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Thursday, 25 March, 2010
Chennai: Technical institutions including universities and deemed universities offering engineering, architectural, catering and allied programmes can no longer appoint those without a PhD degree as professors. However, the teachers who have already been designated as ‘professor’ would not face any threat.
New pay, service conditions and qualifications for teachers and academic staff in technical institutions, notified in the gazette by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) this month, make PhD a mandatory qualification for professors.
For the post of principal, AICTE has laid down that the person should have a minimum of 10 years experience in teaching/research out of which at least three years as a professor, or the person should have at least 13 years experience in teaching and/or research and/or industry.
With the post of lecturer being done away with, there will be just three designations – assistant professor, associate professor and professors, in technical educational institutions. Colleges and universities would also have to maintain a 1:2:6 ratio of professor to associate professor to assistant professor in undergraduate courses. For postgraduate courses, this ratio would be 1:2 (professor to associate/assistant professor).
To encourage faculty to acquire PhD degree, the AICTE has also instructed institutions to offer incentives. “Five noncompounded advance increments shall be admissible at the entry level of recruitment to persons possessing PhD degree in a relevant discipline,” the notification said. Teachers who complete their PhD while in service shall get three non-compounded advance increment.
Likewise, those appointed as assistant professor with an MPhil qualification will be entitled to receive two non-compounded advance increments. The AICTE would also revise guidelines for granting study leave with pay to teachers for acquiring higher qualifications such as MTech and PhD. Besides, it has recommended that six months of sabbatical leave could be granted to teachers to enable them work in a relevant industry for better institution-industry interface after they put in six years of service.
AICTE notifies service condition for teachers
Chennai: Technical institutions including universities and deemed universities offering engineering, architectural, catering and allied programmes can no longer appoint those without a PhD degree as professors. However, the teachers who have already been designated as ‘professor’ would not face any threat.
New pay, service conditions and qualifications for teachers and academic staff in technical institutions, notified in the gazette by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) this month, make PhD a mandatory qualification for professors.
With the post of lecturer being done away with, there will be just three designations – assistant professor, associate professor and professors, in technical educational institutions. Colleges and universities would also have to maintain a 1:2:6 ratio of professor to associate professor to assistant professor in undergraduate courses. For postgraduate courses, this ratio would be 1:2 (professor to associate/assistant professor).
To encourage faculty to acquire PhD degree, the AICTE has also instructed institutions to offer incentives. “Five noncompounded advance increments shall be admissible at the entry level of recruitment to persons possessing PhD degree in a relevant discipline,” the notification said. Teachers who complete their PhD while in service shall get three non-compounded advance increment.
Likewise, those appointed as assistant professor with an MPhil qualification will be entitled to receive two non-compounded advance increments. The AICTE would also revise guidelines for granting study leave with pay to teachers for acquiring higher qualifications such as MTech and PhD. Besides, it has recommended that six months of sabbatical leave could be granted to teachers to enable them work in a relevant industry for better institution-industry interface after they put in six years of service.
Courtesy: Times of India
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