Context: Recently, Union Education Minister launched the AICTE-SPICES (Scheme for Promoting Interests, Creativity and Ethics among Students) to promote healthy co-curricular activity amongst the students for their all-round development.
Key Facts

• Aim: To promote healthy co-curricular activity amongst the students for their all-round development.
• Purpose: The scheme provides financial support to institutions for developing students club for well-rounded development of students by promoting their interests, creativity and ethics.

Eligibility

• AICTE approved institutes with minimum 5 years of existence.
• Only one proposal per institute for a club (with minimum student members 50) will be admissible.Institute may choose its best performing club for applying under the scheme for the grant.

Additional Facts
AICTE Visvesvaraya Best Teachers Award 2020

• AICTE Visvesvaraya Best Teachers Awards 2020 were presented as part of the Engineers Day celebrations by the Minister of Education.
• The award has been introduced for the first time to identify teachers and recognize their excellence, best practice and innovativeness in field of higher technical education at national level.