Sunday 17 February 2013

STATE WIDE ENGINEERING COLLEGES TO FAIL FACULTY TEST

STATE WIDE ENGINEERING COLLEGES TO FAIL FACULTY TEST ::::::

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Hyderabad: Not one among the 684 private engineering colleges in the state has adequate faculty. Inspections carried out by task forces constituted by the state government have reve-aled that all the engineering colleges face acute shortage of faculty and have employed underqua-lified people as faculty.

Even top colleges which collect lakhs of rupees as donations and fees for admissions are no exception.

The inspection reports assumed significance in the backdrop of the Admissions and Fee Regulatory Committee (AFRC) move to revise the fees for engineering courses for a period of three years from the ensuing academic year (2013-14).

Going by the shortcomings detected during the inspections, the AFRC might order steep cuts in fees for the next three years.

The managements had claimed fee hikes last year arguing that they had the requisite qualified faculty and were paying salaries as per the AICTE and state government pay scales.

The government was left with little time to verify these claims since various colleges had approached the AP High Court and the Supreme Court seeking college-wise fees based on the quality of faculty and infrastructure they offered and had obtained orders in their favour.

As per AICTE norms, each department in a college should have one professor, four associate professors and six assistant professors in the ratio of 1 : 4 : 6. However, none of the colleges in the state complies with this norm.

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