Teaching quality at NLS Bangalore


Regarding the quality of teaching and teachers I would like you to draw your attention towards the review commission reports which has highlighted the poor standards below. Here is the relevant extract from the full report.

from page 10-11 of the full report.

Some teachers, especially amongst the younger members of the faculty, have been assigned courses to teach in which they hardly had any prior requisite in-depth exposure.

Workload of class-room teaching has been reduced from 14-16 hours to 4-6 hours per week for all.

Cancellation of the scheduled class owing to the non-availability of the teacher concerned at the last moment has become rather a common practice. Teaching of courses has become a matter of whims and fancies of each teacher.

From page number 12 of the report

The teachers are often ignorant and mostly indifferent to the menace of plagiarism in the project reports submitted by the students.

The pivotal appointments on the academic side, say, to the post of Adjunct Professor carrying the honorarium of Rs. 35,000 per month, are being made from amongst the non-academic persons, like the retired District Judges with no prior academic contribution. This amounts to dolling out favours amongst the undeserved ones, and thereby diluting the academic standards.

From page 13 of the report

The overall emerging picture on the basis of totality of circumstances reveals that there is drastic decline in discipline and dilution of academic standard. The rigorous work culture and singular commitment, which used to be the hallmark of the NLSIU during the first decade of its existence, is on the wane.

Despite the fact that the NLSIU still continues to hold the premier position amongst the law schools in India, the common entrenched feeling that the SRC has gathered from diverse sources is that of extreme dissatisfaction: the level of functioning of the NLSIU is now far from expectation.

Read the full report here

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52076311/NLSIU%202009%20School%20Review%20Commission%20report.pdf

Regarding the quality of teaching and teachers I would like you to draw your attention towards the review commission reports which has highlighted the poor standards below. Here is the relevant extract from the full report.

from page 10-11 of the full report.

“Some teachers, especially amongst the younger members of the faculty, have been assigned courses to teach in which they hardly had any prior requisite in-depth exposure.”

“Workload of class-room teaching has been reduced from 14-16 hours to 4-6 hours per week for all.”

“Cancellation of the scheduled class owing to the non-availability of the teacher concerned at the last moment has become rather a common practice.” “Teaching of courses has become a matter of whims and fancies of each teacher.”

From page number 12 of the report

“The teachers are often ignorant and mostly indifferent to the menace of plagiarism in the project reports submitted by the students.

“The pivotal appointments on the academic side, say, to the post of Adjunct Professor carrying the honorarium of Rs. 35,000 per month, are being made from amongst the non-academic persons, like the retired District Judges with no prior academic contribution. This amounts to dolling out favours amongst the undeserved ones, and thereby diluting the academic standards.”

From page 13 of the report

“The overall emerging picture on the basis of totality of circumstances reveals that there is drastic decline in discipline and dilution of academic standard. The rigorous work culture and singular commitment, which used to be the hallmark of the NLSIU during the first decade of its existence, is on the wane.

“Despite the fact that the NLSIU still continues to hold the premier position amongst the law schools in India, the common entrenched feeling that the SRC has gathered from diverse sources is that of extreme ‘dissatisfaction’: the level of functioning of the NLSIU is now far from expectation.”

Read the full report here

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52076311/NLSIU%202009%20School%20Review%20Commission%20report.pdf
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It would be advisable to form your own opinion after reading the full report of the review commission the link of which is given in the above post.

It would be advisable to form your own opinion after reading the full report of the review commission the link of which is given in the above post.
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Read a short coverage of NLS 2009 review commission report on legallyindia website.

http://www.legallyindia.com/201202092562/Law-schools/unambitious-2009-report-on-nlsiu-bashes-students-for-unabashed-sex-a-drugs-but-little-else

Read a short coverage of NLS 2009 review commission report on legallyindia website.

http://www.legallyindia.com/201202092562/Law-schools/unambitious-2009-report-on-nlsiu-bashes-students-for-unabashed-sex-a-drugs-but-little-else
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