Bring in students or take pay cut, K’taka engg lecturers told
Kiran.Parashar@timesgroup.com
Bengaluru:19.05.2019
With 20% student vacancies year after year, some of Karnataka’s engineering colleges have fastened a new responsibility on lecturers: Bring in fresh admissions or take a pay cut.
Now that second-year PU examinations and Common Entrance Test are over, colleges are gearing up for admission season. Students are waiting for the counselling calendar. And some lecturers are dreading the thought of becoming marketing agents by baiting students for their institutions.
According to lecturers STOI spoke to, the student admission target varies between 2 and 20. The pay-cut threat is real. Karnataka colleges have 1 lakh engineering seats, and some 20,000 go abegging. In extreme cases, a handful of lecturers have been hounded of their jobs.
Areputed college in Bengaluru reportedly sacked a few lecturers who didn’t like the diktat. “Their attendance biometrics was withdrawn without notice. The management assigned no reason before sending them home. Some had eight years of experience,” a lecturer privy to developments said.
KM Karthik, president of All-India Private Colleges’ Employees’ Union (AIPCEU), said, “If lecturers do raise their voice against the diktat, managements blacklist them and ensure no college hires them.” Sources said managements are pushing principals to bring more revenue from admissions. The principals turn the heat on lecturers.Last week, AIPCEU president (Karnataka chapter) Ranganath Gowda filed a PIL in the high court seeking nod to establish unions to protect lecturers’ interests. The high court has allowed the petition.
UNDER PRESSURE
Kiran.Parashar@timesgroup.com
Bengaluru:19.05.2019
With 20% student vacancies year after year, some of Karnataka’s engineering colleges have fastened a new responsibility on lecturers: Bring in fresh admissions or take a pay cut.
Now that second-year PU examinations and Common Entrance Test are over, colleges are gearing up for admission season. Students are waiting for the counselling calendar. And some lecturers are dreading the thought of becoming marketing agents by baiting students for their institutions.
According to lecturers STOI spoke to, the student admission target varies between 2 and 20. The pay-cut threat is real. Karnataka colleges have 1 lakh engineering seats, and some 20,000 go abegging. In extreme cases, a handful of lecturers have been hounded of their jobs.
Areputed college in Bengaluru reportedly sacked a few lecturers who didn’t like the diktat. “Their attendance biometrics was withdrawn without notice. The management assigned no reason before sending them home. Some had eight years of experience,” a lecturer privy to developments said.
KM Karthik, president of All-India Private Colleges’ Employees’ Union (AIPCEU), said, “If lecturers do raise their voice against the diktat, managements blacklist them and ensure no college hires them.” Sources said managements are pushing principals to bring more revenue from admissions. The principals turn the heat on lecturers.Last week, AIPCEU president (Karnataka chapter) Ranganath Gowda filed a PIL in the high court seeking nod to establish unions to protect lecturers’ interests. The high court has allowed the petition.
UNDER PRESSURE
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