AICTE

In order to upgrade various technical institutes in North Eastern States, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has announced financial assistance for 2009-10. The announcement followed by around 191 applications during 2009-10 from North East technical institutes seeking financial assistance to upgrade their institutions.

Online approval system, which was introduced by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) from this year, has resulted in delay in the process. The purpose behind introducing the online system was to speed up the process of approval of engineering, pharmacy, MBA and MCA colleges and also to check corruption and the role of middlemen but the system proved unreliable.

Students eyeing the engineering, MBA, MCA and pharmacy courses in Mumbai and the rest of the state will have to let their patience be tested a bit longer before they get admission to the desired courses of their choice this year. This is because the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) has decided to show the red signal to admission proceedings in Maharashtra for some more time.

To make sure that the courses are on par with international standards, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is revising accreditation criteria for technical education programmes in the country. The acting chairman of AICTE, S S Mantha declared:

The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has announced there will be an increase in the number of student intake in the pharmacy colleges across the country. In M Pharm course there will be a jump from the existing eight to 18 students where as for B Pharm course 60 students will go to the number of 120.

On July 8, The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has come up with a huge expansion in technical education for Tamil Nadu. There has been an endorsement of 42 self-financing engineering colleges. With this, Tamil Nadu accounts for a number of 498 engineering colleges, second only to Andhra Pradesh. Presently Andhra Pradesh leads with highest number of engineering colleges with a figure of 500.

 Students Beware! MBA or B Tech degrees from institutes on which you might have spent a few years and a couple of lakhs, may not have any value at all. The latest data available with the All-India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) shows several institutes offering degrees and diplomas in a range of subjects, have not bothered to obtain the statutory approval from the government to run the courses.

As thousands of engineering hopefuls prepared to give their best to college admissions starting June 18 in Karnataka, an SMS stating Round One of the admission process had been ‘indefinitely postponed’ started circulating.
 
The SMS was accompanied by differing accounts about the postponement. While some said that all engineering institutes had failed to acquire proper recognition, other accounts stated that the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is to blame for the delay.

Women’s education front must clearly be experiencing a very confusing phase in Mumbai, especially after the numerous women’s colleges and educational institutes in the city have started expressing the desire to go co-ed within a year of being established under a special scheme of 2009.