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Subject: Re: [OM] Qualifications was Mail Delivery
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 06:19:41 +0100
If only we could remove the bollocks from the world!

Chris

On 8 May 14, at 23:48, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My cousin teaches at RMIT - Royal Melbourne Institue of Technology - 
> effectively he runs what was the best degree course in commercial photography 
> in Australia with the rank of Senior Lecturer. (recent cut-backs have gutted 
> it to some extent). But…
> Obviously it is a vocational course. He has been an Adobe alpha tester, has a 
> number of Focal Press publications to his name on PS, Lightroom and other 
> subjects and is presently a Sony ambassador. One would think that this would 
> be enough. But no…the institution is run as a University and he does not have 
> a doctorate so he under constant pressure to complete an utterly irrelevant 
> qualification because the conventional hierarchy and career path demands it. 
> He'd rather be spending his time doing something useful instead. But he's had 
> to comply and has undertaken a research project which we both agree is a load 
> of bollocks. To keep his Dean happy.

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