UGC draft norms face flak from DU's Academic Council members

A day after Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan released UGC draft guidelines stating that clearing the National Eligibility Test (NET) will no longer be a mandatory qualification for appointment as an assistant professor, the academic council members of Delhi University issued a statement saying that the new recruitment criteria show a shift in focus from cutting-edge research to merely reiterating existing knowledge since core competence is done away with.

- IFRAH MUFTI

In response to the draft guidelines, the AC members talked about the recruitment process, stating that there has been a massive dilution of the quality of faculty by doing away with specialisation in a core discipline while the recruitment criteria endorse the NEP's emphasis on the common courses which are poor and substandard.