We inhabit a university system in which Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) policies proliferate. Each university must have one and, apparently, to ensure these policies are followed, there is also a requirement for Universal Design (UD). Together, these ensure that lecturers do not populate their lecture series’ according to their own prejudices and biases which, …
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A Digression: Universal Design
This is connected with my first blog on the Technical University and the businessification (pronounced business-ify-cation…couldn’t resist it) of education. I read three ‘corporate’ documents yesterday, all glossy pages, colourful graphs and photographs of happy smiley students, or ‘learners’ as the businesspeak that permeates the things insists on calling them. Strange that, our children’s primary …
Murmurs from the Forest 