Weasel word BS is alive and well in universities
I just thought I’d let you know that I stopped reading this article as soon as I got to the bit where it says “McKay wants secretary and senior-level public service remuneration to be ‘well calibrated to the correct private sector analogues’.”
What is it with academics that they must twist language into some sort of contortions to make a point?
Why couldn’t this bloke McKay, who is obviously an idiot, just say he wants senior-level public servant pay to mirror the private sector, or to be similar to the private sector?
“Well calibrated to the correct private sector analogues” is just a bullish-t way of saying what I have clearly stated above.
This piffle (which the article’s writer correctly identifies it as) pervades universities and their “sub-schools” and is spouted endlessly by people like McKay, who, far from being in the real world, is living in some kind of academic bubble: like a troglodyte emerging from a cave after 30 years of isolation.
From other intellectual rust-buckets we get the constant referral to every industry, sector or department as “a space” and utter nonsense such as referring to redundancies as “an expansion of the alumni”.
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