tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post3522825769956627184..comments2024-03-29T13:32:22.201+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: Bull from the China ShopCityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-76576462414161847132019-01-28T13:45:44.638+00:002019-01-28T13:45:44.638+00:00The watchers need to be watched.The watchers need to be watched.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-20405705385338807232019-01-28T13:23:31.589+00:002019-01-28T13:23:31.589+00:00What nasty insuation is there that an American-Jew...What nasty insuation is there that an American-Jewish-Ukrainian with strong links to Benjamin Netanyahumight be buying infuence at Oxford.viscnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-65599428987420046202019-01-28T09:52:57.522+00:002019-01-28T09:52:57.522+00:00@Swiss Bob: no sooner Said than done?@Swiss Bob: no sooner Said than done?Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-31733884593373740152019-01-28T08:07:57.545+00:002019-01-28T08:07:57.545+00:00I am pleased to pass on this circular letter from ...I am pleased to pass on this circular letter from the Vice-Chancellor of Steeple Bumstead University:-<br /><br />"Dear colleagues<br /><br />I will report on my time in Davos following my attendance at an important academic conference in Val d'Isere which will continue until the next European semester at the end of February.<br /><br />Progress on the Kim Jong Il Centre for Peace Studies is good, with completion forecast by the Summer. We will then recruit for those tenured academic posts also so generously funded by North Korea, including the Torquemada Professorship of Conflict Resolution and the Snoop-Dog seat in Vernacular Linguistics. <br /><br />On a personal note I am also happy to report that the North Korean ministry of Culture have additionally funded the renovation of Steeple Bumstead Hall, the home of the late 16th earl and a long underused part of the university's portfolio, and the building's conversion to modern academic use as the official lodging of the Vice-Chancellor. Work includes sauna, solarium, heated pool and wellness centre. I expect to host here representatives of our benefactors on official visits. The student welfare, health and counselling services that were previously using the building have been relocated to the basement of the Ernest Bevin block.<br /><br />I note there has been some comment in the press at mt salary and remuneration package having passed the seven figure mark. To those detractors I would say this; I have turned Steeple Bumstead into a net exporter, earning millions in revenue for UK plc. As such, we VCs should be compared against the chairmen of the FTSE100, not the spinal points of the Hay scale.<br /><br />Onwards and upwards. I met in Davos with many keen backers of our newest venture - the Huawei School of Defence Electronics, and the university rugby club offers a potential site for the complex. More on my return .."<br /><br /> Raedwaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11699610899843349594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-16709033846312534122019-01-27T19:25:36.644+00:002019-01-27T19:25:36.644+00:00I can do no better than quote a commentator (Mercu...I can do no better than quote a commentator (Mercury@ZH) replying to a similar story on ftalphaville:<br /><br />"So, our (US & UK) Left-leaning, ultra-progressive college and university systems, which have never uttered a peep about skyrocketing tuition costs over the last three decades (smell that egalitarian Progress!) now have to rely more and more on rich foreigners to keep their bureaucratically bloated, self-serving, freedom-of-thought crushing rackets moving forward? Hold on, I need to find my hankie...<br /><br />Really, this couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.<br />Gee, I wonder what will give in the struggle between money and academic criticism of the Chinese communist party? Is that supposed to be a cliff-hanger?<br /><br />The American college and university system (probably UK's too) is rotten to the core and they can't die fast enough. Their final act will be to pollute the hard sciences with Social Justice politics which will then render them completely useless for any and everything.<br /><br />The next (and most well-deserving) internet billionaire will be the person who develops a widely accepted accreditation system academic degrees earned online and outside of the traditional college and university system.<br /><br />God, I can't wait."<br /><br />In reply to another comment he added:<br /><br />"I WISH that colleges and universities would come to their senses and stop putting so much effort into undermining their own civilization, and, you know, maybe concentrate on serving their local, state and national communities instead of leveraging their institutional legacies to turn their diplomas into international luxury products - which their make-believe fairly land virtue-weighted "Diversity" theme park bullshit doesn't quite make up for."DJKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-69606891040847326472019-01-27T18:21:22.806+00:002019-01-27T18:21:22.806+00:00May I suggest another asterisk for Oxford with the...May I suggest another asterisk for Oxford with the Said Business school? Mr Said is a financier and arms dealer whose deal between BAE, the UK government and Riyadh has long been of interest to the SFO.Swiss Bobnoreply@blogger.com