In lieu of longer commentary I wanted to provide some of the latest news and commentary on the UK situation for those interested:
A Manifesto in Defense of the Arts and Humanities (in multiple parts)
Attacks on Job Security and Academic Freedom
Government Issues its Guidelines on Fees
Government Reforms More Costly for Students with More Regulations for Universities
Willetts Wants to Open UK Education to For-Profits
UC Health & Service Strike News
14 hours ago
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We have tended to characterize these sorts of actions as an attack on public education by conservative forces. But there are also liberal forces doing their own attacking, so it doesn't appear that this is well characterized by conservative vs. liberal thinking.
What if the problem is that governments and a broad swath of the public do not believe that universities are serving society? That's why universities are pushed toward privately purchased credentialing organizations. What if this is not merely an illusory perception to be dispelled by university PR folks and protestations from senior administrators?
What if, fundamentally, society, government, and universities have diverged so much that universities appear to be dead weight? What then? Is the change required at universities more than the minor adjustments (with more foo-fah than action) than the administrators presently in the job (hired for their management of the thing as it is not their vision of change) are capable of conceiving?
Clearly, "excellence" (meaning reputation for research) is a failed rhetoric. Is it possible that "research" also is a failed rhetoric?
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