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College News Archive [April 2003]

CIEFL to offer B.Ed course

Apr 01, 2003: Hyderabad: The Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL) will offer a B.Ed course in English on self-financing basis. The programme will offer training in English language content and teaching to cater specially to the needs of teachers of English. It has been recognised by the National Council of Teachers Education (NCTE) and approved by the University Grants Commission. The students will be admitted to the course on the basis of an all-India entrance test to be held on May 11 at 12 centres in the country. The statement added that CIEFL had been offering a large number of customised teacher training programmes to teachers of English at various levels so far.

The flip side of OU semester system

Apr 01, 2003: Hyderabad: Osmania University’s decision to extend the semester system to district PG centres and affiliated colleges offering PG courses is being welcomed as yet another step for improving academic standards, but the fact is that the university implements a diluted system rather than the one followed universally and the one approved by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The Internal assessment, which is an internal part of the semester system, is not followed by the university and the student’s calibre is tested by the semester-end examinations alone. Another glaring aspect of the dilution is no uniformity in the system and the examination pattern differs from department to department.

JNTU to offer new courses

Apr 03, 2003: Hyderabad: The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Centre for Spatial Information Technology has announced three certificate courses beginning on April 7th. These include a four-week part time Integrated GIS and CAD, three-week digital photogrammetry and a two week programme in global positioning system (GPS). The GIS covers state-of-the art techniques of GIS and applications of ARC/Info, Arc View GIS and Auto cad 2D drafting modules. Digital photogrammetry will cover fundamentals of photogammetry.

Student unions threaten stir over job order

Apr 03, 2003: Hyderabad: A government order stipulating that all government jobs would be contractual from now on has stirred up a controversy with several student unions and youth groups threatening to agitate against it. The order, issued by the government’s general administration department on March 28th, states that the gazetted officers in Group I and II services would be recruited on contracts, while the clerical cadre in Group III and IV will be filled by private agencies. Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad criticised the proposal to recruit staff on a contract basis. “The government it appears is abdicating its responsibility of providing employment to the youth”, says ABVP. The DYFI and SFI too wanted the students to fight against the government order and force the chief minister to withdraw the order.

Training for law entrance tests

Apr 03, 2003: Prime, a training institute for CAT of IIMS and other competitive examinations, is launching a training programme for entrance tests of prestigious law schools – NLSIU of Bangalore and NALSAR, Hyderabad. Admission to these coveted five-year law courses is through an all-India entrance test to be conducted in May. The one-month-long classroom-training programme starting on April 5th will expose aspirants to all facets of the entrance tests, including legal reasoning.

New polytechnic courses from next academic year

Apr 04, 2003: Hyderabad: The state government has decided to introduce several new courses in government polytechnic colleges, besides modifying some others to suit the needs of students. From the next academic year, government polytechnic will have two-year diploma courses in event management, travel and tourism management, fashion and textile designing. The polytechnics will also have three-year diploma courses in insurance, banking, retailing and building-service management. The government had decided to collect a fee of Rs. 15,000/- for each of these courses being started under the self-financing scheme. A new post-graduate diploma course in supply chain management, in association with the JNTU, is also being introduced from the next academic year.

Parents want preparatory classes for Inter students

Apr 04, 2003: Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh Parents Association has appealed to the Board of Intermediate Education to allow preparatory classes for Intermediate students during the summer vacation. In a memorandum submitted to the BIE secretary, B. Kripanandam, the association appealed the preparatory classes on grounds that they would help in boosting the competitive spirit among students. Association members claimed that such classes during the 60-day summer vacation would help average students in improving their performance. In the absence of such classes, the students would end up their time, they said. The memorandum also said that as the senior Intermediate syllabus was vast and comprehensive, the available days would not be sufficient to complete the syllabus and if the syllabus were completed early, the students would have time to prepare for Eamcet.

Ed.CET to be held on July 6

Apr 05, 2003: Hyderabad: The Education Combined Entrance Test (Ed. CET) for admission to B.Ed courses in the state will be held on July 6th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. About three lakh candidates are expected to appear for the test. The Ed.CET notification will be published on April 7th, the sale of applications will begin on April 15th and the last date for the receipt of applications is May 16th, as according to Ed.CET committee chairman and Osmania University vice-chancellor Prof. J. Ananthaswamy. He said that there would be no change in the syllabus and the pattern of examination, and the application forms will be available at 108 post offices across the state. Necessary arrangements have been made to conduct entrance test smoothly.

