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November 1, 2005
do the maths
Education Guardian - Do the maths
I thought this article by Jonathan Wolff was a nice, clear discussion of what's been going on in universities recently. Fairly depressing reading. I particularly admire him for admitting that he doesn't know what the solution might be to the problems he identifies. I have to say, though, that I didn't enjoy this sentence:
But taught students must be
I've always felt bad about journalists using this kind of construction (not that Jonathan Wolff is a journalist, really - he's head of philosophy at UCL) as it seems like a fairly crude way of trying to sound authoritative. This one is particularly bad, but it is a useful example of how something short and simple can still cause a bit of a processing hiccup.
B-)
Posted by Billy at November 1, 2005 12:29 PM
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