Technical education regulator AICTE has set up a committee to suggest how courses in technical streams, mainly BTech programmes, could be offered in “correspondence mode”. The committee, headed by IIT Kanpur director S.G. Dhande, will submit its report in three months.
“We set up this expert committee a fortnight ago. This committee will look at the new trend in distance education and suggest how engineering courses can be offered in correspondence mode,” AICTE chairman S.S. Mantha told The Telegraph.
The committee will also examine if Information Communication Technology (ICT), which has increased access to education in recent years, could be a tool in teaching engineering through correspondence courses.
Mantha said the AICTE had earlier set up a committee under IIT Kanpur chairman M. Anandkrishnan to study if engineering courses could be offered in distance mode. That committee had favoured the idea on the condition that students should have adequate facilities for practical training.