The Hindu : A.P. announces B.Ed admission policy

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Thursday, Jan 02, 2003

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A.P. announces B.Ed admission policy

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD JAN. 1. Complying with the Supreme Court judgment relating to aided/unaided and minority institutions, the Andhra Pradesh Government here today came out with a policy covering B.Ed admissions and grant of permission for new B.Ed colleges.

The policy covers only B.Ed admissions because they are yet to begin.

Regarding admission to other professional courses, which have already been done, a permanent policy would be evolved after consultations with experts and academics.

According to details given by the Ministers for Primary Education and Higher Education, M. Venkateswara Rao and Mohd N. Farooq respectively, at a press conference, orders were issued for undertaking B.Ed admissions in the following manner:

The allotment of seats will be made by the convener of the Ed-CET based on the Ed-CET-2002 results in all categories of colleges. In aided minority colleges, 50 per cent of the seats will be filled by the management with the candidates of the minority concerned based on the merit order of ED-CET, and the balance of 50 per cent by the convenor from the common merit list.

In unaided non-minority colleges, the convenor will fill 85 per cent of the seats leaving 15 per cent to the management. It will be mandatory on the part of minority institutions to admit the candidates belonging to that minority only and who have qualified in ED-CET.

In all the cases, fee should be collected as per the present structure and capitation fee or higher fee has been prohibited.

The Ministers asked the managements to issue admission notifications on January 5 and repeat the same three days later.

For admissions through ED-CET-2002 counselling, the notification, however, was issued two days ago. The first spell of counselling would be held on January 9 and the second one January 17.

Regarding admissions in minority colleges, it was made mandatory on them to make applications available at their counters from January 6 and close the sales by January 16. The selected lists would have to be displayed on the notice boards not only at these colleges but also at the DEO office concerned.

Classes in all the categories of colleges would begin on January 27 and after this date, no admission would be allowed.

Mr. Venkateswara Rao said there were 14,202 B.Ed seats available in the existing colleges.

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