Dubiously hired and dubiously fired!

If you recently had a chance to come out of your office and walk through the powerless corridors of faculty blocks then you can share the kind of anxiety and worry which is right now prevailing among the faculty members. In response to our earlier post, we have been reminded by a few friends that contractual boom is now well over at IIUI and several “stars” have been conveniently laid down by our bosses without any resistance. Should we call it a good day as our case against dubious contractual appointments is seemingly taking some roots? No, we should not! We are pretty realistic about our blog and its posts and it is never like that our words are ending up into policy formulation (if we can call it a policy at all).

Our case against irregular and non-transparent contractual appointments is totally on different terrain and by no way one can support irrational and sweeping hiring and firing practices. Recent "firing boom" in the university has further strengthened our stance about the lack of any long term policy vision of IIUI administration. Most of these appointments were dubious in the wake of totally undefendable and crazy expansion project of our post Ghazi administration and now in the same haphazard and "hush-rush" manner, people are being laid off. If this is the solution of our financial crunch then do it but first of all share university's balance sheet with the stakeholders so that faculty could get a fair idea about who is who when it comes perks, benefits, entitlements, TA & DA, oversease and domestic trips, lofty packages etc. It is high time to think about adopting an efficient model of administration -student ratio policy to shed off unnecessary and inefficient load. We can contract-out several administrative functions to save cost, time and energies but who has the time to think about serious and sustainable solutions? Perhaps our administration think that they are simple people so they hire when they have money and they fire when they don't. But the rest of the world calls it maladministration!