PhD Not Mandatory For Assistant Professor Post – NET / SET / SLET Mandatory
New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has announced an amendment to the qualifications for the appointment of Assistant Professors in Higher Education Institutions. Starting from July 1, 2023, NET/SET/SLET will be the minimum criteria for direct recruitment to the post. The requirement for a Ph.D. qualification will become optional. The amendment was published in the Gazette of India on July 18, 2018.
UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 30th June, 2023
No. F. 9-1/2010(PS/MISC)Pt. Vol. II.-In exercise of the powers conferred under clause (e) and (g) of sub-section (1) of section 26 read with section 14 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956), the University Grants Commission hereby makes the following amendment in the University Grants Commission (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers and other Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and other Measures for the Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education) Regulations, 2018, namely:-
- Short title and commencement.-(1) These regulations may be called the University Grants Commission (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers and other Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and other Measures for the Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education) (2nd Amendment) Regulations, 2023. (2) They shall come into force with effect from 1st July, 2023.
- In the University Grants Commission (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers and other Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and other Measures for the Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education) Regulations, 2018, in regulation 3, for sub-regulation 3.10, the following sub-regulation shall be substituted, namely:
3.10 “NET/SET/SLET shall be the minimum criteria for the direct recruitment to the post of Assistant Professor for all Higher Education Institutions.”
As a consequence, in regulation 3, for sub-regulation 3.10, of the University Grants Commission (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers and other Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and other Measures for the Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education) (1st Amendment) Regulations, 2021 stands deleted.
Prof. MANISH JOSHI, Secy.
[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./249/2023-24]
Note: The Principal Regulations were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary under Part III, Section 4 vide No. F. 1-2/2017 (EC/PS) dated 18th July, 2018.
UGC Gazette Notification:
Ph.D. qualification for appointment as an Assistant Professor would be optional from 01 July 2023.
NET/SET/SLET shall be the minimum criteria for the direct recruitment to the post of Assistant Professor for all Higher Education Institutions.
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UGC Gazette Notification:
Ph.D. qualification for appointment as an Assistant Professor would be optional from 01 July 2023.
NET/SET/SLET shall be the minimum criteria for the direct recruitment to the post of Assistant Professor for all Higher Education Institutions. pic.twitter.com/dnpHlnfgo2
— UGC INDIA (@ugc_india) July 5, 2023
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The students who are having a Ph.D. degree from a foreign country; without NET / SET [as these exams are not applicable for foreign countries]; are they’ll be eligible for the post of Assistant prof. in any educational institution?