New Delhi: The Centre has decided not to go ahead with the plan to make PhD the minimum qualification to hire assistant professors this year in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, ANI reported.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan told the media, “The ministry has put a temporary hold on PhD for assistant professor recruitment and PhD would not be mandatory for this post as of now but has not been cancelled.”
The Ministry of Education has lifted the compulsory PhD criteria temporarily to allow universities to fill the vacancies. Education Ministry sources told the news agency, “Around 10,000 posts vacant in the Central universities including teaching and non-teaching staff and the ministry had given instruction to fill up this vacancy soon.”
“Education Ministry had received several requests from candidates who wanted to apply for the post but were unable to fulfil their PhD requirement, asking to postpone the 2018 guidelines,” the sources added
Candidates possessing postgraduate degrees, who have cleared the National Eligibility Test, will continue to remain eligible for recruitments to the assistant professor posts.
Bureau Report
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