Tag: Modern universities
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Restructuring Irish Higher Education
Change is in the air for the school leaving examination with a proposal to amend the number of bands in which marks are to be awarded. These will reduce from 15 to 8. A large part of the reasoning appears to be the belief that in doing so, and in encouraging universities to offer more…
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A simple test for university bureaucracy
Universities are actually fairly simple things. They are organizations where knowledge is uncovered and transmitted. Theres a certification element to show that yep, the certificate holder has uncovered or received and understood the transmission, but thats a byproduct. One of the bedevilling things about universities is they breed bureaucratic folderol like a rotten apple in…