Part-time lecturers lock down TU offices in protest against fast-track promotion

Administrative functions disrupted as lecturers oppose appointments without written exams.

Part-time lecturers at Tribhuvan University (TU) enforced a fresh round of padlocking on Friday at the offices of the vice-chancellor, rector, registrar, and TU Service Commission, intensifying ongoing protests against the university’s fast-track upgrading of the teachers.