Get students or take pay cut: Engg colleges to staff
Practice
Practice
Is Rampant On City Outskirts, In Namakkal
A.RaguRaman@timesgroup.com
Chennai:13.05.2019
If you are a parent of a Class XII student who has just passed out, you may find faculty from engineering colleges ringing your doorbell insisting you to send your ward to their institutions.
Desperate to stay afloat, many engineering colleges in the state have told their faculty that they need to bring in at least two new admissions to get their full salary. "Colleges fear closure and are pressuring their faculty members," a principal from a city-based college said. All the demand is for computer science and IT under the management quota. There are few takers for the other courses TOI spoke to at least 20 principals across the state. While all of them said the practice was rampant in at least half the engineering colleges, none was willing to come on record. A principal from the city said this practice was going on for the last two years. "But, this year, more than 50% of the engineering colleges, desperate for more admissions, are pressuring their staff, particularly in the western and southern districts," said the principal of an engineering college in Kancheepuram district.
A college in Dindigul district sent a circular (TOI has a copy) to its staff saying: "Every staff should contribute two engineering admissions and one polytechnic admission from this academic year. If they fail, their salary will be consolidated at ₹15,000 if they receive ₹20,000 and above. The take home salary would be ₹10,000 if their salary is ₹15,000 and above."
A principal from the Erode region said the competition is severe among colleges in the Namakkal region. A college in Namakkal reportedly sent a staffer with a car to Tirunelveli and brought back four students from a village near Tirunelveli.
K M Karthik, president of Private Educational Institutions Employees Association, calls the practice humiliating. "First they stopped salary and sacked faculty members. Now, they say faculty will receive salary only if they can get two students. Students will not respect faculty," he warned.
"It is saddening to see colleges putting pressure on faculty members to scout for students. Not all colleges are involved in such practices. Only some tier-2 and tier-3 colleges are doing it," said Jayaprakash A Gandhi, a career consultant.
A.RaguRaman@timesgroup.com
Chennai:13.05.2019
If you are a parent of a Class XII student who has just passed out, you may find faculty from engineering colleges ringing your doorbell insisting you to send your ward to their institutions.
Desperate to stay afloat, many engineering colleges in the state have told their faculty that they need to bring in at least two new admissions to get their full salary. "Colleges fear closure and are pressuring their faculty members," a principal from a city-based college said. All the demand is for computer science and IT under the management quota. There are few takers for the other courses TOI spoke to at least 20 principals across the state. While all of them said the practice was rampant in at least half the engineering colleges, none was willing to come on record. A principal from the city said this practice was going on for the last two years. "But, this year, more than 50% of the engineering colleges, desperate for more admissions, are pressuring their staff, particularly in the western and southern districts," said the principal of an engineering college in Kancheepuram district.
A college in Dindigul district sent a circular (TOI has a copy) to its staff saying: "Every staff should contribute two engineering admissions and one polytechnic admission from this academic year. If they fail, their salary will be consolidated at ₹15,000 if they receive ₹20,000 and above. The take home salary would be ₹10,000 if their salary is ₹15,000 and above."
A principal from the Erode region said the competition is severe among colleges in the Namakkal region. A college in Namakkal reportedly sent a staffer with a car to Tirunelveli and brought back four students from a village near Tirunelveli.
K M Karthik, president of Private Educational Institutions Employees Association, calls the practice humiliating. "First they stopped salary and sacked faculty members. Now, they say faculty will receive salary only if they can get two students. Students will not respect faculty," he warned.
"It is saddening to see colleges putting pressure on faculty members to scout for students. Not all colleges are involved in such practices. Only some tier-2 and tier-3 colleges are doing it," said Jayaprakash A Gandhi, a career consultant.
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