thiruvananthapuram deliberations underway in the state higher education department on wresting from managements their right to appoint teachers in aided colleges are likely to come to a naught the state higher education council in its response to the buildup has informed the government that such a design not only lacked a cogent legal backing but also smacked of wily attempts to usurp the academic autonomy of universities in 2017 when the state higher education council had not yet been reconstituted by the current dispensation a committee appointed by the state government had advised the government to consider to rescind the rights vested with the aided college managements in making appointments in their colleges the recommendation by the committee headed by sanskrit university former vicechancellor and scert director j prasad came as a cursory one among other important points regarding higher education including the workload calculation of teachersthe present arrangement for appointment of teachers in the private aided colleges and their approval which is a part and parcel of the direct payment agreement 1972 between the government and private educational agencies is legally binding on both parties to the agreement and cannot be abrogated exparte higher education council stated emphatically in its report submitted to the government on mondayas per ugc regulations 2018 implemented in the state the mandatory agency for supervising the implementation of ugcs standards and norms in recruitment of teachers is the university concerned pointed out the council referring to dr m ananthakrishnan committee report 2011 submitted to the government by the council it said the ugc regulations related to appointment should be implemented both in letter and spirit the right of the government which meets the entire salary expenditure of the teachers to ensure accountability on the part of universities in fixation of posts and approval of teachers cannot be overstated at the same time it is not necessary or even desirable for the government to take over the responsibility for fixation of posts and approval of teachers from the university this does not mean that the government has no role whatsoever in regulating the appointment of teachers in aided colleges as a matter of fact the government can effectively control the number of posts sanctioned by universities without interfering with the daytoday academic and administrative roles of the universities in fixation of posts and approval of appointments the council stated