Whackademia

Name: Whackademia
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SKU: 9781742232911
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An Insider's Account of the Troubled University

By Richard Hil and Richard Hill

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Whackademia delivers a scathing insider expose of Australian universities, revealing a higher education system overwhelmed by corporatisation, bureaucracy, and marketing priorities. Dr Richard Hil critiques the disparity between the celebrated ideals of excellence and innovation, and the harsh realities facing academics, funding, and standards. This fearless and often humorous account challenges the status quo and calls for a re-enlightened approach focused on genuine intellectual pursuit rather than profit and profile.
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This book will engage those interested in the challenges of modern higher education, including academics, policymakers, and students concerned about the future of universities in Australia.

Whackademia exposes a world that stands in stark contrast to the slogans and mottos joyously promoted by our universities. Raising bold questions that go to the heart of Australian higher education, Whackademia is an unsentimental call for a re-enlightened higher education sector that's not only about revenue, efficiencies and corporate profile.

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Australian universities are not happy places. Despite the shiny rhetoric of excellence, quality, innovation and creativity, universities face a barrage of criticism over claims of declining standards, decreased funding, compromised assessment, increased vocationalism, overburdened academics and never-ending reviews and restructures.

In a scathing insider exposé, Dr. Richard Hil lifts the lid on a higher education system that's corporatised beyond recognition, steeped in bureaucracy and dominated by marketing and PR imperatives rather than intellectual pursuit. Fearless, ferocious and often funny, Whackademia exposes a world that stands in stark contrast to the slogans and mottos joyously promoted by our universities.

Raising bold questions that go to the heart of Australian higher education, Whackademia is an unsentimental call for a re-enlightened higher education sector that's not only about revenue, efficiencies and corporate profile.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781742232911

Publisher: NewSouth Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2012

Country: Australia

Imprint: NewSouth Publishing

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 311g

Pages: 224

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Richard Hil Richard Hill

About the Author

Richard Hil is an honorary associate at the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney, the coauthor of Erasing Iraq: The Human Costs of Carnage, and the coeditor of Surviving Care: Achieving Justice and Healing for the Forgotten Australians. His articles have been published in the Australian, Australian Universities Review, and Campus Review.

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