Engineering colleges urge on fee structure

Apr 05, 2003: Hyderabad: In the light of the confusion prevailing over the fee in engineering colleges, the State Committee of the Students Federation of India has demanded that the Government convene a meeting of student’s unions, experts and political parties to chalk out a policy on the fee structure in the engineering colleges. The SFI expressed concern that the managements of private colleges were trying to hike the fee abnormally by wrongly interpreting a recent Supreme Court judgement on the subject and urged the government to ensure a check on fee structure in private institutions besides ensuring total fee reimbursement to students hailing from SC and ST communities.

Talks for SAE centre in State

Apr 05, 2003: Hyderabad: Talks are on between SAE Technology College and infrastructure providers in Hyderabad to help create infrastructure for opening an SAE centre for the Andhra Pradesh market. Preliminary level talks are being held by a management team from SAE (Headquarters). It is learnt that the Amsterdam head-quartered is looking at locations like the HITEC City surrounding areas. The SAE Technology College, which claims to be the world’s largest and India’s first Media Education College, has a world-wide network of 42 colleges in 18 countries.

Universities to boycott US, UK programmes

Apr 05, 2003: Kolkata: Vice-chancellors of 14 universities in West Bengal will meet on Saturday to take an unanimous decision to boycott any programme conducted or funded by the US and the UK governments. The Vice-chancellor of North Bengal University and Rabindra Bharati University joined their counterpart in Jadavpur University in condemning the invasion of Iraq and announced the boycott. More teachers of Calcutta, Jadavpur and Kalyani Universities came out in support of the decision to boycott all functions organised by governments which supported the coalition attack.

BIE urged to follow schedule

Apr 06, 2003: Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh Government Junior College Principals Association (APGJCPA) has urged the Board of Intermediate (BIE) to follow the BIE academic schedule and not to permit any academic activity by the corporate junior colleges during the summer vacation. According to the BIE academic schedule, the last working day of this academic year will be April 4th and the colleges will open on June 2nd. The advanced supplementary exams will be held during this time. Now, the corporate college managements in the name of parent’s committee have approached the BIE and submitted their representation to the board requesting permission to begin classes from April 8th or 10th.

Government gets 50% private engineering seats

Apr 06, 2003: Bangalore: In a step towards resolving the vexed issue of admissions to medical, dental and engineering courses, private managements on Saturday agreed to give 50% of the engineering seats in their colleges to the state government. The issue of medical and dental seats is still hanging fire, with the managements and the government not agreeing on a uniform fee structure for these courses. The impact of this decision will be that, for this 100 seats, 25 seats will have to be reserved for backward classes, SC/STs, other backward classes and minorities, 25 seats will be open to general merit and 50 seats would be with the management. Till now, management quota was 15, while the remaining 85 seats were split between reserved, general merit and payment categories.

Coaching for law entrance tests

Apr 07, 2003: Prime, the leading training institute for CAT of the IIMs and other competitive exams is launching the city’s first training programme for entrance tests for law. Admission to the much-coveted five-year law courses at the prestigious National Law School – NLSIU, Bangalore and NALSAR, Hyderabad is through an all India entrance test to be conducted in May. With limited seats and high standard of test, and also competition at the all India level, candidates are required to perform exceedingly well to qualify for admission.

Last date for Inter applications extended

Apr 07, 2003: The Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) has extended the last date for the sale of applications of Form-II and Form-III to April 15 and the last date for receipt of filled-in applications to April 16th. The decision was in view of the representations received from the private college management associations. The applications can be had from the head office or from the BIE regional inspection offices. The filled-in application forms should be submitted at the office of the BIE.

MAA TV to hold Eamcet orientation test

Apr 07, 2003: Hyderabad: MAA Television will conduct an Eamcet orientation test for the aspirants on April 15th at 22 centres in the state. Ten toppers from both engineering and medical streams will be awarded. Candidates can obtain the application form from the e-seva centres. The examination centres are Visakhapatnam, Gajuvaka, Kakinada, Eluru, Bhimavaram, Vizianagaram, Mahboobnagar, Khammam, Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Ananthapur, Rajahmundry, Vijayawada, Guntur, Nellore, Ongole, Tirupati, Kurnool, Hyderabad, Warangal and Secunderabad.

State loses 11,000 engineering seats

Apr 07, 2003: Hyderabad: The All–India Council of Technical Education has cancelled 11,000 engineering college seats sought to be increased in private colleges in Andhra Pradesh. This in spite of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu exerting pressure on the AICTE to hike the engineering seats. The AICTE has held the State government responsible for delay in submission of no objection certificates to the AICTE on time for the cancellation. The AICTE has also cancelled the proposal to increase engineering, MBA and MCA seats in private colleges. With this order, as many as 70 MBA colleges and 175 engineering colleges through out the state will be denied permission to increase their capacity.

