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College News Archive [May 2003]

IT makes foray into teacher education

May 01, 2003: The Institute of Advanced Study in Education, Osmania University, has become the first college to adopt information technology in the preparation of study material and teaching for the education course at the Bachelor and Postgraduate level. It would extend the facility to 42 more B.Ed colleges under its Jurisdiction. The institute with the Intel Group had already introduced computer course and usage of IT in teaching mode in 32 B.Ed colleges, training 64 teachers. This is the first time in the country that computer as a subject has been introduced at the B.Ed level. A special curriculum has been prepared for the project. Given the success of the programme, the Intel Andhra Pradesh State Council Innovation in Education Technology programme is likely to be introduced in other universities too.

MoU between University of Hyderabad and Nirdic Centre

May 01, 2003: The Study India Programme (SIP) of the University of Hyderabad. (UoH) would now have students from European countries following a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the University and the Nirdic Centre of India. The MoU will help students from various universities in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden to come to UoH from this academic year. There is also likelihood of UoH students going to universities in these countries under a similar programme.

B.Ed results out

May 02, 2003: Hyderabad: The results of B.Ed (regular and vocational courses) supplementary examinations held during March and April had been released. The memorandum of marks can be obtained from the respective colleges. The last date for receiving applications for recounting and revaluation is May 15th.

BBC to introduce quiz show for university students

May 02, 2003: New Delhi: The BBC World News Service will introduce a new quiz show aimed at university students. Titled “University Challenge”, the show will be a replica of the one running successfully in the UK for the past 40 years as according to the organisation. The best quizzing teams from top universities will vie for top honours in a head-to-head challenge with each other over 27 programmes. The challenge will aim at searching the brightest students and will cover the gamut of sports, theatre, technology, film, science and medicine.

Standoff over quota of seats in medical colleges

May 02, 2003: Hyderabad: In a meeting discussion was held inconclusively between the Health Minister, Kodela Siva Prasad Rao, and the representatives of private medical colleges on the issue of management quota, the fee structure and the mode of admission. It is understood that the managements of 11 private colleges, which account for 1200 seats, wanted 75% of seats as their quota and the remaining 25% as the Government’s share. At present the management is only 15%. However, their proposal was not acceptable to the government, which wanted its quota to be fixed at 75%. The minister also took the stand that the fee structure could not be left totally to the discrimination of private managements since it had been empowered by the Supreme Court to play a regulatory role. He also insisted that private colleges had to implement the rule of reservation.

Osmania Universtity to conduct mock ICET

May 03, 2003: Hyderabad: To orient young aspirants towards the exact requirements of the competitive exam and make them face it with confidence, the 60 toppers of the last year Integrated Common Entrance Test (ICET) of Osmania University, in association with Aptech, will organise a mock ICET-2003 at eight centres in the city on May 11th. Interested candidates can register their names at their nearest Aptech centre.

Corporate colleges out to lure SSC toppers

May 05, 2003: Hyderabad: Representatives of “Top” colleges have been visiting the homes of SSC toppers and those with high scores offering them medical, engineering and IIT entrance coaching free of cost apart of waiver of tuition fee for Intermediate course. Though the homes of the top 100 rankers were contacted on the release of results itself, those who gained good marks in Mathematics and Science subjects are being lured now. With the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) taking a tough stand on advertisement of their institutions, these colleges are resorting to these safe but surely productive measures to boost their college image. The strategy of the colleges seems to be simple. Get as many students as possible on their rolls and they will ensure free publicity to the college if they secure good ranks in the engineering and medical entrance tests later.

Counselling for colleges

May 05, 2003: Hyderabad: Counselling for all colleges under the Osmania University for introducing new courses or combination of courses will be held from May 6th to May 8th. Letters have been sent to all colleges, which have not met the requisite conditions for starting the courses. Colleges which have not received the letter may contact the office of the dean, according to college development council for the counselling date.

Experts to decide on deletion of Eamcet questions

May 05, 2003: Hyderabad: An expert committee will decide on the deletion of those questions of the Eamcet-2003 (Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test) which were either not part of the syllabus or difficult to answer due to the ambiguity in the choice of answers provided in the objective questions. All suggestions from students, teachers and academicians pointing out the errors in the question papers or questions falling beyond the purview of the syllabus will be received till May 9th and an expert committee will meet on May 14th to decide on the course of action. For any questions that are deleted, marks will be awarded to all the candidates.

First year Inter results out

May 05, 2003: Hyderabad: The results of first year Intermediate examinations would be released at 11:00 AM on May 5th. The minister for Higher Education, N. Md. Farooq, would release the results. The results would be hosted on the following websites- http://results.aponline.gov.in, http://203.199.181.53/inter1, www.cgg.gov.in/inter1 and www.nettlinx.com after 11:00 AM. The results will also be made available on Interactive Voice Responsive System. People in the city can call on 9373333 and those outside Hyderabad have to call 040-9373333 for the results. Results can also be accessed through SMS of Airtel, Idea and Hutch Mobile phones. Meanwhile, the results of second year intermediate examinations are likely to be released on May 11 and 12. A senior official of the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) said that efforts were on to release the results at the earliest possible but they were also ensuring that the final results were checked and re-checked to avoid any mistakes.

Final Year Intermediate results on May 11th

May 06, 2003: Hyderabad: The results of the final-year Intermediate Public Examinations are expected to be released in the evening of May 11th. Considering the request made by the candidates appearing for the All India Engineering Entrance Examinations (AIEEE) scheduled for May 11th, the final year intermediate results will be declared only in the evening on the same day as according to the Board of Intermediate Education. Many candidates have requested the BIE to declare the results on May 12th as a failure to score marks in the Intermediate final exams would effect their performance at AIEEE. The candidates after appearing for AIEEE in the morning can know their intermediate results in the evening. The officials said that any delay would affect the students as there would not be much time left for recounting, revaluation and supply of photocopy of answer sheets.

Over 34% pass in Inter Ist year exams

May 06, 2003: Hyderabad: A very low pass %age of 34.05 was registered in the first year intermediate results which was released on Monday. Krishna district took the first position with 52.36 pass %age while Mahabubnagar is at the bottom with 16.69%. Out of the 5,76,143 candidates who took the examination, only 1,96,178 passed. However, girl students continued their domination registering a pass %age of 38.26 as against 31.26 among boys. 11,493 candidates out of the 21,472 candidates cleared the examination in vocational courses registering a pass %age of 53.5.

