John Newbigin assesses the relevance of Britain’s education system in an era when the techniques, technologies and mindset of the world of arts and digital entertainment are feeding whole swathes of the economy.
I don't envy anyone running a university these days. Just thinking about it makes me queasy: hustling for "customers" as if they were airlines or insurance companies; trying to keep their vital numbers of fee-paying foreign students up at the same time as the government is saying, rather clearly, that foreigners are no longer welcome; persuading their staff not to emigrate when academics' pay is rubbish; and navigating a Kafkaesque system for awarding research funds that would give anyone trained in logic a nervous breakdown.
Forget those little headaches. There are some more fundamental problems rumbling underground… Read more in The Guardian
I don't envy anyone running a university these days. Just thinking about it makes me queasy: hustling for "customers" as if they were airlines or insurance companies; trying to keep their vital numbers of fee-paying foreign students up at the same time as the government is saying, rather clearly, that foreigners are no longer welcome; persuading their staff not to emigrate when academics' pay is rubbish; and navigating a Kafkaesque system for awarding research funds that would give anyone trained in logic a nervous breakdown.
Forget those little headaches. There are some more fundamental problems rumbling underground… Read more in The Guardian