Whackademia
eBook - ePub

Whackademia

An Insider's Account of the Troubled University

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eBook - ePub

Whackademia

An Insider's Account of the Troubled University

About this book

A scathing insider exposé, this account lifts the lid on a higher education system that's corporatized beyond recognition, steeped in bureaucracy, and dominated by marketing and PR imperatives rather than intellectual pursuit. Fearless, ferocious, and often funny, this exposes a world that stands in stark contrast to the slogans and mottos joyously promoted by Australia's universities. Raising bold questions that go to the heart of Australian higher education, this is an unsentimental call for a reenlightened higher education sector that's not only about revenue, efficiencies, and corporate profile.

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Information

Publisher
NewSouth
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9781742241364
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Grounds for complaint
  7. 1: A tertiary odyssey
  8. 2: Sexing up Whackademia
  9. 3: Taking care of busyness
  10. 4: Production-line teaching
  11. 5: Research, metrics and money
  12. 6: Governing Whackademia
  13. 7: Enough complaint, now what?
  14. Conclusion: Seeing through Whackademia
  15. References and further reading