Quote:The bulk of the 44 institutions are in Tamil Nadu:

St. Peter’s Engineering College, Avadi;

the Noorul Islam College of Engineering, Kumaracoil, Thuckalay;

the Meenakshi Medical College and Research Institute, Kancheepuram, and other institutions run by this university;

the Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute, Padur,

the Chettinad College of Nursing;

the Saveetha Dental College and Hospital;

the Saveetha Medical College and Hospital and other institutions;

the Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Engineering, Virudhunagar;

the Periyar Maniammai College of Technology, Thanjavur;

the Academy of Maritime Education and Research, Chennai;

Vel’s Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies, Chennai;

the Vel Tech Engineering College;

the Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, Pollachi;

Vinayaka Mission’s Research Foundation, Salem, and the Balaji Vidyapeeth, Puducherry.



Show-cause to MGR institute



In another case before a Bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justices R.V. Raveendran and Deepak Verma, Solicitor-General Gopal Subramaniam said the Dr. MGR Educational and Research Institute running the Thai Moogambigai Dental College and Hospital and the Dr. MGR Engineering College, Chennai, was among the 44 institutions to which notices would be issued asking them to show cause why the deemed university status should not be cancelled.



The ACS Medical College, which admitted students in 2008-2009 and 2009-2010, would not be affiliated to the deemed university as the Human Resource Development Ministry decided not to accept the recommendation of the University Grants Commission.

Quote:Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has opened a Pandora’s box in Tamil Nadu after his Ministry decided to strip 44 educational institutions, of which 16 are in this State, of their deemed university status.



In a State where professional courses are available only at a premium and have become family business of politicians, the frustration of the students came to the fore soon after the news flashed on Monday night....

Quote:Decision pending with SC but panic engulfs students

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Anupma Khanna/Abhinav Ranga | Dehradun/Ambala



Panic, frustration and the fear of an uncertain future loomed over thousands of students in Uttarakhand, consequent to Centre’s submission to the Supreme Court signaling de-recognition of three deemed universities in Uttarakhand. These include Graphic Era, HIHT University in Dehradun and Haridwar’s old Gurukul Kangri University. The story is similar in neighbouring Haryana, from where three other universities figure in the list of 44 submitted by the Government to the Supreme Court.



While many slammed the Government questioning the granting of approval for ‘deemed university’ status to these in the first place, others expressed vociferous resentment against the institutes’ management for having jeopardised their lives. A plethora of doubts and questions troubled their minds. “I fear if we shall be able to practice or pursue further studies after spending all the money and time,” stated Kapil of HIHT University in Dehradun.



“We are shocked over the decision, and hope the Government does reconsider the decision. We do not know how the Government first gives such status to an academic institution, and later realises otherwise,” said Ashish Hooda and Raghav Kakkar of Ambala’s Maharishi Markendeshwar University. Similar is the plight of the students of Lingaya University and Manav Rachna International University, both in Faridabad, which are going to be divested of the status of deemed university.



Panic lay reflected in the reactions of many other students that the paper interacted with. “The HRD Ministry has very conveniently said that the concept of deemed university will be abolished in India but what happens to us? Caught in the middle of nowhere, what are we expected to do! We took the exams conducted by our college but if the affiliation regresses to Uttarakhand Technical University, which degree will we get?” wondered Manali, an engineering student at Graphic Era, Dehradun.

Quote:As PMO intervenes, changes in Foreign Education Providers Bill



The long-pending Foreign Education Providers Bill proposed to facilitate entry of foreign institutes in India is set to undergo changes after the PMO’s intervention. The HRD Ministry has started circulating a new version of the Bill for inter-ministerial consultations a second time, to address some of the objections raised by the PMO.



The revised version of the Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations, Maintenance of Quality and Prevention of Commercialisation) Bill, 2009 proposes to conform to the reform-centric recommendations made by the National Knowledge Commission and the Prof Yashpal led committee’s recommendations and to allow provisions for rules framed by a successor body to the UGC to govern these institutes.

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Quote:Indian Cabinet Approves Entry of Foreign Schools

India's cabinet has approved the entry of foreign schools into the country to help it overcome difficulties in improving its education infrastructure.



Personally, I think it's a good thing. [color="#800080"](<img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' /> Actually, the statement is typically San.)[/color]



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Quote:3/15/2010 7:18 PM



karyakarta92 said...



It can be a good thing <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' /> if it results in Indian students not going to hell holes like Australia & Britain. Foreign universities can help develop quality infrastructure. However, their curriculum needs to be monitored carefully, especially in non-technical disciplines. Such vetting is necessary to nip any christist madrasahs in the bud.

[color="#800080"](Extremely naive. Once the floodgates are open, they'll never close. Same as with media being owned by alien and local christohouses: they have only grown in strength and influence and mass-base. And all Hindus can do is complain - to no avail.

So monitor and vet away. Hindus are just as inept at shutting down the source of lies=christomedia, as they will be in doing anything against subversionist alien centres of miseducation once that weed is put into the soil of Bharatam.)[/color]



In fact, I would argue that foreign schools be allowed only in those areas that we are deficient in, ex: management etc.

[color="#800080"](Why do people imagine they have a say in all this? The christogoonda govt not too long back declared its intention to revive Indo-Europod Studies in India, finding that it had been too long since our christoBritish masters left us.

I think it's fair to say that they have a totally different idea for the direction of all Indian education. And that it is intended to be an mis-education by propaganda.

Not that it will be much different from Amerikkkan schooling, I shouldn't wonder. But there's bound to be even less say in the curriculum.)[/color]



3/15/2010 7:56 PM

Quote:n 2006 a study conducted by NASSCOM (the National Association of Software and Service Companies) concluded that only one in four engineering graduates was employable. The rest apparently lacked the requisite technical skills, or the ability to make even a simple oral presentation in English, or even the ability to work in a team.



That tied in with an earlier report by global consulting powerhouse McKinsey, to the effect that only 15 per cent of India's finance and accounting professionals met the standards required to work in a multinational. For good measure that study added: 'Only about 10 per cent of Indian students with generalist degrees in the arts and humanities is suitable, compared with 25 per cent of all Indian engineering graduates.'