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The Toxic University - Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
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The Toxic University - Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Palgrave Critical University Studies
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This book considers the detrimental changes that have occurred to
the institution of the university, as a result of the withdrawal of
state funding and the imposition of neoliberal market reforms on
higher education. It argues that universities have lost their way,
and are currently drowning in an impenetrable mush of economic
babble, spurious spin-offs of zombie economics, management-speak
and militaristic-corporate jargon. John Smyth provides a trenchant
and excoriating analysis of how universities have enveloped
themselves in synthetic and meaningless marketing hype, and
explains what this has done to academic work and the culture of
universities - specifically, how it has degraded higher education
and exacerbated social inequalities among both staff and students.
Finally, the book explores how we might commence a reclamation. It
should be essential reading for students and researchers in the
fields of education and sociology, and anyone interested in the
current state of university management.
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