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UGC's Flawed Proposals for Teacher Hiring, Promotions
Hindustan Times Thane
|February 18, 2025
It Is Obvious That in the Absence of Numerical Marking Through the API Score, the Scope for Prejudice and Discrimination Is High
To translate the provisions of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 into action, the University Grants Commission (UGC) began framing regulations at an unprecedented speed. It discovered an innovative method for fast execution—seeking feedback online even on complex issues that required in-person consultation.
The latest in the series of these quickly produced regulations is the Draft Regulation 2025 on minimum qualifications and eligibility conditions for appointing and promoting teachers in universities/colleges. Some provisions are considered by state governments to have far-fetching consequences, including the appointment of a vice chancellor. However, one controversial issue is the move to junk the 15-year score-based Academic Performance Indicator system (API) used in the promotion of faculty members without first pointing out the limitations of its performance through a study.
The move to junk API shifts the promotion and direct recruitment processes away from objectivity to subjectivity in the assessment and evaluation of teachers.
This story is from the February 18, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Thane.
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