NUML contractual faculty members form association
April 21, 2010
Contract Faculty Association (CFA) have made in National University of Modern Languages by the contractual faculty members of the university. The major figures of (CFA) are the retired military and civilian government officers.
The office-bearers of the association are mostly the military men. The association includes ten bureaucrats and eight army officers. They all are above the age of sixty and HEC do not recognize any superannuated persons association.
Objective of making such type of association by the contractual faculty members is to preserve and sustain their interests as a result of growing pressure on Higher Education Commission (HEC) and on the president of Pakistan to implement the NUML charter in letter. Awareness came after the brutal incidence of thrashing of a university professor by Brigadier ® Ranjha.
According to a source, retired military men and teachers above sixty years of age can be employed for one or two years or they can be military men. Acronym professor has added by NUML official websites before their names whereas, the proper criteria of being a professor was not fulfilled.
As a result of brutal act by Brigadier ® Ranjha, muscular protest came out by the students of the university and this led to the strong reaction by the Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Associations (FAPUASA), and later led to the forced resignation of Brigadier ® Ranjha. But (FAPUASA) has demanded strapping action against him and his dismissal.
Moreover, (FAPUASA) has further demanded exclusion of Brigadier ® Aziz Khan the rector of the university. President of (FAPUASA) Dr. Mahr Saeed Akhtar has demanded that the position of a rector should be maintained after a proper procedure of selection and advertisement through vice chancellors search committee working under HEC.
Further Mr. Yasir Arafat, general secretary of NUML Academic Staff Association, has said that according to FAPUASA byelaws CFA is illegal and appointment of some of its members was challenged in the Audit Report.
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