Colleges are seeking relaxation on the ground that no research is being carried out in private institutions
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Hyderabad: Private engineering colleges in Telangana State have asked the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) to relax faculty rules for colleges. Colleges have also asked tech education regulator to introduce a new provision wherein faculty is not needed when a department did not have any student admission for a course.
Colleges are seeking relaxation on the ground that no research is being carried out in private institutions. Colleges say this would also reduce the problem of fake faculty. Currently, there should be one faculty member for every 15 students apart from the fixed ratio of professors to associate professors to assistant professors, which is, 1 is to 2 is to 6. Colleges, instead, want the faculty ratio to be relaxed to one faculty member for every 20 students.
“We have also asked for a ‘zero division zero faculty’ system wherein a faculty is not required in case there is no student admission,” said Dr Gautam Rao, chairman, Telangana engineering and professional colleges managements association. He also said easing the stringent faculty rules would also not force colleges to recruit fake faculty.
Colleges allege that AICTE had orally agreed to easing faculty norms but nothing was recorded on paper. Colleges are also seeking a common fee structure for all colleges and a single countrywide policy after consultations with all state governments. “AICTE accepts the 1:20 faculty ratio but the state government and JNTU do not. What can we do, NBA also accepts the 1:20 faculty ratio,” an engineering college promoter said.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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