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AICTE relaxes rules, to rope in professors to inspect colleges
Chennai: Finding it hard to get academics at the level of vice-chancellors to be on its inspection and scrutiny teams, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has decided to rope in professors for the task.
The AICTE had recently mandated that only vicechancellor-level academics must be included in teams which scrutinise applications from educational trusts to establish new technical colleges and physically inspect the premises before granting approval to the institutions. However, the apex regulatory body has now realised that very few serving and past vicechancellors who were available to accept the assignment, whereas there are far too many institutions that need to be inspected and granted approval.
“A meeting was held in New Delhi on Thursday under the chairmanship of the AICTE’s acting member secretary D Paliwal. It was decided that professors can be permitted to be on the expert committees which would scrutinise applications to set up new institutions and carry out physical inspections on campuses,” an AICTE official said.
The meeting was attended by top AICTE officials from across eight regions and representatives of industry including those from CII and FICCI.
At the meeting Paliwal also told the delegates that there will be no further extension of the deadline for engineering colleges and other technical institutions in the country to apply for extension of approval of existing courses for the coming academic year, beyond February 5. The regulatory body had extended the deadline four times in the last month throwing the schedule for processing applications and conductions inspections haywire.
Meanwhile, top AICTE officials are upset that self-financing engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu have not yet filed applications under the new online process for seeking extension of approval and increasing intake of students. The institutions have been complaining that the online portal is not userfriendly. “One engineering college in Coimbatore had sought access to the portal 89 times claiming that each time it tried to upload information online, the webpage expired. How is it that only this institution is facing such a unique problem? It appears as if institutions in Tamil Nadu are delaying the exercise hoping to subvert the new approval process,” an official alleged.
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AICTE relaxes rules, to rope in professors to inspect colleges
Chennai: Finding it hard to get academics at the level of vice-chancellors to be on its inspection and scrutiny teams, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has decided to rope in professors for the task.
The AICTE had recently mandated that only vicechancellor-level academics must be included in teams which scrutinise applications from educational trusts to establish new technical colleges and physically inspect the premises before granting approval to the institutions. However, the apex regulatory body has now realised that very few serving and past vicechancellors who were available to accept the assignment, whereas there are far too many institutions that need to be inspected and granted approval.
The meeting was attended by top AICTE officials from across eight regions and representatives of industry including those from CII and FICCI.
At the meeting Paliwal also told the delegates that there will be no further extension of the deadline for engineering colleges and other technical institutions in the country to apply for extension of approval of existing courses for the coming academic year, beyond February 5. The regulatory body had extended the deadline four times in the last month throwing the schedule for processing applications and conductions inspections haywire.
Meanwhile, top AICTE officials are upset that self-financing engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu have not yet filed applications under the new online process for seeking extension of approval and increasing intake of students. The institutions have been complaining that the online portal is not userfriendly. “One engineering college in Coimbatore had sought access to the portal 89 times claiming that each time it tried to upload information online, the webpage expired. How is it that only this institution is facing such a unique problem? It appears as if institutions in Tamil Nadu are delaying the exercise hoping to subvert the new approval process,” an official alleged.
Courtesy: Times of India
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