The new regulation of UGC has widened the distance (gap) between the assistant professor and associate professor positions in terms of the minimum number of years service required for appointment (in the direct recruitment and CAS promotion) as well in the pay band. On the other hand, in both the terms the distance between associate professor and professor positions have been drastically reduced. Virtually there is no gap between them in the pay band. Until now, under the CAS, the distance between a lecturer and reader was 9-11 years while under the new regime it will be 12-14 years. But the distance between the reader and professor was 8 years. Likewise the minimum number of years experience required to become an associate professor has been increased from 5 to 8 while the same for professorship remains at 10 years. But the number of years between professor and assistant professor has got decreased by 2 years.
In this connection, we demand answers to the questions.
• What led the UGC to reduce the distance (gap) in salary as well as number of years experience between Associate Professors and Professors?
• Why the distance between assistant professor and associate professor positions has been increased? (In salary as well as number of year’s experience).
• Why there is increased waiting period for the assistant professors with less salary, lower prestige, and power in the higher education system under the lower tier of the higher education. Simply why this kind of marginalisation of young people.
• In what way this class polarisation approach will improve the quality of higher education in the country.
The new regulation also has excluded the research experience (M.Phil and Ph.D) from the calculation of minimum years of experience for appointment to the positions of associate professors and professors. All of us in the higher education sector are aware of the fact that for completing an M.Phil course, a minimum of two years spent while for completing a Ph.D at least five years are spent. Further, there is Junior and Senior Research Fellowships are provided to the scholars by UGC, CSIR, ICSSR, ICAR, etc as well as the universities concerned. The scholars are involved in teaching apart from active research.
The questions here are
• Why the research experience as full time research scholar (M.Phi/Ph.D) could not be considered as experience?
• What is the rationale for this exclusion of this research experience?
• When UGC gives 5 advance increments to fulltime Ph.D scholars (if they have got awarded) when they join a higher educational institution, why can’t the five years experience be considered for the position of associate professor and professor under direct requirement as well as CAS?
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ReplyDeleteWhatever rules decided by UGC but the universities mold up the rules as per their vested interest. As far as my experience from Mohanlal Sukhadia University (Udaipur, Rajasthan) is concerned there are too many such activities are going on.... No check, nothing. The powerful lobbies (both political and administrative) decide the alternative route to overlook UGC norms.
ReplyDeleteWho will be Professor that is decided by the power of the person not by the academic qualification... I will not name but one could find examples atleast from M L Sukhadia University that how the UGC norms are made as according to requirement of powerful persons/ lobby.....
Satya Prakash Mehra
What Sri Satya Prakash Mehra has said is 100% true to the best of my knowledge. Yet this should not mean the UGC can make a discriminatory, unscientific, regulation. It has to ensure transparency in recruitment process by video recording of the proceeding of interviews. It should also make mandatory release of the merit list( all the marks, scores, detailed bio data). Unless we demand it. The expert panel should exclude the people who have no publications or any academic credentials. Thanks Sri Satya Prakashji for telling the truth.
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