Plus ça change… Members of the University and College Union are soon to vote on industrial action over threats to job security and pensions. What action is being planned? Surprise, surprise: assessment boycotting and strikes — both of which are likely to affect students more than anyone else. Funny how lecturers always choose these kinds of actions. They never suggest systematically withholding publications, although research is constantly declared to be more valuable to universities than teaching and is the source of external funding and kudos… But then, that option would mean lecturers making professional sacrifices, wouldn't it?
Thursday 2 December 2010
What use is training in humanities? (1)
What use is training in humanities? Someone has to teach academic writing to scientists… Final-year science students who don't know, for instance, that bacteria, data and criteria are plural nouns, still less what the singular forms are, have clearly not been properly trained by teachers in their own disciplines.
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