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AICTE wants all engineering college to follow IIT course

Engineering institutes in the country will now be able to access course materials designed by the Indian Institutes of Technology free of cost. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is planning to make it mandatory for engineering institutes in the country to use basic sciences and engineering courses which IITs have introduced on websites like Google and YouTube.This will be done under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), a joint venture by the seven IITs — Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Madras, Kanpur, Kharagpur and Roorkee — and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.At present over 200 engineering institutes across the country are using the complete content that IITs provide free of cost. NPTEL, an endeavour by IITs, was launched around three-four years ago to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by developing curriculum-based video and web courses. NPTEL was started along the lines of Open Courseware by MIT in the US. The IITs have been nominated as the one of the best institutions in providing free university courses.IITs which are implementing the second phase of the project, plan to introduce around 950 courses in basic sciences and engineering, in the next two years on NPTEL. The Ministry for Human Resources and Development (MHRD) has recently released a grant of Rs 50 crore for the second phase. Total budget for second phase is Rs 96 crore.NPTEL in the first phase of the project, had developed around 250 courses. All of these are available online for a duration of 4,500 hours, free of charge. IIT-Madras which officially handles the venture, distributes web contents free of charge to the government-funded institutes.NPTEL is planning to have text of the video (of one hour) in the second phase. Faculty members from the new IITs will also develop course materials for NPTEL. Universities, research labs and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research are also part of the programme.

VIT TO OPEN NEW CAMPUS AT CHENNAI

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The VIT University conducted its eighth edition of VIT Engineering Entrance Examination last weekend.According to the reports, 1,57,554 students had applied for the entrance examination, conducted on 17 April,2010 at 231 centres in 94 cities across the country.Results would be announced on 8 May, 2010 on official website followed by counselling in batches.Under the VIT IGNITE Scholarship scheme, there is a 100% tuition fee waiver for the top three higher secondary exam rank holders in each state, and the top 50 candidates in the VITEEE will get 100 percent of tuition fee waiver and the students ranked 51 to 100 in the VITEEE will get 50% of tuition fee waiver.The results announcement, counselling, everything is done online with complete transparency in the process. The scope for engineering largely depends upon the institute.At VIT, group of experts constantly updates the curriculum as per their needs. VIT have introduced the fully flexible system for the first time in India where a student can select the professor, the timing, even the classroom, and that too online. VIT's placement department also studies industry requirements and guides the students. In fact, they were mentioned in the Limca Book of Records for placement of 1075 students by one company — TCS — on one day, at one campus.This year, VIT will be starting a new campus at Chennai, the first foray outside Vellore. Phase 1 will be 15 lakh sq. ft. VIT have 80 MoUs with foreign universities and the goal is to provide international quality education. The aim is to see that India and NRI students should not need to go abroad for higher studies, the mindset needs to change.

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AICTE wants all engineering college to follow IIT course

VIT TO OPEN NEW CAMPUS AT CHENNAI

Ranks of top 75 colleges in India(Engineering)

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