{"id":62706,"date":"2012-12-02T03:26:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T03:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=62706"},"modified":"2012-12-02T03:26:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T03:26:51","slug":"wanted-intellectual-leaders-not-ceos-who-or-what-is-a-vice-chancellor-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wanted-intellectual-leaders-not-ceos-who-or-what-is-a-vice-chancellor-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: Intellectual Leaders, Not CEOs &#8211; Who Or What Is A Vice Chancellor Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In their eagerness to push through reforms, Vice Chancellors resort to emergency powers, creating an atmosphere in which dissent is a no-no and education the casualty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the dictionaries tell us, and as every educated person knows, \u2018education\u2019 involves something more than mere knowledge, training, or skill. The \u2018something more\u2019 is hard to describe and harder still to evaluate. This is particularly true in our hyper-technological age, when there is nothing \u2018mere\u2019 about invaluable assets like knowledge, training or skill, together summarised as competence. That is why there is great ambivalence today about whether universities and colleges should impart anything more or other than competence. Most higher educational institutions either do not feel they need to, or are actually unable to do so. However, even elite public universities \u2014 institutions best placed to pursue the traditional ideals of education \u2014 are floundering. Most worrisome is the fact that the logic of their institutional position seems to make Vice Chancellors and other institutional heads part of the problem rather than the solution.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/wanted-intellectual-leaders-not-ceos\/article4151232.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":62707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wanted: Intellectual Leaders, Not CEOs - Who Or What Is A Vice Chancellor Today? 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