Academic Diary: Or Why Higher Education Still Matters

by Les Back

Sharp and witty observations of academic life that range from the local to the global, from PowerPoint to the halls of power.

Is a university education still relevant? What are the forces that threaten it? Should academics ever be allowed near Twitter? In Academic Diary, Les Back has chronicled three decades of his academic career, turning his sharp and often satirical eye to the everyday aspects of life on campus and the larger forces...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906897581
• ISBN13: 9781906897581
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher