Interesting and, I think, largely accurate, article. I was hearing similar things in the VC's address to university court at Bristol last Friday.

Seeing University as a 'consumer led' experience does fill me with some horror. Much of what I learned at both tertiary college and uni can really only be evaluated with hindsight. At the time I don't think I was objectively able to evaluate much of the experience.

And the dictates of business have some unintended consequences. Students now seem to be signing up for some kinds of business awareness courses that frankly horrified me. I think I'd rather they just got pissed and had fun than went to courses like that. All employers really want is for the little buggers to be able to spell and punctuate properly!