New Delhi, March 13: Unhappy with AICTE’s modification of admission norms for management programmes, major bodies representing private B-schools have said they will oppose any move to “herd them” with state university-affiliated courses and accused the regulator of “apathy” to quality education.
They have expressed fears that state governments, who have been made a major player in the admission process, do not have the necessary “wherewithal” to conduct the tests.
Announcing partial modification to admission guidelines last Friday, AICTE had given institutes the option of exercising their preference for selecting students through CAT or MAT or through examination conducted by respective state governments.
The preferences would have to be given to the competent authority of the state governments.
The revised norms were issued in the backdrop of the regulator receiving 80,000 complaints on a range of alleged irregularities being committed by some of the institutions.
–PTI