tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125857314165645951.post1664774202729624461..comments2024-02-10T00:21:20.822-08:00Comments on The Gigamole Diaries: Universities, Medical Schools and disgruntled professorsgigamolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18328852130774608540noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125857314165645951.post-65463608348465430402009-02-22T14:50:00.000-08:002009-02-22T14:50:00.000-08:00Perhaps they won't blameless. But The university's...Perhaps they won't blameless. But The university's KPIs of of teaching, admin and research does suggest that all three need to considered equally in performance evaluations. The reality apparently was that only one, research, was overwhelmingly considered. A but played out, lah. If they were bad performers in all three, fair enough...but many were good committed teachers and admin people just not world class researchers on par with Standford Harvard.<BR/>Can argue about fairness till cows come home, but unis need to address this perception and morale problem within their midst, or education will continue to degrade despite rankings etc.<BR/><BR/>Exsativa is a bit of quackery there...:). Don't need to comment much on that!gigamolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18328852130774608540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125857314165645951.post-56095101627580527052009-02-21T18:54:00.000-08:002009-02-21T18:54:00.000-08:00Not being an academic or even having any intellect...Not being an academic or even having any intellectual pretensions, I don't think I'm in any position to comment on the angst felt by the NTU dons. Still, if u look at it in a totally practical way, the dons might not be entirely blameless. Had they been too comfortable? What sort of intellectual capacity do they have to be so trusting? Unquestioning faith shld be placed in the almighty, not another human being. Anyway, at 50 and 60 (given a life expectancy of 85), it shldn't be too late for them to start all over again, other than whinge. Think of Oshin..<BR/>Lastly, how in tune are the profs with what's happening 2day and going to happen tmr, in their own and wider fields? This reminds me of a GP I know who tho a very nice man is completely clueless abt alternative medicine. He has never heard of exsativa when even young children of my acquaintance can tell u what it does!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com