AICTE puts a leash on mgmt colleges
Asks institutes that offer diploma & certificate management programmes to charge fees set by the state regulatory body and admit students on the basis of their CAT or GCET scores
Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Wednesday, January 05, 2011 (
Students keen to study management may now not have to cough up hefty fees. The All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE) has come up with a raft of guidelines to rein in private management colleges that admit students at will and demand fees ranging from Rs 40,000 to Rs 4 lakh.
To start with, it has instructed colleges that offer post-graduate diploma and certificate courses in management to enrol students on the basis of their results in CAT or any other competitive test conducted by the state government.
Fee decree
The statutory body has made it clear that such colleges and institutes cannot set their own fee structures. They can only charge fees approved by a competent body, in this case, Gujarat Regulatory Fee Committee.
In a bid to stop the current practice among institutes to admit students in January or in a month they find suitable, AICTE has stated that admissions to PGDM and PGCM courses will not begin before April 1.
AICTE has also fixed duration of the said courses. The PG diploma course in management will now last for at least 24 months and the certificate one for at least 12 months.
Concerned about the quality of the said programmes offered by private colleges, the council for technical education has said that colleges will have to follow a model curriculum set by it. There are more than 25 colleges and institutes in Ahmedabad that run PGDM and PGCM programmes. Some of them are known to charge jaw-dropping fees and operate in an almost unregulated manner.
AICTE’s new guidelines will now force them to standardise their admission procedures, courses and fee structures.
“The new norms issued by the council will benefit students as they will be able to study management without paying hefty fees,” the registrar of Gujarat Technological University (GTU), N N Bhuptani, said. “Private colleges can no longer enrol students at will. They will have to consider GCET scores of candidates.”
A member of the Gujarat Fee Regulatory Committee, M N Patel, said that private institutes’ fee structures needed to be examined. “We set fees for colleges teaching professional courses after conducting a proper audit. We check the quality of faculty members and infrastructure before setting a fee structure. Institutes that offer PGDM and PGCM do not follow any method,” he said.
Patel said that AICTE’s new norms would help rein in such colleges. The principal of a private institute, however, said that the norms would prevent colleges from providing quality education.
“There many differences between private and government colleges. We hire top faculty members and set up better infrastructure. We even provide job placements to our students. These are the reasons why we demand slightly higher fees,” he said.
He said that unlike government colleges, private ones designed courses keeping in mind the needs of the industry.
Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Wednesday, January 05, 2011 (
Students keen to study management may now not have to cough up hefty fees. The All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE) has come up with a raft of guidelines to rein in private management colleges that admit students at will and demand fees ranging from Rs 40,000 to Rs 4 lakh.
To start with, it has instructed colleges that offer post-graduate diploma and certificate courses in management to enrol students on the basis of their results in CAT or any other competitive test conducted by the state government.
Fee decree
The statutory body has made it clear that such colleges and institutes cannot set their own fee structures. They can only charge fees approved by a competent body, in this case, Gujarat Regulatory Fee Committee.
In a bid to stop the current practice among institutes to admit students in January or in a month they find suitable, AICTE has stated that admissions to PGDM and PGCM courses will not begin before April 1.
AICTE has also fixed duration of the said courses. The PG diploma course in management will now last for at least 24 months and the certificate one for at least 12 months.
Concerned about the quality of the said programmes offered by private colleges, the council for technical education has said that colleges will have to follow a model curriculum set by it. There are more than 25 colleges and institutes in Ahmedabad that run PGDM and PGCM programmes. Some of them are known to charge jaw-dropping fees and operate in an almost unregulated manner.
AICTE’s new guidelines will now force them to standardise their admission procedures, courses and fee structures.
“The new norms issued by the council will benefit students as they will be able to study management without paying hefty fees,” the registrar of Gujarat Technological University (GTU), N N Bhuptani, said. “Private colleges can no longer enrol students at will. They will have to consider GCET scores of candidates.”
A member of the Gujarat Fee Regulatory Committee, M N Patel, said that private institutes’ fee structures needed to be examined. “We set fees for colleges teaching professional courses after conducting a proper audit. We check the quality of faculty members and infrastructure before setting a fee structure. Institutes that offer PGDM and PGCM do not follow any method,” he said.
Patel said that AICTE’s new norms would help rein in such colleges. The principal of a private institute, however, said that the norms would prevent colleges from providing quality education.
“There many differences between private and government colleges. We hire top faculty members and set up better infrastructure. We even provide job placements to our students. These are the reasons why we demand slightly higher fees,” he said.
He said that unlike government colleges, private ones designed courses keeping in mind the needs of the industry.