Government sets fee for 85% of Eamcet seats

May 07, 2003: Hyderabad: The government has decided a uniform fee structure of Rs 22,000 for 85% of the seats through Eamcet for admission into professional colleges. The fee for the rest 15% of the seats will be left to the management of the colleges, including aided, unaided or minority colleges. Regarding the admission procedure in minority colleges, 70% of the seats can be filled by the management and the rest by the government. But the admission will be based on common entrance test approved by the government.

Engineering education inaccessible to middle class

May 08, 2003: Hyderabad: The State unit of the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has opposed the fee fixed by the State Government for engineering courses at Rs. 22,000 and said that the step had rendered engineering education inaccessible to students of middle and lower class. The ABVP demanded uniformity in the collection of fee by Government, university and private colleges. Students whose parents’ annual income was less than Rs. 12,000 should be given as subsidy in the fee as a scholarship. The organisation warned that the government would face severe consequences if the fee structure is not revised.

Govt policy on admission to professional colleges by May 15th

May 08, 2003: Bangalore: The Karnataka Government said that final rules on admissions to professional courses would be notified on May 15th. While the announcement indicated the government’s determination to stick to the Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell, another move hinted measured flexibility. The government offered to negotiate with managements of private professional colleges. The government will accept objections and suggestions to the draft admission rules till May 10th and if there were any worthwhile suggestions, the government will incorporate them in the final rules to be notified by May 15th. The fee structure evolved by the State Government is just and reasonable, keeping in social equity and justice to meritorious students. After the eligibility norms for admissions to BE courses were relaxed by reducing the minimum required %age of marks in PUC to 35, about 2000 more applications have come in.

NCTE nod awaited for B.Ed course in Urdu

May 08, 2003: Students will be able to pursue the B.Ed course in Urdu from the next academic year if the efforts Maulana Azad National Urdu University come on fruition. The academic council has approached the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) seeking permission to offer the course. However, the NCTE is yet to respond to the proposal, which is said to be under its consideration. The in-charge Vice-Chancellor of MANNU, Wahab Qaiser, said that permission was sought for 500 seats through the distance mode and 200 seats for the regular course and expressed the hope of getting the nod if given the vast demand for the course.

Students on warpath against hike in semester fee

May 08, 2003: The first year students of Archarya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University are on warpath, protesting against the changes in the existing examination system and the hike in the semester registration fee. More than 90 students are on indefinite fast, demanding that the changes be withdrawn immediately. They are demanding that the previous method be followed as it allows them to get promoted into the second year even if they have some backlogs. For promotion into third year, they have to clear all first year subjects. Another contention is the semester registration fee, which has been hiked from Rs. 1,380 to Rs. 2,400. Students had taken up cudgels against this earlier and the authorities then gave an assurance that the hiked fee would not be implemented. However, they have gone back on their promise, particularly in university colleges located in other parts of the state.

BIE warns colleges against holding admission test

May 09, 2003: Hyderabad: Board of Intermediate Education Commissioner, B. Kripanandam warned the junior colleges against conducting any tests for giving admissions. It should be based on the marks in the qualifying examination and stringent action would be taken against the junior colleges making admissions or any other basis, he said, asking all principals of all junior colleges to enrol students in two phases – from May 19 to 30 and from June 2 to 15. The first and second year classes would begin on June 2. The principals could make provisional admission based on Internet marks and transfer certificates issued by the schools. The applications will be sold from May 12th. The commissioner directed the principals not to make admissions in the combination dropped by the BIE. The colleges should apply the rule of reservation and provide admission to SCs (15%), STs (6%), BCs (25%), physically handicapped (3%), NCC (5%) and for ex-servicemen and defence personnel (3%).

Change of exam pattern affected Inter results

May 09, 2003: Hyderabad: Lack of competent faculty and infrastructure in some junior colleges, changes in the question paper pattern and low standard of education in some institutions are some of the factors that contributed to the low pass %age in this year’s Intermediate first year examinations. Of the 5.76 lakh candidates, who took the intermediate first year examination this year, over 1.96 lakh passed, a pass %age of 34.05.

Though this is one % lower than the last year’s result, the officials said it could have been higher, if the contract appointments of staff had been made on time and if the junior colleges had proper infrastructure. About 1,600 faculty posts are still vacant in government junior colleges across the state. Intermediate first year classes had begun only in July and students could not catch up with the syllabus. The question paper pattern too was changed this year. Results in government colleges were better this year compared to last year.

HDFC Standard premium soars by Rs 96 crores

May 09, 2003: Mumbai: HDFC Standard Life said that it has generated Rs 132 crore premiums from new business in Financial Year 2003 against Rs 36 crore in the previous year, recording a year-on-year growth of over 260%. Insurance coverage in terms of sum insured has exceeded Rs 5,000 crore during the year. In Financial Year 2003, the company extended its life insurance coverage to over 1.5 lakh people.

The company’s focus in the last financial year was to have a national foot print by increasing its geographic reach, which was reflected in the expansion. But even after the expansion a large part of the business came from metros, with Mumbai and Delhi alone accounting for 25% of total premium.

ICFAI workshop on challenges ahead

May 09, 2003: Hyderabad: The Institute of Chartered and Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) University is holding a three-day workshop to understand opportunities and address the changes ahead. The board of governors of ICFAI University said that the faculty involved in higher education do not have to undergo formal teachers’ training. In most cases, the faculty consists of post-graduates and people who come from various industries, eminent in their subject but not skilled in teaching. Discussions on the workshop regarding emerging opportunities in the educational sector, managing placements, public relations and fostering research culture were made.

Angrau closes college in city after student's stir

May 10, 2003: Hyderabad: The Acharya N G Ranga Agriculture University (ANGRAU) has temporarily closed down the agriculture college at Rajendranagar following student's unrest. According to ANGRAU registrar, the decision was taken after student’s agitation for reduction in fees; they locked the gates of administrative office and college on Friday and assaulted some of the staff members. The registrar said the summer non-infrastructural holidays scheduled to begin from May 15 was preponed to May 9th.

All the students were asked to leave the campus with immediate effect. The first year students of the agriculture college are demanding a reduction in fees from Rs. 2,100 to Rs. 750. The university had maintained that the students accepted to follow the new regulations at the time of admission. Despite the assurance, some students pitched a tent on the campus on May 6th and started indefinite hunger strike without intimating the authorities. Hence the university had no option but to close the college.

