Where journalists have greatness thrust upon them
This essay from The Independent raises intriguing questions about the purpose and the value of higher education. Read, discuss, debate.
At the Association for Journalism Education conference last week, Tim Luckhurst spoke about something we have discussed many times at the Centre for Journalism: the number of journalism degrees on offer in this country that offer their students little or no chance of getting a job within the industry. There is, he told the conference, an "element of fraud" in a system that allows such courses to proliferate.
Unsurprisingly, his views - reported here by journalism.co.uk, not necessarily with perfect precision - have sparked vigorous debate around the blogosphere.
Recently, when working weird hours and drinking unconsumable amounts of coffee (for a normal person) for the politics essay - How far have the constitutional reforms introduced since 1997 strengthened or weakened the democracy in Britain? - I came across a small paragraph, which was meant to spark (youth) interest in general politics. It was meant as a foundational piece.
