Most of them do not take approval from primary institutions<\/strong>
\nMore than 3,000 public university teachers, mostly without approval, take classes in private universities, ignoring their primary institutions that hugely hampers academic activities in universities, University Grants Commission officials said.
\nThe commission in its latest annual report said, \u2018Some of the public university teachers spend more time at the private universities than at their own universities and such an involvement of teachers should be at a logical and acceptable level and there should be guidelines on part-time teaching and consultancy job for public university teachers.\u2019
\nMost of the public university teachers are taking classes in private universities without approval from the public university authorities. Some of them are doing part-time jobs in more than four to five private universities at a time.
\nThe Private University Act 2010 provisions that a teacher should have an approval from his main appointing authority for such jobs.
\nThey are, according to commission officials, allowed to take part-time class only in one other than his primary university and they would need to give about 10 per cent of their earnings to the main university.
\nThe commission chairman, AK Azad Chowdhury, said, \u2018If teachers take classes in more than one university for only money, they are not doing justice to the public money and the university. This is unacceptable.\u2019
\n\u2018Both public and private universities are affected as teachers do part-time job in in more than one universities other than theirs. Teachers doing part-time jobs in several universities cannot give sufficient time to their mother institution,\u2019 Azad Chowdhury said.
\nA commission\u2019s private university wing senior assistant director said, \u2018 More than 3,000 of part-time teachers in private universities are from public universities. Most of the teachers working outside are from faculties of business studies, law, science, social sciences and engineering.\u2019
\n\u2018Some of them do part-time jobs in more than four to five private universities at a time,\u2019 the official said.
\nA large number of public university teachers are engaged in part-time job in consultancy firms and non-governmental organisations.
\nThe commission\u2019s member (public university) Mohammad Mohabbat Khan said that they had no exact figure of how many public university teachers were taking classes in private universities.
\n\u2018Many private universities do not give full data on how many public university teachers take class in their institutions,\u2019 he said.
\n\u2018Many of the teachers do not take approval from the appointing university authorities as they would need to pay a portion of the money to the university. Again many teachers teach in private institutions as advisers,\u2019 Mohabbat said.
\nHe said that at least 60 per cent of the teachers of business and social sciences faculties of Dhaka University were working part-time in private universities.
\nThe commission\u2019s annual report 2011, which is the latest and published in November 2012, said that 51 private universities had 10,255 teachers and 3,258 of whom are part-timers. Of the part time teachers, 998 are professors, 553 are associate professors, 629 assistant professors and 1078 are lecturers.
\nCommission officials said that the position bad worsened as at least 20 more private universities had received approval between 2011 and July 2013.
\nThe Dhaka University registrar, Syed Rezaur Rahman, failed to give how many Dhaka University teachers were teaching in private universities and how many had taken their approval.
\nThe deputy registrar, Abdul Kuddus Bhyuiyan, said, \u2018Although a large number of teachers now work in private universities and firms, only a few follow the due legal process in place in the university.\u2019
\nThe DU vice-chancellor, AAMS Arefin Siddique, said, \u2018It is unfair for public university teachers to take classes in private universities without the approval of the authorities concerned. We will take necessary action against them.\u2019
\nThe Jahangirnagar University deputy registrar, Arif Hossain, said that about 40 teachers had taken permission for teaching in private universities.
\nThe Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology registrar, AKM Maksud, told New Age that almost all of about 450 teachers in BUET were taking classes or doing consultancy jobs.
\nHe, however, failed to say how many teachers were taking classes in private universities.
\nDhaka University professor emeritus Anisuzzaman said, \u2018It is unethical that public university teachers teach in private universities without approval. Teaching in public universities is a full-time job. Teachers have many activities with students in addition to teaching.\u2019
\nFormer Dhaka University vice-chancellor Maniruzzaman Miah said that there should be guidelines on teacher\u2019s part-time teaching in private universities and consultancy job in private farms.
\n\u2018A teacher should not do anything that could hamper academic activities of the main university,\u2019 he said.
\nAzad Chowdhury, however, said that many of the teachers were engaged in teaching in private universities or in consultancy jobs because of their poor salary structures.
\nThe Association of Private Universities of Bangladesh chairman CM Shafi Sami said that all part-time teachers should take approval from their main authorities. \u2018There is a dearth of qualified teachers in universities. This is why private universities hire teachers from outside.\u2019
\nAzad Chowdhury said that the number of permanent teacher in private universities was not increasing to a satisfactory level for which teachers of public universities are engaged in teaching in private universities. \u2018Private universities will need to overcome the limitations.\u2019<\/p>\n

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