Meritocracy: UoP to promote faculty members based on student evaluations

Vice chancellor says teachers can be best judged by students in the classroom.

PESHAWAR: Promotions of faculty members at the University of Peshawar (UoP) will be based on student evaluations, UoP Vice Chancellor Dr Muhammad Rasul Jan said on Wednesday.

Chairing a meeting on Self-Assessment Report Documentation, Jan said teachers can be best judged by students in the classroom, adding all future promotions will depend of student evaluations. These evaluations will carry the bulk of weightage in making such decisions, he said.



The meeting, which was arranged by Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC), was aimed to assess guidance facilities available at various UoP departments and make further suggestions to the Higher Education Commission (HEC). It was attended by heads of departments, including the Institute of Archaeology and Social Anthropology, English and Applied Linguistics, Art and Design, and History and Philosophy among others.

Jan termed QEC and the Office of Research Innovation and Commercialization integral to boosting the university’s ranking. He appreciated the performance of the Pharmacy, Chemistry and Biotechnology departments and suggested others too must come up with ways to improve the overall ranking.



Earlier, Assistant Registrar Salman Jan briefed the meeting about HEC’s self-assessment procedures. He said every programme in a department should have a desired mission statement and objective, and the students enrolled in them must be competent enough to meet those objectives.

QEC Director Sherinzada Khattak set June 20 as the deadline for all faculty members to submit a self-assessment proformae.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 23^rd, 2013.