New Delhi: The future of thousands of students in the country is at stake. As many as 300 institutes in the country, around 50 of which are in Delhi, have been blacklisted by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). In some colleges, students said that after six months of admission they got to know that their course wasn't recognised by AICTE. The institutes provide technical courses like MBA, MCA, MTech without the council's approval. So what does it means for the students?
"This degree doesn't hold any value, you can't use it to go abroad, it's worthless," Education expert Mahesh Sharma said. The AICTE clearly says that no institute shall provide technical courses without the council's approval. "We will act against those providing unapproved courses," AICTE Chairman SS Khare said.
Located in the crowded Lakshmi Nagar area, in a dingy lane, a private college has been named in AICTE's list as providing technical courses without its approval. The students who CNN-IBN spoke to refused to come on camera but did admit that they were worried about their future.
Companies also shy away from hiring students from unapproved institutions. Even if the council provides approval to an institute later, students admitted before lose all rights to admission. So the students must conduct a thorough research of the program before enrolling for these courses....
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09:04 AM, Oct 26, 2012
Chennai: The State Government on Wednesday went on appeal against a single judge order of the High Court last month upholding AICTE norms that set a higher eligibility criteria for admissions to UG technical courses for students under the SC and ST categories.The first bench comprising Chief Justice M Y Eqbal and A Arumugasami ordered status quo in the matter after accepting the appeal and issued notices to respondents returnable...
07:47 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Coimbatore: The State Government has decided to once again challenge the higher minimum eligibility marks fixed by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for admission into engineering colleges. Higher Education Minister P Palaniappan told Express on Sunday that soon, his Department would file an appeal before a Division Bench of the Madras High Court. This year, the AICTE had mandated that only students with a minimum aggregate score...
12:14 PM, Aug 06, 2012
Bangalore: If the delay in uploading the seat matrix on the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) webpage has irked the students and parents, the non approval of the top engineering colleges in the state is another setback for the Common Entrance Test rank holders. As many as 17 colleges from the state have not received the nod from the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). Some of the top colleges...
10:43 AM, Jul 13, 2012
New Delhi: In an innovative measure, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has decided to host a social networking site linked to its portal allowing engineering students interact with each other about their projects. It will also deploy software major Microsoft's popular live@edu, a free suite of hosted Microsoft services and applications intended for educational needs, as a solution to provide better communication and collaboration platform both for institutes...
08:43 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: There will be a Common Admission Test for all non-IIM and non-CAT institutes from the year 2012. All IITs and IIMs will be excluded from the exam. All institutes where admissions are not through CAT will come under the ambit of the Common Admission Test from 2012. This will be implied on institutes affiliated to AICTE. The national level test will be conducted online for nine days from...
08:51 PM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: Too many students and too little seats - it's the bane of Indian education right from nursery to graduation and beyond. Turn it around could take years, but the baby steps taken by Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal in technical education put out new norms for AICTE accredited institutes - the government-approved non-IIT and non-IIM institutes. These will see an increase in the number of engineering and management...
05:02 PM, Dec 30, 2010
AICTE's top officials were caught red-handed accepting bribes. ...
10:58 PM, Jul 17, 2009
The official allegedly accepted bribes from an engineering college in Andhra. ...
09:42 PM, Jul 16, 2009
Students enrolled with the American CFA Institute have been hit hard by a decision to ban the course in India. ...
09:19 AM, May 23, 2007
A consumer forum directed Amity to pay Rs 1.10 lakh to a student for misleading her that its course was recognised by AICTE. ...
01:10 PM, Sep 28, 2006
