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Tamil Nadu CM writes to Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan to withdraw UGC regulations on faculty recruitment.
National Medical Commission move to let non-medics become teachers will affect quality, want 10% cap, say doctors; MSc, PhD holders resent availability-based appointments
Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan urged the education minister to “initiate discussions with the states, academics, and other stakeholders in this matter of utmost importance”.
UGC Regulation 2025: NDTF also opposes clauses on assistant professor promotion, past service in new UGC regulations, CAS, and seeks update on pay scales.
UGC Regulations: Candidates having ME, MTech degree do not require UGC NET qualification to be eligible for assistant professor post in engineering and technology departments.
CM says the government will review UGC's draft regulations regarding recruitment and consider the necessary steps to oppose them.
New UGC regulations will ‘dilute quality’, create scope for bias, curb university autonomy, allow privatisation, say teachers. What the draft rules say and the likely impact.
Draft UGC Rules 2025: Stalin said Tamil Nadu, which led the nation with the highest number of top-ranking HEIs, will not stay silent as our institutions were stripped of autonomy.
UGC’s proposed changes in teacher recruitment norms will lead to exploitation and job insecurity; affect quality of education and career growth, feel teachers
UGC Faculty Recruitment Draft Regulations 2025: Aam Aadmi Party teachers' body has raised concern over privatisation of higher education, increased contractual appointments, rising workloads, and exclusion of temporary service tenure from promotion criteria.
