Universities are not controlling information any more

It appears now that we have a digital divide in our universities according to the findings of the Committee of Inquiry into the Changing Learner Experience:

Ht-Mark Comerford

This report in the Times higher education supplement says that

The evolution of the internet has produced a generation of students with "a preference for quick answers" and a "casual" approach to the evaluation and attribution of information,

One academic

expressed "strong reservations" about students' ability to critically evaluate information from the web.

and another said that

"Universities are not controlling information any more. What they should be doing is supporting students in becoming much more critical thinkers."