UGC’s new norms for recruitment
- Doctoral degree holders from the top 500 foreign universities are now eligible for direct recruitment as an assistant professor in Indian varsities, according to the UGC.
- According to the new recruitment norms, the top 500 ranking of the university shall be referred from four famous world university ranking systems — Quacquarelli Symonds, Times Higher Education rankings and the Academic Ranking of World Universities of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
- Earlier, the candidates eligible for the post were required to have a minimum of 55% marks in the Master’s degree in the concerned subject from an Indian University or an equivalent degree from an accredited foreign university.
- The candidate was also required to have cleared the National Eligibility Test or the CSIR, or a similar test accredited by the UGC, like SLET, SET.
