The government issued new set of regulations for college and university teachers and doctoral students, pertaining to issues ranging from teaching hours to guidelines for Ph.D. and M.Phil. Courses.
While earlier, the weekly teaching workload was 16, 14 and 14 hours for assistant professors, associate professors and professors, these are now 18, 16 and 14 hours, respectively.
A new set of regulations has capped the time period allowed for completion of Ph.D. to six years.
The minimum permissible duration will be three years.
Similarly, the Phil. course would have to vary from a minimum of one year to a maximum of two.
There is, however, a relaxation of two years for women pursuing research leading to a Ph.D. and one year for M.Phil.
The relaxation would also apply to candidates with more than 40% disability.