Failures in/on Higher Education Economics; the solutions are a start in policy reversal, against commodification.
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From: Neville Buch <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 at 10:35
Subject: Re: No legitimisation
To: Lisa Featherstone <[email protected]>
Cc: UQ VC OFFICE <[email protected]>
From: Neville Buch <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 at 10:35
Subject: Re: No legitimisation
To: Lisa Featherstone <[email protected]>
Cc: UQ VC OFFICE <[email protected]>
Dear Lisa,
Thank you, but…
What you are communicating in, saying, “generally driven by student demand in a certain area” is no legitimisation. It is a gibe or quip or quibble since we have and know of Strong criticism in the practice of demand economics (“Strong” as in the way scholars tear apart theses of “strong or hard materialism”; we are not stupid).
Of course, there are issues with supply economics, but this does not defeat the evidence nor the fact that the Australian universities have eroded the curriculum, and thereby slipped behind in global standards, in the research and educational practice.
Working in a support role, in the environment of the University of Melbourne, I found that the councillors had little idea of higher education economics, and were captured by the marketing cliché of the day.
I imagine the same poor thinking is happening at the University of Queensland.
Remember my teaching document essay. No legitimisation.
Kind regards,
Neville.
On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 at 09:53, Lisa Featherstone <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Neville,
Thank you for getting in touch.Unfortunately, we are not currently hiring in History.
When we do have the opportunity to hire, it is generally driven by student demand in a certain area. Our last two hires were in Medieval History and Gender History, where we had significant student demand, and no one to teach the specific courses with high numbers and strong projected growth.
I do not anticipate future hires in History, in the short term at least. This is no reflection on you or your work.Wishing you the very best in your future endeavours.
Kind regards,
Lisa
Professor Lisa FeatherstoneHead of SchoolSchool of Historical and Philosophical InquiryUniversity of Queensland
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Neville Buch
Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.
Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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