UGC frames teachers appraisal rules

Updated on: Thursday, November 19, 2009

Kolkata: UGC has come up with guidelines to evaluate teachers’ performances.

Their promotion will be based on evaluations made in accordance with that. Included in the long list of criteria is “familiarity with up-to-date teaching material”.

Teachers are expected to imbibe new and innovative teaching methods, spend a specified number of hours on tutorials and seminars. They will be judged on the time they actually spend on them.

Their evaluation will also be based on the extent to which they:
- develop new curricula and teach new courses
- produce relevant teaching material
- exam methods they develop
- the extent to which they participate in external and internal exams of the institutions they teach in
- design annual performance appraisal systems for their teachers and will be free to conduct such appraisal in accordance with their own design.

UGC has fixed a scale of 150 points to judge teachers’ performances on criteria outlined under the head of ‘teaching’.

Another 50-point scale has been set out to evaluate their performance under the ‘professional and related activities’ head.

Teachers can earn points through:

-         Guiding students
-         Organising and taking part in courses
-         Receiving awards
-         Preparing reports for consultancy projects
-         Publishing works in journals
-         Presenting papers in conferences. More points are available if publishers include these in books

Teachers can score up to 200 points, depending on the extent to which they meet various criteria outlined under the final head of co-curricular work and student mentoring activities.

UGC frames teachers appraisal rules

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