University set to solve evaluator crisis for unaided courses

Updated on: Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Every year, colleges clamour for permission to start undergraduate professional unaided courses like media management, banking and insurance and management studies. But the 400 institutes that run such courses often complain that the contracts of the visiting and contractual teachers—on whom they depend heavily—had expired at the end of the academic year. As a result, about 100 permanent teachers are forced to assess nearly 1.5 lakh answer scripts leading to a delay in declaring the results.

To solve the problem, Mumbai University’s board of exams have decided to take an undertaking from such colleges that the number of students would be proportional to the faculty members they had on board. This is not a new problem. Each year, colleges send a list of teachers appointed for various subjects. “When we ask the colleges to send them for paper evaluation, we are told that the teachers had quit (as their contracts had expired by then),” said controller of exams Vilas Shinde.

University set to solve evaluator crisis for unaided courses

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