Universities are not corporations and corporations are not universities. Every Pakistan student needs to understand this vital and critical difference. Why because undue and unnatural credence is given to education in the Pakistani culture.
Therefore, longer time spent in any university may prove to be counter intuitive when money has to be made in the real world filled with greedy corporations and even greedier businesses. Be prepared to be outflanked by a result producing technician who may be favoured over you even with your high and mighty degrees.
I loved the similitude drawn between a university and museum or an art gallery, his exposition of 'global' league tables and student surveys in order to excite and attract foreign students to invest into their assured futures as well as supplementing the university campuses and academic staffs.
The other vital point which the author seems to make is the self-righteous smugness inculcated into every university graduate because modern Universities try and brand themselves as finishing schools of modern civilization. How can a snotty nineteen year old be magically transformed into a well mannered, conscientious citizen in just 4 years of University education? This book is very powerful as the author seems to be going the grain here especially if you consider his own academic background. Its exactly like a religious person rejecting his own religion and becoming an atheist.
The whole argument is based around the British government slow and gradual re-branding exercise to view modern universities as corporations of education, thus relegating students to commodities. The author tries to exposed the illogic in the governments logic to measure the Universities instead of judging them. The argument is detailed and reads like a newspaper column at times. It is meant for university curriculum.
Therefore, longer time spent in any university may prove to be counter intuitive when money has to be made in the real world filled with greedy corporations and even greedier businesses. Be prepared to be outflanked by a result producing technician who may be favoured over you even with your high and mighty degrees.
I loved the similitude drawn between a university and museum or an art gallery, his exposition of 'global' league tables and student surveys in order to excite and attract foreign students to invest into their assured futures as well as supplementing the university campuses and academic staffs.
The other vital point which the author seems to make is the self-righteous smugness inculcated into every university graduate because modern Universities try and brand themselves as finishing schools of modern civilization. How can a snotty nineteen year old be magically transformed into a well mannered, conscientious citizen in just 4 years of University education? This book is very powerful as the author seems to be going the grain here especially if you consider his own academic background. Its exactly like a religious person rejecting his own religion and becoming an atheist.
The whole argument is based around the British government slow and gradual re-branding exercise to view modern universities as corporations of education, thus relegating students to commodities. The author tries to exposed the illogic in the governments logic to measure the Universities instead of judging them. The argument is detailed and reads like a newspaper column at times. It is meant for university curriculum.
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