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posted by martyb on Thursday August 24 2017, @02:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the giving-them-a-lecture dept.

Meaningless tasks and faux-business strategies prioritised by British universities have skewed their real roles of teachinig and research. Looking at decades of university growth, most expansion has been by university administration, not faculty. On the other side of the pond, one US study found that between 1975 and 2008 while the number of faculty had grown about 10% the number of administrators had grown 221% during the same period. In the UK, the large majority of universities have more administrators than they do faculty members. We are on the way to realizing an “all-administrative university” if nothing is done. André Spicer at The Guardian comments that since universities are broke, we should cut the pointless admin and get back to teaching.


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by coolgopher on Thursday August 24 2017, @04:03AM (5 children)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Thursday August 24 2017, @04:03AM (#558305)

    Is it time to send out a B-ark? ;)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 24 2017, @04:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 24 2017, @04:42AM (#558313)

    As long as we send it at night so they don't know they're headed for the Sun...

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 24 2017, @04:46AM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 24 2017, @04:46AM (#558315) Journal

    Is it large enough to hold everybody?
    If so, how come my manager is not on board?

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    • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday August 24 2017, @07:24AM (2 children)

      by MostCynical (2589) on Thursday August 24 2017, @07:24AM (#558357) Journal

      They don't have room fro everyone; turns out, your manager isn't *completely* useless (not even *always* incompetent). Sorry.

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      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 24 2017, @07:34AM (1 child)

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 24 2017, @07:34AM (#558360) Journal

        turns out, your manager isn't *completely* useless (not even *always* incompetent). Sorry.

        Mmmm... Ok... then I'll need to see how can I use him for something he might be competent in. (grin)

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