Initiative comes as IITs have been struggling with the issue of faculty shortage for a long time
In order to address the shortage of faculty, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are going to create a pan-IIT faculty pool of foreign faculty members and best PhD scholars in each institute who can teach across all institutes.
Inviting renowned alumni to teach in these institutions for a single semester is also a part of the plan to boost faculty strength. They will teach under the “Teach-a-Semester” plan of IITs.
IITs, like many other centrally funded technical institutes, have been struggling with the issue of faculty shortage for a long time. Vacancy in some IITs are as high as more than 50%, sources pointed out.
Steps to tackle the faculty shortage in IITs was discussed in the meeting of IITs with President, the Visitor of these institutes, recently. As per the minutes of the meeting, “In order to address the shortage of faculty in all these premier educational institutions, IITs unanimously agreed that to attract and recruit quality faculty from abroad, a Pan-IIT faculty pool may be created.”
IITs will also work towards making necessary amendments in the statutes after following due process for faculty recruitment.
“For Indian faculty members, each institute will identify the best PhD scholars and share their details with other Institutes for the purpose of being taken as faculty. In addition to this, the details of all those prospective faculty who were interviewed but could not be selected may be shared with other Institutes,” mentioned the minutes, accessed by DNA.
A parliamentary panel on Ministry of Human Resource Development, in a report submitted in Parliament in November 2016, had said among the older IITs, Bombay had a vacancy of 38.66%; Kharagpur 42.42%; Roorkee 41.88%; Delhi 33.11%; Guwahati 26.50% and IIT-BHU 53%.
The central-government funded technical institutes will also work towards getting more foreign students. As reported by DNA earlier, IITs are going to have a 20 percent supernumerary quota for foreign students in each of the institutes. They will also be taking up the issue of foreign faculty and students with Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of External Affairs, in order to simplify processes for hassle-free visas.
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- Inviting renowned alumni to teach in these institutions for a single semester is also a part of the plan to boost faculty strength. They will teach under the “Teach-a-Semester” plan of IITs.
- Steps to tackle the faculty shortage in IITs was discussed in the meeting of IITs with President, the Visitor of these institutes.
- IITs will also work towards making necessary amendments in the statutes
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