{"id":6416,"date":"2015-08-11T07:05:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T07:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6416"},"modified":"2015-08-11T07:05:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T07:05:05","slug":"ahelo-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/08\/11\/ahelo-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahelo Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/news\/worlds-university-oligopoly-accused-of-blocking-oecd-bid-to-judge-learning-quality\">THE<\/a> has this headline:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>World\u2019s university \u2018oligopoly\u2019 accused of blocking OECD bid to judge learning quality<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>... with a great image\u00a0of great\u00a0animals blocking a US highway (that is, the economy and implied progress). \u00a0There were no pictures of dinosaurs available, I guess; even in Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>The THE quotes Hamish Coates, chair of higher education at the University of Melbourne, who led the OECD\u2019s feasibility study on Ahelo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<em>Broadly what\u2019s happening is the established oligopoly isn\u2019t keen to be disrupted by the new order, the new commercial order, of higher education<\/em>.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/11303169\/Mandy-Rice-Davies-obituary.html\">Mandy Rice Davies<\/a> gave the most apt response to comments like that about 50 years ago. \u00a0Coates is quoted as adding:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"<em>What we\u2019re seeing happen is essentially the legacy providers, who are very dominant in the research space, trying to prevent new information about education coming to light<\/em>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That's now quite how I'd put it, but as I have <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/07\/30\/ahelo-ahelo\/\">noted<\/a> earlier, there are always interests to be protected, and positions maintained.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week's THE has this headline: World\u2019s university \u2018oligopoly\u2019 accused of blocking OECD bid to judge learning quality ... with a great image\u00a0of great\u00a0animals blocking a US highway (that is, the economy and implied progress). \u00a0There were no pictures of...<\/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":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416","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=6416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}