NEW DELHI, JUNE 1
Government has approved new regulations for university and college teachers under which promotion of faculty is linked to their research output.
The HRD Ministry has approved the UGC Regulations for Minimum Qualification for Appointment of Teachers and Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges.
The UGC will pass the regulations at its meeting on Monday and then notify it, official sources said today.
These regulations link performance of teachers to their promotion. An assistant professor in a university needs to have at least three publications for being considered for promotion to the level of associate professor.
Similarly, an assistant professor in a college with just Masters degree should have three publications to be eligible for promotion. An assistant professor with PhD needs to have at least one publication in 12 years for getting promotion to the level of associate professor.
An assistant professor with just MPhil needs to produce two publications for being considered for promotion to the next level in a college.
Similarly, an associate professor needs to show at least five publications for promotion to the level of professor in both colleges and universities, the regulations said.
The papers should have been published in a referred journal, it said.
A UGC committee under Prof S P Thyagrajan, former vice chancellor of Madras University, had prepared the regulations which were pending before the government.
Besides, the regulations say that there is no need for an external observer from UGC for cases of promotion to associate professor.
