One lecturer at a Polytechnic I worked for made his students buy his book. Well, a photocopy actually, done without payment from him by the Poly's Copy Services.

Other lecturers got "gifts" from publishers for requiring or at least recommending the publisher's books.

The amount of corruption in higher education is quite astonishing - you only have to look at the prices of required/recommended books compared with actual good, classics to realise this.

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davsti4 24 minutes ago | parent [-]

Is it corruption, or just an established business model for poorly paid educators to increase their revenues?

	▲	zabzonk 8 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They were not so poorly paid - I was a senior analyst/programmer (and did some teaching), quite reasonably compensated, and the lecturers would get quite a bit more than me. But if you want to substitute "established business model" for "corruption", go ahead. I must say that not all of them were bad.
	▲	spogbiper 7 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Its both