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  • EAMCET WEB-BASED COUNSELLING No `quota rule’ irks students!

    EAMCET WEB-BASED COUNSELLING No `quota rule’ irks students !

    Due to lack of qu-ota, students said they lost out on seats in some of the best colleges in AP.

    Students are unhappy with the web-based Eamcet engineering counselling for not implementing the “reservation rule” even as the second phase of counselling is scheduled to begin from Tuesday, October 5.

    Complaints are pouring in from students and parents over the seat allotment list announced by Eamcet on September 25, after the first phase of counselling concluded. They said they had lost faith in the web-based counselling as it failed to allot seats based on merit or
    as per reserved quotas.

    They alleged that as a result of quotas not being followed, students eligible for the same had lost out on seats in some of the best colleges in the state. They cited instances where not a single seat has been allotted to Muslim students under BCE category in some of the top colleges.

    Other students complained
    that they were allotted seats in sub-standard colleges though their ranks rendered them eligible for seats in the best colleges. They, too, blamed “faulty” web-based counselling.

    In the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Gandipet, which figures in the top-10 list of colleges, not a single seat was allotted to BC-E students in the civil engineering branch in the first phase of web-based counselling. BC-E students are eligible for four per cent of the 29 per cent quota prescribed for backward classes. Of the 20 seats allotted in the counselling, 14 went to
    OC candidates, one to BC-D and five to BC-B. Not a single seat was allotted to students from BC-A, BC-C, BC-E, SC and ST categories. No seats were allotted for special category students from NCC, CAP and sports categories.

    Angry and disappointed at the seats they have been allotted in the first phase of counselling, several students have decided to go in for the second phase in the hopes of getting a seat in a better college. Some want the web-based counselling cancelled. Eamcet officials said they will enquire into these complaints.

    Source: DC

  • Engineering Colleges in AP are short of 60,000 lecturers!

    Engineering Colleges in AP are short of 60,000 lecturers!

    M.Tech students and B.Tech graduates are being recruited to teach in colleges.

    The educational stan dards in 700-odd in the engineering colleges state are at stake as 60,000 lecturer, assistant professor and professor posts are lying vacant. If adhere these colleges were to to the stipulated norms of recruiting M. Tech post-graduates as lecturers, it would take at least 10 years to fill up the vacan cies. The State produces about 6,000 M. Tech post graduates a year.

    Given the rate at which engineering colleges have been mushrooming in the state, the vacant lecturer posts will remain unfilled forever. The shortage is so severe that almost all the engineering colleges have been recruiting B.Tech graduates or M.Tech stu dents (on part time basis) to manage the classroom. The result is awfully low educa tional standards of engineer ing graduates. Some of the managements have recruited final year B.Tech students to teach first and second year students.

    Throwing educational standards to the winds, the AICTE has “temporarily” permitted colleges to hire B.Tech graduates as lecturers. The “temporary permission” given three years ago, has now been extended to another three years. For a is a must for the post of professors. The number of postgraduate engineering seats in the state is highly disproportionate to the num ber of B.Tech seats. The State has a little over 6,000 M.Tech seats as against 2.8 lakh B.Tech seats.

    The low salary offered by engineering colleges is a major deterrent for M.Tech post graduates in taking up the profession of teaching.

    Though colleges prefer to keep mum on the issue as lecturer to become an assistant professor, he or she needs to be an M.Tech postgraduate with at least five years of teaching experience. A degree of doctorate in philosophy many engineering aspirants are giving Eamcet a miss nowadays, some of the managements speak out over the rampant trend in the city.

    Dr Rathaiah, president of Vignan Group of Institutions says, “Earlier, there was a rule that all engineering college teachers must be M.Tech graduates, but as there was shortage of teachers, the rule was relaxed. Also, most M.Tech teachers aren’t qualified enough as the M.Tech col leges here aren’t great here.”

    Some colleges have insuf ficient faculty yet continue to take fees from the stu dents. Some B.Tech gradu ates donned the role of teachers because they didn’t bag the jobs they desired.

    Muqtar Pasha, a teacher at VIF engineering college, says, “I had attended a few interviews with MNCs but couldn’t get through so I took up the job at col lege.”

    D. Kalyan from MLR Institute of Technology, who jumped on the bandwagon too, says, “Apart from me, many of my friends are teaching now.”

    College staff also inform that it is difficult to recruit teachers as most students are lured by the heavy pay packages of software companies. “With the number of colleges increasing every year, it is only natural that there will be a shortage of lecturers. Many students don’t opt to teach after graduation as they get recruited by MNCs,” says Chengal Raju, principal, Vasavi Engineering College.

    Source: DC

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