TPU | Randall Baker
Randall Baker has been an academic all his life. First in Wales, then in Azerbaijan, East Africa and UK. He used to be dean and external examiner in Cambridge University. From there he spent the next 24 years at an American University which led him to Bulgaria where he became professor and helped develop New Bulgarian University in 1991. He lives in his beloved Sofia but has been temporarily lured away from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea.
Looking for a higher education in the West, he regrets the substitution of the expert for the scholar, and the merchandising of whatever flies as higher education, though he is not sure wether his negative opinions are because higher education really is going to hell, or he is just getting old and curmudgeonly.