M.Phil holders must clear NET/SLET for lectureship

Updated on: Wednesday, May 27, 2009

New Delhi: M.Phil holders will now have to clear National Eligibility Test (NET) or State Level Eligibility Test (SLET) for take up lectureship.

To ensure that institutions get quality faculty, the UGC has decided to bring in stricter norms for lectureship and introduce uniform regulation for Ph.D programmes.

As per the new norms on minimum qualifications for appointment of teachers, NET or SLET would be made mandatory for PG and M.Phil holders for joining lectureship.

However, only Ph.D holders, who have pursued the course as per the UGC's regulation on Ph.D programmes, will get exemption from clearing NET or SLET.

'Form now on, only Ph.D degree holders, whose course is of high standard, will get exemption from NET or SLET to get into teachership in universities and colleges affiliated to UGC. The M.Phil holders will have to clear NET or SLET,'UGC Chairman Prof. Sukhadeo Thorat said

He said the government had set up a committee under Prof. B. Mungekar to recommend on minimum qualifications for appointment of teachers.

The committee had earlier submitted its interim report, saying that NET or SLET clearance should be mandatory for candidates, excepting Ph.D and M.Phil holders, to join lectureship. The UGC had implemented that also. But in the final report, the committee said M.Phil holders should not be given exemption.

The UGC has come out with a uniform regulation on Ph.D programmes, which says universities will lay down criteria for the faculty to be recognised as research supervisor for M.Phil and Ph.D students.
A supervisor cannot have more than eight Ph.D and five M.Phil scholars at any given point of time. The universities will decide the number of M.Phil and Ph.D seats and advertise them widely. The universities will have to admit M. Phil and Doctoral students through an entrance test
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The entrance will be followed by an interview in which the doctoral students will discuss their research area. After admission to Ph.D, the students will have to do a course work for a minimum period of one semester.

'Course work will be mandatory and it will be treated as pre M.Phil/Ph.D preparation,' Mr. Thorat said

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M.Phil holders must clear NET/SLET for lectureship

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