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‘AICTE nurturing entrepreneurial spirit among students’
- | Saturday | 14th July, 2018
For instance, we offer funds to SC/ST students to start their own businesses. Coimbatore: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has been focusing on making students set up their own businesses, rather than leaving them as job seekers , said AICTE adviser Dileep Malkhede here on Saturday.“We have been promoting activities such as incubation centre and we have several initiatives to promote entrepreneurship. “We had put forward the idea of a common entrance exam for engineering courses as several universities are having their own entrance exams and students have to prepare for them separately.” However, there is progress in this regard so far. “AICTE is also planning to introduce a scheme to send faculty members abroad to pursue their PhD so that they get more exposure and more publications,” he said.Malkhede said AICTE had earlier discussed introducing a centralised entrance examination for undergraduate engineering courses in the country. “The load of credits is substantially reduced.
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