{"id":3469,"date":"2013-03-27T07:09:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T07:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2013-03-27T07:09:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T07:09:06","slug":"free-the-qaa-5000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/03\/27\/free-the-qaa-5000\/","title":{"rendered":"Free the QAA 5,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sat through a briefing by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) yesterday\u00a0on its proposed new resource on ESD. \u00a0Quite why it is doing this, is still beyond me, as I have already <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/03\/05\/qaa-enterprise-and-bankers\/\">noted<\/a>. \u00a0I didn't take part in the discussion as\u00a0I don't think the QAA should exist and firmly believe that Universities, and the country, would be better off without it. \u00a0Indeed, I view the QAA in the same way that Thomas Cromwell viewed the 16th century\u00a0monasteries. \u00a0This attitude is bolstered by the argument of the economic historian, <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/counterpointpress.com\/authors\/henry-hobhouse\">Henry Hobhouse<\/a>, who says that the dissolution of the monasteries released significant intellectual capability back into secular institutions and the community, which had a hugely beneficial impact. \u00a0How true would this be if QAA were to be dissolved; universities and society more generally would be the better for it, and the public purse relieved of a needless burden \u2013 a classic win-win-win.<\/p>\n<p>Go on; \u00a0let's do it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat through a briefing by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) yesterday\u00a0on its proposed new resource on ESD. \u00a0Quite why it is doing this, is still beyond me, as I have already noted. \u00a0I didn't take part in the discussion...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}