BIE warning to colleges

Apr 08, 2003: Hyderabad: The Regional Inspection Officer (RIO), Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy distrticts of the Board of Intermediate Education, has warned colleges not to run classes for students who have completed their Intermediate first year, during the summer vacation. He said stringent action would be taken against colleges violating norms. P. Rama Krishna Reddy said the colleges should not release any advertisements about Intermediate courses until the schedule is announced by the BIE.

Private college's views sought on key issues

Apr 08, 2003: Hyderabad: In view of the Supreme Court judgement in the TM Pai Foundation and the others vs the State of Karnataka case given in October 2002, The AP State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) is seeking views from the managements of all private un-aided professional education instituions on key issues as pointed out in the judgement to issue appropriate orders. The managements should send their views on uniform fee structure suggested by various professional college managements, on %age of seats to be filled by the managements and eligibility criteria for filling these seats, on %age of seats proposed to be earmarked by the management for being filled by the convener and any other issue that the management would like to highlight on or before April 17th to the APSCHE.

BRAOU eligibility test on April 13th

Apr 09, 2003: Hyderabad: The BR Ambedkar Open University (BRAOU) eligibility test will be conducted on April 13th from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM. About 70,400 students including 144 jail inmates from the Central Prisons Cherlapalli, Warangal and Rajahmundry, are expected to take the test. The test will be conducted in 169 centres including 35 in twin cities. Candidates should appear for test at the same centre where they have submitted the applications. The hall-tickets will be issued from April 10th.

HC issues interim order on minority status of institutes

Apr 09, 2003: Hyderabad: Justice of the High Court issued an interim order making it clear that the government’s decision not to grant minority status to new education institutions would not apply to agencies and colleges whose earlier certificates are due to expire or those agencies who already have such recognition for other institutions established by them. The government by an order dated March 24 had decided not to grant minority status to any institution and also to treat as regular institutions of those whose recognition has expired.

OU PG entrance notification

Apr 10, 2003: Hyderabad: The Osmania University has issued the notifications for the post-graduate (PG) entrance tests for the next academic year. The university has also announced an MBA programme in the distance mode at the Prof G Ram Reddy Centre for Distance Education from the academic year 2003-04. Application forms for the entrance tests will be available at the University and the University College for Women, Koti. The completed applications along with requisite registration fee should reach the Directorate of Admissions, OU campus on or before April 29th. Application forms will also be accepted till May 6th with a late fee of Rs 100.

Sharp drop in candidates for Eamcet

Apr 10, 2003: Hyderabad: Despite an increase in engineering and medical seats, the number of candidates appearing for the Engineering, Agriculture and Medicine Common Entrance Test (Eamcet-2003) has come down drastically this year. So, far only 1.70 lakh candidates have registered for the examination compared to 1.91 lakh students in 2002, and 1.80 lakh in 2001. The state has more than 205 engineering colleges with an intake of about 2,800 seats. According to the details available with the Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education, the nodal agency for conducting common entrance tests, about 1.3 lakh students have registered to appear for the engineering stream of Eamcet, while 40,000 opted for the agriculture and medicine streams. The examination is scheduled to be held on April 26th.

Aided college teachers on the warpath

Apr 12, 2003: Hyderabad: The Affiliated College Teacher’s Association - Andhra Pradesh has demanded that the Director of Collegiate Education to release the proceedings of the enhanced dearness allowance to aided teachers with immediate effect. The ACTA – AP General Secretary, G. Sridhar Reddy and others said that though 100 days passed after the orders enhancing the DA were released, The Director of Collegiate Education failed to release the proceedings despite having sufficient funds. The teaching and non-teaching staff of the aided colleges would be constrained to take direct action including stoppage of the spot valuation works if the proceedings were not issued before April 16th, they said adding that the teaching and non-teaching staff of the aided institutions should not be taken for granted by the authorities.

Counselling classes to Osmania students

Apr 12, 2003: The Department of Commerce, Osmania University, is proposing to conduct counselling classes to M.Com students of Osmania University to get them prepared to the JAO examinations of BSNL in the third and fourth weeks of April. The classes will be held at the department of commerce, from 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM. Interested can contact the department on April 15th and 16th.

