Varsities should send teachers on sabbatical leave for pursuing research: UGC panel
Universities and colleges should develop action plans to send mid-career teachers on sabbatical leave for pursuing research and writing, a panel set up by the UGC has recommended.
Universities and colleges should develop action plans to
send mid-career teachers on sabbatical leave for pursuing research and writing,
a panel set up by the University Grants Commission (UGC) has recommended.
The four-member committee on “Promoting and improving
quality of research in Indian universities and colleges” headed by professor P
Balaram, former director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, recently
submitted its report to the commission.
“The UGC should encourage and support state universities
and affiliated colleges to put in place a rigorous but generous program that
would offer sabbatical leave to mid-career teachers for pursuing research and
writing books and monographs which consolidated accumulated original research
knowledge,” the panel said in its report.
The report said mid-career national level sabbatical
awards on a competitive basis for a year may be introduced enabling 50-100
faculty-members to pursue research which may also provide an opportunity for
faculty to build collaborative contacts with major national and international
institutions.
“Such opportunities must be mandated in both public and
private institutions,” the report said.
Developing classroom pedagogy, curricula and system of
assessment, promoting academic integrity, remedial teaching, encouraging
vernacular languages, use of technology and media platforms and policy
internships, are among the other recommendations made by the committee.
Source | Hindustan Times | 7th August 2019
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