Guest Column| Appointment of vice-chancellors: UGC guidelines or faultlines?
In its latest draft of guidelines on the appointment of assistant professors in universities/colleges, the University Grants Commission has come up with some ‘revolutionary’ ideas with regard to the relaxation in the conditions of the appointment of vice-chancellors. In its latest draft of guidelines, the University Grants Commission has come up with some ‘revolutionary’ ideas with regard to the relaxation in the conditions of the appointment of vice-chancellors. The new draft guidelines of the UGC propose that the V-C’s position may be offered, inter alia, to a reputed public servant or an industry leader or a senior researcher in an institute, with the same stipulation of 10 years’ experience. The UGC couldn’t have chosen a more inappropriate moment than the present one to roll out its so-called revolutionary idea, particularly when everyone knows that the university system in India is not working to its optimal capacity.
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