Academia in crisis : [electronic resource] the rise and risk of neoliberal education in Europe / Edited by Leonidas Donskis; Ida Sabelis; Frans Kamsteeg; Harry Wels.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introductory thoughts / Tamara Shefer -- Toward an educational dystopia? : liquid evil, TINA, and post-academic university / Leonidas Donskis -- Academic homecoming : stories from the field / Frans Kamsteeg -- Universities as laboratories : internationalisation and the liquidity of national learning / Stefano Bianchini -- Liberal arts to the rescue of the bachelor's degree in Europe / Samuel Abraham -- Academia in the fast lane vs. organisational ethnography and the logic of slow food / Harry Wels -- Timescapes in academic life : cubicles of time control / Ida Sabelis -- A nomad of academia : a thematic autobiography of privilege / Joost van Loon -- The truth is out there : "eEducated fo' bollocks. Uni's just institutional daylight robbery' : universities in crisis? What's new? / Simon J. Charlesworth -- Epilogue / Ida Sabelis.

This book dissects current commercial, capitalist and fast cultures in universities. It argues that there is no turning back, nor marching on. Under the present regimes ruling universities, all that is left is reflection on academic qualities and opting in, or out. Readership: All interested in contemporary developments in higher education, be it from a didactic, and international (European), or a human rights' perspective.