One stop website planned for students to get all college details

Students will now get critical college details in one place.

1. HRD ministry asks colleges to disclose all details about themselves to help students.
2. Students trying to decide which colleges to apply will no have more information at their disposal.
3. Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) says it may like to make it mandatory for universities to display on their website, “critical details” about their affiliated colleges.
4. Technical and professional higher educational institutes are required to display, on their websites, certain critical information on enrolment, examination performance, physical facilities, human resources etc under mandatory disclosure norms.
5. It is an attempt to help students to make informed decisions about institutes and courses.
6. Mumbai University also recently asked its affiliated colleges to provide the information in the form of the minimum disclosure norms suggested by the ministry.
7. Colleges have to furnish all details, including year of affiliation and recognition, year of last accreditation and rating and whether it is a government-aided or unaided institute.
8. Colleges will have to give the name of each course (whether undergraduate, diploma or postgraduate, regular or self-financed), the annual fees and the selection procedure.
9. Colleges will also have to give details on the number of seats available, enrolment details, and the number of students who took the exam and passed and the total number who obtained a first division.
10. University says when the information is available at one place, students will be able to judge institutes for themselves, based on the strengths that a particular college emphasis.