The RSA higher ed system

http://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2010/06/memoir-volume-three-chapter-three-first.html

A really interesting description of the South African university system - from the point of view of a US leftie. He can see very clearly how the system systematically disadvantages Black students.

NB the obsession with 'standards' among even seemingly radical lecturers. And also a great conversation with a lecturer who feels no responsibility for his students failure: they were not prepared properly! All of this is so redolent of Batchelor and of VU.

Hmmm! I wonder what the connection is between all this and the Bersteinian sociology of education mob? Perhaps they are conservative 'standards-driven' refugees from a collapsing system?