If you have watched our videos about Loughborough and Glasgow Caledonian, you may not wish to view another in the same vein (even if it has one or two new angles). But just as we chose Glasgow Caledonian because the Principal and Vice-Chancellor is a British Council trustee, and therefore really needs to do something about the mess, this time we have chosen a university whose VC is the Universities UK representative on the Education UK Partnership board, and it would seem she has a duty to sort this out for the other two universities (and the 300 or whatever it is other HE institutions) as well as her own. There are plenty more examples if you scroll down through this blog.
It is something of a disgrace that an official, government-funded organisation should put forward this third rate service in our names, with our money, to the exclusion of professional services, and be allowed to pretend that it is actually helping international student recruitment, when plainly it is just getting in the way. British educational institutions would do well to cut off the inflated payments demanded by the British Council for its services, which are in any case purely a function of its taxpayer funded network, and it really should not be allowed to ask for any more money anyway.
This is really unsatisfactory -
Napier is The Scottish Screen School! They have HND tie-ups
with Stevenson College (which
is a local feeder FE college
in Edinburgh's Wester Hailes
and which has a good record
in photography amongst other
things) but it really seems
quite incredible that Napier
as the academic centre of the
arts and creative industries
and film and television in particular is so poorly served it seems by this third-rate publicly funded British Council 'service'.
Posted by: Neil Robertson | December 15, 2009 at 12:58 PM