> the university system is a lot more school-like compared to the free-for-all it was twenty years ago. Agreed… it is. This is a loss and a gain. In the 1980s

> the university system is a lot more school-like compared to the free-for-all it was twenty years ago. Agreed… it is. This is a loss and a gain. In the 1980s, as a foundation (19 yo) student of a certain London art school, I was taken to Hyde Park for ‘drawing lessons’ and given drug-laced cake by my lecturer, without my knowing. Student-staff sexual relationships were common and it was not unusual for lecturers to be absent the entire semester yet still be paid. Staff rollover was practically non-existent: a job was Ipso-facto a job for life, regardless of your performance. Pertinently, the program was pass/fail. As a university lecturer, I now work in a credit-based system. Everything is accountable and the layers of administration have quadrupled. Neither system is perfect. In the end, I believe that it is the faith and energy of those who deliver the system to be the deciding factor.