23rd May 2010, 09:13 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:Yup, although it would help if some departments were slightly more transparent to us taxpayers about what exactly all those post-grads and 'researchers' are actually doing? Quite often go onto uni departmental 'staff' pages looking for contact details for people, and whilst many staff and postgrads have fulsomely justified their presence there always seem to be a proportion of mystery people......can't say I've ever had occasion to look at the Bristol one, so this is just a general observation....
....I am personally happy for post-graduates and researchers to be supervised by university rules and regulations......although I am an occasional tax payer I wouldn't dare suggest that qualifies me to assess or evaluate university students. I dont think I would like many of my tax paying neighbours to do that either. It sounds a lot like a Daily Mail idea to me....
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