future thoughts: How the Humanities -- a talk given a Birkbeck, November 2011

The general incoherence is, this time, on an epic scale. For the last few years, we have been told that our great problem is that we have individually taken on too much debt, so the government is adopting a policy which will make a larger proportion of the population take on higher debts than ever before; this is known as choice. We are told the country’s future depends on a well-educated workforce, and then the government takes measures to reduce the appeal of that education by tripling its cost.

And above all, we are told that market disciplines will be introduced, but the result is to be a system of such tangled complexity that market forces are the very last thing which will apply.

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[C. DiDiodato]

Ted Striphas has recently posted some interesting discussion, links in regards to the topic of the Humanities

http://www.diffandrep.org/2010/11/24/debate-on-the-future-of-higher-ed/