UGC suggests checking teachers' consultancy
University Grants Commission (UGC) has recommended the government for preparing an appropriate guideline discouraging teachers of the public universities to engage in private universities and consultancies.
The higher education watchdog made certain observations and expressed grave concern in its annual report for 2009 submitted to the president recently.
The UGC has recently observed that academic activities in public universities are greatly hampered, as some teachers are engaged in teaching part time at private universities, says the report.
According to the report, many of the teachers are also engaged in consultancy firms “in uncontrolled and unplanned manner”.
The UGC in the report stressed the need for a proper guideline and its implementation to limit the practice of consultancy and part time teaching in a tolerable level so that education in public universities is not hampered.
It also laid emphasis on bringing necessary amendments to related laws, especially the University Ordinance 1973, to establish the transparency and accountability of activities of the students, employees, and teachers of the public universities.
“The universities by self-efforts should take the relevant activities in this regard,” says the report, suggesting introduction of subjects in the university curricula to help create skilled human resources.
The recommended subjects are nanotechnology, biotechnology, engineering, nuclear engineering, livestock, land and water resources, poverty reduction and economic development, forest resources, fisheries, mine-resources, renewable energy and gas extraction, collection of sea fish, medical science and nursing, leather technology, textile engineering, fashion design, apparel manufacturing, ceramic, pharmaceuticals, auto-mobile engineering, marine architecture, marine biology, social sciences, environmental science, and disaster management.
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