Universities should be regarded as a "seat of learning, or as a business?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/808 … Mandelson is not wasting time in his new position. He left the department of higher education and is now merged in a "business sector, innovation and sharing skills. Since the introduction of loans, tuition fees and abolition grants, the universities run like a business – the making of student unions – institutions completely robot away from the darkness chalk dust ridden halls of education that we like to imagine they are. 1) Is attending university as a "business" of production, or detrimental? 2) Is it still too much focus on getting young people to university, as opposed to encouraging people to enter trades and apprenticeship?
I always felt they were destined to education, which moved the goal posts. ?
