Kent and Greenwich Universities to merge

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TizerorFizz · 10/09/2025 08:47

It’s come to pass! Cutting costs by merging. Seemed an obvious solution to me. Others to follow?

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titchy · 16/09/2025 15:27

TizerorFizz · 16/09/2025 15:03

@Wherehasthecatgone I’m really sorry but that isn’t true. The A levels required were lower. They just were and often 2 was sufficient. The polys were not the same as the new universities in the 60s. They just were not. They did employ people with a track record in work and made very good links with business but you could not compare them with the better universities.

I said what good is research if no one learns from it? Universities have been centres of learning for centuries. They are therefore places whose staff teach. The more research some can improve learning but not necessarily.

Research isn’t disseminated primarily though teaching though Is that what you are inferring?

In my experience most academics relish the research not the teaching (particularly not at UG level)!

Wherehasthecatgone · 16/09/2025 16:31

titchy · 16/09/2025 15:27

Research isn’t disseminated primarily though teaching though Is that what you are inferring?

In my experience most academics relish the research not the teaching (particularly not at UG level)!

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Indeed. I worked in a large university department that didn’t do any teaching (other than PhD mentorship). We were far from the only such department at the university too. We were commissioned to carry out research that we wrote up for our commissioners and presented to them, that was published in academic journals, presented at conferences as talks, key note speeches and posters. Sometimes work would be spun off into commercial ventures - then the research wouldn’t be disseminated at all, other than via the patent office.

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