<p class="title">The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has directed all engineering colleges and other technical institutes to not downsize their existing faculty to meet the mandatory teacher-student ratio of 1:20.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The technical education regulator, which recently revised its regulations to fix the teacher-student ratio at 1:20 as against the previous 1:15, issued a notification on Tuesday to clarify that the ratio can only be adjusted either in case of superannuation of the faculty or in case the faculty resigns “on their own.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Downsizing the teaching faculty due to the revision of faculty-student ratio norms will not be accepted in any case,” the council said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This comes after a large number of faculty members of technical institutions, particularly those run by private entities, came against the new faculty-student ratio norm of the AICTE, apprehending their removal from their job by the institutions.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On behalf of the teaching, non-teaching and the students of private engineering colleges, the All India Private Employees Union founder KM Karthik a few months ago posted a petition on change.org website against the revised teacher faculty ratio norm of the AICTE,.soliciting for support from the people.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“This (revised) ratio is an open consent of the AICTE, by which about one lakh of qualified engineering professors (all of them are postgraduates in Engineering / Sciences and Humanities) working under the existing 1:15 ratio, shall be removed from their present employments in private/self financing engineering colleges all over India,” he claimed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The AICTE clarified that it revised the faculty-student ratio from 1:15 to 1:20 “in the interest of students as well as the institutions.”</p>
<p class="title">The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has directed all engineering colleges and other technical institutes to not downsize their existing faculty to meet the mandatory teacher-student ratio of 1:20.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The technical education regulator, which recently revised its regulations to fix the teacher-student ratio at 1:20 as against the previous 1:15, issued a notification on Tuesday to clarify that the ratio can only be adjusted either in case of superannuation of the faculty or in case the faculty resigns “on their own.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Downsizing the teaching faculty due to the revision of faculty-student ratio norms will not be accepted in any case,” the council said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This comes after a large number of faculty members of technical institutions, particularly those run by private entities, came against the new faculty-student ratio norm of the AICTE, apprehending their removal from their job by the institutions.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On behalf of the teaching, non-teaching and the students of private engineering colleges, the All India Private Employees Union founder KM Karthik a few months ago posted a petition on change.org website against the revised teacher faculty ratio norm of the AICTE,.soliciting for support from the people.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“This (revised) ratio is an open consent of the AICTE, by which about one lakh of qualified engineering professors (all of them are postgraduates in Engineering / Sciences and Humanities) working under the existing 1:15 ratio, shall be removed from their present employments in private/self financing engineering colleges all over India,” he claimed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The AICTE clarified that it revised the faculty-student ratio from 1:15 to 1:20 “in the interest of students as well as the institutions.”</p>