Dental Education

Admission for BDS seats in 2006
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 | gp

The 2004 scheme of admissions to professional colleges in the State would be applicable this year for the MBBS, BDS, B.Pharm. and B.Sc. Nursing courses in the colleges under the Pariyaram Academy of Medical Sciences also, a press note from the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations said here on Sunday. All students gaining admission to professional courses, except Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe/Other Eligible students, should pay the required fee in the bank on the stipulated dates. These three categories of students should temporarily pay the caution deposit - as fixed in the Government colleges - at the bank. The amount can be had from the student's page in the web site cee.kerala.gov.in. At the Sree Krishna College of Pharmacy, Parassala, and the KMCT Dental College, Kozhikode, where admissions would be on the basis of the 2006 Act, there will be 50 per cent freeship seats and 20 per cent full fee seats. While in the freeship seats the Government fee would be charged the fee fixed by the K. T. Thomas Commission would be charged in the full fee seats.

UK has vacancies for Indian dentist
Sunday, November 13, 2005 | gp

Many Indian dentists, particularly those in Kerala, are busy training for an examination that could get them jobs in Britain and fill the yawning shortage of the professionals there. There were close to 4,000 vacancies of dentists in Britain. MBPMF is perhaps the only training organisation in the country that provides courses for dentists to take the three part international qualifying exam (IQE) for getting a Britain-approved license. The courses, which began in February this year, are taught at Manipal in Karnataka. Since February, 270 dentists have undergone the training, of which 18 have already got jobs in UK. Since the IQE has three parts, it usually takes close to a year for any dentist to qualify. To write each part of the IQE, the candidate has to go to Britain. Reports indicate that the pass percentage of those who have attended the course at MBPMF is close to 80 percent. The training fee for the first part is Rs.120,000, for the second part Rs.155,000 and for the final Rs.200,000.

SC to decide on 165 vaccant dental seats
Monday, October 10, 2005 | gp

According to news agencies, the Supreme Court will hear on October 21 an application from the All-India Medical and Engineering Colleges' Association seeking permission to fill vacant seats in 165 dental and paramedical colleges in 22 States. Permission was also sought to admit students on the basis of higher secondary examination marks. The petitioner said thousands of seats were vacant in the member-colleges even after considering students who had taken the Common Entrance Tests and by admitting eligible students who had not taken the entrance tests conducted by the respective states. He said minority and non-minority self-financing colleges, would not be able to sustain themselves unless at least 50 per cent of total seats was filled. The applicant had to move the court as the apex court had fixed a cut-off date of August 30 for admissions in the Islamic Academy case. Last year, the court had allowed filling of vacant seats with those who had not taken the Common Entrance Test, but were eligible on the basis of marks in the higher secondary examination.