Professor Andersson’s comments to an influential publication like Times Higher Education, suggesting instead that I had to leave NTU because of academic shortcomings, are thus incorrect, insensitive and injurious to the reputation of a Singaporean forced to reestablish his career outside his home country by his employer’s failure to treat him like other academics. The fair and gentlemanly thing to do would have been to retract his remarks and ensure that no NTU official repeat such words. If he wishes to stand by what he said, let me invite him to put the matter to rest by disclosing all documents relevant to my tenure case. - Cherian George Personally, I feel that it is absolutely wrong for NTU President Bertil Andersson to insinuate that Cherian George did not get tenure because of academic reasons, if indeed the reasons were political. If the reasons were indeed political, one should have the courage to say it. My opinion is that there is nothing wrong with using political reasons as guiding principles in academia, as each country has to govern itself by its own political norms, and not have to pander to Western Liberal values. Why should all Universities function according to Western norms? One must have the guts to say so, and stand by ones beliefs. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. However, to pretend that there were never political reasons in refusing to grant Cherian George tenure (if there were), and cast aspersions on the academic abilities of Cherian, is cowardice. Link to Prof Cherians blog post below.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 19:17:41 +0000
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