Blank cheques for largess of administration or frivolous social enquiry pandered as science? Private donors can do as they like but gvt funds need to be accountable to the public. The admins & boards are failing in their fiduciary duties by allowing this free for all.
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These courses become more and more bloated and waste more and more money and don't contribute anything to society and just put students in debt. You can't expect people to give you money and have no say in how it's allocated that's just selfishness.
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Obviously it isn’t the ideal, but given the proliferation of non scientific grievance studies and their pernicious effect on society, do you have a better alternative?
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I absolutely agree, Helen But how can we trust universities to make such decisions when they allowed the grievance studies charlatans through the gate in the first place?
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Agreed. If the universities fail to heed the call for self correction , this is unfortunately what we will get from exasperated red state legislatures.
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Who will do it poorly and with a hatchet rather than a scalpel.
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And what happens when the faculty becomes so infected that they will not see the problem in front of their face?
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Government money will corrupt generation and transmission of knowledge and entangle it in politics. Government should get out of higher education, ideally out of all education.
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I don’t know how it works in the UK but a lot of students here in Australia get into a lot of debt to study garbage. Not sure what I think about govt intervention but the system is broken.
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I disagree, we do not have the luxury and an abundance of resources, to be frank that is a ridicilous assertion under the circumstances. Nice to have, do it yourself, own choice. Essential skills required by co SA, different story. Simple, see!
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And since Universities haven't been willing to do that, I think there is room for the government to force the issue. We shouldn't be paying millions in tax dollars to make our society more unhealthy.
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No, universities reps were not voted in by public, let those who voted them in pay.
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Universities are, should be, and must be very free to study whatever they want, if & when they are using their own funds to do so. American universities, in particular, have plenty of their own funds for such things.
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Hmm... can’t agree with this. Universities are/must be accountable for what they teach, indeed. But governments are equally accountable for what they find. A government can never provide no strings attached funding - recipient must prove it is being responsibly used.
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Ooh, torn on that one tbh. I reckon I'd draw the line at something like 'Business Management of Emotional Support Squirrels' tbh.
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