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    Deemed Universities have Promised to Implement Reservations

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    Deemed Universities have Promised to Implement Reservations

    News channels have recently carried reports claiming that certain unaided deemed universities have promised to implement reservations for SC/ST and OBC in which BITS-Pilanis name was mentioned. However, the institute claims that it has submitted a note to the Ministry of Human Resource Development expressing its views on reservations. According to BITS, merit must be the only criterion for admissions so as to ensure homogenous input into the higher education system. It believes that provisions must be made at schools to give special coaching so that all students can compete at par.

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Deemed Universities can start new courses without UGC approval

Date 2006-07-21 Information The University Grant Commission (UGC) has announced a concession to the deemed universities (DUs) of the country allowing them to start new courses without taking prior permission from it. The commission had previously forbidden these institutes to start such courses without seeking approval from the regulatory authority. But the present decision is taken to empower the deemed universities by introducing new courses and increasing their intake capacity. According to the communication paper issued by the UGC, it has said that its approval is not required to start new courses in deemed universities. However the universities will

Tech courses by deemed varsities come under court radar

Tech courses by deemed varsities come under court radar Taking serious note over the offering of degrees in technical courses by the off-campus centres of deemed universities operating in the state, the High Court in Jammu has issued a notice to the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the government asking them to clarify their position as to whether the institutions have been authorized by the governing bodies to start these courses and are well equipped to offer such education. The division bench of the court comprising Chief Justice, Justice BA Khan and Justice JP Singh while raising question mark over

Foreign Univ Bill 06 gets GoM okay

Foreign Univ Bill 06 gets GoM okay A group of ministers met Wednesday to consider the Regulation of Foreign University Entry and Operation (Maintenance of Quality and Prevention of Commercialisation) Bill, 2006, and cleared it. It will now have to be presented for Cabinet approval. Probably, it will also need to be cleared by the United Progressive Alliances coordination committee with its Left allies, who have already declared their opposition to foreign investment in the education sector. The bill would pave the way for foreign universities to enter India. They would have to enter India as deemed-to-be universities. As things stand

UGCS Approval

drawing flak from the union minister of Human Resource Development (HRD) and the university Grants Commission (UGC) for flouting guidelines, institutes across the country with deemed to be university status are now under the scanner, with a UGC order not just making it mandatory for them to seek prior approval before launching new courses or increasing the intake of students but also warning them of random quality checks at any time. A recent UGC notification to vice- chancellors of deemed to be universities states that they were flouting guidelines pertaining to admissions, fees and introduction

ABVP opposes admission policy

Date 2006-07-25 Information The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishat (ABVP) has urged the State Government not to implement the new admission policy for the postgraduate courses in universities until preparatory steps are taken. Addressing presspersons here on Monday, Prabhudev Kappagal, state unit secretary of the ABVP, said the organisation was against any move to implement the new admission policy without holding discussions with teachers, educational experts and student organisations. Under the new admission policy approved by the Inter-University Board, 50 per cent of the total seats would be offered to the students of various colleges affiliated to the university. Of

Health university counselling commences today

Source The Hindu Date 2005-07-18 Information The NTR University of Health Sciences will implement the 5 per cent quota (drawn from general category of seats) for Muslims in the online counseling for admission into MBBS/BDS courses, beginning at Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Tirupati for EAMCET rankers at 8.30 a.m. on Sunday. With this, the total reservations will reach 51 per cent, which goes against the Supreme Court order that reservations should not cross 50 per cent. During the medical counselling, the composition of reservations in percentage terms will be SCs -15, STs -6, BC (A) - 7, BC (B)

IITs face huge faculty crunch

The senior faculty at the IITs is toying with suggestions to attract and retain quality faculty. With 54 per cent expansion in existing IITs coupled with six new IITs taking off from this year, the faculty crunch is perhaps the biggest challenge for the institutes. IIT Bombay faculty affairs dean Devang Khakhar says the existing and new IITs would need about 3,000 faculty members in the next five years. Firstly, like all the other US universities, IIT faculty could get an annual compensation payable for 10 months. The remaining two months could be utilised for research work and industry-sponsored projects.

