Academic activities
in colleges across Kerala have been badly hit by large-scale vacancies in various
faculties. Many colleges have been facing an acute shortage of teachers with
several vacancies.
Though permission
to various colleges to fill up vacancies has been given, they make it as good
opportunity to collect money by way application money from innumerable job
seekers. It is the practice of some private college managements to post none
after conducting interview. The five member interview board with one government
nominee and a subject expert is a farce as these members dance in tune with
other three of the management in the board after getting a five star hospitality.
After the interview, posts are held
vacant for always with no permanent faculty. The classes are then run by guest faculty
with meager salary and hence managements can often notify the vacancy for
collecting application money. The fee for single application for appointment in
private colleges in Kerala about Rs 800 and if a college receives 100
applications for a single post it makes Rs 80000 per subject. If there are ten
subjects the sum collected is Rs 8 lakh and that too without filling a single
post. This ordeal is repeated and the losers are those candidates with NET
qualification and Ph D.
The colleges
engaging lecturers on contractual basis should be abandoned. Teaching is a noble
profession that needs total dedication and for which the guest faculty and retired
teachers are unfit. It is high time for higher education department in Kerala
to investigate the bad practices taken up by the private college managements.
A
candidate from a different community appeared for an interview in a private college
had to answer only questions of the sort: “Why did you waste money? Don’t you
know our practice? Could you find any one in our colleges outside our community?
So, take tea and leave the place. This job is not for people like you”.
All in the
education sector know this but who cares?
K A
Solaman
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