06 August 2009
students are not children
Brendan draws my attention to a serious academic misjudgement.
A college lecturer faces losing his job for simply recommending the work of artist Del LaGrace Volcano to a photography student.
Simon Burgess of East Surrey College has been threatened with serious disciplinary action and redundancy because his managers have decided the imagery constitutes pornography.
Whilst theology students get to read the Bible and literature students de Sade, photography students are treated like small, fragile animals, to be penned in and sheltered from provocative images. Ironic in the age of the internets, where any given six year old has seen genitalia from every corner of the globe...
A college lecturer faces losing his job for simply recommending the work of artist Del LaGrace Volcano to a photography student.
Simon Burgess of East Surrey College has been threatened with serious disciplinary action and redundancy because his managers have decided the imagery constitutes pornography.
Whilst theology students get to read the Bible and literature students de Sade, photography students are treated like small, fragile animals, to be penned in and sheltered from provocative images. Ironic in the age of the internets, where any given six year old has seen genitalia from every corner of the globe...
