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College News Archive [March 2003]

ANGRAU to hold its convocation on March 11th

Mar 03, 2003: Hyderabad: The 35th annual convocation of the Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University will be held on March 11th at the University Auditorium, Rajendranagar. Surjit Singh Barnala, Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Chancellor of the University will confer the degrees. Sompal, Member Agricultural, Planning Commission, will deliver the convocation address. According to the university, 876 degrees of different disciplines will be conferred. 31 PhDs in agriculture, veterinary science and home science will also be conferred.

Eamcet may be must for minority colleges too

Mar 03, 2003: Hyderabad: The State government has firmed up its stand on enforcing certain threshold standards for admissions into professional colleges like engineering and medicine run by minority educational institutions. The common entrance tests conducted by universities may be made mandatory for all students. Already, a section of minority engineering colleges, affiliated to the Planning, Coordination and Monitoring Board, a non-governmental body, announced that they would conduct their own entrance test, parallel to the Eamcet, for admission on April 13th. But, the Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education (APSCHE) and the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), have announced that Eamcet would be held on April 26. All the universities in the state have passed statutory resolution making the Eamcet compulsory for admissions.

Engineering colleges, industry linkage stressed

Mar 03, 2003: Vijayawada: Education institutions should play their part for development of ‘dynamic engineering education’ system in the state. Participating in a seminar on ‘March towards dynamic engineering education’ organised by Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Prof. Aggarwal said proper coordination between the educational institutions, which were training the engineers and industries that hire them was essential in the era of globalisation and liberalisation. Corporate universities have come up everywhere and were functioning successfully. Their number crossed to 400 and were expected more than formal universities by 2010.

PG courses in private medical colleges soon

Mar 03, 2003: Khammam: The ministry for Medical and Health services, Kodela Shiva Prasada Rao said that the government was keen on giving permission for postgraduate courses and super specialities in private medical colleges. Inaugurating a conference of the Andhra Pradesh Academy of Forensic Medicine College, he said 20 more private medical colleges would come up in the State. Still there was need for more medical colleges. The state would require as many as 50,000 more doctors and could be met only by going in for more such institutions in the private sector. The faculty problem in the new colleges coming up could be solved by offering the postgraduate courses through the private medical colleges.

AIRC expo to showcase higher education in US

Mar 04, 2003: Hyderabad: The Public Affairs Office of the US Consulate General, Chennai will be organising an American Information Resource Centre (AIRC) Travelling Exhibition at Visakhapatnam on March 6th and 7th. The exhibition will feature a computer power point presentation on the resources and services of the AIRC along with a book exhibition, video corner and poster shows. The exhibition will also feature a display on different aspects of higher education in the United States. Staff from the United States Educational Foundation in India (USEFI) will be available to answer queries on higher education in the US. The AIRC provides the residents of South India with the latest and most accurate information about the US Government and its policies along with in-depth information about American values, history, culture and institutions.

JNTU to commence new courses

Mar 04, 2003: Hyderabad: The JNTU Centre for Spatial Information Technology (JNTU-CSIT) will offer three certificate courses, including a four- week part time integrated GIS and CAD, three-week digital photogrammetry and a two-week global positioning system course, from March 7th. The GIS course will cover state-of-the-art techniques of GIS, Arc View, Arc/Info, Auto Cad and 2D drafting modules.

Madhurai University exam schedule released

Mar 04, 2003: Hyderabad: The Madurai Kamaraj University study centre at Nampally has announced the schedule for the graduate, post-graduate and diploma examinations of the university. BA, B.Sc., B.Com., BBA and BCA examinations will commence from May 14th and MA, M.Sc., M.Com., MBM and MTM examinations from May 16th. B.Ed., M.Ed., B.Li.Sc. and M.Li.Sc from May 19th, diploma and PG diploma courses from May 22. The examination forms can be had from the study centre and the examination application forms will be accepted at the centre till March 10th.

College principals were asked to collect Inter hall tickets

Mar 05, 2003: Hyderabad: The Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) has informed all the junior college principals that the first and second year general and vocational college nominal rolls and hall tickets for the Intermediate Public Examinations – March 2003 have been sent to the respective regional inspection officers (RIO) or district vocational education officers (DVEOs). The junior college principals have been instructed to collect the nominal rolls and hall tickets from the RIOs or DVEOs on March 5th and distribute the same to the students from March 6th, by following the procedure in vogue. The students can also access the hall tickets directly from the website http://www.aponline.gov.in from March 7th.

ICFAI to set up universities

Mar 05, 2003: Chennai: The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) has plans to incur a capital expenditure of Rs 600-700 crores in the next ten years for setting up universities in different states and establishing facilities for imparting higher education. The institute had already established ICFAI University in Chattisgarh. Similarly it would be establishing universities in Orissa followed by Uttaranchal and Jharchand as these states were keen to have private universities. In the next five years atleast 15 state governments were planning to have autonomous universities, which would reduce pressure on Government Universities.

College staff on warpath

Mar 06, 2003: Hyderabad: The Joint Council of Action (JCA), a conglomerate of several teaching and non-teaching organisation of aided junior and degree college, has threatened to launch “non-cooperation movement” with regard to conduct of examinations, practicals and valuation of scripts, if their salaries are not released immediately. Stating that the government was meting out step-motherly treatment to them, they said apart from not paying salaries on time, they were also discriminated in extending service benefit. “The Government College lecturers are exempted from having NET/SLET while it has been made mandatory in the case of aided college lecturers. Mr. Sridhar Reddy demanded the government to extend leave rules and medical reimbursement to aided employees on par with government employees.

Last date for submission of applications has been extended

Mar 06, 2003: The last date for issue and submission of applications of eligibility test for admission into under graduate courses of B. R. Ambedkar Open University for the year 2003-04 has been extended up to March 18th. However, there is no change in the date of the eligibility test, which is scheduled to be held on April 13th all over the State.

Separate fee structure for unaided medical colleges

Mar 06, 2003: Chennai: The Government will announce in next few days a separate fee structure for unaided medical and paramedical colleges. Sources in the Health Department said admissions to professional colleges would hold good for unaided medical and para-medical colleges too. It is felt that the fee structure will have to be different and the government “advice” to unaided engineering colleges to fix the annual fee at Rs 30,000 cannot be applied to these institutions. Of the 207 medical and para-medical institutions in Tamil Nadu, 184 are unaided colleges, which even now follow a separate fee structure.

Inter exams to start on March 15th

Mar 07, 2003: Hyderabad: The Board of Intermediate Education announced that the Intermediate Public Examinations (IPE) will be held From March 15th to April 4th. The hall-tickets of the students will be available on www.aponline.gov.in from March 7th. First year students will have to enter the register number of SSC and then follow the instructions. Second year students will have to enter their first-year register numbers or previous year register number and then follow instructions. Students may verify the information in their hall-tickets provided on the website. The examination will be held at 136 centres in the twin cities. As many as 51,432 first year and 58,805 second year students will appear for the examination in the regular stream.

Anna University show-cause notices to 13 engineering colleges

Mar 07, 2003: Chennai: Anna University has issued show cause notices to 13 engineering colleges asking as to why they should not be disaffiliated for allowing a Chennai-based deemed university to open regional centres on their campuses in violation of rules. The notices were served on the Principals of the private engineering colleges by the university registrar. Since the colleges were granted affiliation by the Anna University all academic programmes offered by them would come under the economic purview of the university. A notice had been passed that if they failed to respond suo motu action would be taken to disaffiliate all the programmes offered by the institute.

Minority students told to take Eamcet

Mar 07, 2003: Hyderabad: The Zonal President of the Student’s Islamic Organisation of India, Abdul Hakeen, has urged minority students to take Eamcet conducted by the State Government for getting admissions into professional courses, as it is more meritorious and widely recognised. The present situation demanded an increase in contact between Muslim students and students of other communities. He urged the minority educational institutions to strive for a unified procedure rather than individual tests for each college.

SKU students call off relay fast

Mar 07, 2003: Kurnool: A high level team from Sri Krishnadevaraya University visited the PG centre in the wake of agitation by the students demanding autonomy for the centre. The students called off the relay fast after holding discussions with the university team. The team of officials looked into the 15 demands placed before it and positively responded. The team clarified that the university had no objection to the centre being upgraded to the level of an autonomous institution and would extend all cooperation for securing the status. The team also promised to intensify the efforts to realise Rs. 30 lakhs due to the PG centre from the Department of Technical Education towards the cost of building the site.

BRAOU offers free coaching

Mar 08, 2003: Hyderabad: Maxim News and Services, in association with Word Master computer Informatics Centre, are organising free intensive preparatory classes for students appearing for the entrance test being conducted by the B R Ambedkar Open University for Undergraduate courses.

GCTA-AP to hold dharna on March 13th

Mar 10, 2003: Hyderabad: The Government Colleges Teacher’s Association-AP (GCTA-AP) will hold dharna in front of the Directorate of Collegiate Education to protest the Government’s indifferent attitude to settle their long pending demands on March 13th. They said the government failed to fill up 80 vacant posts of the government degree college principals based on seniority of lecturers. They asked the government to give weightage to the past service of the tutors, demonstrators and lecturers for the purpose of Career Advancement Scheme. They also demanded direct recruitment to vacant posts and regularise the services of contract lecturers.

Lecturers treathen boycott of exams

Mar 10, 2003: Vijayawada: The Joint Council of Action (JCA) of affiliated college teaching and non-teaching staff associations has decided to observe March 20 as protest day and would launch a non-cooperation movement seeking immediate redressal of their grievances. JCA President P Govinda Swamy and general secretary G Sridhar Reddy said that the staff in all aided degree and junior colleges would boycott the examinations and other regular duties till the government concedes to their demands.

The demands of the JCA includes payment of salaries on the 1st of every month, regularisation of the services of the part time lecturers and non-teaching staff working in aided colleges, extension of grant-in-aid to junior and degree colleges opened before December 1990, special pay-scales to principals as per University Grants Commissions Recommendations and extension of medical reimbursement and other leaves on par with the government employees.

Plea to club Inter exam with entrance test

Mar 11, 2003: Hyderabad: The Muslim Educational Society, AP suggested conduct of the entrance test for admission into professional courses along with the Intermediate examination itself. The present practice of conducting the test before the result of the Intermediate examination is declared as undesirable and unwarranted, said MES President, Asif Pasha and the principal secretary, M.A Ahmed. They saw profit motive behind conduct of the entrance test before the qualifying examination was declared. During the Eamcet-2002 Government collected Rs. 82 lakhs from those who failed in the Intermediate examination. The executive committee of MES, felt permitting three modes of admissions in professional colleges had the effect of opening the Pandora’s box. It also felt that an independent board should be constituted to check the transparency of admissions made through the convenor.

ANGRAU students conferred degrees

Mar 12, 2003: Hyderabad: 876 students were conferred their degrees by the Governor, Surjit Singh Barnala, at the 35th annual convocation of the Archarya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University. Of these 592 were undergraduate students, 248 were Masters students and 36 conferred their doctorates. Five teachers, five research scientists and two extension scientists too were given awards for meritorious work.

B.Ed examinations to commence from March 27th

Mar 12, 2003: Hyderabad: The B.Ed examination in colleges under Osmania University will be held from March 27th. The last date for payment of the examination fee and submission of forms is March 20. The results of the B.Ed annual examination held in January 2003 had been released. Memoranda of marks may be collected from the colleges concerned and the last date for applying for recounting and revaluation in March 22.

Eamcet must for all BE colleges

Mar 12, 2003: Hyderabad: The All India Council for Technical Education has directed all the engineering colleges in the country including the minority institutions to follow the state- conducted entrance tests as base for admission of students into the engineering course. The AICTE has formulated and communicated to all states the interim policy regulations following the recent Supreme Court order on admissions and fee structure. The AICTE regulations came as a boost to State Government’s efforts to bring in all the engineering colleges under the purview of Eamcet. Some minority colleges have already announced separate test for admission questioning the State’s authority to make Eamcet mandatory. The AICTE also directed the states to fix a uniform fee for all categories as stipulated by the apex court.

HC suspended single judge order on new engineering colleges

Mar 13, 2003: Hyderabad: A Division Bench of the AP High Court suspended the order of the single judge where in the State Government as well as All Indian Council For Technical Education were directed to consider the applications made for setting up of new engineering colleges in the State. The State Government on a representation made by existing colleges declared that no more new colleges will be allowed. The AICTE followed it up with new amended regulations.

