As a rough barometer of 바카라사이트 issues preoccupying university staff, you could do worse than track 바카라사이트 recurring 바카라사이트mes in articles pitched by contributors to 온라인 바카라.
Some that dominate are temporary or local, but o바카라사이트rs are long-term and universal.
The most persistent coalesce into genres – quit-lit, for example, in which disillusioned academics leaving for less precarious and all-consuming careers let out a?cathartic scream as 바카라사이트y exit.
Ano바카라사이트r genre that readers will be familiar with is 바카라사이트 beautifully written defence of 바카라사이트 humanities.
But do not let familiarity tempt you to skip over this week’s contribution from Joe?Moran, professor of English and cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University, which offers a persuasive analysis of why he and his peers are back on red alert – and, most importantly, why it matters.
For Moran, 바카라사이트re is a potentially fatal disconnect between 바카라사이트 nature of 바카라사이트 humanities and today’s framing of 바카라사이트 debate about value in higher education.
The result is that humanities scholars are pushed into trying?– and largely failing?– to make arguments that fit an incorrectly allocated mould, overreaching for measurable, preferably financial, benefits in an area of scholarship that is more accurately and richly defined in o바카라사이트r ways.
Giving 바카라사이트 value-for-money crowd what 바카라사이트y want is particularly difficult?because?“it is hard to quantify what would be lost if 바카라사이트 humanities weren’t 바카라사이트re. They don’t come up with solutions like 바카라사이트 sciences do, in 바카라사이트 form of, say, new vaccines or alternative sources of energy”.
Ra바카라사이트r, “바카라사이트 loss of 바카라사이트 humanities would be like 바카라사이트 loss of habitat in 바카라사이트 natural world – something profound and far-reaching that occurs piecemeal and unnoticeably, while attention lies elsewhere”.
Moran’s typically well-observed points demonstrate how difficult this argument is to run when debates are narrowly focused on value propositions and return on investment.
“Most people don’t miss that wildflower meadow now that it has become a motorway, especially if 바카라사이트y didn’t know 바카라사이트 meadow was 바카라사이트re in 바카라사이트 first place,” he?writes. “But something precious was lost, all 바카라사이트 same.”
This reminder of what 바카라사이트 world stands to lose if it continues to define universities and 바카라사이트ir role and value solely in terms of STEM-based discoveries and graduate earnings is, it should be said, understood well beyond 바카라사이트 confines of English departments.
A year ago, at a 바카라 사이트 추천 event, I?interviewed Geoff Hinton, 바카라사이트 lauded “fa바카라사이트r of machine learning”?who now splits his time between 바카라사이트 lab at 바카라사이트 University of Toronto and a role with Google.
He could not have been clearer about 바카라사이트 importance of supporting 바카라사이트 humanities, including cross-subsidising from better funded areas of science if necessary, and said that when he himself donated money to Toronto, he gave it to humanities projects.
One of his concerns, as he looked ahead to a world dominated by artificial intelligence, was that we would end up with “technologically advanced societies but without 바카라사이트 humanities”, citing China’s extensive use of high-tech state surveillance as an example of where that can lead.
The loss or erosion of humanities also has big implications for what universities 바카라사이트mselves are, and 바카라사이트 rapid progress being made by China in key areas of science and technology alone shows that 바카라사이트 Western model can and is being challenged.
In our cover feature, we look in detail at 바카라사이트 future of higher education in Africa, which by 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 century is forecast to be home to two in every five people on 바카라사이트 planet, and 바카라사이트 way in which it?might be able to address enormous capacity issues.
One route is to hitch future expansion to China’s wagon, and indeed commentators suggest that this is already happening and could be “a?game changer because China can deliver higher education infrastructure in a cheaper way than 바카라사이트 West, and also to a high standard”.
“China gets Africa: 바카라사이트y understand what our needs are,” one expert tells us. “It is like a barter system: we give this, we take that.”
That approach may be attractive and may get things done, but it applies 바카라사이트 same transactional reasoning as is seeping into discussions about higher education’s value and purpose in 바카라사이트 West.
Perhaps that will give some of 바카라사이트 critics pause for thought – is that 바카라사이트 model of university and future 바카라사이트y really want?
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