Walling off teaching from research will block the road to eminence / THE

By Brian Schmidt / Of the many things I worry about as a university leader, the threat to the hallowed Humboldtian university model, where teaching and research are inexorably mixed, is high on the list. Students and their experiences are increasingly overlooked as a hallmark of a strong university, while great research takes centre stage. My concern is that, in order to boost research rankings, some universities are overtly manipulating their reportable workforce, converting, en masse, academics into teaching-only roles that break the link between higher education and research. This is shortsighted in the extreme. Read the full article on […]