Rajasthan Vidyapeeth Deemed University Udaipur :Result PBCDT

Rajasthan Vidyapeeth Deemed University Udaipur :Result PBCDT 2004 Go to http://www.jrnrvpu.org/results/pbcdt.htm to see the complete list of result. Contact Information Janardan Rai Nagar Rajasthan Vidyapeeth ( Deemed ) University Pratap Nagar, Airport Road Udaipur - 313003 ( Rajasthan ) Phone: + 91 294 2490040, 2429441,2491104 Fax: +91 294 2492440 E-Mail: info@jrnrvpu.org

Convocation Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT)

Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT), deemed university organised its second annual™ Convocation on March 10. It has recently been accorded the status of a deemed university by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. (Online Resources )

Issue of IIT status for engg. colleges still open

Colleges being given IIT status or the status of other national institutions have to allow half the seats to be filled from all-India quota. Hence the State Government has suggested to the Ministry of HRD and UGC to allow the intake to be doubled so that the local candidates would be left with the same number of seats, said Chairman of AP State Council of Higher Education K.C. Reddy here on Sunday. OU was worried that half the seats in its engineering college would not be available to local students but it was ready to accept the status if the intake

Education bill to be introduced soon

There is a glimmer of hope for students who pursue professional courses in private colleges and in deemed universities. The Centre is planning to bring in the long-awaited legislation on the admission and fee structure in private professional institutions. A draft bill the private educational institutions has been prepared and circulated to states and members of the Central Advisory Board for Education for comments. The comments are expected within a month, and the government hopes to introduce the final legislation in Parliament within a month and half. That would be the winter session of Parliament. The provisions would be applicable

PM promises meeting on IIT faculty quota

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today publicly assured IIT Guwahati director Gautam Barua that he would personally discuss with cabinet colleagues the institutes’ demand for exemption from faculty quotas. This is the first time that the Prime Minister, who is a Rajya Sabha MP from Assam, has hinted that he was open to a debate on the implementation of faculty quotas at premier educational institutions like the IITs. Addressing students and faculty at IIT Guwahati today, the Prime Minister said he had taken note of “the point that Gautam Barua has made with regard to the reservation issue”. “I (will)

Long-awaited Education Bill To Be Introduced Soon

Here comes a glimmer of hope for students who pursue professional courses in private colleges and in deemed universities. The Centre is planning to bring in the long-awaited legislation on the admission and fee structure in private professional institutions. A draft bill the private educational institutions has been prepared and circulated to states and members of the Central Advisory Board for Education for comments. The comments are expected within a month, and the government hopes to introduce the final legislation in Parliament within a month and half. That would be the winter session of Parliament. The provisions would be applicable

Top institutes in queue for the education cityAdd to Clippings

Top institutes in queue for the education cityAdd to Clippings With a hundred-acres education city coming up at Sarangpur, the UT Administration has received at least 25 applications from various reputed institutions wanting to open their branches here. Topping the list are institutions and deemed universities such Amity, Thapar and All India Management of DAVs, besides certain foreign institutions and universities. The administration plans to allot land to institutions imparting high-end courses and training. The education city will have world class institutions, auditorium and facilities pertaining to sports and health. More : timesofindia.indiatimes.com

HRD ministry considering changes in Science course

The University Grants Commission is working on a module to make live research part of undergraduate courses and interaction between scientific institutes and university students mandatory for the postgraduate studies. The initiative is part of the ministrys decision to improve the scientific research in universities and colleges. The ministry has approved the recommendations of a task force headed by Prof.M.M.Sharma. According to the ministry, the UGC has already decided to make scientific research part of undergraduate courses. Universities are being asked to revise the syllabus to incorporate the new initiatives .The commission is also making changes to the National Eligibility

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