July 11, 2008
India's Technology Institutes Put Under Faculty Quotas
Having won the battle to increase student quotas at India's public universities, the government has now ordered the elite Indian Institutes of Technology to introduce faculty quotas for members of the so-called lower castes and classes, The Times of India has reported.
Nearly half of all faculty positions at the public institutes must be reserved for members of those classes, effective immediately.
The seven institutes already face faculty shortages of 20 percent to 30 percent,
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