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  • Half of tech faculty flunk eligibility test.

    More than half of the faculty members of engineering colleges, who gave the Faculty Eligibility Test (FET), that was conducted by JNTU-Hyderabad in August, failed.

    Majority of them are assistant professors in engineering colleges. An FET qualification is mandatory to be appointed as faculty in engineering colleges.

    Of the 2,580 who gave the test, only 1,124 passed in spite of the qualifying marks being only 40 per cent for OCs and 30 per cent for reserved category candidates.

    Of the qualified candidates, 421 were from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and the rest were from other categories.

    This sorry state of affairs has once again exposed the appointments of “ineligible faculty” by engineering, pharmacy, MBA and MCA colleges under the jurisdiction of JNTU-Hyderabad.
    Last year, of the 5,300 candidates who appeared for the exam, only 1,500 could clear it.

    The exams were held separately for 18 subjects for 120 marks each and many assistant professors who have been teaching engineering students for several years failed.

    While 40 marks were allotted to test “teaching aptitudes”, the remaining 80 were for assessing the candidates’ knowledge in their specified subjects.

    Only those who have completed M.Tech, M.E or are First Class pass outs of B.Tech or BE can apply for the exam. Nearly 350 engineering and 100 pharmacy colleges are affiliated to JNTU-Hyderabad and there have been several complaints against these colleges for recruiting “ineligible faculty”.

    Source : DC

  • 50% teacher posts lie vacant in universities.

    Nearly half the teaching posts in 23 universities in the state have been lying vacant for the last five years, with the government citing “financial constraints” as the reason for not going ahead with recruitments. A report, ordered by the Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, on the actual vacancies in universities in May, found that out of the 5,349 posts sanctioned at professor-level and associate professor-level, only 3,055 posts have been filled and 2,294 posts are lying vacant for the last several years. Osmania University tops the list with 580 posts lying vacant out of total 1,223 sanctioned posts.

    In Andhra University, out of 981 sanctioned posts, 461 are vacant. Similarly in Kakatiya University 116 out of 361 posts, in Telugu Unive-rsity 56 out of 97 posts, in Acharya Nagarjuna Uni-versity 78 out of 204 posts, in JNTU-Hyderabad 91 out of 324 posts, in Sri Krishnadevaraya Univers-ity 68 out of 215 posts, in Dr B.R. Ambedkar Open University 17 out of 86 posts, in Sri Venkatesh-wara University 223 out of 601 posts are lying vacant. “The CM directed us to speed up the recruitment process and also submit an ‘action taken report’ in a month. All the VCs were asked to issue notifications for recruitment,” said Dr Rajashekar Reddy, secretary, AP State Coun-cil of Higher Education. However, it is learnt that despite the government sanctioning the posts, the finance department has been imposing cuts in the number of posts when giving approvals.

    Source : DC

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