BRAOU Science practical exams from May 15th

May 10, 2003: Hyderabad: The Dr. B R Ambedkar Open University (BRAOU) will hold the science practical examinations for the third year B.Sc students from May 15th. The exams will be held on the university campus. All the students belonging to the BRAOU study centres in the twin cities can take the practical examinations. Students who had paid the fees and whose names are not included in the timetable can approach the office of the dean, faculty of Science, BRAOU, by producing the fee receipt for enrolment of their names.

Government to start e-learning courses

May 10, 2003: Hyderabad: The government will soon start short duration certificate courses through e-learning mode in selected colleges across the state. The job relevant courses would be made accessible and affordable to all the aspiring learners. The Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) would introduce the short-term e-learning alternatives in collaboration with the best expertise available in IITs and premier universities. The courses would be conducted for BCA, MCA, B.Tech and BE candidates and the fee would be around Rs. 5,000. The selected colleges would conduct a screening test for students and later they would undergo training in e-learning courses. After completion of the course, the students would appear for the exam to be evaluated by their respective colleges. A wide variety of courses will be offered in fields relevant to the job market and also frontier areas of interdisciplinary importance.

Polytechnic entrance results out

May 10, 2003: Hyderabad: The results of the common entrance examination for admission into polythecnic colleges – CEEP were released today. The results could be accessed on the Internet at http://sbtet.ap.nic.in/ceep2003results or www.apsonet.org.in/ceep2003results. Out of 49,507 candidates who appeared for the examination 43,138 were qualified. The results would be available with the district coordinators and the principals of polytechnic colleges and the rank card would be despatched to the candidates by May 17th.

Students want the new fee rule to be scrapped

May 10, 2003: Hyderabad: Various student organisations have launched an agitation against the government decision to fix the admission fee for engineering courses at Rs. 22,000. As against the earlier two slabs of fee structure, free seats at Rs. 8,000 inclusive of a development fee of Rs. 3,000 and Rs 43,000 for payment seats inclusive of a development fee of Rs. 8,000 – the government had scrapped the free seats. Instead, a common fee structure has been evolved. Irrespective of a candidate being meritorious or poor, he or she has to pay a fee of Rs. 22,000. Even if the candidate has secured the first rank or the last in the Engineering, Agriculture, Medical Common Entrance Test (Eamcet), the fee charged from all will be same.

Girls fare better in Inter final exams

May 12, 2003: Hyderabad: Of the 6,21,177 candidates who appeared for the final year Intermediate public examinations held from March 17 to April 4th, a total of 2,40,718 candidates passed including private candidates. Releasing the results, Higher education minister N Md Farooq said that the overall pass %age of regular candidates recorded at 46.62, was slightly lower compared to the previous year’s 47.01%. The girls performed better than the boys recording a pass %age of 50.15 while the boys stood at 44.17%. In all, 1,46,453 candidates secured first class, 46,842 stood second class, 14,414 stood third class and 33,466 candidates passed compartmentally. The memorandum of marks will be sent to the colleges through the respective regional inspection officers by May 17th. The principals should check the memos before issuing them to the students. Any discrepancies found in the mark list should be referred to the BIE before June 15th. Students can obtain their memoranda of marks from the principals from May 20 onwards.

Government to sanction Rs 10 crore to develop govt junior colleges

May 12, 2003: Hyderabad: An amount of Rs 10 crore will be set aside for developing the infrastructure in government junior colleges in the state. Also, nearly 3,000 lecturer post vacancies will be filled this year. Higher education Minister N Md Farooq said Rs 10 crore will be allocated from the Board of Intermediate Education to develop the infrastructure, including and libraries, in the government junior colleges. Of the 3,000 lecturer post vacancies in 680 government colleges, 50% will be filled on regular basis, BIE commissioner and secretary B. Kripanandam said. He said that he has written to the government and also informed the principal secretary to the government on higher education G Sudhir about this. The rest 50% of vacancies, which are filled on contract basis, will also be filled on permanent basis and the permission for the same from the government is awaited.

Inter supplementary exams from June 18th

May 12, 2003: Hyderabad: The Intermediate advanced supplementary examinations (ASE) will be held from June 18th to June 25th. Students who had failed in the second year Intermediate examination 2003 and earlier year can appear for the ASE. The last date for payment of the examination fee is May 23rd. Candidates can avail the provision of recounting, revaluation and supply of photocopy of valued answer scripts. For recounting a candidate will have to pay Rs 100 per paper, Rs 1,000 per paper for revaluation and Rs 600 per paper for supply of photocopy of the answer book. Applications can be had from the regional inspection offices and principals of junior colleges. For recounting and photocopy, the filled-in applications with necessary enclosures and demand draft drawn in favour of the secretary, Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) should reach the BIE office before June 15th. Students can obtain their memoranda of marks from the principals from May 20 onwards.

College's claims puzzle parents

May 13, 2003: Hyderabad: Intermediate second year results are out and so are the claims by the corporate colleges. Literally, every college has claimed the number two, three, four and five positions apart from the top rank. The newspapers were splashed with advertisements of their claims confusing the students and parents about their authenticity. So many first ranks and so many people with same ranks, it rattles the parents. For the parents all the claims seem to be true. The fact is that 165 people scored marks between 984 and 975. While the highest score is 984, the 10th highest score is 975. So everyone had a chance to claim about their student’s performance and still be credible. All this happen when the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) doesn’t give out ranks officially.

NIIT takes higher education to greener pastures

May 13, 2003: New Delhi: From being an organisation that refused to be part of the formal education system, NIIT has moved to offer degree programmes in association with universities in Indian and abroad. NIIT however is keen to position itself as the obvious choice for students seeking to pursue a career in IT. To this end, in the last 10 months NIIT has signed MoUs with 3 universities. The first with the BR Ambedkar Open University, then with ITT Technical Institute, US and finally with the Karnataka State Open University.

The rationale behind this move has been the fact that NIIT’s education initiative is not recognised by the All India Council of Technical Education, AICTE, this has placed their students at a disadvantage in the past should pursue their education in the field of IT. This academic alliance opened doors for NIIT students who had completed the DNIIT programme and at least one year of their bachelor’s degree, to secure admission to the third year of the 4-year degree programme in information systems security, BS ISS. In real terms, DNIIT students would have at the end of four years three qualifications, two of which would be accredited degrees. A bachelor’s degree from an Indian university, the DNIIT award from NIIT, the bachelor’s degree in IT from ITT Technical Institute.

