Mysuru: To enhance the quality teaching in English among guest faculties of University of Mysore, the varsity is providing English coaching classes from May. This is following a complaint from the students especially those from abroad that many guest teaching faculties lack English speaking skills.
Keeping the interest of the students in mind, Dayanand Mane, In-charge Vice Chancellor, has decided to help guest faculties to hone their English skills in batches. The first batch of guest facilities will undergo minimum one week English teaching from the experts including retired English professors at the University of Mysore premise from May. The classes will go on till August. During these three months, the university has decided to train as many as guest faculties as possible. The university has received complaints from students that some of the faculties teach in Kannada and it was difficult for non Kannadigas to understand. Some of the foreign students allege that due to lack of quality English teaching from some of the faculties, they just go to the classes for attendance sake and understand nothing about the subjects.
Speaking to Newskarnataka, Dayanand Mane said, “On an experimental basis, we have decided to conduct free English coaching classes to our guest faculties which will start from May 1 and go on till August. There is nothing wrong in fine tuning the teachers with their subjects. After finishing their classes, the guest faculties will attend coaching classes from 4 pm to 6 pm. We want to improve the skills of our guest faculty teachers and we just want to equip ourselves. Ninety percent of the people who take up teaching are pass outs from Kannada medium. They start teaching in Kannada which in turn will affect English medium students. Apart from this, if they want to pass NET they should have thorough knowledge of English. Hence keeping all these in mind, we have decided to conduct English coaching classes to guest faculties. Learning is a lifetime process and no one should feel shy to learn any subject.”
Apart from 315 permanent teaching staff at UoM, more than 450 teaching faculties are guest faculties who play a very important role in student’s career.
“To start with, on an experimental basis, we will start English coaching classes from May to August. Later, based on response, we will decide on how to take it further. Faculties will be categorised into batches and each batch will undergo a minimum of one-week coaching and if they are interested further we will encourage them to continue”, added Mane.
