Tamil Nadu strongly protests to withdraw Entrance Test for Medical courses

Tamil Nadu government strongly protested to the move to conduct an All India Entrance Test for admission to UG/PG (Under graduate/Post graduate) courses in medical colleges.

Tamil Nadu wants that it should be exempted from the test and allow to continue with its existing system for admission to Under-graduate/Post-graduate medical seats.

She has strongly protested the unilateral decision of the central government to notify National Board of Examination (NBE) to conduct entrance test for courses in medicine.

"The stay against the common entrance test obtained in the Madras High Court holds good until it is vacated or the writ petition is disposed of," Tamil Nadu CM, Jayalalitha said while expressing surprise and distress at the Central Government's unilateral decision.

She also said that the government has reserved 50 percent of its medical post graduate seats for doctors who have completed three years in rural and hills area. If a common entrance test is introduced as we would have to fall in line with regulations of the national test it will be legally difficult to implement these policy initiatives, she said.

SHRC Ordered University VC to pay out from his own funds

The Sikkim Human Rights Commission has recommended the Executive Council to revoke its order on the basis of lack of evidence against sacked teachers as the EC had earlier terminated the Assistant Professors Rajendra Prasad, Manoranjan Mishra, Shailendra Mishra and Tapas Bain in the University. It also directed by the commission to VC (Vice Chancellor) to pay compensation out of his own fund and to issue them a experience certificate. Assistant professors Rajendra Prasad and Manoranjan Mishra were terminated from the service as they protested against the unfair practice.

Delay in promotion of Mysore University Teachers

Under the career advanced scheme teachers working at University of Mysore (UoM) might have to wait longer for their promotion. The written anonymous letter urging government not to allow UoM to promote its teachers when the incumbent vice-chancellor is on the verge of retirement reported by the Karnataka State Open University teachers (KSOU). The last date for the receipt of the application as UoM issued a notification urging its teachers who are due for promotion to apply for the same under the UGC's career advancement scheme september 17th.

Sibal as Deemed universities to adopt Common Entrance Test

Kapil Sibal, Union Human Resource and Development Minister, has requested the Deemed Universities to adopt the "common entrance test".

IIT Kanpur to hold its own entrance in 2013

In a clear case of revolt against Kapil Sibal's decision to merge IIT Joint Entrance Exam (IIT-JEE) with All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE), Indian Institute of (IIT) Kanpur has announced that it will conduct its own entrance exam in 2013. "The recent IIT Council proposal on admissions to IITs is academically and methodically unsound and in violation of the Institutes of Technology Act (1961) and IIT Kanpur Ordinances (Ordinance 3.2 (Admissions)," said the IIT Kanpur committee members.

UGC-NET should not be abolished: AIFUCTO

The All India India Federation of University and College Teachers’ Organisation (AIFUCTO) is strongly opposing any attempts to abolish the National Eligibility Test (NET) "We have already indicated to the regulatory bodies certain issues. If these are resolved, it would make the NET efficient. But an attempt to do away with the test will only increase corruption in recruitment and lower the quality of teaching. But I believe that the exemption from the NET given to MPhil and PhD teachers should continue," general secretary of AIFUCTO Ashok Kumar Barman said.