What does a university chancellor do? How much are they paid?

[Froggy]

Is this a lucrative and prestigious job for a our high caliber George Yeo?



George Yeo will be new chancellor of India's Nalanda University
Published on May 30, 2015 4:04 PM
By Nirmala Ganapathy,india Bureau Chief In New Delhi

India’s Ministry of External Affairs announced on Saturday that former Singapore foreign minister George Yeo will be the new chancellor of Nalanda University.

He takes over on July 17 from Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen who had announced in February that he would step down after his term expires in July.

Mr Yeo, 60, has been one of the movers of a project to revive Nalanda University, the ancient seat of learning in Bihar state, and is part of a 12-member governing board.

Dr Sen decided to step down after accusing the Indian government of political interference in the running of the university

He had spearheaded efforts to revive Nalanda University which once attracted scholars from countries as far away as China and Turkey until it was burnt down by invaders in 1193.

The project was announced in 2006 and it received support from Singapore and the East Asia Summit, an Asean-led regional grouping. In 2012, Dr Sen took charge as the university's first chancellor.

But issues over funding and levels of autonomy had been areas of discord between Dr Sen and the previous government. In February last year, the previous Congress government approved 27 billion rupees (S$572 million) in expenditure until the financial year 2021/2022 and, as a result of the significant financial backing, wanted greater oversight of the running of the university.

But Dr Sen wanted full autonomy, arguing that it was an international project.

He will continue to serve on the governing board.

 

[JohnTan]

Decline of Nalanda

The decline of Nalanda is concomitant with the disappearance of Buddhism in India. When Xuanzang travelled the length and breadth of India in the 7th century, he observed that his religion was in slow decay and even had ominous premonitions of Nalanda's forthcoming demise.[14]:145 Buddhism had steadily lost popularity with the laity and thrived, thanks to royal patronage, only in the monasteries of Bihar and Bengal. By the time of the Palas, the traditional Mahayana and Hinayana forms of Buddhism were imbued with Tantric practices involving secret rituals and magic. The rise of Hindu philosophies in the subcontinent and the waning of the Buddhist Pala dynasty after the 11th century meant that Buddhism was hemmed in on multiple fronts, political, philosophical, and moral. The final blow was delivered when its still-flourishing monasteries, the last visible symbols of its existence in India, were overrun during the Muslim invasion that swept across Northern India at the turn of the 13th century.[10]:13[5]:208[17]:333[33]


In around 1200 CE, Bakhtiyar Khilji, a Turkic chieftain out to make a name for himself, was in the service of a commander in Awadh. The Persian historian, Minhaj-i-Siraj in his Tabaqat-i Nasiri, recorded his deeds a few decades later. Khilji was assigned two villages on the border of Bihar which had become a political no-man's land. Sensing an opportunity, he began a series of plundering raids into Bihar and was recognised and rewarded for his efforts by his superiors. Emboldened, Khilji decided to attack a fort in Bihar and was able to successfully capture it, looting it of a great booty.[9] Minhaj-i-Siraj wrote of this attack:[34]

Muhammad-i-Bakht-yar, by the force of his intrepidity, threw himself into the postern of the gateway of the place, and they captured the fortress, and acquired great booty. The greater number of the inhabitants of that place were Brahmans, and the whole of those Brahmans had their heads shaven; and they were all slain. There were a great number of books there; and, when all these books came under the observation of the Musalmans, they summoned a number of Hindus that they might give them information respecting the import of those books; but the whole of the Hindus had been killed. On becoming acquainted [with the contents of those books], it was found that the whole of that fortress and city was a college, and in the Hindui tongue, they call a college [مدرسه] Bihar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda

So it seems that a Turkic chap who was eager for fame, glory and lots of gold was all it took to snuff out hundreds of years of learning at a Buddhist university.

 

[shittypore]

More cheap labour for Shittypore.

 

[Microsoft]

and all de ah neh uni grad will grantee a job in sinkieland after graduation...huat arrr...

 

[blackmondy]

So now Georgie Boy 沦落到 running a degree mill ?

 

[laksaboy]

Chancellor is to a university what a director is to a company.

 

[Froggy]

Chancellor is to a university what a director is to a company.

Thanks. Knn so this Georgy boy don't need to stay in the university. Lucky sial.

 

[JohnTan]

India also has adopted Singapore's foreign talent policy. They appointed singaporean George Yeo as chancellor instead of one of their local Ah Nehs. Ah Gong's policy on meritocracy has won him fans even as far away as India.

 

[Froggy]

India also has adopted Singapore's foreign talent policy. They appointed singaporean George Yeo as chancellor instead of one of their local Ah Nehs. Ah Gong's policy on meritocracy has won him fans even as far away as India.

You should stop using such derogatory term Ah Nehs is on fellow human

 

[eatshitndie]

much work as a chancellor. raise funds, attract talented faculty, promote global visibility, restore academic excellence, improve facilities, update technology, stop constant voluntary head shaking. the last item is most critical but extremely difficult to execute. :o

 

[Froggy]

much work as a chancellor. raise funds, attract talented faculty, promote global visibility, restore academic excellence, improve facilities, update technology, stop constant voluntary head shaking. the last item is most critical but extremely difficult to execute. :o

Wow sounds a reasonable and honorable job. Reason I started this thread was I thought it's a shit job.

 

[eatshitndie]

Wow sounds a reasonable and honorable job. Reason I started this thread was I thought it's a shit job.

restoring the once bright baccalaureate brilliance of buddhism in a haven of hyper heralded hallucination of hinduism is truly a shit job. :p