COMMERCIAL RESEARCH-TEACHING NEXUS IS NOT PERFECT – BUT IN ENCOURAGES SCIENTIFIC GROWTH
June 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WOULDN'T it be lovely if there were perfect research universities delivering perfect high quality courses, and that the more world beating research undertaken by academics, the better their teaching became.
Yes, it would, but of course such a rosy scenario does not exist, and the recent Research Report of the UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge has even thrown doubt on whether it is possible.
Because, the simple fact is, when cream-of-the-crop professors are researching some groundbreaking discovery, they are not teaching. ...
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