Claiming HE only has one humanistic mission won’t reclaim public trust

Populism in academia is just as dangerous as any other monoculture, which currently seems to be the result of universities' market orientation more than ideology.

In our Oxford University Press (2017) ‘A Very Short Introduction to Universities & Colleges’ Paul Temple and I quote from THE academic expert on the medieval university - back then, as now according to Abrams interesting article, the student attended university to enhance his career prospects.It was and is ever thus - and especially when modern mass HE is in student number terms significantly management/business studies + health-care related courses. Yes, a tiny minority might go on to join the academic clerisy via a protracted PhD route followed by a period of precarious employment in academe, but as we title a chapter in the VSI for almost all students it is a matter of ‘Getting On and Getting Out’.

In our Oxford University Press (2017) ‘A Very Short Introduction to Universities & Colleges’ Paul Temple and I quote from THE academic expert on the medieval university - back then, as now according to Abrams interesting article, the student attended university to enhance his career prospects.It was and is ever thus - and especially when modern mass HE is in student number terms significantly management/business studies + health-care related courses. Yes, a tiny minority might go on to join the academic clerisy via a protracted PhD route followed by a period of precarious employment in academe, but as we title a chapter in the VSI for almost all students it is a matter of ‘Getting On and Getting Out’.