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Karnataka Numbers down in higher education

Thursday, 19 June 2008

With the rush for professional colleges coming down this year in the state the students of Karnataka are now breathing easy. Their parents are much relieved as they are getting their children and wards into some colleges. According to the numbers produced by the COMED-K in 2008, 61,701 students appeared for the COMED-K (Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka) entrance examinations which has been the lowest since the revolution of co-operative higher education began in Karnataka. Our Manipal Correspondent says that the first of such experiments began in 1953 when the Kasturba Medical College began the experiment of shared educational costs. Dr. TMA Pai, maker of modern Manipal had revolutionized the higher professional education by getting away from the government funded higher education towards parent funded education. For over 50 years now the Manipal Model had ruled the higher education particularly in Karnataka state, which has been adopted by other states as well. In the recent years many states in the northern parts have started their own colleges which has brought down the influx of students from other parts of the country to the state.  The state now has 113 Engineering colleges.    However, in terms of quality and cost of education the state still stands first. The state which boasts of quality in teaching has all the former IIT, NIT and top teachers in Medical education thronging to the state. Manjunath Bhandary of Sahyadri group of Institutions told Mangalorean.com that, though there is good number of very highly professional teachers in the state there was demand for more. Mangalore is a happy hunting grounds for all colleges for good teachers and Karnataka in general provides greener pastures for teachers. The free seats are offered in the state at Rs. 17,000 for engineering and Rs. 18,500 for Medical per year. In comparison with Delhi, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh it is Rs. 10,500 and Rs. 11,660 for Engineering and Medical seats per annum respectively. Srinivas Rao of Srinivas group of Institutions in Mangalore says that the quality appears to be the key word for higher professional education. The advent of National Accreditation and Assessment Committee NAAC has tightened the quality aspect in colleges that includes teaching, infrastructure, teaching aids and transport. So far only 35 engineering colleges have received NAAC ratings. According to AICTE sources there are 35 applications for new engineering colleges being examined by the AICTE.  It is calculated at an average rate of growth; nearly 36,000 students apply more every year for seats in Engineering and Medical Colleges. Since the colleges are able to accommodate them there are always few seats still remain unfilled. According to the CET cell about 1200 seats are left vacant every year since 2005.

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