The Hindu : Private B.Ed colleges `fall in line'

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Wednesday, Sep 03, 2003

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Southern States - Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad

Private B.Ed colleges `fall in line'

By R. Ravikanth Reddy

HYDERABAD Sept. 2. The "threat'' from the State Government to go ahead with the existing system for admissions and fee structure into the B.Ed course in the current academic year seems to have "worked'' with the private B.Ed colleges.

They have now scaled down their demand for a Rs. 50,000 fee to a more "reasonable one.'' Apparently, the strong feelers sent by the Government to stick to the present fee of Rs. 10,800 for the convenor quota seat while giving 15 per cent seats to the managements did the trick.

A meeting held by the Primary Education Minister, Mandava Venkateswara Rao, with the officials recently favoured the present system even as the managements demanded 50 per cent quota for them or enhancement of the fee to Rs. 50,000 without any management quota.

``Now, they are being realistic,'' remarked an official, pointing out that the cost incurred on every student as claimed by the private colleges would be much below Rs. 50,000.

Soon after the official meeting, the B.Ed private colleges association held an emergency meeting and urged the Government to fix Rs. 20,000 as fee for the seats under the convenor quota and suggest a reasonable amount for the seats for their quota.

They also sought 50 per cent seats as per the Supreme Court judgment. "We are ready to discuss with the Government on the fee and quota issue,'' said P. Papa Rao, president of the association. However, the Government was yet to take a final decision on the fee structure and admission mode both for the convenor and the management quota.

The association also wants the Government to represent to the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) for sanctioning an additional 20 seats for the colleges that fulfilled the requisite student-teacher ratio because of the "heavy expenditure'' the colleges had incurred in setting up the infrastructure.

Mr. Papa Rao said the Government should review its decision seeking deposit of an endowment fund of Rs. 5 lakhs in addition to the corpus fund of Rs. 5 lakhs which had already been deposited at the time of application, he said.

The Government only insisted on Rs. 5 lakhs for the `No-objection certificate (NOC)' and asking for another Rs. 5 lakhs was unfair, he said.

The private B.Ed colleges are also seeking deputation of eligible and qualified school teachers and other employees working under the purview of Department of School Education (DSE) to the private colleges. Mr. Papa Rao says the practice was prevalent in departments like Technical Education and Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) and the same could be extended to the School Education Department as it would only benefit students of the private B.Ed colleges.

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