Universities and
colleges should develop action plans to send mid-career teachers on sabbatical
leave for pursuing research and writing, a panel set up by the University
Grants Commission (UGC) has recommended.
The four-member
committee on “Promoting and improving quality of research in Indian
universities and colleges” headed by professor P Balaram, former director,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, recently submitted its report to the
commission.
“The UGC should
encourage and support state universities and affiliated colleges to put in
place a rigorous but generous program that would offer sabbatical leave to
mid-career teachers for pursuing research and writing books and monographs
which consolidated accumulated original research knowledge,” the panel said in
its report.
The report said
mid-career national level sabbatical awards on a competitive basis for a year
may be introduced enabling 50-100 faculty-members to pursue research which may
also provide an opportunity for faculty to build collaborative contacts with
major national and international institutions.
“Such opportunities must
be mandated in both public and private institutions,” the report said.
Developing classroom
pedagogy, curricula and system of assessment, promoting academic integrity,
remedial teaching, encouraging vernacular languages, use of technology and
media platforms and policy internships, are among the other recommendations
made by the committee.
Source: https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/varsities-should-send-teachers-on-sabbatical-leave-for-pursuing-research-ugc-panel/story-4M0Wgrtmh6uYy83T4W5AVO.html (Accessed on August 7, 2019)
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