[LIS-Forum] [ELF] UGC job breather for PhDs

[Engg-Lib-Forum from India]

[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110612/jsp/nation/story_14103169.jsp]
BASANT KUMAR MOHANTY
New Delhi, June 11: A controversial UGC decision that virtually made
thousands of PhD holders ineligible for appointment as college or
university teachers unless they had cleared the National Eligibility
Test is most likely to be withdrawn.

A source said the University Grants Commission (UGC) would meet next
week to reconsider that decision, which exempted only those who had
obtained their doctorates under tough quality standards similar to
those implemented in July 2009.

The MPhil and PhD regulations the commission put in place in 2009 said
persons aspiring for teaching jobs in universities and colleges would
have to clear the National Eligibility Test (NET) or the State-Level
Eligibility Test (SLET).

However, those who had done their doctorates under guidelines similar
to the new PhD regulations or those already employed did not need to
clear the tests...............

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