Prioritise permanent appointments over guest faculty posts: V-C to DU college principals

Delhi University V-C prioritizes permanent faculty appointments, discusses syllabus changes, and new language courses in AC meeting.

Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh on Saturday directed principals of all colleges to prioritise permanent appointments instead of hiring guest faculty and issue advertisements about the vacant posts as soon as possible.

Speaking during a meeting of the Academic Council (AC), Mr. Singh said the principals must factor in posts that would be vacated in the near future due to the retirement of the existing faculty members and initiate “the appointment process at least once or twice a year”.

The V-C also informed the council that talks are going on with the Delhi government to start the appointment process in the colleges funded by the Delhi government and that “positive results are likely soon”.

The university said that the recommendations made in a recent meeting of AC’s Standing Committee on Academic Matters, regarding the syllabus of the seventh and eighth semesters for the first batch of the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP), had also been accepted following a discussion. The first FYUP batch is set to enter the final year in July.

It added that approval has been given to a proposal to include subjects such as Robotics and Automation in the list of Skill Enhancement Courses based on the Undergraduate Curriculum Framework, 2022.

The AC also accepted a proposal by the Department of Distance and Continuing Education to start certificate-level courses in French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. It also gave a nod to the recommendations of the Faculty of Social Sciences to start certificate, diploma, and advanced diploma courses for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.