Writ against CET decision dismissed

May 13, 2003: Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court has dismissed a batch a writ petitions filed by six non-Karnataka students questioning the decision of the Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell to keep in abeyance their admissions to medical colleges. The court has slapped a fine of Rs 1,000 to be paid to the respondents. In his order, Justice N Kumar said the petitioners who secured admission to professional colleges by unfair means should not be allowed to continue. The petitioners do not possess the requisite merit to claim a seat, the question of their admissions to private colleges does not arise, the court said.

After allotment of seats in 2002, an anonymous letter tipped off the CET Cell authorities about the alleged fraud committed in the admission of 26 candidates. A preliminary inquiry proved the fraud involving 26 admissions. The answer sheets of all 243 non-Karnataka quota medical allotments were verified and the CET Cell issued show-cause notices. Of the 26 such admissions, 16 candidates surrendered their non-Karnataka medical seats while the petitioners challenged the show-cause notices.

Boys scrore top ranks in entrance examinations

May 14, 2003: Thiruvananthapuram: Boys have cornered all the top ranks in the entrance tests conducted by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations for admission to engineering, medical, agriculture and allied courses in the colleges in Kerala for the year 2003. Announcing the results, Nalakathu Soopy, Minister for Education, said the admission to the courses would be completed by September 30. The counselling would begin on June 9th.

An information brochure containing all the details relevant to the admission to various courses would be published in the first week of June. The notification for allotment of courses and colleges will be issued in the due course. There are 700 seats under the Government quota and 200 in the self-financing category for the medical courses and over 17,000 seats in the various branches of engineering. The entrance test for admission to the medical course was conducted on April 24 and 25 and for the engineering courses on April 22 and May 7th.

BRAOU examinations to be held from June 5th

May 14, 2003: The last date for submission of applications for MBA final year examination of Dr. BR. Ambedkar Open University is May 17th. The examination is scheduled to be from June 5th to 10th. Students of batches between 1993 and 1999 and also with backlogs can also appear for the exam. However, students of the year 2000 are not eligible. The application forms can be collected free of cost from the respective study centres.

Eamcet results likely on May 17/18th

May 14, 2003: Hyderabad: The results of Eamcet-2003 are likely to be released on May 17th or 18th. The Eamcet committee will meet on May 15th to give its nod for the final key. However, the final key would be ready by May 14th. “The valuation of scripts are likely to be taken up after the nod for final key is given and results will be out after two or three days”, an official said. According to officials, students and academics have sent a few objections to the initial key released. Three objections were raised in mathematics paper and two in Physics paper of the engineering stream. With regard to Chemistry, the objections were mostly related to questions appearing from out of syllabus. A few objections were also sent for the medical stream.

Expert panel to probe into poor results in govt colleges

May 14, 2003: Hyderabad: The government will constitute a three-member expert committee to probe and analyse the reasons for poor results in the state-run junior colleges. The pass %age, which is just about 20%, has been worrying the government a great deal. This year results were poor compared to last year. One of the reasons attributed for the poor show of the government colleges is lack of qualified faculty. According to information, there are over 3,000 vacant junior college lecturer posts in the state. Following instructions from the government the managements had reportedly recruited the teaching staff on contract basis depending on the local availability without giving much thought to the quality. The government is expected to fill about 1,500 vacancies by promoting of senior teachers and remaining will be filled on regular basis giving due weightage to merit.

ABVP to agitate against engineering fee hike

May 15, 2003: Hyderabad: In protest against the Government’s decision on the common fee structure in engineering colleges, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidya Parishad will organise demonstrations at all district headquarters on May 16th. Stating the enhancement of the fee to Rs. 22,000 and removal of the free and paid seats system would deprive professional education to students from poorer sections, the parishad threatened to intensify its agitation if the government failed to withdraw its “anti-student decision”. The ABVP State unit joint organising secretary, G. Lakshman, said the government should instead retain the free and paid seats system with fee of Rs. 8,000 and Rs. 26,000 respectively on the lines of Karnataka. In case the continuation of the free seat system was not possible, the common fee should be fixed at Rs. 17,000 and not Rs. 22,000. The fee in respect of the engineering colleges located on the university campus should be Rs. 5,000.

BRAOU to offer Ph.D programme

May 15, 2003: The B.R. Ambedkar Open University will soon offer Ph.D programme in open distance education. It would be offered by the G. Ram Reddy Academy of Distance Education (GRADE) of the university. The programme is designed to enable persons to do research in the area of open distance education. The university has also brought out four publications concerned with distance learning – “Planning and Design of Academic Programmes”, “Development of Curriculum and Learning Material”, “House and Print Style Manual” and “Open Distance Learning in Andhra Pradesh”. While the first three publications are brought out under “Quality Assurance Series”, the fourth one is the publication of data bank of open distance learning in Andhra Pradesh developed by GRADE.

ID cards to be made mandatory for Inter students

May 15, 2003: Visakhapatnam: The Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) Regional Inspector Officer, A. Krishnamurthy said that from this academic year, every Intermediate student in the State would be given an identity-cum-admission card, with his or her photograph affixed on it and with details of the subjects of study, signed by the principal of the junior college concerned. He also said that the first phase of the new academic year would be over by May 30 and the classes would begin from June 2nd. The BIE would allot an exclusive number to each Intermediate student in the State. This will enable the BIE to check benami admissions and take action against the junior college management indulging in such admissions.

OUTA seeks promotions

May 15, 2003: Hyderabad: Members of the Osmania University Teacher’s Association (OUTA) have condemned the delay in the conduct of interviews for promotions under the Career Advanced Scheme. They said that the government should take steps immediately to conduct interviews and give promotions to eligible teachers. The then Osmania University Vice-Chancellor, Prof. D. C. Reddy, conducted the interviews under CAS in 2001 in violation of the UGC guidelines and the state government’s GO 208 and denied promotions to more than 50% of eligible teachers, including those belonging to SC, ST, BC and women category. Further, the state government incorporated Section 43A in the AP Universities Act pertaining to the composition of selection committees for promotions under CAS. The court directed the university to conduct the interviews within three months. Despite the government ordering the OU to conduct interviews under CAS, the process has not been initiated yet by the university authorities.

