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AICTE decides to allow arts and science courses in engineering colleges

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COIMBATORE: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has decided to allow engineering colleges run arts and science courses in parallelly on the same campus.

Confirming the decision, AICTE chairman Anil D Sahasrabudhe told Express, "If other programmes are to be run, the requirement of each programme should be available separately except playground, parking, canteen, etc."  In Tamil Nadu, engineering colleges come under the control of Anna University, whereas arts and science colleges are covered by arts and science universities like University of Madras, Bharathiar University, Madurai Kamaraj University, etc.

When asked if engineering colleges will be allowed to get affiliation for arts and science colleges from other arts and science universities, he said, "It depends on having independent facilities for each of the programmes separately."  

Welcoming this decision, a chairman of a private engineering college said that it would help utilise the resources that now remain idle given the poor patronage for engineering courses. The classrooms built for such courses can now be used for arts and science programmes.

Engineering colleges equipped with faculty members for physics, chemistry, and mathematics, and also laboratories for these subjects; these can be used effectively, the chairman suggested. He also recalled how engineering colleges were allowed to run courses like BSc and MSc in Computer Science and Information Technology till the year 2002.

However, the chairman opined that starting the courses for the academic year 2019-20 would be impossible. The last date to apply to the Directorate of Collegiate Education for permission for these arts and science courses ended on December 31. Colleges could ask for the deadline to be extended, the chairman suggested.  Meanwhile, Association of Self Financing Arts, Science and Management Colleges of Tamil Nadu president Ajeet Kumar Lal Mohan opined that the AICTE did not have the power to allow engineering colleges to run arts and science courses. The management would need a GO from the Tamil Nadu government. Besides, common land cannot be used for running engineering and arts courses, he claimed.

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AICTE decides to allow arts and science courses in engineering colleges

 http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2019/jan/04/aicte-decides-to-allow-arts-and-science-courses-in-engineering-colleges-1920436.html

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AICTE Launches online dashboard on Instititions

AICTE launches online dashboard on institutions

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The All India Council for Technical Education has created a dashboard on its website with easy access to some basic details about institutions under its purview across the country.

Under the section ‘Statistics’ the data provides information about the number of institutions, their intake, the number of faculty and enrolment. According to the data, as of 2015-16 there are 10,329 institutions in government, aided, private and deemed institutions.

The sectors include pharmacy, hotel management, engineering and technology, MCA, management, applied arts and crafts and architecture and planning.

The data, a self-declaration by institutions, reveals that in Tamil Nadu 2,79,827 seats have remained vacant in the academic year. Though in a couple of months colleges would start the preliminaries for admission process, the data on intake and vacancies for the current year are not available.

An independent educational consultant Moorthy Selvakumaran says the Council has uploaded only basic information but this is only raw data. “It is useful to the students and public but there is no specific information about the quality of the institution. The online system of uploading the details will keep the Council competitive as the Ministry of Human Resource Development has proposed to rank institutions. The need of the hour is to update the website about the number of institutions that have sought National Board of Accreditation (NBA) accreditation,” he says.

Last year, the Council had made it mandatory for colleges to be accredited by the NBA. Yet, the details are missing, Mr. Moorthy points out. Also, the Council is silent on the details about colleges that had violated the rules and the action taken.

The principal of a private engineering institution says the Council is still evolving. “Sometime ago even these data were not available. It is a step forward in transparency,” he adds.

For institutions, however, the issue of concern is the revision of fee structure. The former Supreme Court Judge B.N. Srikrishna-led committee report on technical education had come up with a range of fee structure for private institutions. The report has been sent to the MHRD for approval. An academician, however, said the decision to hike the fees could be the discretion of the State government.

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