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College teachers to be appointed on contract

By Our Staff Reporter

ERODE, SEPT. 14. The Tamil Nadu Government is planning to appoint teachers on a contract basis in vacancies in government and aided colleges, S. Sivasubramaniam, Bharathiar University Vice-Chancellor, said on Sunday.

He was inaugurating a workshop on `Continuous Internal Assessment-implementation strategies, problems and prospectives' organised by the Association of College Teachers Association (ACTA) here.

The Joint Director of Collegiate Education, K. Kumarasamy, in his valedictory address, spoke about the urgent need for examination reforms.

The workshop, in a resolution, said continuous assessment was an integral and established part of the evaluation system the world over and its successful implementation in institutions of higher education, particularly arts and science colleges, was the need of the hour.

The meeting said the Continuous Assessment System would at least partially neutralise the "negative aspects" of the memory-testing, "tyrannical", one-time semester and end the external examination system and the "unscientific, subjective" evaluation in which the teacher, the student and the examiner remained three separate entities.

The ACTA State president, A. Raja presided, T. Sasisekaran of the Chikkiah Naicker College, presented proposals and draft resolutions, which were adopted unanimously.

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