Service rules for private university teachers

Mere framing of rules would do little good for the teachers if the rules are not followed by the private universities. That is why there must be a mechanism to ensure that the private universities follow the rules

It is good to know that University Grants Commission (UGC) is working on its plan to frame a mandatory service rules for the private university teachers and staff. The private university teachers should have had such service rules long ago. The absence of a set of rules in fact has made their job vulnerable to the whims of their employer right from the beginning of operation of private universities in the country. Many of the existing private universities do not give their academic staff any benefit as and when they leave their universities besides their insecure condition of job. On termination of their job, they get nothing. 
Many teachers, according to a report published in this newspaper yesterday, leave this otherwise a dignified profession of teaching in a university because of the lack of this security. There are private universities in the capital where a lecturer do not receive even Tk 15,000 a month for their salary and it is complained that the university authorities often overwork their teaching staff in a bid to reduce their expenditure on teachers. But in reality, depriving the teachers, the university authorities make money. For school and college teachers, private tuition at home, if not in banned coaching centres, remains an option for earning some extra, but this is not true for a university teacher. 
For protecting the genuine interest of a private university teacher, service rules for them have thus for long been overdue. Quoting the UGC chairman Prof. Abdul Mannan, The Independent report said the service rules would include, very positively, recruitment, promotion, gratuity and retirement benefits for teachers. The government, in fact, needs to make a salary structure for private university teachers as their public universities counterparts have. The amount of payment for basic salary, house rent, health allowance, conveyance, etc. can be fixed after discussion by the relevant stakeholders including teachers’ representatives and university authorities. A private university can always hire a teacher according to the demand of the teacher, but there must be a salary structure having slabs for payment for a lecturer, assistant/associate professor or full professor and other administrative staff as minimum.     
Mere framing of rules would do little good for the teachers if the rules are not followed by the private universities. That is why there must be a mechanism by which the government can force the private universities authorities to follow the rules.     

 

Service rules for private university teachers

Mere framing of rules would do little good for the teachers if the rules are not followed by the private universities. That is why there must be a mechanism to ensure that the private universities follow the rules

It is good to know that University Grants Commission (UGC) is working on its plan to frame a mandatory service rules for the private university teachers and staff. The private university teachers should have had such service rules long ago. The absence of a set of rules in fact has made their job vulnerable to the whims of their employer right from the beginning of operation of private universities in the country. Many of the existing private universities do not give their academic staff any benefit as and when they leave their universities besides their insecure condition of job. On termination of their job, they get nothing. Many teachers, according to a report published in this newspaper yesterday, leave this otherwise a dignified profession of teaching in a university because of the lack of this security. There are private universities in the capital where a lecturer do not receive even Tk 15,000 a month for their salary and it is complained that the university authorities often overwork their teaching staff in a bid to reduce their expenditure on teachers. But in reality, depriving the teachers, the university authorities make money. For school and college teachers, private tuition at home, if not in banned coaching centres, remains an option for earning some extra, but this is not true for a university teacher. For protecting the genuine interest of a private university teacher, service rules for them have thus for long been overdue. Quoting the UGC chairman Prof. Abdul Mannan, The Independent report said the service rules would include, very positively, recruitment, promotion, gratuity and retirement benefits for teachers. The government, in fact, needs to make a salary structure for private university teachers as their public universities counterparts have. The amount of payment for basic salary, house rent, health allowance, conveyance, etc. can be fixed after discussion by the relevant stakeholders including teachers representatives and university authorities. A private university can always hire a teacher according to the demand of the teacher, but there must be a salary structure having slabs for payment for a lecturer, assistant/associate professor or full professor and other administrative staff as minimum. Mere framing of rules would do little good for the teachers if the rules are not followed by the private universities. That is why there must be a mechanism by which the government can force the private universities authorities to follow the rules.