NIRF Ranking 2022: From research output to faculty with PhD, report flags lag in engineering institutes | Education News,The Indian Express
The report shows among top 100 institutions, across categories, the share of faculty with PhD varies from a minimum of 59.73 per cent in the case of general colleges to maximum of 89.04 per cent in the case of management institutions.
The seventh edition of the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) released Friday reveals that only 31.88 per cent of the faculty in engineering institutes outside the top 100 have doctoral qualifications, while only 32.9 per cent of these institutes meet the AICTE-prescribed criteria of 20 students per teacher.
The NIRF report observes that the lack of PhD-qualified teachers in higher educational institutions is a “serious handicap” since mentorship received during doctoral training plays a “vital role in preparing the faculty for a teaching career” at the college and university level.
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While institutes with good ranks are expected to perform better across indicators than those outside the top 100, the NIRF ranking report provides a rare glimpse into the extent of the gap.
The findings are also important because the NIRF report itself points out that the rankings of the institutions, launched in 2016, have “largely remained consistent” over the years, implying that a vast majority of colleges and universities continue to battle a major resource crunch in many areas.
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