Vocational Intermediate results announced

May 15, 2003: Hyderabad: The Board of Intermediate Education (BIE), announced the results of the second year vocational Intermediate exams (restructured and revamped), March 2003. Of the 17,134 candidates who appeared for the restructured examinations, 10,123 candidates passed recording an overall 59.08% success. Girls performed better with a pass %age of 68.81 when compared to boys with 54.77%. In all, 625 out of 2,561 candidates have passed in the Intermediate revamped exams. The overall pass %age has been 24.4%. The results of 69 candidates had been withheld for technical reasons and for want of certain information from the colleges. The memoranda of marks will be sent to the colleges through the regional inspection officers by May 17th. If discrepancies are found, they should be referred to the BIE before June 15th. The students can obtain the memoranda of marks from the principals concerned from May 20.

27 engineering colleges asked to show cause

May 16, 2003: Hyderabad: The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has issued show cause notices to 27 engineering colleges in the state, which lack infrastructure and other institutional facilities. Of the 27 colleges, five are Muslim minority educational institutions and five Christian minority colleges. Some of these minority colleges lack infrastructural facilities including laboratories and libraries, while some have failed to meet the minimum institutional requirements. When contacted, Andhra Pradesh Technical Education deputy director P T Prabakhar said that the institutions will have to reply to the notice by May 21st stating the measures that would be taken up to improve the infrastructure.

Announcement of Eamcet results tomorrow

May 16, 2003: Hyderabad: The Eamcet results will be announced on May 17 at 7:30 AM at JNTU, Masab Tank. The minimum qualifying marks will be for 48 out of the total 160 marks. There will be no change in the minimum of qualifying marks. The government had decided that it would not change the existing 30% of the total 160 marks as the qualifying mark. The details of the results will be furnished in one compact disc. Outlining the format of the results, it will be in two modes.

The first one will contain the hall ticket number followed by the rank in brackets. The second file will contain the rank with marks in break-up form. Meanwhile the Eamcet online counselling would begin on June 27 at Warangal, Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad, Guntur and Vijayawada in two phases and the notification will be released on May second week. Once a candidate chooses his branch, he will not be allowed to change it later. The Eamcet results will be available on websites and also on phone through the BSNL’s Automated Voice Response System where the students have to dial in their hall ticket number.

Dress code for ECET test

May 16, 2003: Hyderabad: The candidates appearing for the Engineering Common Entrance Test-2003 have been advised not to wear full-sleeves shirts, shoes and socks. The decision was taken keeping in view the malpractices, which had been taken during the Eamcet examination using cellular phones. The test will be held on May 22 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the regional centres in 30 sub-centres in the state. Candidates who have not yet received the hall tickets can approach the regional coordinator concerned to obtain duplicate hall tickets. The results of the examination will be declared on May 28th. Information regarding application number, hall tickets and test centres will be available on the JNTU website www.jntu.ac.in from May 18th onwards.

BIE's verdict, not to hold classes in summer

May 17, 2003: Hyderabad: Armed with the High Court verdict in its favour, the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) has decided to crack the whip on rouge private unaided junior colleges in the twin cities to make them stick to its norms regarding vacation classes. The BIE has decided that no private unaided junior colleges in their region would be allowed to conduct any classes/academic instruction during summer. It has also decided to introduce admission cards system for all the first year intermediate students this year. Each college would be issued admission cards as per the sanctioned strength, 88 per section for unaided colleges.Without the card, no admission will be valid and the candidate will not be allowed to appear for the Intermediate Public Examination due in March 2004 and BIE will not be responsible for the consequences arising then, said the officials.

Engineering colleges to be graded before admissions

May 17, 2003: Hyderabad: The government will complete the grading of engineering colleges in the state before the commencement of the admission process. This will help students in choosing the best college available during counselling. The Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) has completed the economic audit and grading (AAG) of the engineering, MBA and MCA colleges which were established prior to 1996 in the state. The council had selected experts and academics for constituting the Visiting Experts Committee. The committee completed the inspection of infrastructure, faculty, collaboration with any university, library facilities, campus interviews, value-added services, besides other aspects of the colleges before awarding the grades. As privatisation has led to the increase in the number of institutions, the colleges have to be more responsive to the expectations of those they serve. The grading will help the students besides forcing the institutes to improve the quality of education and also update the infrastructure.

Eamcet counselling likely next month

May 19, 2003: Hyderabad: The State Government is planning to commence counselling for the qualified Eamcet-2003 candidates from June third week and complete the process by July end. This will help the engineering and medical colleges to commence classes from the first week of August. The academic year of these professional courses got derailed in 1997 and 1998 due to delay in the counselling schedule and as a result classes could not begin even till September last week. However, since last year, efforts are on to restore the academic calendar.

This year there would be five online counselling centres in the State – Hyderabad, Warangal, Vizag, Guntur and Tirupati. As of now there are about 48,000 engineering seats in the convenor’s quota and the counselling would be done for 1,500 candidates a day. The remaining 18,000 to 20,000 seats in minority quota will be filled by respective colleges. The State Government is planning to approach the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to take local students into the 15% supernumerary quota earmarked for the Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) in nine university engineering colleges.

Government nod to 8 colleges to start B.Ed courses

May 19, 2003: Hyderabad: The government has approved permission to eight colleges to start B.Ed courses for the academic year 2003-04. The permission was given after the Southern Regional Committee meeting of the National Council of Technical Education granted recognition to these colleges. The education department accorded permission to the colleges, identified as non-minority colleges. The government asked the chairman, AP State Council of Higher Education to instruct the convenor, EDCET-2002, AU Visakhapatnam to allot candidates to the colleges. The new colleges are: Dr. Kunchala Rajarathnam College of Education, Chittoor Little Flower College of Education, Ananthapur, VPR College of Education, Kadapa, Benaiah Christian College of Education, East Godavari, Princeton College of Education, Ranga Reddy, Khatija Khatoon College of Education, Nalgonda, Universal Christian College of Education, Nellore and Cresent College, Karimnagar.

OU to organise Mock ICET 2003

May 19, 2003: Hyderabad: Mock ICET 2003 was organised by Osmania University recently at eight centres in the city. With the support of 60 toppers of 2002 Integrated Common Entrance Test (ICET) and Aptech, the test aimed at helping the young aspirants to understand the requirements of competitive examinations and face them with confidence. The mock test also enabled the students interested in seeking admission into MBA and MCA to analyse their position because of the comparative ranking provided to them.

