Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers for Classes Ito VIII-reg

Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers for Classes Ito VIII-reg.

The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, vide its Notification F.No. 1-13/2009-EE-4 dated 31’ March 2010, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub.section (1) of section 23 of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.2009, has authorised the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) as (he academic authority to lay down the minimum qualifications for a person to be eligible for appointment as a teacher.

More details -http://www.cbse.nic.in/circulars/cir19-2012.pdf

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TAMIL NADU TEACHERS RECRUITMENT -2012

TAMIL NADU TEACHERS RECRUITMENT -2012

Direct recruitment of Postgraduate Assistants/Physical Education Directors-Gr.I for Government Higher Secondary Schools -2011-12
Advertisement No. 03 /2012

SL.NO	Name of the Post & Scale of Pay	Service	Post Code	No. of vacancies
1	Post Graduate Assistants /Physical Education Directors Gr.1 Rs.9300-34,800 GP Rs.4800/-	Tamil Nadu Higher Secondary Educational Service	12 PG	2895

IMPORTANT DATES:

A	Date of Notification	28.02.2012
B	Commencement of Sale of Applications	16.03.2012	10.00 a.m
C	Last Date for Receipt of Application	30.03.2012	05.30 p.m
D	Date of Written Examination	27.05.2012	10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m

More details-http://trb.tn.nic.in/PG2012/28022012/Notification.pdf

http://trb.tn.nic.in/PG2012/28022012/Prospectus.pdf

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College teachers on UGC pay scale to retire at 65 years

College teachers on UGC pay scale to retire at 65 years

College teachers on UGC pay scale to retire at 65 years : Karnataka High Court

The college teachers on the University Grants Commission (UGC) pay scale had reasons to be delighted with the Karnataka High Court on Wednesday. The court held that their age of retirement will have to be enhanced to 65 as per the UGC Regulations, 2010.

While quashing the State government's orders, which had fixed retirement age between 60 and 62, the High Court said that “the denial of the enhancement of the age of superannuation to teachers, working in the government and aided, affiliated colleges, drawing UGC scale of pay, are repugnant to the UGC Act and the Regulations and hence is void.”

SEEKING ENHANCEMENT

Justice Ananda Byrareddy delivered the verdict on a batch of petitions filed by H. Halesh, Associate Professor, SJR College of Science, Bangalore, M. Albina, Principal, Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, and several others seeking extension of terms of the UGC (minimum qualification of teachers and other academic staff in universities and colleges, and other measures for maintenance of standard of higher education) Regulations 2010.

This regulation had enhanced the age of superannuation to 65 but the State government had extended the age of superannuation only up to 62 though it revised the pay scale as per UGC Regulations.

“The scheme framed by the Government of India, vide letter dated December 31, 2008, provides for a common revision of pay scale of teachers of universities and colleges (affiliated or constituent) established under the Central, State or Provincial Acts with enhancement of age of superannuation to 65.

UNDER THE ACT

The said scheme has been incorporated as part and parcel of UGC Regulations 2010.

The said regulation is framed in exercise of power under the UGC Act and would hence override any executive Government Orders issued contrary to it,” the court held.

TO CONTINUE IN SERVICE

The court said that the petitioner-teachers shall continue in service in the posts held by them as on the date of petitions or immediately prior thereto, till they attain the age of superannuation of 65, in accordance with UGC Regulations with all consequential benefits.

Source : The Hindu

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Increase the retirement age of college teachers from 60 to 65 year

Young Bangalore teachers angry as old hands get 3 years extra

The high court’s directive to increase the retirement age of college teachers from 60 to 65 years in the state has resulted in a war cry from the young lecturers as they now have to wait for five years to get into higher salary slots.

Teachers airing their resentment felt that the UGC regulations were violated as 80% of the teachers who have been brought under the UGC scales in 1992 and 1998 have no qualification except a Master’s degree, while the UGC stipulations demand that they should have passed the National Eligibility Test (NET), State-Level Eligibility Test (SLET) or should possess a PhD. But only 20% of the 436 teachers have passed the SLET or NET and only a few are PhDs. The high court directive raising the superannuation of teachers from 60-65 will deprive the young teachers who have passed the UGC’s stipulation examinations of their legitimate lateral ascension.

Sources in the Federation of University College Teachers’ Associations Karnataka (FUCTAK) said, “The UGC-stipulated standards of teaching profession can be assured only through the NET. It is tough to pass the qualifying exams and only those teachers who have passed the exams are fit to teach degree students. But the older teachers clinging on to the profession with a knowledge base of 30 years have become a stumbling block in the way of the new generation of teachers.”

