2019 – Posted in: Press Information Bureau – Tags: MARGADARSHAN, MARGDARSHAK, No plastic use, women empowerment

WAWE Summit 2019

Union HRD Minister launched several initiatives of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

It includes:

Facilitation through Margadarshan and Margadarshak
Model Curriculum for Diploma Courses
Waste Management Accelerator for Aspiring Women Entrepreneurs (WAWE Summit 2019)
360-degree Feedback of Faculty

The WAWE Summit will be held in November-December 2019.
It will be jointly organized by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the Institute of Waste Management (IIWM) at Jaipur.
It will be the largest gathering of young women students to promote entrepreneurship in waste management and providing alternatives to single-use plastic carry bags.
Theme: Make your own bag – empowering women to take up income generation activity and entrepreneurship in waste management through making a business out of this record creating concept.

Under this scheme, the topmost/accreditation record institutions will mentor other potential institutions.
Best practices in teaching-learning process followed in mentor institute are diffused to mentee institutions.

Here, mentor teachers or Margdarshaks who are either serving or superannuated but willing and motivated with good knowledge of accreditation and who can devote adequate time to make required visits to these Institutions are identified.
These Margdarshaks will regularly visit to the mentee institutions for their improvement in quality.

It is fact that diploma education should make students job-ready faster.
Salient features of Model Curriculum for Diploma Courses in Engineering & Technology are as follows:

Reduced number of credits
Two-week mandatory Induction Program for students
Introduction of credit course on Sports & Yoga
Well defined learning objectives & outcomes for each course
Inclusion of courses on socially relevant topics
Course on Indian Constitution, Environmental Science & Essence of Indian Knowledge and Tradition have been embedded in the curriculum
Two mandatory internships
Course on Entrepreneurship and Startups to encourage entrepreneurial skills

Ministry of HRD gave the mandate to the 7th Pay Commission, of understanding certain key aspects of teacher’s activities and its impact as perceived by other key stake holders of the college education process.
AICTE 7th Pay Regulation defines the process of collecting the 360-degree Feedback Data that will be submitted by the education institutes.
It starts by first establishing a data framework that maps Teachers, Students and Subjects/courses to capture the data at source through online mechanism.

Source: PIB