University Shambles - Couverture rigide

Rhodes, Christopher James

 
9781906561390: University Shambles
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1906561397 ISBN 13 : 9781906561390
Editeur : Melrose Books, 2009

Synopsis

Charles Rae, a lecturer at a modest but respectable university, is ambitious, and not quite as young as he used to be. His ambition outweighs his patience, and he is seduced into taking a professorship at the new Evergreen Epstein University, a former polytechnic whose attractive name turns out to be mendaciously misleading. It s a bad sign when he is asked to present his O-level certificate to the personnel department, and an even worse one when the vice-chancellor tells him: We don t have students, we have customers!

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Revue de presse

Chris Rhodes' novel perfectly captures the bizarre world of the UK university sector in the late 1990s. The events, behaviour and inverted standards he describes will feel surreal to the inexperienced, but in fact 'University Shambles' is a realistic work. The fictional world it describes will feel grimly familiar to many, although no one could fail to laugh at the absurdity of it. --Dr Humphrey Moynihan, Senior Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, University College Cork

A highly amusing insight into the university sector as it has recently expanded relentlessly under government edict. It presents a devastating picture of the extent to which the notion of scholarship has been betrayed by a culture of managerialism, where the mediocre is airbrushed into excellence', and achievement in research is subordinated to the spurious concept of academic leadership' to engineer bogus professorships for the unworthy. One's heart bleeds for the unfortunate hero lured by an unscrupulous vice-chancellor to throw in his lot with an institution where academic subjects are forced into an endless cycle of mergers with business-orientated units and his research belittled by envious superiors. One wishes only that we are given here a parody of life in some institutions no such luck. A thoroughly good read, but best taken with a large scotch at hand to dull the pain as Charles' life unravels. --Terence Kemp, Emeritus Prof of Chemistry, Warwick Uni

Présentation de l'éditeur

Charles Rae, a lecturer at a modest but respectable university, is ambitious, and not quite as young as he used to be. His ambition outweighs his patience, and he is seduced into taking a professorship at the new Evergreen Epstein University, a former polytechnic whose attractive name turns out to be mendaciously misleading. It s a bad sign when he is asked to present his O-level certificate to the personnel department, and an even worse one when the vice-chancellor tells him: We don t have students, we have customers!

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Éditeur
Melrose Books
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1906561397
ISBN 13 
9781906561390
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
216
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Personne responsable
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