I don’t think there’s a nail you didn’t hit right square on the head in this piece regarding what’s happened to the academic environment and the bastardisation of the teaching/learning experience. I wonder if this is the reason behind what seems like an unimaginably large waste of research funding supporting completely uninformative studies, that end up being published as positive papers, finally completely polluting the practice of two fields I’m familiar with: psychology and physiotherapy. The gurus who arise from this stench are treated like emperors and of course pointing out that they’re naked results only in mass attack from rampant followers.
I don’t think there’s a nail you didn’t hit right square on the head in this piece regarding what’s happened to the academic environment and the bastardisation of the teaching/learning experience. I wonder if this is the reason behind what seems like an unimaginably large waste of research funding supporting completely uninformative studies, that end up being published as positive papers, finally completely polluting the practice of two fields I’m familiar with: psychology and physiotherapy. The gurus who arise from this stench are treated like emperors and of course pointing out that they’re naked results only in mass attack from rampant followers.