The nation faces a shortage of 1.5 lakh engineering teachers. Abdul Latheef Naha (Write of TheHindu ) looks at the state of colleges with inadequate number of faculty.
Main points are:
Main points are:
- Higher education in the country, particularly engineering education, is facing a crisis.
- It is pulling on with half the teacher strength it requires.
- The government pressed a red button the other day when it was revealed in Parliament that the country faced a shortage of more than 3,00,000 teachers in its institutions of higher learning.
- In engineering education alone, the shortage is more than 1,50,000.
- What is more shocking is the increase in the faculty shortage to 54 per cent from the 40 per cent a few years ago.
- The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has permitted the 15 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), premier engineering institutes in the country, to appoint non-resident Indians (NRIs) and people of Indian origin (PIOs) as permanent faculty as part of measures to tide over the teacher shortage. Foreign nationals, however, are not allowed permanent appointment.
- From 30 per cent to 50 per cent of the teaching posts are lying vacant in the country’s top engineering institutions.
- The situation is worse in hundreds of private self-financing colleges.
Source from TheHINDU
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