My first thoughts on reading the draft report of this committee was that it seemed overly managerial. Nowhere are pedagogical concerns addressed or even alluded to. Lots of discussion on improving the student experience, but scant reference to what students have said they want. Many of the recommendations have huge workload implications for staff or resourcing implications for faculty, and are therefore pie-in-the-sky.
I am lucky that I was recently asked to join the Doctoral Studies Committee in the Faculty of Education, which gives me a channel to feed these concerns back. It will be interesting to see the final report.
