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?Quality? teachers unemployed
THE CREDIBILITY of the National Eligibility Test (NET) is at stake. Students are fast losing faith in the effectiveness of NET in providing them jobs as lecturers in degree colleges because over 12,000 students who have cleared the NET examinations are still jobless.
THE CREDIBILITY of the National Eligibility Test (NET) is at stake. Students are fast losing faith in the effectiveness of NET in providing them jobs as lecturers in degree colleges because over 12,000 students who have cleared the NET examinations are still jobless.
It is worth mentioning that the University Grants Commission had introduced the NET to ensure that quality teachers were appointed in degree colleges. A candidate who qualified the NET was eligible for direct appointment to any college through the commission.
However, in the absence of government sanction for the creation of new posts in colleges or filling up vacant posts, the NET candidates could not be absorbed in degree colleges during the past three years, though the NET examination was held every year and thousands of students appeared in the prestigious examination.According to sources at the Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University (CSJMU), over 250 posts of lecturers are lying vacant in colleges affiliated with the varsity. The number of vacant posts could be higher in all the colleges of the state, they said.
To continue the courses, most colleges appointed teachers at a fixed honorarium of Rs 5,000 per month or on payment of Rs 150 per lecture. But even on such assignments, the claims of the NET-qualified candidates were ignored and PhD scholars were preferred by the college managements.
Violating all norms, the private colleges appoint even non-PhD candidates for teaching at a low salary of Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,500 per month while their signatures were taken against payment of the minimum salary of Rs 5,000.
Despite the best efforts of the CSJMU, the educational standards in aided and private colleges have not been improved for want of good teachers. On the other hand, the number of “low paid guest lecturers” has been increasing every year posing a threat to the concept of quality education.
