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Institutions? I'm actually really lucky in that I teach internationally at multiple institutions, university and non-university. What's useful and interesting
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Institutions? I'm actually really lucky in that I teach
internationally at multiple institutions, university and
non-university. What's useful and interesting is it gives me a broad
taste of politics (as well as a way to stay out of the melee).
That's why I'm quite confident in saying generally "universities are
in trouble". I've seen it over time and geography. Not all places of
higher learning are. Some private and state entities are thriving.
What is killing the universities, in my opinion, is they're caught in
a no-mans-land, as neither fully state entities, nor private concerns.
- pmyteh 4y agoAh, interesting. Yes, our current position is deeply unhelpful. State enough that VCs will jump to follow some arbitrary after-dinner speech by the Minister, but private enough that we're competing in a 'market' with each other and carry a bunch of financial risks directly. Colleagues in other countries have suggested that "each unhappy university system is unhappy in its own way". Hugely constrained funding in some countries, direct government interference in others, rampant casualisation in a third, a collapse in scholarship in a fourth...