Teachers at public univs: Worktime set at 40 hours a week
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- 13 Oct 2022
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A public university teacher will have to work 40 hours a week. Of this period, 13 hours must be spent on providing direct lessons to students on average.
This has been stipulated by a policy, drawn up by the University Grants Commission in order to fix the teaching workload of all faculty members of the public universities.
The policy titled "Teaching load calculation policy for public university teachers" has been prepared to keep teachers on the campus for a longer period and determine how many teachers are needed for a particular university for proper education and research.
Under the policy, a professor's direct teaching hour will be 10 hours, an associate professor's 12 hours, an assistant professor's 14 hours and a lecturer's 16 hours, said UGC officials. Read More...
