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Minimum Qualifications for Appointment on Teaching and other Academic Posts:

Explanation:

Four determining “good academic record “the following criteria shall be adopted:
University lecturers:
(i) A candidate holding a P.hD degree should possess at least a second class Master’s degree. or
(ii) candidate without a PhD degree should possess a high second class Master’s degree and
second in the Bachelor’s degree; or
(iii) A candidate not possessing P.hD degre but processing second class Master’s degree should
have obtained first class the Bachelor’s degree.
College lecturers:
(i) A candidate holding an M.phil degree or recognised degree beyond the Master’s level should
possess atleast a second class Master’s degree, or
(ii) A candidate not holding an M.phil degree or a recognised degree beyond the Master’s level
should possess a high second class Master’s degree and a second class in first degree (B.A/B.
Sc./B Com) examination; or
(iii) A candidate not holding an M.phil or a recognised degree beyond a Master’s level, but
possessing a second class Master’s degree should have obtained a first class in the first degree
(B.A/B.Sc./B Com) examination.
2. Person having second marks more than the midpoint of the prescribed minimum marks
for passing an examination in the second division and the prescribed minimum marks for
passing an examination in the first division by a University shall we deemed to have passed
that examination in the High second class.
Schedule -III
(See Regulation-2)

Minimum qualifications prescribed for appointment to the post of lecturers in Journalism and
Mass communication in Universities.

Lecturers:
(i) Good academic record with atleast second class Master’s degree in the subject (Mass
communication/Communication/Journalism, etc.) from an Indian University or an equivalent
degree from a foreign university*.
Or

Atleast second class (0 in the seven pay scale) Master’s degree in Social Sciences/Humanities
with atleast a second class Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Journalism from recognised
Indian University/Post graduate diploma from a recognised national institute.
Desirable:

(i) Teaching experience at college or University level.

(ii) Work experience in any area of Mass communication (Newspaper/Magazine, News Agency,
public Relations, Advertising, Radio or Telephone/ Journalism etc).

There specialises are to be required, Master’s degree in Agricultural Journalism, Creative
working, Extension Family planning communication, public Health communication,
Public Relation, Speech Communication (but not straight Anthropology, Psychology,
Sociology etc)

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