Students as Potential Teachers says IIT
Jan 6, 2013

With serious shortage of faculty in India's leading engineering instutions, the premiere Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are considering undergrad students as potential candidates for lecturers in the near future. 

Students as Potential Teachers says IIT
Jan 6, 2013

With serious shortage of faculty in India's leading engineering instutions, the premiere Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are considering undergrad students as potential candidates for lecturers in the near future. 

IITs have proposed that they'll mentor the top 15% of the undergrad students from the IITs, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) and National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) through a teacher training program. IITs are pretty much certain that this program will enhance the teaching quality and simultaneously alleviate the shortage of faculty. The students will initially go through a training teacher program at the NITs and will be heading the post as Assistant Lectures so that they can simultaneously work towards their post graduate and doctral degree which is a mandatory requirement to teach at the IITs and NITs.

The minsitry of HRD is considering this proposal very seriously for all the centrall funded institutes across the country as sever shortage of quality teachers has been a huge problem. Currenty, the teacher-student ratio at the IITs and NITs is 1:16 while the newer ones have 1:8.

With this scheme successfully implemented, undegraduate students will see a prosperous career in teaching and thus 'making a difference' to the entire education sector of the country.

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