A teacher who has passed the NET said, “I am drawing a salary at least 50% lesser than a teacher who is not qualified. There are hundreds like me who are feeling frustrated despite being qualified as per the UGC guidelines.”

Usha Ravi of Mysore University who cleared the NET in 2010 and is working on her PhD said, “Our students in the higher education have been deprived of the benefits of new knowledge and new skills of knowledge delivery. At this point, the government should go in for an appeal against the directive,” she said.

If an old-time lecturer wants to prefix a ‘professor’ tag before his name, he should have guided at least one PhD scholar and should be a PhD himself and should have worked for more than 10 years.The universities and government colleges were scrupulously following this norm but, in aided colleges, old teachers are prefixing ‘professor’ to their names freely. “There is a stipulated ratio of assistant professors andassociate professors working under a person who could be designated as professor in each set up, including university colleges, government colleges and aided colleges,” clarified officials at Mangalore University.

“Under the present condition, the ideal age for superannuation is 62 in universities and 60 in government and aided colleges. But the state government has made it 62 in some colleges and 65 in some others. The government cannot implement the UGC regulations on a piece-meal basis,” said general secretary TM Manjunath of Karnataka State Government College Teachers’ Association (KSGCTA).

An endorsement by the state government on June 14, 1998 available exclusively to DNA clearly stipulates that college lecturers should have a minimum of 55% in their chosen post-graduate course and passed NET and SLET. If they do not possess these qualifications, they should try and complete the NET and SLET within a period of three years. But the proceedings issued by the state government on May 22, 2009 have cleverly masked the endorsement issued on giving rise to suspicion of foul play, said RTI activists.

Source: DNA India

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College teachers will retire at 65

College teachers will retire at 65

BANGALORE: Lecturers and teaching staff in colleges getting paid as per UGC scales across Karnataka have something to cheer about. The Karnataka High Court quashed various orders restricting their superannuation in the range of 60-62 years and directed authorities to make it 65 years.

"The denial by the state government of the enhancement of age of superannuation to teachers working in the government and aided, affiliated colleges drawing UGC scale of pay is repugnant to the UGC Act and the Regulations and hence is void," the court observed.

Petitioners will be continued in service in the posts they held on the date of petitions or immediately prior to it till they attain the age of superannuation of 65 years in accordance with UGC regulations with all benefits, Justice Anand Byrareddy observed in his verdict, allowing petitions led by H Halesh, M Albina and others.

source:The Hindu

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West Bengal to recruit 46,000 primary teachers

The West Bengal government today decided to recruit 46,000 primary teachers to improve the school education system, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said.

"We have decided to appoint 46,000 teachers in primary schools. This has been done with the approval of the finance department," Banerjee told after a cabinet meeting.

She said that 10 per cent of the recruitment will be made from the state Primary Teachers Training Institutes and para-teachers.

Banerjee said the problem of Sishu Siksha Kendras, Madhya Siksha Kendras and would be solved in phases, within three years.

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Delhi govt to appoint 9,000 teachers, set up 12 schools

Delhi government has decided to appoint 9,000 teachers and set up 12 new schools across the city to enhance educational facilities for effective implementation of the Right to Education Act.

The government has also identified 10 more sites for setting up of new schools besides deciding to enhance existing infrastructure in over 50 schools.

Additional Education Director Sunita Shukla said that to augment educational infrastructure the department has constructed 529 new rooms in existing schools in 2010-11 for proper implementation of the RTE Act. The Act makes it mandatory for government to provide free education till class VIII.

"We have decided to set up 12 new schools and sites for another 10 schools have been identified," she told reporters here.

The government has already enhanced infrastucture in 127 schools as part of a project called Roopantar.

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Are you producing teachers or rowdy elements? SC

Taking strong exception to their unruly behaviour, the Supreme Court today wondered whether teachers' training institutes in Haryana are producing "thugs, wrestlers and rowdy elements" to intimidate the authorities against conducting inspections of their colleges.

"Are you producing wrestlers, boxers or musclemen and thugs or teachers"? a vacation bench comprising Justices G S Singhvi and C K Prasad asked the counsel representing some of the colleges.

The bench made the remarks while expressing anguish over an incident in which a mob of about 100 persons, including students, had barged into the NCTE Chairman's office in New Delhi and created a ruckus to oppose inspection of their premises.

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Maharashtra college teachers to stage protest on April 18

Over 2,500 teachers from ten universities and affiliated colleges across Maharashtra will stage a protest on April 18 at Azad Maidan here seeking state government's attention on several pending issues including service regularisation and pension parity.

