2007-12-08 14:16
by Vasil KolevTo begin with, happy holiday to all students. Drink with joy, the hospital is waiting for you :)
(I’ll try not to drink today, I managed not to drink for 2-3 days in the last two weeks)
There’s a case with a teacher in the journalistic faculty of SU, who tried to sleep with a student, etc.. There was a lot of noise around it, for and against, and a lot of people refuse to acknowledge the main fact – he as a teacher has one main responsibility to the students and the educational idea. At least for me it’s a bit too easy on him to just kick him out.
Of course, afterwards he had explained how “it’s worse in the other faculties” (“we complain that our air is polluted – but on Mars there’s no air at all, it’s worse there”). It’s too bad that there’s nobody to make one good enough TV show on the topic of all the corruption in the universities – the only good thing on the topic that I’ve seen is the book “ANTIcorruption/antiEDUCATION”, which has the full list of corruptional practices and a good study on their pervasion (the sexual favors were the least pervasive). It would be nice for someone to do an analysis on how much money are taken from the students around such practices (from the simplest one – to be required to buy a specific textbook to pass the exam, to the buying of exams, etc.), to show how much the corruption is in the university education and to make it clear that it’s not workable any more. Maybe BBC need to make something like that.
And how deep the corruption is in the system is shown by the fact that the complaint is about 6-7 months old, and just now something was done, when it got to the media – I wonder how many complaints were lost in this way.
Simion has a pretty good coverage on the case.