tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post5610976219251778587..comments2024-03-27T06:20:06.991+00:00Comments on fantastic journal: the sound of breaking glassCharles Hollandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749776401395551607noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post-83280966777543154362010-11-25T21:12:49.068+00:002010-11-25T21:12:49.068+00:00http://www.truth-out.org/lessons-be-learned-from-p...http://www.truth-out.org/lessons-be-learned-from-paulo-freire-education-is-being-taken-over-mega-rich65363AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15091766956169042796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post-15002712225752002742010-11-24T19:22:00.861+00:002010-11-24T19:22:00.861+00:00Jeremy, you are most welcome! And thanks for eluci...Jeremy, you are most welcome! And thanks for elucidating in more detail about the detail of the cuts. Has the Bartlett's strategy of making all post graduate studios research based (as I understand it) helped it avoid the worst of the cuts then?<br /><br />Anon. I can only agree really...Charles Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749776401395551607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post-30183111287071497762010-11-22T22:41:00.708+00:002010-11-22T22:41:00.708+00:00One thing to remember is that since the introducti...One thing to remember is that since the introduction of polytechnic institutes and the broadening availability of tertiary education in late C19th, the desirability of higher education has been almost exclusively understood in relation to its market benefits. <br /><br />The difference was that our C19th and C20th overlords could see the importance of arts and humanities to the furtherance of a national project, especially through the exportation of something called "British culture". <br /><br />When even such unmanageable imperial aspirations have been abandoned, the whole mess appears so ideologically barren that one can't help but conclude that this really IS the worst you can imagine: an attempt to strip the country of anything as unquantifiably unruly as an intellectual life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post-80030523946177133282010-11-22T16:13:29.801+00:002010-11-22T16:13:29.801+00:00Great post. But to clarify one thing. It is not an...Great post. But to clarify one thing. It is not an attack on humanities per se, it is an attack on the whole system - it is just that humanities people are better at writing and so have got their particular point over more articulately. <br /><br />Yes, 100% funding is being withdrawn from humanities and social sciences teaching. The same amount per student is probably going to be withdrawn from science teaching, leaving just the small top up (approx £3k per student) that the government presently puts in for these students. The overall cut to the teaching budget is therefore around 80%, i.e. twice that recommended by Browne. The overall 40% cut ("i.e. we are only really cutting by 40% to show what civilized people we are") that is being bandied around is when you put research funding (which is not being cut very much at all) into the overall budget - but this headline figure disguises a truly vicious underlying cut, as you note. <br /><br />In a way more scary than the fees, is the opening to the market full stop in terms of student numbers, so that posh Universities are allowed to open up the floodgates, thus taking students out the system for the less posh, and equally we will probably see some Lidl Unversities, offering everything at £6k, and getting over the 20% cut that this represents (it costs around £7.5k to educate a student presently) by piling students in and making "efficiencies'. Does anyone know of a education system anywhere that could bear this degree of turbulence and uncertainty? It is clear that, as with housing, the ConDemns are making it up as they go along. <br /><br />And don't get me going on what this means for architecture. <br /><br />Thanks for letting me use your blog as a my own para-blogJeremy Tillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post-46793710417686922242010-11-22T14:17:37.538+00:002010-11-22T14:17:37.538+00:00Yes, absolutely. There is virtually no rational de...Yes, absolutely. There is virtually no rational debate about money at present, everything being distorted through this hysterical hyperbole that the country is bankrupt, that Britain is broken, that drastic measures must be taken. Shock doctrine essentially. <br /><br />So, people are largely ignorant of the relatively small amount as a percentage of GDP that the country spends on higher education (less even than the US currently, BEFORE the cuts). Gross inequities like the one you mention get ignored too.Charles Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749776401395551607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post-5157558106155024242010-11-22T13:24:52.188+00:002010-11-22T13:24:52.188+00:00Its worth noting that the £4.2bn cuts to education...Its worth noting that the £4.2bn cuts to education pale insignifficance to last years £3.3bn military OVERSPEND... yes overspend, not budget, as in not managing their budget correctly, as in opps, just overspent another £3.3bn on some big bombs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com