Faculty shortage hits Computer Science engineering
The Hindu
Mechanical, Electrical and Civil engineering streams have few takers
Poor response to Mechanical, Electrical and Civil engineering streams from students who moved to Computer Science related courses has led to severe shortage of qualified Computer Science teachers.
Colleges are finding it difficult to recruit new faculty members required for Computer Sciences. Several colleges have started a combination of courses with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science in a new stream format as the existing Computer Science Engineering (CSE) has a very high demand.
“Finding qualified teachers is a huge problem, given the shortage while good faculty are being poached at better salaries,” agrees the correspondent of an engineering college. All the seats of AI and ML stream are taken in his college but he is finding it extremely difficult to find teachers now.