[LINK] Agenda for Australian higher education 2013-2016
Roger Clarke
Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Wed Feb 27 18:02:52 AEDT 2013
At 17:30 +1100 27/2/13, Tom Worthington wrote:
>Four themes are proposed
>1. Increase Australians' university participation
It's already way over what's needed, so the very starting-point of
the analysis is badly flawed.
>2. Develop Australia's globally engaged university sector
>3. A powerful research and innovation system that drives economic and
>social progress
>4. Efficiency, investment and regulation
So nothing whatsoever about the people whose quality and commitment
is fundamental to the provision of an effective learning environment,
and to the conduct of quality research.
After a decade of casualisation and demoralisation, that's a travesty.
The managerial era has delivered us a bunch of chief and senior
executives who are driven by a combination of ego, quarterly-profit
reports and accompanying bonuses, and who are interchangeable across
sectors. Universities have been reduced to a business sector that
has no distinctive characteristics from any other.
Caveat: These comments are based on nothing more than the above tiny
excerpt overlaid over the cynicism that's been generated by exposure
to the deterioration of university environments over the last few
decades.
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