70% tech faculty fails test

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Hyderabad: Not even half the faculty members of engineering colleges who had taken the Faculty Eligibility Test (FET) this year have managed to score passing marks. The FET qualification is mandatory to be appointed as faculty in engineering colleges.
Out of 1,500 persons who appeared for the test, which was conducted by JNTU, Hyderabad on August 18, only 400 passed, which amounts to less than 30 per cent. This despite the fact that the qualifying marks were just 40 per cent for OCs and 30 per cent for reserved category candidates.
Most of them are assistant professors in engineering colleges.
The results have once again exposed the appointment of sub-standard faculty by engineering, pharmacy, MBA and MCA colleges under the jurisdiction of JNTU, Hyderabad.
About 400 engineering and 100 pharmacy colleges are affiliated to JNTU, Hyderabad. The task forces constituted by the state to inspect engineering colleges earlier this year had found that most of these colleges were recruiting ill-qualified and sub-standard faculty to avoid paying higher salaries as per the AICTE pay scales.
The colleges were paying AICTE salaries to their faculty only on paper, whereas their actual salaries were far less. Some college managements were found to be possessing ATM cards of faculty members to draw the excess amounts immediately after the salaries were credited into their bank accounts.
FET was introduced by JNTU, Hyderabad in 2010 after the government received large-scale complaints against colleges for recruiting ineligible faculty.
The eligibility test was aimed at improving the teaching standards in engineering colleges by appointing only qualified faculty for the students.
Students seek clarity on management quota seats
Hyderabad: The state government's silence on implementation of the recent AP High Court orders, on conducting online admissions for management quota seats in engineering colleges, has led to confusion among students and parents.

                      Students get their certificates verified. 
Many colleges had already issued notifications and received applications from students as per the old method. Students now do not know if those applications are still valid in the wake of the new HC directions.
AP State Council of Higher Education officials too have failed to give any clarity on conducting online admissions so far.
The HC had directed the government to conduct online admissions for management quota as per the GOs 66 and 67. Under this, the APSCHE will set up a Web portal wherein the details pertaining to the availability of management quota seats in all the colleges will be uploaded and the students will have the provision to submit applications online.
The managements will then scrutinise all these applications and prepare a merit list, based on which seats will be allotted. The APSCHE will have the provision to crosscheck the merit list and the seat allotment details online to ensure transparency. However, the APSCHE is yet to devise the portal and issue a notification inviting applications from students.