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Because of the huge faculty shortage in India, the Indian government has now prohibited private higher-educational institutions here from using Indian faculty members when setting up campuses abroad, The Times of India reported today. Those institutions will also be forbidden to move profits from their domestic campuses to their foreign ones, or to cross-subsidize them.
India's Parliament has amended the country's Constitution to impose admission quotas for lower castes and classes on nearly all private colleges that do not receive government aid.
According to Private Universities Act 2006, many international-level private colleges are to be set up in Gurgaon, plans for which are in the pipeline and are expected to materialize soon. Land has been allocated in sectors 51 and 68 for setting up of educational institutes.
Seats in Intermediate colleges are all set to double to 44 lakh in the state with government inviting private institutions to set up new ones at a time when various stakeholders, including the state-run institutes have sought a ban on sanction of new colleges.
Even as the technical and professional education sector in the State is suffering from a crisis of lack of students, Think Tank Odisha, an advocacy group chaired by former Chief Secretary S B Mishra, has called for slashing of seats in the private colleges.
Many private medical colleges have stated that they will not be able to accept NEET-PG results for admissions. Admissions for private medical entrance exam tests may be declared today. A lot of private medical colleges were opposed to the introduction of a single medical entrance test.
In order to safeguard students’ interests, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed private medical colleges and a consortium of colleges across the country to declare the results of entrance examinations they conducted and on that basis make admissions to postgraduate, MBBS and dental courses for 2013-14.
With no clarity on the share of government quota seats for MBA and MCA this year, the Karnataka Private Postgraduate Colleges’ Association (KPPGCA) on Wednesday decided to conduct Karnataka Management Aptitude Test (KMAT) on July 21.
A private medical college is under scrutiny for selling seats. The Health Ministry and Medical Council of India have cracked down on the People's Medical College in Madhya Pradesh. The college had illegally admitted over 240 students between 2009 and 2012, openly flouting MCI norms.
Even as increasing number of engineering seats are going vacant every year, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Maharashtra government have given a nod to many private colleges to increase their intake capacity. About 800 seats will be added to colleges under Nagpur University this academic year, though around 7,000 seats were left vacant in the last academic year.
The race for that coveted post-graduate medical seat in Karnataka just got tougher. Two years ago, a PG seat in orthopedics in a prestigious private medical college in Bangalore cost Rs 1 crore. This year, it has touched Rs 2 crore. The price of an MD (Radiology) seat available for Rs 2 crore last year is likely to go up to Rs 2.75 crore this year.
Another private university in Meghalaya, the Mahatma Gandhi University, is under the scanner of the state government after complaints were received about its functioning, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said today.
In a keen desire to make Uttarakhand an education hub and thereby allowing the mushrooming of private Universities, by giving them permission to open their campuses, the successive state governments have inadvertently made Dehra Dun, where most of these Universities are located a drug and booze capital.
A private Indian university has been barred from recruiting Ghanaian students for its distance learning programmes since it is not accredited in this country. The university is under a cloud back home with a federal probe likely into its affairs - particularly the awarding of an extraordinarily high number of degrees - and its chancellor-promoter is on the run.
Meghalaya Governor R.S. Mooshahary has directed the state government to probe the private Mahatma Gandhi University after complaints were received about its functioning.
After scanning for laws in states across the country that allow illegal institutes of higher education to be prosecuted, with no success, the Goa government has sat down to formulate its own regulation that will punish those offering higher education courses without approvals from bodies like the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and University Grants Commission.
The fee structure for new private colleges offering technical courses has been finalized by the state government's fee regulatory committee (technical). The ad hoc fee for degree engineering course in these colleges has been fixed at Rs 49,000 per annum. However, this fee structure is ad-hoc and subject to revision next year, when it will be regularized.
The Karnataka government is keen on implementing the provisions of a 2006 law to regulate admission and determine the fee structure in private medical, dental and engineering colleges.
This was decided in a meeting held with the private educational institutions on Friday by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Minister for Higher Education R V Deshpande, Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil and education department officials.
The meeting with the government and the private college management could not come to a conclusion on the seat matrix or the fee structure of professional courses in the state this year.
Twenty-seven students who took admission in various private engineering colleges directly after Odisha joint entrance examination (OJEE) counseling was over last year stand to lose their seats. The government has decided to withdraw their admission rights and not allow them to appear the semester examinations of Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) beginning from Saturday.
The Supreme court which finally declared the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) PG final verdict after a lot of postponement has cleared the admissions for Medical/ Dental courses across the country.
Eight medial colleges under the Kerala Private Medical College Managements Association will charge Rs.1.65 lakh for 30 per cent of the merit seats in each institution. Last year this fee was Rs.1.5 lakh.
Government colleges in Mysore are in demand this admission season. Hundreds of student from city and rural areas are opting for government colleges even though there are enough private colleges.
