--On 29 November 2001 16:31 +0000 "Cox, Will" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> i think we're getting all worked up about nothing here.
> Yes that's right, let students and staff run their own businesses on
> university machines, provide MP3 and porn downloads, get your entire site
> blocked by filtering software because of content on a personal webpage -
> there are well documented examples of all of these, nothing to get worked
> up about!
But then people who use filtering software are going to be too close-minded
to benefit from higher education (even though they're most in need of it)
so it doesn't really matter.
> I use a sign in presentations, it says "You are now entering a higher
> education website - please lower your expectations" - people laugh, but
> our customers don't find it funny.
Probably because they don't see themselves as students, but customers.
Sound management of universities doesn't mean managerialism and treating
students professionally doesn't necessarily entail a descent into the most
barbarous form of commodification and adapting to a Blairite filtering of
Thatcherite polity.
Duncan
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