Health University admissions

Mar 13, 2003: Hyderabad: Selections to fill the increased seats in the post-graduate medical courses and the vacancies for the year 2002-03 would be held at the office of NTR University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada shortly. A detailed notification would be issued in due course, according to University registrar.

ICFAI sets last date for its courses

Mar 13, 2003: Hyderabad: ICFAI University has set March 31st as last date for admissions to its various distance learning courses. The ICFAI offers Masters in Business Administration (MBA), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Risk and Insurance Manager (C-RIM), Certified Bank Manager (CBA), Certified Treasury Manager (CTM), Certified Investment Banker (CIB), Certified Portfolio Manager (CPM), Global Strategic Manger (GSM), MBA foundation course, CFA Foundation Course, CPA Foundation Course, C-RIM Foundation Course.

OU degree exams from March 21st

Mar 13, 2003: Hyderabad: The annual exams of BA, B.SC., B.Com., B.S.W., vocational (I, II and III year), B.R.S (II and III year) and B.Com (CDE and open university system) and B.Com Hons (I, II and III year) of Osmania University will commence from March 21st. About 90,000 candidates in B.Sc., 85,000 in B.Com and 30,000 in BA will appear for the exams to be held at 72 cities and 55 district centres. The Principals of all degree colleges are advised to contact the Controller of Exams, OU, and collect hall tickets and time-tables for their candidates from March 15th. Under the CDE and open university system, hall tickets will be dispatched to candidates directly by the Director, PGRR Centre for Distance Education, OU. Candidates who have not received their hall tickets can obtain them by submitting a DD for Rs 25 drawn in the favour of the Controller of Exams. For further details log on to www.ourresults.com.

Aided college teachers threaten non-cooperation

Mar 14, 2003: Hyderabad: The Joint Council of Action representing about 20,000 teaching and non-teaching staff of the aided degree and junior colleges in the State have threatened not to cooperate with the government in the conduct of Intermediate and degree examinations, valuation and practicals from March 20th. The treat was in protest against non-payment of salaries to the staff during the last three months. The demands include exempting the teachers from the national eligibility test/State-level eligibility test on par with Government college teachers, reckoning of unaided service for the career advancement scheme, payment of UGC arrears and pension, increments, regularisation of part-time lecturers and admission to unaided colleges to grant-in-aid.

APSCHE to extend the last date

Mar 14, 2003: Hyderabad: The A.P State Council of Higher Education has extended the last date for receipt of applications for setting up new degree colleges, under-graduate and post-graduate courses in private affiliated colleges upto March 22nd. This was in view of representation received from managements of the colleges and requests made by universities as according to a council.

Inter evaluation to be streamlined

Mar 14, 2003: Hyderabad: The state government plans to streamline the evaluation procedure for this year’s Intermediate examinations. Ruling out any moderation this year, minister for Higher Education N Md Farroq said that only if a candidate needed one or two grace marks would moderatly be considered. “We will try to ensure uniformity in results and have introduced a basic scheme for evaluation" he said. Nearly 12.5 lakh students will take the examinations, which begin on March 15th. Hall tickets have already been dispatched to the respective centres. Every preventive step was taken to control malpractices.

Counselling for B.Ed to begin this month

Mar 15, 2003: Hyderabad: The counselling for admitting students into the new B.Ed colleges will begin later this month. The Andhra Pradesh State Higher Education is making arrangements for conducting the counselling here and the students will be given choice to choose among the colleges, based on their ranking in the Education Common Entrance Test. The National Council for Technical Education (NCTE) accorded permission to establish 56 more B.Ed colleges in the state, taking the total number of colleges to 145. In all, about 14,000 B.Ed seats are available in the colleges, most of which are coming up in private sector. Though the NCTE initially refused to accord permission to start new colleges, the state government has put pressures on the council to sanction the permits.

