>> From: Martin Counihan
>>
>> I have not been following this discussion properly, and so I may be
>> responding out of context, but I am struck by Peter Green's unequivocal
>> remarks (below) about university lecture theatres and education.
>>
>> I have spent the greater part of my career persuading members of the adult
>> public to learn about science by attending courses which have often taken
>> the form of lectures presented in university lecture theatres. It was
>> certainly not unrealistic, because lots of people came. However, over the
>> last five years or so large cracks have started to appear in the old
>> university "adult education" paradigm (not just in science but in other
>> disciplines too) and I would now be inclined to agree with the spirit of
>> what Peter Green is saying.
>>
>> Unfortunately the real problem, as always, is a financial one. HEFCE will
>> support formal university education but it will not (as far as I am aware)
>> support wheezes such as pub quizzes. The problem for PUS people in
>> universities, therefore, is to identify new funding streams to replace the
>> money that we won't get if we stop "educating" people in "university lecture
>>
>> theatres".
>>
>> Martin Counihan
>>
>> Peter Green wrote:
>>
>> > People go to the cinema because they want to. They expect it will make
>> > them happy in some way.
>> >
>> > Expecting them to go to a university lecture theatre to be educated or
>> > converted is unrealistic. Neither objective offers them anything and the
>> > location only reinforces that.
>>
>> > ....
>
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