Institute for Career Guidance and Research India: August 2016

Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Fee in Self Financing Medical Colleges: No decision yet.

No good news has come up today on MBBS/BDS admission, since the marathon meetings with the State Government and Management representatives failed to yield a result. The meeting concluded without reaching a consensus over fee for Govt Quota seats. Since the Govt refused to hike fee for Govt Quota seats, the Management representatives decided to meet Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to resolve the issue.

According to sources, the Management representatives wanted the govt to increase fees for the 30% merit seats upto Rs 5 lakh. Last year, the fee was Rs. 1,85,000. Talking to media persons after the meeting, Health Minister Shylaja Teacher said, "The govt is ready for a 10% hike in the fee which is allowed considering the sharp rise in the expenditure. However, we could not accept steep fee hike as demanded by the Management Association."

Besides, the Minister made it clear that fees for 20% Govt merit seats will not be increased this year. At present, Rs. 25,000 is the fee for the 20% merit seats. However, the Management representatives refused to accept this formula and decided to take up the issue before the Chief Minister. The date and time of the meeting is yet to be decided.

It is learnt that, the Management presented a fee-formula of Rs 10-15 lakh for 35% Management Quota seats and Rs 15-20 lakh for NRI seats.

Though the Health Minister was firm in the fee rate for the Govt seats, she was silent about the other option before the Govt, ie. to approach the Supreme Court against the HC stay on combined counselling. Now, all eyes are on the meeting with the Chief Minister which will be held in coming days.

Meanwhile, Justice James has started measures to monitor the admission procedure of private self-financing medical colleges in the State. Once, the row over fee is resolved, the allotment procedure will resume in no time.

Wednesday, 17 August 2016

Class 12 certificates for vocational courses

National Institute of Open Schooling announces guidelines for students

Students undergoing vocational training will soon be able to get a Class 12 certificate that will be equivalent to an intermediate certificate from Central and State Boards.

The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, is offering Class 12 and Class 10 certificates through open and distance learning system to students who pass three vocational papers — of same or similar vocations — and two academic papers, one of which should be a language paper. The other can be any of the subjects on offer.

“Till now, we had some vocational courses but these were not National Skill Qualification Framework-compliant. We have now given the syllabi a structured form and will be offering proper Class 12 certificates. This will make many students eligible for jobs that have Class 12 as a necessary qualification. They can also pursue higher education later by enrolling in B-Voc courses,” NIOS chairman professor C.B. Sharma told The Hindu.

The NIOS has also signed an MoU with the Directorate-General of Employment and Training to provide Class 12 and Class 10 certificates to those who have trained in the Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs). If the person has passed three vocational papers from ITIs, he/she can register with NIOS and pass two academic papers to earn a Class 12 certificate.

This will potentially benefit 18 lakh people who take admission to ITIs each year and also those who passed out of ITIs in the past.

Those who have passed courses in a variety of vocations like electrician, electronic mechanic, fitter, turner, wireman, motor vehicle mechanic, etc., from an ITI are eligible to complete two academic courses from the NIOS through open and distance learning.

The initiatives are part of the Narendra Modi government’s thrust on skill development, something that the UPA government had also tried to encourage at the school level.

Ready to crack CAT?

The computer-based CAT 2016 will test candidates’ verbal ability and reading comprehension, data interpretation and logical reasoning and their quantitative abilities. It will be held on December 4, 2016 and will be conducted in two sessions on the same day.

Considering how more than 2,00,000 candidates registered to write the examination in 2015, marking a five-year high, the CAT examination board has put in place policies to manage the growing demand to appear for the test.

The examination will be conducted in 138 cities around India and those eligible to write the test will be given the option to select four cities, in order of their preference.

Only candidates who have a bachelor’s degree with at least 50 per cent marks or an equivalent CGPA are eligible to write the test.

Candidates completing their final year of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification and those who have completed degree requirements and are awaiting results are also eligible.

“The exam pattern is the same as that for CAT 2015. Sectional timing of 60 minutes, on-screen calculator and non-MCQs (multiple-choice questions) from CAT 2015 are all present this year too,” says Ramnath Kankadandi, CAT course director, T.I.M.E. institute.

“Students can breathe a sigh of relief as the test strategies that they have been working on, based on CAT ‘15, need not be dumped,” he added.

According to the IIM website, 27 per cent of seats will be reserved for Other Backward Classes (NC – OBC) candidates, 15 per cent for Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates, 7.5 per cent for Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates and 3 per cent for Differently Abled (DA) candidates.

Registration for CAT 2016 will begin on August 8, 2016 and close on September 22.

CBSE declares NEET results

The Central Board of Secondary Education on Tuesday declared the combined results of the National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test (NEET-I and II) held on May 1 and July 24 for admission to undergraduate medical courses.

As per the Supreme Court’s decision, the CBSE has provided All India Rank to candidates. Het Shah topped the examination with Ekansh Goyal and Nikhil Bajiya securing second and third ranks. Admitting authorities will draw a merit list based on the All India Rank for MBBS/BDS seats falling under their jurisdiction and candidates will have to get in touch with their respective State/Institution for further information, the CBSE said in a statement.

Out of the 7,31,223 candidates who applied for the both exams combined, 4.09,477 students — 1,83,424 men, 2,26,049 women and four transgenders — qualified. Though women candidates performed better than men, in the top 15 per cent among those qualified, 11,058 were men and 8,266 women. One transgender student qualified in the top 15 per cent.

Rank letters

The CBSE said it would provide NEET rank letters to candidates qualifying for 15 per cent All India seats. The details and schedule of counselling would be available on the websites of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Medical Education Directorates of States, AFMC, Institutions and Universities concerned.

Candidates can access their result on www.aipmt.nic.in, www.cbse.nic.in and www.cbseresults.nic.in. Both in NEET-I & NEET-II, 26 candidates were found indulging in unfair practices.

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