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  • 6,000 more MBA seats on offer for AP students.

    In the ensuing academic year, an additional 6,000 MBA seats will be on offer for the students in Andhra Pradesh that already has 78,000 seats in 971 MBA colleges. The All India Council for Technical Education has decided to permit 10 new MBA colleges in the state this year and to enhance the intake in another 200 existing colleges.

    However, there will be no change in MCA seats this year as there were no applications to set up new colleges or for enhancing the intake. The AP State Council of Higher Education is planning to conduct ICET counselling for admissions to MBA and MCA courses in the first week of July. The counselling will be totally web-based. A total of 1,26,454 students have qualified in ICET this year, while the total seats available in both MBA and MCA courses are 1,28,488, which means nearly 2,000 seats will go vacant even if all the students are admitted. The state currently has 713 MCA colleges with an intake of 50,148 seats. Last year, there were no admissions in nearly 100 MCA colleges, and admissions were in single digits in another 200 colleges. College managements fear that nearly 300 of the 713 MCA colleges will face closure.

    Source :     DC

  • Colleges vie for ‘deemed’ status.

    After a gap of two years, the “deemed universities” have come back into focus. Several top engineering colleges in the state are vying for the “deemed” status and have submitted applications to the University Grants Commission. The UGC had stopped processing deemed university applications from 2009, based on a report submitted by the Tandon committee, which blacklisted 44 deemed universities across the country, including the one in Andhra Pradesh — Vignan University — for failing to comply with the norms on faculty and infrastructure.

    However, the UGC has recently re-opened the process of examining the deemed varsity applications. This is reportedly due to “political pressure” from the managements. The move came as a surprise, given that the case of prospective blacklisting of 44 deemed universities is still pending with the Supreme Court. These institutions are desperate to acquire a deemed status, to enjoy autonomy in matters of admission and fees. Interestingly, all these institutes are professional colleges that offer engineering, pharmacy, MBA and MCA courses.

    There is a huge demand for these courses in the state, and certain institutions are frantically trying to obtain “deemed” status. Prominent among these are CBIT, Gokaraju Rangaraju, JBIT, MNR, Srinidhi, St. Mary’s and RGIT-Nandyal. Many of these institutions are considered among the top 10 engineering institutes in the state. Apart from them, the Sweekar Rehabilitation Institute, Secunderabad, Gayatri Vidya Parishad, Montessori Mahila Kalasala and Pulla Reddy Engineering college had also applied for “deemed” status.

    The expert committees of UGC and AICTE completed the inspection process of all these institutes in 2008 and 2009 and recommended them for the “deemed” status. Even the state government issued a No Objection Certificate (NOC) for this purpose. When the stage was set for according a formal “deemed” status to these institutions during the academic year 2009-10, the scenario changed with Mr Kapil Sibal taking over as the HRD minister from Mr Arjun Singh. Mr Sibal ordered a high-level enquiry into all the “deemed” universities and also directed the UGC to keep the new applications on hold.

    Source : DC

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