Re: [MTC Global] AICTE on its way out?

HI MTCians,

I am not an expert on the regulatory matters. However from the little that I have gathered through press-notes and discussions among colleagues the following points emerge.

1. Till now there was significant overlap between the supervisory roles of UGC and AICTE as far as professional colleges are concerned. For instance Engineering colleges and Magt institutions. Colleges affiliated to Universities needed AICTE compliance also. With the new scheme this overlap will go away. All colleges affiliated to Universities would have to comply with the requirements of UGC through the Universities. Universities[ under the guidance of UGC] would have to learn the ropes of regulating the quality of these institutions.

2. The autonomous institutions offering PGDM will continue to be under AICTE. There is not another regulatory body yet.

3. Management Institutions all along have a grievance about the efficacy of regulatory work carried out by AICTE. The present change in the scheme does not offer any solution to this problem.

4. In 2009, when the UPA-II was new in the office, many expected vast reforms int he higher education set up. All that have not happened. One will be foolish to expect any thing now in the dieing moments of the present regime.

5. To expect the withering away of AICTE, as some MTCians have been dreaming in their mails, is again foolish. This is unlikely to happen in the near future.

6. Management education is going through a shake-out; just like the NBFCs had a shake-out sometime back. Many are going to be history with lot of pain and trauma to the people connected with it. Only those who have inner core [ quality, capability, deep pockets, long-term perspective, leadership etc.] would survive. This is true for University affiliated colleges as also for autonomous colleges. Management education, would not wither away, though some pundits have been forecasting such a possibility. This is because I firmly believe that every sector of the economy would continue to need managers and leaders for all time to come.

7. So if we have to be among those that survive, we need to understand the challenges and prepare ourselves towards meeting those challenges head on. Otherwise history is there to embrace us to oblivion.

Best wishes to one and all

Prof Bala Bhaskaran

On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Rajamanickam Rajan <rajamanickam.rajan@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear All

Greetings for the Christmas and happy New Year

Changes are inevitable.

As far as my knowledge is concerned neither the AICTE officials nor the UGC had so far bothered about the well being of the faculty members employed in Private Universities and Self Financing Institutions. 

In most of Self Financing Colleges the status of faculty members are highly pathetic. Please refer the Pay Scale fixed by the respective bodies. 

Let me place some of the observations for all your views:

Salary (Arts, Engineering and Management)  

Ranges from Rs. 6000 - 10000 minimum for freshers 

10000-17000 for faculty members with three to five years.

15000-25000 for faculty members with more five years and upto 10 years of experience.

Annual increment

Rs. 500 - 1500. If a faculty members are much closer to the management increment will be around 2500-3000  

Leaves and other benefits

6-10 days CL 

No medical leave

No Earn Leave

No summer and winter vacation

No subsidies

Management of these institutions lay down conditions for a faculty to attend a conference/seminar/workshop etc. such as:

The faculty must meet all the expenses, OD will be given by the management for rare cases: otherwise, the day/s will be treated as loss of pay. 

They have restrained to attend paper evaluation, examination supervision works, allotted by Universities. 

Provident Fund

Even the management contributions must be borne by the faculty and in turn the management will show it as if the contributions are made by them in their accounts such as balance sheet and income and expenditure statements.  

Two Different salary statements. One to satisfy the Government bodies, AICTE and UGC as per the pay scales fixed by these bodies. However, there is no cross check. If checked and found discrepancy the visiting officials will be suitably compensated with few lakhs.  

Appointments

According to their wish

Quality of teacher is not at a primary concern.

During the summer vacation, all these faculty members must take care of admission for the next academic year. Based on the number of admission salary increment will be decided by the management or else the increment will around Rs. 250-500. 

One of the worst thing that I had noticed among the Principals of many institutions is that they very much concerned about their salary, welfare and comforts and never raised their voice in favour of the faculty members who work under him/.her for the sake of being in the good books of their management.  

By looking into the above information, it is clear that the so called powerful AICTE and UGC failed to render the services and in exercising their powers. Hence, what we need at present is  to revamp the whole to create s system that could sincerely elate the quality of Higher Education in India at par with International Universities and can compete with them. 

 

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Dr Vinod Dumblekar <dumblekar@yahoo.com> wrote:

"The UGC is seeking to fill the regulatory vacuum left by the depowering of the AICTE. Technical institutions will henceforth be regularized by the universities they are affiliated to."

UGC will now exert AICTE's core powers:

http://www.edu-leaders.com/content/ugc-draft-guidelines-negate-aicte?utm_source=newsletter-core&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20131209

 

Best wishes.

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