What is the necessary qualification to become a lecturer ?

Teaching profession is a noble job.Teacher is the philosopher,guide and advisor for a student who shows prefect direction to  the student to be a  perfect man in the society.Besides all requisite qualification like post graduation/doctorate in the specific field one needs attitude(positive),behaviour,committment,dedication & eloquency(ABCDE) to be a lecturer.

Post graduate in any subject, passsion to  teach and mend, patience to students' mockery, should not weary of overload given by your HOD or Princy (Lady principal) or Prince (male principal). ok?

A passion for learning (yes learning) and teaching with the ability to relate to and motivate youngsters.

best qualification to become a lecturer is "passion of teaching and subject knowledge"

Post graduation is a formal qualification for becoming lecturer.  In the recent past, the private engineering colleges are engaging fresh graduates as designating them as Asst. Professors to teach the BE/B.Tech students.  Managements of these colleges are not following the norms and the official machinery confined itself to the role of a spectator.  The standards of education is at stake.  Govt. has no answer to it.  UGC NET certification must be made compulsory and strict vigilance shall be maintained in the interest of upkeeping the standards of education

Graduation ,preferably  Post Graduation, Urge to learn, patienence to explain and  listen, ability to direct students to learn, flair to lecture  are required for lecturer.

As smita said some private colleges are taking Graduates and some are preferring Post  Graduates. Post Graduation is safer bet.

To become a lecturer you must have done masters and cleared UGC net Exam. This is the qualification generally required for govt. post but now a days in private universities they really dont require UGC clearance and many colleges go by AICTE norms You can check the norms on net. BUt recently i have had experiences with some known people and have come to know that newly established professional colleges really lay stress on your capability than your degree. for sure you have to be a graduate but even if anyone is pursuing masters they employ them. Even i have worked as a lecturer in communication skills being just a graduate but my additional aspect was that i had done English hons with first division and a professional degree course in Phonetics and Journalism. So as per this information you can analyse the qualification criteria which will differ from institution to institution.

A graduation/post-graduation degree with enough knowledge in the desired fields to educate students. Should have the mentality of learning from others.....  :)