Monday, March 16, 2009

All India Council for Technical Education | AICTE

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the statutory body for planning and coordinated development of technical education in India. It was founded in November 1945. Currently there are 1346 engineering colleges in India, approved by the Council of India for technical education with a capacity of 4,40,000.

All major engineering, pharmacy and MBA colleges affiliated to AICTE. Prominent exceptions B. Tech. during the Indian Institute of Technology (IITS), BITS, Pilani.

The AICTE has its headquarters in Indira Gandhi Sports Complex, Indraprastha Estate, New Delhi where offices of president, vice-president and secretary.



The AICTE Act of 1987

AICTE is the statutory body responsible for planning, formulation and application of rules and standards, quality assurance through accreditation of schools, funding in priority areas, monitoring and the evaluation, maintaining parity of certification and awards and ensuring a coordinated and integrated development and management of technical education in the country under the AICTE Act No. 52 of 1987 .

The AICTE Act, said the letter reads as follows:

To ensure the establishment of a Council of India for technical education in the proper planning and coordinated development of technical education throughout the country, promotion of qualitative improvement of the education regarding the draft of the quantitative growth and regulation and proper maintenance of norms and standards in technical education and for matters connected therewith.

Current Objective

To improve the technical training, current goals of technology into the curriculum as follows:

1. Greater emphasis on design-oriented education, the teaching of design methods, problem-solving approach.

2. Greater exposure to industrial and manufacturing processes.

3. Exclusion of obsolete technologies and the introduction of the new, updated and new technologies.

4. Greater contribution of management education and professional communication.





For more info visit the official site http://www.aicte.ernet.in/




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