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Hollowed halls of learning

  • 14/08/1994

Hollowed halls of learning conced in a rarified world of lecture rooms and ivory towers, pilloried by their critics as lazy, overpaid and irrelevant, the dons of the academic world were pinned squirming on a wall by a study which was released recently. The study, The Academic Profession: An International Perspective, carried out by the US-based Carnegie Foundation