Academy, degrees, and market dynamics
I ran into a post at Mark Tarver's blog—a former tenured professor at School of Computer Studies at Leeds—about the modern academia establishment. You may or may not agree with him. Some of his opinions may or may not be flawed or biased. But, the post "Why I am Not a Professor OR The Decline and Fall of the British University" is definitely worth to read. Below you can find a couple of quotations extracted from the blog. Oh, I used the DISCUS tool bar to do so…
[…]Lets widen access to university and increase student choice, argued education ministers, and increase the accountability of the lecturers by introducing some form of assessment of teaching and research.[…]
[…]Very few lecturers would want to stir such a hornets nest or have the necessary adamantine quality to inflict shame upon a student whose principal failure was to be allowed to study for a degree for whch he had little ability.[…]
Some of his arguments reminded me the claims by Sir Ken Robinson at the TED conference about how degrees lose their value when everybody has one and why the education establishment cannot ignore it .
Posted by admin on January 22nd, 2007 under Illigal-blogging
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