Iniquities of HE

[miss_annersley]

Considering starting a higher education blog - I spend so much time thinking about it and reading about it that it might be useful to formulate some stuff more fully. Especially since the standard of HE reporting in UK newspapers is universally poor (basically, churnalism spewed out at a high rate to feed the hungry commenters on the Guardian, and

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[miss_annersley]

A massively expanded brane sounds to me like a good outcome, but it depends whether it is outweighed by bad outcomes... I spose those things have been around for a while, but there just seem to be an awful lot of them on jobs.ac.uk at the mo

When i was discussing whether to try for the journal job with my supervisors, they made the point that increasingly it is going to be v rare for people to have a linear career that goes doctorate-postdoc/teaching fellowships-permanent post, and that people will probably drop in and out of various types of work as they go through (so e.g. I work on the journal and have a few p/t research commitments, but in a few years might be able to be a principal investigator or something - a ha ha ha erk - & then maybe do some editorial work, indexing etc. blah blah). But that rather sunny view does depend on there being other work to move to, and that is so much a matter of happenstance... do the possibilities outweigh the risk of data entry temping?

Don't know whether I will keep thorts up - usually my pattern is to do things with wild enthusiasm and then peter out dismally.