University's reports lack details

Apr 12, 2003: Hyderabad: Failure by universities in the state to release comprehensive annual reports that include details of available infrastructural facilities, courses, budget, future plans and requirements is hampering officials of the higher education officials from putting their requirements across to the government. The information regarding the courses, strength, the faculty staff at a glance needs to be given but most of the universities present information department-wise in a clutter as according to AP State Council of Higher Education. For instance, the annual reports of Kakatiya University, Dr B R Ambedkar Open University, Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University lack of consolidated presentation about the university at a glance.

Plea for classes during summer vacations

Apr 15, 2003: Hyderabad: The Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) is against running classes during vacations while private colleges insist on the same. Caught in the middle, the students are perplexed. BIE commissioner B Kripanandam recently issued orders that action would be initiated against college managements that run preparatory classes for intermediate students during summer vacations. “Vacations are meant for the students to relax. The colleges should not tax them with loads of studies during holidays”, contends the commissioner. Moreover, BIE’s rules do not permit preparatory classes during the one-and-half month vacations. But, the college managements, mostly corporate, argue that classes are offered in the interest of students. The students too have submitted a representation to BIE commissioner asking for review of the rules to permit them to have classes during holidays.

Toefl to test speaking skills

Apr 15, 2003: Toefl assesses the applicant’s proficiency in the English language and the test score is vital for securing an admission in a US University. Educational Testing Service, USA will introduce the next generation of Toefl. The new Toefl will access the four language skills, namely English speaking, listening, writing and reading, essential to functioning successfully in higher education settings. The new Toefl will provide information about the student’s real life ability to integrate the four English language skills. Educational Testing Service will launch the next generation Toefl in July 2004 on their website www.toefl.org, in a “get acquainted” version. Multiple full-length forms of the test along with an array of practice and learning materials will be made available. Students and teachers will be able to use the site to familiarise themselves with the format and content of the test as well as to practice and strengthen their language skills for this new communicative competency based assessment.

AICTE nod mandatory for foreign universities

Apr 16, 2003: Hyderabad: The All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has decreed that its permission is a must for all foreign universities and institutions imparting education in the country. Foreign universities providing technical education in India should also register with the AICTE and the council will prescribe the fee and intake for each course. AICTE’s latest move comes in the wake of the mushrooming of foreign universities, which are luring students to pursue higher education aboard. It has come to the notice of the government and the council that hundreds of universities, without having any accreditation in their respective countries, are imparting technical education in India and collecting exorbitant fees. Welcoming the new guidelines, APSCHE advised the candidates who desire to study in foreign universities to check for the AICTE permission before joining such courses.

FCGP examinations from April 26th

Apr 16, 2003: Hyderabad: The 50th All-India Fellow College of General Practitioners (FCGP) examinations will be held on Indian Medical Association (IMA) premises at Koti from April 26 to 29. Doctors who have passed MBBS and have three years of experience, either in government or private sector, are eligible to attend the exam.

BIE warns private colleges

Apr 17, 2003: Hyderabad: Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) commissioner and secretary B Kripanandam warned private junior colleges against holding classes, including coaching classes for Eamcet, during the summer vacation till June 2nd. He said that strict action would be taken against such college managements under Act 25 entailing 5-7 years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1-5 lakh. He also announced that the last date to apply for additional sections for the various intermediate courses would be extended to April 19 from April 17. About 90 new government junior colleges will be opened in 90 mandals in the rural areas, which have no junior colleges. The BIE will also refund the corpus fund of the unaided junior colleges established since the last five years amounting to more than Rs 2 lakh.

Fee structure for private engineering colleges

Apr 17, 2003: Hyderabad: The fee for private engineering college students is likely to range from Rs. 22,000 to Rs. 27,000 per annum. The board contours of the fee structure were discussed against the backdrop of the Apex Court’s governing the administrative and academic aspects in private professional colleges. It was felt that the fee of Rs. 22,000 to Rs. 27,000 range was reasonable considering that the state governing was giving scholarship to nearly 50% of engineering students belonging to BC, SC and ST communities. Sources said that candidates seeking admission under this quota would have to necessarily pass the entrance test in tune with the guidelines laid down by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

Intermediate results on May 10th

Apr 17, 2003: Hyderabad: About 75% of the valuation of answer papers of the Intermediate Public Examination has been completed by Wednesday and the entire exercise would be completed by April 25. The results will be released on May 10th. All the facilities for the spot valuation at the 23 examination centres in the state, including 21 for general papers, one for Sanskrit and another for a vocational paper had been provided. About 50,000 junior college lecturers are involved in the task of evaluation of 14 lakh answer scripts, according to the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE).

