Monday, April 29, 2013

Apex court says AICTE prior approval not mandatory for starting MBA & MCA courses | careermitra.com


Colleges offering University MBA or MCA courses need not seek approval from AICTE, apex court has said in a recent verdict. The Supreme Court was hearing a petition filed by several private management colleges against the AICTE. The bench comprising of BS Chauhan and V Gopala Gowda stated that MBA is not a technical course and thus AICTE cannot be authorized to set standards about it’s quality.
Henceforth colleges offering University MBA & MCA courses are not required to seek prior approval from AICTE. The Universities themselves have no obligation to seek AICTE approval for it’s courses, why the affiliated colleges should seek AICTE approval the private management colleges argued. They alleged that AICTE is wrongly interpreting it’s powers, the colleges had challenged an order passed by the Madras High Court.
One should also note from this year AICTE has made CMAT a compulsory for all MBA colleges affiliated by AICTE. The apex court verdict comes as a sigh of relief as non AICTE approved colleges have more flexibility. These colleges need not wait to take only CMAT score.


COIMBATORE: The recent Supreme Court judgement saying that MBA institutes need not come under the purview of AICTE is being welcomed by academics in the management field. They say that this will allow academic freedom for the institutions, though some fear it may be misused.

The judgment says that MBAs will not come under the purview of theAll India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) and therefore the B-Schools will come only under the universities to which they are affiliated. Academics say that from now on, the Arts and Science Colleges can run those institutes under their colleges instead of running them separately.

"This will give academic freedom to management institutions," observes R Nandagopal the Director of the PSG Institute of Management. Till now the selection was mostly based on the various entrance examinations suggested by AICTE. This may have helped identify academically brilliant students, but many of them lacked the qualities required for business.

However, there are a few who are sceptical about this new found freedom of management institutions. Debashis Chatterjee, Director, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK), who believes that the AICTE can be an advisory body fears that many 'unscrupulous' elements will take advantage of it. "The risk of having too many restrictions which can lead to a kind of a 'license' raj is certainly not good but total freedom has its own dangers. The Supreme Court may be trying to strike a balance," he says. He says that AICTE's efforts to improve the quality of education has helped to an extent. The universities will to be vigilant regarding quality of education.

Many management experts point out that the quality of teachers which had improved after AICTE's intervention, may be compromised once the universities are given control. "They will be run like any other arts and science institute which is pathetic," said a senior academic who wished to be anonymous. The latest information is that AICTE is planning to file a review petition against the order.

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