Retaining faculty’s docus: Court stays Anna Univ circular
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:07.02.2019
An Anna University letter, asking colleges to return certificates to faculty members after verification, has been stayed by the Madras high court.
The university sent a letter on December 4, 2018, advising colleges not to retain testimonials of faculty members, but return them immediately after verification. The advisory was issued after a lecturer of a self financing engineering college killed himself saying his certificates were not returned by the management, thwarting him from taking up regular vacancy in a government college.
Assailing the circular, All India Private Educational Institutions Association moved the court saying retaining certificates was necessary as there have been instances of staff leaving the institutions without prior notice, that too in the middle of academic session.
Such sudden departures would cause serious hardship not only to the management but also students, the association said. Under the circumstances, it became necessary for management of educational institutions to retain the original academic certificates of their teaching and non-teaching staff during their tenure at the institution.
Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana, before whom the petition filed by association came up for hearing, granted interim stay on Wednesday and directed the registrar of Anna University to file a counter-affidavit by February 20.
The petitioner-association submitted that they held nothing personal against their faculty or other staff, adding that all educational institutions affiliated to the university were duty-bound to maintain the teaching staff declared by them to the university.
Migration of faculty members to institutions outside the university, or the state, made things difficult for the institutions, as they would be beyond the control of both the university and the management of colleges, the association said.
The university sent a letter on December 4, 2018, advising colleges not to retain testimonials of faculty members, but return them immediately after verification
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:07.02.2019
An Anna University letter, asking colleges to return certificates to faculty members after verification, has been stayed by the Madras high court.
The university sent a letter on December 4, 2018, advising colleges not to retain testimonials of faculty members, but return them immediately after verification. The advisory was issued after a lecturer of a self financing engineering college killed himself saying his certificates were not returned by the management, thwarting him from taking up regular vacancy in a government college.
Assailing the circular, All India Private Educational Institutions Association moved the court saying retaining certificates was necessary as there have been instances of staff leaving the institutions without prior notice, that too in the middle of academic session.
Such sudden departures would cause serious hardship not only to the management but also students, the association said. Under the circumstances, it became necessary for management of educational institutions to retain the original academic certificates of their teaching and non-teaching staff during their tenure at the institution.
Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana, before whom the petition filed by association came up for hearing, granted interim stay on Wednesday and directed the registrar of Anna University to file a counter-affidavit by February 20.
The petitioner-association submitted that they held nothing personal against their faculty or other staff, adding that all educational institutions affiliated to the university were duty-bound to maintain the teaching staff declared by them to the university.
Migration of faculty members to institutions outside the university, or the state, made things difficult for the institutions, as they would be beyond the control of both the university and the management of colleges, the association said.
The university sent a letter on December 4, 2018, advising colleges not to retain testimonials of faculty members, but return them immediately after verification
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