Labs in engineering colleges to be used for summer courses

Apr 19, 2003: Tiruparankunram: The department of technical education in Tamil Nadu has decided to use the well-equipped laboratories in the Government and aided engineering colleges to offer summer courses for the students and outsiders during the vacation when they would normally remain idle. Short term courses are offered on 22 subjects/skills including computer appreciation, computer languages, Internet, spoken English, hobby electronics, repairing of household electronics and electrical goods and so on. The courses would have centralised examination and would be conducted by experienced teachers.

Minority colleges flout state rules

Apr 19, 2003: Hyderabad: Over a dozen Muslim minority engineering colleges in the State have conducted a common entrance test for admission into first year engineering courses in violation of the government and university rules. The State Council of Higher Education has dubbed the entrance test as “null and void” and made it clear that the admissions to be made by these colleges are “invalid”. The students will have to appear for the Eamcet-2003 to be conducted by the State government if they want to pursue BE/B.Tech courses. Twelve engineering and two pharmacy colleges run by Muslim minority management have set up a self-styled body called “Planning, Coordination and Monitoring Board” to conduct entrance tests and admissions by passing Eamcet.

Students boycott classes

Apr 19, 2003: Hyderabad: The city wing of the Student’s Federation of India (SFI) boycotted the classes of junior colleges protesting against the management’s decision to run classes during vacations. SFI city secretary, U.A. Narayana alleged that several colleges in the twin cities violated the norms, yet no stringent action was initiated by the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE). He said that stringent action would be taken against the colleges, which conducts the classes even on national holidays.

Engineering college seats up for sale in Tamil Nadu

Apr 21, 2003: Chennai: Engineering College seats under the management quota are up for sale in Tamil Nadu for this admission season. Several private engineering colleges, including institutions that are less than five years old, have already opened ‘bookings’ for BE seats. The price quoted ranges between Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 1.5 lakh depending upon the ‘demand’ for the branch of study and the ‘popularity’ of the college. What is alarming is that the donations are being quoted in the open. At an Engineering Education Fair organised by a private event-management company at Madras University, representatives of some minority colleges were openly spelling out the capitation fee requirements to parents and students who visited their stalls.

OU increases remuneration for evaluators

Apr 21, 2003: Hyderabad: Osmania University has revised the remuneration for valuation of exam papers, daily allowance for city lecturers and lodging charges for outstation lecturers from March/April 2003 Annual Exams. The paper valuation remuneration has been enhanced from Rs 6 to Rs 7 per script, the daily allowance from Rs 40 to Rs 60 and the lodging charges from Rs 90 to Rs 120. The Federation of AP College Teacher’s Associations (FAPCTA) thanked the university authorities for hiking the remuneration. They have also appealed to the university vice-chancellor to improve the facilities at the spot valuation centres.

Plea on medical PG counselling

Apr 21, 2003: Hyderabad: The Government was trying to use pressure tactics on students by not conducting the counselling for the 59 postgraduate seats for which the Medical Council of India has given permission. Though the notification for the counselling was given by the NTR University of Health Sciences in March, the counselling had not yet been conducted. The Government was intent on making the students accept the 25% NRI/College Development quota in the counselling. Rs. 10 lakhs was charged for a non-clinical post graduation seat, Rs. 25 lakh for a clinical PG seat and Rs. 30 lakh for superspeciality seat under the NRI/CD quota. The association urged the government to conduct the counselling for the increased PG seats at the earliest.

Dharna against move to hike engineering courses' fee

Apr 22, 2003: Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh Backward Classes Welfare Association organised a dharna near the office of the A.P. State Council of Higher Education, resenting the proposal of the Government to fix the annual fee for private engineering courses at Rs. 27,000. The demonstrators later submitted a memorandum to the council chairman, C. Subba Rao, demanding that the fee should not exceed Rs. 18,000 under any circumstances. He assured that the government had not yet taken any decision in the matter and appealed to students not to take to agitation path.

High Court admits petitions on engineering seats

Apr 22, 2003: Hyderabad: The High Court admitted two writ petitions questioning the decision of the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) refusing permission for increased intake in all engineering colleges in the state. The impugned order was made on the ground that no objection certificates issued by the state government were beyond the prescribed date. The managements of various private colleges complained that they did not cause the delay and that they could be made liable for it. Earlier, the government had written to AICTE mentioning that the time prescribed was insufficient and that it be extended.

NIT exams postponed

Apr 22, 2003: Warangal: The degree and post-graduate examinations of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal, had been postponed indefinitely with teachers resorting to non-cooperation with the authorities. The students, who came prepared, were taken aback by the sudden development. They went in large numbers to the office of in charge director and raised slogans holding the authorities responsible for the postponement of examinations.

