Stop para-dropping academics
Dr.Yogesh Sharma is an associate Professor at Swami Shraddhanand College, Alipur, Delhi-110036 (University of Delhi)
The much-hyped controversy on the resignation of Pratap Bhanu Mehta from Ashoka University has got wide space in the media. People have got a chance to discuss the role of academic freedom in universities in India. This is a very well known fact that all want liberal funding from the government but all want full freedom. Now, the government is inviting private investments in the universities and our academics are obsessed with the foreign model of Oxford, Cambridge and Harward, the interest of teachers and students are not at all a prime concern in the institutions of higher education.
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Stop para-dropping academics
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For high quality Universities: Academics value academic freedom. They must have a central role in university governance April 13, 2021, 7:23 AM IST
Bhagwan Chowdhry and Deepa Mani
The recent exit of Pratap Bhanu Mehta from Ashoka University has put the spotlight on the role of universities and academic freedom and expression in modern India. As we usher in private investments and effect policies to allow foreign universities to open campuses and raise the standards of higher education in the country, it becomes critical to understand how these institutions of higher education should be governed to create 21st century equivalents of Oxford and Harvard.