What's Wrong With University

And How to Make It Work For You Anyway

By: Jeff Rybak

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The university system has its problems. Students invest a lot of time and money in education but all too often don’t get what they came for. In What’s Wrong With University, Jeff Rybak addresses the most pressing concerns for undergraduate students, and helps them cope with the university system. He illustrates the university as having five distinct functions, which are often in conflict with each other. Students often find themselves at cross purposes with those with different goals and motivations, and also with institutional features designed around the needs of those other students. As a result they are frequently frustrated by their experiences, lost in a system that isn’t suited to them. Jeff explains how university really works, and provides advice on how all students can overcome these internal conflicts to get what they most want from the university experience.

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Non-Fiction Education Organisation & Management of Education Students & Student Organisations Higher & Further Education Self-Help, Personal Development & Practical Advice Advice on Education Philosophy & Theory of Education Moral & Social Purpose of Education Care & Counselling of Students & Education

Introduction	p. IX
The Functions of Education	p. 1
What Happens in a School	p. 1
Why Go to University?	p. 11
The Modern University	p. 23
How Does It Happen?	p. 23
How Does it Get Measured?	p. 34
What Do You Get?	p. 43
When Things Go Wrong	p. 49
What Comes Next?	p. 65
Getting More of What You Want	p. 75
What You Can't Control	p. 75
The Academic Student	p. 79
The Vocational Student	p. 95
The Certification Student	p. 106
The Good Citizen	p. 112
The Holding-Pen Student	p. 126
Internal Contradictions	p. 135
Things That Don't Make Sense	p. 135
Grading	p. 136
Too Cool for School	p. 147
Competing Agendas and Politicization	p. 154
Private or Public, Consumer or User?	p. 160
Eroding Value and Graduating "Everyone"	p. 169
Why Does It Hang Together?	p. 177
The Big Picture	p. 183
Beyond the Personal	p. 183
The Universality of University	p. 184
The Scam	p. 195
Further	p. 205
The Big Investment	p. 211
Financial Pressure	p. 211
Silencing Dissent	p. 222
Proposals for Reform	p. 331
A Few Modest Suggestions	p. 231
Redefine "Of Age"	p. 232
Separation of Functions	p. 235
Break the Monopoly	p. 240
Civil Service	p. 244
Grassroots Change	p. 247
Shaking Things Up	p. 247
Unofficial Classes	p. 248
Clubs and Organizations	p. 251
Participating in Governance	p. 257
Asking the Big Questions	p. 261
Acknowledgements	p. 267
References	p. 269
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