Humanities 'self-harm' a case of awful timing 2

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.