Love of learning lost in ’studying for jobs’

A vice-chancellor of an English University has hit out at the British Government for encouraging people to view education as no more than a tool for getting a job.

“Too few people value education for its own sake,” and too much government education policy is “Treasury-motivated,” Mike Thorne, Vice-Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University, told a recent meeting of the Ruskin Society.

 

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