Daily post 02/18/2012
February 18, 2012
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Death Of The University As We Know It | newmatilda.com
via @mbrownz from the Canadian context but description seems apt for us: “For the full-time professors that remain, their work has intensified and become increasingly bureaucratised. Compliance with increasingly demanding accountability measures and assessment exercises eat up more and more time and energy. Behind it all lays the pressure to increase academic productivity, even if much of what academics do is difficult or impossible to measure in any simple or precise way.”
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New blog by a colleague. I might have to step my blogging or be left in her dust. I’ll need to find more time to write.