Lucknow University to fill up 180 teaching posts vacant for three years

LUCKNOW: Finally, Lucknow University will conduct recruitment for 180 teaching posts lying vacant in various departments for the past three years. The appointment process will start from Thursday with the university advertising the posts.
At present, there are 17,054 students but there are only 336 teachers though 516 posts are sanctioned, making the student-teacher ratio 1:50.
In the evaluation carried out by National Assessment Accreditation Council (NAAC), both permanent and contractual employees are counted to calculate student-teacher ratio. Even after adding 100 contractual employees to 336 permanent teachers, there were only 436 teachers for 17,054 students, making student-teacher ratio 1:39, while 1:20 is prescribed by the University Grants Commission.
Once the 180 posts are filled, LU will attain student-teacher ratio of 1:27, with total 616 contractual and permanent teachers for 17054 students.
“The ideal student-teacher ratio is 1:20, but in NAAC assessment 1:30 is also considered good,” said an official.
The filling up of the vacant posts will hence also help the university score well in National Assessment Accreditation Council (NAAC) evaluation.
In 2014, LU had lost maximum marks in teaching, learning, and evaluation parameters of NAAC and was awarded a ‘B’ grade as more than half of the teaching posts were vacant.
Former vice-chancellors Prof. S B Nimse and Prof. S P Singh filled up over 100 posts, but still the vacant posts kept increasing due to retirements in the last three years.
The appointments will be for 80 vacant posts of assistant professor, 62 posts of associate professor and 38 posts of professor.
“On the occasion of the birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we are opening up job opportunities in the university. The finest and best teachers will be selected through a transparent system,” said vice-chancellor Prof Alok Kumar Rai.
“We are soon going for NAAC re-accreditation and filling up posts will help us score better. We will first recruit assistant professors, then associate professors and then professors,” he added.
NAAC grades universities on seven parameters carrying 1,000 marks. It includes curricular aspects, teaching, learning and evaluation, research, innovations and extension, infrastructure and learning resources, student support and progression, governance, leadership and management, and institutional values and best practices.