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Punjab university syndicate to debate TTS for approval
LAHORE, Oct 27: The Punjab University is all set to adopt the much debated Tenure
Track System (TTS) for its faculty members as the case is being tabled for
adoption in the varsity's syndicate meeting scheduled to be held in the second
week of November, it was learnt on Friday.
Sources at PU said a
modified version of the TTS would be tabled in the syndicate meeting for
adoption since the earlier version of the system forwarded by the Higher
Education Commission (HEC) was rejected by the varsity's teachers on the plea
that it did not provide job security. The Tenure Track System is a performance
based service structure for university teachers in order to promote research
culture among them while offering them handsome salary packages.
Sources
added the system was introduced to encourage faculty members to spare more time
for research instead of keeping themselves busy in teaching during different
shifts to earn extra money.
However, TTS had to face great resistance
from university teachers especially from PU Academic Staff Association (ASA) due
to condition of a specific tenure for faculty members based on performance in
terms of research and publication of research papers.
The HEC had also
modified the TTS for the PU to adopt and the case was presented to the varsity
Syndicate for deliberations several times but was either withdrawn or deferred
owing to teachers protest against it. In this regard, a PU official on plea of
anonymity claimed that the new modified version of TTS provide job security
besides lucrative salary package. He said if a faculty member looses his
services under TTS because of not fulfilling its requirements, he/she could
continue to serve the varsity under university rules. Reportedly, under the TTS,
a faculty member would be on probation for a period of six years during the
initial period of appointment and his/her services would be confirmed only after
two thorough external reviews of his/her research and teaching achievements
after the third and sixth year by a committee of eminent foreign experts. It is
worth mentioning here that the HEC had recently revised the salary structure for
faculty members under TTS. When contacted, HEC executive director Dr Suhail H
Naqvi said that under the revised salary structure, salary of a
professor on TTS would be increased up to Rs 330,000, an associate professorís
to Rs 250,000 and an assistant professorís to Rs 180,000 per month. He said it
was strange why PU was not benefiting from this wonderful programme.
Talking to us, PUASA president Dr Mumtaz Ahmad Salik, who is also
president of Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association
(FAPUASA), said the ASA and the federation would not resist TTS this time since
major demands of faculty members had been accepted for adoption of
TTS.
PU Registrar Prof Dr Muhammad Naeem Khan while confirming that
adoption of TTS would be tabled in the varsityís syndicate meeting scheduled for
November, said more than 200 PU faculty members qualified for the TTS. He added
a large number of university professors had expressed their willingness to adopt
TTS this time adding at present only six to seven teachers were serving the
university under TTS from the PU School of Biological Sciences (SBS). The News
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| Education News | | Updated: 25 May, 2012 |
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