Monday, September 11, 2000, Chandigarh, India |
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Poor response to
computer course LUDHIANA,
Sept 10 — Ninety candidates for 90 seats. This was the unusual situation at the entrance test for the postgraduate diploma in computer sciences and applications conducted by Panjab University in its affiliated colleges held at the Khalsa College for Women here today. Out of the 102 candidates who had sent their applications, 90 appeared for the test. Three colleges were given affiliation by the university for the course. These include two local colleges, the Khalsa College for Women and Kamla Lohtia S.D. College, while the third one is
R.S.D. College at Ferozepore. Each of these colleges has 30 seats. If all candidates manage to qualify the test, they would straightway get admission to the diploma course. The reason for low response is said to be the delay in the date of test and the admission process. |
Lecturers to follow UGC notifications LUDHIANA,
Sept 10 — More than 70 members of the Punjab Government College Teachers Association from 35 colleges assembled at Government College here today. This was their first meeting after the last elections. The meeting was presided over by Mr Jaipal Singh and Mr Balwinder Singh, President and General Secretary, respectively, of the association. The members of the association resolved to follow all the notifications released by the UGC recently. They said the government was misinterpreting these notifications. While the UGC guidelines stated that workload for every lecturer should be 40 hours per week and their availability in college or university be five hours a day, i.e., 30 hours a week, the government was insisting that they should stay back in the college for 40 hours a week. They said according to UGC notifications, all lecturers were required to devote 16 hours to teaching, whereas they were devoting two hours more than that. They said they would not mark their attendance twice a day, as per the new instructions of the government. They added that they were marking attendance of students in registers and signing there, which was proof of their presence in the college. When absent, they were signing leave slips. The members also decided to demand raising retirement age to 62 years. While private colleges and universities had specified the retirement age of 60 years, their retirement age was kept at 58 years. They further said the government had specified that all lecturers must take refresher courses within this year, but courses for some subjects were not being offered and all those who were required to take the course were not being
accommodated. They demanded that 600 posts lying vacant in the colleges must be filled soon and if some part-time teachers were appointed, they should be paid Rs 8000. |
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