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KANPUR: The students will get admission on first come first serve basis in various professional courses of Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj University (CSJMU) in the academic session 2013-14. This decision was taken in the meeting of academic council held on Saturday. CSJMU vice-chancellor Ashok Kumar and HoDs of various professional courses decided not to conduct the entrance tests for courses which had received less number of applications in 2013-14 academic session. The students will get direct admissions. The HoDs will form a merit list. On its basis, allotment of seats will be done. The students will be informed about their admissions. The academic council committee also decided to conduct entrance test for around 28 courses offered by CSJMU which got many applicants.

BERHAMPUR: With admission season round the corner,  Berhampur  University (BU) authorities have sounded alert to students and their parents to verify the genuineness of institutes before taking admission. The alert came against the backdrop of several unscrupulous institutes thriving in southern  Odisha . "We have advised students and their parents to verify the status of government recognition and university affiliation of colleges or institutes and the courses offered by them before taking admission," said vice- chancellor of the university J K Mohapatra. "The university will not be held responsibility for conduct of examinations during 2013-14 session for courses in the institutes which don't fulfill the statutory requirement of government recognition and university affiliation," said registrar B P Rath in a recent notification.

PANAJI: The high court of Bombay at Goa has upheld the provisions of the Goa University ordinance that denies benefit of gracing to allow a student to pass in an individual subject in  the Bachelor  of Computer Applications (BCA) course.  A division bench comprising Justice RP Sondurbaldota and Justice UV Bakre observed, "If one reads the objective of the programme, the absence of gracing can be justified. The objective is 'to produce employable IT workforce, that will have sound knowledge of IT and business fundamentals that can be applied to develop and customize solutions for small and medium enterprises (SMEs)'."  While stating that there would be a question mark about the "sound knowledge" of the subject by a student who has cleared the subject through gracing, the high court opined that if the university decides to have a system of evaluation by doing away with the provision of grace marks it would be a matter of its academic policy.