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B.Ed. admission in aided colleges in disarray

Staff Reporter

Meeting decides to postpone admissions

KOTTAYAM: Admissions to the B.Ed. course in aided colleges have been thrown into complete disarray following confusion in the centralised merit list and the Kerala High Court verdict on the issue.

Although classes have started in some of the unaided colleges, admissions in aided colleges may not be held as scheduled on July 18.

A joint meeting of managers and principals of aided B.Ed. college held here on Tuesday decided to postpone the admissions until a revised centralised merit list is published in accordance with the High Court directive that 50 per cent of seats should be earmarked for candidates from the general merit list.

The meeting said that there were many anomalies in the merit list published on the website.

It has allotted more seats than permitted by the revised National Council for Technical Education (NCTE) norms. Even if the new posts created in the aided colleges were taken into account, the number of students in each college was much beyond the teacher-student ratio of 1:12.5 prescribed by the NCTE. If admissions were made on the basis of the existing merit list, the institutions would lose NCTE accreditation, the meeting said.

The meeting said that it had been pointed out by many students that there were instances where the marks of those in the waiting list were higher than that of those in the merit list and that there was no transparency in fixing index marks and reservations to various categories.

The Government was called upon to end the present policy of "encouraging" the unaided sector.

Confusion in the sector would only result in aided colleges losing recognition. The Government should desist from taking unilateral decisions and make the whole process more democratic by initiating a dialogue with the managements, the meeting said.

Stanley Roman, Bishop of Kollam, presided over the meeting. Fr. Mathew Maleparambil, secretary of Kerala Private College Managements' Association, and others spoke.

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