What a perfect vignette to describe the damage that’s been done to higher education by people who are obsessed with “skills” and “job-readiness” but above all with compliance.
A new room for a doomed loom – and the battle to save Australia’s slowly dying crafts
When a university’s rare weaving device was destined for the skip, a collective of artists, teachers and students united to rescue it. They bemoan how course changes are replacing deep skills with competency checklists