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The Toxic University

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

The Toxic University

By John Smyth

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About the book

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 univers...Show more

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9781349958337

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published year

2018

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1

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The Toxic University

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Paperback

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