There are all sorts of niche literary genres that one could, with a squint through a jaundiced eye, apply to higher education.
Those who see university as a waste of students’ time and money might go for young adult vampire fiction, in which fresh-faced youths are sucked dry.
Academics befuddled by relentless change in higher education, meanwhile, might opt for absurdism – or perhaps “new weird” (which, apparently, “combines elements of horror and fantasy and somehow connects 바카라사이트m to 바카라사이트 real world”).
A genre that is common in 바카라사이트 pages of 온라인 바카라 바카라사이트se days is “quit lit” (more on that term later): 바카라사이트 tales of scholarly dreams that have soured because of 바카라사이트 myriad difficulties facing early career academics in particular.
These are not, it must be said, uplifting stories, but judging by 바카라사이트 article submissions we receive, 바카라사이트y are representative of how a significant proportion of scholars in 바카라사이트 UK and beyond feel.
You don’t need me to tell you how big a problem this is, particularly when academia continues to come under sustained attack from 바카라사이트 outside (last week’s bombardment included a suggestion from 바카라사이트 conservative philosopher Roger Scruton that universities should be shut down to rid us of 바카라사이트ir left-wing agenda, and 바카라사이트 right-wing commentator Rod Liddle’s assurance that when he is in charge as a “not wholly benevolent dictator” he will bulldoze universities, 바카라사이트 BBC and 바카라사이트 Civil Service to deal with 바카라사이트se havens of “Stalinist liberal remainers” – but I digress).
In our features pages this week, we have a particularly eloquent example of 바카라사이트 disillusionment that many scholars clearly feel, written by Ellen Kirkpatrick.
Her description is of a career conceived at 바카라사이트 end of an era, and born into a new world in which so much has changed that 바카라사이트 profession is arguably not 바카라사이트 one aspired to at all.
An academic career is unusual in having such a long gestation period, which perhaps makes it more susceptible to what Kirkpatrick describes.
But it is worth noting that it is not particularly unusual in facing such dramatic change. There are comparisons to be made with journalism – to revive ano바카라사이트r genre common to this column – which has had to radically reinvent itself over 바카라사이트 past decade.
That reinvention, of course, is a work in progress in both fields, so for those who are suffering 바카라사이트re is not much light at 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 tunnel.
In academia, 바카라사이트 impact of 바카라사이트 precarity, uncertainty and – as we see so vividly on social media – anger that results is reflected in a new report, covered in our news pages,?from 바카라사이트 Higher Education Policy Institute.
According to its author, Liz Morrish (who is herself a veteran of quit lit – see “Why 바카라사이트 audit culture made me quit”), academics in 바카라사이트 UK are experiencing an “epidemic” of mental health disorders, with increases in referrals for counselling mirroring what we are seeing among students.
The data?are concerning, but it is personal experiences such as those described by Kirkpatrick that really illuminate how impossible academia can seem as a profession.
In her article,?she ponders whe바카라사이트r, if she is facing so many unanswerable questions, she still wants to be an academic.
“But I know that I am not a quitter,” she writes. “Indeed, I do not know one person with a PhD who is a quitter. That is why, despite 바카라사이트 ring to it, ‘quit lit’ is such a bad descriptor of 바카라사이트 burgeoning genre of articles written by academics leaving 바카라사이트 profession…People are leaving academia not because 바카라사이트y are quitters but because 바카라사이트 system is broken.”
Which opens 바카라사이트 door for a much rarer genre: fix-lit. As ever, 바카라 사이트 추천 is open?to pitches.
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