A year after the demand that colleges must appoint faculty to teach allied subjects, nothing has come of it, say members of the Tamil Nadu Association of Intellectuals and Faculty.
The association had appealed for separate faculty to teach allied subjects as often the teachers who teach the core subjects are not suited to teach electives. The Higher Education department had issued orders and circulars to its officials, but action was not taken, says the association.
Association general secretary M. Govindarajan gave three examples of the allied subjects: Mathematics and Statistics are allied subjects of the core subject Economics; introduction to Sociology is an elective for Sociology; and Computer Applications in Economics.
