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1/4 Research in tertiary education - a thread -
Every now and then the question is raised as to why research is conducted by tertiary education institutions. For the life sciences we know that we still don’t know a lot so a major aim is to bring students to the edge of knowledge
Every now and then the question is raised as to why research is conducted by tertiary education institutions. For the life sciences we know that we still don’t know a lot so a major aim is to bring students to the edge of knowledge
2/4 and then provide the experience and skills to move that edge back, to explore the unknown - to conduct discovery research. Without the ability to discover we would find it much more difficult to deal with unforeseen challenges that the real world throws up
3/4 - like antibiotic resistance and pandemics.
Even the ability to recognize a challenge such as climate change requires the ability to collect, analyze, interpret and communicate data in ways that challenge the existing view of the world and convince enough people
Even the ability to recognize a challenge such as climate change requires the ability to collect, analyze, interpret and communicate data in ways that challenge the existing view of the world and convince enough people
4/4 to make decisions to respond accordingly. So that for the natural sciences the notion that tertiary education could be conducted without research misses the major point.
