> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/7332452/The-university-pr
> ofessor-who-stood-up-against-dumbing-down-of-degrees.html
An interesting article. It would be even more interesting to know enough about the specifics to get to deeper questions about "standards" and "quality."
Though it’s easy to dismiss university administrators as "bean counters," it looks like 30% of sophomore-level majors didn’t have a clue about the most basic class material after the professor’s presentation of the information. The administrators' response was probably a bad one. It is, however, a bit disturbing that someone believes that flunking a large number of students and moving on without trying to find out what went wrong is a good response.
What should universities do to maintain standards and make sure that students are not being left behind, whether the fault is assigned to bad teaching in the university, bad teaching pre-university, or some other reasons? Merely setting required pass rates is obviously a flawed plan but leaving it to those responsible at the classroom level is equally obviously not working in this or in many other cases.
Is there a "design thinking" way to address the problem? (I’m only a few pages into reading Stanley McChrystal’s 'Team of Teams' so I don’t know if he has any answers.)
Gunnar
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