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“Deep impact” drives marginalisation of classics in brave new University world
— Heynos Ackeridson, EducationRUs, April 1.
Plato and other great philosophers could be removed from Global University syllabuses, according to elite discussions presently taking place in the higher education community.
The tough prescription comes as part of changes associated with the advent of “bibliometrics”*, as the means to adjudicate “quality research”, and make sure that taxpayers around the world have to pay as little as possible to sustain an unproductive critical intelligentsia.
*citation counts of authors’ proper names, as mentioned in other authors’ professional papers.
‘All major reforms have unintended consequences’, the leaked report made available to EducationRUS this week observes:
but sometimes you have to roll with the punches. We’re confident this change will have a positive growth effect on global productivity over a five-fifteen year cycle, and produce downward pressure on global inflation and wages growth.
Several University Deans named in the report have declined to comment to EducationRUs concerning the leaked document.
As readers of this magazine will know, Universities around the world have spent much time and money over the last decades trying to streamline their operations. The aim is to ensure that hard working people don’t have to pick up the tab for loopy cultural studies professors who have declared enmity to everything great, good, and lucrative.
The result has been exponential growth in administrative apparati, which spend time and money to make sure that intellectuals … do not waste time and money. The academics in their turn, are asked to spend time and money reporting on how they have been spending … time and money. It is a virtuous circle, from which everyone benefits in medium- to longer-term.
The other major change has been widespread casualisation in the teaching workforce, with larger classrooms, and more rapid teacher turnover and burnout. This is a means to generate hidden efficiencies for students and the global public.
In this climate, the advent of algorithmically generated means to monitor academic researchers and…