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CET results may be delayed

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Career options: (From left) S. Kumar, Executive Secretary, COMED-K; Jatinder Mohan, Director, People Skills Learning Pvt. Ltd.; Srini Rajam, Chairman, Ittiam Systems; Sabyasachi Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Astrophysics; and Syed Jamal, KEA officer, at the release of ‘The Hindu EducationPlus Career Guide 2008’ in Bangalore on Wednesday.

Bangalore: The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) may not be able to release the results of the Common Entrance Test (CET) on May 14 as was scheduled in the CET brochure release earlier this year, Syed Jamal, administrative officer of the KEA, announced here on Wednesday. He was addressing students and parents at the Pre-Counselling Guidance programme organised by The Hindu EducationPlus here on Wednesday.

Mr. Jamal said that the announcement of the CET results may be postponed due to the delay in the CBSE and ISC boards in declaring the Class 12 results.

“We are forced to wait. We do not want to leave out the CBSE and ISC candidates. However, we will start the counselling sessions as scheduled on June 2,” he said.

Mr. Jamal, advised parents and students on the various documents required for the CET counselling session. He spoke about the seat matrix that had been agreed upon for the 2008-09 academic year. “The seat sharing problem began in 2004. It was more or less settled in 2007. The current batch is a lucky one as all the problems have now been sorted out.” S. Kumar, principal of M.S. Ramaiah Medical College and executive secretary of the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMED-K), said that higher education has never been the priority of the Union Government over the past five decades.

For the 110 crore population, there were only 342 colleges. Sabyasachi Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, spoke about the various careers in the field of science and technology. The Hindu EducationPlus Career Guide 2008 was released on the occasion.

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