The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in its 2020-21 Approval Process Handbook has released new rules for the eligibility for undergraduate engineering courses, and people have some serious concerns. If you’re not sure what the entire issue is, read on.
According to these new rules, students are only required to clear three of the following subjects in Class XII to apply for B.Tech or BE programs: Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Electronics, Information Technology, Biology, Informatics Practices, Biotechnology, Technical Vocational subject, Agriculture, Engineering, Graphics, Business Studies, and Entrepreneurship.
Both academics and the public are now raising concerns over what this would mean for the quality of our engineers.
Maths, physics not a must for engineering! Are you serious? Indian students already fare poorly in #engineering #math . Your want to worsen this further? https://t.co/aoF1oepsCY
— Viraj Kulkarni (@VirajZero) March 12, 2021U can’t even survive one semester of Education in a Tier-1 college if u r not good in Maths & physics.
With AICTE making PCM no longer mandatory for engineering education, it is only paving the way for further degradation of STEM education.
WTF!!
Maths & physics are fundamental subjects in engineering pic.twitter.com/S2O809Jb01
MBBS not a must for Doctors.
Maths and Physics not must for Engineers.
These guys want other professions to be run by useless, incompetent people, just like they run the country.
Engineering without Physics and Maths is like cooking hot food without Oven, cooker, stove...
What morons are ruling our country is beyond embarrassing now..
https://t.co/WEPd1S0Yw9
The All India Council for Technical Education has scrapped the mandatory requirement for maths and physics at the 12th grade for admission to engineering colleges.
Scrapping maths will definitely affect the quality of engineers produced. However scrapping physics is debatable.
However, the organisation said that those with insufficient background in any required subjects will be offered bridging courses in universities. This includes subjects such as “mathematics, physics, engineering drawing for students coming from diverse backgrounds to achieve learning outcomes of the programme”, according to the handbook.
And some others think that’s fair enough.
“If a student without maths is admitted he will be required to do a lot of math courses in first year.”
This approach should be good enough no? If a kid wants to study something else in school and then is motivated enough to work extra hard to study engineering, it’s good only.
They have relaxed the eligibility to join an engineering course. They are not removing those subjects from engineering courses.
— Pradeep Ananth (@PradeepAnanth_) March 12, 2021What are your thoughts? Should maths and physics be compulsory in 12th or will the new rules help us find better engineers? Tell us in the comments!
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