Study-time limits blamed students for institutional failures they had not caused

Evidence

In the following year, two faculties at the Free University had used the Academic Council’s recommendations for course reorganization as an opportunity to introduce a restriction on the length of time students could be registered for a degree. This meant an obligatory limitation on the period of study, or, as the students described it, compulsory removal from the university’s register. Since catastrophic study conditions and inadequately organized teaching were the main reasons for high dropout rates and long-drawn-out periods of study in the first place, this was a provocation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2609

Categorization

• XREF: The professors agreeing with employer ‘customers’ on efficiency parallels the Mannesmann study’s workplace pragmatics (ch71-73) and the Institute’s own service-to-industry turn.