This paragraph from Armin's article rings true...

"Yet the students who with such a clear mind defend the value of 
education as a public good should take a clear and careful look at what 
it is that they are defending. The snobbish and frequent comments of 
members of the politic and academic establishment who refer to 'our 
world class universities' are not aware of what the students know all 
too well. That the standard of teaching and learning in most British 
universities is very low, that a lot of the teaching is outsourced to 
exploited and underpaid sessional lecturers, that part time staff often 
are made course leaders and solely responsible for a whole BA or MA 
course, that the number of 'contact hours' students are getting are few 
and decreasing, and that British universities have long been turned into 
a two- and three-tyer class society."

wishing all well.

marc
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