RaymondPierreL3<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://todon.eu/@linuxgnome" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>linuxgnome</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ChrisMayLA6</span></a></span> <br>It’s all wrapped up in ‘managerialism’ currently seen as the way to run universities (borrowing from Prof <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Quiggin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quiggin</span></a>) which in my mind is just extending the debunked <a href="https://aus.social/tags/neoliberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberal</span></a> economic theory to a sector in which it ‘cannot’ logically apply. </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/TertiaryEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TertiaryEducation</span></a> is Not a Business, it is a public responsibility, a govt duty to the society they purportedly represent. Politicians of all stripes have the hardest time to imagine any system which is not in some way directed by neoliberalism’s false dogma. They seem blind to other possibilities, struck dumb when offered alternative systems, and nailed in place by their economic biases. </p><p>What can I say, electorates the world over have been hoodwinked for so long they can no longer apply objective judgement at the polling booths. </p><p>I despair…</p>