Instructor-student ratio to be key consider merger of West Bengal govt colleges

KOLKATA: Following current remarks by West Bengal’s Schooling Minister, Bratya Basu, concerning the potential merger of presidency colleges, division officers have begun formulating a plan to execute the consolidation. The technique will give attention to sustaining a balanced teacher-student ratio in every newly unified establishment.
Insiders from the state training division stated they’ve recognized these colleges in West Bengal which at the moment don’t have a single pupil enrolled.
At present the whole variety of such colleges within the state stands at 3,254. Nonetheless, as identified by faculty training division insiders, as many as 14,627 lecturers are connected and formally employed with such colleges.
Alternatively, departmental insiders added, there are 6,366 colleges within the state which have 100 or extra college students enrolled however have only one trainer every.
“The concept now could be to merge two or extra colleges beneath each these classes relying on the proximity of such colleges to realize balanced trainer to pupil ratios within the merged entities,” stated a senior official of the state faculty training division who didn’t want to be named.
At present, the common variety of college students in every faculty in West Bengal is 192 and the common variety of lecturers per faculty is 6, thus making the common trainer to pupil ratio 1:32.
The varsity training division is assured that the merger of various colleges will assist the state authorities obtain a extra balanced teacher- pupil ratio.
College students’ Federation of India (SFI), the scholars’ wing of CPI(M), nevertheless, feels that by choosing the merger of faculties the state authorities is adopting a short-cut route with out addressing the power downside of lack of educational infrastructure in authorities colleges.
In accordance with the SFI management, by merging colleges the state authorities is avoiding the need of extra employment of lecturers in authorities colleges, an space which is already saddled with corruption.