BIE to take action against AP colleges offering coaching for exams

The Andhra Pradesh Board of Intermediate Education will be taking action against the colleges given BIE affiliation for intermediate courses but have converted the college campuses into coaching centres helping students to prepare for the competitive examinations.

According to the rules, these colleges cannot coach the students for competitive exams like Engineering, Agricultural and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET) or the Indian Institute of Technology in the absence of the required permission thus cheating the students and parents.

Intermediate College require a separate license

BIE Secretary V Ramakrishna while speaking to the media stated that an intermediate college has to take separate licenses to coach the students for EAMCET which is the legal requirement that is being disregarded by the colleges in the past few years. The BIE secretary further added that the academics are different from the tutorial classes.

The Secretary also added that EAMCET coaching classes are categorized according to the tutorial classes as per Section 32 of the Education Act and the entities interested to raid into the segment for which separate permissions must be gathered from the government along with facilities delinked from the intermediate colleges. 

The regulations to be followed for the tutorial classes do not fall under the concepts of the BIE which has prompted the secretary to write to the government grant powers along with checking the violation of the rules. 

BIE to write to the government

The BIE Secretary has also stated that BIE will be writing to the government to get the powers following which action will be taken on the same as well. The colleges are required to register for tutorials and declare the fee details along with others that are not being done by the colleges. The officials have further stated that the Act was considered following which the officials wrote to the government to give the BIE the power to regulate. 

Tutorial players have also been asked to upload the photographs of their premises on the BIE website declaring the fees and other aspects. The secretary has also pointed out that the board wishes to separate academies and tutorials along with regulating the coaching classes. The secretary has also given the colleges permission to run intermediate courses, not coaching classes which have been happening all these years further stating that the illegal activities will end.

Patterns to filter students

Over the years, the colleges have been following a pattern to filter students based on their merits along with offering a selective focus on each category of the students. According to students, all the top-performing students are put in one room and given attention to in order to enable them to achieve the top positions for the colleges in AP EAMCET and IIT  tests which are advertised to attract more students. The remaining students are placed in the above-average category who also receive coaching for the competitive exams while the students at the bottom are made to focus on only the two-year course. The other illegalities followed by the colleges include publicizing themselves as English-Medium institutions while students are rarely taught in English. 

As compared to school education where the B.Ed Degree for teaching is mandatory no such rules are applicable for junior colleges since fresh M.Sc graduates start off as tutors and then become lecturers. 

The BIE officials have also inspected corporate colleges in Vijayawada and their places and have promised to look into the credentials of the teaching staff. 

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