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India, May 22 -- India's college teachers will be graded on their performance in deciding on promotions, but only to screen out the worst, the University Grants Commission has decided in a desperate attempt to juggle promises of faculty quality with populism in an election year.
Boxed in by competing demands from teacher unions and independent academicians, the UGC on May 10 decided to retain a long-promised Academic Performance Index (API) to rate teachers for promotions - but only for a "screening purpose."
In effect, this means that India's 10 lakh college and university teachers will only need a minimum API score to be eligible for promotions. Once they manage that eligibility, their API score will have no bearing on "expert assessment" of candidates in either direct recruitment or in promotions, the country's apex higher education regulator has decided, after hectic consultations with the human resource development ministry.
"It was a tough balancing act, but we believe the regulations we've finalized will address concerns of teachers and unions, without giving up on our promise to inject accountability and transparency," a senior government official said, requesting anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.
While announcing the 6th Pay Commission salary hikes for college faculty in 2009, the UGC had also declared that it would be using the API to rate teachers for promotions. The 2009 pay raise was aimed at making teaching a lucrative profession again after decades of losing bright young academics to industry and to foreign universities, and the API was an attempt to also inject objectivity and transparency in criteria used to promote teachers. The UGC regulations for teacher appointments and promotions in 2010 did not restrict the role of the API to only that of a screening mechanism.
But the move - supported by many independent academicians - was firmly resisted from the beginning by teacher unions that argued the API lacked flexibility and would in fact discriminate against teachers from weaker backgrounds. The complex new ratings system was also holding up appointments, some universities complained.
Faced with unceasing opposition, the UGC decided this January to scrap the API altogether, a move reported first by HT. But after the HRD ministry's intervention, the commission set up an expert panel to reconsider the performance rating system.
Published by HT Syndication with permission from Hindustan Times.
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President Barack Obamas chief of staff was told that an investigation found IRS employees improperly scrutinized Tea Party and small-government advocacy groups seeking tax-exempt status before the report was made public, White House press secretary Jay Carney said.
Obama wasnt informed of the probe at the time, Carney said. Chief of staff Denis McDonough was told by White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler about the inspector generals audit and the probable findings after Ruemmler was briefed on it on April 24, he said. The president has said he learned of the audit when the likely findings were first made public May 10.
We knew of the subject of the investigation, and we knew the nature of some of the potential findings, Carney said. But we did not have a copy of the draft report, we did not know the details, the scope, or the motivation surrounding misconduct and we did not know who was responsible.
The information given to Ruemmler was very top line and it was she who decided not to notify Obama, Carney said. Its a cardinal rule that the White House or Treasury Department not intervene or appear to intervene in an independent investigation, he said.
Carney said Ruemmler was informed by the Treasury Departments General Counsels office April 24 that the Inspector General for Tax Administration was completing a report that found that IRS employees improperly scrutinized political organizations seeking tax exempt status by searching their applications for words including Tea Party and patriot.
The previous week, on April 16, Ruemmler had learned more generally that there were a number of Inspector General reports being finalized and an IRS investigation was among those investigations, Carney said.
Carneys comments today are at odds with what he told reporters last week, when he said the White House counsel only found out about the review being conducted and coming to conclusion by the inspector general.
Carney insisted the two statements arent in conflict and today he just provided additional information.
The White House counsel was told, broadly, that theres an inspector general audit reaching its conclusion, he said. The potential findings are that some people improperly targeted conservative organizations in their applications for tax-exempt status, but there was no specificity about who, about motivation, certainly no names of involvement, and it was not concluded.
Four congressional committees and the Justice Department are investigating the inspector generals findings that the Internal Revenue Service beginning in 2010 targeted for extra review anti-tax Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status.
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By Michael Malone -- Broadcasting & Cable, 5/21/2013 1:54:18 PM
The Oklahoma City TV stations are getting high marks for timely coverage that some feel may have prevented scores of deaths as a devastating tornado leveled much of Moore, Okla. May 20.
While the number of fatalities has varied dramatically before appearing to settle in around two dozen on Tuesday afternoon, pinpoint warnings from the stations' meteorological crews and sobering aerial footage sent a clear message that this storm was nothing short of a monster.
"Channels 4 [KFOR], 5 [KOCO] and 9 [KWTV] did an outstanding job of covering this" says Vince Orza, who runs the independent KSBI in DMA No. 41. "The total could have been in the hundreds but for their coverage. The press is the reason people are alive today."
Griffin owns CBS affiliate KWTV. Local TV has NBC station KFOR. Hearst TV has ABC outlet KOCO, while Sinclair owns the Fox-CW duo, KOKH-KOCB.
Full scale disasters are not a new concept for the Oklahoma City news crews. On May 3, 1999, a series of massive tornados struck Moore, killing 46. Four years earlier, 168 were killed when a federal office building was bombed.
"Unfortunately, we're used to it," says Rob Krier, the Griffin COO who oversees KWTV. "After the bombing, we did the same thing. After May 3, we did the same thing. We're pretty good with disasters and pulling together."
Intense rain is falling Tuesday, hampering rescue efforts. "It's made a bad situation worse," says Orza.
While KSBI does not produce news, it does air a daily talk show at 4 p.m., which will feature discussions with people who lost their homes in '99 and how they coped, while helping viewers find the right charity and avoid scams. "We're taking a different route," says Orza. "We assume everybody else is covering the scene. We'll tell people who are not at the scene what they can do to help."
The New York Times credited the Oklahoma City stations for putting their helicopters in the air in dangerous circumstances and, as the paper put it, "providing a visual exclamation point for the meteorologists who were warning residents to seek shelter." The Today show team was up in the air with NBC affiliate KFOR Tuesday morning. One local broadcast vet says the rescue personnel asked the stations to ground their helicopters just after the tornado, as their noise was drowning out possible cries for help. The stations complied, then when given the OK, ascended to a high enough perch to steer well clear of the rescue efforts.
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