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While the government envisions the National Council for Higher Education as the ultimate regulatory body to govern higher education in the country, the West Bengal government feels otherwise. Calling the move an effort which will lead to over centralisation of the higher education system; the state government has resolved to oppose the forthcoming draft of the National Council of Higher Education Research Bill.

Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (CFA) has now decided to gear up and create brand awareness in India. CFA which is headquartered in US is involved in a case with All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the technical education regulatory body, in India.

AICTE has asked CFA Institute to stop their operations in the country but the Delhi High Court has given permission to CFA to register candidates for the exam which will be conducted in June 2010.

With a view to make All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and National Board of Accreditation (NBA) more transparent, Minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal launched internet portals of the two Central regulatory agencies on February 12.

 A high-powered body is likely to oversee the working of Central regulatory agencies to remove all the bottlenecks in the education sector. This is one of several measures the government is going to introduce to ensure transparency in all the regulatory bodies All India Council for Technical Eduucation (AICTE).

Axe may fall on all those private vocational institutions being run without approval in Maharashtra. The state government is planning to crack down on all such unauthorized institutions by enacting a law. it is contemplating on making it a non bailable offence to float unauthorized institutions.

Despite its industrial exposure, Jaipur’s higher education sector has been eclipsed by student drain for long. Not only that it could not use its industrial exposure as a trump card to woo students from other states, Jaipur has not even been able to accommodate own students and was thereby destined to witness its students migrating to other states for higher education.

Citing cases of dubious clearance given to technical institutions by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has recommended ''comprehensive systemic changes'' to stop corruption in the technical education. The CBI gave this recommendation in the wake of 24 cases of corruption involving AICTE officials. 

Management Aptitude Test (MAT) 2009 will be held on December 6, 2009. This was announced by the All India Management Association (AIMA). Candidates (final year students or graduates in any discipline) who clear MAT will be given admissions to various management institutes in the country. 

As the government has decided to dispense with the Central regulatory bodies like University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), employees of these agencies are bound to be worried about their future. Once a super regulator is constituted to replace these agencies, their staff will be rendered jobless. 

 Beware! You may end up fooling yourself if you are engaged in an online search of AICTE specific information. The All India Council for Technical Education had landed in real trouble as its official website was hacked last weekend. While its own website being disabled is no less a worry, another bigger trouble is haunting the country’s premier technical education regulator. It is advent of another ‘AICTE’ on the Internet.