5.0 out of 5 based on 2 reviews. – Customer review on 26/05/2004

Degrees for everyone is a hilarious tale that highlights the growing trend of tertiary institutions offering courses that are just plain silly.

With the government funding tertiary institutions by the number of students they can enrol and students getting huge loans freely and easily, these courses have become widespread.

Bob Jones uses a story about a university whose new Vice Chancellor is an ex-businessman who turns the university into a profit centre rather than centre for learning.

In typical Jones style, he takes us through the painful restructing from the point of view of a Mideaval Studies lecturer forced into conforming to the new way of courses like line dancing and burgerology (yes the study of hamburgers :)

An enjoyable read, which kept me laughing throughout.

5.0 out of 5 based on 2 reviews. – Customer review on 13/04/2004

“Degrees for Everyone is Vile Bodies in academic drag. Jones skewers the commercialisation of universities but beneath the outrageous humour he delivers the sombre truth that without the humanities we are all dehumanised.”
—Margaret Clark, Professor of Political Science, Victoria University of Wellington

"This book is outrageously funny. The denouement is a sheer joy to read."
-- Dr Deborah Russell, Lecturer in Philosophy, Massey University

"Bob Jones' funniest book yet is also his most important. Anyone who cares about education, language and literature should read this book."
-- Deborah Hill-Cone, News Editor, National Business Review

"Fearlessly offensive and very funny."
-- Dr Malcolm Wright, Associate Professor in Marketing, Massey University

"More riotous than Lodge, more satirical than Sharpe, Bob Jones pours hilarious scorn on the current mismanagement of universities."
-- Dr Rosalind Hursthouse, Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland