since manifestos are so hip and NOW right now. heres part of mine. (5 of 28) [yay dmt] 1: The modulating university fabricates a system for measuring and striating all aspects of know-ledge production, ranging from the credit points awarded to students to the “impact factors” and other economic evaluations of faculty, from time-tracing in the centers of administration to that of subcontracted services and security, from the international ranking of the universities themselves to that of the journals relevant to each academic discipline. This system of measure not only promotes rigid measuring, it also reduces, standardizes and hierarchizes what is to be measured. 2: The quantitative evaluation of services is closely related to payment for these services, which is increasingly being shifted to individual students. The introduction of tuition fees and their successive increase had led to a new exclusion according to economic criteria. 3: Forcing students to incur debt is a proven method of combating students’ resistance and inserting them into the system of “life-long learning.” Once tuition fees exceed a certain level, the pressure associated with incurring debt not only affects students’ choice of program, but also forces them into a system of quasi-enslavement. They are aware right from the start that by the time they finish studying they will face a mountain of debt, and that only by landing a well-paid job will they have prospect of paying it off. 4: Students become not only debtors of states and banks, but also stakeholders in the university. They take on the risks of the university as an economic enterprise and are forced to invest in it as well---not only in the general sense, but also in specific areas such was exam fees. 5: The modularization of higher education transforms university into an extension of school, in which students continue to be regimented and disciplined. The fragmenting of the period of study, from the division of studies into multiple autonomous segments, through the compounded admission and knock-out exams, all the way to the striating of individual seminars make students permanently start over from the beginning and repeatedly call previously acquired certificates into question. The segmented ordering and linerization of study programs are further exacerbated by a low of intensity, quality and atmosphere of academic supervision.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 23:22:54 +0000
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