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UGC guidelines for VC appointments
January 9 , 2025
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- The University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued new rules effectively give Governors in states broader powers in appointing Vice-Chancellors and opened the position to industry experts and public sector veterans.
- This was breaking from the tradition of selecting only academicians.
- The new regulations will give the Chancellors greater control over Vice-Chancellor selection.
- The Chancellor shall constitute the Search-cum-Selection Committee comprising three experts
- It also removed the cap on contract teacher appointments.
- The 2018 regulations had also limited such appointments to 10 per cent of an institution’s total faculty positions.
- The new draft regulations also say that if the candidate’s subject at the under graduate or postgraduate level is different from the PhD subject, the candidate will be considered eligible for appointment as a teacher in the subject in which they obtained the PhD.
- Also, if the candidate’s subject at the undergraduate or postgraduate level is different from their subject in qualifying exams like the NET or SET, the candidate will be eligible for appointment as a teacher in the subject in which they qualified in these exams.
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