Corporate college caught conducting summer classes

Apr 23, 2003: Guntur: Students belonging to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) caught red-handed a corporate junior College, Sri Chaitanya Junior College, conducting summer classes for students who have completed Intermediate first year. They took along with them Intermediate Board regional officer Man Bhatlu directly to the class room. Bhatlu issued a memo on the spot warning the college that if classes were conducted in summer the college’s recognition would be suspended.

He also personally warned all the corporate colleges in the town of severe action if they conducted classes and start admissions before the schedule notified by the Intermediate Board. ABVP leaders alleged that many corporate colleges were violating BIE directions by conducting summer classes.

Eamcet focus will be on analytical skills

Apr 23, 2003: Hyderabad: The introduction of analytical questions for the first time in the Eamcet this year is likely to bring down the highest mark in both the Engineering and Medical streams. Unlike previous years, students now had to answer 160 questions rather than 200 questions in the allotted 180 minutes. However, they have to spend more time in choosing the correct answer, as this time the questions would not only test their memory power but also their analytical skills. Last year, the highest score was 99% in the Engineering section and 98% in the Medical stream. According to L.V.A.R. Sarma, Convenor, Eamcet-2003, the number of test centres have come down by 20 this year as the number of aspirants have also reduced. As many as 1,32,276 candidates are taking the test in Engineering stream and 41,130 students are appearing in the medical stream.

New seat allotment formula for colleges

Apr 23, 2003: Bangalore: The Karnataka Cabinet announced a seat allotment formula and fee structure for medical, dental and engineering courses as opposed to those brought out by the managements of private professional courses. It had been decided to retain 75% of the seats under the government’s purview, leaving the rest to the management. The latter’s claim for 75% of seats had been rejected. The Government retained the existing fee for seats under its quota, but substantially enhanced it for students from outside the State. It was also decided to continue the CET. With regard to free medical and engineering seats, the Cabinet decided to retain the existing fee structure for Government and aided medical, dental and engineering colleges.

Eamcet coaching goes off the Net

Apr 24, 2003: Hyderabad: As the Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (Eamcet-2003) approaches, the absence of educational sites offering entrance coaching and tutorials on the Net is perplexing. All such sites launched a few years ago have gone the Net completely. Internet was loaded with nearly 15 education sites offering their services during the last few years. A majority of them, targeted at the Eamcet aspirants with host of facilities, were launched from Hyderabad while a few had nation-wide presence. Sites like Allentrance.com, entranceguru.com, preexams.com, eamcet.com, getset.com, edurite.com, hotexams.com, educationandhra.com, egurucool.com, allcoachings.com, onlineeamcet.com and padayi.com were a few among them which sought to capture the large potential of Eamcet aspirants in the state. However, none of them seem to be attracting students now.

Hall tickets for CEEP issued

Apr 24, 2003: Hyderabad: The hall tickets for the Common Entrance Examination for admission into polytechnics (CEEP 2003) have been dispatched to the candidates. According to the State Board of Technical Education and Training, the candidates who have not received hall tickets are advised to contact the district coordinator concerned and obtain duplicate hall ticket on April 26 free of cost. The hall tickets can be downloaded from the Net. The site is www.apsonet.org.in/ceep2003.

Police to receive student's complaints on grading

Apr 24, 2003: Hyderabad: The written complaints of the regional inspection officers (RIOs) relating to the “regimentation” of students by the management or faculty of junior colleges based on the marks scored by them will be submitted to police officials and law enforcing authorities. The Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) said the complaints of students will be forwarded to the respective superintendents and deputy commissioners of police. The students, it said, form the core of an education system and the environment at an educational institution should cater to their development needs. The BIE Citizen’s Charter focuses on the problems of the students, teachers and managements and suggests methods to prevent them in a time-bound manner.

BIE fixes working days for next academic year at 260

Apr 25, 2003: Hyderabad: The Board of Intermediate Education has rationalised the calendar for the next academic year fixing the number of working days for both the first and second year Intermediate courses at 220. The rule applies to junior colleges and composite degree colleges in the State offering general and vocational Intermediate courses for 2003-04 as according to the Board. The tentative calendar proposed for the year based on the number of working days is: first term from June 2 to September 30, mid-term holidays from October 1 to 12 and second term from October 13 to April 3, 2004. Christmas holidays will be from December 24 and 28 and Sankranti holidays from January 10 to 18, 2004. The theory examinations will commence in the third week of March and practicals in the third week of February, 2004. The colleges will close for summer vacation from April 4 to May 31.

