HYDERABAD: There has been a lukewarm reaction to undergraduate admissions with the final touch of the second segment of Degree Online Services Telangana (DOST) 2019. While 70,153 students have exercised their net options inside the first section, in the 2nd phase, the handiest 31,790 authentications have been made. This year, three. Eight lakh seats are up for grabs in various schools throughout the State. P Laxma Reddy, the chairman of the Association for Strengthening of Private Initiative in Rural Education (ASPIRE), blamed the off in Eamcet counseling for the negative reaction.
“Students who’ve secured ranks in Eamcet gained’t get their preference of course or college. Folks who want to decide after understanding what they may be being provided in engineering will subsequently come to DOST. Many college students seem to be waiting for supplementary exams and are anticipating their results. They will flow from MPC or BiPC to Commerce at the degree level,” he introduced. In any case, Reddy said that the entire occupancy of seats in degree schools would not exceed 2 lakh, as was in DOST 2018. “Even those who join the route, eight-10 according to the percent of them drop out with the aid of the stop of the first semester,” said G Nagaiah, president of the Private Degree Colleges Association.
He introduced that it’s no longer just admissions; the Telangana State Council of Higher Education isn’t always interested in diploma training. He alleged that final-year diploma students had misplaced the opportunity to apply to countrywide institutions because the degree tests were underway. Most institutions ask for provisional certificates with the aid of the beginning of July, he brought.
“By making the admission system online, the entire procedure must be finished in a shorter time; however, right here, exams are occurring until June, and the new session begins simplest in September, and via that point, PG admissions some other place in the United States might close,” he stated. Prof R Limbadri, convenor of DOST and vice-chairman TSCHE, denied that there is fall in numbers as compared to the preceding years.
TSCHE to bring uniformity in the undergraduate framework
The TSCHE, in the meantime, has determined to introduce a few modifications from this instructional year to make the UG courses extra applicable and in line with the industry requirement. CBCS could be revised this year along with the introduction of a new framework for the syllabus. “The total path credits will be 150 words from the 2019-20 instructional years onwards for all BA, BCo,m, and BSc publications. In the Grading machine, we also discovered that some have ninety-a hundred as A+ and different 80 – one hundred for the equal grade, making scaling of marks hard,” explained Prof Limbadri.
Taking a step on this route, OU, for example, has determined to provide online publications through MOOCs in information technological know-how, Artificial intelligence, computer programming, or even soft abilities.
“The attention was on bringing such adjustments in the curriculum that would help useful resource students to get employment and cause them to industry prepared,” stated Prof Ramchandram, VC.
