Cet agacant ethnocentrisme anglo-americano-europeen.

Dans mon domaine (ingenierie hydrodynamique a tres haut niveau) il ya des grecs, turcs, coreens, hindous, russes et ukrainiens a la pelle, allemands francais, anglais, americains, chinois, australiens et bien d’autres. Tous formes dans des universites bien differentes, tous aussi bons dans leur domaine. Il suffit de lire les papiers publies.

« I am a reader (US Associate Professor) at one of the 30 top univeristies in the world according to THE raking. My university is in Britain, but I have worked and studied in universities in Europe and the US. I just cannot understand how my present university (again, top 30 in the world) can be « better » than European universities I know. Their research is better, their students are better. Why British universities are so well placed in comparison to other European universities which are arguably much better. Just because of peer esteem and our own esteem? To be an academic in Britain is to be merely an administrator who spend endless hours completing forms and responding to emails from lazy students who only think about lodging appeals if they dont get the marks they think they deserve (but they actually dont because they are lazy, unmotivated and far from being cultivated).

If my university is indeed in the top 30, all I have to say is I cannot wait to get a position in any European university that is well below my university. in these bottom universities I will be treated like an academic, not like a mere administrator and a slave »