KOLHAPUR: Following the Prime Minister's 'Make in India' appeal, University Grants Commission (UGC) is now looking to appoint overseas teaching faculties in central and state universities across the country to push for its 'Teach in India' initiative.
Jaspal Sandhu, UGC secretary, in his May 28 official media circular stated that the faculty recharge program would provide a vehicle to bring back talent, as reversal of brain drain, into the country. "The program has potential of meeting with shortage of faculties in critical areas besides providing motivation to 'Teach in India' with the faculties' overseas experience," it added.
The programme aims to recruit highly-motivated faculty members working overseas, with a flair for research in inter-disciplinary and frontier areas of science, at national level. "The UGC is planning to induct as many as 1,000 such faculty members over the next five years," the circular stated.
"This system is going to give a fillip to quality teaching and research in the university system at a time when we have severe shortage of teaching faculty," Sandhu said, adding that the present initiative is in conformity with the vision of the Minister of Human Resource Development Smriti Irani to promote the concept of 'Teach in India'.
The UGC has recently appointed 102 new faculties from the research areas of physics, mathematical sciences, chemical sciences, biological sciences, engineering sciences and earth sciences, he said.
It has to be noted that this is a second circular within a month from the UGC asking universities and colleges to involve the scholars, policymakers, skilled professionals and the practitioners in the academics as faculty members. The last circular had come on April 27.
The Shivaji University, Kolhapur too has asked its 282 affiliated colleges to look for the adjunct faculties.
Notably, the UGC had started the scheme of appointing the adjunct/visiting faculty from 2009 across the universities in the country.
According to its September 2009 circular, apart from overseas academicians and researchers, the professional and experts from the institutions such as research organizations supported by the Atomic energy commission (AEC), Indian Council of Agriculture research (ICAR), and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) should be involved in the programme.
Jaspal Sandhu, UGC secretary, in his May 28 official media circular stated that the faculty recharge program would provide a vehicle to bring back talent, as reversal of brain drain, into the country. "The program has potential of meeting with shortage of faculties in critical areas besides providing motivation to 'Teach in India' with the faculties' overseas experience," it added.
The programme aims to recruit highly-motivated faculty members working overseas, with a flair for research in inter-disciplinary and frontier areas of science, at national level. "The UGC is planning to induct as many as 1,000 such faculty members over the next five years," the circular stated.
"This system is going to give a fillip to quality teaching and research in the university system at a time when we have severe shortage of teaching faculty," Sandhu said, adding that the present initiative is in conformity with the vision of the Minister of Human Resource Development Smriti Irani to promote the concept of 'Teach in India'.
The UGC has recently appointed 102 new faculties from the research areas of physics, mathematical sciences, chemical sciences, biological sciences, engineering sciences and earth sciences, he said.
It has to be noted that this is a second circular within a month from the UGC asking universities and colleges to involve the scholars, policymakers, skilled professionals and the practitioners in the academics as faculty members. The last circular had come on April 27.
The Shivaji University, Kolhapur too has asked its 282 affiliated colleges to look for the adjunct faculties.
Notably, the UGC had started the scheme of appointing the adjunct/visiting faculty from 2009 across the universities in the country.
According to its September 2009 circular, apart from overseas academicians and researchers, the professional and experts from the institutions such as research organizations supported by the Atomic energy commission (AEC), Indian Council of Agriculture research (ICAR), and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) should be involved in the programme.
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