Artur
In my experience this occurs exactly because they are academics. They may
be performing an administrative role, such as Head of Department, but they
are not truly part of the overall administrative system. The question
which must be answered is how does espoused theory become theory in
action? I suspect the answer is that it goes through the administrative
system, out of the hands of the "academic administrators". So even though
in theory, your academic is in the right place, in reality he probably has
a number of hurdles in his way.
I think we tend to see universities as the places where students are
taught, but there is a huge administrative core to all universities.
The academic side of the university is divided into Faculties and into
Departments. Academics head up these areas with administrative support.
The administration feeds up through the centre to the Secretary's office -
the CEO of the organisation. True there is an academic progression through
the core also, but consider the cohesion between departments within
faculties, and then between faculties. In my experience, it is the
administrative network which is the stronger.
I'd be interested in your view of the non-academic administrative
structure.
Jo
Jo Hamill
jo.hamill@ed.ac.uk
Faculty of Medicine, Edinburgh.
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