200 engg colleges apply for closure every year: AICTE
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Trichy:29.07.2018
An average of 50% of seats in the 3,200-odd engineering colleges in the country have been lying vacant while around 200 colleges have been applying for closure every year, according to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). This was revealed by the council’s chairman, Anil D Sahasrabudhe, on the sidelines of the 14th convocation of the National Institute of Technology Trichy on Saturday.
The waning interest in the engineering stream is not new, with the trend continuing for the past three years. “While most closure applications are from Andra Pradesh and Telangana, they are coming from Tamil Nadu as well. Quality education may not be imparted with less number of students, therefore we do allow such colleges to run vocational courses,” the chairman said.
Sahasrabudhe said that most closures were of rural engineering colleges which had large infrastructure. Permission was given for such colleges to ensure that students in rural areas had access to engineering education, but the students preferred colleges in urban areas for the sake of convenience and better opportunities leading to closure of many institutions.
Asked about teachers being sacked by many of the engineering colleges after AICTE relaxed the studentfaculty ratio from 1:15 to 1:20, the chairman said that change in ratio could not be offered as a reason for teachers getting retrenched from colleges. He pointed out that admissions in some colleges were so poor that they were not getting even one student. In such cases, the colleges might not be able to keep teachers and were likely to ask them to join elsewhere. “We have asked teachers to complain if they are sacked but we haven’t received any such complaints, which prove that the claims of retrenchment are false,”he added.
On the reforms introduced by AICTE to the curriculum, Sahasrabudhe said that except for a common entrance test, they had been getting a good response from the states. “Some of the states have been opposing a common entrance exam for the whole country. But a single entrance test will prevent students from unnecessarily appearing for various entrance tests to get qualified to various colleges,” he said. Without referring to the national eligibility-cum-entrance test (NEET), he said that some states were not on board because of the bad experience they had with some exam which should not be correlated with every test. He said that a common exam would not take away the policy of reservation of the state government. The AICTE chairman added that there has been a mad rush to open pharmacy colleges in the country this year.
The waning interest in the engineering stream is not new, with the trend continuing for the past three years
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Trichy:29.07.2018
An average of 50% of seats in the 3,200-odd engineering colleges in the country have been lying vacant while around 200 colleges have been applying for closure every year, according to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). This was revealed by the council’s chairman, Anil D Sahasrabudhe, on the sidelines of the 14th convocation of the National Institute of Technology Trichy on Saturday.
The waning interest in the engineering stream is not new, with the trend continuing for the past three years. “While most closure applications are from Andra Pradesh and Telangana, they are coming from Tamil Nadu as well. Quality education may not be imparted with less number of students, therefore we do allow such colleges to run vocational courses,” the chairman said.
Sahasrabudhe said that most closures were of rural engineering colleges which had large infrastructure. Permission was given for such colleges to ensure that students in rural areas had access to engineering education, but the students preferred colleges in urban areas for the sake of convenience and better opportunities leading to closure of many institutions.
Asked about teachers being sacked by many of the engineering colleges after AICTE relaxed the studentfaculty ratio from 1:15 to 1:20, the chairman said that change in ratio could not be offered as a reason for teachers getting retrenched from colleges. He pointed out that admissions in some colleges were so poor that they were not getting even one student. In such cases, the colleges might not be able to keep teachers and were likely to ask them to join elsewhere. “We have asked teachers to complain if they are sacked but we haven’t received any such complaints, which prove that the claims of retrenchment are false,”he added.
On the reforms introduced by AICTE to the curriculum, Sahasrabudhe said that except for a common entrance test, they had been getting a good response from the states. “Some of the states have been opposing a common entrance exam for the whole country. But a single entrance test will prevent students from unnecessarily appearing for various entrance tests to get qualified to various colleges,” he said. Without referring to the national eligibility-cum-entrance test (NEET), he said that some states were not on board because of the bad experience they had with some exam which should not be correlated with every test. He said that a common exam would not take away the policy of reservation of the state government. The AICTE chairman added that there has been a mad rush to open pharmacy colleges in the country this year.
The waning interest in the engineering stream is not new, with the trend continuing for the past three years
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