With just eight days to go for the completion of admissions for postgraduate medical courses in the State, the government seems to be in two minds on its consensual agreement with the private unaided educational institutions for admissions this year.
Here’s some good news for students hoping to pursue courses in veterinary science. The third veterinary college in the state and the first run by a private management is slated to come up in Thiruvananthapuram district, the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) said on Monday.
The Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) will start postgraduate medical and dental counseling between May 23 and 27, while the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMEDK) will hold it on May 27.
Minister for higher education RV Deshpande on Sunday said his government would review the decision taken by the previous government granting permission to start universities by private institutes and individuals.
The Private Universities Bill passed during the last session of the previous Assembly could hit a roadblock with Higher Education Minister R V Deshpande stating that it was a policy matter and the Cabinet would discuss its pros and cons.
Doaba region of the state seems to be soon developing as an hub of private universities in the name of quality higher education. Two private universities Lovely Professional University situated on Jalandhar-Phagwara highway (NH-1) and the coming up DAV University located on Jalandhar-Pathankot National Highway had already made their presence in the region to serve the people with higher education. Now the third player was ready to enter the list of private universities. The University named as Sant Baba Bhag Singh University is likely to come with in a year as claimed by Dr. HS Sagar, Director General of the Sant Bhag Singh Education Society.
CMJ University in Meghalaya, which is under the scanner for awarding over 430 Ph.D. degrees in the last academic year, could be dissolved for irregularities, with Governor R. S. Mooshahary pulling up the varsity for violating UGC norms.
Higher Education Minister R.V. Deshpande on Wednesday said that he would strive to get one world-class university and Indian Institute of Technology at Raichur and Dharwad with help from the Union government but remained noncommittal on what stand the Congress government would take on private universities sanctioned by the Bharatiya Janata Party government.
Violent scenes were witnessed at the MES Raja Residential School, Kalanthode near Chathamangalam in the district, where the entrance examination for admission to the member colleges of the Kerala Private Medical College Management Association (KPMCMA) was held on Friday amidst strong protest from different students’ organisations.
A committee headed by the district collector recently found a full-time lecturer at a government college practising at a private hospital and also claiming non-practise allowance given to doctors for refraining from private practice. Following the incident, the committee is all set to launch a drive across the district to identify such bogus practitioners and clinics.
Establishment of private universities (self-financed universities) in Maharashtra will soon be a reality as the state government today issued government resolution (GR) in this regard. So far companies such as Reliance and Bharat Forge have evinced interests and have held series of meetings with the government.
The government of India plans to tighten its control over private higher-education institutions by deciding their tuition structures, imposing quotas, and determining who is admitted into as many as three-quarters of their seats, The Hindustan Times, a local newspaper, reported on Sunday.
India's Supreme Court on Thursday quashed a provision of a state law that allowed the establishment of private universities in the State of Chhattisgarh, in central India.
In a judgment that could limit access to professional education, India's Supreme Court ruled last week that colleges that do not receive government aid are not required to use state...
The Admission Supervisory Committee for Professional Colleges, headed by former judge J.M. James, has annulled the entrance examination held in Kozhikode on May 31 for admission to the MBBS management seats offered by private and self-financing medical colleges in the State. The committee has found prima facie evidence of corruption and malpractice in the conduct of the test.
Primary education minister Sake Sailajanath directed officials to initiate stringent action against private colleges and schools if they were found violating norms and collecting exorbitant fees.
As many as eight private medical colleges in the state have withdrawn from the agreement they had entered with the government on seat sharing and decided to do away with 50% general category seats. In other words, any student who seeks admission to these colleges will now have to pay almost Rs 5 lakh as fees per annum, instead of the earlier subsidized fees of Rs 1,65,000/annum.
The Legislative Assembly on Thursday passed the Karnataka Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation Fee) (Special Provisions) Bill, 2013, that provides recognition for the consensual agreement proposed to be entered in to between the State government and the private unaided educational institutions imparting professional educational courses for 2013-14 academic year.
The Kerala Private Medical College Management Association (KPMCMA) on Friday decided to withdraw from the agreement it had entered into with the state government for admission to merit and management quota seats in colleges run by it.
In a major crackdown on private institutes, the government has ordered criminal proceedings against Sri Naryana, Sri Chaitanya and Sri Gayatri junior colleges, three most popular corporate groups for running intermediate classes which the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) does not recognize.
The government will bring an ordinance to make it mandatory for private colleges in the country to seek the approval of the All India Council for Technical Education for running postgraduate Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Computer Application (MCA) courses.
A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Madras high court to direct the private dental colleges to ensure and conduct admission of students to the postgraduation courses strictly as per the laws and regulations based on the merit-based rank list published by the Director of Medical Education (DME) and consequently direct the state government to monitor and supervise the admission process to ensure proper transparent and merit-based admission.
The admission supervisory committee (ASC), headed by Justice J M James, on Thursday cancelled the entrance test by private medical colleges to fill 35% management quota seats, citing question paper leak. The exam will now be held on June 22.
