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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: 1, Troll) by wisnoskij on Thursday August 24 2017, @12:15PM

    by wisnoskij (5149) <reversethis-{moc ... ksonsiwnohtanoj}> on Thursday August 24 2017, @12:15PM (#558416)

    Except that government spending per student has been raising steadily for decades. The government did not decide that it did not want to cover 100%, the universities decided that students would be willing to pay extra on top. And that this would cause the government to give them even more money in a perpetual game of cat and mouse. The government is still the number 1, only really important customer. Going after their money is still worth more than pleasing every student and potential student in the entire country.

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