Over 13,200 candidates to write Lawcet

May 19, 2003: Tirupati: Over 13,200 candidates will appear for Lawcet-2003 to be held on May 26. The test, being conducted by Sri Padmavathi Mahila Vishwa Vidhyalayam, will be held simultaneously in Ananthapur, Cuddapah, Guntur, Hyderabad, Karimnagar, Nalgonda, Nellore, Nizamabad, Rajahmundry, Srikakulam, Tirupati, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam and Warangal. Of the candidates, 10,574 will appear for the 3-year law course and 2,647 have opted for the 5-year stream. Two thousand four hundred and forty six candidates are from Rayalaseema region, 3,840 from Coastal Andhra, 5,439 from Telangana and 1,496 are others.

Ph.D in distance mode launched

May 20, 2003: Hyderabad: The Ph.D programme in distance mode offered by Prof. G Ram Reddy Research Academy of Distance Education (GRADE) of Dr. BR. Ambedkar Open University was inaugurated by C. Subba Rao, Chairman of AP State Council of Higher Education. The Ph.D programme would go a long way in filling the gap in the research area of distance education. Subba Rao also released four publications including three publications under “Quality Assurance Series” brought out by GRADE, BRAOU. The publications are Planning and Design of Academic Programmes, Development of Curriculum and Learning Material, House and Print Style Manual and Open Distance Learning in Andhra Pradesh. Open Distance Learning in Andhra Pradesh State has the distinction of establishing the first Open University in the country.

Research leaves no trail

May 20, 2003: New Delhi: India has the third-largest scientific and technical manpower community, however, its research output doesn’t match the claim. If research output is to be measured by the number of scientific papers, then India has slipped to the 21st place, from 13th in 2002. The lack of general culture of research and the uneven spread of quality of technical education account largely for the dismal state of research in the country. According to the ISI Essential Science Indicators, between 1997 and ‘01, India produced 76,970 papers as against 1,14,894 by China.

The absence of a culture that actively promotes research is evident from the number of doctorates. In 1954, 164 doctorates in science were awarded, while 19 were awarded in engineering. However, nearly 50 years later, an exponential increase in the number of institutions offering research-level opportunities in science and engineering has not reflected in a commensurate rise in doctorates in either area. According to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), in 1996, only 3,861 Ph.Ds were awarded in science and 374 in engineering. The picture gets more dismal, in 1998, there were only 298 doctoral engineering degree holders in India. Compare this with figures from Taiwan, which had 477 doctoral degree holders, or 2,900 in China and 3,580 in Japan.

Norms for regulation of unaided colleges

May 21, 2003: Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Cabinet approved the draft Unified University Bill aimed at reforms in the higher education sector. The Bill envisages restructuring of the existing university bodies and formation of the State Council of Higher Education for coordinating the functions of the universities in the State. The Government will have powers to regulate admission, qualification of teachers and conditions of services of teachers including salaries. The government will establish a system for determining the fees to be collected by the institutions. The universities on the other hand, will have freedom to determine the fee structure.

Telugu University to offer new courses

May 21, 2003: Hyderabad: Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University has invited applications from candidates for admission to a new course in applied linguistics along with various other courses offered by it at Hyderabad, Rajahmundry, Srisailam, Warangal and Kuchipudi by June 10th.The courses offered at the Hyderabad campus include Kalapravesika, post-graduate diploma in travel and tourism and linguistics. It is also offering post graduate and under graduate courses in Karnatic music, Kuchipudi dance, theatre arts and folk arts. The courses offered at Rajahmundry campus include M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D in Telugu. The last date for submission of applications will be June 10th.

High security admission cards for Inter students

May 22, 2003: Hyderabad: The admission cards, proposed to be introduced by the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) from this academic year, will be ready shortly. They will be supplied to respective junior colleges through regional inspection officers by first week of June. The admission can with details like the candidates name, admission number, college and name, qualifying examination number along with the month and year during which the has passed the examination, group opted and languages selected under part I, II and III apart from the candidates photograph and signatures will give the complete profile of the students. The card, endorsed by the college principal and also authorised by the BIE, is a must for students to appear for the examinations. It is being printed in two different colours for arts and science stream and will also have a hologram and other high security features to mitigate tampering. About 6 to 7 lakh cards will be made ready this year. The onus will be on the parents to collect new identity card from the respective colleges, as admission will be void without the admission card.

TN Open Universit y seeks tie-up with IGNOU

May 22, 2003: Chennai: The fledgling Tamil Nadu Open University has initiated steps for collaboration with the Indra Gandhi National Open University to offer various distance education programmes. This means, in addition to printed study material delivered by post, students can learn through the interactive radio channel “Gyan Vani” video conferencing and web education. The radio channel will be an effective tool of education as even students from remote areas could have access to it. As a first step, the TN Open University is keen on launching a six-month certificate course in “Empowerment of Women Through Self Help Groups (SHG)” in Tamil medium. It is trying to obtain recognition from the National Council for Teachers’ Education, Distance Education Council and UGC for B.Ed programme.

Counselling for Eamcet likely from June 27

May 23, 2003: Hyderabad: The Eamcet-2003 counselling has been scheduled tentatively for June 27, as many colleges are awaiting AICTE approval and admissions through ECET (FDH) need to be completed. A total of eight engineering colleges in the state, including four new and four sanctioned this academic year, are awaiting AICTE approval and once that is completed by June 25th, the Eamcet counselling would begun, according to the AP State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE). About 14,000 candidates appeared for the Engineering Common Entrance Test for Diploma Holders ECET- (FDH). The counselling for ECET (FDH), to begin from June 5th, would be completed before Eamcet counselling.

Databank to help grade colleges

May 23, 2003: Hyderabad: The government will release software on the grading of engineering colleges in the state by next week. The software will be accompanied by a data bank, which will enable the steering committee in the grading process. Experts of the AP State Council of Higher Education have completed inspection visits to engineering colleges in the state to take stock of the infrastructure facilities, faculty, library and other developments. The visiting committee has submitted a report and after analysing it, the entire information will be compiled to prepare software. The software will contain information about the colleges, various departments within the college and the reports of the visiting committee. Based on the response from the experts and academicians, a report will be presented at the steering committee meeting and a decision on grading was taken.

