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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.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Thursday August 24 2017, @05:57AM (2 children)
It's going into the paychecks of the "administrators".
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday August 24 2017, @06:38AM (1 child)
Not only.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 24 2017, @07:23AM
When I was in a big US university, the dept head's vision was to get into the top 10 of highest NIH funding. His strategy to enact this bold vision was to boldly tell us his bold vision every meeting and remind us we need to boldly apply for more NIH funding. To the point where most of the faculty spent most of their time writing grants. That's how top admin earn their $600k salaries, I guess.