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Plea to ensure teachers’ appointment in colleges

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The golden jubilee State conference of the All Kerala Private College Teachers’ Association (AKPCTA) has, in a resolution, asked the government to take urgent steps to appoint the necessary numbers of teachers for aided courses started in aided colleges during 1998-2001.

In all, 26 resolutions were passed by the State conference relating to various aspects of university education and service conditions of teachers.

The conference has asked the Centre to allocate six per cent of the GDP for education; a measure envisaged in the Common Minimum Programme, to formulate a law to regulate fee and admission in self-financing professional colleges to reject the recommendations of the National Knowledge Commission and to desist from allowing direct foreign investment in higher education.

The conference passed resolutions urging the State government to hand over appointment of teachers to aided colleges to an independent authority or to the Public Service Commission, to restructure the degree courses in affiliated colleges on a semester basis, to put in place regulations to determine the qualifications of teachers in self-financing colleges and to determine service conditions of these teachers, to take stringent action against college managements that effect student admissions and teacher appointments in violation of university / government rules, to terminate unaided / off campus courses in aided colleges, to terminate the system of guest lecturers in aided colleges and to take steps to distribute PF credit cards to teachers in aided colleges.

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