Should have been Delicious Brownie Report
Nov. 1st, 2010 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
x_losVery annoyed about/saddened by the Browne Report. Spent 5 min this morning going ARGH CAN I AFFORD PHD ARGH before calming down and realizing at its worst, this is pretty much still just what I'd have to pay in the US, and that I'll have to pursue grants and such aggressively this summer (hopefully one's Uni will be of use in such situations, re: funding-hunting, but alas, Goldsmiths has demonstrated all the administrative capability of a dead seagull*).
Hopefully the LibDems will remember they're vertebrates and this won't go through. Hopefully if it does, it will do it slowly, and I'll have gotten in before the implementation/on the cheaper scheme. And it might not be AS bad as it sounds--but it sounds Not Great.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11598262 --et tu, Business Secretary Vince Cable?
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n21/stefan-collini/brownes-gamble
http://www.thelondongraduateschool.co.uk/thoughtpiece/if-you-tolerate-this%E2%80%A6-lord-browne-and-the-privatisation-of-the-humanities/
And I think this is a really bemusing article that goes to show that wherever you are, its Better Across the Pond. I do /not/ think American students and graduates would generally describe or conceive of their university system as attaining better results than the UK system, or that they would say its a Success Story economically, socially or educationally, which other developed countries would do well to emulate--what standards, then, ARE we judging by? Research standards? That's well and good, but it's not really /about/ the business of universities, which is, foremost, providing education.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11520958
* R.I.P. Buttercookie--still feeling it, man.
Hopefully the LibDems will remember they're vertebrates and this won't go through. Hopefully if it does, it will do it slowly, and I'll have gotten in before the implementation/on the cheaper scheme. And it might not be AS bad as it sounds--but it sounds Not Great.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11598262 --et tu, Business Secretary Vince Cable?
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n21/stefan-collini/brownes-gamble
http://www.thelondongraduateschool.co.uk/thoughtpiece/if-you-tolerate-this%E2%80%A6-lord-browne-and-the-privatisation-of-the-humanities/
And I think this is a really bemusing article that goes to show that wherever you are, its Better Across the Pond. I do /not/ think American students and graduates would generally describe or conceive of their university system as attaining better results than the UK system, or that they would say its a Success Story economically, socially or educationally, which other developed countries would do well to emulate--what standards, then, ARE we judging by? Research standards? That's well and good, but it's not really /about/ the business of universities, which is, foremost, providing education.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11520958
* R.I.P. Buttercookie--still feeling it, man.
