Are you teaching in an engineering college? Your job may be at risk

New ruling of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is making teaching staff at private engineering colleges nervous. In its handbook of 2019-19, AICTE had given a new teacher-student ratio of 1:20 from this academic year. Many engineering colleges have started downsizing the number of their faculties, citing this rule. While the AICTE issued a notice instructing colleges not to terminate services of faculties on the basis of the new rule, many colleges have already handed teaching staff pink slips.Engineering colleges across India have been reporting poor admissions and vacant seats for the last few years, and the new rule may prompt them to trim the number of existing teachers. For self-financed engineering institutions witnessing lower than 50% admissions, three or four extra teachers is a burden, feel experts.Nearly 12,000 engineering college teachers in Tamil Nadu have lost their jobs due to the new rule. The scale-down has happened, ironically, in a state where 40 % of engineering graduates are considered unemployable, because of poor quality of training they received.

from The Economic Times https://ift.tt/2Kr1CSN