Explore innovative funding choices: AICTE Chairman
[ad_1]
Indian larger schooling establishments have to discover innovative funding choices to satisfy future challenges, stated All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Chairman Prof. Anil Dattatreya Sahasrabudhe right here on Thursday.
He was the chief visitor for the concluding session of South Zone Vice-Chancellor’s Conference organised by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) and hosted by GITAM Deemed to be University within the on-line mode.
He stated as a substitute of relying extra on authorities funding universities should create new funding choices to enhance revenues. He additionally advised that universities ought to strengthen the university-industry partnerships and efficient utilisation of alumni community to enhance monetary standing.
He briefed about AICTE’s new initiative on multilingual translation of studying assets of assorted engineering topics. He additionally knowledgeable that 42% of engineering and medical college students have been exhibiting curiosity to be taught topics of their mom tongue.
Currently, Swayam programs have been being machine translated to supply high quality content material to engineering college students, particularly from underprivileged sections who could be shiny however lack fluency in English and endure from an inferiority complicated. The translated works would empower them and supply a extra enabling surroundings to pursue larger schooling, Mr. Sahasrabudhe added.
He additional stated that to encourage multidisciplinary strategy AICTE is now allowing the schooling establishments for merging technical and non-technical faculties operating beneath the identical belief or society at varied areas within the metropolis.
Association of Indian Universities (AIU) Secretary General Pankaj Mittal stated that the affiliation was actively engaged with on-line workshops, instructor coaching programmes and on-line placement and coaching actions.
She stated AIU was making ready a doc basing on the vice-chancellor’s strategies and suggestions on NEP-2020 to submit the identical to authorities.
AIU vice-president Col G. Thiruvasagam, GITAM Deemed to be University vice-chancellor Prof. K. Sivaramakrishna and others participated within the discussions.
During the convention, vice-chancellors advised elimination of GST on schooling establishments, funding help on a par with central universities and analysis funding help to personal deemed to be universities.
[ad_2]
