Change of direction for the University of Sydney?
Saw this article in today's Herald - where the Vice Chancellor of the Uni of Sydney, has suggested reducing the student intake and refocussing resources to help make USYD a leading research institute.
I think this is a fantastic, and long overdue revue - USYD has seemed to lose it way over the last few years, becoming more of a degree factory (and in my opinion, with far too many international students).
The other universities seem to have long lost their role of places of new thought, and rather - turned to churning out 1000's of grads with no real passion for their area of study and no real commitment to their work. And its mightily frustrating doing coursework/groupwork with people who are just going through the motions.
Great news that the Vice Chancellor wants to define USYD's purpose in Australia's education sphere:
''Australia needs an institution which has a critical thinker as a cultural hero,'' Dr Spence said. ''For a long time we [the university] have tried to do all things for all people by providing all manner of courses. We have grown without a particularly coherent mission. There needs to be a return to our traditional mission. We now need to take control.''
I think this is a fantastic, and long overdue revue - USYD has seemed to lose it way over the last few years, becoming more of a degree factory (and in my opinion, with far too many international students).
The other universities seem to have long lost their role of places of new thought, and rather - turned to churning out 1000's of grads with no real passion for their area of study and no real commitment to their work. And its mightily frustrating doing coursework/groupwork with people who are just going through the motions.
Great news that the Vice Chancellor wants to define USYD's purpose in Australia's education sphere:
''Australia needs an institution which has a critical thinker as a cultural hero,'' Dr Spence said. ''For a long time we [the university] have tried to do all things for all people by providing all manner of courses. We have grown without a particularly coherent mission. There needs to be a return to our traditional mission. We now need to take control.''
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