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Mark Thompson
Guest
>> I guess the university didn't want to hire
>> another member of staff with adequate knowledge lest it affect the
>> ludicrous profits they make.
>
> Er - which university are you talking about here? - I don't know of any
> relevant to urc which aren't somewhat strapped for cash.
It's an ex-poly and is (relatively) unencumbered by expensive to run
degrees (science, engineering etc). Also, the student teacher ratio is
certainly nothing to shout about. Most of the profits go back into the
university to help it grow (and make even more profits), while the rest
presumably goes into the pot for the gravy-train high flyers. This is all
ok by me tho, as degrees are now impossible to fail unless you don't hand
any work in (have you seen my pass criteria?!?) and only £1,000ish a year
of my money goes to the university itself - everything else is living
expenses.
The gravy train IMO has to be there - it's an award for brilliant academics
and hard nosed office-politics who would have otherwise been earning
squillions in industry. I'm not too sure about the never-ending expansion
of the university. I suppose their profits & the uni will stop expanding
once the student population stops getting bigger, but there is a vague
worry in my mind that the uni's will keep getting bigger and bigger until
they take over the world. Could you imagine the petty bureaucracy?
>> another member of staff with adequate knowledge lest it affect the
>> ludicrous profits they make.
>
> Er - which university are you talking about here? - I don't know of any
> relevant to urc which aren't somewhat strapped for cash.
It's an ex-poly and is (relatively) unencumbered by expensive to run
degrees (science, engineering etc). Also, the student teacher ratio is
certainly nothing to shout about. Most of the profits go back into the
university to help it grow (and make even more profits), while the rest
presumably goes into the pot for the gravy-train high flyers. This is all
ok by me tho, as degrees are now impossible to fail unless you don't hand
any work in (have you seen my pass criteria?!?) and only £1,000ish a year
of my money goes to the university itself - everything else is living
expenses.
The gravy train IMO has to be there - it's an award for brilliant academics
and hard nosed office-politics who would have otherwise been earning
squillions in industry. I'm not too sure about the never-ending expansion
of the university. I suppose their profits & the uni will stop expanding
once the student population stops getting bigger, but there is a vague
worry in my mind that the uni's will keep getting bigger and bigger until
they take over the world. Could you imagine the petty bureaucracy?