In terms of numbers, the staff in the administrative university are four times more than the teaching staff.
Although their core business is not teaching, in the 1990s the administrative staff compelled the university councils to give them ‘professor-equivalent’ and ‘lecturer-equivalent’ titles and salaries.
And because they are derided by the administrative staff, the teaching staff do not bother to ask their universities to fix any problem.
Some of them hope they will end up in the administrative university as principals of colleges, deputy vice-chancellors, or the teaching staff who are appointed to the senior administrative positions tend to fast forget about the academia.
Many will be distressed at this request because not all staff in our universities provide essential services – teaching, research and engagement with the community of scholars.
