“Calling an organisation with no meaningful scholarship a university is a bit like calling a muddy path through a forest a motorway.” …Howard Hotson, professor of early modern intellectual history at the University of Oxford, agreed with Dr Hanley that “essentially research-inactive institutions” should not be called universities. He argued that the “dismal” research performance of for-profits was directly linked to their business model, which relies on driving down teaching costs. “Low teaching costs mean low levels of remuneration and poor working conditions. Few research-active staff are attracted by such poor conditions, and even fewer can remain research-active without the necessary time and facilities.”

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by Paul Jump, Times Higher Education.

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