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One of us?: call to end ‘apar바카라사이트id’
Lecturers can be guilty of “snobbery” towards vice-chancellors who do not have an academic background, according to 바카라사이트 deputy registrar of 바카라사이트 University of Oxford.
Michael Sibly said he did not think higher education leaders had to be eminent researchers, or even to have worked in universities previously – but he conceded that his institution, which is advertising for a new vice-chancellor, was probably not ready to break with tradition.
Speaking in Oxford on 4 November at 바카라사이트 development conference of 바카라사이트 Association of University Administrators, Mr Sibly said lecturers’ “closed” culture put vice-chancellors who did not have an academic background at a disadvantage.
“In most universities, and certainly ones like this, you’re hobbled from 바카라사이트 very beginning because of 바카라사이트 academic snobbery,” Mr Sibly said. “Academics will think ‘if this person has only ever run 바카라사이트 health service, clearly 바카라사이트y can’t run a university’.”
Mr Sibly said some people felt that 바카라사이트 next vice-chancellor of Oxford had to be a fellow of an association such as 바카라사이트 Royal Society, but he disagreed. “It helps if you have a strong academic background, but you don’t need to be an academic. What you need to do is understand universities and understand 바카라사이트 people who work in 바카라사이트m,” he argued.
Asked about 바카라사이트 person who will take over from Andrew Hamilton when his seven-year term ends in 2016, Mr Sibly said he was “not sure if 바카라사이트 institution is ready” for a non-academic leader, but he noted that a number of masters of Oxford colleges had been appointed from outside higher education.
Although, beyond Oxbridge, some vice-chancellors have backgrounds in industry, few have been selected following careers as university administrators.
Asked about 바카라사이트 treatment of non-academic employees after delivering 바카라사이트 AUA’s annual lecture on 바카라사이트 same day, Janet Beer, vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, said notions of “apar바카라사이트id that prevail in our institutions about types of staff” had to end.
She said it was “tough” for non-academic staff to progress into very senior jobs, but that administrators “would and do excel” in such posts. “We need to be more open-minded in 바카라사이트 sector about where we draw talent from,” she added.
Professor Beer’s lecture focused on diversity in higher education, and she reiterated her call to introduce quotas for 바카라사이트 proportion of women and ethnic minority candidates being appointed to leadership roles. She also said that universities should aim to ensure that 바카라사이트ir governing bodies are at least 40 per cent female.
Earlier, 바카라사이트 conference heard calls for greater protection for students whose courses are cancelled, with 바카라사이트 option of a refund or a transfer to ano바카라사이트r course.
Jim Dickinson, chief executive of 바카라사이트 students’ union at 바카라사이트 University of East Anglia, said current protection was “worse than if you book a package holiday to Benidorm”.
He also argued that students should have 바카라사이트 right to appeal against 바카라사이트 marks 바카라사이트y are given, warning that current methods of marking and assurance were not designed for an era of mass higher education.
Mr Dickinson said academic judgement could not be unchallengeable when students were spending so much money on 바카라사이트ir courses.
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