The government will bring an ordinance to make it mandatory for private colleges in the country to seek the approval of the All India Council for Technical Education for running postgraduate Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Computer Application (MCA) courses.
Hopeful of passing two pending Bills to check malpractices in institutes of higher learning, including private universities, Union Human Resource Development Minister M.M. Pallam Raju Friday sought cooperation of the state government to take punitive action against universities indulging in malpractices.
Even as the fake degree racket of Chandra MohanJha (CMJ) University is getting murkier and believed to have even crossed the country's frontiers, the University Grants Commission (UGC) that had granted it the status of an 'university' has failed to take any action till date. Senior officials from Nagpur University, who are now searching for the CMJU's beneficiary students in over 800 colleges in its jurisdiction, disclosed that the Delhi-based apex body had granted 'private' status to as many as 150 universities across the country. Of them about 20 were believed to have operating bogus degree racket through agents spread far and wide across the country.
This year, colleges and private universities, in their bid to attract students in the upcoming “admission season’ have started to announce doles that range from free studies, attractive scholarships, bank loans and merit-based deduction in fee structure. While there are more than 16 private and deemed universities in Jaipur and a dozen of private colleges, it’s the latter that are more worried about filling up their seats.
Police are investigating an Indian university suspected of issuing fake PhDs after it awarded more than 400 doctorates in a single year, officers said Wednesday.
He said government-aided private colleges and unaided private colleges would have to pay Rs. 3,000 per candidate to the university for additional seats sanctioned. This was not applicable to government colleges. The fee is being collected to check uncontrolled admissions, he said.
The world’s top 50 universities in engineering and technology in 2013 do not include any Indian university/college. The Higher Education World Reputation Ranking 2013 of top 100 institutions, has representation from all the BRIC countries, except India. We can conveniently blame it on bias, or simply ignore the global ranking. While the Government-run institutions have their share of challenges, the private institutes/universities, perceived to be a ray of hope, appear to be less interested in improving quality.
MC Nanaiah said while one college charged Rs10,000 for a course, another charged thrice that amount for the same course, affiliated to the same university.
Minister for medical education Kondru Murali and the managements of private medical colleges are engaged in a fight for control over the MBBS management quota seats ahead of the new admissions session. Of the 5,500 MBBS seats in 40 colleges in the state, 1,480 seats are in the management quota.
Stop Loyola College from admitting students for aided and unaided, undergraduate and post-graduate courses, as there is an apprehension that merit and reservation norms may not be followed during admissions, said a PIL filed in the Madras high court.
Here's some good news for engineering aspirants who are now eagerly waiting for the e-counselling to begin from June 20. The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has given a go-ahead to increase 1,400 seats in engineering courses across 80 private colleges, six government colleges and six universities after inspecting their infrastructure.
Troubled students of the controversial Nagpur College of Homeopathy can finally see light at the end of the tunnel. An order of the state government issued earlier this month has assured the students of admissions to other private colleges affiliated with the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS). The management of the college has to pay Rs 50,000 per student for the transfers.
The apex court bench of Justice Gyan Sudha Misra and Justice Madan B. Lokur said this on an application filed by NGO Sankalp, seeking direction that the private medical colleges which were enrolling students on the basis of their own entrance tests should admit only those students who had appeared in the NEET and secured at least 50 percent marks.
KPC Medical College and Hospital in Jadavpur, a private medical college, has issued a notification to conduct its own medical entrance examination for admission to MBBS course flouting the Supreme Court guideline.
The State government on Friday submitted before the Kerala High Court that if the Kerala Private Medical College Management Association (KPMCMA) backs off from the seat sharing agreement, it would become null and void. Any right or benefit by way of the said agreement will also cease to exist.
The notification for counselling for engineering and pharmacy courses is likely to be pushed further due to delay in fixing the fee structure in private colleges. The Admissions and Fee Regulatory Committee (AFRC) which was supposed to decide the fee structure for private colleges by June 12 has not announced a composite fee structure till date. The higher education department officials said notification for counselling will be announced only by next week and counselling likely to begin from June 26.
With the framing of the model guidelines for private self-financing universities and the proposed establishment of law universities in Aurangabad, Mumbai and the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIFT) in Pune and Nagpur, Higher and Technical Education Minister, Rajesh Tope, is betting big on the education scenario in Maharashtra.
All those eligible out of the nearly 1,600 students who applied for the management quota test on May 31 in eight colleges under the Kerala Private Medical College Management Association (KPMCMA) will be allowed to take the re-test being held by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE) on June 22.
Weeks after the state government notified model guidelines for private institutions to set up universities, three big groups have put forward their proposals to the higher and technical education department.
With more seats on offer than the number of students available and to top it picking out meritorious ones from those who have qualified the Joint Engineering Entrance Examination (JEEE) has most of the private universities in a fix as there are not enough students to fill up the available seats.