Entrance forms for PG admissions from May 5th

Apr 25, 2003: Hyderabad: The University of Hyderabad will sell applications for post-graduate entrance examinations in June from May 5th at its campus. The last date for sale and submission of the forms is June 6th. The applications will be sold only on the campus since the Golden Threshold premises of the university is closed on account of construction work. The university has said that the notification on the examinations at 13 centres in the country will be issued on April 26th. The test will be conducted from June 21 to 26th at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Cochin, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad etc. The cost of applications is Rs. 75 for SC/ST/PH candidates. The cost of prospectus is Rs. 75 for SC/ST/PH candidates and Rs. 200 for others. Registration fee will be charged separately for each programme.

Government move lauded

Apr 25, 2003: Hyderabad: While thanking the Government for setting up six new Regional Inspection Offices for Intermediate education, the Government Junior College Principals Association had said that it is the result of the Government seeing reason in its demand for more offices as Intermediate study has spread vastly in the State. There were only 12 offices earlier taking care of examinations and academic matters concerning 12 lakh students and 3,000 in odd junior colleges. The work was, too, unwieldy for the offices to handle and therefore the association demanded offices in each district for effective academic inspection.

Arrangements in place for Eamcet

Apr 26, 2003: Hyderabad: All arrangements have been made for the smooth conduct of the Eamcet. The Engineering stream test would be held from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. While the medical stream test would be held from 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM. The code number of the question paper to be given to the students would be picked up by the Technical Education Minister, N. Anjanelu, and the code selected would be intimated to regional coordinators and the Superintendents of the test centres through regional news of All India Radio at 6:15 AM, fax and television channels. The same would be confirmed with officials concerned through the telephone to avoid any bloomers. The district administration and the police had been requested to provide security so that the examination goes off smoothly. In the engineering stream 1,32,276 candidates are taking the examination while 41,130 students are appearing for the medical stream.

CDE to offer MBA course through distance mode

Apr 26, 2003: Hyderabad: Prof. G Ram Reddy Centre for Distance Education (PGRRCDE) will introduce a three-year MBA course from the academic year 2003-04. The academic senate of Osmania University approved the course last month. Admission to the course will be provided to those who qualify in the Integrated Common Entrance Test (ICET) which is scheduled to be held on May 28th. The last date for submission of applications for ICET is April 26th. The Centre for Distance Education (CDE) proposed to provide admission to 1,000 candidates. Weekend classes will be conducted for students at the study centre in Hyderabad. The Osmania University MBA syllabus will be implemented for the course. Each year the students will have to appear for seven papers and take up project work in the final year.A separate admission notification for the MBA course will be issued by the PGRRCDE after the announcement of ICET results. The admission will be based on merit and are likely to commence in July.

Private colleges defy Government, announce separate admission tests

Apr 26, 2003: Bangalore: Responding with defiance to the State Government’s stated policy of filling 75% of the seats in professional colleges through the Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell, the managements of private professional colleges decided to conduct admissions on their own through a single-window agency. One hundred % of their seats would be entirely in the management category. These colleges would neither accept students sponsored by CET nor earmark any quota for the government. And all the admissions would be merit based. These private colleges would ensure an all-India quota for non-Karnataka students and reservation quota for SC/ST candidates. Karnataka Unaided Private Engineering Colleges Associations (KUPECA) and Karnataka Private Medical College Associations (KPMCA) announced their decision that the two associations will work out the finer details of COMED 2003, during the course of the week.

Urdu University to launch its website

Apr 26, 2003: Hyderabad: Maulana Azad National University has launched its website at www.manuu.ac.in, according to the university. The website provides detailed information about the university and prospective students will find information regarding admission to the academic year 2003-04 there. The university has plans to expand its countrywide network of study centres as well as students intake. Eligibility test for admission is expected to take place on July 20th.

Move to lower qualifying marks opposed

Apr 28, 2003: Bangalore: The Federation of University and College Teacher’s Associations in Karnataka have opposed the move of the Karnataka Government to lower the minimum qualifying marks in II PUC examination to 35% for admission to engineering courses. Urging the government not to implement the guidelines of the AICTE in this regard, the federation said the move would further erode the intake in undergraduate courses, especially those of basic sciences. The federation, which discussed several issues at its general council meeting, asked the Government and the management of unaided and minority professional colleges to settle the CET imbroglio amicably in the interest of students. After discussing the various aspects of the abolition of examination remuneration, the council appealed to the government to restore the remuneration for all types of examination-related work.

