Leslie Kilmartin, a former senior university academic, is an author living in Melbourne.
Batman University, a struggling higher education institution on the outskirts of the city, plans an open day to impress its new President, an eminent British academic whose dubious past is catching up with him. The marketing team goes into overdrive.
By the end of this farcically catastrophic open day - the highlight of which is a parade by the University Regiment - the bodies of a VIP and a senior government minister lie on the regimental parade ground. After a series of other calamitous events including arson, a student assault on the North Korean consul and a furtive sexual encounter, the careers of the President and his senior staff end in tatters.
Media reports of these disastrous events go viral and Batman University becomes internationally famous for all the wrong reasons.
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Leslie Kilmartin, a former senior university academic, is an author living in Melbourne.
ISBN 9781923042032
CATEGORY Fiction
PAGE COUNT 328
DIMENSIONS 234 x 156 mm
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'A rollicking comic yarn. Wonderfully entertaining.' - Max Gillies
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'In sharp, satirical style, Leslie Kilmartin shows hope that the state of our universities is not (yet) beyond a joke.' - Jim Davidson
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'Many have experienced an Open Day, but nobody, surely, has known one as wild as this … Part satire, part high farce, part astute critique of academia, Open Day is a cracking read!' - Peter Fitzpatrick