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  • Category: Admissions
    Points:5

      

    No faculty, yet admissions invited for courses!

    We regularly see huge advertisements in the print media about admission notifications and I am one of the members who submits articles on them. Recruitment advertisements also catch my eye since I post jobs now and then. What surprises me is to see faculty openings for particular departments of a college or university that have released admission notifications for the courses of those very same departments for which they are hiring professors.

    Is it right for institutes to invite students to apply for admission to a course when there are no faculty to teach those courses? Students are blindly applying, paying the huge application fee which, incidentally, is not refundable, and going through the online application process. Later, on getting the seat allotment, they proceed to pay the first installment of the course fee as well. Do they even check if there are faculty, and that too qualified ones, for teaching that course?

    Is there any UGC regulation for stopping institutes from advertising admissions to courses for which there are no appointed faculty?
  • #779509

    Points:5
    As far as my knowledge goes there are regulations regarding qualified teaching staff for permitting by UGC. The management should submit the list of qualified teaching staff to the UGC and when they come for inspection all these teaching staff attendance will also be checked.
    So many managements show the names of persons and bring them to the college when there is an inspection and they will maintain a manual attendance register which these staff will sign for which they will be paid some nominal pay. I saw some such colleges but now they are closed as students are not joining such colleges.
    Some colleges take B Tech passed students as lecturers and manage the show. These graduates will be called trainees lecturers and there will be a separate attendance register for them and this will not be produced before UGC officials when they come for inspection.
    Such colleges will not survive long and slowly students stop joining such colleges. The college management should understand the importance of faculty and they should maintain. Such colleges only will flourish a long time.
    drrao
    always confident

  • #779512

    Points:4
    This is an unhealthy practice being followed by some of the institutions. They are recruiting some new qualified persons as a stop gap arrangement and paying them small salaries till the regular professors are selected for the vacant positions. But this adversely affects the studies of the students as less experienced new teachers will be teaching them for a good part of academic year.
    UGC can take a view against such practices but for that either some complaint should be made or UGC can make a surprise check of the doubtful institutions.
    Knowledge is power.

  • #779515

    Points:4
    Yes, certain institutions are offering several courses with the premium fee of courses but unfortunately, the aspirants ultimately notice that the decision taken was a big blunder. However, it is too late for the students to realise their mistakes since they have already taken up their admission.
    There is a procedure for checking the strength of the facilities of the UGC authority. They check both the attendance register and the strength of the staff to ensure that everything is going in order concerning to the teaching of students. However, they faculties are not competent enough to provide right coaching since they are themselves fresh teachers having less qualifications as prescribed by the UGC.

  • #779519

    Points:4
    This is really a surprising matter that institutions are doing such things and delaying the appointments of regular professors and managing the classes with temporary persons. Such things are not good for the students who had taken admissions without knowing these details. Moreover no student will check these details before applying for a particular course in the said institution.
    UGC can take a note of such bad practices by some of the institutions and find out remedial measures to correct these things. It would be in favour of the students.
    Thoughts exchanged is knowledge gained.

  • #779593

      

    Points:5
    The UGC has issued guidelines regarding entitlement of students and there is specific mention about the liability of the institutes to ensure that the details regarding infrastructure, names, qualification and availability of faculties, syllabus, duration of the course, fees etc. as mentioned in the prospectus (to which every student is entitled) will not be changed to the disadvantage of the students. Though these are guidelines, it has been made mandatory for the colleges/ universities under the UGC to follow them.

    Again, the Advertising Standards Council of India has in their guidelines for advertising educational institutions, programs and platforms clearly mentioned that the print and visual media must ensure that the claims made by the institutes in their advertisements are true and have even mentioned that they must submit proof of their claims while submitting ads.

    But education is a booming business these days and there is no place for ethics or fairness. They lure students and parents basking on their one-time glory or make false claims to ensure that their seats are filled up. And the authorities are happily resting on the guidelines without checking or monitoring that they are strictly followed. I think students and parents should be more meticulous and careful while choosing a college or university to pursue studies.
    'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all'.
    -Aristotle


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