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Review of the Decline and Fall of the British University IntroductionUniversities are believed to be the extraordinary institutions in improving the students’ overall quality. Each country spends a lot of money every year in its universities. In the university the students mature and prepare themselves for the real world. However, is the quality of the universities really as satisfactory as what the people have expected? And it is really indispensible to the healthy development of the adolescents?This has become a thought-provoking social problem. The article,“The Decline and Fall of the British University”, was written by Dr. Mark Tarver, a former professer in a British university. As the title of the article indicates, the author expresses his negative ideas over British university. He believes that the British university has declined and the academic ideal has corrupted. From the writing, we can see Dr. Mark Tarver does present us some thought-provoking ideas, but the author seems pessimistic about the problems and his understanding over the British university is limited.SummaryIn the article, Dr. Mark Tarver points out his personal story is mixed in with the1 expansion of the university system that causes the decline and fall of the British niversity. In order to widen access to education, the universitis should make a choice between improving the qualities of graduates and reducing the tuition fees for studentsand lowering the standard of education. The lectures have no longer been too well regarded by the masses. Teaching is not the only measurement for judging a lecture. Underpaid junior lectures struggle to write lots of papers and artificially inflate numbers to pass as many students as possible in order to ensure the continuation of their career for another year. There appears a lot of counterfeit papers and the ability and quality of students are less than before. The university also goes through a staff crisis because the lectures are low-paid, breaucratic and have heavy pressure. By taking on foreign immigrants can only make the situation worse. The students pay more for less quality. Both students and lectures have suffered a lot under the new egalitarianism.EvaluationIn the article, Dr. Mark Tarver awakens people to the problems of British university. His arguments are surely helpful to the healthy development of adolescents in the universities. However, there are some important views that Dr. Mark Tarver should considered carefully. It’s hard for me to easily agree with him. First of all, students go to the universities in order to get a further educaio n. The authour’s opinions seem that the students feel that they are paying for a service. If some students are given bad marks, They can potentially argue that this is because of the2 bad teaching from their lectures, and they might not choose the lectures’ course. While this of course has not happened as far as I know. There are also many exams to measure the students’ acquisition of the knowledge. The students also struggle to getgood marks, so the lectures don’t feel compelled to pass the failing students. We might think about the purposes of education in the university. The students broaden their views and develop their moral integrity. They can touch different kinds of people and learn some useful social abilities. Getting good marks is only one part of the university life. The author’s understanding over the purposes of the education in the university is obviously limited.Secondly, the author’s arguments appear to be biased towards the profession of lectures. He says that“[The] lectures are confronted w ith a profession that is pressured, bureaucratic and at the junior end, highly insecure with low pay.” This is really hard to agree with. Though delivering more papers becomes a good means to self-promotion. The good lectures also acquire a great deal of knowledge and unreservedly pass on their knowledge to the students. Most of them are satisfied with their profession when they teach the students to become upright and useful people to the society. They sometimes collaborate their students to finish the programs in order to improve the students’ acad emic abilities and lighten their burdens. It also contributes to the relationship between the lectures and the students. The author also states that the university goes through a staff crisis. This is an extremely personal statement. Many graduates compete fiercely to get a university place. The lectures are3 respected by the masses and the profession of lectures is stable and has less pressure in this mordenized society.ConclusionFrom the above discussion, we can see that the arguments in the article is helpful to the healthy development of the British university. However, his arguments are somehow too rash and his understanding to the essence of the educatiom in the British university is obviously limited. What we need to do is to face the changes in the university objectively and make the changes better fit the university. (802 words)4。