“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…