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UGC cap on guide, research scholar ratio
The New Indian Express | S MANNAR MANNAN | 15th July 2016 |
COIMBATORE: To ensure the quality of research in MPhil and PhD, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has limited the number of candidates a faculty member can guide at a time. According to the new norms, a professor cannot guide more than three MPhil and eight PhD scholars at a time. An associate professor can guide a maximum of two MPhil and six PhD scholars and an assistant professor a maximum of one MPhil and four PhD scholars. This is part of the UGC (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of MPhil/PhD Degrees) Regulations 2016, which supersedes its 2009 norms allowing a faculty supervisor to guide eight PhD and five MPhil scholars. According to the new rule, while allotting a research scholar to a supervisor, the department should consider the number of scholars per supervisor and available specialisations, besides the scholar’s research interest. – Courtesy / Click here to download : UGC Gazatte Notification : Published on 13/07/2016 : 12 pages, pdf file UGC (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M.PHIL./PH.D Degrees) Regulations, 2016
Kerala High Court okays Kerala University stand on research guides
The New Indian Express | By Express News Service | 21st June 2016 |
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The High Court has ordered that only those teachers, who have at least five years of service remaining, should function as research guides in University of Kerala.The court has asked the UGC to file a counter affidavit on the matter within a month. In case the regulatory body fails to file a counter affidavit, the order will automatically come into effect.
The court also gave in-principle nod to the Kerala University’s implementation of the UGC norms relating to research guides. It also ordered that PhD registrations that have been carried out in violation of the UGC guidelines could be re-examined and research students re-assigned as per norms. The UGC had written to universities in the country stating that only serving teachers be allowed to function as research guides. The University of Kerala had passed an order mandating compliance with the UGC directive in January this year. On February 1, the university had also issued an order allowing teachers who retire in 2015-16 to function as research guides for one more year. As laid down in the UGC guidelines, the varsity also mandated that each research supervisor should guide not more than eight research scholars and five MPhil scholars at a time.The order had triggered widespread resentment. However, the university maintained that following UGC guidelines was mandatory to ensure that its research activities continue unhindered. – Courtesy
No action that devalues research degree: University of Kerala | The Hindu | Thiruvananthapuram | June 21, 2016 | |
Says illegal demands by teachers’ forums will not be accepted
Close on the heels of an interim order from the High Court of Kerala staying the University of Kerala’s recent order barring retired teachers from acting as research guides, the university, on Monday, issued a press note saying it would not take any action that would devalue its research degree. The university B.Ed. centres had lost their recognition for not following the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) guidelines and the distance education centre had lost its recognition for not adhering to UGC guidelines. So, no action would be taken which would degrade the research degree, the press note read. The High Court on June 15 had issued an interim stay on the order of the university on research guides. The varsity had issued its order following a clarification by the UGC that the granting of a doctoral or M.Phil. degree to a scholar who is not under a regular teacher shall be in violation of the UGC (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Aware of M.Phil./PhD) Regulations 1999.
The High Court order permits retired teachers to continue as research guides till the completion of five years from the time of registration for the doctoral degree. However, the court order notes that if it is found that a scholar was allocated to a teacher after the latter’s retirement then that scholar shall be reallocated to a serving teacher, the varsity press note reads. – Courtesy
Click here to download : The Interim Order / The Verdict : ( 7 Pages ) Hon. High Court of Kerala in WP(c) 17725/2016 pertaining to Research Supervisor issue
Kerala University order on research guides creates disquiet among academics
The Hindu | Thiruvanathapuram | January 23, 2016 | |
An order of the University of Kerala — following a directive from the University Grants Commission —providing that academics would cease to be research guides on retirement has created disquiet in academic circles. Academics who spoke to The Hindu said the January 8 order would pave the way for a qualitative and quantitative downfall in the research sector. The order mandates that the university shall select a research supervisor from among only “regular faculty members.” Otherwise, it would be a violation of the UGC (Minimum Standards and Procedure for award of MPhil/PhD Degree) Regulations, 2009, the UGC letter reads. What with the truncated staff strength in many university departments and affiliated colleges, there are not enough serving teachers to act as research guides, particularly in micro-specialisation subjects. Sasi Kumar, retired professor of Commerce, University of Kerala, said that given the existing number of research scholars it would be impossible to find enough number of professors to guide research work. “Earlier one guide could take on 10 research scholars. But now this has been reduced to eight. Even when it was 10 there weren’t enough serving teachers to meet the demand,” he explained. The orders mandates that scholars under a research guide at the time of the latter’s retirement shall be transferred to another guide (a regular faculty member).
Academics in affiliated colleges stand to lose out the most under the new arrangement. Teachers in affiliated colleges retire when they are 56. Those in university departments retire only at 60. However, academics at central universities retire only at 65. “This means that a teacher in an affiliated college loses out on up to 14 years of being a research guide,” said V. Prasannakumar, professor of Geology at the University of Kerala. Dr. Prasannakumar pointed out that under the new rule employees of research institutions who have been approved as research guides would also cease to have that facility. B. Ekbal, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Kerala, told The Hindu that fixing an upper-age limit for academics to be research guides is unscientific. “If a retired teacher is associated with some industry, he should not guide research in that area as there would be conflict of interest. Otherwise there is no logic in fixing an upper age for acting as research guides,” he said. – Courtesy / University of Kerala : Norms for Research
Stringent Norms on Cards for PhD, MPhil; UGC Regulations
The Indian Express | S Mannar Mannan | 24th October 2014 |
COIMBATORE: The UGC is likely to come up with stringent norms for awarding MPhil and PhD degrees in the country soon. The Draft UGC Minimum Standards and Procedures for the Award of MPhil/PhD Regulation 2014 has also mooted stringent eligibility criteria for research guides. As per the proposed regulation, a professor with five research publications in referred journals as “first or communicating author” and an associate or assistant professor with PhD and two research publications in referred journal alone would be recognised as research supervisor. If the Draft Regulation is approved, then a professor will be able to guide only three MPhil and eight PhD scholars at a given point in time. Likewise, an associate professor can guide only two MPhil and six PhD scholars and an assistant professor one MPhil and four PhD scholars, simultaneously. Further, a PhD scholar has to present one research paper in referred journal and present two papers in conferences or seminars to be eligible to submit his/her thesis. Similarly, an MPhil scholar has to present one research paper in a conference or seminar. The Draft Regulation also mandates the academic council of the institution to evolve a mechanism using well developed software and gadgets and facilities made available by UGC-INFLIBNET to detect plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty. It also mandates that while submitting for evaluation, the dissertation shall have an undertaking from the research scholar and a certificate from the research supervisor attesting to the originality of the work.
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