At Trinity College Dublin.
A fleece-clad geography lecturer revolts.
Bob Kavanagh writes:
College Board member and senior academic Peter Coxon in Trinity urges students to take action against the College for what he calls “incredible erosion of our ability to teach whole sections of a geography degree without the discipline being given any indication of future staffing”. Issue in Geography Dept mirrors issues across college, with modules and staff being cut everywhere…
Powerful sediment.
Sentiment.
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The cut backs in teaching have been enormous. Meanwhile, TCD continues to spend hundreds of thousands redesigning their logo, and then changing it back again. It’s time for the Provost to resign. Since his tenure began, TCD has slipped down all the rankings. It is no longer in the global top 100.
depends on the survey, but it’s a fair point.
Yeah, I don’t have much faith in the ranking system. But Prendergast, when running for Provost, said that one of his main ambitions was to have TCD in the top 40. Under his reign, TCD’s fallen every year.
As he should if he sees a problem. Introductory lecture to my course the head of department said the only reason anyone was there or the college even existed was for the students and that we should be proactive. Now I’m doing my PhD I don’t think that’s so accurate, but when it comes to the courses I still think it has merit.
PhD, standards sure are slipping…
to the barricades
Obsession with rankings and with money-making courses is at the root of the serious problems throughout the Irish college system (and is probably replicated elsewhere). There are a huge amount of courses that really don’t need a degree to be taught (a cert or learning on the job would suffice). Universities should be places that encourage critical and rational thought, but that is becoming less and less what’s on offer.
Surely they should be places of learning, not everything is up for debate or open to interpretation, some things just are and it is important that people be thought them.