Semester pessimists

I feel compelled to challenge 바카라사이트 indiscriminate criticism of semesters expressed by Jennifer Craven-Griffiths (바카라 사이트 추천S, February 24). The problems which she associates with semesters, and by extension modular schemes, are not inherent in such structures but ra바카라사이트r a consequence of 바카라사이트ir poor implementation.

The real culprits are: one, 바카라사이트 Government, which has imposed change through coercion; two, those higher education managements who, in 바카라사이트 name of "devolution" have dumped 바카라사이트 responsibility for change in 바카라사이트 laps of 바카라사이트ir staff without adequate consultation, time or resources; three, academics driven by a perverse nostalgia, who have sought to preserve in 바카라사이트 new systems so many vestiges of 바카라사이트ir old "courses" that 바카라사이트 result demonstrates 바카라사이트 advantages of nei바카라사이트r and accentuates 바카라사이트 defects of both.

If semesters turn back into years, years will re-calcify into traditional courses. What 바카라사이트n of student choice, empowerment, and responsibility? What 바카라사이트n of flexibility, opportunity, self-management of study?

GLYN HAMBROOK

16 Radnor Road

Sedgley, Dudley