Corporate colleges start classes for second year students

No summer holidays for Intermediate students!

It may sound strange, but the corporate colleges continue to flout norms with impunity with regard to conducting classes even as the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) has officially announced closure of all Intermediate colleges from March 29 to May 31. Classes for Intermediate second year have already began in several corporate colleges while preparations are on to conduct first year classes from April 8 as the SSC examinations end on April 7. Several sought-after branches of the corporate colleges have already completed the admissions for first year even though the SSC exams are on.

“The agents of corporate colleges have completed the process of luring parents with discount offers and success rates of their branches over the years,” an official of the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) said on condition of anonymity. In fact, ‘no vacancy’ position is being informed to the eager parents visiting the ‘best’ branches of all the corporate colleges.

College managements are trying to be clever as they conduct the classes only for the top students now as they don’t want to waste a single day in preparing the students for the all India competitive exams like JEE or AIIMS. These classes for the selected ‘top’ students at unknown locations to ward off trouble from officials or student unions, who target them every year. “Initially classes will be run in 20 to 30 colleges and the numbers will increase as the summer progresses.”

“Some institutions are using their school premises to run the colleges so as to escape from the officials as there are no restrictions on schools,” says Madhusudhan Reddy, president of the Government Junior Lecturers’ Association (GJLA). College managements argue that are only preparing second year students for engineering and medical entrance exam and not conducting second year classes.

The role of BIE officials is also being questioned “There have not been any incidents of the Board taking action against any college. In fact, colleges keep the officials happy offering them ‘benefits’,” a government college lecturer said. “With these colleges luring almost every student with offers much before admission season begins there is hardly anyone left to join the government colleges.”