HERDSA: Book review volunteer

[Coral Watson]

Roger Landbeck, editor of HERDSA News posts the following message.  Please
reply to him:  
landbeck@ozemail.com.au


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Volunteer for Book Review

I've been sent a new book entitled Calling Academia to Account Rights and 
Responsibilies by G R Evans an historian and theologian at Cambridge 
University .It is published by SRHE/ OU and will be available in 
Australia in May costing $59.95. I am looking for someone who would be 
prepared to review the book for the July issue of HERDSA News (dealine 31 
May). I would prefer someone in either Australia or NZ as the book is 
writtten from UK experience and it would be good to get some comment on 
application down under.

Just to give you some idea about the book here is an extract from the 
back cover:

`The very purpose of universities is being called into question by recent 
changes in the ways they are run and funded, the way their standards are 
maintained, and the assumptions upon which they do their teaching and 
research. Calling big institutions to account is not easy. It takes a 
sharp eye for detail and both boldness and persistence on the part of the 
whistle blower. But it is important that universities should be 
accountable, and Calling Academia to Account explores this issue 
comprehensively.'

If anyone is interested in taking on this task please contact me direct 
by email and I will mail the book to you. The good thing is you get to 
keep the review copy.


Looking forward to hearing from somebody

Roger Landbeck
Editor HERDSA News

landbeck@ozemail.com.au