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Saturday, February 21, 2026
TopicFaculty hiring

Topic: faculty hiring

UGC launches common portal for faculty recruitment in central universities

The 'CU-Chayan' portal will enable universities to list vacancies and track applications. Applicant can search for jobs using filters like university name, subject, experience etc.

‘Budget constraints, low-quality candidates’: Why Indian universities are facing faculty shortage

According to education ministry, 6,549 positions across 45 central universities have been vacant. Many believe absorbing the ad-hoc and guest faculty members will help.

Reminders or social media campaigns, nothing’s helped DU guest teachers get paid for a year

Delhi University has said the teachers hired by the Non-Collegiate Women’s Education Board will receive their dues as soon as colleges submit their pending bills.

Almost everyone in faculty is promoted in Indian universities. DU started the damage in 1970

Today, Delhi University has been relegated to the backwaters of all global rankings, with a similar story playing out in universities all over India. But there is a way out.

DU has less than 5% OBC teachers & there’s no professor among them, Parliament panel finds

Draft report of Parliamentary Committee on Welfare of OBCs observes 'glaring gaps' in number of OBC posts DU has advertised against the number of vacancies.

IIT, IIM evaded faculty reservation for years. Modi now wants to undo exclusion

The level of social sensitivity is discouraging at India’s premier institutions like IITs and IIMs. They must share the burden of improving things now.

Modi govt tells IITs & IIMs to ensure caste-based reservation in faculty hiring

IITs, IIMs & IISERs had not been adhering to reservation norms in entirety when hiring faculty. Govt now makes it mandatory to implement quota in all teaching positions.

Department-wise hiring in universities grave miscarriage of justice, Modi govt to argue in SC

In review plea, govt to tell SC that department-wise hiring will bring down faculty from reserved categories to zero in some institutions. 

On Camera

Cautious optimism — India’s new relationship with Tarique Rahman’s Bangladesh

Both Bangladesh and India will have to work together to repair the damage done during the Yunus administration.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

The new Great Game—Trump’s playing for time, China for leverage & India for wiggle room

This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.