AP Education News on 1st December 2011 - HCU, NEET and OU Updates

1) PG Diploma in Bioinformatics: University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli has signed a MoU with leading bio-sciences company, GVK Bio sciences for jointly offering a one year PG Diploma in Bioinformatics. The programme will be offered in distance education mode by Center for Distance Education, University of Hyderabad. The University and the GVK Bio-sciences have already formulated the modalities of the programme, which will be released by UoH Vice Chancellor Ramakrishna Ramaswamy on 1st December 2011.

2) High Court stays NEET: In a sigh of relief to thousands of students aspiring to pursue MBBS in the state, the Andhra Pradesh High Court has stayed the extension of NEET, the national level entrance examination for admission to MBBS in medical colleges. In response to a student's petition which stated that admission to MBBS was governed by Article 371 D of the Constitution and therefore the order of the Central Government asking the students to take the NEET at the national level was unconstitutional.

The student, Mounika Sribhavani also pointed out that the syllabus of CBSE and other central boards was different from the syllabus of the Intermediate Education. The Judge, Justice Vilas Afzal Purkar of the AP High Court considered this and ordered notices to the respondents as that a similar case was filed by private medical colleges and there is stay in that case.

3) Osmania University has extended last date for the receipt of completed applications for admission to various UG, PG and Diploma Programmes. The original last date was 30th November 2011. Candidates can now apply till 17th December with a late fee of Rs. 100 and can submit applications till 31st December 2011 with a late fee of Rs. 250. More details can be obtained from www.osmania.ac.in .

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