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The Toxic University: Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology - Palgrave Critical University Studies John Smyth 2017 edition
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The Toxic University: Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology - Palgrave Critical University Studies
John Smyth
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.
235 pages, XI, 235 p.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | July 17, 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9781349958337 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 235 |
| Dimensions | 209 × 149 × 19 mm · 330 g |
| Language | English |
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