Mike’s Minute: Bring back the worth of a uni degree [Video]

Can I thank Mike Grimshaw for saying what he said? 

Mike is at the University of Canterbury, a university by the way with a very good reputation, according to the vast swathes of late teens we currently deal with in our lives. There is great demand among students from all over the country 

Anyway, Mike is an associate professor and wants university to return to elitism. 

He didn’t put it that bluntly, but he did use the word ‘elite’ and the word ‘elite’ is stoked with gun powder these days. It’s full of charge in this egalitarian society. 

I thank him because it isn’t easy to speak your mind in this country. Just ask Mike King. 

Grimshaw sees too many of what he calls “functionally illiterate” kids in classes. And classes is his other problem because no one actually goes to classes. 

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