tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post3706249273683647323..comments2024-03-27T06:56:10.255+00:00Comments on Broad Oak Magazine: A lot of what is published is incorrectUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-36719320727260466172015-05-03T11:07:56.813+01:002015-05-03T11:07:56.813+01:00Paddington - thanks, I've bookmarked the link....Paddington - thanks, I've bookmarked the link. <br /><br />A related problem which appeared in my field shortly before I retired was the professional manager. <br /><br />An MBA was deemed necessary and sufficient for a person, often a comparatively young person, to manage engineers and scientists without having the faintest idea what those engineers and scientists actually did.<br /><br />So their management imperatives were not derived from engineering or scientific excellence. How could they be?<br /><br />Sackers - some critics refer to it as an effect of managerialism, which may be so but do we need yet more isms?A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-49935330703606756852015-05-03T07:51:33.407+01:002015-05-03T07:51:33.407+01:00Sounds like the world of compulsory education, too...Sounds like the world of compulsory education, too.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-65243668918783449082015-05-03T06:09:35.973+01:002015-05-03T06:09:35.973+01:00Read David Colquhoun's column at http://www.dc...Read David Colquhoun's column at http://www.dcscience.net/ for more details. His claim is that the junior researchers are being pushed into dubious behaviour by the senior ones, thanks to the stupid rules at some universities on 'required' levels of funding. Strangely, the people who create and enforce those rules have often never produced anything at all.Paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07952088638231881617noreply@blogger.com