Expert panel visits 13 colleges

Mar 15, 2003: Hyderabad: As part of the exercise of grading professional educational institutes in the state, the Visiting Expert Committee (VEC) has visited 13 engineering colleges. Visits to 19 more are on the anvil. Visit to these institutions will be completed by the month-end. Termed Academic Audit and Grading (AAG), the grading exercise began on February 27th with the first batch inspecting six engineering colleges. The five-member committee visiting each college will be headed by the higher education or technical education official at the national level with four faculty members from prominent colleges. The aim of such an exercise would be to know whether quality education is being imparted to students. The colleges will be graded on the basis of quality standards.

Free coaching programme for minorities

Mar 17, 2003: Centre for Educational Development of Minorities, Osmania University has invited applications from candidates belonging to minority communities for admission into the free coaching programme for Eamcet- 2003 from April 1st to 23rd. Interested candidates may submit their application along with self-addressed stamped envelope at Nizam College, Hyderabad on or before March 31st.

Portal for engineering colleges

Mar 18, 2003: Hyderabad: A unique portal, www.apecinfo.com that carries information about various engineering institutions in the state, has been launched at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University. The website and a book published by BBL publications gives comprehensive information about 216 colleges. The All-India Council of Technical Education had come forward to give 1.5 crore to self-sponsored programmes of the university. JNTU registrar Rami Reddy suggested that the website should also include information such as about the application procedures for application of GATE exams related subjects.

All set for Catalysis

Mar 20, 2003: Hyderabad: University College of Technology, Osmania University will organise catalysis 2003, the college’s annual youth festival from March 20 to 22. As part of this the students have taken-out a pre-event motor-bike rally to publicise the event. The programme, comprising both culturally and literally events, will be platform for exchange of ideas. The events include vocals and antakshari in Telugu and Hindi, quiz, treasure hunt campaigning (ad-making), painting and cartooning, collage, mock press conference apart from a 75,000-watt juke box, choreography and others.

Plea to extend last date for Eamcet

Mar 20, 2003: Hyderabad: With the last date for applying for the Eamcet-2003 ending on March 15th, several minority students failed to apply given the confusion over the eligibility factor for gaining admission into minority colleges. As some minority colleges had spread the news that Eamcet was not a pre-requisite for entry into minority engineering colleges and they would have to take a separate entrance test, several students failed to apply for Eamcet. They were shocked after seeing a directive from the All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE), which made it clear that Eamcet was necessary for admission into Engineering and medical colleges. Minority students who failed to apply are now seeking extension of the last date so that they could apply for Eamcet.

Telugu University to hold convocation

Mar 20, 2003: Hyderabad: The eighth convocation of the Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University will be held on March 21st at Ravindra Bharathi. Governor Surjit Singh Barnala will be the chief guest and would confer degrees and diplomas to students. At the function, historian and scholar Gadiyaram Ramakrishna Sarma, novelist and poet Boya Jangaiah will be conferred honorary degree of D.Litt. University vice-chancellor Prof G V Subrahmanyam will present a report on various activities of the institutions.

ICFAI launches college of education

Mar 21, 2003: Hyderabad: The ICFAI University announced the launch of the “ICFAI College of Education (ICE)”, and its first offering, a one-year full-time B.Ed program. Vedantam Ravi, Senior Manager, ICFAI University said that the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) was recently declared a University by the Government of Chattisgarh, and can now confer degrees at the bachelor, master and doctoral levels. Eligibility for B.Ed programme is Graduation and admissions will be based on an admission test (written) to be held at six centres in the State on May 11th. The last date for submission of applications is April 30th.

Rs. 15 crore released for B.C. Scholarships

Mar 21, 2003: Hyderabad: The State Government has released an additional Rs. 15 crores towards distribution of post-matric scholarships to backward class students for 2002-03. The government released Rs. 18 crores earlier to meet the scholarship bill. The A.P Backward Classes Welfare Association, demanded Rs. 20 crore from the government for cent % coverage of students under the scheme. He said 33 crores released during the year would cover only 65% students. There was a danger of the remaining 35 % students discontinuing studies under the impact of drought if they did not get the scholarship.

Students organisations seek fee waiver

Mar 21, 2003: Hyderabad: Eight student and youth organisations said that they will sit on relay at Indira Park on March 30th in support of the agitation of nine left parties demanding drought relief measures. The AIYF, DYFI, PYL, NYS, AISF, SFI, PDSU and AIDSO leaders said fee should be waived in the drought-affected area. They wanted involvement of youngsters in the FFW scheme, provision of drinking water, completion of pending projects and providing each student 20 Kg of rice per month.

