I'm not sure how many people will agree with Tony Bates here, but it's consistent with the position he's taken over the years. In short, he argues that far fewer professors should be conducting research, and that they should focus on teaching only. But is this a message people want to hear? "Not all can - nor should - strive to be elite research universities." Well, sure, let's let only the elite do research. I agree that there a lot of bad research is published, but that's neither a cause nor a symptom of the problems universities face. And a lot of it comes from these 'elites', so this won't fix that. But even more importantly, people don't study for PhDs because they want to teach. Who are these teaching-only universities going to hire?
Today: 182 Total: 182 [Direct link] [Share]
