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Why educational institutions must change
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Perhaps he's scared that if universities change then research will decline and knowledge will be lost. University employees will lose their jobs and they will lose the investment they have made over the years. Obviously Loudmouth has spent some years in the university system- perhaps worked in the system- and probably has many friends still in the system- for him perhaps a change in the system is like death. Perhaps he believes that his community couldn't survive outside of the university system.
I am confident that his community can survive "outside" in a future university system- and can exist as a type of "friendly society" where the full range of people from the young to the old can exist. Perhaps using a model similar to the British university system.
He quotes Bordeau (who seemingly argued against globalisation and neoliberalism) yet in the next breath he supports it- through multicultural immigration policy- and destruction of British Australia. (Maybe it's my fault in not reading enough Bordeau- Social Capital)
Perhaps for him it's more important to support the university institution itself than the nation for which it's supposed to support- putting form before function.
http://sociology.iresearchnet.com/sociology-of-education/social-capital-and-education/
I've long suspected that university actions since the 90's have been viciously self serving and this is more "grist for the mill". The universities were rightly scared stiff of Howard's policies and seem to have turned against the Australian people as a result. Or maybe I'm just seeing it without the world's context and the ideological changes in university culture across the world.
Maybe Howard could have given them more of a soft landing... though as Turnbull has mentioned- they are constrained by the constitution- sometimes you can only do what you can.
The university is a member of the Australian family of institutions- if Australia dies so does the university- the same with all families.