Decision on late applications for Eamcet soon

Mar 22, 2003: Hyderabad: The government has ruled out the request for the extension of the last date for submitting applications for Eamcet-2003 by managements of minority institutions, which was March 10th. A committee would decide on the acceptance of the late applications from the minority students with the fine of Rs 1,000. “None had been barred from applying for Eamcet-2003 for admission to the 205 colleges offering professional courses and if the minority students had applied only to the 12 colleges which called for a separate entrance test, it was their choice,” as according to Eamcet Chairman Prof. Y Venkatrami Reddy. A committee would examine the genuine applicants and decide on accepting or rejecting the applications with late fee of Rs 1000.

Directive to medical and dental colleges

Mar 22, 2003: Hyderabad: The Minister for Health, Kodela Sivaprasada Rao, has asked medical and dental colleges, which got essentially certificates, to start classes by next year. In a meeting with managements of private medical colleges and dental colleges in the State, he said the government gave essentiality certificates to 17 dental colleges and 16 medical colleges and they would start the courses by the next academic year.

NIIT programme on Oracle

Mar 22, 2003: Hyderabad: The National Institute of Information Technology will soon start a training programme in Oracle Technologies in association with Oracle. The programme will provide quality training in the latest Oracle Technology software, Oracle 9i database and application through the 70 NIIT centres across the country. NIIT will offer more than 30 courses in Oracle 9i and associated products. Apart from their own centres, the Centres for Advanced Technology Studies will offer the programme.

BRAOU extends re-enrolment facility for old students

Mar 24, 2003: Hyderabad: The B.R. Ambedkar Open University has introduced re-enrolment facility for old students who were on the rolls between 1983-84 and 1994-95 for various under-graduate/post-graduate/MBA/diploma courses, but could not complete their studies within the stipulated period. The facility will be available for one year, March 31, 2004. The university stated that the re-enrolment facility is applicable to those students who had already paid the total tuition fee for the course.

Eamcet candidate's interests to be protected

Mar 24, 2003: Hyderabad: The State will take steps to protect the interest of students in the context of the uncertain situation prevailing before the Eamcet, according to C. Subba Rao, Chairman, AP State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE). He said that the court is ignoring the fact that minority institutions were fleecing students by collecting exorbitant fee, although spending one-fourth of the ideal amount on the infrastructure. He further said that the state had a definite role to play in taking care of the interests of both students and college managements

Government urged to extend Eamcet application date

Mar 24, 2003: Hyderabad: The Federation of Andhra Pradesh Minority Educational Institutions has appealed to the state government to extend the date for applying for Eamcet by minority students, in view of the All-India Council of Technical Education order coming after the last date. Zafar Jaweed, general secretary of the federation said that the minority students were not barred from applying for the Eamcet and that it was their choice if they preferred to apply for the entrance test called by 12 engineering colleges. Twelve of the colleges had decided to conduct their own common entrance test, while the rest had resolved to finalise the admission on the basis of the qualifying examination.

Directive to new B.Ed colleges

Mar 25, 2003: Hyderabad: The managements of 132 new B.Ed colleges, which have been approved by the SRC-NCTE for the year 2002-03 located in the six university areas of the State, have been asked to collect the original documents concerning their colleges issued by the NCTE from the office of the Commissioner of School Education, Hyderabad. The AP State Council of Higher Education directed them to approach the university concerned to seek affiliation to their college of education immediately.

Eamcet exam questions pruned to 160

Mar 25, 2003: Kurnool: This year Eamcet exam would have only 160 questions as against 200 last year, according to Eamcet chairman Y Venkatrami Reddy. He said that the number of questions was reduced since students have been claiming that the stipulated 180 minutes time was not sufficient to answer the 200 questions. He further said that the question papers will be more analytical and students should answer the questions after thorough analysis. The Eamcet chairman said 1.76 lakh students were appearing this year and of them 41,000 were competing in medicine stream. He added that 1.98 lakh students appeared in last year’s exam.