Eamcet winners go for electronics

May 23, 2003: Hyderabad: Information Technology is passé, electronics and communication engineering is the hot pick of Eamcet 2003 toppers. As counselling for over 62,000 engineering seats commences from June 27, most Eamcet toppers have decided to opt for electronics and communication engineering stream. Electrical and electronics, mechanical and instrumentation and chemical engineering are the next favourite streams. Out of 38 streams of engineering available in 217 colleges in the state, information technology is the last preferred course. Civil engineering, the least preferred course during previous years, is in demand compared to computer sciences, once the most sought after branch, which is now the seventh most preferred course.

Varsity to offer two new courses

May 23, 2003: Hyderabad: Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University will receive applications for admission to various courses from May 24 to June 20. The applications will be available at selected colleges. The university said that the criteria for selection to the courses would be on the basis of rank obtained in Eamcet-2003. The courses offered are B.Sc (Agriculture), B.Sc (Horticulture), Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Bachelor of Fisheries Science, B.Tech (Agriculture and Engineering) and B.Tech (Dairying). The university will offer two new courses, B.Tech (Food Science) and B.Sc (Commercial Agriculture and Business Management) at the college of Home Science, Bapatla, and College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, from the academic year 2003-04 with 40 seats each. Candidates from both BPC and MPC streams of Eamcet-2003 will be admitted in the ratio of 1:1.

5 to 10 times hike in pvt medical college fee likely

May 24, 2003: Hyderabad: Medical education in private medical colleges in Andhra Pradesh will be costlier from this academic year. The increase is likely to be five to 10 times over the present fee of Rs 15,000 per annum for free seats. A final decision on the exact increase will be known by the month end. To evolve a consensus on this thorny issue, the State Government has set up an eight-member committee. The panel comprises four officials and four representatives from the private medical colleges.

Of the total 2,975 medical seats in the 22 government and private colleges in the State, 1,475 are in 11 private colleges. Presently, the annual fee structure in private colleges is three tiers: seat – Rs 15,000, payment seat- Rs 90,000 and NRI seat - 10,000 US dollars (Rs five lakh). While 50% of the free seats and 35% of the payment seats being filled by Free Eamcet convenor, the last category is left to the managements. The management representatives have proposed a fee structure of Rs 2.30 lakh for fee seats with a 50% quota which will be filled by the Eamcet convenor and Rs 5 lakh for the remaining seats at their discretion.

BRAOU invites applications for Ph.D

May 24, 2003: Hyderabad: Dr. B R Ambedkar Open University (BRAOU) will issue application forms for admission to Ph.D in open distance education from May 26th. The application forms, rules and regulations can be downloaded from the website www.braou.ac.in. Candidates, who wish to apply for the Ph.D, require either an M.Phil, or Ph. D degree in any subject or should posses a second-class master’s degree in any subject with minimum of 55% at PG level, with at least two research publications in distance education. A candidate who has second class master’s degree in any subject with a 55% or more at PG level with one research publication in distance education and having three years experience in any distance education institution will also be accepted.

Medical colleges want 50% quota

May 24, 2003: Hyderabad: The Association of Andhra Pradesh private medical college has asked the government to fix 50% of the total medical seats as management quota with a fee of Rs 5 lakh for seat per annum. Outlining the reasons for the demand of fee hike, the expenditure incurred by the college was Rs 3.18 lakh per student every year. The study was conducted as per the direction of Medical Council of India and the Centre, in accordance with the judgement of the Supreme Court. Even the state government had conducted a study in 2001 and found that the cost of imparting medical education for the government per annum was Rs 3.51 lakh. In another study it was arrived at a figure ranging from Rs 3.4 lakh to Rs 4 lakh. The Supreme Court had directed that 75% of seats should be given to management with the right of admission and fee fixation and remaining 25% to be given to the government.

Counselling for medical PG courses put off

May 26, 2003: Hyderabad: The Siddhartha Medical College in Vijayawada has decided to postpone the counselling for admission into various PG medical courses following protests by students against the new norm of allotting seats under the College Development Quota. NTR University of Health Sciences registrar said that the next day for counselling would be notified shortly. In a recent notification issued by the Central Government, PG seats in the medical colleges have been increased with extra slot for CDQ, which was objected by the students on May 23 after the counselling began on May 19th. The Registrar clarified that the university was implementing the rule of reservation in PG medical courses. In the colleges under the Osmania University jurisdiction, out of nine increased seats in surgery groups, two would be reserved for development quota and in non-clinical group out of 21, four will be reserved.

Counselling for residential college admissions in June

May 26, 2003: Hyderabad: The counselling schedule for admission into the first year Intermediate (2003-04) course of the nine A.P Residential Junior College has been announced. The Andhra Pradesh Educational Institutions Society said that counselling for the three general colleges meant for open competition would be held on June 2 and 3. The counselling for MPC, RTVT and CGM Groups will be held on June 2 and BPC, CEC, and MEC Groups on June 3. Candidates for the counselling were selected purely on the basis of the rank secured in the group in respective of university region. The counselling for six A.P. Residential Junior Colleges is meant for students who studied in A.P. Residential Junior Colleges. The society informed that call letters were sent to eligible candidates and they were asked to report to the Principal of the concerned college at 10:00 AM on the above mentioned date.

New engineering colleges fail to meet AICTE norms

May 26, 2003: New Delhi: If you are thinking of sending your child to an engineering college, then here is a word of caution. Don’t get fooled by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) accreditation of the institutes. According to a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, each of the 171 new institutions that were audited failed on one or more pre-requisites of the AICTE. Over the last 5 years, the AICTE has approved 1,829 new institutions, of these only 171 were audited.

The deficiencies found by the audit team range from inadequate classroom size, absence of basic facilities, library and laboratory equipment, and often the faculty was yet to be identified and hired. The most common problem was the absence of faculty, while nearly 50% of the audited institutes had no proper library facilities. In most cases, the deficiencies were pointed out by the expert committees constituted by AICTE. The expert committee had categorically stated that approval could be given only from the following academic session, provided the inadequacies were rectified. But, the AICTE approved these institutions for the ensuing session, and no explanations were given. At a time when benchmarking of education has become a byword, it seems that the All India Council for Technical Education is doing little to promote quality or standards.

Conduction of NDA exams in regional languages

May 27, 2003: Hyderabad: The Congress Forum for Telangana has demanded the Centre to conduct the National Defence Academy examinations in regional languages. The Central government had recently decided to hold NDA exams in Hindi also from next year and had appointed a sub-committee to suggest the modalities for the purpose. This will benefit students from north India and will adversely affect the prospects of those from the South, who have little knowledge of Hindi. Students were allowed to appear for the civil service examinations conducted by the Union Public Service Commission in Regional languages. Similar should be the case in NDA, railway recruitment and other national level exams. The forum had sought permission from the police authorities to hold a dharna in front of Secretariat on May 29th. The CFT will go ahead with the proposed dharna even if the police deny the permission.

