HYDERABAD: The second section of Degree Online Services Telangana (DOST) 2019 was completed with a lukewarm response to undergraduate admissions. While 70,153 college students exercised their web alternatives within the first phase, only 31,790 authentications were made inside the second segment.
In these 12 months, 3.8 lakh seats are up for grabs in levels faculties across the State. P Laxma Reddy, the chairman of the Association for Strengthening of Private Initiative in Rural Education (ASPIRE), blamed putting off Eamcet counseling for the negative reaction. “Students who have secured ranks in Eamcet won’t get their preferred course or university. And those who want to decide after knowing what they’re being supplied in engineering will subsequently come to DOST. A huge variety of students are additionally regarded for supplementary exams and awaiting their consequences. He will also flow from MPC or BiPC to Commerce at diploma degree,” he delivered.
In any case, Reddy said that the entire occupancy of seats in degree faculties would no longer exceed 2 lakh, as was in DOST 2018. “Even folks that be part of the path, 8-10 in line with cent of them drop out through the top of the first semester,” stated G Nagaiah, Private Degree Colleges Association president. He said it’s now not simply admissions; the Telangana State Council of Higher Education isn’t curious about degree education. He alleged that final-year diploma college students had lost the possibility of applying to countrywide institutions because the degree checks were underway.
Most institutions ask for provisional certificates by the beginning of July, he brought. “By making the admission manner online, the whole procedure must be completed in a shorter time; however, right here, checks are going on until June, and the new consultation starts simplest in September and using that time, PG admissions somewhere else in the United States of America could near,” he stated. Prof R Limbadri, convenor of DOST and vice-chairman of TSCHE, denied a fall in numbers compared to the previous years.
TSCHE to convey uniformity in the undergraduate framework
The TSCHE, meanwhile, has determined to introduce a few adjustments from this instructional 12 months to make the UG publications more relevant and in line with industry requirements line. CBCS might be revised this 12 months, along with introducing a new framework for the syllabus. “The total course credit might be fifty phrases from the 2019-20 instructional years onwards for all BA, BCom, and BSc courses. In the Grading machlly, also we determined that some have 90-100 as A+ and different 80 – 100 for the identical grade, making scaling of marks tough,” explained Prof Lombardi.
Taking a step in this course, OU, for example, has decided to provide online publications through MOOCs in records science, Artificial intelligence, pc programming, and even gentle abilities. “The attention turned into on bringing such modifications inside the curriculum that might resource students to get employment and lead them to enterprise prepared,” stated Prof Ramchandram, VC.
