Making the grade in these Gradgrind times

Article Abstract:

Advice for university lecturers on how to deal with their students in such a way that they come to understand that the growth of the concept of student as customer, rather than student as student, will, in the long term, be bad for everybody as competition will replace collegiality and a decent education will be replaced by something that merely serves to keep "customer satisfaction" levels high. It is suggested that the best way to educate students is to take them into your confidence and eventually they may refuse to have anything to do with the new concept of the student as customer and begin to respect the fact that their critical faculties are being challenged.

Methods, Teaching, Lecturers, Education, Instructions

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Tell the emperors they are intellectually naked

Article Abstract:

An analysis of the way in which academics are being asked to improve their performance and prove that they have improved their performance and the preposterousness of the whole process. It is suggested that, as academics are being asked to behave as if they were part of an easily quantifiable operation, such as the railways, then they should behave like the railways when it comes to quantifying their own performance and simply shift the goalposts and lie about how well they are doing.

Product standards, safety, & recalls, Standards, Scholars

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Money talks, but don't let it dictate our future

Article Abstract:

An analysis of the future for postgraduate education in the United Kingdom. It is argued that unless steps are taken now, postgraduate education will become an option only open to rich and privileged, returning the educational profession to the elitism and egoism that had until recently cursed the sector.

Public affairs, Social aspects, Universities and colleges, Graduate study

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