Another article from the London Review of Books
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n16/stefan-collini/from-robbins-to-mckinsey
Two points that I think are important are:
1 that academics frequently collaborate and therefore the attempt to introduce competition is not very appropriate
2 learning is frequently hard and that student pleasure is not necessarily synonymous with learning.
More by Stefan Collini on university funding
Another article from the London Review of Books
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n16/stefan-collini/from-robbins-to-mckinsey
Two points that I think are important are:
1 that academics frequently collaborate and therefore the attempt to introduce competition is not very appropriate
2 learning is frequently hard and that student pleasure is not necessarily synonymous with learning.