On 12/10/2010 21:37, David Gerard wrote: > On 12 October 2010 21:36, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I wonder if Lord Brooke [1] has seen that article yet. >> [1] >> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/8058885/Lord-Browne-review-round-up-of-reaction.html > > Browne. Gah! It's right there in the URL! > There is something odd about the last fifty years of tertiary education, which is how little the model has really changed. (Arguments over how to fund it rather mask the point.) The demographic is very different, the scale is very different, but what universities are all about is not so different. There might be a step-change on the way, presaged by a new attitude to books that is visible already. The idea that one learns both socially and intellectually from contact with one's peer group (pretty much defined as age group plus some social and intellectual stratum restriction) is more deeply embedded than ever: few people expect to learn from a "master" now. Therefore any new model is not going to be distance learning as such.
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