Ranchi, Oct. 1: The government plans to hold tutorials in universities and colleges.
The human resources development department plans to enforce the revised University Grants Commission guidelines, which stipulates a minimum four-hour tutorial in a week for a teacher of humanities.
Though tutorials are not being held in the state universities since the early ’80s, the teaching community seems averse to the suggestion. The teachers said tutorials cannot be started with the existing infrastructure. A tutorial is held for a small group of students with a personal touch.
Higher education director K.K. Shrivastava said: “The UGC guidelines, effective from 1.1.1996, stipulates that a teacher has to take tutorials for a minimum of four hours in a week. The revised payscale is also in pursuance of the same notification and it is incumbent on the government to enforce the guidelines in toto.”
Shrivastava said: “We have shortage of teachers and space, which is creating problems for enforcing the guidelines regarding tutorials. But we plan to hold classes in shifts to solve the problem of space. The space problem would be over once the new buildings are constructed in the universities and colleges. The government has released funds for the purpose.”
Shrivastava said UGC workload schedule stipulates a lecturer spends a minimum of 40 hours at work place in a week. “The break-up for lecturers of graduate colleges for non-regulatory and field work is: 16 hours teaching, two hours for exams, four hours for tutorials, 10 hours for preparation for teaching, four hours to supervise extra curricular works and four hours for administrative work.
“For science departments, which have practical classes, the teachers have to spend 12 hours for preparation and two hours for tutorials, but they have to spend four hours in laboratories,” Shrivastava said.
The stipulations for lecturers of post-graduate departments is: A minimum of 10 hours teaching in a week, one hour for exams, four hours for tutorials or laboratory, 10 hours each for preparation and research and five hours for self- reading.
