Clive Bloom has never met an academic who "works nine to five, five days a week". Data summarised by Malcolm Tight in Higher Education Quarterly show that academics on average work 55 hours a week. And Bloom's "three months' holiday, every weekend free" A long-vanished world.
John Radford, Emeritus professor of psychology, University of East London.
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