Here's an interesting article by faculty from the University of Delhi (http://www.du.ac.in/index.php?id=4, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Delhi) about the role of Vice Chancellors (VC) in Indian universities today, http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/wanted-intellectual-leaders-not-ceos/article4151232.ece. It contends that the typical Indian VC is one of or seen as "1) the CEO of an academic corporation; 2) an academic or bureaucrat with political connections; 3) a person selected by accident, error or compromise; and 4) an intellectual leader" and that the reality is that "these options are arranged in order of their importance in Indian higher education today".
It goes on to cover dictatorial powers of VCs of central universities, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_University,_India, and how exercise of such power by VCs who are impatient to bring about reform, results in a war like situation in the universities.
I presume the situation will be quite similar in state universities in India, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_university_%28India%29, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_universities_in_India. The other type of universities are private universities and deemed universities which may be receiving limited amount of funding from the state or central government or no funding at all. I presume that the VCs of such universities may typically not have dictatorial powers as the board of management/trustees/visitors of the universities may have direct control over the VC (limited autonomy).
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It goes on to cover dictatorial powers of VCs of central universities, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_University,_India, and how exercise of such power by VCs who are impatient to bring about reform, results in a war like situation in the universities.
I presume the situation will be quite similar in state universities in India, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_university_%28India%29, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_universities_in_India. The other type of universities are private universities and deemed universities which may be receiving limited amount of funding from the state or central government or no funding at all. I presume that the VCs of such universities may typically not have dictatorial powers as the board of management/trustees/visitors of the universities may have direct control over the VC (limited autonomy).
Please note that the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY) does *not* apply to this post.
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