Minority institution's call for legislation

Mar 25, 2003: Hyderabad: The convention on “Supreme Court’s verdict on minority institutions and its implications”, organised by the ABVP on March 23, demanded that the Centre and the States come out with legislation on the verdict incorporating its spirit. The ABVP national general secretary, Ramesh Pappa said that the admission policy should be fair, transparent and on the basis of merit. While fixing fee, there should not be any scope for profiteering and interest of weaker sections must be protected. The common entrance test and single window system for admission must be followed.

OU considering semester system in affiliated PG colleges

Mar 25, 2003: Hyderabad: Osmania University is contemplating introducing semester system in the affiliated colleges offering P.G. courses as well as the district P.G. centres from the next academic year. Currently, it is being implemented only in 12 campus and constituent colleges. Discussions with regard to the extension of the semester system to these institutions took place at the last academic senate meeting and the proposal was welcomed by majority of members. It was decided to constitute a committee of senior teachers and administrators to study the issue and its implications before taking a decision.

December salary released for aided colleges

Mar 26, 2003: Hyderabad: The Joint Council of Action of Aided Degree College has announced that the Government has released salary for December 2002 and promised “expeditious steps” to release salaries for January and February 2003. The JCA said that consequent to their dharna on February 28 and plan to start “non-cooperation programme” from March 20, the Government was forced to enter into negotiations with them regarding their demands. They have deferred the “non-cooperation programme” that salaries for December 2002 would be released immediately and the other two months salary will be released soon.

Eight students debarred for cheating

Mar 26, 2003: Rajahmundry: Eight students taking Intermediate second year examination were debarred for resorting to copying on Tuesday. Intermediate Board regional inspecting officer, Venkateshwara Rao said that three students appearing for Zoology and other taking History examination were debarred. Similarly, two girl students appearing for Zoology and Mathematics examinations were debarred. Three more students were debarred in similar cases. He said that strict inspection is being taken to avoid all such sort of actions.

Law on minority institutes sought

Mar 26, 2003: Hyderabad: The ABVP has urged the state government to enact legislation on minority education institutions to implement the Supreme Court judgement in letter and spirit. The Parishad also demanded the government to see to it that the guidelines framed by the AICTE for the engineering colleges were implemented as early as possible.

JNTU to seek national accreditation

Mar 27, 2003: Hyderabad: The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), the first university in the country to introduce online electronic examination system, is all set to go for national accreditation. JNTU vice-chancellor, Dr Y Venkatrami Reddy said that a total of 13,473 students who have completed their undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in engineering, science, pharmacy and architecture will be awarded degrees. This year, four post-graduate and two under-graduate courses will be introduced and the possibilities of collaboration with the foreign universities will be explored. The university will go for the national accreditation by NAAC (National Academic Accreditation Council).

115 Inter students booked

Mar 28, 2003: Hyderabad: Over 115 students are booked for malpractice in the senior Intermediate Physics, Economics, Classical Language and Vocational papers. With this total number of students booked for malpractice has gone to 1214. About 5.2 lakh regular students and 15,000 vocational students had appeared for the examination.

CEE to accept complaints regarding MBBS admissions

Mar 28, 2003: Thiruvananthapuram: The Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE) will accept complaints from students and public regarding admissions to MBBS course made by the Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Thiruvalla, and the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church Medical College, Kolanchery this year. A five-member inquiry commission had been constituted by the Government, with the CEE as the chairman, to probe the complaints. Complaints can be submitted to the office of the CEE before April 2, by post.

OU presents deficit budget

Mar 28, 2003: Hyderabad: Osmania University presented its second consecutive deficit budget to the Academic Senate projecting a deficit of Rs 10.84 crores for 2003-04. The deficit has been mainly attributed to the cut in Government grants. The universities projected revenues of Rs 80.30 crores while the expenditure was estimated at Rs 91.14 crores, thus leaving the deficit of Rs 10.84 crores. The gap would be plugged with funds, to be released by the Government for paying the arrears of revised UGC payscales. The vice-chancellor, J. Ananthaswamy said that some academic changes will be introduced from next year. This include doing away with autonomy given to the university and constituted colleges, extending semester system to affiliated colleges and reverting the common entrance test for seven arts college.

