JNU teachers' 'oust VC' demand get support from academics across globe
The
JNU Teachers' Association on Thursday said it has received support of
250 senior academicians and various universities' administrators from
different parts of the world to its demand for the ouster of JNU Vice
Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar.
In
a statement, the JNUTA said more than 250 academics and
administrators of universities in the USA, Canada, UK, Germany,
Norway, France, Italy, Denmark, Australia, South Africa, Ireland,
Chile, Mexico, Argentina Taiwan, Greece, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain,
Brazil, Portugal and New Zealand have signed a statement calling for
the immediate resignation by Kumar.
"They
include the former Archbishop of Canterbury and current Master of
Magdalen College, Cambridge, Dr Rowan Williams; the President of the
American Anthropological Association, Prof Akhil Gupta; USA's
Association for Asian Studies president, Prof Prasenjit Duara; and
Cambridge professors Dame Caroline Humphries and Sir Christopher
Clark," JNUTA said in a statement.
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