Colleges give attendance for Rs 15K
Nearly 100 engineering colleges affiliated to JNTU-Hyderabad were found to have been involved in an “attendance scam”. The college managements would tell students that they could not appear for examin
Medical seat donation may touch Rs 80 lakh
The donations for MBBS seats in private colleges have shot up astronomically this year, thanks to the highest ever number of applications submitted by Eamcet medical aspirants.
As many as 1,220 MBBS
Pupils may lose seats
There’s more trouble in store for Intermed-iate students in AP after their poor show in the Inter (second year) physics paper. Around 500 Inter MPC students face the risk of losing seats in BITS-Pilan
Panel to study physics marks
The state government stoutly denies that the large number of failures (31 per cent) in the Intermediate second year physics exam was due to an incorrectly set paper. Nevertheless, the government is c
Schools clueless on 25% seats for poor
City schools are flooded with Right to Education Act (RTE) queries after the recent Supreme Court judgement mandating all private schools to enforce the RTE Act and reserve 25 per cent quota in admiss
Eamcet officials wary of ‘repeat’ applicants
Candidates who passed their Intermediate exams nearly 27 years ago, in 1985, have applied for Eamcet this year. Eamcet officials received several applications from those who had passed Intermediate b
RTE: Andhra Pradesh clueless, schools to move SC
The state government seems to have no idea how to implement the 25 per cent quota for poor students in all private unaided schools as mandated by the Right to Education Act (RTE) and as directed by th
UID numbers via SMS
To overcome the problem of inordinate delay in dispatch of Aadhaar cards to lakhs of people in the state, the Unique Identification Development Authority of India has decided to send Aadhaar unique id
50% fee hike in elite schools
You wouldn’t think a toddler would cost quite so much to educate, but elite international schools in Hyderabad are charging Rs 4 lakh per annum for pre-primary admission.
For secondary and higher sec
City schools fleece parents with ‘fees’
Schools are resorting to different means to get parents to cough up large sums of money to guarantee a seat for their children. City schools will be announcing their ‘selection lists’ for the coming a