Are you teaching in a private engineering college? Your job may be at riskMany engineering colleges have started downsizing the number of their faculties, citing a new rule by AICTE.
29 Jun, 2018, 09.46 AM IST
India is in the middle of an engineering education crisisThere will be around 80,000 less seats in engineering this year in the country. This will lead to around 3.1 lakh seats less in four years.
09 Apr, 2018, 05.49 PM IST
Engineering: How a dream career choice has fallen out of favourThe AICTE wants to close down about 800 engineering colleges across India. There are no takers for their seats, and admissions are plunging...
02 Sep, 2017, 04.22 PM IST
800 engineering colleges to close over low quality, admissionsThere are approximately 150 colleges which are closed down voluntarily every year due to strict AICTE rules.
02 Sep, 2017, 12.51 PM IST
How to restructure AICTE and change its role from strangulator to enabler of India’s talentBut beyond mere quantitative expansion, AICTE has failed to realise its objectives. GTCI unmasks this failure. It ranks India 86 in vocatio...
06 Jun, 2017, 11.20 AM IST
Engg colleges to have online complaints redressal mechanismAICTE has asked all the institutions, affiliated to it, "to urgently put in place an online mechanism, if not presently existing, for regis...
26 Feb, 2017, 12.47 PM IST
AICTE to soon recognise distance learning engineering coursesVarsities offering engineering programmes through correspondence will soon be able to get accreditation from the All India Council for Tech...
26 Nov, 2015, 07.51 PM IST
Govt-appointed panel for single engineering, management tests for institutes under AICTEAt present over 11,000 institutes, both engineering and management, come under the purview of All India Council for Technical Education.
09 Aug, 2015, 01.00 PM IST
University Grants Commission grants varsity status to private varsity in RajasthanAgrawal said that JECRC University would be one of the youngest universities to get approval from the UGC in such a short span of its exist...
03 Jun, 2014, 07.48 PM IST
- National perspective plan for technical education on the anvil
AICTE will come out with a National Perspective Plan for technical education, by which the pattern and requirements of courses and seats wo...
11 May, 2013, 10.06 PM IST
- HC asks AICTE to probe if colleges running unapproved courses
The court order came after the AICTE counsel told the bench the statutory body would examine the allegations by conducting an "in-depth" en...
12 Aug, 2012, 11.00 AM IST
- AICTE signs MoU with TISS on skill development
AICTE today roped in Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) to conduct studies on skill requirements and develop content for various sect...
27 Mar, 2012, 11.26 PM IST
- Self-regulatory mechanism soon for PGDM course colleges: FICCI
'No dateline is set for preparing the guidelines and it would be done at the earliest by taking views of all the stake holders.'
10 Mar, 2011, 05.11 PM IST
- Concern over employability of tech students: Panel
A Parliamentary Committee has voiced concern over employability of technical students, saying the expected response is simply missing. Cos ...
14 Dec, 2008, 06.21 PM IST
- Ragging may become a thing of the past
First year students can hope to enter campuses without the fear of ragging if stringent measures suggested by an expert panel are implement...
15 Jun, 2008, 10.17 AM IST
- AICTE to come out with guidelines on uniform fee structure
The All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) would come out with guidelines on uniform fee structure for technical education acros...
01 Jun, 2008, 03.55 PM IST
- MRTPC wants to teach B-schools a lesson or two in ethics
Based on a directive from the MRTPC, its investigation wing has issued notices to more than 100 institutes seeking details on fee, faculty ...
06 Oct, 2007, 04.52 AM IST