It’s not about the Dedepuppets today, but I want to share this video with you. It is about what is currently going on at the polytech where I have been teaching part-time until recently. Last year they got rid of all part-time staff, this year they gave notice to all 53 full-time staff members. Not to discontinue the department and the degrees on offer, but to replace the full-time lecturers with 17 administrators and part-timers from “the industry.” It is a totally unbelievable story and a slap in the face of all the great lecturers that have build the brilliant reputation of this particular department over the years. It is indeed extremely bamboozling when you know that the quality of the department was ranked 4th in NZ and has passed its educational review last year with flying colours.
The students have created this youtube video and I want to support them and my ex-collegues in their fight by sharing it with my readers.
dedepuppets 
It is terrible: in Germany we can’t see this youtube video. All the best to you and your students,
LG Juergen
I wonder what’s going to happen to education in future. If it continues like this, my very personal opinion is that we raise a generation of muddlers. We allow the next generation to muddle their way through issues without giving useful advice. That is so sad.
I am so sorry to hear this happening to you and the school. I have heard the same story many times throughout the educational systems of the U.S. from kindergarten to the university. I’m assuming this is a “cost saving” measure of some kind? The way it works here is that seasoned teachers “retire” or are let go in favor of less experienced part-timers who earn less and receive fewer or no benefits. When art and all things aesthetic are needed more than ever these subjects worthy of study are being sidelined as not being vocationally important.
You are so right, it is a cost saving measure. Sadly, with this cost saving we are raising a generation of muddlers.