Whackademia

An insider's account of the troubled university

By: Richard Hil

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Paperback | 1 June 2012

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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 expose, 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.

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Education Organisation & Management of Education Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Institutions & Learned Societies Higher & Further Education Universities

Acknowledgments	p. 7
Introduction: Grounds for complaint	p. 9
A tertiary odyssey	p. 26
Sexing up Whackademia	p. 47
Taking care of busyness	p. 71
Production-line teaching	p. 101
Research, metrics and money	p. 131
Governing Whackademia	p. 162
Enough complaint, now what?	p. 193
Conclusion: Seeing through Whackademia	p. 221
References and further reading	p. 230
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