Based on this notice in the UGC website, http://www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/5390499_quality-teaching-profession.pdf, I sent today (11th Sept. 2015) the following email to the person mentioned in the notice, "Dr. Sunita Siwach, Deputy Secretary, UGC" <ssiwach.ugc@nic.in>:
Proforma to invite suggestions/views for consideration of Committee constituted by the Central Government to examine issues related to attracting and retaining talented and quality manpower in the Teaching profession
Name and Address of the Stakeholder: Ravi S. Iyer, ---snip---
E-mail address: ---snip---
Name of the vice-chancellor of institution: NIL; I am writing as a software consultant who is currently not associated with any university or industry company.
Tel. No.: ---snip---
My Suggestion:
Related to skill development in technical higher education in fields like Computer Science and Information Technology, in my view, these are the problems and suggested solutions:
a) Lab. courses which are meant to provide skills are not given much importance.
Solution: Do strict evaluation of lab. courses, failing students where necessary. Ensure career growth incentive for lab. course teaching faculty.
b) Industry experience is not given much value by UGC/AICTE recruitment and promotion norms.
Solution: Improve practical skills level of teaching faculty in technical higher education by making it easy for experienced and accomplished industry professionals to move to academia on regular academic pay scale and designation.
c) In general, I am given to understand that in medicine the teaching faculty are themselves practitioners of medicine in "teaching hospitals". However, in technical fields like Computer Science and Information Technology, typically the teacher is not a practitioner of the field! So then how can the practical skills be taught properly to students?
Solution: Strongly encourage via career growth incentives, teaching faculty in technical higher education to be practitioners of the associated field. Measures of their competence as a practitioner can be evolved over time, based on artifacts/prototypes/products developed by the teaching faculty which should be peer-reviewed to ensure good quality output and rejection of poor quality/fraudulent output. Specifically, in the Computer Science and Information Technology field, a software contribution record can be used as a measure of competence of the teaching faculty in the practice of software development.
--- end suggestion ----
For more you may please visit my blog: Indian CS & IT Academic Reform Activism, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.in/ [24th Sept. 2020 Use https://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/ ]
Thanks & Regards
Ravi S. Iyer
Blogger on spirituality & religion and retired software consultant, Puttaparthi, India
Spiritual/Religious Websites/Blogs
* About Sri Sathya Sai Baba and more: ravisiyer.blogspot.com
* God & science conversation and a little more: iami1.wordpress.com/god-and-science-toc
Software Websites/Blogs
* Indian CS & IT Academic Reform Activism: eklavyasai.blogspot.in/p/table-of-contents.html [24th Sept. 2020 Use eklavyasai.blogspot.com/p/table-of-contents.html ]
* Course material related to computer programming (software lab.) courses: raviiyerteaches.wordpress.com
e-mail: ---snip---
Twitter: twitter.com/RaviSaiIyer
Google+: google.com/+RaviSIyerSai
Facebook: facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7
Service to Society is Service to God
Proforma to invite suggestions/views for consideration of Committee constituted by the Central Government to examine issues related to attracting and retaining talented and quality manpower in the Teaching profession
Name and Address of the Stakeholder: Ravi S. Iyer, ---snip---
E-mail address: ---snip---
Name of the vice-chancellor of institution: NIL; I am writing as a software consultant who is currently not associated with any university or industry company.
Tel. No.: ---snip---
My Suggestion:
Related to skill development in technical higher education in fields like Computer Science and Information Technology, in my view, these are the problems and suggested solutions:
a) Lab. courses which are meant to provide skills are not given much importance.
Solution: Do strict evaluation of lab. courses, failing students where necessary. Ensure career growth incentive for lab. course teaching faculty.
b) Industry experience is not given much value by UGC/AICTE recruitment and promotion norms.
Solution: Improve practical skills level of teaching faculty in technical higher education by making it easy for experienced and accomplished industry professionals to move to academia on regular academic pay scale and designation.
c) In general, I am given to understand that in medicine the teaching faculty are themselves practitioners of medicine in "teaching hospitals". However, in technical fields like Computer Science and Information Technology, typically the teacher is not a practitioner of the field! So then how can the practical skills be taught properly to students?
Solution: Strongly encourage via career growth incentives, teaching faculty in technical higher education to be practitioners of the associated field. Measures of their competence as a practitioner can be evolved over time, based on artifacts/prototypes/products developed by the teaching faculty which should be peer-reviewed to ensure good quality output and rejection of poor quality/fraudulent output. Specifically, in the Computer Science and Information Technology field, a software contribution record can be used as a measure of competence of the teaching faculty in the practice of software development.
--- end suggestion ----
For more you may please visit my blog: Indian CS & IT Academic Reform Activism, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.in/ [24th Sept. 2020 Use https://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/ ]
Thanks & Regards
Ravi S. Iyer
Blogger on spirituality & religion and retired software consultant, Puttaparthi, India
Spiritual/Religious Websites/Blogs
* About Sri Sathya Sai Baba and more: ravisiyer.blogspot.com
* God & science conversation and a little more: iami1.wordpress.com/god-and-science-toc
Software Websites/Blogs
* Indian CS & IT Academic Reform Activism: eklavyasai.blogspot.in/p/table-of-contents.html [24th Sept. 2020 Use eklavyasai.blogspot.com/p/table-of-contents.html ]
* Course material related to computer programming (software lab.) courses: raviiyerteaches.wordpress.com
e-mail: ---snip---
Twitter: twitter.com/RaviSaiIyer
Google+: google.com/+RaviSIyerSai
Facebook: facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7
Service to Society is Service to God
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