Tag: Aicte

Cuttack: Union Human Resource Development minister Prakash Javadekar, on Tuesday, announced that the Centre is mulling to reduce the University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) control and give more autonomy to higher education institutions so that these institutions get more freedom for better education and research. He also said […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), on Friday, informed that it will soon close down all those engineering colleges with less than 30 per cent admissions being recorded in the last five years. Technical colleges which recorded less than 30 per cent admissions in the last five years will be closed […]

New Delhi: The Centre has no plan to merge UGC and AICTE into a single higher education regulator, Minister of State for HRD Mahenrda Nath Pandey said in a written response in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. “No such proposal is under consideration at present, to merge the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the All […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: ‘No internship No Degree’- this is the new guideline brought in by the government to put a cap on the rising rate of ‘unemployable’ engineering students in the country. The engineering students will now have to undergo three mandatory internships during their course from this academic year failing which they may not get […]

In view of the prevailing pandemic situation, AICTE has re-issued guidelines for strict compliance by colleges and institutions across the country.

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) is planning to scrap UGC and AICTE to set up a single higher education regulator, christened as Higher Education Empowerment Regulation Agency (HEERA), with an aim to bring technical and non-technical institutions under one regulatory body. Sources said the HRD Ministry is working with the Niti […]

Bhubaneswar: As the controversy surrounding the fake placements at ITER College continues, its parent Siksha O Anusandhan (SOA) University’s name is missing from the approved list of institutions as shown on the website of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). As per the findings of Odisha Television (OTV), the approved institutions’ list under […]

Bhubaneswar: The engineering admission rules in Odisha was changed after premier local news channel OTV exposed the violation of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) guidelines in the admission process. Now the admission into BTech course will be done on the basis of AICTE guidelines. Employment And Technical Education & Training Department has apprised […]

Bhubaneswar: At a time when technical institutes across the country are struggling to run owing to fall in student intake each passing year, the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has come up with a novel idea of allowing these institutions to impart courses on Skill Development. An official notification in this regard has […]

Bhubaneswar: Going out of the way to address the worries of the private engineering colleges in the state, which have seen a drastic fall in student intake over the last few years, the Odisha government has tweaked the norms of All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) in an effort to get more aspirants admitted […]

Bhubaneswar: After the Orissa High Court issued notices to at least six government engineering colleges in the state, over the increase in number of seats in certain courses without getting due approval from AICTE, the Employment and Technical Education & Training Department has responded saying that such a step has been taken to accommodate poor […]

New Delhi: Maharashtra came out at the top with 53 awards in total at the recently concluded Smart India Hackathon (software edition), followed by Tamil Nadu and Delhi, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) said on Sunday. Tamil Nadu, New Delhi, and Karnataka, the next three won 34, 28, and 19 awards respectively. […]

New Delhi: AICTE, the apex body for technical institutes in the country, has asked a number of polytechnic institutions operating from temporary locations to move their establishments to a permanent location “within two years of grant of approval”. The notice, issued by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) on Tuesday to 35 government […]

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday cleared a proposal for creation of a National Testing Agency (NTA), to conduct entrance tests which are at present being conducted by the CBSE. An official statement said the NTA will be created as a Society registered under the Indian Societies Registration […]

New Delhi: The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has summoned the secretary of the University Grants Commission (UGC) over higher fee in girls’ hostel than boys’ hostel and other discriminatory rules in Hindu College. Also many colleges lack girls’ hostel because of lack of funds and grants of many other colleges are stuck with the […]