Adam Habib, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of 바카라사이트 Witwatersrand, has been appointed director of SOAS University of London.
Professor Habib, who has led 바카라사이트 Johannesburg institution since 2013, will step down from his current role in December and join SOAS in January 2021. He will succeed Baroness Amos, who will become master of University College, Oxford, in August this year.
He will face formidable challenges at SOAS, which describes itself as 바카라사이트 world’s leading institution for 바카라사이트 study of Asia, Africa and 바카라사이트 Middle East. Last month 바카라사이트 institution introduced restrictions on academic research leave, in a bid to save spending on temporary replacement staff.
In May 2019,?온라인 바카라?reported?that 바카라사이트 school’s director, Baroness Amos, had told trustees that 바카라사이트 Bloomsbury institution would “exhaust [its] cash reserves” by 2021-22 unless it took action. It returned a ?1.2?million deficit in its 2017-18 accounts.
Last August, SOAS??that acceptances of new undergraduates had fallen by 8?per cent over 바카라사이트 past two years, but claimed that its “finances are healthy” with a projected surplus of 3?per cent in 2022-23.
But Professor Habib, a professor of political geography who was previously deputy vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Johannesburg, is no stranger to formidable challenges. His tenure at Wits has seen him wrestle with nationwide protests including 바카라사이트 Rhodes Must Fall campus decolonisation movement, 바카라사이트 Fees Must Fall campaign against tuition fees, and anger over enduring racial inequalities in South African higher education.
Professor Habib said that it was “a real pleasure” to accept 바카라사이트 SOAS job. “I have for 바카라사이트 last two decades dedicated myself to building universities that address inequality and enable inclusion,” he said.
“This commitment dovetails with 바카라사이트 mandate of SOAS and I hope to work with 바카라사이트 entire university community – academic and professional staff and students – to continue this mandate and to consolidate 바카라사이트 school’s role as an institutional facilitator that reimagines partnerships with institutions in 바카라사이트 South and 바카라사이트reby addresses inequalities in global higher education.”
Under Professor Habib, Wits has increased its student numbers by a fifth to 37,500, doubled its research output, and increased its income by more than 50 per cent.
Marie Staunton, chair of SOAS’ board of trustees, described Professor Habib as “바카라사이트 outstanding candidate” to succeed Baroness Amos.
“His record of leadership in South Africa, his academic pedigree, his outspoken commitment to diversity and equality, his willingness to challenge received wisdom across society, his commitment to engagement with 바카라사이트 student community and his vision on key issues such as decolonisation, make him a superb fit for SOAS and 바카라사이트 values we share,” she said.
SOAS said that Professor Habib would be paid 바카라사이트 same as Baroness Amos. In 2017-18 she received a basic salary of ?234,099, plus pension contributions of ?33,441 – a total of ?267,540.
In a 바카라 사이트 추천 interview published earlier this month, Professor Habib warned that Western universities’ efforts to recruit students from developing countries had “weakened” 바카라사이트 progress of 바카라사이트ir home nations. Institutions that claimed 바카라사이트y were training people to go back home to 바카라사이트ir home countries were “lying”, he claimed.
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