How my generation let down our students
Summary; The Essay.
Summary
British academics began to be demoted as a class in the 1970s in a war launched by politicians and administrators. The boomer generation of upwardly mobile academics, who felt like orphans, never mastered the art of self-reproduction. We trusted the state and lacked popular support. Mrs Thatcher completed our demise as part of her attack on the i…
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