Maharashtra Federation of University and College Teachers Union General Secretary Tapti Mukhopadhayay today told reporters here that most teachers are facing hardships and losing on financial benefits due to various reasons.

Their main demands include: regularisation and promotion of those teachers who were appointed before the introduction of NET/SET, removal of discrimination in pension, implementation of Sixth Pay Commission for Engineering and Social Work College teachers, she said.

About retirement age, Mukhopadhyay said, although for teachers it has been fixed at 62 and for Principals at 65, it is becoming impossible to reap the benefits as there are many conditions attached to it.

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Tamil Nadu Revised Scales of Pay, 2009 – Revision of scale of pay of Teachers – Fixation of pay of Teachers in the Selection Grade / Special Grade – Clarification

Finance(Pay Cell) Department

Secretariat,

Chennai – 600 009.

Letter No. 7013 / Pay Cell / 2011--1, dated:  07--02--2011

From

Thiru M. Padmanabhan, B.Com.,

Additional Secretary to Government.

To

The Director of School Education / Director of 

     Elementary Education, Chennai-6.

The Director of Treasuries and Accounts, Chennai-15.

The Accountant General (A&E), Chennai-18.

The Accountant General (Audit), Chennai-18.

All Treasury Officers / Sub-Treasury Officers.

All Pay and Accounts Officers.

The Pension Pay Officer, Chennai-6.

Sir,

Sub: Tamil Nadu Revised Scales of Pay, 2009 – Revision of scale of pay of Teachers – Fixation of pay of Teachers in the Selection Grade / Special Grade – Clarification – Regarding.

Ref: 1. G.O.Ms.No.234, Finance (PC) Department, dated: 1—6--2009.

2. G.O.Ms.No.235, Finance (PC) Department, dated: 1--6--2009.

3. Government Letter No.41530 / Pay Cell / 2009--1, Finance

Department,  dated: 28—07--2009.

4. Government Letter No.63305 / Pay Cell / 2010--1  & 2, Finance

Department, dated: 8--11--2010.

5. Government Letter No.63305 / Pay Cell / 2010--5, Finance

Department, dated: 30--11--2010

6. G.O.Ms.No.23, Finance (PC) Department, dated:12--01--2011.

7. Representation from the Tamilaga  Asiriyar Kootani, dated: 

27--01--2011.

 

 ******

 I am to invite your attention to the references cited.

 2. In the reference fourth and fifth cited, necessary instructions have been issued regarding fixation of pay of employees in Selection Grade / Special Grade scales of pay duly indicating the Selection Grade / Special Grade scales of pay based on the revision granted to the Ordinary  Grade  scales of pay for  certain posts  based on the recommendations of the One Man Commission.  In the said instructions, it was also informed that the revised Selection Grade /Special Grade scales of pay indicated in Annexure-I of the reference fourth cited is admissible only in cases where the scales of pay of Ordinary Grade posts were revised based on the recommendations of One Man Commission and subsequent Government Orders.

 3.  In the reference sixth cited among others, orders have been issued revising the scales of pay of B.T.Teachers, P.G.Teachers, Head Master, Primary School,  Head Master of Middle School and Head Master, Higher Secondary School / District Education Officers notionally with effect from 1-1-2006 and with monetary benefit from 1-1-2011.

4. A doubt has now been raised as to whether the guidelines issued in the reference fourth and fifth cited regarding fixation of pay of employees in the Selection Grade / Special Grade scales of pay is also applicable to the teachers consequent on the revision of scale of pay ordered in the G.O 6^th  cited.  I am directed to clarify that the Teachers whose Ordinary Grade scales of pay have been revised in the G.O. 6^th cited are also entitled for revision of Selection Grade / Special Grade scales  of pay as indicated in Annexure-I of the reference 4^th  cited and also as indicated in  the reference 5^th cited subject to the guidelines and conditions stipulated therein.  Further, I am also to inform that the Teachers whose scales of pay have been revised in the G.O 6^th  cited are also entitled to exercise re-option,  if advantageous within 3 months from the date of issue of the above G.O as clarified in the reference 3^rd cited.  In the case of Teachers who have exercised original option to fix their pay in the revised scale of pay on 1-1-2006 and now exercise re-option at a later date beyond 1-1-2006, then in such cases, the pay fixing authorities are requested to fix the pay of the individuals according to the revised option after obtaining a declaration from the individual to the effect that the excess payment paid to them by way of arrears (including Interim Arrears) may be recovered from the arrears to be paid,  if any or from their  salary and in one lumpsum from the DCRG in case of retirement whichever is earlier.

                                                                             Yours faithfully,

                                                                                s/d

                                                          for Additional Secretary to Government.

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