Most teachers are only graduates

Updated on: Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Even as the shortage of quality or well-educated staff haunts Navi Mumbai’s institutions, the lack of sufficient courses or options and ill-equipped laboratories add to the mess.

A Cidco study showed that in around 50 per cent engineering and nearly 37 pr cent medical institutions, teachers having only graduate degrees were imparting education, depriving students of quality education. Comparatively, general colleges and BEd institutes seem to have more postgraduate teachers. Management colleges too have around 45 per cent graduate staff.

In general colleges, there are three educational streams—arts, science and commerce—and 25 combinations. “Though undergraduate programmes offer a choice of combinations of subjects, some subjects, particularly in science streams, are not included in the college curricula,” the study revealed.

There is a limited choice of subjects for the master’s programme in arts and science subjects. “In the master’s programme, in branches of science like physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, laboratory and heavy equipment required for conducting experiments are not available in colleges of Navi Mumbai,” the report stated.

Most teachers are only graduates

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