Nearly 12,000 DEd seats up for grabs

20 Jun 2009, 0501 hrs IST, Vaibhav Ganjapure, TNN

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NAGPUR: Nearly 12,000 seats are up for grabs for diploma i

n education (DEd) course in the Nagpur division, the admissions of which will begin

from July 2. These seats are part of nearly 72,000 seats that  exists in over 1,100 colleges in state.
According to highly-reliable sources in MSCERT (Maharashtra State Council of Educational Research and Training), Nagpur has highest number of seats at 5,692 with Chandrapur second with 1,775 seats in the division.
Though delayed by almost a month, the centralized admission process will start with distribution of forms from July 2. The last date of submission of forms will be July 11. The counselling for admission rounds will continue in August and September and colleges will formally start its academic session from October 1.
The Civil Lines-based District Institute of Education and Training will conduct admission process in the city.
Sources attributed the delay in admissions to flip-flop of the government on deciding on eligibility criteria. First the government had announced that it will raise the criteria for admission to graduation from present class XII. The move was apparently brought with a thought that the students do not ‘mature’ after finishing class XII and one year of DEd.
Sources added that every year, the DEd admission process starts before state board’s HSC results. But this year, even the results of BSc, BA and BCom of university were already out and hence more number of candidates are expected to rush for admissions.