Pursue MBA while studying MCA

Apr 28, 2003: Vijayawada: Nagarjuna University is offering a unique facility through its School of Distance Education (SDE) wherein MCA students can also pursue an MBA at the same time. The SDE in the Nagarjuna University is being revived from the 2003-04 academic year onwards, and will offer five post-graduate courses – MA English, M.Com, MBA, M.Sc Maths and B.Ed. Candidates who had cleared the Integrated Common Entrance Test (ICET), could enrol for the MBA course offered by the SDE even while pursuing their MCA in other universities. For this, the students need not submit any transfer certificate or conduct certificate, which is a normal requisite. A notification for admission to the SDE courses would be issued in the first week of May. Under-graduate courses would be started through the distance education mode from the next academic year.

APRJC entrance test on May 3rd

Apr 29, 2003: Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh Residential Junior Colleges Common Entrance Test will be held at all the district headquarters on May 3rd for admission into nine general AP residential junior colleges in the State for the academic year 2003-04. The AP Residential Educational Society said that 55,757 candidates had registered for the test and hall tickets had already been despatched. Those who did not receive hall tickets by May 1st could contact the District Education Officer concerned on May 2nd with sufficient proof of their application sent to the APRJC CET 2003 for the duplicate hall ticket. The test will be held in 200 centres in the State.

BRAOU MBA final exams from June 5th

Apr 29, 2003: Hyderabad: Dr BR Ambedkar Open University will conduct the MBA final year second spell examination from June 5 to 10. The last date for submitting application forms is May 17th. The MBA students of 1993 to 1999 batchers and students with backlog papers may appear for the examinations. However, students of 2000 batch are not eligible to write the exams. Candidates can collect the examination registration forms from their respective study centres free of cost from the Controller of Examinations, BRAOU. BRAOU announced the results of PG Diploma in Writing for Mass Media (Telugu) and PG Diploma in Human Rights examinations held in December, 2002. The memoranda of marks will be sent to the residential address of the students.

BRAOU test results out

Apr 29, 2003: Hyderabad: As many as 61,079 students from 169 centres were qualified in the eligibility test conducted by Dr BR Ambedkar Open University on April 13th for admission into the first year graduate programme of 2003-04. The memoranda of marks and application form for admission will be sent to the qualified candidates to their residential address soon. The results of the eligibility test are available on the university website- www.braou.ac.in.

Eamcet key released

Apr 29, 2003: Hyderabad: The initial key of Eamcet-2003 was released by the Eamcet committee for both the Engineering and medical streams. Academics, students and parents can give their suggestions and comments regarding the key to the Eamcet-2003 Convenor before May 9th. Valid suggestions will be considered before finalising the key for evaluation. The released key has also been put on the JNTU website and can be accessed at www.jntu.ac.in. The Eamcet-2003 Chairman and JNTU Vice-Chancellor, Y. Venkatrami Reddy, said the expert committee which went into the question papers did not find any mistakes. They found that all the questions were clear and unambiguous. He further said that valuation would be done for total marks if there were no valid suggestions from academics and students.

Common admission norms for professional colleges

Apr 30, 2003: Hyderabad: The government will decide on a common admission procedure and fee structure for professional colleges, including minority colleges that offer courses in medical, engineering, agriculture and pharmacy at the cabinet sub-committee meeting scheduled for May 1st. The recommendations of the higher education department officials in this regard will be discussed at the meeting. The sub-committee will also finalise the admission procedure and the nominal fee structure to be charged by various professional colleges according to AP State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE). The government will introduce an order for a common admission procedure and fee structure for all the professional colleges in the state, be it minority or non-minority, private aided or unaided educational institutions. The All India Council of Technical Education in its interim regulations declared that the state government with the help of a committee of academicians and higher education officials can decide a viable fee structure and admission procedure until such time the Centre comes out with a common fee structure for professional colleges.

Failed SSC students can study Inter

Apr 30, 2003: Hyderabad: Students who have failed in SSCneed not worry about losing an academic year. The Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) has launched new vocational courses, which allows the SSC failed students to study them for one year and then directly gain admission into concerned subject in vocational courses offered by the junior colleges. However, they have to necessarily pass the SSC examination in the mean time to take admission into the second year of Intermediate. 54 new courses have been launched aimed at students who fail in the SSC examinations this year. The students have three months, six months and one-year course to choose from and they are basically aimed at developing skills and job oriented. Lakhs of students who fail in SSC every year and can make best use of this opportunity.

 
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