Centre relaxes norms on higher education
Weekly teaching workload for assistant professors, associate professors and professors increased by two hours.
The government on Tuesday sought to clear the
air on a new set of regulations for college and university teachers and doctoral
students, pertaining to issues ranging from teaching hours to guidelines for
Ph.D. and M.Phil. courses.
While earlier, the weekly teaching workload
was 16, 14 and 14 hours for assistant professors, associate professors and
professors, these are now 18, 16 and 14 hours, respectively. This happens at a
time when teachers’ bodies of Delhi University have already begun protests
against the regulations.
In a joint press conference with UGC chairman
Ved Prakash, Higher Education Secretary Vinay Sheel Oberoi sought to dispel the
perception that an increase in workload at assistant professor and associate
professor levels for regular faculty members would throw out ad hoc teachers.
‘Advisory’
role
“The two hours' increase in teaching workload
at these two levels are in the form of an advisory to help students with
special needs. They will not be counted in API scores,” Mr. Oberoi said.
A new set of regulations has capped the time
period allowed for completion of Ph.D. to six years, he said.
The minimum permissible duration will be
three years. Similarly, the M.Phil. course would have to vary from a minimum of
one year to a maximum of two.
There is, however, a relaxation of two years
for women pursuing research leading to a Ph.D. and one year for M.Phil. The
relaxation would also apply to candidates with more than 40 per cent
disability.
Source
| The Hindu | 25 May 2016
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