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Corporatisation of education decried

Staff Reporter

Of 762 private junior colleges in the twin cities, 500 colleges have no minimum admissions and were on the verge of closure

HYDERABAD: The Round Table conference on corporate education in Telangana has given a call for putting an end to corporatisation of education institutes as it could destroy the very purpose of education while depriving a vast majority of common people from access to higher education.

The conference organised under the aegis of Telangana Vidyarthi Sangham here on Tuesday analysed how corporate colleges set up by people belonging to Andhra were spreading their `empire' by taking over private junior colleges in the Telangana districts set up by local people.

Several Osmania University professors, student union leaders, representatives of private and Government Junior College lecturers' associations, Telangana Rashtra Samithi and balladeer Gadar participated in the conference and termed corporatisation of education as anti-constitutional.

The round table said the corporate system was making robots out of students without any scope for creativity and originality.

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