Education: Letter - At last, the `quality' regime exposed
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Your support makes all the difference.Thank you indeed for Susan Bassnett's splendid article on the "quality" bureaucracy in higher education. At last someone has spoken out!
Most of the university teachers I know would like to get out of the profession if they could. We don't mind hard work, and we don't mind being monitored. What we find intolerable is that at a time when we are all being asked to work harder because of leaner funding, a great proportion of our effort is being squandered in bureaucratic trivialities, whose only apparent purpose is to further the importance of the bureaucrats.
This has played a large part in turning a job that used to be about flair and initiative into an impossible drudgery. Is this the atmosphere in which we want tomorrow's leaders to be educated?
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