Now, students to play vital role in faculties’ promotion
| Date :27-May-2019 |
Staff Reporter:
Bhilai
Now students especially of technical education will decide the career growth of their respective faculties as All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has declared to allow students to review their teachers from the resulting academic year of 2019-20. In what is being touted as an attempt to improve the quality of engineering undergraduate, postgraduate as well as diploma courses of engineering education, the feedback-based assessment of teachers will carry 25 per cent share for their promotion. The activities of teacher in the department and contribution of them towards society will also play an important role in promotion as these two categories carry 10 per cent weightage each.
The other parameters include teaching process, activities in institutes, ACR and others things will carry weightage of 10% to 20%. This assessment pattern currently followed in IITs as well as NITs and now from this academic session, now all engineering colleges will now this rule. Sanjay Rungta, President of Chhattisgarh Federation of Self-Financing Technical Education said that getting students feedback is difficult particularly in technical education where 40 to 45 per cent marks in the form of internal marks are with faculties, he added.
“There is likelihood that students will give good feedback to teachers who give them better marks in internal examinations. Thus teachers who are not good at teaching will get a good score on students’ feedback. If this take places the whole idea of having this type of assessment to improve the quality of technical education will fall flat on its face,” pointed Dr Sourabh Rungta, Dean in Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekananda Technical University (CSVTU) Bhilai. As per official notification of AICTE, candidate will be asked to submit the average score for each course taught during academic year under consideration on a scale of 25. The average of the total of all such score shall be used.
“It is good as there is tug of war in between teachers as well as students in some of the institutions and this rule of AICTE regarding teachers, promotion will help to build a good equation amongst them,” stated Dr P B Deshmukh, retired professor. It may be mentioned here that a notification about the feedback scoring system to review teachers has been sent to all AICTE affiliated 53 engineering colleges and 40 diploma colleges. Meanwhile, professors of NIT Raipur and IIT Bhilai were of the view that is hopeful of the assessment working even in private technical colleges. It has worked well in IIT and NIT and its implementation will work favour for private engineering colleges.