UGC Funda

After a short nap of sleep i felt like sleep is even worrying me,may be,i was occupied by something at my mind.Going though my normal schedule of reading those between the lines of editorials of Business Standard which has maintained its standard by and far now.
Okay instead being more getting circumlocuted let me come to issue.I read an interview where it was all about complains and dissatisfaction regarding UGC and the working of university teachers and disfunctionality.
After little research work and efforts i thought to put everything in my words.
The UGC's directive to college & university lecturers says that they need to spend a minimum of 22 hours a week in direct teaching which is a product of budgetry cutbacks rather than pedagogic wisdom.It may seem odd,at first blush,that teachers should protest about teaching a mere 22 Hrs.However,if one considers the amount of time academics require to prepare lectures of good quality as well as the time they need to spend doing research,it is clear that most conscientious teachers work more than 40 hrs a week.In university systems around the world lecturers rarely spend 12-15 Hrs in direct teaching activity in a week.
The average college in India doesn't owes any sort of office space other than common staff room or some cubical space ,not only this they mite have to share internet systems on the common labs as that od students.
Libraries are poorly stocked.Now UGC says that universities must implement a complete freeze on all permanent recruitment,abolish all posts which have been vacant for more than a year,and mya be they need to cut the staff strenght by 10%.And its the order to ensure that these cutbacks do not affect the quantum of teaching that existing lecturers are being asked to work longer.Obviously,the quality of teaching and academic in general will decline.While it is true that some college teachers do not take their classes reagularly,the UGC and the institutions concerned must find a proper way to hold them accountable.An absentee will continue to play traunt even if number of hours goes up.
All of us are well aware of the unsound state that indian higher education systems is in today.Thanks to years of sustained financial neglect,most Indian universities do not research worth the name..Even as the number of students entering colleges is increasing the publicj investment has also gone up.However,the investment on education has radically grown from 20-60 in between 1985-2006 in Malaysia.Instead of transfering the burden of government apathy on to the backs of teachers ,the uGC should insist the need of country university system should be made more adequate.
( I am not a teacher but at times this issue of unconsisted education system has been warming and alarming,the continual on going strikes by teachers not only puts a halt on the performance but also puts a question on the dignity of our education system)