Karachi University: Tenure-track system inaugurated

Karachi University to set up selection boards to appoint teachers.

KARACHI:

The University of Karachi has adopted the tenure-track system introduced by the Higher Education Commission six years ago.

According to the system, the university will now set up selection boards to appoint teachers. The salaries of teachers on tenure-track positions will be doubled and they will be paid by the HEC.

Earlier, a KU board meeting was presided over by the vice chancellor, Dr Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui. The university had inaugurated a selection board for appointing assistant professors in the departments of botany, biochemistry and microbiology. On Tuesday, a similar selection board session was held for the computer science and philosophy departments. Rahim Afaq and Zulfikar Maher are candidates for the board. These applications will be forwarded to the HEC for approval and then the teachers will be appointed for three years at twice their salaries. Dr Abid Hasnain, who represented teachers in their association, appreciated the tenure-track system. He hoped that a selection board for grade 22 officers will also be made.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 18^th, 2011.