With attention
centred on the Russian business and the great powers apparently still playing
at Cold War Games, what is striking is how old fashioned it all it in our
bright new digitised world. It is not surprising given that governments set up
big departments and let them loose to do their best. Which also means worst.
It has pushed
back attention on a whole range of other issues where a rapidly changing world
is leaving our politics and power systems behind in the chase. One referred to
before is what is going on in the UK university segment of the (lack of)
information economy.
This
article on the wages dispute is short and readable and tells us what a mess
it is. For those with long memories it seems to bear strong similarities to the
state of the British motor industry and allied engineering trades in the late
sixties and into the seventies.
We know what
happened next with that sector of the economy. There must be many youngsters
coming through whose skills are already well ahead of much that can be taught
at the universities.
How long will
it be before they no longer want to waste three years in bad accommodation, stacking
up long term debt and listening to people from the past giving out second hand
information and third rate analysis?
Especially for
the kind of work and job markets that are around now and will be the case in
the future?
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