TY - BOOK AU - Hil,Richard TI - Selling students short: why you won't get the university education you deserve SN - 9781743318898 U1 - 378.9 HI SE PY - 2015/// CY - Crows Nest, NSW PB - Allen & Unwin KW - Universities and colleges KW - Australia KW - Education, Higher KW - Aims and objectives KW - Austrlaia N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [208]-227) N2 - "More students than ever before go to university, and what they experience there is vastly different from even a decade ago. The hi-tech libraries, designer lecture theatres, funky cafes and elaborate sporting facilities hide a reality very different to all the marketing hype. Class sizes have blown out, facilities are often inadequate, technology has increasingly replaced face-to-face teaching, and staff are weighed down by impossible workloads. Students work long hours in often low paid, casual jobs, feel lonely and isolated, and their education leaves them in debt for years. Richard Hil lifts the lid on today's university experience... Far from producing rounded citizens and flexible, job-ready graduates, Hil argues universities are turning out individuals often unable to obtain relevant work ..."--Back cover UR - https://uowd.box.com/s/hculmcgdfwvlcey9hmnvxmfpudp2022w ER -