Technology, like the free market, needs direction and some kind of philosophical framework. Look at China, Great tech, terrible philosophy
Not really universities so.
Because philosophy is so important. Only useful if you want to lecture on philosophy.
These are technical universities and focus on the real world. Even their languages are taught in an applied manner rather than one where you learn to write essays.
Great news. Far more emphasis on technology and practical applications needed. Less oul waffle.
> Boland says it is crucial that TUs don’t try to replicate traditional universities, while Cusack says that TUs should be very different.
>“We won’t be teaching philosophy – not that there is anything wrong with it – but we are about work-based learning and ensuring our graduates are ready for work,” says Cusack.
Seems reasonable to me, weird thing for the IT to make the headline of this piece.
I’m a big fan of philosophy, and this idea still sounds good.
I hate the idea of being a society that only values subjects that are obviously marketable under capitalism.
If they’re afraid of being compared to humanities then maybe they’d be better calling their courses learning apprentices.
Yes, a philosophical basis and framework is well known to be useless. Sure how many patents has Plato?
My fella got a first class honours degree in Philosophy, he jokes that the only use he ever got out of it was telling jokes about how Plato would flip this McBurger and what Aristotle would make of the Smokey Bacon
Seems to be quite a few ticked off BA graduates in the comments here…
to be fair this isn’t a bad idea to have tus teach people more for the workforce, and traditional univerisities offering the education they teach now. there is a value that philosophy has and other arts degrees, I would have considered history as an option, but some people just want a job and thats perfectly fine.
This has to be fake news… no mention of “synergies”, “going forward”, “challenges”, “lessons learned”, “reached out”, etc, etc.
Seriously though, despite saying there’s nothing wrong with teaching philosophy, that notion was was implicit. It’s called throwing the stone, and then hiding the hand that threw it. The technocrats now think they’re *special.* I’d be termed a technocrat, but this smells of exceptionalism of a bad kind.
RTCs.
The word University is demeaned if they can have it.
> The new “technological universities” (TUs) have seen seven existing institutes of technology (IoTs) merge into larger organisations
I have never seen Institute of Technology (IT) abbreviated as “IoT”, it looks so weird.
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Technology, like the free market, needs direction and some kind of philosophical framework. Look at China, Great tech, terrible philosophy
Not really universities so.
Because philosophy is so important. Only useful if you want to lecture on philosophy.
These are technical universities and focus on the real world. Even their languages are taught in an applied manner rather than one where you learn to write essays.
Great news. Far more emphasis on technology and practical applications needed. Less oul waffle.
> Boland says it is crucial that TUs don’t try to replicate traditional universities, while Cusack says that TUs should be very different.
>“We won’t be teaching philosophy – not that there is anything wrong with it – but we are about work-based learning and ensuring our graduates are ready for work,” says Cusack.
Seems reasonable to me, weird thing for the IT to make the headline of this piece.
I’m a big fan of philosophy, and this idea still sounds good.
I hate the idea of being a society that only values subjects that are obviously marketable under capitalism.
If they’re afraid of being compared to humanities then maybe they’d be better calling their courses learning apprentices.
Yes, a philosophical basis and framework is well known to be useless. Sure how many patents has Plato?
My fella got a first class honours degree in Philosophy, he jokes that the only use he ever got out of it was telling jokes about how Plato would flip this McBurger and what Aristotle would make of the Smokey Bacon
Seems to be quite a few ticked off BA graduates in the comments here…
to be fair this isn’t a bad idea to have tus teach people more for the workforce, and traditional univerisities offering the education they teach now. there is a value that philosophy has and other arts degrees, I would have considered history as an option, but some people just want a job and thats perfectly fine.
I have a philosophy degree. Everything is explained in this classic Simpson clip. https://youtu.be/Aou3par0ZUk
This has to be fake news… no mention of “synergies”, “going forward”, “challenges”, “lessons learned”, “reached out”, etc, etc.
Seriously though, despite saying there’s nothing wrong with teaching philosophy, that notion was was implicit. It’s called throwing the stone, and then hiding the hand that threw it. The technocrats now think they’re *special.* I’d be termed a technocrat, but this smells of exceptionalism of a bad kind.
RTCs.
The word University is demeaned if they can have it.
> The new “technological universities” (TUs) have seen seven existing institutes of technology (IoTs) merge into larger organisations
I have never seen Institute of Technology (IT) abbreviated as “IoT”, it looks so weird.