Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Kick 'Corporate Skills' Out of the Academy

Despite the 'standards' rhetoric of Michael Gove, the instrumentalism of education continues as some universities are now awarding marks based on 'work-place relevance'. When Durham University's English department subscribe to such philistinism, you wonder whether the game is already up. Have a read of my response to this here
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