Students face Eamcet chaos
Hyderabad: Over 75,000 students from Seemandhra might be forced to travel to Telangana to attend the Eamcet Engineering counselling scheduled to begin from Monday. While the government has stated tha
Should merit be self-financed
Kochi: While opening up professional education in the state to the self-financing sector more than a decade ago, the then chief minister A.K. Antony had given an assurance that two self-financing col
Karnataka State bags COMEDK honours
Bengaluru: Like last year, all the engineering candidates who appeared for the Under Graduate Entrance Test (UGET) conducted by the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka
Engineering colleges cut seats
In a strange turn of events, the managements of engineering colleges in the state have proposed that engineering seats should be slashed from the existing 3.4 lakh to 2 lakh from the academic year 201
Give in or face probe engineering colleges told
The consortium of engineering and professional colleges’ managements association of AP, which represents most professional colleges in the state, has asked managements of all engineering colleges to v
80 colleges face derecognition
As many as 80 engineering and other professional colleges located within the Hyderabad Metropolitan Region limits are faced with the threat of losing their recognition and affiliation.
After a series
Erring tech colleges let off easily
The state government has decided to go easy on engineering colleges that have resorted to irregularities in management quota admissions this academic year (2012-13), by issuing a simple warning.
The
Centres of excellence needed
A nuclear science centre at the College of Engineering, Thrissur, a tool and die-making centre and a mechatronics centre at the College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, and a medicinal plantation a
Online admissions for owners’ quota a must
The government has issued orders making online admissions mandatory for management quotas in engineering and pharmacy colleges to ensure merit and transparency.
For the first time in the history of p
Engineering: Hefty donations in owners’ quota
Despite the Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy’s direction, sale of seats in top engineering colleges by collecting huge donations is continuing unabated with the managements openly flouting the norm