Living the ‘student experience’, by Richard Hil (Advocate 23 01)

By Paul Clifton. But this was not the usual round of complaints about how the ‘three Ms’ – marketisation, massification and managerialism – have turned higher education into a service-based industry overseen by zealous bean counters. No, the conference explored the very innards of what is a lucrative, commercially oriented system – from the incursions of multinational corporations into teaching and research, the drudgery of endless measurement, through to the soul destroying tasks of processing travel claims and accessing the stationary cupboard. More...