Higher
Education in India has evolved in distinct and divergent
streams with each stream monitored by an apex body,
indirectly controlled by the Ministry
of Human Resource Development. The 433
universities/ institutions, are mostly funded by the state
governments. However, there are 40 important universities
called Central universities, which are maintained by the
Union Government and because of relatively large funding,
they have an edge over the others. The engineering education and business schools are
monitored and accredited by the All
India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) while
medical education is monitored and accredited by the Medical
Council of India (MCI). Like-wise, agriculture
education and research is monitored by the Indian
Council for Agriculture Research. Apart from these,
National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) controls all
the teacher training institutions in the country. The country has some ace engineering, management and
medical education institutions which are directly funded
by the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Union
Government. Admission to all professional education
colleges is done through all-India common admission tests
of which the IIT-JEE, AIEEE, CAT and CPMT are the most
popular ones. Most of the institutions reserve a small percentage of
seats for foreign students.
Meek
Sibal gets IIT, NIT bills passed
NEW DELHI : On April 30 the Rajya Sabha passed
two education bills -- by voice vote -- without which hundreds of passouts
from the newly established Indian Institutes of
Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and Indian
Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER)
would have gone without a valid degree. The bills were
approved by the Lok Sabha on March 24 last year.
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Search panel dragging
feet, UGC remains headless
NEW DELHI :
The
selection of the chairman of the University Grants
Commission (UGC) has been considerably delayed with the
three-member search committee dragging its feet.more
MHRD may have to postpone JEE reforms for two years
NEW
DELHI:The senate bodies of most IITs are of the opinion that the proposed reforms in IIT admissions
be postponed for at least two years hence the government may have to
put of JEE reforms till 2014.
more Govt wants rural posting to be must for MBBS
passouts NEW DELHI : On February 4 Health Minister stressed
on the need for making undergraduate medical studies a six-and-a-half
year course, making rural posting mandatory for all MBBS passouts.
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Medical Edu panel wants 29,000 medical seats more in 12th
Plan NEW DELHI : The standing committee on health has proposed adding 18,000
additional undergraduate medical seats, and nearly
11,000 post-graduate seats in the 12th Plan period.more
HYDERABAD :The Pharmacy Council of India (PCI)
is said to have blacklisted 37 colleges in Andhra Pradesh
for making excess admissions in violation of the PCI norms
and with the pretext that the AICTE has permitted them so.more
Quota
issue : Thapar under pressure
PATIALA:The screws are tightening on Thapar
University (TU) over its sudden — and secretive —
decision to drop the 50% quota for students from
Punjab in all its engineering courses, says a news
report published in Hindustan Times
Chandigarh.
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Kalyani
Mathivanan takes over at MKU
MADURAI: On
April 9 Kalyani Mathivanan, a professor of English took over as the Vice-Chancellor
of Madurai Kamaraj University here. She is the first lady
vice-chancellor
to head the university in the University's
46-year-old history.more
AICTE
to hold 2nd CMAT in Aug or Sept
MUMBAI: The Common Management
Admission Test (CMAT) will be held twice a year, with a
second testing window for the computer-based exam already
scheduled for August or September, the officiating
chairperson of the All India Council for Technical Education
(AICTE) Dr S S Mantha said here on March 6. more
