Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Ongoing cultural conversations

It seems the producers of University Challenge have vacancies for a number of question setters - enough to fill a 'Talent Pool'.  No-one is suggesting that the current team have decided not to risk their carefully crafted Q&As being mangled by Amol Rajan. 

"This role entails writing questions (to be submitted in batches of 35 starters and 25 bonus sets) in accordance with the editorial brief of University Challenge, in terms of style, difficulty and subject matter, and with a high degree of factual accuracy"

Interesting. Does that reflect a higher ratio of failed starters than usually appear on air ?  And surely there shouldn't be an issue about 'degrees of factual accuracy' ? Right or wrong, at least for Jezza.

The anti-Woke will leap on this requirement: Recent experience of working with university students, and awareness of ongoing cultural conversations regarding representation and access in this context. 


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