Saturday 6 January 2024

Academic Institutions: Teachers In Charge!

Every good university has mechanisms to take teaching feedback for its professors from students and take the necessary action when someone's teaching is not up to the mark.

At the same time, every good university is clear and emphatic about the fact that its the professors who are in charge, not students. And this in every sense:

Its the professors who select students who will study at a university (not the other way around), its the professors who decide what will be taught and how, its the professors who set the disciplinary protocols in place and ensure they are implemented.

As I often say: Academic institutions are Gurukuls, not Shishyakuls.

Every single university that has lost sight of this principle has crumbled eventually. It cannot be any other way. This is the nature of things.

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