I think it’s a crying shame … But you can’t make a career for yourself in a modern university doing good stuff. Almost all over the world you have to focus on a very narrow area; you have to prove your credentials by being cited in scholarly journals, which is not a proper marker of anything other than the respect of your peers from a narrow circle. It’s a massive wasted opportunity and it does get me annoyed.
Alain de Botton in Scherer, K. (2012, March 3). University challenge: what is the real purpose of getting a higher education? New Zealand Listener, 232(3747), 24.
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- “Decoupling the scholarly journal” by Priem and Hemminger (mbanks.typepad.com)
