We live in Orwellian times university. And Kafka also living them we had time, but this second we are most familiar and ultimately, to look the other way, the matter was resolved. Like the poor Winston Smith, we have a lot of people working for the Ministry of Truth, starting and ending Minister Gabilondo grade coordinators. Huge amounts of effort spent on paper and make it seem true and consistent to what is merely intellectual and inflated balloons away from absolute nothingness. Together, all conspire like the Orwellian thought police to track down the heretics who do not believe in the new society that is college, and through more or less traumatic procedures, bring to room 101, where we converted ideologically existing intellectual power, or die professionally becoming automatons that aside from everything and everyone, continue their classes and write things without having to anything or anyone outside the tide of history. In short, the Bologna Process, with its supporters and heretics. We even have our Newspeak, consisting of the ridiculous words that make up the lexicon Bolognese (deliverables, semester, competence, skills, degrees, masters, etc.).
The thought police at the university have identified several facets: the coordinators of degrees and Masters, EHEA coordinators and quality service inspectors, advocates university, the vice-rectors of quality, and the percentage of converts and believers in the new system, pointing an accusing finger when touched, to sign a both to the chief on duty. Because make no mistake: with this model being imposed on us, we thought only a university, without discussion or reflection, and very academic freedom in the terminal phase. Pure totalitarianism dictated by Brussels and those who now call markets, which have landed her claws into the institution, so we form the neoesclavos them and in a few years.
The instrument members university thought police used the same Big Brother: first, observation and monitoring, specifically both instruments in a protocol of evaluation, that the supposed objectivity and supposed safety of the administered legal fiction that a democratic system in crisis as which we always try to keep up their end. Second, repression. More or less veiled, but repression. In this talk a lot in the coming years because either I am much mistaken, or will go.
In college, professors used to assess students. Now is the opposite. In addition, we evaluated by other henchmen of the pensamiengto police agencies, assessment, accreditation and foresight, we also assessed, and evaluated in turn by higher authority. Like any good totalitarian nightmare, all monitored and evaluated everyone and everyone is potentially an agent of the establishment. And believe me, there are provocateurs loose. To some I have already identified. And teachers are evaluated, titles, systems and procedures, with PAS, libraries, and sur sum corda. Both is evaluated, in order that it seems we still have time for other things besides evaluating, those who really care about: the study and thought, reflection and writing.
However, in all this welter Orwellian-vigilante evaluator that converts the university, seems to me that there is a body that is beyond the Great Eye, because who monitors and evaluates the degree coordinators? As far as I know, no. Desmientáseme immediately if I'm wrong. Once invested with their high responsibility, seem to be touched by the finger of the gods and, therefore, in possession of absolute truth. More thought. It is fair to recognize that as converts to Bologna that are sometimes even more ultra-Orthodox are the original believer, and therefore will have the post-and-well-earned perks attached. But for now, no I know protocol or procedure for administrators to evaluate the coordinator. As a participant in a quality system that do not get along and I do not think, claim the powers that be consistent and organized. Put on the coordinators of degrees below the eye of Big Brother, watch them and follow their steps, and if it is shown that they are covering the case in a bad way, as I know that happens in many cases, that be delivered to Room 101 and that O'Brien would deal with them until they have finished swearing that two plus two equals five. That's what I want to do with the rest of us, incidentally.
therefore immediately to end the second semester, a survey of faculty-coordinated and students, in relation to the work of the coordinators, and subjected to extremely rigorous evaluation their performances, according to the results to reward them or sue them. That's fair, I think. And again, fully consistent with the spirit of Bologna and model of quality they want us to swallow.
PS: the text means, I believe, for proper interpretation of certain knowledge of the work of Orwell 1984, obtained through reading the same or "excellent, in my opinion, film adaptation by Michael Radford. For those who have not read or seen, both highly recommended, " here have a brief synopsis Wikipedians.
