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AICTE to seek states` help to close institutes

Kalpana Pathak / New Delhi July 28, 2007

(Businessstandard.com, July 28, 2007).

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) — the body that regulates technical education in India — has decided to approach state governments and ask them to close unapproved institutions, including several premier B-schools and technical training institutes, operating in their regions.

Around 150 such institutes may face the axe. The AICTE will issue notices to the state governments and to these institutes in a week.

The names of unapproved institutes that the AICTE has put on its website include the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad; the Indian Institute of Planning and Management, Delhi and Mumbai; Federation of Hotel and Restaurants Association of India Institute of Hospitality Management (FHRAI), Noida; Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai; Christ Educational Society, Bangalore; ICFAI Institute of Science and Technology, Bangalore; ICFAI Business School, Gurgaon and Chandigarh and Amity School of Distance Learning, Noida.

These institutes are among a list of 273 unapproved institutes that the AICTE released in March. Notices were sent to them asking them to apply for approval.

“We gave them an opportunity to seek approval. We even sent them requests to apply. In the last week of June, we sent them a final reminder. Since many institutes have failed to comply with our rules, we have decided to take action,” said an AICTE official.

He added that many institutes said they did not need AICTE approval. “These are institutes that do not have proper infrastructure in place and fear the AICTE will ask them to close operations,” he added.

When contacted, an Indian School of Business official said, “We have not received any communication from the AICTE on any such issue. We have always been transparent in our operations. Whatever information the AICTE wanted, we have provided and if there is any such law we will comply with it.”

“The AICTE does not support us in any manner — financial or academic. We do not need their approval to operate. Our programme is recognised by industry and our students get good placements. Moreover, we do not believe that hospitality management comes under technical education,” said the secretary general, FHRAI Institute of Hospitality Management.

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As far as engineering colleges are concern, I think AICTE move is liable. Engineering comes under the tech course. But regarding Mgmt courses, they are all post graduation & not comes under tech education. These courses are like certificate courses, and most of these colleges are providing diploma.So, AICTE should not look for all approval & all those matter. Yes, the council should look to these institutes whether they have at least followed all the norms of providing diploma courses. We have thousands of computer training institutes awarding diplomas, what's the problem with B-schools.

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The conflict is due to AICTE extending its ambit to professional education as a whole, which includes management and technology programs. I think the way forward should be to treat management education on its own merit and AIMA or some other body be created to monitor the state of education.

To AICTE's credit, their intention is to protect the interest of the larger student body and have done the right things in many cases. That said, the recent CFA example and BIS/BIT issue many years back are instances of it overplaying its role. I think their grouse is maximum when education is being commerically sold under a marketing/PR blitz and six digit fees.

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As far as engineering colleges are concern, I think AICTE move is liable. Engineering comes under the tech course. But regarding Mgmt courses, they are all post graduation & not comes under tech education. These courses are like certificate courses, and most of these colleges are providing diploma.So, AICTE should not look for all approval & all those matter. Yes, the council should look to these institutes whether they have at least followed all the norms of providing diploma courses. We have thousands of computer training institutes awarding diplomas, what's the problem with B-schools.