'AICTE ready to set up academies for engineering teacher training'

To improve teaching abilities of teachers in engineering colleges, AICTE is ready to set up AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) academies in 11 more States. AICTE Chairman Anil D Sahasrabudhe said the council had set up four academies on its own, and 11 States, including Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, came forward to have them. The council would set up them if the respective State governments provided infrastructure. The four academies were started by AICTE at Jaipur, Baroda, Thiruvananthapuram and Guwahati. The idea is to improve the knowledge of teachers who had started their career long time back so that they can, in turn, teach students.