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Engineering students with cancelled degrees get 2nd chance
DNA India | Mar 19, 2018 | DNA Correspondent |
Students from the four engineering institutes, whose eligibility for distance learning was cancelled by the Supreme Court last year, will get to appear for a qualifying exam in June. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), which is the authority for technical education in the country, has prepared the curriculum for the qualifying exam and the applicants will have to get at least 40 per cent marks in both theory and practical exams to pass the exam. The curriculum has been put on the official website of AICTE. Students will be tested through objective-type questions, which will include questions from both mathematics and core engineering. An expert team from the AICTE and officials from the Human Resource Development Ministry decided on what should be included in the question paper.
The Supreme Court had in December last year cancelled engineering degrees obtained between 2001 and 2005 through distance learning from four institutes and ordered authorities to conduct an examination to give students another chance to validate their degree. According to officials in the AICTE, those who are unable to clear the June examination will get another chance to write the qualifying exam in December. Those who have not been able to register with the council will also get a chance to register before the December qualifying exam. That exam, however, will be the last chance for the applicants to validate their degree. The colleges disqualified for long distance courses were JRN Rajasthan Vidyapeeth in Udaipur, the Institute of Advanced Studies in Education in Rajasthan’s Churu district, Allahabad Agricultural Institute in Uttar Pradesh and Vinayaka Mission Research Foundation in Tamil Nadu. While cancelling the degrees of students obtained from these colleges, the Supreme Court further ruled that technical education cannot be provided through distance learning or correspondence courses.
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- JRN Rajasthan Vidyapeeth, Udaipur, Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Churu, Rajasthan, Allahabad Agricultural Institute in UP and Vinayaka Mission Research Foundation, TN. – Courtesy
Click here to view / download the AICTE Circular, 1 page, pdf – Public Notice on Examination to be Conducted by AICTE in respect of 4 Deemed to be Universities
GATE-like test for students with cancelled engineering degrees from these 3 deemed universities
Hindustan Times | Neelam Pandey | Nov 06, 2017 | New Delhi |
AICTE is considering an aptitude test for students who obtained engineering degrees from JRN Rajasthan Vidhyapeeth University, Vinayaka Mission Research Foundation and IASE Deemed University.
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Days after the Supreme Court cancelled engineering degrees granted since 2001 by three deemed universities through the distance education mode, the Union HRD ministry has called a meeting of the University Grants Commission (UGC) on Monday to protect the interests of hundreds who could be affected by the move, people familiar with the matter said. JRN Rajasthan Vidhyapeeth University, Udaipur; Vinayaka Mission Research Foundation, Salem, Tamil Nadu; and IASE Deemed University, Rajasthan — have been conducting distance engineering programmes without necessary approvals, including that from the UGC or the All India Council for Technical Education or AICTE. The people said that the country’s apex technical education regulator AICTE is considering conducting an aptitude test for students who received degrees from these universities between 2001 and 2005 so that they are not affected. If they clear this GATE-like test it will validate their degrees, the people added.
GATE stands for Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering and is conducted jointly by some of the country’s best engineering colleges including the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology for admission to post-graduate programmes. The test being considered by the ministry is in keeping with the Supreme Court’s directive. The degrees awarded through distance learning by the three deemed universities to students admitted after 2005 stand cancelled. The universities have been directed by the court to return the tuition fee and other expenditure incurred by the students. “We are examining the court order and may consider a GATE-like exam for which modalities will be worked out,” said a senior AICTE official. AICTE rules mandate that engineering degrees cannot be offered through distance education mode. Officials at the regulator told Hindustan Times that they are working on a blended learning mode.
Officials in the HRD ministry said the HRD minister would meet UGC officials to discuss the issue related to the deemed universities and technical education programmes being offered through the distance education mode. “UGC has not allowed engineering courses through the distance mode. Currently, as per the HRD ministry the regulatory powers on open and distance learning (ODL) is vested with the UGC,” one of the officials said. Recently, UGC notified the Open and Distance Learning) Regulations, 2017. The commission, through the regulations, laid down the minimum standards of instruction for the grant of degree at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels through the open and distance learning mode. The Supreme Court on Friday also restrained “all deemed-to-be universities to carry on any courses in distance education mode from the academic session 2018-2019 onwards unless and until it is permissible to conduct such courses in distance education mode and specific permissions are granted by the concerned statutory/regulatory authorities in respect of each of those courses and unless the off-campus centres/study centres are individually inspected and found adequate by the concerned statutory authorities”. – Courtesy
SC ban on engineering degree through correspondence: 10 key points and developments
Nov 06, 2017 | 09:54 IST | Times Now Digital
New Delhi: Supreme Court on Friday passed an order banning correspondence courses in technical education. Apart from banning any such courses in future, SC has also asked the All India Council of Technical Education to re-conduct examination for all the students who have acquired their engineering degrees through correspondence. The immediate effect of the order has brought lakhs of students under the ambit. Here is the list of development and how it progressed in 10 key points. While the actual number of students affected by the order remains unknown, the estimate suggests that around a lakh and a half students from the four deemed universities would be directly affected. The order has also brought under lens the many ‘deemed’ universities that continue to offer correspondence courses in engineering to diploma holders. SC bench headed by Justice Lalit penned a 118 page verdict. Here are the 10 Key highlights of the verdict and the road ahead explained.
1. Supreme Court has in its order affirmed Punjab and Haryana High Court’s finding and set aside a previous order of Odisha High Court when it banned the ‘deemed universities’ to offer technical courses like engineering through correspondence or distance learning.
2. As per the order, engineering degrees of students of four deemed universities — JRN Rajasthan Vidyapeeth, Institute of Advanced Studies in Education (IASE), Rajasthan, Allahabad Agricultural Institute (AAI) and Vinayaka Mission’s Research Foundation, Tamil Nadu, will remain suspended.
3. AICTE has been directed to conduct examination for these students latest by January 15, 2018. Students who fail to clear the examination would summarily loose their degrees. However, the degrees of the students who pass the exam would be accordingly reinstated.
4. Students would be given a maximum of 2 tries to clear the examination conducted by AICTE. If the students do not successfully clear the examination within the stipulated time, their degrees will stand cancelled and every single advantage on the basis of that degree shall also stand withdrawn, it said.
5. Monetary benefits gained by students during the time by means of the degree, however, would not be recovered from them. What this means is that in case someone was given a job on the basis of such a degree, then the job would stand suspended. However, the earnings of the person, would not be recovered.
6. Candidates/ students have the ‘choice’ of not writing the examination. These students, would then be eligible to claim a full refund of the tuition fee from these institutes within a month of such claim. However, the degrees of these students would be summarily canceled and all benefits withdrawn. – Courtesy
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