tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823193124696749326.post1686669252737371570..comments2023-09-08T05:40:06.709-07:00Comments on New Models of Tertiary Education Discussion: Discussions on Q70Raazesh Sainudiinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16182025645208352527noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823193124696749326.post-48706328703912525012016-12-28T16:01:23.568-08:002016-12-28T16:01:23.568-08:00The structuring of university governance that has ...The structuring of university governance that has existed since the Jim Bolger government (and that one must expect was brought about through international pressures on NZ orchestrated by OECD reviews and efforts surrounding ostensible trade negotiations) was officially meant to enhance university connection to industry. (The hidden agenda was to disable the critic and conscience power of universities, and ensure that they would never again be centres of dissidence, as they had become in the 1960s.) But the official aim of enhancing university connection to industry has not been met at all. The changes have made the university act ostensibly like a business, with managers all the way up and power exerted top down, orchestrating an ever more frantic and silly concentration of people's thinking onto dollars.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823193124696749326.post-49103617376965334792016-05-04T10:50:33.460-07:002016-05-04T10:50:33.460-07:00I am a faculty member at a Uni in NZ with a simila...I am a faculty member at a Uni in NZ with a similar "College-PVC Silo Model". However, in my Department the workload is not made transparent to the faculty members by the Department's Head and some of us are teaching much more than others. On the other hand, we are told that we are in the "business" of getting as many student EFTS into our Department as possible. This is often at the expense of our student's educational breadth. I did my undergraduate in the US in a Liberal Arts College. This "College-PVC Silo Model" usually leads to an 'Anti Liberal Arts' education.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823193124696749326.post-29419832563878168782016-05-03T23:44:13.444-07:002016-05-03T23:44:13.444-07:00Creating joint appointments of academics across De...Creating joint appointments of academics across Departments can circumvent the EFTS silos by accounting for them. This is done in several top US Universities. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com