I think it’s about time you
organised a student revolt. One of the frustrations with the MW when I took it
was that in the absence of anybody being confident about teaching the “content” of the theory papers, the
institute obsessed with “schema”. This
seems to have become worse. The dissertation in becoming a “proxy MA”, is in
danger of testing methodological competence at the expense of commercial, viticultural
and enological interest, in the same way that MAs only really exist to get you
into good habits before you’re let loose on more meaningful research. The MW is
not a proving ground for PHDs and Post-Docs, but it does rely upon a lot of
hard work from examiners and mentors, and I just wonder what is in it for them
if the dissertations and study yield such barren and piecemeal conclusions.
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