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Faculty shortages need urgent resolution

-Hindustan Times

The universities need to think of evolving a strategy to hire the best people and offer them attractive salaries to keep them motivated

More than half the professorial posts in country’s central universities are vacant. Of the 2,426 sanctioned posts for professors across the central universities, 1,301 have not been filled, reveals data provided by human resource development minister Prakash Javadekar in the Lok Sabha. The lacuna caused by faculty shortfalls isn’t limited to professors alone. Government statistics show 5,928 of the 16,600 sanctioned posts for teachers in central universities are vacant.

With the gross enrolment ratio likely to increase from 25.2% in 2016 to 30% by 2020, the country’s campuses will have more students than ever before. It isn’t that the ministry is oblivious to the crisis in our higher education. In February this year, the University Grants Commission (UGC) instructed vice-chancellors of central universities to prepare a time-bound plan for advertisement of posts, scrutiny of applications, and the selection and appointment of candidates for teaching positions but little seems to have changed. One of the knee-jerk solutions that many colleges resort to is hiring ad-hoc and part-time faculty on a contractual basis at a fraction of the cost of regular employees. UGC regulations allow universities to hire ad-hoc and guest faculty against vacant positions to the extent of 10% of total positions. But in the absence of parity in pay-scales, leave benefits and perks that permanent faculty enjoy, most ad-hoc faculty end up doing a half-hearted job.

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