Riyaz Bhat
Srinagar, Nov 4: Jammu and Kashmir Higher Education Department (JKHED) is grappling with the acute teaching staff—thus raising a question on the quality of education in colleges of the region.
An official informed that the colleges in Jammu and Kashmir require more permanent teaching staff to meet the workload and to improve the quality of education in sync with the New Education Policy (NEP).
The official said, “There is a dire need of increased staff hiring to meet NEP workload.”
“Around 2,000 academic arrangement faculty is being engaged every session in addition to permanent faculty,” the official said, adding that there is a need for creation of posts to fill the vacancies to address persistent staff shortage.
Stating the roadmap for the next ten years, the official said that the Higher Education Department is planning clustering of colleges to provide multidisciplinary education to the students.
It also said that the department is mulling to give Multidisciplinary Education and Research University (MERU) status to select existing autonomous colleges.
“By 2036, all colleges will be made autonomous so that the quality of education in those institutions will be improved further,” the official said.
“JKHED is incorporating the National Apprenticeship Scheme (NATS) within the NEP structure,” the official said. (KNO)
