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Faculty Shortage Hits Computer Science Engineering
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Colleges are finding it difficult to recruit new faculty members needed for the computer sciences. The movement of students into computer science related courses, and the combining by colleges of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science into computer science curricula has led to a severe shortage of qualified teachers.
"Finding qualified teachers is a huge problem, given the shortage while good faculty are being poached at better salaries," a source said.
Vice Chancellor Katta Narsimha Reddy at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad acknowledged the shortage and said that the school has allowed 1% of the staff to be engaged in inter-disciplinary courses to overcome the shortage. As per the first year syllabus, teachers from mathematics, physics, and chemistry should suffice. "From second year, they will study engineering subjects and if colleges fail to recruit computer science teachers, the courses will not be renewed," Reddy warned.
From The Hindu
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