Academic Diary: Or Why Higher Education Still Matters Les Back Goldsmiths Press, 2016, PB, 272pp, £9.95, 978-1906897581
Les Back, a Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, has published insights into higher education in the form of a diary of the academic year. The diary consists of around 50 short essays that will be of interest to anyone involved in teaching students.
Targets, assessments, market forces, information overload, and audit are some of the challenges facing …