SFI seeks probe into question bungle

Mar 28, 2003: Hyderabad: The Students Federation of India has demanded a probe into out off syllabi questions finding a place in question papers during the SSC and Intermediate public examinations. In a statement, T. Sagar, State Secretary, said that students were being put to great emotional stress due to this. Giving an example of Physics question paper for the 10th class had such questions and for that they demanded grace marks for such question papers.

e-Classromms at OU from next year

Mar 29, 2003: Hyderabad: Osmania University (OU) is all set to develop electronic classrooms with Computer and Internet facilities from the next academic year. The university will also get two new buildings for the academic complex and also another building for the girl’s hostel. The electronic classrooms will provide an interactive learning platform for the students and such a facility would help students widen and update their knowledge better. As the capacity of the girls hostel has become inadequate, plans are afoot to construct a building, which can accommodate an additional of 250 students.

Failed Inter students can appear in June

Mar 29, 2003: Hyderabad: In a move that would benefit the student community, the Board of Intermediate Education decided to permit all the second year failed students who did not register for the March 2003 examinations to appear for the advanced supplementary examinations, scheduled to begin in the second week of June. As per the existing norms, only those candidates who have registered for intermediate public examinations that began in March were eligible to appear for the advanced supplementary examinations. The candidate should submit the ICR application along with the required fees to the Principal of the college last registered.

Foreign students flock to Osmania

Mar 29, 2003: Hyderabad: A steady flow of applicants from foreign students for admissions to various courses offered by the Osmania University Foreign Relations Office (UFRO) has the university’s authorities looking forward to having students from more than 50 nations studying in the city in the next academic year. The number of foreign students seeking admissions has been steadily increasing over the years. This year, 438 students from 41 countries were admitted for the university. So far, 90 applications have been received from 43 countries and the number of students seeking admissions is expected to touch at least 500. The last date for receipt of such applicants is August 31st.

OU decision on autonomy welcomed

Mar 29, 2003: Hyderabad: Osmania University’s decision to withdraw the academic autonomy of its constituent colleges has been welcomed by the Osmania University Teachers Association (OUTA). The decision was disclosed by the OU vice-chancellor after the university’s budget presentation. Autonomy was granted earlier to three off-campus constituent colleges, including Nizam College, PG College, Saifabad and Women’s college, Koti and two within the campus including the Arts College and the Science College, when the university was headed by Prof. D C Reddy. Autonomy was restricted to academic matters, particularly for the post-graduate programmes at these colleges.

BIE extends date

Mar 31, 2003: Hyderabad: The Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) has extended the last date for the sale of Form-II and Form-III applications to April 15 and the last date for receipt of applications to April 16th. The decision was in view of the representations received from the private college management association. 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 Commissioner and Secretary.

Examinations to be postponed

Mar 31, 2003: Hyderabad: The Osmania University has announced the postponement of the “Pre-Ph.D Examinations in the Science faculty” It is scheduled from March 31st and April 3rd, 2003. The new dates will be announced as early as possible.

Minorities group hails verdict on lecturer posts

Mar 31, 2003: Hyderabad: The Minorities Rights Protection Committee has hailed the High Court verdict upholding the right of the State Minorities Commission to entertain specific complaints of bias from individuals or groups belonging to minority communities. The Committee President, Md. Fasiuddin, dismissed the writ petition filed by the Registrar, Osmania University, which questioned the jurisdiction of the commission interfering in matters of selection/appointment of teachers in the university, which was an autonomous body. The protection committee and the applicants for the posts of lecturers in linguistics and Urdu had complained to the minority commission alleging the university authorities bias in not complying with G.O. No. 1140.

NISA conducts courses on disaster preparedness

Mar 31, 2003: Hyderabad: The National Industrial Security Academy (NISA) has conducted several courses on Disaster Preparedness and Response programmes for officers of paramilitary forces. The multiple training courses organised jointly by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC), Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and the Ministry of Home Affairs concluded. The courses included Medical First Responders (MFR) and Collapsed Structure Search and Rescue (CSSR) as part of the Disaster Preparedness and Response Programme. These course train manpower who work at the ground level as first responders to efficiently mitigate disasters.

 
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