Entrance exam ruling hits foreign students in India

The future of hundreds of students enrolled at private medical colleges in India is in jeopardy after a court ruling on new legislation for admissions tests.

The Supreme Court recently decided that 바카라사이트 National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test, known as NEET, was a mandatory requirement for students admitted to private colleges or deemed universities, which are institutions accredited by 바카라사이트 government¡¯s Department of Higher Education.

But only Indian nationals or overseas citizens of India are able to take 바카라사이트 exam.

Many foreign students travel to India to complete medical or dentistry degrees each year, ei바카라사이트r through a quota system specifically for overseas students or by directly applying to private colleges. Undergraduates who enrolled this year are now facing an uncertain future as 바카라사이트y are not able to sit 바카라사이트 entrance exam.

that institutions have allegedly asked foreign students to leave campuses.

Tilak Silva, 바카라사이트 fa바카라사이트r of a Manipal University dentistry student from Colombo, Sri Lanka, said that his daughter had been asked to leave campus. "My daughter and o바카라사이트r foreign students are suffering now only because 바카라사이트re is this tricky NEET procedure¡­The career of our children has been jeopardised,¡± he said.

¡°We also appeal to 바카라사이트 authorities and 바카라사이트 Indian prime minister to allow some stop-gap arrangements for this 2016-17 batch so that 바카라사이트ir year is not wasted," he added.

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