The University of Madras many as soon as once more observe the system of headship by rotation. Anyone who’s a professor in a division will get the position by rotation below the proposal.
A decision to this impact, launched by Vice-Chancellor S. Gowri, was handed in Senate on Saturday. However, some professors have raised issues about it.
At current, the senior-most professor will get the headship and mechanically are Senate members. They can contest for the Syndicate. The Governor, as Chancellor, nominates three individuals to the Syndicate who’re usually division heads.
The dissenting professors marvel who will determine the qualification for the headship that the University Grants Commission has not delineated the identical. Besides, round 20 departments have college at varied ranges whereas 70 different departments run with only one college as in-charge head.
“Senior-most professor is usually made the head. When a younger person is made a head what happens to the senior professor as there are no guidelines? University authorities may appoint depending upon their rapport with the authorities,” a professor remarked.
“The university has attempted this in the past. When Vice-Chancellor Malcolm Adiseshiah introduced it and it was passed in the Senate, the founder and head of Management Studies department G.V. Krishna Rao relinquished the post the next day. Since he was older and highly qualified, a post of Director was created and he was appointed,” mentioned former head of the division P.T. Srinivasan.
Headship comes with privileges corresponding to chairmanship of a number of boards within the college system that makes it enticing and vigorously sought, he identified.
However, by and enormous, the senior most professor is given the headship, he mentioned.
S. Ramachandran, throughout his tenure as Vice-Chancellor (2006-09), had tried to introduce the decision within the Senate. While the Madras University Teachers’ Association supported it many of the heads within the Senate opposed and it was put within the chilly storage, recalled one other retired professor.
Vice-Chancellor S. Gowri mentioned: “Headship rotation will enable professors to aim for still higher positions and responsibilities if the period is tenured. Otherwise, they will not look for new avenues in career as well in the department.”