SVU all set to hold ICET-2003 exam tomorrow

May 27, 2003: Tirupati: All the arrangements are in the place for the conduct of ICET-2003 for admission into MBA/MCA courses. The examination will be held at 131 centres in 18 towns and cities from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM on May 28th. About 62,800 candidates are appearing for the admission test for which hall tickets have already been dispatched. Those who didn’t receive the hall-tickets can obtain the duplicate hall-ticket from the superintendents of the respective test centres. The draw for the set of the question paper will be held at 6:00 AM on May 28th.

Engineering colleges to offer PG courses

May 28, 2003: Hyderabad: With a view to make engineering colleges as advanced centres of learning, the state government decided to permit them to offer post graduate courses. According to sources in the technical education department, engineering colleges with a minimum of five to ten years standing would be permitted to offer Master of Science (M.Sc) courses in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. However, the only pre-condition is that the colleges should have required faculty and space to conduct classes. So far, the PG courses are offered by universities, affiliated and private colleges. This is for the first time that the engineering colleges have been permitted to start PG courses in non-engineering subjects. The colleges are required to get affiliation from the concerned university, which will conduct examinations and award degrees. The government has already permitted the engineering colleges to offer Master of Computer Applications (MCA). The Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education has been asked to conduct a feasibility study on each engineering college, before allowing them to start the PG courses.

Admissions to minority colleges headed for controversy

May 29, 2003: Hyderabad: Admissions to minority professional colleges in the State appear to be heading for a controversy with some colleges deciding to go in for counselling ahead of finalisation of the schedule by the government. The Planning Coordination and Monitoring Board for Minorities (PCBM) have decided to hold counselling on May 31 for the candidates who appeared for the MEMCET examination conducted by it. The PCBM, which has 12 engineering and two pharmacy colleges under its fold, has already despatched MEMCET rank cards to students intimating the date of counselling. They are asked to report for the counselling along with proof of Inter exam or 10+2, Eamcet (pass/fail), original MEMCET rank card and hall ticket. The All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) had clearly stated that it would honour only the entrance test conducted by the State agency for admission to professional courses. The JNTU also warned that colleges which do not go by Eamcet would lose their affiliation.

Change in Telugu University admission procedure

May 29, 2003: Potti Sriramulu Telugu University is doing away with the entrance examination for most of its courses from this year given the poor response. However selection of candidates would be done according to the rules laid down and which test the skills of the students in those particular fields. The applicants have been less than the seats in some courses which prompted the university to cancel the entrance test and admit the applicants based on the marks scored in the qualifying examination. However, courses like BCJ, MCJ and the Ph.D programmes would continue to have entrance examination for admission given their popularity. The university issued the notification for this year’s admissions and last date for submitting the applications is June 10 and June 21 with late fee.

86% candidates qualify ECET

May 30, 2003: Hyderabad: Nearly 12,445 candidates out of the 14,264 candidates, who appeared for the Engineering Common Entrance for Diploma holders – ECET (FDH) – 2003, have qualified, marking a pass %age of 86.75. For the first time, the ECET results will be available on Internet. The integrated rank would help the candidates seeking admission for B.Tech in information technology. Of the total 64,000 seats including the entrants through Eamcet, 10% would be for the late entrants and 5% for Polytechnic Diploma holders. Comparing to previous year, the pass %age is almost the same, but the number of candidates who had registered is less by 1,500. In the civil engineering branch, of the 1,492 candidates who appeared, 1,315 candidates qualified resulting in a pass %age of 88.14. In the electrical and electronics engineering branch the pass %age was 87.56.

Hotel management institute offers courses

May 30, 2003: Hyderabad: The Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and applied Nutrition is offering three courses, P.G. Diploma in Accommodation Operation and Management, Craftsmanship course in Food Production and Craftsmanship course in Food and Beverage Service this academic year. Applications are available at the institute and the last date for sale of applications is June 20 for other courses.

LPCET on July 8th

May 30, 2003: Kakinada: Common Entrance test for language pandits (LPCET-2003) will be held on July 8th. Candidates eligible for this test may obtain application forms from the head post office in Kakinada by paying Rs. 150 and personally submit them at the DEO’s office before June 8th. Candidates appearing for the examination should have completed 20 years by July 1st 2003. Educational qualifications for Telugu Pandit is B.A. (Literature), B.A. (OL), B.O.L., B.A. (optional Telugu), and M.A. Telugu. For the Hindi pandit post, Hindi as an optional subject in any degree course, B.O.L (Hindi) qualified in Praveen exam held by the Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachara Sabha and Vidwan exam held by the Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachara Sabha, Hyderabad is required.

Medical, Engineering classes from August

May 31, 2003: Thiruvananthapuram: The counselling for admission to the management quota in self-financing engineering courses in the Government sector, scheduled to commence on June 6th, has postponed to June 16th. To put at rest criticism and apprehension from the media and the public that counselling for the management quota in Government-owned self-financing colleges was being scheduled ahead of the counselling by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE) in order to help those institutions to secure students for management quota.

The counselling for admission to engineering seats, conducted by the CEE, will commence on June 9th and will be over on June 30th. Counselling for medical seats will commence on July 2nd and is expected to be over by July 15th. Classes for both engineering and medical courses are scheduled to commence on August 6th. Admissions for the engineering courses will be carried out for 17,199 seats. Of these 4,014 seats will be in 11 Government and three aided colleges. The number of seats in Government and university-run self-financing colleges will be 4,030, and the total number of seats in private self-financing colleges will be 9,140.

Mistake galores in ICET papers

May 31, 2003: Hyderabad: Triumphant Institute of Management Education (TIME) claimed that several errors had crept into the test papers of the ICET-2003 that was conducted recently. It pointed out mistakes of varied nature in 10 questions. There were either no correct answers or more than one correct answer among the multiple choices given. In the case of one question, the Telugu version gives the correct answer “while students who read the English version will not be able to answer it. According to TIME list, the question numbers that had no correct answers are 58, 82, 90, 125, 137 and those with more than one correct answer among the choices are 21, 81, 121 and 171.

 
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