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  • Girls dominate boys in Inter 1st year.

    HYDERABAD: Pass percentage of students in the first year of the Intermediate Public Examinations (IPE) has gone up by 3.65 per cent compared to IPE-2010.

    The results of the Intermediate first year were announced by minister for secondary education, K Parthasarathi here on Thursday. The overall pass percentage for regular courses in IPE-2010 was 48.56%, while this year, it has climbed to 52.21%, the minister said. A total of 8.5 lakh candidates had appeared for the examination, which was conducted from March 7.

    Students of government junior colleges too improved their performance in the public examination this year with 41.62% of them clearing the test, compared to last year’s figures of 37.27%.

    While girls continued their dominance over boys. A total of 56.61% girl students cleared the exam this year while the boys returned with a slightly lesser percentage of 45.85%.

    Over 1.6 lakh students got A grade (above 75% marks) in the state, the minister said. Students from the city, also fared well when compared to the previous year with a pass percentage of 52%.

    Speaking at the results release function, minister K Parthasarathi said that government will try to improve the pass percentage of students in the coming academic year. “There will be programmes and measures introduced to improve the pass percentage. We are, however, glad that the percentage of students has been increasing since the past two years by an average of 2.5 per cent,” the minister said.

    Ironically, this year, the state government had published the marks of students, who cleared IPE as against the rules of grading. “While grading was introduced to prevent college managements from publicising their results for future admissions and to bring down pressure on students. This year, four government websites have displayed marks along with grades. Colleges have also advertised their `rank’ holders,” said an official from BIE. However, since the marks were displayed by only a few select websites, students were seen queuing up before the e-seva centres for a quick look at their marks lists.

    Advanced supplementary examinations for failed candidates will be held on May 27. The last date of payment of examination fee for this examination is May 3.

    Source : TOI

  • More Intermediate seats than SSC pass outs.

    More Intermediate seats than SSC pass outs.

    HYDERABAD: The state government seems to be setting up educational institutions without assessing the demand-supply situation on the ground. The Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) has decided to sanction 1,600 junior colleges for the coming academic year (2011-12) and also additional seats in the existing 500 corporate junior colleges.

    While the addition is supposed to increase the number of intermediate seats from 19 lakh in 2010-11 to 25 lakh next academic year, the number students expected to clear SSC-2011 examination is just about 10 lakh. This would mean that about 23 per cent of seats in first year would remain vacant next year.

    “There were colleges where just about 30 to 40 students had taken admission. If the government sanctions more of such colleges, there would be institutions with zero admissions next year,” said Madhusudan Reddy, general secretary, Government Junior College Lecturers’ Association. There are about 4,800 junior colleges in the state, of which 3,500 are private ones. The number is expected to go up to 5,100 in 2011-2012. Ironically, while there are just about 820 government colleges, the state has not sanctioned more colleges in the government sector.

    Sources from the BIE said that with disproportionate increase in the number of intermediate colleges, private college managements are now vying with each other to attract students. “Colleges try to lure students promising them scholarships and other concessions. Students are also promised freebies including DVD players, laptops and even foreign trips,” sources said.

    Several corporate colleges which take sanction from the Board sell the property to other managements after three to four years. “Every year about 300 colleges are being transferred from one management to other. This is against BIE rules,” an official said. Also, most of the colleges get sanctioned in cities including Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy, Vijayawada and Vizag. “Seventy per cent of the colleges are located in these cities even as 220 mandals in the state do not have even a single college,” Madhusudan Reddy, pointed out.

    Observers opined that the state government should bring in a legislature to prevent mushrooming of colleges. “If the state government allows unusual surge of colleges, the quality of intermediate education would obviously decline,” said an official.

    Source : TOI

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