Wow!! you certainly sound really fired up Gerald. I salute your passion and completely agree with you on Academia (and it seems to apply to so many other areas of life too). Whatever can't be audited simply doesn't exist. It's much more important to have some sort of piece of paper evidence than to have intangible qualities like commitment, caring or integrity.
Yes, I know these places have to account to mammon but in doing so they're losing sight of what really counts in the courses they are providing and eventually students will realise it and stop applying for them.
These are of course my own views and not those of the institution for whom I work!
Mary
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Dear Paul
It sound like they waited until you could be pensioned off and let this
coincide with trashing the course you head. The gits have done you and your
students up like a kipper. Do you know Paul, I am on the point of getting
the hell out of anything to do with academia and therapy. The bureaucrats
have ripped the heart from caring and freedom of thought. When someone
asked me who I should like to win the General Election I replied that I
couldn't give a toss as no Government would support anything that I once
felt passionately about. Indeed anyone who shows passion instead of moronic
obedience quickly has the spark of life extinguished from them.
Kindest
Gerald
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Carney <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 11 June 2001 09:18
Subject: Discontinuation of course
>Dear list
>
>On a personal note, I have been informed that the BSc (Hons)
>Counselling 'top-up' course, for which I am the admissions and course
>tutor, is to be discontinued after the September intake of this year.
>
>It seems that the university considers the size of groups on this sort of
>course to be not economical enough to continue supporting them and
>that, as I can retire in two years time, they can save money by not re-
>appointing.
>
>Mammon rules!
>
>
>Best wishes
>
>Paul Carney
>
>
>Paul Carney
>Senior Lecturer
>School of Health & Social Science
>Coventry University
>Priory St
>Coventry England CV1 5FB
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