Academic Leadership:Current Challenges and Future Prospects

All human beings, in whatever profession they work, are ultimately made suitable to justify their positions by academicians only. Whether imparted through formal or informal mode, imparting knowledge and wisdom used to be compared with divinity and the person instrumental in imparting knowledge used to be considered as ' Guru ' (the one who gives) and was treated over and above all professions. In India teachers have traditionally been accorded the highest esteem, even if it was not matched by commensurate economic rewards.