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I have recently completed my LL.M.; however, I haven't qualified UGC NET yet. Please suggest universities/colleges that hire for Teaching Associate/Faculty Associate or Assistant Professor positions without NET or a similar qualification.
Thanksss!
1. Clear NET immediately. You can do it in 4-5 months prep. December NET is coming up. You can easily get NET. You can focus on JRF later since the age is till 33, and it requires more preparing time. So first and foremost clear NET asap
2. Once you've cleared NET immediately apply for PhDs. In central universities without net, you won't stand a chance in interviews. For NLUs, you may have a slight advantage, however some NLUs do take their own entrance exam. Apply for it.
3. Focus solely on your research proposal. Contact faculty if you can and once you establish good communication. You can send them your RP for suggestions. Once you sit in the interview, they will definitely help if they are familiar with you.
4. Once you get into a PhD program. Once your initial coursework is done, that's where you need to attend university, once done you immediately start applying for Assistant Professorship in various universities.
5. NET+PhD pursuing will help you get more offers than without net
1. Where other countries do not even allow somebody to get a foot in the door of academia without a completed PhD or proof that one is being pursued, India still manages to have a system whereby those without a PhD can get into the sector (if only in very junior positions, to be fair).
2. We find ourselves, here, confronted with the type of behaviour that an unnamed British government insider, in a different context, described to the London Times columnist Tim Shipman as entitled "knobheadery". Where a TA position in other countries is given almost exclusively to PhD students in their penultimate or final years of a PhD, we have a person here who isn't even willing to take our country's weird exam for non-PhD holders to get in and wants such a position "handed to them", as Sir P.G. Wodehouse might say, "on a silver plate with waterchress around it".
PS: Legally India, you want feedback on how to improve your service? Here's an idea. Look up the blog of Brian Leiter, the well-known legal theorist belonging to the realist school of thought, based at the University of Chicago. On his blog (leiterreports.typepad.com), he has a sub-category of posts called "Merciless rhetorical spankings of fanatics, villains and ignoramuses". Create a sub-category of posts like that, where posts like this one and responses like the one I have included above are featured. If you want to continue to be inspired by Leiter but adapt the title for the context of this website, you can call it "Merciless rhetorical spankings of fools, fanatics, trolls, villains, entitled brats and those with unrealistic expectations".