{"id":623,"date":"2011-08-20T17:02:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T17:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/?p=623"},"modified":"2025-01-30T07:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T07:42:20","slug":"bafflement-and-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/2011\/08\/20\/bafflement-and-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Bafflement and effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v33\/n16\/stefan-collini\/from-robbins-to-mckinsey\">From Robbins to McKinsey &#8211; The Dismantling of the Universities<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/faculty\/Collini\/Stefan\/\">Professor Stefan Collini<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/index.htm\">Faculty of English<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cam.ac.uk\/\">University of Cambridge<\/a>) is a thoughtful, articulate and damming critique of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bis.gov.uk\/assets\/biscore\/corporate\/docs\/s\/10-1208-securing-sustainable-higher-education-browne-report.pdf\">Browne report<\/a> (pdf) and subsequent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bis.gov.uk\/assets\/biscore\/higher-education\/docs\/h\/11-944-higher-education-students-at-heart-of-system.pdf\">Higher Education White Paper<\/a> (pdf).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-waod8ECQgf8\/Tk_iwwjvSrI\/AAAAAAAAAXs\/XU9I3GYv97s\/s288\/cov3316.jpg\" alt=\"Cover image of the London Review of Books Volume 33 Issue 16\" width=\"120\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 LRB Ltd<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is published online and in print in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/\">London Review of Books <\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrbshop.co.uk\/product.php?productid=52031&amp;utm_source=LRB&amp;utm_medium=BackIssue_Link&amp;utm_campaign=BackIssue\">volume 33, number 16<\/a>). There is (sadly) no space to comment on the article on the LBC&#8217;s website. The piece is long (&gt;8,000 words), and perhaps itself effortful, especially compared to many online articles, so make yourself a cup of tea first! Whilst you, like me, may not agree with every point Collini makes, this article is worth reading and discussing.<\/p>\n<p>HT WJ who brought this article to my attention via the following quotation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The really vital aspects of the experience of studying something &#8230;are bafflement and effort.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Robbins to McKinsey &#8211; The Dismantling of the Universities by Professor Stefan Collini (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge) is a thoughtful, articulate and damming critique of the Browne report (pdf) and subsequent Higher Education White Paper (pdf). It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/2011\/08\/20\/bafflement-and-effort\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[44,48,46,49,43,45,47,42],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-the-phd","tag-44","tag-bafflement","tag-browne-report","tag-effort","tag-george-orwell","tag-higher-education-white-paper","tag-longreads","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}