AICTE- TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY JOINT TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR TEACHERS

AICTE- Technical University Joint Training Programs for Teachers, launched by the All India Council for Technical Education, aims to provide financial assistance to the technical universities to conduct training for faculty members to prepare them for being successful in the chosen profession and thereby enabling an improvement in teaching-learning methodology. Duration/Type/Participants: The training program will be of six days’ residential program with minimum forty participants. Number of Programs: The university shall conduct 10 such training programs in a financial year. Types of training: Each such programs shall cover at least one of the subjects run by the university viz Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Computers, Physics and Chemistry etc. Minimum one session of 3 hours in each program may be kept for training related to Moral Values, Ethics, Behavioral Sciences & Attitude etc. Technical Universities preferably may also use any of the following as the preferred subjects for the program. 1. Examination reforms. 1. Mentor's Training as per the norms of NITTT. 1. Cognitive skills & Design thinking. 1. NBA Accreditation & the processes. 1. Identifying problems & double diamond approach towards design. 1. Model curriculum as prescribed by AICTE. 1. Induction program for students as prescribed by AICTE. 1. Intellectual property management at early stage of innovation & start - ups. 1. Frugal innovations & social entrepreneurship. Infrastructure: Being a residential program, the university shall have requisite infrastructure viz. guest house and dining hall etc. Role and responsibilities of technical university: - The university shall conduct the joint training program for teachers strictly in accordance with the provisions of the scheme/MoU related to the program. - The university will do the certification of these programs jointly with AICTE. It shall be ensured by the - university that the certificates shall be issued only to those participants, who qualify the test to be necessarily conducted at the end. - The university will act as the facilitator for the operation of the training program. - The university will be accountable for finance/ grants sanctioned under the scheme and shall abide by the terms and conditions stipulated by AICTE for financial grants. - The university will constitute a Project Monitoring committee for effective implementation of the scheme.AICTE will provide its representative as a member on that committee. - The university shall submit, yearly report, detailed statement of expenditure and Utilization Certificate, in the prescribed format for sanctioned grants, within a month after the end of each financial year duly audited by a certified Chartered Accountant firm. The accounts shall be open to inspection by the officials of AICTE and an audit by the Statutory Auditors. - After conduct of each of the training program, the documents stated in 1.8 above shall be submitted by the university to AICTE.