{"id":245435,"date":"2023-05-30T20:02:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T14:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=245435"},"modified":"2023-05-30T20:02:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T14:32:11","slug":"the-lack-of-teachers-in-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-lack-of-teachers-in-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"The lack of teachers in higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cThe lack of teachers in higher education<\/strong>\u201d published in The Hindu <\/strong>on\u00a030th<\/sup> May 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS 2 \u2013 Education<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>Reasons behind shortage of faculties in higher educational institutions<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: Faculty shortages in India have become a permanent issue and obstacles remain in finding a solution to faculty shortages.<\/p>\n

What are the obstacles in finding a solution to faculty shortages?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

a))<\/strong> lack of reliable data on current faculty shortages in colleges and universities and b)<\/strong> the partial understanding of faculty shortages as merely a quantitative issue.<\/p>\n

Why is there no reliable data on faculty shortages?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In 2009, the task force set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development said that there is no standing mechanism to collect the information on vacant faculty positions.<\/p>\n

The report called for a standing mechanism to monitor the size and quality of faculty and suggested that data on faculty members should be made available on the website of every academic institution.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, even after more than a decade, most academic institutions have incomplete websites containing only partial information about their faculties.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the government collects data on the number of faculty members, for the annual All India Survey of Higher Education (AISHE<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

However, AISHE is a voluntary process for various institutions<\/strong> and the data provided by the institutions is also not verified by any independent agency.<\/p>\n

Most colleges also have adjunct faculty members<\/strong> and even ghost members. They are often counted as part of the regular faculty.<\/p>\n

Hence, all these issues make it impossible to get a reliable estimate of faculty shortages.<\/p>\n

Are shortages a quantitative issue?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Shortages of faculty is not only a quantitative issue. There are other factors also involved in it like:<\/p>\n

First,<\/strong> there may be a demand supply gap<\/strong> of faculties in some places because the number of faculty members varies across disciplines, institutions and locations. Therefore, the gap between the demand and supply needs to be addressed.<\/p>\n

Second, <\/strong>faculty shortages for most of the public institutions occur due to the lack of funds.<\/strong> Almost all state universities, despite the need for faculties, are unable to hire them because they do not have sufficient funds.<\/p>\n

Third,<\/strong> many private colleges show unwillingness to hire faculties because their motive is to earn profit<\/strong>. They hire less faculties and make them do more work. They also hire less qualified people to keep costs down.<\/p>\n

Fourth,<\/strong> the reservation of caste in the public institution also creates problems in hiring faculties from the specific caste<\/strong>. Because the reservations reduce the pool of qualified people. It also leads to vacant positions due to the unavailability of qualified applicants.<\/p>\n

Fifth, <\/strong>positions also remain vacant due to the unwillingness among faculty members<\/strong> to work at select institutions due to their unfavourable location and\/or the working and living conditions.<\/p>\n

Sixth,<\/strong> there may also be qualitative issues for the vacant positions<\/strong>. Despite a huge number of candidates for faculty positions, only a small proportion of them may be competent for the post.<\/p>\n

Hence, there is a need for a robust policy to address the issue of faculty shortages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cThe lack of teachers in higher education\u201d published in The Hindu on\u00a030th May 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Education Relevance: Reasons behind shortage of faculties in higher educational institutions News: Faculty shortages in India have become a permanent issue and obstacles remain in finding a solution to faculty… Continue reading The lack of teachers in higher education<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-245435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}