New Delhi: Year 2010 is set to conduct into the educational institutes a new era of accountability and transparency with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), as it is likely to introduce comprehensive reforms in the higher education sector. According to the new reform, all the recognized colleges are required to declare online, every institute's fee details, faculty components and admission related details.
Soon, the Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal is about to make the announcement regarding all these reforms, where all the AICTE-recognized private colleges would have to declare their entire fees, its components, refundable portions on withdrawal of admission, number of seats per course, eligibility conditions, admission and selection process, details of teaching faculty, including their pay and qualifications, the institute's physical and academic infrastructure and syllabus outline.
AICTE Executive Committee's plan includes putting online the entire approval/accreditation process for institutes, so that the online the status of their application could be known, pertaining to approval for new courses, increasing intake of existing programmes or accreditation of their programmes.
Further, it would also stop affiliating professional courses (B Tech / M Tech) offered in distance mode and encourage institutes to subscribe to an internet grouping and to high-speed broad band connectivity, develop a comprehensive scheme for horizontal and vertical mobility of vocational and ITI students for the benefit of those from the working class and lower economic strata and for co-option of foreign experts on All India Boards, and consider allowing starting of dual-degree programmes of M Tech, leading to PhD.
