Saturday, July 09, 2011

July 18: Admissions for Paramedical opens in colleges

IGNOU launched diploma courses in Chinese

There is some good news for students considering a career in paramedical courses. This year, the academic session for paramedical courses will begin earlier than usual . The Admission committee for Professional Courses (ACPC) announced on Thursday that admissions for institutes offering medical and paramedical courses will be conducted between July 18 and 27. "For the first time , admissions for two courses will take place together . Earlier, the process for admissions for medical courses was conducted first ," said an ACPC member .

Colleges will start academic sessions from August 1. "In the past , paramedical courses often started rather late in the year , this caused problems for students ," said an ACPC member

In medical and paramedical colleges of Gujarat , there are a total of 7,500 seats for which no less than 12,700 students have applied . As compared to 2010, 1000 more forms have been filled up by applicants this year . The ACPC has cleared the way for admissions in 2,230 medical and 1,055 dental colleges . The remaining seats are for various colleges that offer courses such as ayurveda and homeopathy .