Indian B.Tech Degrees To Be Recognized Globally. Hopefully.

The National Board of Accreditation (NBA), under the aegis of All India Council for Technical Education aka AICTE hopes to become a permanent member of the Washington Accord in June 2013. India has the provisional membership since 2007. If NBA gets accepted in the Washington Accord, the engineering B.Tech degrees offered in India will be recognized on a par with those from United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, Canada, Japan, South Africa, New Zealand and few other nations.  This implies that it's going to be lot easier for Indian engineers to find jobs abroad. The crucial step in becoming the full member is to have the Indian accreditation system audited by the Washington Accord and India is yet to invite the authorities. Hu Hanrahan, who chairs the Washington Accord is in India to attend the first World Summit on Accreditation 2012 did not comment on the expected timeline for India to become the full member.



Even if India is granted the membership; #-Link-Snipped-# believes that approximately 20% of the 4000-5000 engineering colleges in India will be recognized. HRD minister #-Link-Snipped-# says that his ministry has proposed a legislation to make it compulsory for every higher educational institute to be accredited and hopes that the bill carry through in this session of the Parliament.

We are keeping our opinion reserved until we hear further developments on this news. We'd however like to hear from our readers their opinion & views on NBA applying for Washington Accord membership. Do you think NBA is going in the right direction?