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| 13th
Aug 2010 / Times of India / Mumbai Edition |
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Classrooms lack diversity this year
Mumbai: The citys top colleges have a history of attracting
students from other districts,like Pune and Nagpur, as
well as from countries like UAE, Bahrain, the US, Russia
and some African nations. Premier science college D G
Ruparel gets about 10 foreign students every year,mainly
Indians who come from Dubai,and some students from Iran;some
foreign students also come through Rotary exchange programmes.H
R College,too,is a favourite destination for NRI students
wanting to study commerce in the city.
But this year, classrooms will not see that diversity,as
the number of outstation and non-state board students
opting for city colleges in FYJC has fallen drastically.
We suspect that close to 60,000 seats will remain unfilled
even as the first round of general admissions closes on
Friday.That is because several candidates have already
taken admission under the minority or management quotas,
or have joined the bifocal courses, said an official from
the deputy directors office.
Said Avnita Bir,principal of R N Podar School, There has
been a lot of uncertainty among students, prompting school
managements to start higher classes. For science students,
the importance of class XII has also fallen. Its about
entering a system that will help them get into institutions
like the IITs after class XII, and so theyd rather finish
it in their school itself rather than get into the mess
of joining a junior college in Mumbai.
At her school, like in most other all-India board institutes,
the first term is almost closing and most classes this
year have gone full. Whether students from the all-India
boards are just not interested in getting into a junior
college,or have not made it to one, is unclear. For, 6,765
candidates from the all-India board schools of Mumbai
region applied to get into FYJC but, to date,merely 2,829
of them have sought admission.
Abha Dharampal, head of Utpal Sanghvi High School, said
the IGCSE results were declared on Thursday and that a
few hundred would take admission offline now. But I suspect
many of them interested in joining the junior colleges
would have already availed of the same through the management
quota, she said.
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