India
The university without teachers: Karnataka's guest lecturers threaten hunger strike
About 100 guest lecturers of Bengaluru's Maharani Cluster University have boycotted classes for a week over a remuneration dispute, warning of a hunger strike. They are the face of a broken system: Karnataka's public universities run on 3,434 guest lecturers against just 1,477 permanent teachers.
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