AICTE mandates Accreditation of all colleges under its domain

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has announced that it will make mandatory for all colleges to be accredited under its council. Once done, colleges will have to conduct classes for 10% of the curriculum through online mode. 

The idea was put down during the seminar “Perspective Plan for Approval of New Technical Institution in the State of Maharashtra” that was organized on 3^rd by technical education regulator DTE.

The DTE director, SS Mahajan said, presently many colleges are facing vacancies than before. Last year, more than 100 engineering colleges faced 35% vacancy, and this year around 264. In diploma institutes, more than 275 seats have gone vacant.

Looking at the concern shown by head of many colleges over vacant seat, AICTE chairman gave opinion by saying colleges should work over better quality rather than showing concern over vacant seats. He further added, it’s true that technical education sector has rapidly expanded over the years, and are planning for future growth.

“The average success rate of Class XII students is 50%. If that goes up and you have more students knocking at your door, how will you suddenly increase capacity?" he suggested.

With the expansion, it will help student to have various choices, but colleges which do not perform well will have to fight hard to overcome the vacancy problem.