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CBSE in dilemma over rescheduled AIEEE

New Delhi: After the All India Engineering Entrance Test paper leak fiasco on Sunday, the Central Board of Secondary Education is now facing a new dilemma. The Board had issued a notification on Tuesday regarding the rescheduled examination to be held on May 11. However, it is still having trouble deciding which students should be allowed to appear for the examination. The rescheduled test on May 11 had been organized by the CBSE for students who had been unable to appear for the test on Sunday when it had been delayed by around 3 hours. However, parents of several students have petitioned to the Board to conduct a fresh AIEEE altogether and allow all 12 lakh candidates that had appeared for the test this year to give the rescheduled exam again. On May 1, when the test had been delayed due to the paper leak, around 32,000 students had been unable to give the test as the timings of the delayed exam had clashed with other entrance tests such as that of the Armed Forces Medical College (A...

AICTE not to approve more part-time MBA courses due to misuse by Institutes

A senior AICTE official said, there are many B-schools around which are misusing the facility and running other programmes on the pretext of a part-time MBA programme. They are not working within the regulated framework, which prompted us to take this step.The experts said this change could affect around 400 colleges and 20,000 students. These figures could not be verified with AICTE. Several calls to AICTE Chairman S S Mantha went unanswered. There are around 2,500 AICTE-approved management schools. The B-schools concerned are unhappy. “Experienced people learn management much better than freshers. We have around 240 students for masters’ courses in management, finance, human resource and information management. We have already requested the vice-chancellor of the University of Mumbai to take up the matter with AICTE,” said Suresh Ghai, director, K J Somaiya Institute of Management and Research. The three B-school’s directors said by this the higher education would be more costly than...