I read this post from Uncle Lim’s Blog. Someone tells the stories inside public universities now.

Another time, all the academic staff, including the Dean, ganged up against me because I had managed to published a paper in a leading international journal. Immediately after my name was mentioned by the VC as an example, the Dean started telling other academic staff that I did not “contribute enough” to the faculty.

I was under the impression that I was there to do research and publish but for these people, who cannot do research, the priority was on social events. This Dean was not even an academic in the first place but was a civil servant before he was appointed Dean. All the academics he has appointed since he became Dean all come from his state and all are local graduates. So how to improve?

This is the culture practising in public universities now. Believe it or not, you are free to decide. I was there and experienced it before; therefore, I can understand his/her feeling.

Well, many in one of the public universities can’t read this blog or maybe others too. They have blocked port(s) which access to those blogs (included mine).

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