The Supreme Court has ruled on Thursday that professional colleges in Tamil Nadu can go ahead and admit students on the basis of their 12th standard marks. The Common Entrance Test has been scrapped for this year. The Tamil Nadu government had set up an experts committee to look into the issue of admitting students with both the 12th standard marks and the entrance examination. The government advised scrapping the CET to help rural students who do not have access to coaching classes to prepare for the entrance exams. Related Links : Tamilnadu Engineering Admissions Notice for 2007 Tamilnadu MBBS Admissions Schedule for 2007
CBSE Class 12 results of the Ajmer and Chennai regions will be declared May 23 The results of the other four regions of Delhi, Allahabad, Guwahati and Panchkula will be announced May 25 You can get it on SMS and in your mail
New Delhi, June. 5 (PTI): The results of the All India Pre-Medical/Pre-Dental Entrance Examination (AIPMT), 2007 conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) were declared today. Based on the score of the final examination, 1,681 candidates have been placed in the merit list and another 1,681 on the wait-list, CBSE said in a release here. As many as 2,10,318 candidates had registered for the preliminary examination, out of which 17,135 had qualified for the final examination that was held on May 13. The results of the AIPMT could be accessed on the websites www.cbseresults.nic.in and www.cbse.nic.in. The first round of counselling starting from June 15 through video conferencing shall be conducted in New Delhi, Kolkata and Puducherry.
DIBRUGARH, June 12 – Less than five percent of those who appeared for their entrance examinations into the MBBS, BE, BDS and BAMS courses for institutes in Assam would be able to secure admissions. The results of the common entrance examinations were made available by the Dibrugarh University today through websites and mobile phones, but these results just added to the confusion. The results were given out as ranks, and nobody who appeared for his/her test was failed. As such, all the 8480 candidates for the medical entrance were given their ranks, from 1 to 8480 and for the engineering courses, from rank 1 to 8791. Technically, all have passed their entrance examinations, but in reality, only those who managed ranks in the first 400 merit list can actually aspire for a medical or an engineering college seat. Dibrugarh University registrar Dr Kandarpa Kumar Deka said: “We held the combined entrance examinations and have accorded ranks in order of merit. As we are not the selection body, we cannot say who would be eligible for admission, but those who have secured the higher ranks would surely be admitted.” Of the 8791 engineering and 8480 medical aspirants, many did not appear for their tests. These candidates have been marked as ‘A’ (absent) in the result sheets put up on the web pages today. In the engineering section, Bhaskarjyoti Mali (Roll No. 230536) was adjudged the topper, while in the medical section (for all the three branches of allopathy, dental and ayurveda), the topper is Sahil Agrawal (Roll No. 131221).
Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University, better known as IP University, will reserve 85 per cent seats for Delhi students from this academic session in its affiliated institutions and departments. For outstation students, 15 per cent seats will be available. It will also reintroduce the 10 per cent management quota in affiliated private institutions. The university offers 7,000 undergraduate seats. The quota for Delhi students and management quota in private institutions were discontinued last year following a Supreme Court order. “The 15 per cent management quota will be applicable only on the private institutions affiliated to IP University. The 85 per cent quota for Delhi students, however, will be applicable on all affiliated institutions other than those run by the Central government,” said KK Aggarwal, vice-chancellor, IP University. The decision will be a welcome relief for many Delhi students who fail to get into the college or course of their choice in Delhi University. Aggarwal said the respective quotas could not be applied last year because of a Supreme Court order that decreed that no such quota would be allowed unless the respective state governments enact their own legislation in the issue. “We had all these quotas in place two years ago,” said Aggarwal. Delhi government sources, however, said the management quota would also be merit-based and not discretionary. Students would not just have to qualify the IP university’s entrance tests in the particular discipline, but their marks in the Class XII exams will also matter. “Certain quarters will be miffed with the decision to keep out the discretion of the management in its quota. There has to be some merit in this, too. Normal category students just need to qualify the entrance test to gain admission. Management quota applicants need to qualify in the test but the final decision on their admission will depend on their Class XII marks so that a student who scores 60 per cent marks is not able to outpace a 90 per cent scorer,” said a government source. Source - HT
A high-level committee, set up by the Centre, has recommended a Postgraduate Medical Education Board for higher education in medicine.
The committee of academicians and scientists was set up after the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, co-chaired by the finance and health ministers, suggested that standards of higher medical education needed to be raised and monitored.
Currently, the Medical Council of India (MCI) and National Board of Examination (NBE) award postgraduate degrees in medicine and surgery. But both bodies are often in conflict since both follow different rules for PG admission. The MCI holds its PG courses in medical colleges while the NBE’s PG degree courses are in recognised hospitals.
The committee, headed by Dr Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, former chairman of the National Sub Commission in Macroeconomics and Health, has recommended that only one PG degree be awarded by a Centre-financed autonomous body, set up by an Act of Parliament. “Today, the standard of doctors acquiring post-graduate degrees varies from college to college, state to state and university to university,” Dr Chaudhury told HT.
There are two types of PG medical degrees — MD and MS — awarded by medical colleges and diplomas awarded by the National Board of Examination.
“The confusion results in our PG degrees not getting the credibility they deserve, putting our doctors at a disadvantage as they compete with doctors from countries with a single degree,” said Dr Chaudhury, who is also the National Professor of Parmacology National Academy of Medical Sciences.
The new Board — the Postgraduate (PG) Medical Education Board — would regulate all PG medical examinations across the country. “At a time when India is becoming the centre of international healthcare, a single independent body overseeing all PG medical education becomes imperative.
It should hold the same examination at recognised centres and monitor training of future doctors on a semester basis,” said Roy Chaudhury. The degree awarded should be called Diplomate (Approved) of the Postgraduate Medical Board of India, he added. He said it was imperative the Board was run by academicians, not politicians.
Source: HT
S Chandrasekar, a 15-year-old from Tirunelveli, has become the youngest person to pursue an M Tech course at the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai.
He scored 99.32 per cent marks in the aptitude test for M Tech computer science and gained entry to the prestigious institution for this year's course. "His admission to the M Tech course was on the expected lines. He was aiming for it," Chandrasekar's father Subramaniam, an auditor by profession, said.
The child prodigy had bagged the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer certificate when he was just 10 and received a Cisco Certified Network Associate certificate an year later.
Chandrasekar had been awarded a double promotion in his school, Bell Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Tirunelveli and completed his schooling by the age of 12.
After being allowed to pursue a Bachelors in Computer Applications by the Manonmaniam Sundaranar University in Tirunelveli, he completed the course from Kalasalingam College of Engineering at Srivilliputtur.
Chandrasekar, who has published a paper on 'Intrusion Detection Systems: A Survey' in September 2005, has big plans for the future. He wants to concentrate on Information Security and Cryptography, his favourite subjects.
And to top it all, Chandrasekar cherishes his role model Infosys chief N R Narayanamurthy, "for his values". "I admire the way he (Narayanamurthy) leads others," he said.
Source: PTI - Press Trust of India
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