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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 DannyB on Thursday August 24 2017, @04:03PM (1 child)
Those who can, do.
Those who cannot do, teach.
Those who can't teach, administrate.
Those who can't administrate, leave academia and become managers.
Those who can't manage, give talks on the subject.
Those who can't give talks, become paid insultants.
Those who can't succeed in consulting, run for office.
Those who can't get elected, become lobbyists.
The problem is that everyone lower down than "those who can" incorrectly perceive the value hierarchy to be inverted to make themselves feel better.
Now looking at the above list, you might think that there wouldn't be so many people in administration. That they would filter down to lesser and lesser levels of competence. But the fact is, there are so vastly many who are incompetent, that they fully saturate all of the levels lower than "teach".
Hope this answered your question.
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The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 24 2017, @08:50PM
What an excellent way of looking at it!! Explains pretty so many problems with humanity.