Hundreds of students who have obtained Honours degrees from Central University of Karnataka (CUK) are in the doldrums as their degrees are not being considered for the graduate primary teachers’ posts, for which the recruitment process is underway.
As per the notifications issued on March 21 for recruitment of graduate primary teachers (for classes 6 to 8), only those who have studied two subjects for three years are eligible to apply. However, the candidates who have obtained Honours degrees from CUK have studied only one subject for three years and others subjects for two years only.
To be eligible for the English teacher post, for instance, a candidate had to have studied English as an optional subject and any one of the Kannada, Hindi, Marathi, Urdu, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Konkani, Sanskrit, History, Economics, Political Science, Geography and Sociology subjects as second optional subject for three years in their degree course.
