6.2. Asymmetry in dealing with
subordinates
It is sad to note some of the VCs have granted salaries in the range of
0.5 to 0.7 million to junior professors and 0.2 to 0.35 million salaries
to senior far more experienced professors on ethnic grounds (Tan, Sharma
2013). “This is ridiculous to see that those who fail to compete on
merit are appointed with even higher salaries in administration”, said
R1. A few VCs have been noticed awarding foreign scholarships to their
own race fellows and barring others to undertake HE even at their
expenses in local universities. R1 further said, “I personally believe
that researchers are not taken into confidence when policies are
designed”. R4 shared his observation as
“they grant brand new cars to their executives and force the actual
professors to park their private vehicles outside the campus. The
executives come in chauffer driven official cars at 9 to 10 a.m.and leave at 5 p.m. forcing others to come at 8.30 a.m.and go home at 9 p.m. ”.
Courts give no justice as they use the official money to hire expensive
lawyers to knock down complainants. BGs or Senate is competent authority
to hear complaints against the VCs, but this conglomerate is even worse
in attitude. “I feel cold on the mindset which is driving the education
sector”, R1 shared. It was also reported that industrialists convene
interviews to shortlist private institute executive to appoint as VCs in
public sector universities. Media says “education” will bring the
social and economic change but cult executives are intended to enforce
corporate culture. Many anchors, journalists and writers also help
racists to accomplish their campaign. They grant scholarships on ethnic
grounds to fortify their own race under strategic policies. R3 called it
a disappointing situation as he added, “I see many states promoting
their own communities within the state. We could not transform ourselves
into a single united nation in 67 years due to these pathetic practices
which continue to date”.
It is time to fix the millennium development goals. To keep the social
fabric intact it is time to transform education for sustainable
development which moving to privatization. You cannot ask a criminal to
pay you money to take advice for abandoning the kidnapping or target
killing profession. Education is light with which you see good and bad.
An illiterate person is a blind man who needs societal support to see.
There is no dispute on the importance of the commercial entrepreneurship
in the socio-economic development of society, but education business
would limit the access of actors who play the live drama. Universities
have been incubation center of innovations not business. Business
institutes and networks tried to apply the entrepreneurial academic
model in Pakistan, but it failed due to racial and corrupt practices.
Forget the evil and investigate the cause, what practices do not allow
the proven ideas succeed in Pakistan.