IIT Kharagpur asks Alumni to come back for Teaching

Updated on: Tuesday, August 11, 2015

IIT Kharagpur has asked its alumni to come back to the classroom once again - for learning new things as well as teaching younger students. IIT Kharagpur faces shortage of faculty. IIT is launching various alumni faculty schemes which would allow an alumnus to teach at the IIT for sometime.

"We want our top Alumnis to return to IIT for taking some classes for a short period of time. The exposure they can provide to the students on certain topics cannot be given by us. Dean of alumni and international relations, IIT Kharagpur said.

IITs have failed to maintain the ratio of having one teacher for every ten students. IIT, Kharagpur is short by about 40 per cent and needs to have around 450 faculty members more for its 10,000 strong student community. IIT officials complained it on an increase in students' intake and non-availability of qualified persons for taking up teaching as a career.

For those who cannot come directly to the Kharagpur campus, the institute is opening outreach centres across five to six cities of the country where alumnis can do both - teaching and learning, IIT-Kharagpur director Partha Pratim Chakrabarti said.

The first of its Kind centre would be ready by the starting of next year in Bangalore while the other ones would be launched soon in Mumbai ,Kolkata, Delhi, Bhubaneswar and Hyderabad. At the outreach centre, any young passout can join a short duration course to study a subject he or she missed out during the degree course.

IIT Kharagpur asks Alumni to come back for Teaching

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