Thursday, 9 January 2014

As the newly - appointed Vice Chancellor of the University Of Sark...

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  1. Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 10:24 AM
    Subject: As the newly - appointed Vice Chancellor of the University Of Sark,

    As the newly - appointed Vice Chancellor of the University Of Sark....
    As the newly - appointed Vice Chancellor of the University Of Sark, I vigorously object to Merv Bendle's The Australian  letters 9/1 about our ''market boutique courses'' and ''diploma mills.'' Universities down-grading knowledge


    If Bendle had contacted me he would have been told about our heroic support for the printing industry.
    Sadly people do not know much about our Our Climate Change Diploma Of Excellence.
    Or the lovely green hue of The Diploma of Greenhouse Effect.
    The Extreme Weather Thingy has an appropriate stormy look about it - thanks to help from Al Gore's theme film  Has Al Gore Gone Over the Edge or Can't He Handle the Truth?

    We have valued associates at other houses of true – learning:  at The University Of Melbourne - promoting tourism to Onan. Cruelly misspelled deliberately by some people.

    Monash Uni has published many articles of salience: they plainly support our new motto - Why should Nigerians have all the fun?

    We have moved from the over - hyped Bank Of Sark days.

    Geoff Seidner
    VC Uni Of Sark

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    EAST ST KILDA 3183
    03 9 525 9299
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    1. You've Never Heard of the “Bank of Sark?” – Read On.

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      Dec 1, 2004 - I like to talk about the “Bank of Sark” because it sounds so silly. Silly sounding things are easy to remember and if you remember the lesson of ...
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Universities down-grading knowledge

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THE rise of "boutique" programs in communications and other areas at universities ("Unis dismantle broad arts degrees to market boutique courses", 8/1) illustrates the problems identified by Nick Cater with the transformation of our universities into diploma mills offering increasingly worthless qualifications to gullible students ("Demand-driven model devalues degrees", 7/1).
Over the 20 years I taught in a university I watched as the traditional arts degree was devalued and marginalized by administrators desperate to chase government funding, while young people were enticed into a three or four-year commitment at the prime of their lives that would leave them with a huge HECS debt and little, or no, marketable qualifications.
Government policy, especially under Labor, appears designed only to safeguard the jobs of academics, many of whom are past their use-by date. At this rate our universities will have soon so debauched themselves that they will be an international embarrassment.
Merv Bendle, Inverloch, Vic
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