{"id":3015,"date":"2025-11-04T17:42:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:21:00","slug":"teachers-shortage-hits-quality-education-in-jk-colleges-hed-hires-around-2000-academic-arrangement-faculty-every-session-to-meet-workload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/04\/teachers-shortage-hits-quality-education-in-jk-colleges-hed-hires-around-2000-academic-arrangement-faculty-every-session-to-meet-workload\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers shortage hits quality education in JK colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018HED hires around 2,000 academic arrangement faculty every session to meet workload\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Srinagar, Nov 04:\u00a0<\/strong>Jammu and Kashmir Higher Education Department (JKHED) is grappling with the acute teaching staff\u2014thus raising a question on the quality of education in colleges of the region.<\/p>\n<p>An official informed that the colleges in Jammu and Kashmir require more permanent teaching staff to meet the workload and to improve the quality of education in sync with the New Education Policy (NEP).<\/p>\n<p>The official said, \u201cThere is a dire need of increased staff hiring to meet NEP workload.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround 2,000 academic arrangement faculty is being engaged every session in addition to permanent faculty,\u201d the official said, adding that there is a need for creation of posts to fill the vacancies to address persistent staff shortage.<\/p>\n<p>Stating the roadmap for the next ten years, the official said that the Higher Education Department is planning clustering of colleges to provide multidisciplinary education to the students.<\/p>\n<p>It also said that the department is mulling to give Multidisciplinary Education and Research University (MERU) status to select existing autonomous colleges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy 2036, all colleges will be made autonomous so that the quality of education in those institutions will be improved further,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJKHED is incorporating the National Apprenticeship Scheme (NATS) within the NEP structure,\u201d the official said<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018HED hires around 2,000 academic arrangement faculty every session to meet workload\u2019 Srinagar, Nov 04:\u00a0Jammu and Kashmir Higher Education Department (JKHED) is grappling with the acute teaching staff\u2014thus raising a question on the quality of education in colleges of the region. An official informed that the colleges in Jammu and Kashmir require more permanent teaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3022,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/3022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}