[lit-ideas] Re: Pausing Philosophically for Coffee off the B9086, with Tammie Norries

  • From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:25:28 -0230

Quoting Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

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> 
> --- On Wed, 17/8/11, Walter C. Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> > There is no academic freedom, either in research or
> > teaching without it. [I.e. tenure].
> 
> It would seem to follow, given that tenure has virtually disappeared here as
> Judy says, that there is "no academic freedom" in Britain. Hmm.
> 
> This is such a high horse to ride in defence in tenure that it think it might
> be advisable to dismount.

Skipper's recent posting has definitely caused a decline in our capacities for
rational argument; we are reduced to erecting  positions embedded only in 
vivid and enticing sexual metaphors. 

Re "Hmm:" I strongly suggest that Donal rethink her criteria of "advisability."
For it doesn't "seem" anything. Donal's position is surely part of the problem
here. Have the courage to admit that it follows, as day follows night, that
there is no academic freedom in Britain. There, it has been asserted. Do the
planets continue in their orbits? 

When faculty at, zum beispiel, the Institute of
Education, University of London, are assessed according to the degree to which
their research bears "impact" on practical policy matters and when they are
criticized in government sponsored audits of their departments for the  pursuit
of "academic individualism" that fails to contribute to the coffers of silver
of
the University, you can be certain that Heather hasn't a prayer.

Sir Walter of O
MUN


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